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: Rockaway Waterfront Alliance, Inc.
    amount: $20,000
    city: Far Rockaway, NY
    year: 2017

    To provide partial support for the Environmentor Program, a science research internship program

    • Program New York City Program
    • Investigator Jeanne DuPont

    To provide partial support for the Environmentor Program, a science research internship program

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  • grantee: Academy Foundation
    amount: $20,000
    city: Beverly Hills, CA
    year: 2017

    To support the Academy of Motions Pictures Art and Sciences and its Sci-Tech Council in a screening and panel discussion of Hidden Figures, presented in collaboration with NASA

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program New Media
    • Investigator Andrew Maltz

    To support the Academy of Motions Pictures Art and Sciences and its Sci-Tech Council in a screening and panel discussion of Hidden Figures, presented in collaboration with NASA

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  • grantee: FORCE11
    amount: $20,000
    city: San Diego, CA
    year: 2017

    To partially support the 2017 Future of Research Communication and eScholarship meeting

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Data & Computational Research
    • Investigator Cameron Neylon

    To partially support the 2017 Future of Research Communication and eScholarship meeting

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  • grantee: Columbia University
    amount: $125,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2017

    To study the general equilibrium effects on labor markets due to robots

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Edmund Phelps

    To study the general equilibrium effects on labor markets due to robots

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  • grantee: Haverford College
    amount: $63,112
    city: Haverford, PA
    year: 2017

    To study causes and consequences of occupational exit by scientists and engineers

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Anne Preston

    To study causes and consequences of occupational exit by scientists and engineers

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  • grantee: Harvard University
    amount: $80,000
    city: Cambridge, MA
    year: 2017

    To organize interdisciplinary studies of the scientific research enterprise, including how inputs produce the outputs

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Karim Lakhani

    To organize interdisciplinary studies of the scientific research enterprise, including how inputs produce the outputs

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  • grantee: University of Wisconsin System
    amount: $125,000
    city: Madison, WI
    year: 2017

    To build a new user interface and database for the Small World Initiative (SWI) and train graduate students to teach with the big data sets gathered through SWI course-sourcing on antibiotics produced by newly isolated soil bacteria

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Jo Handelsman

    To build a new user interface and database for the Small World Initiative (SWI) and train graduate students to teach with the big data sets gathered through SWI course-sourcing on antibiotics produced by newly isolated soil bacteria

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  • grantee: National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, Inc.
    amount: $120,750
    city: White Plains, NY
    year: 2017

    To provide emergency funding for up to 35 continuing Sloan Scholars at the University of Puerto Rico at the Mayaguez and Rio Piedras campuses to enable progress toward their doctoral degrees following Hurricane Maria

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Michele Lezama

    To provide emergency funding for up to 35 continuing Sloan Scholars at the University of Puerto Rico at the Mayaguez and Rio Piedras campuses to enable progress toward their doctoral degrees following Hurricane Maria

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  • grantee: University College London
    amount: $70,000
    city: London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
    year: 2017

    To conduct a workshop and publish a special journal issue on catastrophic perturbations to Earth’s deep carbon

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Deep Carbon Observatory
    • Investigator Adrian Jones

    To conduct a workshop and publish a special journal issue on catastrophic perturbations to Earth’s deep carbon

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  • grantee: Ithaka Harbors Inc
    amount: $20,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2017

    To support the pilot convening of the William G. Bowen Colloquium

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Scholarly Communication
    • Investigator Catharine Hill

    To support the pilot convening of the William G. Bowen Colloquium

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