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 Corporation for Atmospheric Research
    amount: $20,000
    city: Boulder, CO
    year: 2016

    To support a workshop and related activities on the rescue of at-risk data

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Data & Computational Research
    • Investigator Matthew Mayernik

    To support a workshop and related activities on the rescue of at-risk data

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  • grantee: University of Pennsylvania
    amount: $15,000
    city: Philadelphia, PA
    year: 2016

    To support a conference on the use of administrative data in social science research

    • Program Research
    • Initiative Empirical Economic Research Enablers (EERE)
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Dennis Culhane

    To support a conference on the use of administrative data in social science research

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  • grantee: National Academy of Sciences
    amount: $110,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2016

    To provide partial support for a study to gather, analyze, and disseminate the evidence on the most promising retention and completion strategies and practices at US minority-serving institutions (MSIs)

    • Program Higher Education
    • Initiative Professional Advancement of Underrepresented Groups
    • Investigator Thomas Rudin

    To provide partial support for a study to gather, analyze, and disseminate the evidence on the most promising retention and completion strategies and practices at US minority-serving institutions (MSIs)

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  • grantee: DataKind
    amount: $100,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2016

    To pilot continued sustainability models for novel machine learning and analytical solutions to reduce pedestrian deaths in New York City and other US cities

    • Program New York City Program
    • Investigator Julia Rhodes Davis

    To pilot continued sustainability models for novel machine learning and analytical solutions to reduce pedestrian deaths in New York City and other US cities

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  • grantee: Women Make Movies, Inc.
    amount: $125,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2016

    To explore the new medium of Virtual Reality with a short film allowing viewers  to experience the workings of the LIGO gravitational wave detector, and to grasp the science behind this breakthrough discovery

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program New Media
    • Investigator Debra Zimmerman

    To explore the new medium of Virtual Reality with a short film allowing viewers  to experience the workings of the LIGO gravitational wave detector, and to grasp the science behind this breakthrough discovery

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  • grantee: Resources for the Future, Inc.
    amount: $59,983
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2016

    To assess changes in local public finance issues in key shale gas and oil producing regions

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Richard Newell

    To assess changes in local public finance issues in key shale gas and oil producing regions

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  • grantee: Harvard University
    amount: $20,000
    city: Cambridge, MA
    year: 2016

    To support the Second Annual Conference on Big Data at the Harvard Center for Mathematical Sciences and Applications

    • Program Research
    • Investigator Shing-Tung Yau

    To support the Second Annual Conference on Big Data at the Harvard Center for Mathematical Sciences and Applications

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  • grantee: NYC Arts in Education Roundtable
    amount: $5,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2016

    For a professional development event for educators that will explore how improvisation affects the brain

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Theater
    • Investigator Jennifer Clarke

    For a professional development event for educators that will explore how improvisation affects the brain

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  • grantee: Center for Strategic and International Studies
    amount: $20,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2016

    To support the Energy Futures Forum in identifying and elaborating on medium-term issues in the energy sector

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Sarah Ladislaw

    To support the Energy Futures Forum in identifying and elaborating on medium-term issues in the energy sector

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  • grantee: The University of Chicago
    amount: $55,000
    city: Chicago, IL
    year: 2016

    To convene academic economists and power system engineers from distribution utilities to identify critical research questions and opportunities for collaboration

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Steven Cicala

    To convene academic economists and power system engineers from distribution utilities to identify critical research questions and opportunities for collaboration

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