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 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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  • grantee: University of California, Davis
    amount: $50,000
    city: Davis, CA
    year: 2017

    To further develop tools for the distributed transcription and classification of data from historic sources

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Data & Computational Research
    • Investigator Peter Brantley

    To further develop tools for the distributed transcription and classification of data from historic sources

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  • grantee: Yale University Press
    amount: $30,250
    city: New Haven, CT
    year: 2017

    To support Urban Chromatic, a book that uses satellite imagery to increase public understanding of remote sensing and contemporary global urbanization

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Karen Seto

    To support Urban Chromatic, a book that uses satellite imagery to increase public understanding of remote sensing and contemporary global urbanization

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  • grantee: Washington Monthly Corporation
    amount: $50,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2017

    To support the re-launch of Invention & Technology Magazine with a special issue on the achievements of women and minorities in STEM and to redesign the website

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program New Media
    • Investigator Diane Straus

    To support the re-launch of Invention & Technology Magazine with a special issue on the achievements of women and minorities in STEM and to redesign the website

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  • grantee: George Washington University
    amount: $74,962
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2017

    To explore research areas in extreme biophysics, creation of new carbon-based materials, and implications for astrophysics and more extreme conditions not currently explored in the DCO

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Deep Carbon Observatory
    • Investigator Russell Hemley

    To explore research areas in extreme biophysics, creation of new carbon-based materials, and implications for astrophysics and more extreme conditions not currently explored in the DCO

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  • grantee: Center for State and Local Government Excellence
    amount: $109,450
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2017

    To collect, analyze and code data on U.S. state pension statues and related policies that impact a retiree’s ability to continue working or return to work

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Working Longer
    • Investigator Joshua Franzel

    To collect, analyze and code data on U.S. state pension statues and related policies that impact a retiree’s ability to continue working or return to work

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  • grantee: American Academy of Arts and Sciences
    amount: $50,000
    city: Cambridge, MA
    year: 2017

    To better understand the benefits and challenges of international science partnerships, including energy and environmental issues, through a workshop and white paper

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator John Randell

    To better understand the benefits and challenges of international science partnerships, including energy and environmental issues, through a workshop and white paper

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