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: Jon Gertner
    amount: $42,000
    city: Maplewood, NJ
    year: 2017

    To support the research and writing of a book, The Ice at the End of the World, on the scientific and technological history of Greenland with a special focus on climate change

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Jon Gertner

    To support the research and writing of a book, The Ice at the End of the World, on the scientific and technological history of Greenland with a special focus on climate change

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  • grantee: Jonathan Waldman
    amount: $50,000
    city: Boulder, CO
    year: 2017

    To support the research and writing of a general-interest nonfiction book about a small company’s efforts to build the world’s first commercially-viable bricklaying robot, called SAM

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Jonathan Waldman

    To support the research and writing of a general-interest nonfiction book about a small company’s efforts to build the world’s first commercially-viable bricklaying robot, called SAM

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  • grantee: National Science Communication Institute
    amount: $20,000
    city: Seattle, WA
    year: 2017

    To partially support the 2017 meeting of the Open Scholarship Initiative

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Scholarly Communication
    • Investigator Glenn Hampson

    To partially support the 2017 meeting of the Open Scholarship Initiative

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  • grantee: Resources for the Future, Inc.
    amount: $20,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2017

    To support participation of top economists in a one-day conference focused on examining the landmark contributions to environmental economics of the essay “Conservation Reconsidered” on its fiftieth anniversary

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator V. Kerry Smith

    To support participation of top economists in a one-day conference focused on examining the landmark contributions to environmental economics of the essay “Conservation Reconsidered” on its fiftieth anniversary

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  • grantee: New York City H2O, Inc.
    amount: $20,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2017

    To provide support for 15 Water Ecology and Engineering Field Trips

    • Program New York City Program
    • Investigator Matt Malina

    To provide support for 15 Water Ecology and Engineering Field Trips

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  • grantee: Industrial Organizational Society, Inc.
    amount: $20,000
    city: Boston, MA
    year: 2017

    To support graduate student presentations at the International Industrial Organization Conference

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Julie Mortimer

    To support graduate student presentations at the International Industrial Organization Conference

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  • grantee: Gordon Research Conferences
    amount: $20,000
    city: West Kingston, RI
    year: 2017

    To provide partial support for the 2017 Atmospheric Chemistry Gordon Research Conference

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Chemistry of Indoor Environments
    • Investigator Kimberly Prather

    To provide partial support for the 2017 Atmospheric Chemistry Gordon Research Conference

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  • grantee: Philanthropy New York
    amount: $28,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2017

    To support work on behalf of the nonprofit and charitable community

    • Program
    • Investigator Kristen Ruff

    To support work on behalf of the nonprofit and charitable community

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  • grantee: Council on Foundations, Inc.
    amount: $25,000
    city: Arlington, VA
    year: 2017

    To support work on behalf of the nonprofit and charitable community

    • Program
    • Investigator Phillip Blackmon

    To support work on behalf of the nonprofit and charitable community

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  • grantee: Technology Affinity Group
    amount: $5,000
    city: Wayne, PA
    year: 2017

    For 2017 Membership Dues

    • Program
    • Investigator Lisa Pool

    For 2017 Membership Dues

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