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 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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  • grantee: Carnegie Mellon University
    amount: $124,916
    city: Pittsburgh, PA
    year: 2016

    To assess the contribution of light water small modular nuclear reactors to reduce carbon emissions from the United States energy system by 2050

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Granger Morgan

    To assess the contribution of light water small modular nuclear reactors to reduce carbon emissions from the United States energy system by 2050

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  • grantee: Harvard University
    amount: $90,070
    city: Cambridge, MA
    year: 2016

    To conduct research and organize a conference examining the risks and benefits of solar geoengineering research

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Gernot Wagner

    To conduct research and organize a conference examining the risks and benefits of solar geoengineering research

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  • grantee: ProPublica
    amount: $125,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2016

    To research and publish data-driven systems investigations of the major trends, structures and programs shaping the lives of Americans age 60 forward with an eye to uncovering where these arrangements might limit opportunities or fail to adequately serve both 60-plus individuals and the broader society

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Working Longer
    • Investigator Peter Gosselin

    To research and publish data-driven systems investigations of the major trends, structures and programs shaping the lives of Americans age 60 forward with an eye to uncovering where these arrangements might limit opportunities or fail to adequately serve both 60-plus individuals and the broader society

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  • grantee: Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
    amount: $125,000
    city: Berkeley, CA
    year: 2016

    To increase the number of underrepresented minorities in graduateĀ programs in mathematics

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Helene Barcelo

    To increase the number of underrepresented minorities in graduateĀ programs in mathematics

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  • grantee: Resources for the Future, Inc.
    amount: $10,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2016

    To support the 2017 Molly K. Macauley Award for Research Innovation and Advanced Analytics for Policy

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Margaret Walls

    To support the 2017 Molly K. Macauley Award for Research Innovation and Advanced Analytics for Policy

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