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: Cornell University
    amount: $19,967
    city: Ithaca, NY
    year: 2016

    To support a workshop for researchers and practitioners on how social science experiments can serve the public interest

    • Program Research
    • Initiative Empirical Economic Research Enablers (EERE)
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Adam Levine

    To support a workshop for researchers and practitioners on how social science experiments can serve the public interest

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  • grantee: St. Edmunds College, University of Cambridge
    amount: $55,000
    city: Cambridge, United Kingdom
    year: 2016

    To write the first history of deep carbon science, a book titled “Carbon from Crust to Core”

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Deep Carbon Observatory
    • Investigator Simon Mitton

    To write the first history of deep carbon science, a book titled “Carbon from Crust to Core”

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  • grantee: Northwestern University
    amount: $40,481
    city: Evanston, IL
    year: 2016

    To examine how surface finishes impact the indoor microbiome and their collection of antibiotic resistant genes

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Microbiology of the Built Environment
    • Investigator Erica Hartmann

    To examine how surface finishes impact the indoor microbiome and their collection of antibiotic resistant genes

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  • grantee: Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
    amount: $124,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2016

    To support two sessions of the Cooper Union STEM Saturdays program to engage talented at risk NYC high school students in engineering activities

    • Program New York City Program
    • Investigator George Delagrammatikas

    To support two sessions of the Cooper Union STEM Saturdays program to engage talented at risk NYC high school students in engineering activities

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  • grantee: University of Missouri, Columbia
    amount: $104,906
    city: Columbia, MO
    year: 2016

    To study health and sustainability of open online communities and develop a set of indicators thereof

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Data & Computational Research
    • Investigator Sean Goggins

    To study health and sustainability of open online communities and develop a set of indicators thereof

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  • grantee: Harvard University
    amount: $19,840
    city: Cambridge, MA
    year: 2016

    To support workshops on the creation of standards for entering temporal data into timeline visualization tools

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Scholarly Communication
    • Investigator Alyssa Goodman

    To support workshops on the creation of standards for entering temporal data into timeline visualization tools

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  • grantee: National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    amount: $68,531
    city: Cambridge, MA
    year: 2016

    To support workshops for planning data collection and causal research about scientific fellowships and careers

    • Program Research
    • Initiative Economic Analysis of Science and Technology (EAST)
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Paula Stephan

    To support workshops for planning data collection and causal research about scientific fellowships and careers

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  • grantee: Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
    amount: $124,982
    city: Berkeley, CA
    year: 2016

    To inform graduate students about mathematical theories, applications, and opportunities associated with high dimensional data analysis by holding a two-week summer workshop

    • Program Research
    • Initiative Empirical Economic Research Enablers (EERE)
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Helene Barcelo

    To inform graduate students about mathematical theories, applications, and opportunities associated with high dimensional data analysis by holding a two-week summer workshop

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  • grantee: National Academy of Sciences
    amount: $75,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2016

    To provide partial support for a consensus study on the management of legionella in water systems

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Microbiology of the Built Environment
    • Investigator Laura Ehlers

    To provide partial support for a consensus study on the management of legionella in water systems

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  • grantee: University of California, Riverside
    amount: $19,990
    city: Riverside, CA
    year: 2016

    To support a conference on causal inference methodologies both in computer science and in the social sciences

    • Program Research
    • Initiative Empirical Economic Research Enablers (EERE)
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Kevin Esterling

    To support a conference on causal inference methodologies both in computer science and in the social sciences

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