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.

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3,133 Grants

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Amount

City

Year

grantee: The University of Canberra

amount: $135,373

city: Bruce, Australia

year: 2018
To study the economics and maintenance of digital infrastructure by exploring the relationship between waged and volunteer labor in open source projects
- Program Technology
- Sub-program Data & Computational Research
- Investigator Mathieu O'Neil
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grantee: University of California, Berkeley

amount: $138,035

city: Berkeley, CA

year: 2018
To study the economics and maintenance of digital infrastructure by investigating the invisible work that sustains widely used open source projects
- Program Technology
- Sub-program Data & Computational Research
- Investigator Stuart Geiger
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To study the economics and maintenance of digital infrastructure by investigating the invisible work that sustains widely used open source projects
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grantee: Carnegie Mellon University

amount: $49,500

city: Pittsburgh, PA

year: 2018
To study the economics and maintenance of digital infrastructure by testing the impact of non-financial and reputational incentives on open source participation
- Program Technology
- Sub-program Data & Computational Research
- Investigator Eremina Mytsa
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To study the economics and maintenance of digital infrastructure by testing the impact of non-financial and reputational incentives on open source participation
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grantee: University of Washington

amount: $139,993

city: Seattle, WA

year: 2018
To study the economics and maintenance of digital infrastructure by measuring the underproduction that results from misalignment of supply and demand of open source labor
- Program Technology
- Sub-program Data & Computational Research
- Investigator Benjamin Hill
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To study the economics and maintenance of digital infrastructure by measuring the underproduction that results from misalignment of supply and demand of open source labor
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grantee: Arizona State University Foundation

amount: $36,942

city: Tempe, AZ

year: 2018
To study the economics and maintenance of digital infrastructure through case studies of the funding and impact of software instruments in stellar astrophysics
- Program Technology
- Sub-program Data & Computational Research
- Investigator Frank Timmes
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To study the economics and maintenance of digital infrastructure through case studies of the funding and impact of software instruments in stellar astrophysics
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grantee: University of Arizona

amount: $19,000

city: Tucson, AZ

year: 2018
To support the production of Beyond the Earth’s Edge: The Poetry of Spaceflight published by the University of Arizona Press in 2019
- Program Public Understanding
- Sub-program Books
- Investigator Christopher Cokinos
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To support the production of Beyond the Earth’s Edge: The Poetry of Spaceflight published by the University of Arizona Press in 2019
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grantee: Virginia Postrel

amount: $50,000

city: Los Angeles, CA

year: 2018
To support the research and writing of The Fabric of Civilization to be published by Basic Books in 2020
- Program Public Understanding
- Sub-program Books
- Investigator Virginia Postrel
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To support the research and writing of The Fabric of Civilization to be published by Basic Books in 2020
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grantee: Jacob Burns Film Center, Inc.

amount: $74,678

city: Pleasantville, NY

year: 2018
To produce a feature-length documentary on the Blue Brain Project to build a full-scale, self-aware simulation of the human brain
- Program Public Understanding
- Sub-program Film
- Investigator Noah Hutton
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To produce a feature-length documentary on the Blue Brain Project to build a full-scale, self-aware simulation of the human brain
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grantee: Manhattan Theatre Club

amount: $250,000

city: New York, NY

year: 2018
To provide production support for Manhattan Club Theatre’s staging of Bess Wohl’s science-themed play Continuity
- Program Public Understanding
- Sub-program Theater
- Investigator Scott Kaplan
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To provide production support for Manhattan Club Theatre’s staging of Bess Wohl’s science-themed play Continuity
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grantee: University of Florida

amount: $124,998

city: Gainesville, FL

year: 2018
To pilot the acquisition, ingestion, and standardization processes necessary to compile a national voter registration database for use by academics and officials conducting non-partisan research
- Program Research
- Initiative Empirical Economic Research Enablers (EERE)
- Sub-program Economics
- Investigator Michael McDonald
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To pilot the acquisition, ingestion, and standardization processes necessary to compile a national voter registration database for use by academics and officials conducting non-partisan research
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