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: National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    amount: $200,000
    city: Cambridge, MA
    year: 2020

    To connect researchers and policymakers with reliable survey research about the pandemic, by collecting, vetting, and archiving these materials in a searchable online repository

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

    To connect researchers and policymakers with reliable survey research about the pandemic, by collecting, vetting, and archiving these materials in a searchable online repository

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  • grantee: National Academy of Sciences
    amount: $50,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2020

    To support the COVID-19-related activities of the Societal Experts Action Network, a network of leading social, behavioral, and economics researchers that facilitate rapid responses to actionable questions from decision-makers

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

    To support the COVID-19-related activities of the Societal Experts Action Network, a network of leading social, behavioral, and economics researchers that facilitate rapid responses to actionable questions from decision-makers

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  • grantee: University of Colorado, Boulder
    amount: $41,762
    city: Boulder, CO
    year: 2020

    To develop guidance for policymakers on disaster preparedness, response, and recovery in light of the pandemic

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

    To develop guidance for policymakers on disaster preparedness, response, and recovery in light of the pandemic

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  • grantee: Texas A&M University
    amount: $49,839
    city: College Station, TX
    year: 2020

    To develop and evaluate a scalable mentoring program for diverse scholars early in their careers as economists

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Danila Serra

    To develop and evaluate a scalable mentoring program for diverse scholars early in their careers as economists

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  • grantee: Carnegie Mellon University
    amount: $150,000
    city: Pittsburgh, PA
    year: 2020

    To develop a model for archiving and curating the complex, multimodal materials generated in the field of robotics

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Better Software for Science
    • Investigator Brian Mathews

    To develop a model for archiving and curating the complex, multimodal materials generated in the field of robotics

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  • grantee: Drexel University
    amount: $220,428
    city: Philadelphia, PA
    year: 2020

    To explore the international development and use of open science hardware (OSH), with particular attention to dynamics between the Global North and South

    • Program Technology
    • Initiative Open Hardware
    • Sub-program Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology
    • Investigator Gwen Ottinger

    To explore the international development and use of open science hardware (OSH), with particular attention to dynamics between the Global North and South

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  • grantee: Community Initiatives
    amount: $126,897
    city: Oakland, CA
    year: 2020

    To support the scientific community manager community of practice during the COVID-19 shift to virtual meetings and online collaboration

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology
    • Investigator Lou Woodley

    To support the scientific community manager community of practice during the COVID-19 shift to virtual meetings and online collaboration

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  • grantee: American Association for the Advancement of Science
    amount: $125,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2020

    To support DEI within STEMM professional societies by adapting, piloting, and refining the AAAS SEA Change framework and making it available to associations through online training modules and other dissemination vehicles

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Shirley Malcom

    To support DEI within STEMM professional societies by adapting, piloting, and refining the AAAS SEA Change framework and making it available to associations through online training modules and other dissemination vehicles

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  • grantee: Purdue University
    amount: $99,325
    city: West Lafayette, IN
    year: 2020

    To support the Graduate Schools at Cornell and Purdue to offer programming across the Sloan UCEM and SIGP sites amidst the twin crises of the Covid-19 pandemic and the national reckoning with structural racism driven by the Black Lives Matter movement

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Kevin Gibson

    To support the Graduate Schools at Cornell and Purdue to offer programming across the Sloan UCEM and SIGP sites amidst the twin crises of the Covid-19 pandemic and the national reckoning with structural racism driven by the Black Lives Matter movement

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  • grantee: Cornell University
    amount: $100,000
    city: Ithaca, NY
    year: 2020

    To support the Graduate Schools at Cornell and Purdue to offer programming across the Sloan UCEM and SIGP sites amidst the twin crises of the Covid-19 pandemic and the national reckoning with structural racism driven by the Black Lives Matter movement

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Sara Xayarath Hernandez

    To support the Graduate Schools at Cornell and Purdue to offer programming across the Sloan UCEM and SIGP sites amidst the twin crises of the Covid-19 pandemic and the national reckoning with structural racism driven by the Black Lives Matter movement

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