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 Illinois at Chicago
    amount: $249,741
    city: Chicago, IL
    year: 2019

    To examine how the constraints that result from subcontracting arrangements impact both the business models and employment decisions of warehouse operators

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Outsourcing
    • Investigator Beth Gutelius

    To examine how the constraints that result from subcontracting arrangements impact both the business models and employment decisions of warehouse operators

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  • grantee: Colorado State University
    amount: $20,000
    city: Fort Collins, CO
    year: 2019

    To facilitate greater HBCU and HSI participation in the November 2020 Reinvention CollaborativeХs national conference and leadersХ meeting

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Steven Dandaneau

    To facilitate greater HBCU and HSI participation in the November 2020 Reinvention CollaborativeХs national conference and leadersХ meeting

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  • grantee: University of Notre Dame
    amount: $50,000
    city: Notre Dame, IN
    year: 2019

    To measure the levels of poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in indoor facilities and examine their rates of transformation under conditions commonly found in indoor facilities

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Chemistry of Indoor Environments
    • Investigator Kyle Doudrick

    To measure the levels of poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in indoor facilities and examine their rates of transformation under conditions commonly found in indoor facilities

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  • grantee: Digital Public Library of America, Inc.
    amount: $215,633
    city: Cambridge, MA
    year: 2019

    To develop infrastructure for the ingestion of data from national aggregators into Wikimedia Commons using content from the Digital Public Library of America in a pilot effort

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Universal Access to Knowledge
    • Investigator Michael Della Bitta

    To develop infrastructure for the ingestion of data from national aggregators into Wikimedia Commons using content from the Digital Public Library of America in a pilot effort

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  • grantee: Food & Environment Reporting Network
    amount: $239,646
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2019

    To support immersive science storytelling on food and agriculture via the award-winning, female-hosted Gastropod podcast

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Radio
    • Investigator Tom Laskawy

    To support immersive science storytelling on food and agriculture via the award-winning, female-hosted Gastropod podcast

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  • grantee: WGBH Educational Foundation
    amount: $150,000
    city: Boston, MA
    year: 2019

    To support a one-hour NOVA special about the scientific, technological, social, and criminal justice implications of personal DNA testing

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Television
    • Investigator Chris Schmidt

    To support a one-hour NOVA special about the scientific, technological, social, and criminal justice implications of personal DNA testing

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  • grantee: University of California, Berkeley
    amount: $250,000
    city: Berkeley, CA
    year: 2019

    To support a special semester of research on lattice methods for fully homomorphic encryption and on applications for privacy-preserving computations on confidential data

    • Program Research
    • Initiative Empirical Economic Research Enablers (EERE)
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Shafi Goldwasser

    To support a special semester of research on lattice methods for fully homomorphic encryption and on applications for privacy-preserving computations on confidential data

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  • grantee: National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    amount: $166,750
    city: Cambridge, MA
    year: 2019

    To fund a final grant to support the NBER's International Social Security Project

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Working Longer
    • Investigator Courtney Coile

    To fund a final grant to support the NBER's International Social Security Project

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  • grantee: Red Hook Initiative
    amount: $25,000
    city: Brooklyn, NY
    year: 2019

    To provide partial support for the Farm-Based Learning Program on Red Hook Farms for students in Red Hook, Brooklyn

    • Program New York City Program
    • Investigator Jill Eisenhard

    To provide partial support for the Farm-Based Learning Program on Red Hook Farms for students in Red Hook, Brooklyn

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  • grantee: Georgia Institute of Technology
    amount: $233,049
    city: Atlanta, GA
    year: 2019

    To formalize descriptive data associated with receipt of scholarships from the Sloan Minority PhD Program and to produce a framework for measuring student and program outcomes

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Kaye Husbands Fealing

    To formalize descriptive data associated with receipt of scholarships from the Sloan Minority PhD Program and to produce a framework for measuring student and program outcomes

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