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.

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2,961 Grants

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Amount

City

Year

grantee: Center for Strategic and International Studies

amount: $50,000

city: Washington, DC

year: 2019
To support the research and writing of China’s Road, a book on the technology at the center of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, to be published by Yale University Press in 2020
- Program Public Understanding
- Sub-program Books
- Investigator Jonathan Hillman
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To support the research and writing of China’s Road, a book on the technology at the center of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, to be published by Yale University Press in 2020
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grantee: Women Make Movies, Inc.

amount: $95,700

city: New York, NY

year: 2019
To support the production of a feature-length documentary on neurologist Phil Kennedy, a pioneer in brain-computer interfacing, and how technology is affecting our brains
- Program Public Understanding
- Sub-program Film
- Investigator Barbara Ghammashi
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To support the production of a feature-length documentary on neurologist Phil Kennedy, a pioneer in brain-computer interfacing, and how technology is affecting our brains
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grantee: Richard Rhodes

amount: $125,000

city: Half Moon Bay, CA

year: 2019
To support the first full biography of entomologist and evolutionary biologist E.O. Wilson
- Program Public Understanding
- Sub-program Books
- Investigator Richard Rhodes
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To support the first full biography of entomologist and evolutionary biologist E.O. Wilson
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grantee: Island Press-Center for Resource Economics

amount: $50,000

city: Washington, DC

year: 2019
To support an illustrated edition of biologist E.O. Wilson’s autobiography, Naturalist, to be published by Island Press in 2020
- Program Public Understanding
- Sub-program Books
- Investigator David Miller
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To support an illustrated edition of biologist E.O. Wilson’s autobiography, Naturalist, to be published by Island Press in 2020
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grantee: Daniel J. Kevles

amount: $49,500

city: New York, NY

year: 2019
To support the research and writing of Vital Properties, a book about the history of innovation and intellectual property protection in living organisms, to be published by Alfred A. Knopf in 2020
- Program Public Understanding
- Sub-program Books
- Investigator Daniel Kevles
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To support the research and writing of Vital Properties, a book about the history of innovation and intellectual property protection in living organisms, to be published by Alfred A. Knopf in 2020
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grantee: University of Notre Dame

amount: $33,467

city: Notre Dame, IN

year: 2019
To support the research and writing of Mary Shelley and the Politics of Making Artificial Life, to be published by the University of Pennsylvania Press by 2021
- Program Public Understanding
- Sub-program Books
- Investigator Eileen Botting
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To support the research and writing of Mary Shelley and the Politics of Making Artificial Life, to be published by the University of Pennsylvania Press by 2021
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grantee: Elizabeth Kolbert

amount: $38,000

city: Williamstown, MA

year: 2019
To support the research and writing of a book on technologies and strategies to overcome human impact on the environment
- Program Public Understanding
- Sub-program Books
- Investigator Elizabeth Kolbert
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To support the research and writing of a book on technologies and strategies to overcome human impact on the environment
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grantee: North Carolina State University

amount: $29,909

city: Raleigh, NC

year: 2019
To support the research and writing of The End of Everything, a book on astrophysics and the various possibilities for the end of the universe, published by Scribner in 2020
- Program Public Understanding
- Sub-program Books
- Investigator Katherine Mack
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To support the research and writing of The End of Everything, a book on astrophysics and the various possibilities for the end of the universe, published by Scribner in 2020
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grantee: Center for Strategic and International Studies

amount: $50,000

city: Washington, DC

year: 2019
To support two annual Energy Futures Forums in identifying and evaluating key energy economics, policy, and technology trends
- Program Research
- Sub-program Energy and Environment
- Investigator Sarah Ladislaw
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To support two annual Energy Futures Forums in identifying and evaluating key energy economics, policy, and technology trends
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grantee: University of Oregon

amount: $44,760

city: Eugene, OR

year: 2019
To analyze data from a randomized field experiment to evaluate how dynamic pricing programs interact and impact household electricity consumption
- Program Research
- Sub-program Energy and Environment
- Investigator Grant Jacobsen
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To analyze data from a randomized field experiment to evaluate how dynamic pricing programs interact and impact household electricity consumption
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