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: Harvard University
    amount: $30,000
    city: Cambridge, MA
    year: 2017

    To provide partial support for the Microbiology of the Built Environment exhibit at the Harvard Museum of Natural History

    • Program
    • Sub-program Microbiology of the Built Environment
    • Investigator Roberto Kolter

    To provide partial support for the Microbiology of the Built Environment exhibit at the Harvard Museum of Natural History

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  • grantee: Stanford University
    amount: $124,999
    city: Stanford, CA
    year: 2017

    To research and publish case studies of employer practices shaping the working lives of Americans 60 and older

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Working Longer
    • Investigator Laura Carstensen

    To research and publish case studies of employer practices shaping the working lives of Americans 60 and older

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  • grantee: University of Florida
    amount: $124,999
    city: Gainesville, FL
    year: 2017

    To establish an Administrative Data Research Facility that provides open access to precinct-level election data and visualization tools

    • Program
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Michael McDonald

    To establish an Administrative Data Research Facility that provides open access to precinct-level election data and visualization tools

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  • grantee: The University of Chicago
    amount: $30,000
    city: Chicago, IL
    year: 2017

    To support a conference on Data Science for Social Good

    • Program
    • Sub-program Data & Computational Research
    • Investigator Rayid Ghani

    To support a conference on Data Science for Social Good

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  • grantee: Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
    amount: $86,128
    city: West Boothbay Harbor, ME
    year: 2017

    To lead the creation and editing of the principle summary scientific volume of the initial decade of the Deep Carbon Observatory

    • Program
    • Sub-program Deep Carbon Observatory
    • Investigator Beth Orcutt

    To lead the creation and editing of the principle summary scientific volume of the initial decade of the Deep Carbon Observatory

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  • grantee: University of California, Los Angeles
    amount: $45,000
    city: Los Angeles, CA
    year: 2017

    To support the inaugural Gordon Research Conference on deep carbon science as a legacy of the Deep Carbon Observatory

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Deep Carbon Observatory
    • Investigator Craig Manning

    To support the inaugural Gordon Research Conference on deep carbon science as a legacy of the Deep Carbon Observatory

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  • grantee: Cornell University
    amount: $45,065
    city: Ithaca, NY
    year: 2017

    To support research for and writing of Data Driven: Truckers and the New Workplace Surveillance (Princeton University Press 2018), a book about digital surveillance of long-haul truckers and digital surveillance in the workplace

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Karen Levy

    To support research for and writing of Data Driven: Truckers and the New Workplace Surveillance (Princeton University Press 2018), a book about digital surveillance of long-haul truckers and digital surveillance in the workplace

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  • grantee: American Indian Science and Engineering Society
    amount: $20,000
    city: Albuquerque, NM
    year: 2017

    To provide partial support for the Undergraduate Research Competition at the 2017 and 2018 AISES National Conferences to highlight the research efforts of Native youth and establish connections with SIGP institutions

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Kathy DeerInWater

    To provide partial support for the Undergraduate Research Competition at the 2017 and 2018 AISES National Conferences to highlight the research efforts of Native youth and establish connections with SIGP institutions

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  • grantee: Columbia University
    amount: $50,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2017

    To providing continuing support for the Center on Global Energy Policy’s external speaker series and roundtable discussions to increase overall knowledge and understanding of key energy issues and trends

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Jason Bordoff

    To providing continuing support for the Center on Global Energy Policy’s external speaker series and roundtable discussions to increase overall knowledge and understanding of key energy issues and trends

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  • grantee: University of Oregon
    amount: $125,000
    city: Eugene, OR
    year: 2017

    To work with Wellspring Consulting, LLC, to develop a business plan to sustain the activities of the BioBE Center at the University of Oregon

    • Program
    • Sub-program Microbiology of the Built Environment
    • Investigator Kevin Wymelenberg

    To work with Wellspring Consulting, LLC, to develop a business plan to sustain the activities of the BioBE Center at the University of Oregon

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