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: Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
    amount: $45,620
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2016

    To support the research and writing of Needles and Haystacks: The Smart Way to Use New Data, a book on the wide-ranging applications of Big Data analysis

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

    To support the research and writing of Needles and Haystacks: The Smart Way to Use New Data, a book on the wide-ranging applications of Big Data analysis

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  • grantee: Stevens Institute of Technology
    amount: $39,340
    city: Hoboken, NJ
    year: 2016

    To support the research and writing of a book on the role of cancer-causing viruses

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Gregory Morgan

    To support the research and writing of a book on the role of cancer-causing viruses

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  • grantee: Joel N. Shurkin
    amount: $46,900
    city: Baltimore, MD
    year: 2016

    To support a book on the physicist Richard Garwin who designed the hydrogen bomb that explores the relationship between science and government

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Joel Shurkin

    To support a book on the physicist Richard Garwin who designed the hydrogen bomb that explores the relationship between science and government

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  • grantee: Yale University
    amount: $25,000
    city: New Haven, CT
    year: 2014

    As support for supplementary images, drawings and video in an interdisciplinary course book on physics and dance

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Emily Coates

    As support for supplementary images, drawings and video in an interdisciplinary course book on physics and dance

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  • grantee: David Baron
    amount: $50,000
    city: Boulder, CO
    year: 2014

    To support the research and writing of a book on the 1878 solar eclipse and how it helped create a culture of science in America

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator David Baron

    To support the research and writing of a book on the 1878 solar eclipse and how it helped create a culture of science in America

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  • grantee: Maura R. O'Connor
    amount: $13,000
    city: Brooklyn, NY
    year: 2014

    To support a book on the science and ethics of conservation biology with a focus on extinction and de-extinction

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

    To support a book on the science and ethics of conservation biology with a focus on extinction and de-extinction

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  • grantee: Kevin Davis
    amount: $10,250
    city: Chicago, IL
    year: 2014

    For the research and writing of a book on the intersection of criminal law and neuroscience for a general audience

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Kevin Davis

    For the research and writing of a book on the intersection of criminal law and neuroscience for a general audience

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  • grantee: Margot Lee Shetterly
    amount: $50,000
    city: Hampton, VA
    year: 2014

    To support the research and writing of a book on the female African American mathematicians who worked at NASA over six decades

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

    To support the research and writing of a book on the female African American mathematicians who worked at NASA over six decades

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  • grantee: Julie Wosk
    amount: $4,525
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2014

    To support enhanced illustrations in a print and electronic book about how our changing representation of artificial women reflect both changing technologies and our changing attitudes toward women

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Julie Wosk

    To support enhanced illustrations in a print and electronic book about how our changing representation of artificial women reflect both changing technologies and our changing attitudes toward women

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  • grantee: Richard Rhodes
    amount: $125,000
    city: Half Moon Bay, CA
    year: 2014

    To support the research and writing of a book on the history of energy transitions for a general audience to be published by Simon & Schuster

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Richard Rhodes

    To support the research and writing of a book on the history of energy transitions for a general audience to be published by Simon & Schuster

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