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: University of California, Santa Barbara
    amount: $173,170
    city: Santa Barbara, CA
    year: 2020

    To examine the implications of renewable energy transition policies in the United States on labor market outcomes

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Olivier Deschenes

    To examine the implications of renewable energy transition policies in the United States on labor market outcomes

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  • grantee: Oregon State University
    amount: $124,688
    city: Corvallis, OR
    year: 2020

    To better understand the factors and processes that facilitate or impede community adoption of microgrids

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Hilary Boudet

    To better understand the factors and processes that facilitate or impede community adoption of microgrids

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  • grantee: New York University
    amount: $203,010
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2020

    For a landscape analysis, including meeting with police and public interest groups, to establish a certification body for surveillance technologies used by law enforcement agencies

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program New Media
    • Investigator Barry Friedman

    For a landscape analysis, including meeting with police and public interest groups, to establish a certification body for surveillance technologies used by law enforcement agencies

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  • grantee: College of William and Mary
    amount: $69,478
    city: Williamsburg, VA
    year: 2020

    To continue to develop and deploy the indoor surface extractor

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Chemistry of Indoor Environments
    • Investigator Rachel O'Brien

    To continue to develop and deploy the indoor surface extractor

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  • grantee: University of British Columbia
    amount: $25,000
    city: Vancouver, BC
    year: 2020

    To examine reactions, lifetimes and transformation products of key gas-phase molecules emitted by humans and their activities

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Chemistry of Indoor Environments
    • Investigator Nadine Borduas-Dedekind

    To examine reactions, lifetimes and transformation products of key gas-phase molecules emitted by humans and their activities

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  • grantee: NumFOCUS
    amount: $249,532
    city: Austin, TX
    year: 2020

    To develop and deploy the NumFOCUS Digital Learning and Community Platform

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology
    • Investigator Lorena Barba

    To develop and deploy the NumFOCUS Digital Learning and Community Platform

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  • grantee: Martha L. Crump
    amount: $47,800
    city: Logan, UT
    year: 2020

    To support the research and writing of “Women in Field Biology: Journey into Nature,” published by CRC Press in 2022

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Martha Crump

    To support the research and writing of “Women in Field Biology: Journey into Nature,” published by CRC Press in 2022

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  • grantee: Open Collective Foundation
    amount: $50,000
    city: Walnut, CA
    year: 2020

    To support open source software organizations that have suffered losses due to pandemic-related event cancellations

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology
    • Investigator Duane O'Brien

    To support open source software organizations that have suffered losses due to pandemic-related event cancellations

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  • grantee: Civic Hall Labs
    amount: $50,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2020

    To explore needs for volunteer technical support services for relief and recovery during the Coronavirus crisis

    • Program New York City Program
    • Investigator Eustacio Saldaсa

    To explore needs for volunteer technical support services for relief and recovery during the Coronavirus crisis

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  • grantee: Tufts University
    amount: $49,992
    city: Medford, MA
    year: 2020

    To develop a real-time, spatially disaggregated indicator of economic activity based on electricity consumption data to understand the economic impacts of COVID-19

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Steven Cicala

    To develop a real-time, spatially disaggregated indicator of economic activity based on electricity consumption data to understand the economic impacts of COVID-19

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