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: Alec Nevala-Lee
    amount: $60,000
    city: Oak Park, IL
    year: 2026

    To support the research and writing of Whiz Kids: The Oracles of RAND and the World They Made, to be published by W.W. Norton in 2027

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Alec Nevala-Lee

    To support the research and writing of Whiz Kids: The Oracles of RAND and the World They Made, to be published by W.W. Norton in 2027

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  • grantee: Kristen Brown
    amount: $60,000
    city: Brooklyn, NY
    year: 2026

    To support the research and writing of The Immortal Womb: The centuries-long scientific quest to control the female body — and hack human reproduction to be published by W.W. Norton in 2027

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Kristen Valentina Brown

    To support the research and writing of The Immortal Womb: The centuries-long scientific quest to control the female body — and hack human reproduction to be published by W.W. Norton in 2027

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  • grantee: John Markoff
    amount: $55,000
    city: Palo Alto, CA
    year: 2026

    To support the research and writing of The Edge of Chaos: Douglas Engelbart, John McCarthy, and the Decade that Made Silicon Valley to be published by MIT Press

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator John Markoff

    To support the research and writing of The Edge of Chaos: Douglas Engelbart, John McCarthy, and the Decade that Made Silicon Valley to be published by MIT Press

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  • grantee: Rebecca Heilweil
    amount: $27,000
    city: Brooklyn, NY
    year: 2026

    To support the research and writing of How to Kill a Space Station, to be published by Astra House Publishers in 2027

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Rebecca Heilweil

    To support the research and writing of How to Kill a Space Station, to be published by Astra House Publishers in 2027

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  • grantee: Institute of International Education
    amount: $63,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2026

    To support the research and writing of Science at Risk: A Book on How Knowledge Survives When the World Falls Apart to be published by MIT Press

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Mary Karam McKey

    To support the research and writing of Science at Risk: A Book on How Knowledge Survives When the World Falls Apart to be published by MIT Press

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  • 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: 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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  • grantee: Kimberly Kankiewicz
    amount: $44,291
    city: Liberty, MO
    year: 2025

    To support the research and writing of Bellwether: A Telephone Operator, a Landmark Court Case, and the Women Whose Voices Connected a Nation, to be published by Union Square in 2027

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Kimberly Kankiewicz

    To support the research and writing of Bellwether: A Telephone Operator, a Landmark Court Case, and the Women Whose Voices Connected a Nation, to be published by Union Square in 2027

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  • grantee: Jaime Green
    amount: $59,900
    city: New Britain, CT
    year: 2025

    To support the research and writing of At Home in the Stars, to be published by Hanover Square Press in 2028

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Jaime Green

    To support the research and writing of At Home in the Stars, to be published by Hanover Square Press in 2028

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  • grantee: Noa Lincoln
    amount: $40,000
    city: Hilo, HI
    year: 2025

    To support the research and writing of Planets in the Sea, to be published by Riverhead

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Noa Lincoln

    To support the research and writing of Planets in the Sea, to be published by Riverhead

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