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: New York Academy of Sciences
    amount: $40,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2018

    To support a multidisciplinary symposium and panel on science denialism

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program New Media
    • Investigator Melanie Brickman Borchard

    To support a multidisciplinary symposium and panel on science denialism

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  • grantee: IEEE Foundation, Inc.
    amount: $125,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2018

    To support enhanced animation and graphics for a feature documentary about Claude Shannon, the father of information theory

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Film
    • Investigator Richard Allen

    To support enhanced animation and graphics for a feature documentary about Claude Shannon, the father of information theory

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  • grantee: Community Initiatives
    amount: $19,500
    city: San Francisco, CA
    year: 2018

    To partially support the first CarpentryCon

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Data & Computational Research
    • Investigator Tracy Teal

    To partially support the first CarpentryCon

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  • grantee: University of Zurich
    amount: $19,610
    city: Zurich, Switzerland
    year: 2018

    To encourage standardization of survey instruments in the domain of studies about people’s Internet uses to allow for more comparison and replication

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Scholarly Communication
    • Investigator Eszter Hargittai

    To encourage standardization of survey instruments in the domain of studies about people’s Internet uses to allow for more comparison and replication

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  • grantee: NumFOCUS
    amount: $20,000
    city: Austin, TX
    year: 2018

    To support travel by students and junior faculty to a workshop focused on the development of scientific software using the R statistical computing language

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Data & Computational Research
    • Investigator Karthik Ram

    To support travel by students and junior faculty to a workshop focused on the development of scientific software using the R statistical computing language

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  • grantee: FORCE11
    amount: $20,000
    city: San Diego, CA
    year: 2018

    To partially support the 2018 Future of Research Communication and eScholarship meeting

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Scholarly Communication
    • Investigator Cameron Neylon

    To partially support the 2018 Future of Research Communication and eScholarship meeting

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  • grantee: Center for Strategic and International Studies
    amount: $124,475
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2018

    To support research and workshops in the Energy in America project to examine how energy impacts the United States economy at multiple levels and the changing role of energy development on job creation

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Sarah Ladislaw

    To support research and workshops in the Energy in America project to examine how energy impacts the United States economy at multiple levels and the changing role of energy development on job creation

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  • grantee: National Science Communication Institute
    amount: $20,000
    city: Seattle, WA
    year: 2018

    To support two regional meetings on the future of scholarly communication as well as the launch of the Research & Scholarly Communication Network

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Scholarly Communication
    • Investigator Glenn Hampson

    To support two regional meetings on the future of scholarly communication as well as the launch of the Research & Scholarly Communication Network

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  • grantee: San Francisco State University
    amount: $124,833
    city: San Francisco, CA
    year: 2018

    To examine the effects of the Work Progress Administration (WPA) on long-term work, disability, and retirement outcomes

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Working Longer
    • Investigator Sepideh Modrek

    To examine the effects of the Work Progress Administration (WPA) on long-term work, disability, and retirement outcomes

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  • grantee: Research Foundation of CUNY o/b/o Advanced Science Research Center
    amount: $30,746
    city: New York
    year: 2018

    To support a workshop on nanoscale chemistry of indoor environments

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Chemistry of Indoor Environments
    • Investigator Rein Ulijn

    To support a workshop on nanoscale chemistry of indoor environments

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