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: Boston University
    amount: $249,824
    city: Boston, MA
    year: 2019

    To develop and test new modeling techniques for studying the long-term impact of artificial intelligence on the economy generally, and its impact on household labor and saving decisions in particular

    • Program Research
    • Initiative Economic Analysis of Science and Technology (EAST)
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Laurence Kotlikoff

    To develop and test new modeling techniques for studying the long-term impact of artificial intelligence on the economy generally, and its impact on household labor and saving decisions in particular

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  • grantee: North Carolina State University
    amount: $49,999
    city: Raleigh, NC
    year: 2019

    To support the research and writing of ТRivers: Ten Rules for Understanding the Future of Life and Human Civilization,У published by Basic Books

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Robert Dunn

    To support the research and writing of ТRivers: Ten Rules for Understanding the Future of Life and Human Civilization,У published by Basic Books

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  • grantee: Quinn Eastman
    amount: $30,000
    city: Decatur, GA
    year: 2019

    To support the research and writing of ТThe Woman Who CouldnХt Wake Up,У published by Columbia University Press

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Quinn Eastman

    To support the research and writing of ТThe Woman Who CouldnХt Wake Up,У published by Columbia University Press

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  • grantee: University of Maryland, Baltimore County
    amount: $37,000
    city: Baltimore, MD
    year: 2019

    To support the research and writing of the book ТHow to Build the Universe Using Only Numbers,У published by W.W. Norton

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Manil Suri

    To support the research and writing of the book ТHow to Build the Universe Using Only Numbers,У published by W.W. Norton

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  • grantee: Northeastern University
    amount: $49,879
    city: Boston, MA
    year: 2019

    To support the research and writing of ТSeven Insights about the Brain,У to be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Lisa Feldman Barrett

    To support the research and writing of ТSeven Insights about the Brain,У to be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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  • grantee: Charles Seife
    amount: $43,275
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2019

    To support the research and writing of a non-hagiographic biography of Stephen Hawking, published by Basic Books by 2022

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Charles Seife

    To support the research and writing of a non-hagiographic biography of Stephen Hawking, published by Basic Books by 2022

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  • grantee: Women Make Movies, Inc.
    amount: $249,929
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2019

    To support the production of ТThe Eyes to See,У a documentary film about bias and discrimination against women in science

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Film
    • Investigator Barbara Ghammashi

    To support the production of ТThe Eyes to See,У a documentary film about bias and discrimination against women in science

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  • grantee: Foundation for Independent Artists, Inc.
    amount: $70,328
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2019

    To support two productions of :"Differential Cohomology, Dance of the Diagram," a math-based dance performance

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program New Media
    • Investigator Alex Goleman

    To support two productions of :"Differential Cohomology, Dance of the Diagram," a math-based dance performance

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  • grantee: American Friends of the National Gallery, London
    amount: $100,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2019

    To support "Leonardo: Experience a Masterpiece," an immersive digital exhibition that integrates the art and science of Leonardo da Vinci

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program New Media
    • Investigator Caroline Campbell

    To support "Leonardo: Experience a Masterpiece," an immersive digital exhibition that integrates the art and science of Leonardo da Vinci

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  • grantee: Tufts University
    amount: $50,000
    city: Medford, MA
    year: 2019

    To support the operations of EconoFact, an online source that disseminates policy-relevant economics research

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Michael Klein

    To support the operations of EconoFact, an online source that disseminates policy-relevant economics research

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