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: Library Foundation of Los Angeles
    amount: $20,000
    city: Los Angeles, CA
    year: 2019

    To support a series of events at the Los Angeles Public Library that pairs leading scientists and thinkers with top journalists to discuss timely topics in science and technology

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program New Media
    • Investigator Kenneth Brecher

    To support a series of events at the Los Angeles Public Library that pairs leading scientists and thinkers with top journalists to discuss timely topics in science and technology

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  • grantee: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
    amount: $95,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2019

    To conduct a series of planning activities to identify the scientific needs of the NYC museum community

    • Program New York City Program
    • Investigator Marco Leona

    To conduct a series of planning activities to identify the scientific needs of the NYC museum community

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  • grantee: Adler Planetarium
    amount: $74,791
    city: Chicago, IL
    year: 2019

    To engage faith-based and interfaith communities with scientific research through citizen science projects on Zooniverse

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program New Media
    • Investigator Grace Wolf-Chase

    To engage faith-based and interfaith communities with scientific research through citizen science projects on Zooniverse

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  • grantee: University of California, Irvine
    amount: $155,958
    city: Irvine, CA
    year: 2019

    To build upon previously Sloan-funded research on age discrimination, by studying the effects of ageist stereotypes in job ads on the age composition of job applicants for those jobs

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Working Longer
    • Investigator David Neumark

    To build upon previously Sloan-funded research on age discrimination, by studying the effects of ageist stereotypes in job ads on the age composition of job applicants for those jobs

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  • grantee: Carnegie Mellon University
    amount: $45,000
    city: Pittsburgh, PA
    year: 2019

    To organize a workshop that will assess the prospects for forming a national consortium of university energy institutes and research centers

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Jay Whitacre

    To organize a workshop that will assess the prospects for forming a national consortium of university energy institutes and research centers

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  • grantee: Northwestern University
    amount: $41,150
    city: Evanston, IL
    year: 2019

    To disseminate key results from the Chemistry of Indoor Environments program and the Microbiology of the Built Environment program

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Chemistry of Indoor Environments
    • Investigator Erica Hartmann

    To disseminate key results from the Chemistry of Indoor Environments program and the Microbiology of the Built Environment program

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  • grantee: Columbia University
    amount: $34,804
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2019

    To plan a professional development copyright education initiative for librarians and other cultural heritage professionals

    • Program Technology
    • Investigator Rina Pantalony

    To plan a professional development copyright education initiative for librarians and other cultural heritage professionals

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  • grantee: Carl Erik Fisher
    amount: $50,000
    city: Brooklyn, NY
    year: 2019

    To support Over the Dark Edge, a book on the scientific, cultural, intellectual, and philosophical history of addiction, to be published by Penguin Press in 2020

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Carl Fisher

    To support Over the Dark Edge, a book on the scientific, cultural, intellectual, and philosophical history of addiction, to be published by Penguin Press in 2020

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  • grantee: Johns Hopkins University
    amount: $48,830
    city: Baltimore, MD
    year: 2019

    To support the research and writing of Unique, a book about the science of human individuality, to be published by Basic Books in 2020

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator David Linden

    To support the research and writing of Unique, a book about the science of human individuality, to be published by Basic Books in 2020

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  • grantee: Fred Nadis
    amount: $37,500
    city: Santa Barbara, CA
    year: 2019

    To support the research and writing of Star Settlers, a book about space exploration and colonization, to be published by Pegasus Books in 2021

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Fred Nadis

    To support the research and writing of Star Settlers, a book about space exploration and colonization, to be published by Pegasus Books in 2021

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