Grants Database

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

2,950 Grants
Grantee
Amount
City
Year
  • grantee: University of Michigan
    amount: $9,625
    city: Ann Arbor, MI
    year: 2017

    To facilitate the participation of undergraduate and graduate students at the 2017 Transportation, Economics, Energy and the Environment (TE3) conference

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Mark Barteau

    To facilitate the participation of undergraduate and graduate students at the 2017 Transportation, Economics, Energy and the Environment (TE3) conference

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  • grantee: International Documentary Association
    amount: $50,000
    city: Los Angeles, CA
    year: 2017

    To support a documentary on artificial intelligence and the development of a CameraBot device that will function autonomously as the director and cameraman

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Film
    • Investigator Amy Halpin

    To support a documentary on artificial intelligence and the development of a CameraBot device that will function autonomously as the director and cameraman

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  • grantee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    amount: $125,000
    city: Cambridge, MA
    year: 2017

    To develop an initial framework and set of modeling tools to examine novel energy storage technologies

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Jessika Trancik

    To develop an initial framework and set of modeling tools to examine novel energy storage technologies

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  • grantee: University of Maryland, College Park
    amount: $43,000
    city: College Park, MD
    year: 2017

    To support the research and writing of a graphic non-fiction book on space-time, relativity, and gravity to be published by Princeton University Press

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Jeffrey Bub

    To support the research and writing of a graphic non-fiction book on space-time, relativity, and gravity to be published by Princeton University Press

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  • grantee: University of California, Berkeley
    amount: $20,000
    city: Berkeley, CA
    year: 2017

    To organize a workshop that will facilitate a better understanding of the energy and environmental impacts of artificial intelligence

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Jordan Diamond

    To organize a workshop that will facilitate a better understanding of the energy and environmental impacts of artificial intelligence

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  • grantee: Seth Fletcher
    amount: $25,000
    city: Croton-on-Hudson, NY
    year: 2017

    To support research for and writing of Einstein’s Shadow: A Black Hole, A Band of Astronomers, and the Quest to See the Unseeable (Ecco Press 2018), a book about the Event Horizon Telescope and the quest to capture the first direct image of a black hole

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Seth Fletcher

    To support research for and writing of Einstein’s Shadow: A Black Hole, A Band of Astronomers, and the Quest to See the Unseeable (Ecco Press 2018), a book about the Event Horizon Telescope and the quest to capture the first direct image of a black hole

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  • grantee: NumFOCUS
    amount: $34,700
    city: Austin, TX
    year: 2017

    To improve the publication and citation of scientific software through improvements to the technical infrastructure for the Journal of Open Source Software

    • Program
    • Sub-program Scholarly Communication
    • Investigator Arfon Smith

    To improve the publication and citation of scientific software through improvements to the technical infrastructure for the Journal of Open Source Software

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  • grantee: University of Oxford
    amount: $65,000
    city: Oxford, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
    year: 2017

    To streamline the publication workflow for data papers

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Scholarly Communication
    • Investigator Neil Jefferies

    To streamline the publication workflow for data papers

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  • grantee: University of Minnesota
    amount: $42,500
    city: Minneapolis, MN
    year: 2017

    To support three panels and associated papers at the National Conference on the 50th Anniversary of the Kerner Commission Report that explore the consequences of the 1968 civil disorders with a special focus on the production of minority economists

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Samuel Myers

    To support three panels and associated papers at the National Conference on the 50th Anniversary of the Kerner Commission Report that explore the consequences of the 1968 civil disorders with a special focus on the production of minority economists

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  • grantee: New York University
    amount: $20,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2017

    To provide partial support for the Cyber Security program for High School Women

    • Program New York City Program
    • Investigator Phyllis Frankl

    To provide partial support for the Cyber Security program for High School Women

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