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 Georgia Research Foundation, Inc.
    amount: $19,754
    city: Athens, GA
    year: 2016

    To test how behavioral factors can predict insurance choices

    • Program Research
    • Initiative Empirical Economic Research Enablers (EERE)
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Marc Ragin

    To test how behavioral factors can predict insurance choices

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  • grantee: Brandeis University
    amount: $45,500
    city: Waltham, MA
    year: 2016

    To support an international conference on heterogeneous agents and agent-based modeling in macroeconomics

    • Program Research
    • Initiative Financial and Institutional Modeling in Macroeconomics (FIMM)
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Blake LeBaron

    To support an international conference on heterogeneous agents and agent-based modeling in macroeconomics

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  • grantee: University College London
    amount: $20,000
    city: London, United Kingdom
    year: 2016

    To support Microeconomic Insights, an online source for accessible summaries of high quality microeconomic research

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Richard Blundell

    To support Microeconomic Insights, an online source for accessible summaries of high quality microeconomic research

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  • grantee: Third Way Foundation
    amount: $93,500
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2016

    To develop, test, and calibrate models of how administrative data from online platforms relate to official employment statistics

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Michael Mandel

    To develop, test, and calibrate models of how administrative data from online platforms relate to official employment statistics

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  • grantee: The University of Chicago
    amount: $125,000
    city: Chicago, IL
    year: 2016

    To investigate the impact of the Social Security Retirement Earnings Test, which creates substantial disincentives for work, on the elderly employment rate

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Working Longer
    • Investigator Damon Jones

    To investigate the impact of the Social Security Retirement Earnings Test, which creates substantial disincentives for work, on the elderly employment rate

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  • grantee: University of Colorado, Boulder
    amount: $50,000
    city: Boulder, CO
    year: 2016

    To support planning activities to guide community building, education and outreach activities for the Chemistry of Indoor Environments program

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Chemistry of Indoor Environments
    • Investigator Marina Vance

    To support planning activities to guide community building, education and outreach activities for the Chemistry of Indoor Environments program

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  • grantee: Gordon Research Conferences
    amount: $20,000
    city: West Kingston, RI
    year: 2016

    To support partial travel and fees for 27 underrepresented participants to attend the Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Undergraduate Biology Education Research (UBER) focused on improving diversity, equity, and learning

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Susan Elrod

    To support partial travel and fees for 27 underrepresented participants to attend the Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Undergraduate Biology Education Research (UBER) focused on improving diversity, equity, and learning

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  • grantee: Universita di Roma La Sapienza
    amount: $102,753
    city: Roma, Italy
    year: 2016

    To conduct the third workshop of early career scientists of the Deep Carbon Observatory

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Deep Carbon Observatory
    • Investigator Vincenzo Stagno

    To conduct the third workshop of early career scientists of the Deep Carbon Observatory

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  • grantee: Open Space Institute
    amount: $25,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2016

    To create permanent scientifically accurate interpretive and orientation exhibits at the new visitor center currently under construction at the park

    • Program
    • Investigator Erik Kulleseid

    To create permanent scientifically accurate interpretive and orientation exhibits at the new visitor center currently under construction at the park

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  • grantee: University of California, Berkeley
    amount: $95,158
    city: Berkeley, CA
    year: 2016

    To develop, document, and freely distribute linked administrative data derived from federal tax and educational records

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Emmanuel Saez

    To develop, document, and freely distribute linked administrative data derived from federal tax and educational records

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