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: Carnegie Mellon University
    amount: $1,079,997
    city: Pittsburgh, PA
    year: 2026

    To analyze the economics and engineering of supply chains through practical case studies of bottlenecks and resilience in hi-tech manufacturing

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Kate Whitefoot

    To analyze the economics and engineering of supply chains through practical case studies of bottlenecks and resilience in hi-tech manufacturing

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  • grantee: Northeastern University
    amount: $1,080,867
    city: Boston, MA
    year: 2026

    To develop, test, and benchmark techniques for efficiently studying societal trends by fusing digital trace data together with nonprobability survey data

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator David Lazer

    To develop, test, and benchmark techniques for efficiently studying societal trends by fusing digital trace data together with nonprobability survey data

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  • grantee: New York University
    amount: $750,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2026

    To improve the economic measurement of costs, benefits, and distributional effects in regulatory analysis

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Burçin Ünel

    To improve the economic measurement of costs, benefits, and distributional effects in regulatory analysis

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  • grantee: University of Virginia
    amount: $50,000
    city: Charlottesville, VA
    year: 2026

    To complete a research project prioritized by public reviewers because it compiles geographic evidence about who faces environmental risk and why

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Jonathan Colmer

    To complete a research project prioritized by public reviewers because it compiles geographic evidence about who faces environmental risk and why

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  • grantee: University of Pittsburgh
    amount: $49,298
    city: Pittsburgh, PA
    year: 2026

    To complete a research project prioritized by public reviewers because it creates new data on how federal policies have affected housing accessibility

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Omer Ali

    To complete a research project prioritized by public reviewers because it creates new data on how federal policies have affected housing accessibility

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  • grantee: Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics
    amount: $678,700
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2026

    To develop comprehensive, timely, and practical assessments of the data supply chains that produce U.S. economic indicators, including how these compare with official statistical systems in other countries

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Jed Kolko

    To develop comprehensive, timely, and practical assessments of the data supply chains that produce U.S. economic indicators, including how these compare with official statistical systems in other countries

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  • grantee: Renaissance Philanthropy Fund
    amount: $1,053,555
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2026

    To transform formal mathematics by converting symbolic and numerical calculations into evidence that is rigorously machine-verifiable

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Johan Commelin

    To transform formal mathematics by converting symbolic and numerical calculations into evidence that is rigorously machine-verifiable

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  • grantee: Harvard University
    amount: $483,047
    city: Cambridge, MA
    year: 2026

    To study the quantity and quality of caregiving, including the causal impact of wage rates, using new data about previously invisible relationships between patients and caregivers in minimally regulated labor markets

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Anna Russo

    To study the quantity and quality of caregiving, including the causal impact of wage rates, using new data about previously invisible relationships between patients and caregivers in minimally regulated labor markets

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  • grantee: Harvard University
    amount: $391,680
    city: Cambridge, MA
    year: 2026

    To help restructure the allocation of scientific resources and credit given the growing use of Artificial Intelligence by drawing on ideas about market design, experimental design, contract theory, and industrial organization

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Kyle Myers

    To help restructure the allocation of scientific resources and credit given the growing use of Artificial Intelligence by drawing on ideas about market design, experimental design, contract theory, and industrial organization

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  • grantee: Stanford University
    amount: $45,244
    city: Stanford, CA
    year: 2026

    To host a workshop that explores the relationship between democratic institutions and publicly funded research

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Margaret Levi

    To host a workshop that explores the relationship between democratic institutions and publicly funded research

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