Grants Database

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

2,961 Grants
Grantee
Amount
City
Year
  • grantee: University of California, Berkeley
    amount: $30,000
    city: Berkeley, CA
    year: 2017

    To extend comparative data analysis for studies of water damaged homes in NY and CA

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Microbiology of the Built Environment
    • Investigator John Taylor

    To extend comparative data analysis for studies of water damaged homes in NY and CA

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  • grantee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    amount: $50,000
    city: Cambridge, MA
    year: 2017

    To support up to four undergraduate students planning for PhD programs from the University of Puerto Rico system for a semester (Spring 2018) of study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Alan Grossman

    To support up to four undergraduate students planning for PhD programs from the University of Puerto Rico system for a semester (Spring 2018) of study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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  • grantee: Montana State University, Bozeman
    amount: $48,417
    city: Bozeman, MT
    year: 2017

    To support a book on the evolutionary and ecological science underlying agriculture, Eternal Harvest: An Extraordinary Biography of Wheat, to be published by University of Chicago Press

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Catherine Zabinski

    To support a book on the evolutionary and ecological science underlying agriculture, Eternal Harvest: An Extraordinary Biography of Wheat, to be published by University of Chicago Press

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  • grantee: Susan Hand Shetterly
    amount: $22,500
    city: Surry, ME
    year: 2017

    To support a book on seaweeds and their interactions with humans and their habitats, to be published by Algonquin Press

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Susan Shetterly

    To support a book on seaweeds and their interactions with humans and their habitats, to be published by Algonquin Press

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  • grantee: Maura R. O'Connor
    amount: $32,100
    city: Brooklyn, NY
    year: 2017

    To support Wayfinding: The Mystery and Science of Human Navigation in the Age of GPS, a nonfiction trade book on human navigation to be published by St. Martin’s Press in 2018

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Maura O'Connor

    To support Wayfinding: The Mystery and Science of Human Navigation in the Age of GPS, a nonfiction trade book on human navigation to be published by St. Martin’s Press in 2018

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  • grantee: Stephen E. Olson
    amount: $50,000
    city: Seattle, WA
    year: 2017

    To support a book on the discovery, manufacture, and use of plutonium in the bomb dropped on Nagasaki, to be published by W.W. Norton in the spring of 2020

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Stephen Olson

    To support a book on the discovery, manufacture, and use of plutonium in the bomb dropped on Nagasaki, to be published by W.W. Norton in the spring of 2020

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  • grantee: University College London
    amount: $20,000
    city: London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
    year: 2017

    To expand the content and outreach of Microeconomic Insights, an online source for accessible summaries of high-quality microeconomic research

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Ariel Pakes

    To expand the content and outreach of Microeconomic Insights, an online source for accessible summaries of high-quality microeconomic research

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  • grantee: University of California, Berkeley
    amount: $18,500
    city: Berkeley, CA
    year: 2017

    To study private sector research and data sharing practices

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Data & Computational Research
    • Investigator Deirdre Mulligan

    To study private sector research and data sharing practices

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  • grantee: Open Source Hardware Association
    amount: $58,920
    city: Boulder, CO
    year: 2017

    To support the development of a dynamic, web-based platform to facilitate the adoption, licensing, and improvement of open source hardware

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Data & Computational Research
    • Investigator Alicia Gibb

    To support the development of a dynamic, web-based platform to facilitate the adoption, licensing, and improvement of open source hardware

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  • grantee: University of Michigan
    amount: $10,000
    city: Ann Arbor, MI
    year: 2017

    To organize a meeting of experts on the development of tools for teaching Quantitative Empirical Reasoning

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Margaret Levenstein

    To organize a meeting of experts on the development of tools for teaching Quantitative Empirical Reasoning

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