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: American Council on Education
    amount: $200,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2019

    To fundКphase 1 of a multi-year research effort aimed at developing practice-based insights relative to equity-minded leadership in higher education and sharing the findings with the field at large

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Lorelle Espinosa

    To fundКphase 1 of a multi-year research effort aimed at developing practice-based insights relative to equity-minded leadership in higher education and sharing the findings with the field at large

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  • grantee: NumFOCUS
    amount: $30,000
    city: Austin, TX
    year: 2019

    To partially support participation in the 2019 NumFOCUS Project Sustainability Summit

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Better Software for Science
    • Investigator Leah Silen

    To partially support participation in the 2019 NumFOCUS Project Sustainability Summit

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  • grantee: Fractured Atlas, Inc.
    amount: $50,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2019

    To incorporate scientific findings from HOMEChem into the TV showК"Home Diagnosis"

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Chemistry of Indoor Environments
    • Investigator Theresa Hubbard

    To incorporate scientific findings from HOMEChem into the TV showК"Home Diagnosis"

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  • grantee: University of Zurich
    amount: $49,886
    city: Zurich, Switzerland, Switzerland
    year: 2019

    To support research on the processes by which researchers construct survey instruments for the study of Internet uses

    • Program Technology
    • Investigator Eszter Hargittai

    To support research on the processes by which researchers construct survey instruments for the study of Internet uses

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  • grantee: Cornell University
    amount: $20,000
    city: Ithaca, NY
    year: 2019

    To support a conference on research using linked employer-employee data to study labor markets and disseminate these insights to the wider economics community

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Lars Vilhuber

    To support a conference on research using linked employer-employee data to study labor markets and disseminate these insights to the wider economics community

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  • grantee: Azavea, Inc.
    amount: $249,101
    city: Philadelphia, PA
    year: 2019

    To improve the scalability and performance of open source mapping software that makes geographic, demographic, and redistricting data usable by social scientists and the public

    • Program Research
    • Initiative Empirical Economic Research Enablers (EERE)
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Robert Cheetham

    To improve the scalability and performance of open source mapping software that makes geographic, demographic, and redistricting data usable by social scientists and the public

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  • grantee: Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics
    amount: $29,637
    city: Alexandria, VA
    year: 2019

    To hold an interdisciplinary workshop on new opportunities and guidelines concerning how federal statistics can safely share data with one another, with researchers, and with the public

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Corinna Turbes

    To hold an interdisciplinary workshop on new opportunities and guidelines concerning how federal statistics can safely share data with one another, with researchers, and with the public

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  • grantee: American Physical Society
    amount: $49,500
    city: College Park, MD
    year: 2019

    To provide three years of support for a keynote lecture and associated activities at the annual Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP) while the Society builds an endowment for the “Millie Dresselhaus Fund for Science and Society”

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Theodore Hodapp

    To provide three years of support for a keynote lecture and associated activities at the annual Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWiP) while the Society builds an endowment for the “Millie Dresselhaus Fund for Science and Society”

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  • grantee: Community Initiatives
    amount: $49,710
    city: Oakland, CA
    year: 2019

    To support in-person meetings of The Carpentries community to advance strategic planning, community building and leadership, skills sharing, and plans for reaching new communities

    • Program Technology
    • Investigator Tracy Teal

    To support in-person meetings of The Carpentries community to advance strategic planning, community building and leadership, skills sharing, and plans for reaching new communities

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  • grantee: California Institute of Technology
    amount: $64,032
    city: Pasadena, CA
    year: 2019

    To develop community best practices and standards for discipline-specific software registries and repositories

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Better Software for Science
    • Investigator Stephen Davison

    To develop community best practices and standards for discipline-specific software registries and repositories

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