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: New York Public Radio
    amount: $600,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2024

    To support story-driven health care reporting at WNYC, including coverage of health and health care policy and economics, COVID 19 and climate change, and medical science and discovery

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Radio
    • Investigator Audrey Cooper

    To support story-driven health care reporting at WNYC, including coverage of health and health care policy and economics, COVID 19 and climate change, and medical science and discovery

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  • grantee: Lost Women of Science Initiative, Inc.
    amount: $236,371
    city: San Francisco, CA
    year: 2023

    To research, produce, and release 8-12 episodes of Lost Women of Science to tell in-depth stories of overlooked women in STEM throughout history

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Radio
    • Investigator Katie Hafner

    To research, produce, and release 8-12 episodes of Lost Women of Science to tell in-depth stories of overlooked women in STEM throughout history

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  • grantee: Electronic Frontier Foundation
    amount: $249,953
    city: San Francisco, CA
    year: 2023

    To support ten new episodes of “How to Fix the Internet,” an in-depth podcast about the problems of the modern web geared toward a lay audience

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Radio
    • Investigator Cindy Cohn

    To support ten new episodes of “How to Fix the Internet,” an in-depth podcast about the problems of the modern web geared toward a lay audience

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  • grantee: National Public Radio, Inc.
    amount: $975,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2023

    To support NPR’s coverage of economics via two podcasts, Planet Money and The Indicator; online short videos; a weekly newsletter; and educational outreach

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Radio
    • Investigator Erin Sells

    Funds from this grant provide three years of support to National Public Radio (NPR) for the continued publication and distribution of its acclaimed twice-weekly podcast, Planet Money and its off-shoot, The Indicator, both award-winning projects that examine key economic issues for a general audience in an accurate, accessible, and engaging way. With grant funds, NPR expects to publish over 300 podcast episodes per year--approximately 100 new episodes of Planet Money and 200 new episodes of The Indicator--covering a variety of important, compelling economic issues such as inflation, the ongoing effects of the pandemic on our economy, federal rental assistance, and remote work. Grant funds will also support the annual production of 150 video segments for Planet Money Shorts, an online video series that became the foundation of NPR’s first TikTok account.

    To support NPR’s coverage of economics via two podcasts, Planet Money and The Indicator; online short videos; a weekly newsletter; and educational outreach

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  • grantee: Food & Environment Reporting Network
    amount: $246,979
    city: New York, United States
    year: 2022

    To support immersive science storytelling on food and agriculture via the award-winning, female-hosted Gastropod podcast

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Radio
    • Investigator Tom Laskawy

    To support immersive science storytelling on food and agriculture via the award-winning, female-hosted Gastropod podcast

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  • grantee: Brown University
    amount: $39,341
    city: Providence, RI
    year: 2022

    To develop Dances with Robots, a podcast series that will investigate emerging robotic technologies through the lens of choreography

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Radio
    • Investigator Sydney Skybetter

    To develop Dances with Robots, a podcast series that will investigate emerging robotic technologies through the lens of choreography

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  • grantee: Electronic Frontier Foundation
    amount: $244,354
    city: San Francisco, CA
    year: 2022

    To support ten new episodes of "How to Fix the Internet," an in-depth podcast about the problems of the modern web geared toward a lay audience

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Radio
    • Investigator Cindy Cohn

    To support ten new episodes of "How to Fix the Internet," an in-depth podcast about the problems of the modern web geared toward a lay audience

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  • grantee: Lost Women of Science Initiative, Inc.
    amount: $499,459
    city: San Francisco, CA
    year: 2022

    To research, produce, and release three seasons of Lost Women of Science for a total of 20 podcast episodes telling in-depth stories of overlooked women in STEM throughout history

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Radio
    • Investigator Katie Hafner

    This grant provides support to New York Times tech reporter Katie Hafner and Sloan Kettering Cancer Center bioethicist Amy Scharf, who are producing three new seasons of their Lost Women of Science podcast series. Grant funds will allow Hafner and Scharf to produce twenty additional episodes telling the stories and cataloguing the contributions of undercredited women scientists. Each new season will feature one major, multi-episode series about a leading, underappreciated female STEM pioneer and four-to-five standalone episodes about unknown scientists about whom there is not enough information for a multi-episode arc. Season Four will highlight the life and contributions of Isabella Aiona Abbot, who discovered over 200 species of marine algae in the Pacific and was the first native Hawaiian woman to earn a Ph.D. in science. This grant will bolster Hafner and Scharf’s complementary efforts to form a research center and archive at Barnard College of Columbia University.

    To research, produce, and release three seasons of Lost Women of Science for a total of 20 podcast episodes telling in-depth stories of overlooked women in STEM throughout history

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  • grantee: Science Friday Initiative, Inc.
    amount: $750,686
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2022

    To support Science Friday, focusing on science and the arts, including radio broadcasts, digital science videos, blog posts, live events, and associated media

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Radio
    • Investigator Christie Taylor

    This grant provides ongoing support for the production and distribution of Science Friday, a weekly public radio show hosted by Ira Flatow that reaches over two million listeners each week. Science Friday engages the public through participatory dialogue and conversation, a live call-in show, and Q&As that give listeners a direct line of communication to scientists, mathematicians, engineers, technologists, inventors, science journalists and policymakers. Grant funds will allow Science Friday to continue producing SciArts (a weekly segment seeking to bridge the gap between science and the arts), hold a monthly book club, stream 50 podcast episodes per year, and hold five to ten events per year.

    To support Science Friday, focusing on science and the arts, including radio broadcasts, digital science videos, blog posts, live events, and associated media

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  • grantee: Just Human Productions
    amount: $200,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2021

    To support a season of the podcast “Epidemic,” which will share untold stories of smallpox eradication on the Indian subcontinent in the three decades following WWII

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Radio
    • Investigator Celine Gounder

    To support a season of the podcast “Epidemic,” which will share untold stories of smallpox eradication on the Indian subcontinent in the three decades following WWII

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