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: Drexel University
    amount: $84,797
    city: Philadelphia, PA
    year: 2017

    To disseminate key results from the Chemistry of Indoor Environments program and Microbiology of the Built Environment program at Indoor Air 2018

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Chemistry of Indoor Environments
    • Investigator Michael Waring

    To disseminate key results from the Chemistry of Indoor Environments program and Microbiology of the Built Environment program at Indoor Air 2018

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  • grantee: Gordon Research Conferences
    amount: $74,750
    city: West Kingston, RI
    year: 2017

    To provide partial support for the inaugural Microbiology of the Built Environment Gordon Research Conference

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Microbiology of the Built Environment
    • Investigator Jordan Peccia

    To provide partial support for the inaugural Microbiology of the Built Environment Gordon Research Conference

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  • grantee: International Energy Program Evaluation Conference
    amount: $17,750
    city: Chatham, MA
    year: 2017

    To continue support in accelerating and advancing the profession of energy evaluation by enabling graduate students to attend the 2018 IEPPEC Conference

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Sharyn Barata

    To continue support in accelerating and advancing the profession of energy evaluation by enabling graduate students to attend the 2018 IEPPEC Conference

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  • grantee: New Venture Fund
    amount: $50,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2017

    To support the Open Research Funders Group, a partnership committed to the open sharing of research outputs

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Heather Joseph

    To support the Open Research Funders Group, a partnership committed to the open sharing of research outputs

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  • grantee: University of Sydney
    amount: $100,000
    city: Sydney, Australia, Australia
    year: 2017

    To modify models of the movement of Earth’s tectonic plates over the past billion years to incorporate visual knowledge of deep carbon cycle

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Deep Carbon Observatory
    • Investigator Sabin Zahirovic

    To modify models of the movement of Earth’s tectonic plates over the past billion years to incorporate visual knowledge of deep carbon cycle

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  • grantee: Carnegie Institution of Washington
    amount: $115,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2017

    To provide partial support for the 4-D workshop on deep-time, data-driven discovery and the evolution of earth

    • Program Research
    • Investigator Robert Hazen

    To provide partial support for the 4-D workshop on deep-time, data-driven discovery and the evolution of earth

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  • grantee: National Press Foundation
    amount: $106,553
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2017

    To provide a four-day training in the public understanding of working longer to a set of 20 journalists

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Working Longer
    • Investigator Sandy Johnson

    To provide a four-day training in the public understanding of working longer to a set of 20 journalists

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  • grantee: Center for Economic and Policy Research
    amount: $15,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2017

    To analyze the Contingent Work Supplements (CWS) in order to better understand the incidence of nonstandard work arrangements among varying demographic groups and to assess changes found between 1995-2017

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Working Longer
    • Investigator Eileen Appelbaum

    To analyze the Contingent Work Supplements (CWS) in order to better understand the incidence of nonstandard work arrangements among varying demographic groups and to assess changes found between 1995-2017

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  • grantee: University of Michigan
    amount: $57,524
    city: Ann Arbor, MI
    year: 2017

    To research the economics of energy efficiency, as recommended by a Request for Proposals review committee, by characterizing profiles of households who fall into financing coverage gaps for energy efficiency programs

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Tony Reames

    To research the economics of energy efficiency, as recommended by a Request for Proposals review committee, by characterizing profiles of households who fall into financing coverage gaps for energy efficiency programs

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  • grantee: Appalachian State University
    amount: $213,254
    city: Boone, NC
    year: 2017

    To research the economics of energy efficiency, as recommended by a Request for Proposals review committee, by examining how behavioral nudges in the form of electronic notifications impact electricity consumption and energy efficiency program participation

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Tanga Mohr

    To research the economics of energy efficiency, as recommended by a Request for Proposals review committee, by examining how behavioral nudges in the form of electronic notifications impact electricity consumption and energy efficiency program participation

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