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: Christopher R. Miller
    amount: $54,950
    city: Belmont, MA
    year: 2021

    To support the research and writing of “The Switch,” to be published by Simon & Shuster

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Christopher Miller

    To support the research and writing of “The Switch,” to be published by Simon & Shuster

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  • grantee: Siobhan Roberts
    amount: $50,000
    city: Toronto, Canada, Canada
    year: 2021

    To support the research and writing of “Let Five Be Even,” to be published by Pantheon Books

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Siobhan Roberts

    To support the research and writing of “Let Five Be Even,” to be published by Pantheon Books

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  • grantee: California Ocean Science Trust
    amount: $103,448
    city: Sacramento, CA
    year: 2021

    To develop replicable positive ways to advance DEI in coastal and marine sciences towards a vision of a diverse and inclusive science-policy workforce

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Lida Teneva

    To develop replicable positive ways to advance DEI in coastal and marine sciences towards a vision of a diverse and inclusive science-policy workforce

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  • grantee: Pecan Street, Inc.
    amount: $100,000
    city: Austin, TX
    year: 2021

    To establish a high-resolution residential energy use monitoring testbed in Puerto Rico through Pecan Street’s new Center for Race, Energy & Climate Justice

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Suzanne Russo

    To establish a high-resolution residential energy use monitoring testbed in Puerto Rico through Pecan Street’s new Center for Race, Energy & Climate Justice

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  • grantee: Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
    amount: $49,964
    city: Chicago, IL
    year: 2021

    To support the research and writing of “Human infection studies: When is it ethical to intentionally expose people to pathogens?,” to be published by Oxford University Press

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Seema Shah

    To support the research and writing of “Human infection studies: When is it ethical to intentionally expose people to pathogens?,” to be published by Oxford University Press

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  • grantee: Meehan Crist
    amount: $50,000
    city: Brooklyn, NY
    year: 2021

    To support the research and writing of their book “Is it OK to Have a Child?,” to be published by Random House and Chatto & Windus

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Meehan Crist

    To support the research and writing of their book “Is it OK to Have a Child?,” to be published by Random House and Chatto & Windus

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  • grantee: Dario Robleto
    amount: $49,992
    city: Houston, TX
    year: 2021

    To support the research and writing of “Life Signs: The Tender Science of the Pulsewave,” to be published by the University of Chicago Press

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Dario Robleto

    To support the research and writing of “Life Signs: The Tender Science of the Pulsewave,” to be published by the University of Chicago Press

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  • grantee: University of Michigan
    amount: $165,303
    city: Ann Arbor, MI
    year: 2021

    To develop a nuanced understanding of Large Language Models to provide actionable recommendations for their development, implementation, and governance

    • Program Technology
    • Initiative Trust in AI
    • Sub-program Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology
    • Investigator Shobita Parthasarathy

    To develop a nuanced understanding of Large Language Models to provide actionable recommendations for their development, implementation, and governance

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  • grantee: American Museum of the Moving Image
    amount: $132,820
    city: Astoria, NY
    year: 2021

    To support the Sloan Student Grand Jury Prize for the annual selection and development of the best-of-the-best screenplay from Sloan’s six film school partners and Sloan Discovery Award selected from six non-Sloan film school screenplays with S&T themes

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Film
    • Investigator Sonia Epstein

    To support the Sloan Student Grand Jury Prize for the annual selection and development of the best-of-the-best screenplay from Sloan’s six film school partners and Sloan Discovery Award selected from six non-Sloan film school screenplays with S&T themes

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  • grantee: North Fork TV Festival, Inc.
    amount: $15,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2021

    To support the writing, packaging, pitching, and promotion of two scripted S&T television pilots at the inaugural North Fork TV Festival Pitch Forum

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Television
    • Investigator Noah Doyle

    To support the writing, packaging, pitching, and promotion of two scripted S&T television pilots at the inaugural North Fork TV Festival Pitch Forum

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