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: Hopewell Fund
    amount: $20,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2018

    To partially support a second summit of data science leadership across US universities

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Data & Computational Research
    • Investigator Micaela Parker

    To partially support a second summit of data science leadership across US universities

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  • grantee: Lyrasis
    amount: $20,000
    city: Philadelphia, PA
    year: 2018

    To conduct a feasibility study to assess the potential for development of the open source SimplyE ebook platform to serve the academic community

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Scholarly Communication
    • Investigator Robert Miller

    To conduct a feasibility study to assess the potential for development of the open source SimplyE ebook platform to serve the academic community

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  • grantee: Social Science Research Council
    amount: $500,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2018

    To facilitate scholarly research on proprietary social media data through a process that incorporates peer reviews, ethical reviews, and privacy reviews

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Alondra Nelson

    To facilitate scholarly research on proprietary social media data through a process that incorporates peer reviews, ethical reviews, and privacy reviews

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  • grantee: National Academy of Sciences
    amount: $110,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2018

    To disseminate broadly the new National Academies report on Sexual Harassment of Women to various stakeholders, and to motivate and document change at 2-year and 4-year colleges and universities

    • Program
    • Investigator Thomas Rudin

    To disseminate broadly the new National Academies report on Sexual Harassment of Women to various stakeholders, and to motivate and document change at 2-year and 4-year colleges and universities

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  • grantee: Center for Economic and Policy Research
    amount: $115,750
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2018

    To analyze the effect of and additional contracting layer, Managed Services Providers (MSPs) on lead firms and workers engaged in non-standard work arrangements

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Working Longer
    • Investigator Eileen Appelbaum

    To analyze the effect of and additional contracting layer, Managed Services Providers (MSPs) on lead firms and workers engaged in non-standard work arrangements

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  • grantee: The Manufacturing Institute
    amount: $125,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2018

    To study upskilling strategies among manufacturers for aging workforce and explore best practices on how these companies have been able to successfully extend the working years of this group

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Working Longer
    • Investigator Chad Moutray

    To study upskilling strategies among manufacturers for aging workforce and explore best practices on how these companies have been able to successfully extend the working years of this group

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  • grantee: Johns Hopkins University
    amount: $19,124
    city: Baltimore, MD
    year: 2018

    To develop a framework for updating the Digital Curation Centre Curation Lifecycle Model

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Data & Computational Research
    • Investigator G. Choudhury

    To develop a framework for updating the Digital Curation Centre Curation Lifecycle Model

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  • grantee: Hypothesis Project
    amount: $12,000
    city: San Francisco, CA
    year: 2018

    To partially support a workshop and hackathon to develop a joint roadmap for open science software tools

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Scholarly Communication
    • Investigator Dan Whaley

    To partially support a workshop and hackathon to develop a joint roadmap for open science software tools

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  • grantee: Ithaka Harbors Inc
    amount: $20,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2018

    To partially support the second Bowen Colloquium

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Scholarly Communication
    • Investigator Catharine Hill

    To partially support the second Bowen Colloquium

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  • grantee: University of Pennsylvania
    amount: $48,784
    city: Philadelphia, PA
    year: 2018

    To support continued development of Manubot, a git-native authoring tool for scientific manuscripts

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Scholarly Communication
    • Investigator Daniel Himmelstein

    To support continued development of Manubot, a git-native authoring tool for scientific manuscripts

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