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: American Association for the Advancement of Science
    amount: $250,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2023

    To support the AAAS STEMM Opportunity Alliance, a national initiative to create an equitable and excellent STEMM ecosystem by 2050

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Michael Feder

    To support the AAAS STEMM Opportunity Alliance, a national initiative to create an equitable and excellent STEMM ecosystem by 2050

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  • grantee: University of Pennsylvania
    amount: $75,000
    city: Philadelphia, PA
    year: 2023

    To study the history of chimpanzees as scientific commodities in the 20th century United States

    • Program Research
    • Investigator M. Susan Lindee

    To study the history of chimpanzees as scientific commodities in the 20th century United States

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  • grantee: University of Delaware
    amount: $69,205
    city: Newark, DE
    year: 2023

    To support research on the economic and social histories of ubiquitous but poorly-documented tools central to Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

    • Program Research
    • Investigator Julie Klinger

    To support research on the economic and social histories of ubiquitous but poorly-documented tools central to Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

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  • grantee: University of California, Los Angeles
    amount: $100,000
    city: Los Angeles, CA
    year: 2023

    To build synthetic RNA condensates that isothermally self-assemble during transcription and which encapsulate an artificial genome for localized reactions, feedback regulation, and communication

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Matter-to-Life
    • Investigator Jaimie Stewart

    To build synthetic RNA condensates that isothermally self-assemble during transcription and which encapsulate an artificial genome for localized reactions, feedback regulation, and communication

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  • grantee: The New York Academy of Medicine
    amount: $47,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2023

    To produce a 45-minute performance of the opera “Semmelweis” with accompanying lectures, moderated discussions, and outreach

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program New Media
    • Investigator Elana Kieffer

    To produce a 45-minute performance of the opera “Semmelweis” with accompanying lectures, moderated discussions, and outreach

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  • grantee: California Institute of Technology
    amount: $200,000
    city: Pasadena, CA
    year: 2023

    To study an electric-dipole-moment (EDM) sensitive state in laser cooled and trapped SrOH, in preparation for future experiments aimed at lowering the upperlimit on the electron EDM

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Small-Scale Fundamental Physics
    • Investigator Nick Hutzler

    To study an electric-dipole-moment (EDM) sensitive state in laser cooled and trapped SrOH, in preparation for future experiments aimed at lowering the upperlimit on the electron EDM

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  • grantee: Duke University
    amount: $236,905
    city: Durham, NC
    year: 2023

    To study how federal innovation policies influence the American innovation ecosystem

    • Program Research
    • Initiative Economic Analysis of Science and Technology (EAST)
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Ashish Arora

    To study how federal innovation policies influence the American innovation ecosystem

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  • grantee: Cornell University
    amount: $25,000
    city: Ithaca, NY
    year: 2023

    To partially support the 2023 New York Urban Tech Summit

    • Program New York City Program
    • Investigator Michael Samuelian

    To partially support the 2023 New York Urban Tech Summit

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  • grantee: American Association for the Advancement of Science
    amount: $50,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2023

    To update the AAAS Diversity and the Law resources in light of a changing legal landscape

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Travis York

    To update the AAAS Diversity and the Law resources in light of a changing legal landscape

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  • grantee: Aalborg University
    amount: $23,803
    city: Aalborg East, Denmark, Denmark
    year: 2023

    To partially support a meeting on human-centered software engineering and artificial intelligence

    • Program Technology
    • Initiative Trust in AI
    • Sub-program Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology
    • Investigator Daniel Russo

    To partially support a meeting on human-centered software engineering and artificial intelligence

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