Grants Database

The Foundation awards approximately 200 grants per year (excluding the Sloan Research Fellowships), totaling roughly $80 million dollars in annual commitments in support of research and education in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and economics. This database contains grants for currently operating programs going back to 2008. For grants from prior years and for now-completed programs, see the annual reports section of this website.

Grants Database

Grantee
Amount
City
Year
  • grantee: MPT Foundation Inc
    amount: $60,000
    city: Owings Mills, MD
    year: 2024

    To support the production of The Last Independent Automaker, a six-part three-hour series chronicling the rise and fall of American Motors Corporation

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Television
    • Investigator Joseph Ligo

    To support the production of The Last Independent Automaker, a six-part three-hour series chronicling the rise and fall of American Motors Corporation

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  • grantee: Elizabeth Preston
    amount: $53,190
    city: Arlington, MA
    year: 2024

    To support the research and writing of The Creatures’ Guide to Caring to be published by Viking

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Elizabeth Preston

    To support the research and writing of The Creatures’ Guide to Caring to be published by Viking

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  • grantee: Mirror Biology Dialogues Fund
    amount: $30,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2024

    To support a series of scientist-led dialogues on the potential threat from mirror bacteria

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Matter-to-Life
    • Investigator James Wagstaff

    To support a series of scientist-led dialogues on the potential threat from mirror bacteria

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  • grantee: Brookings Institution
    amount: $240,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2024

    To mobilize and illustrate economic research that improves official cost-benefit analyses

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Benjamin Harris

    To mobilize and illustrate economic research that improves official cost-benefit analyses

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  • grantee: Sustainable Markets Foundation
    amount: $250,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2024

    To support the launch of Fallout Revisited, an interactive website modeling the fallout from all U.S. atmospheric nuclear tests conducted in the US

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program New Media
    • Investigator Susan Alzner

    To support the launch of Fallout Revisited, an interactive website modeling the fallout from all U.S. atmospheric nuclear tests conducted in the US

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  • grantee: Manhattan Theatre Club
    amount: $200,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2024

    To provide production support for the staging of Jonathan Spector’s science-themed play “Eureka Day”

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Theater
    • Investigator Scott Kaplan

    To provide production support for the staging of Jonathan Spector’s science-themed play “Eureka Day”

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  • grantee: National Academy of Sciences
    amount: $250,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2024

    To support the participation of Sloan Research Fellows and other outstanding early-career scientists in the interdisciplinary Frontiers of Science Symposium run by NASEM

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Edward Patte

    To support the participation of Sloan Research Fellows and other outstanding early-career scientists in the interdisciplinary Frontiers of Science Symposium run by NASEM

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  • grantee: University of California, Santa Cruz
    amount: $49,155
    city: Santa Cruz, CA
    year: 2024

    To support a CURIOSS workshop for community building amongst Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs)

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Better Software for Science
    • Investigator James Davis

    To support a CURIOSS workshop for community building amongst Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs)

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  • grantee: Superbloom Design
    amount: $50,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2024

    To partially support a program for maintainers of open source software to build capacity for better security

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Better Software for Science
    • Investigator Georgia Bullen

    To partially support a program for maintainers of open source software to build capacity for better security

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  • grantee: Boston University
    amount: $248,856
    city: Boston, MA
    year: 2024

    To develop a framework, curated repository of open source tools, and training program to streamline the process of deploying RAG-based generative AI solutions in academic settings

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Better Software for Science
    • Investigator William Tomlinson

    To develop a framework, curated repository of open source tools, and training program to streamline the process of deploying RAG-based generative AI solutions in academic settings

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