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: Joshua Zoffer
    amount: $45,600
    city: Los Angeles, CA
    year: 2025

    To support the research and writing of Leapfrog, to be published by W.W. Norton in 2027

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Joshua Zoffer

    To support the research and writing of Leapfrog, to be published by W.W. Norton in 2027

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  • grantee: Harvard University
    amount: $50,000
    city: Cambridge, MA
    year: 2025

    To recruit and support a postdoctoral fellow studying economic measurement and decision-making

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Eric Maskin

    To recruit and support a postdoctoral fellow studying economic measurement and decision-making

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  • grantee: Northern Arizona University
    amount: $99,916
    city: Flagstaff, AZ
    year: 2026

    To develop CommUnityBuddy, a conversational agent leveraging generative AI to assist in on-boarding new contributors to open source scientific software projects

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology
    • Investigator Igor Steinmacher

    To develop CommUnityBuddy, a conversational agent leveraging generative AI to assist in on-boarding new contributors to open source scientific software projects

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  • grantee: Girls Who Invest
    amount: $25,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2025

    To help attract and advance the next generation of exceptional investors and leaders in the asset management industry

    • Program New York City Program
    • Investigator Mayela Calderon

    To help attract and advance the next generation of exceptional investors and leaders in the asset management industry

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  • grantee: International Documentary Association
    amount: $247,305
    city: Los Angeles, CA
    year: 2025

    To support content on MinuteEarth’s YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram channels answering scientific “UnGoogleable” questions

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program YouTube and TikTok
    • Investigator Lilla Sparks

    To support content on MinuteEarth’s YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram channels answering scientific “UnGoogleable” questions

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  • grantee: New Venture Fund
    amount: $50,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2025

    To support efforts to protect the integrity, accessibility, and utility of federal data

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Meghan Maury-Fox

    To support efforts to protect the integrity, accessibility, and utility of federal data

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  • grantee: Tufts University
    amount: $50,000
    city: Medford, MA
    year: 2025

    To support the operations and expansion of EconoFact, an online service that disseminates policy-relevant research by economists

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Michael Klein

    To support the operations and expansion of EconoFact, an online service that disseminates policy-relevant research by economists

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  • grantee: From the Heart Productions
    amount: $60,000
    city: Oxnard, CA
    year: 2025

    To support the development of a six-part, six-hour series Of Different Minds: Tales of Neurodiversity and Other Enigmas

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Television
    • Investigator Lowell Handler

    To support the development of a six-part, six-hour series Of Different Minds: Tales of Neurodiversity and Other Enigmas

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  • grantee: Women Make Movies Inc.
    amount: $171,100
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2025

    To support the launch of Wikipediology, a YouTube channel about how scientific knowledge is formed on Wikipedia

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program YouTube and TikTok
    • Investigator Natasha Mynhier

    To support the launch of Wikipediology, a YouTube channel about how scientific knowledge is formed on Wikipedia

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  • grantee: University of British Columbia
    amount: $60,000
    city: Vancouver, BC, Canada
    year: 2025

    To support the research and writing of Mirrored States: How We Should Govern Big Tech to be published by Penguin Random House in 2027

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Wendy Wong

    To support the research and writing of Mirrored States: How We Should Govern Big Tech to be published by Penguin Random House in 2027

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