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: University of Vermont
    amount: $46,275
    city: Burlington, VT
    year: 2024

    To support a CURIOSS workshop for community building amongst Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs)

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Open Source in Science
    • Investigator Kendall Fortney

    To support a CURIOSS workshop for community building amongst Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs)

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  • grantee: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
    amount: $140,173
    city: Blacksburg, VA
    year: 2024

    To design and implement a platform to help research software engineers adopt best practices

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Open Source in Science
    • Investigator Chris Brown

    To design and implement a platform to help research software engineers adopt best practices

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  • grantee: Friends of Ecole Normale Superieure
    amount: $10,000
    city: Timonium, MD
    year: 2024

    To partially support the 2024 Paris Conference on AI & Digital Ethics

    • Program Technology
    • Initiative Trust in AI
    • Sub-program Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology
    • Investigator Dominique Lestel

    To partially support the 2024 Paris Conference on AI & Digital Ethics

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  • grantee: The Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation
    amount: $25,000
    city: Austin, TX
    year: 2024

    To support a 2-day conference that will explore the challenges the media landscape poses to democracy

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Special Initiatives
    • Investigator Mark Updegrove

    To support a 2-day conference that will explore the challenges the media landscape poses to democracy

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  • grantee: Santa Fe Institute
    amount: $45,200
    city: Santa Fe, NM
    year: 2024

    To support a workshop on research disciplines’ engagement with AI

    • Program Technology
    • Initiative Trust in AI
    • Sub-program Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology
    • Investigator David Krakauer

    To support a workshop on research disciplines’ engagement with AI

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  • grantee: University of Notre Dame
    amount: $499,969
    city: Notre Dame, IN
    year: 2024

    To design, build, and evaluate the impact of immersive reality technologies and artificial intelligence on collaborative scientific work

    • Program Technology
    • Initiative Virtual Collaboration initiative
    • Sub-program Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology
    • Investigator Diego Gomez-Zara

    This grant is to support work to study the role of technology (especially VR) in scientific team collaboration. Following on a broad agenda-setting Comment in Nature Human Behavior about the potential applications of the metaverse for science, Gomez-Zara and colleagues propose two experiments to explore the dynamics of scientific collaboration across different technology platforms. The first study will compare the performance of small teams collaborating to perform scientific tasks in person vs. via Zoom vs. in VR. The second study will introduce an additional variable, the presence of an AI team member powered by a Large Language Model, to understand whether participant interactions with the AI agent vary across the same three contexts. Questions about how the perceptions of and interactions with AI agents might be influenced by the medium of interaction are of particular interest and underexplored in human-AI interaction research community.

    To design, build, and evaluate the impact of immersive reality technologies and artificial intelligence on collaborative scientific work

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  • grantee: University of Michigan
    amount: $331,595
    city: Ann Arbor, MI
    year: 2024

    To study how scientists use Generative AI for software development in their research

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Open Source in Science
    • Investigator Elle O'Brien

    Scientists are exploring the use of generative artificial intelligence for a number of tasks both general to the scientific process and specific to different disciplines: hypothesis generation, literature review, peer review, and software production. This grant supports a study of the latter by University of Michigan researcher Elle O’Brien, focusing on how individual scientists and scientific groups/labs are adopting and deploying Generative Artificial Intelligence products and services when collaboratively coding and developing scientific software. The three-phase research design will begin with qualitative interviews and observations, followed by a survey and set of ethnographic case studies. O’Brien will document the current use of Generative Artificial Intelligence in scientific software production broadly, as well as focus on specific practices such as verifying code and translating from one programming language to another, exploring themes of trust and collaboration.

    To study how scientists use Generative AI for software development in their research

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  • grantee: Code for Science and Society
    amount: $500,000
    city: Portland, OR
    year: 2024

    To support community-led collaborations on common challenges in the research software ecosystem

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Open Source in Science
    • Investigator Michelle Barker

    Founded in 2019, the Research Software Alliance (ReSA) aims to catalyze community-led collaborations within the research software engineering community to address global challenges associated with the development and maintenance of research software. Funds from this grant support three activity areas over the next two years. First, ReSA will establish two ongoing fora targeting important groups within the broader software engineering ecosystem, providing a venue for these communities (like National RSE associations, publishers exploring software review, or research infrastructure providers) to regularly meet, surface common challenges, and propose and discuss solutions.  Second, ReSA will begin initial planning and foundation-setting for convening the first ever international research software conference, to be held in 2025 or 2026.   Finally, ReSA will create a micro-grant program, making small grants available for community-led meetings on a diverse array of international issues that, if fruitful, could blossom to become official ReSA task forces addressing pressing global challenges in research software development. Grant funds will support salary of key ReSA staff, travel, and seed funding for the micro-grants program.

    To support community-led collaborations on common challenges in the research software ecosystem

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  • grantee: University of California, Santa Cruz
    amount: $1,851,549
    city: Santa Cruz, CA
    year: 2024

    To launch a sustainable network of open source program offices across the University of California system

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Open Source in Science
    • Investigator James Davis

    This grant builds on the success of the University of California, Santa Cruz OSPO to support open source software development across six University of California campuses--Santa Cruz, Berkeley, Davis, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and San Diego. Th network will engage UC faculty and student work on open source software, pooling resources to avoid duplication of efforts across the state, while at the same time leveraging the unique local strengths of each partner campus. Each of the participating UC campuses will receive some base funding to tap local capacity, build relationships and engagement, and launch an Open Source Project Office over the two-year grant period, while in addition Santa Cruz will support network-level coordination and a system-wide Open Source Leadership Group (OLG). Grant funds will also support the development of a platform for discovering and tracking open source software across the UC system, a set of practical tools to assess the sustainability of open source projects, and a pilot “containerization as a service” capacity that will make open source software more accessible and usable across the UC system.

    To launch a sustainable network of open source program offices across the University of California system

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  • grantee: National Book Foundation, Inc.
    amount: $550,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2024

    To honor exceptional books with scientific or technological themes or characters from diverse authors and to support public programming with the winning authors

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Ruth Dickey

    To honor exceptional books with scientific or technological themes or characters from diverse authors and to support public programming with the winning authors

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