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: Bricolage Production Company
    amount: $50,000
    city: Pittsburgh, PA
    year: 2019

    To support “Quantified Self,” an immersive theater piece that incorporates the audience’s personal data to increase understanding of the ethics of computer science and data collection

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program New Media
    • Investigator Michael Skirpan

    To support “Quantified Self,” an immersive theater piece that incorporates the audience’s personal data to increase understanding of the ethics of computer science and data collection

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  • grantee: Brown University
    amount: $50,000
    city: Providence, RI
    year: 2019

    To support a semester-long program on “Illustrating Mathematics,” bringing together artists and mathematicians with an interest in illustrating mathematics with computational tools

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program New Media
    • Investigator Brendan Hassett

    To support a semester-long program on “Illustrating Mathematics,” bringing together artists and mathematicians with an interest in illustrating mathematics with computational tools

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  • grantee: Pioneer Works
    amount: $124,410
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2019

    To establish a Media Lab at Pioneer Works by supporting the development of a strategic plan and the production of pilot science channel, podcast, video, and VR science programs

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program New Media
    • Investigator Janna Levin

    To establish a Media Lab at Pioneer Works by supporting the development of a strategic plan and the production of pilot science channel, podcast, video, and VR science programs

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  • grantee: Harvard University
    amount: $116,290
    city: Cambridge, MA
    year: 2019

    To construct a quantitative index of the health and sustainability of open source software projects used in academia

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Better Software for Science
    • Investigator Merce Crosas

    To construct a quantitative index of the health and sustainability of open source software projects used in academia

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  • grantee: University of Tennessee
    amount: $237,415
    city: Knoxville, TN
    year: 2019

    To understand the relationship between customer incentives to invest in distributed solar generation and utility incentives to invest in new resource and transmission assets

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Charles Sims

    To understand the relationship between customer incentives to invest in distributed solar generation and utility incentives to invest in new resource and transmission assets

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  • grantee: Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
    amount: $74,800
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2019

    To organize a week-long training program that introduces early career researchers to the practical considerations that shape policy and managerial decisions about energy innovation in the United States

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator David Hart

    To organize a week-long training program that introduces early career researchers to the practical considerations that shape policy and managerial decisions about energy innovation in the United States

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  • grantee: Rhizome
    amount: $187,125
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2019

    To prototype the alignment of software and network preservation in the context of a new publishing platform for Emulation as a Service

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Better Software for Science
    • Investigator Dragan Espenschied

    To prototype the alignment of software and network preservation in the context of a new publishing platform for Emulation as a Service

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  • grantee: University of California, Davis
    amount: $249,456
    city: Davis, CA
    year: 2019

    To understand how future electric vehicle demand will impact the development of electricity distribution infrastructure

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Alan Jenn

    To understand how future electric vehicle demand will impact the development of electricity distribution infrastructure

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  • grantee: National Academy of Sciences
    amount: $25,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2018

    To develop a shared vision and approach for a collaboration between NASEM, OECD and IAP to understand the impact of AI on work by assessing AI and robotics capabilities

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Stuart Elliott

    To develop a shared vision and approach for a collaboration between NASEM, OECD and IAP to understand the impact of AI on work by assessing AI and robotics capabilities

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  • grantee: University of Maryland, College Park
    amount: $1,975
    city: College Park, MD
    year: 2018

    To develop measurement tools for assessing public attitudes toward potential privacy protection techniques

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Frauke Kreuter

    To develop measurement tools for assessing public attitudes toward potential privacy protection techniques

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