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.

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3,133 Grants

Grantee

Amount

City

Year

grantee: American Associates of the National Theatre

amount: $10,820

city: New York, NY

year: 2017
To commission a play about Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis and his breakthrough discovery on the importance of antiseptic practices in medicine, to be written by playwright Stephen Brown and potentially produced by the National Theatre
- Program Public Understanding
- Sub-program Theater
- Investigator Emily Anstead
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To commission a play about Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis and his breakthrough discovery on the importance of antiseptic practices in medicine, to be written by playwright Stephen Brown and potentially produced by the National Theatre
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grantee: Harvard University

amount: $20,000

city: Cambridge, MA

year: 2017
To identify principles for conducting retrospective review of energy and environmental regulations
- Program Research
- Sub-program Energy and Environment
- Investigator Joseph Aldy
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To identify principles for conducting retrospective review of energy and environmental regulations
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grantee: National Academy of Sciences

amount: $20,000

city: Washington, DC

year: 2017
To provide final support to the Roundtable on Unconventional Hydrocarbon Development
- Program Research
- Sub-program Energy and Environment
- Investigator Elizabeth Eide
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To provide final support to the Roundtable on Unconventional Hydrocarbon Development
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grantee: University of Michigan

amount: $9,625

city: Ann Arbor, MI

year: 2017
To facilitate the participation of undergraduate and graduate students at the 2017 Transportation, Economics, Energy and the Environment (TE3) conference
- Program Research
- Sub-program Energy and Environment
- Investigator Mark Barteau
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To facilitate the participation of undergraduate and graduate students at the 2017 Transportation, Economics, Energy and the Environment (TE3) conference
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grantee: International Documentary Association

amount: $50,000

city: Los Angeles, CA

year: 2017
To support a documentary on artificial intelligence and the development of a CameraBot device that will function autonomously as the director and cameraman
- Program Public Understanding
- Sub-program Film
- Investigator Amy Halpin
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To support a documentary on artificial intelligence and the development of a CameraBot device that will function autonomously as the director and cameraman
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grantee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

amount: $125,000

city: Cambridge, MA

year: 2017
To develop an initial framework and set of modeling tools to examine novel energy storage technologies
- Program Research
- Sub-program Energy and Environment
- Investigator Jessika Trancik
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To develop an initial framework and set of modeling tools to examine novel energy storage technologies
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grantee: University of Maryland, College Park

amount: $43,000

city: College Park, MD

year: 2017
To support the research and writing of a graphic non-fiction book on space-time, relativity, and gravity to be published by Princeton University Press
- Program Public Understanding
- Sub-program Books
- Investigator Jeffrey Bub
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To support the research and writing of a graphic non-fiction book on space-time, relativity, and gravity to be published by Princeton University Press
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grantee: University of California, Berkeley

amount: $20,000

city: Berkeley, CA

year: 2017
To organize a workshop that will facilitate a better understanding of the energy and environmental impacts of artificial intelligence
- Program Research
- Sub-program Energy and Environment
- Investigator Jordan Diamond
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To organize a workshop that will facilitate a better understanding of the energy and environmental impacts of artificial intelligence
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grantee: Seth Fletcher

amount: $25,000

city: Croton-on-Hudson, NY

year: 2017
To support research for and writing of Einstein’s Shadow: A Black Hole, A Band of Astronomers, and the Quest to See the Unseeable (Ecco Press 2018), a book about the Event Horizon Telescope and the quest to capture the first direct image of a black hole
- Program Public Understanding
- Sub-program Books
- Investigator Seth Fletcher
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To support research for and writing of Einstein’s Shadow: A Black Hole, A Band of Astronomers, and the Quest to See the Unseeable (Ecco Press 2018), a book about the Event Horizon Telescope and the quest to capture the first direct image of a black hole
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grantee: NumFOCUS

amount: $34,700

city: Austin, TX

year: 2017
To improve the publication and citation of scientific software through improvements to the technical infrastructure for the Journal of Open Source Software
- Program
- Sub-program Scholarly Communication
- Investigator Arfon Smith
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To improve the publication and citation of scientific software through improvements to the technical infrastructure for the Journal of Open Source Software
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