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: Stevens Institute of Technology
    amount: $39,340
    city: Hoboken, NJ
    year: 2016

    To support the research and writing of a book on the role of cancer-causing viruses

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Gregory Morgan

    To support the research and writing of a book on the role of cancer-causing viruses

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  • grantee: Joel N. Shurkin
    amount: $46,900
    city: Baltimore, MD
    year: 2016

    To support a book on the physicist Richard Garwin who designed the hydrogen bomb that explores the relationship between science and government

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Joel Shurkin

    To support a book on the physicist Richard Garwin who designed the hydrogen bomb that explores the relationship between science and government

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  • grantee: Council on Foundations, Inc.
    amount: $25,000
    city: Arlington, VA
    year: 2016

    To support work on behalf of the nonprofit and charitable community

    • Program
    • Investigator Phillip Blackmon

    To support work on behalf of the nonprofit and charitable community

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  • grantee: Philanthropy New York
    amount: $28,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2016

    To support work on behalf of the nonprofit and charitable community

    • Program
    • Investigator Kristen Ruff

    To support work on behalf of the nonprofit and charitable community

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  • grantee: New Venture Fund
    amount: $203,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2016

    To encourage charitable giving in support of basic scientific research through Sloan membership in the Science Philanthropy Alliance

    • Program
    • Investigator Bruce Boyd

    To encourage charitable giving in support of basic scientific research through Sloan membership in the Science Philanthropy Alliance

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  • grantee: University of California, Berkeley
    amount: $50,000
    city: Berkeley, CA
    year: 2016

    To support two sessions of the Energy Institute at Haas’ Energy Camp in order to bring together top energy economists to discuss and explore new research ideas on energy markets

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Lucas Davis

    To support two sessions of the Energy Institute at Haas’ Energy Camp in order to bring together top energy economists to discuss and explore new research ideas on energy markets

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  • grantee: American Friends of the Hebrew University
    amount: $14,800
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2016

    To support broad participation by behavioral and experimental economists in the Economic Science Association’s annual conference

    • Program Research
    • Initiative Behavioral and Regulatory Effects on Decision-making (BRED)
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Eyal Winter

    To support broad participation by behavioral and experimental economists in the Economic Science Association’s annual conference

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  • grantee: Emory University
    amount: $124,617
    city: Atlanta, GA
    year: 2016

    To support a national workshop on the microbiology of legionella in the built environment

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Microbiology of the Built Environment
    • Investigator Ruth Berkelman

    To support a national workshop on the microbiology of legionella in the built environment

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  • grantee: Cornell University
    amount: $125,000
    city: Ithaca, NY
    year: 2016

    To examine how disinfectants may promote antibiotic resistance through horizontal gene transfer

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Microbiology of the Built Environment
    • Investigator Ilana Brito

    To examine how disinfectants may promote antibiotic resistance through horizontal gene transfer

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  • grantee: Manhattan Action Fund
    amount: $20,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2016

    To support Up with Aging, a healthy brain aging fair designed to invigorate the lives of older adults and alter the negative attitudes toward aging that are common among older adults

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Working Longer
    • Investigator Adele Bartlett

    To support Up with Aging, a healthy brain aging fair designed to invigorate the lives of older adults and alter the negative attitudes toward aging that are common among older adults

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