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: The Mr. October Foundation for Kids
    amount: $50,000
    city: Carmel, CA
    year: 2021

    To provide partial support for an afterschool and summer STEM enrichment program at seven public schools in the Bronx

    • Program New York City Program
    • Investigator Alan Gomez

    To provide partial support for an afterschool and summer STEM enrichment program at seven public schools in the Bronx

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  • grantee: Urban Justice Center
    amount: $50,000
    city: Brooklyn, NY
    year: 2021

    To help workers & employers understand air safety as part of a holistic set of guidelines to reduce COVID transmission and to improve workplace practices

    • Program New York City Program
    • Investigator Doug Lasdon

    To help workers & employers understand air safety as part of a holistic set of guidelines to reduce COVID transmission and to improve workplace practices

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  • grantee: Black in AI
    amount: $249,960
    city: Palo Alto, CA
    year: 2021

    To support recruitment, belonging, retention, and visibility of Black scholars working in artificial intelligence at the graduate, postdoctoral, and faculty level

    • Program Technology
    • Initiative Trust in AI
    • Sub-program Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology
    • Investigator Rediet Abebe

    To support recruitment, belonging, retention, and visibility of Black scholars working in artificial intelligence at the graduate, postdoctoral, and faculty level

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  • grantee: Simmons University
    amount: $43,916
    city: Boston, MA
    year: 2021

    To study how researchers collaborate using cloud-based file repositories

    • Program Technology
    • Initiative Virtual Collaboration initiative
    • Sub-program Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology
    • Investigator Kyong Eun Oh

    To study how researchers collaborate using cloud-based file repositories

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  • grantee: Skylar Young-Bayer
    amount: $15,000
    city: Bristol, RI
    year: 2021

    To support the research and writing of “Uncharted: how scientists navigate health, research, and bias,” to be published by Columbia University Press

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Skylar Young-Bayer

    To support the research and writing of “Uncharted: how scientists navigate health, research, and bias,” to be published by Columbia University Press

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  • grantee: Second Nature, Inc.
    amount: $50,000
    city: Boston, MA
    year: 2021

    To examine how changes in federal funding approaches for energy research might impact universities and the higher education landscape.

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Timothy Carter

    To examine how changes in federal funding approaches for energy research might impact universities and the higher education landscape.

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  • grantee: University of California, Davis
    amount: $250,000
    city: Davis, CA
    year: 2021

    To advance faculty diversity in STEM and help faculty in priority populations (e.g., persons of color, women) overcome barriers to advancement that the COVID-19 crisis has only magnified

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Mariel Vazquez

    To advance faculty diversity in STEM and help faculty in priority populations (e.g., persons of color, women) overcome barriers to advancement that the COVID-19 crisis has only magnified

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  • grantee: Sam Houston State University
    amount: $40,804
    city: Huntsville, TX
    year: 2021

    To support the research and writing of “Things That Go Bump in the Universe,” to be published by Johns Hopkins University Press

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator C. Renee James

    To support the research and writing of “Things That Go Bump in the Universe,” to be published by Johns Hopkins University Press

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  • grantee: Chelsea Byun
    amount: $44,375
    city: South Portland, ME
    year: 2021

    To support the research and writing of “Mother Brain: How Neuroscience Is Rewriting the Story of Parenthood,” to be published by Henry Holt & Co

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Chelsea Byun

    To support the research and writing of “Mother Brain: How Neuroscience Is Rewriting the Story of Parenthood,” to be published by Henry Holt & Co

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  • grantee: Coco Krumme
    amount: $47,000
    city: Lopez Island, WA
    year: 2021

    To support the research and writing of “False Gods: how optimization seduced us, consumed us, and ultimately failed us,” to be published by Riverhead

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Coco Krumme

    To support the research and writing of “False Gods: how optimization seduced us, consumed us, and ultimately failed us,” to be published by Riverhead

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