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: Ohio State University
    amount: $20,000
    city: Columbus, OH
    year: 2017

    To support participation of early career scholars and students at the 2017 Energy Impacts Symposium

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Jeffrey Jacquet

    To support participation of early career scholars and students at the 2017 Energy Impacts Symposium

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  • grantee: New Venture Fund
    amount: $125,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2017

    To pilot a Science Philanthropy Alliance fellowship to train a PhD scientist in basic science philanthropy

    • Program
    • Investigator Bruce Boyd

    To pilot a Science Philanthropy Alliance fellowship to train a PhD scientist in basic science philanthropy

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  • grantee: Wikimedia Foundation
    amount: $20,000
    city: San Francisco, CA
    year: 2017

    To help support a workshop on the citation of academic research across Wikimedia projects

    • Program
    • Sub-program Scholarly Communication
    • Investigator Dario Taraborelli

    To help support a workshop on the citation of academic research across Wikimedia projects

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  • grantee: Resources for the Future, Inc.
    amount: $124,708
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2017

    To develop a research agenda and workplan to comprehensively update the framework for social cost of carbon dioxide estimation to ensure that updated estimates reflect the best available science and economics analysis

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Raymond Kopp

    To develop a research agenda and workplan to comprehensively update the framework for social cost of carbon dioxide estimation to ensure that updated estimates reflect the best available science and economics analysis

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  • grantee: Council on Foreign Relations
    amount: $125,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2017

    To wind down support for current phase of research undertaken by the Program on Energy Security and Climate Change to examine the economic, geopolitical, and technological factors associated with advancing energy innovation

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Varun Sivaram

    To wind down support for current phase of research undertaken by the Program on Energy Security and Climate Change to examine the economic, geopolitical, and technological factors associated with advancing energy innovation

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  • grantee: Resources for the Future, Inc.
    amount: $189,629
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2017

    To develop and apply advanced data analytics tools that improve understanding about energy systems utilization

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Richard Newell

    To develop and apply advanced data analytics tools that improve understanding about energy systems utilization

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  • grantee: Public Lab
    amount: $124,849
    city: Cambridge, MA
    year: 2017

    To support a workshop and associated roadmapping activities on open science hardware

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Data & Computational Research
    • Investigator Shannon Dosemagen

    To support a workshop and associated roadmapping activities on open science hardware

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  • grantee: Carl Zimmer
    amount: $50,000
    city: Guilford, CT
    year: 2017

    To support the research and writing of a popular book on the nature of heredity, from its early history to the latest scientific findings and their implications for society

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Carl Zimmer

    To support the research and writing of a popular book on the nature of heredity, from its early history to the latest scientific findings and their implications for society

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  • grantee: Carnegie Mellon University
    amount: $13,473
    city: Pittsburgh, PA
    year: 2017

    To support a workshop on community code engagements in scientific software

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Data & Computational Research
    • Investigator James Herbsleb

    To support a workshop on community code engagements in scientific software

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  • grantee: Jared Farmer
    amount: $50,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2017

    To support the research and writing of a book on the human relationship with trees and what it says about our larger relationship with nature, Ancient Trees in Modern Times: A Natural History of Long?term Relationships

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Jared Farmer

    To support the research and writing of a book on the human relationship with trees and what it says about our larger relationship with nature, Ancient Trees in Modern Times: A Natural History of Long?term Relationships

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