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: University of Colorado, Boulder
    amount: $55,000
    city: Boulder, CO
    year: 2021

    To support Dr. Wilson Smith in undertaking a collaborative research project on capturing carbon dioxide from air using novel electrochemical processes, resulting from the 2020 Scialog conference on negative emissions science

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Wilson Smith

    To support Dr. Wilson Smith in undertaking a collaborative research project on capturing carbon dioxide from air using novel electrochemical processes, resulting from the 2020 Scialog conference on negative emissions science

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  • grantee: Rochester Institute of Technology
    amount: $55,000
    city: Rochester, NY
    year: 2021

    To support Dr. Pratik Dholabhai in undertaking a collaborative research project on producing synthetic silicates to sequester carbon dioxide through enhanced rock weathering, resulting from the 2020 Scialog conference on negative emissions science

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Pratik Dholabhai

    To support Dr. Pratik Dholabhai in undertaking a collaborative research project on producing synthetic silicates to sequester carbon dioxide through enhanced rock weathering, resulting from the 2020 Scialog conference on negative emissions science

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  • grantee: Colorado School of Mines
    amount: $55,000
    city: Golden, CO
    year: 2021

    To support Dr. Nannette Boyle in undertaking a collaborative research project on mineralization of carbon dioxide from the ocean, resulting from the 2020 Scialog conference on negative emissions science

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Nanette Boyle

    To support Dr. Nannette Boyle in undertaking a collaborative research project on mineralization of carbon dioxide from the ocean, resulting from the 2020 Scialog conference on negative emissions science

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  • grantee: Colorado School of Mines
    amount: $55,000
    city: Golden, CO
    year: 2021

    To support Dr. Nanette Boyle in undertaking a collaborative research project on direct air capture of methane using methanotrophic bacteria, resulting from the 2020 Scialog conference on negative emissions science

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Nanette Boyle

    To support Dr. Nanette Boyle in undertaking a collaborative research project on direct air capture of methane using methanotrophic bacteria, resulting from the 2020 Scialog conference on negative emissions science

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  • grantee: University of Michigan
    amount: $55,000
    city: Ann Arbor, MI
    year: 2021

    To support Dr. David Kwabi in undertaking a collaborative research project on capturing carbon dioxide from air using novel electrochemical processes, resulting from the 2020 Scialog conference on negative emissions science

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator David Kwabi

    To support Dr. David Kwabi in undertaking a collaborative research project on capturing carbon dioxide from air using novel electrochemical processes, resulting from the 2020 Scialog conference on negative emissions science

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  • grantee: Code for Science and Society
    amount: $86,000
    city: Portland, OR
    year: 2021

    To drive the definition and adoption of FAIR principles for research software

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Better Software for Science
    • Investigator Michelle Barker

    To drive the definition and adoption of FAIR principles for research software

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  • grantee: Code for Science and Society
    amount: $36,850
    city: Portland, OR
    year: 2021

    To advance understanding of the economics of open infrastructure maintenance and sustainability, by examining the themes of system interoperability, distributed governance, and collective funding

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Better Software for Science
    • Investigator Kaitlin Thaney

    To advance understanding of the economics of open infrastructure maintenance and sustainability, by examining the themes of system interoperability, distributed governance, and collective funding

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  • grantee: Association for Computing Machinery
    amount: $20,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2021

    To partially support the 2021 ACM conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency

    • Program Technology
    • Initiative Trust in AI
    • Sub-program Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology
    • Investigator Michael Ekstrand

    To partially support the 2021 ACM conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency

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  • grantee: Volcker Alliance
    amount: $149,993
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2021

    To improve public sector workforce recruiting practices and enhance diversity, particularly in STEM fields, by applying and testing insights from behavioral economics

    • Program Research
    • Initiative Behavioral and Regulatory Effects on Decision-making (BRED)
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Michael Hallsworth

    To improve public sector workforce recruiting practices and enhance diversity, particularly in STEM fields, by applying and testing insights from behavioral economics

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  • grantee: National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    amount: $44,000
    city: Cambridge, MA
    year: 2021

    To support collaborations between academic economists and policy-makers on economic questions of critical importance related to the COVID-19 pandemic

    • Program Research
    • Initiative Behavioral and Regulatory Effects on Decision-making (BRED)
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Kosali Simon

    To support collaborations between academic economists and policy-makers on economic questions of critical importance related to the COVID-19 pandemic

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