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: Social Science Research Council
    amount: $49,995
    city: Brooklyn, NY
    year: 2025

    To identify unfinished economics research projects of enough public value to justify supporting them through a rescue funding mechanism

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Fredrik Palm

    To identify unfinished economics research projects of enough public value to justify supporting them through a rescue funding mechanism

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  • grantee: National Academy of Sciences
    amount: $50,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2025

    To deliver a compelling and data-driven account of the state of U.S. science that reaches a broad audience

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Sarah Rovito

    To deliver a compelling and data-driven account of the state of U.S. science that reaches a broad audience

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  • grantee: Open Science Hardware Foundation
    amount: $249,559
    city: Atlanta, GA
    year: 2025

    To support institutional embedding and programmatic activities of the Open Science Hardware Foundation

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Open Source in Science
    • Investigator Shannon Dosemagen

    To support institutional embedding and programmatic activities of the Open Science Hardware Foundation

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  • grantee: University of California, Merced
    amount: $150,000
    city: Merced, CA
    year: 2025

    To understand the impact of legal and policy restrictions on access and opportunity in STEM higher education

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Laura Hamilton

    To understand the impact of legal and policy restrictions on access and opportunity in STEM higher education

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  • grantee: Industrial Organizational Society, Inc.
    amount: $45,000
    city: Boston, MA
    year: 2025

    To support graduate student presentations at the International Industrial Organization Conference

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Marc Rysman

    To support graduate student presentations at the International Industrial Organization Conference

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  • grantee: Resources for the Future, Inc.
    amount: $250,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2025

    To organize a workshop that reviews scientific progress in recent years on the social cost of carbon and identifies areas for future research opportunities

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Brian Prest

    To organize a workshop that reviews scientific progress in recent years on the social cost of carbon and identifies areas for future research opportunities

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  • grantee: Gordon Research Conferences
    amount: $15,000
    city: West Kingston, RI
    year: 2025

    To support the 2025 Self-Assembly and Supramolecular Chemistry Gordon Research Conference

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Matter-to-Life
    • Investigator Rein Ulijn

    To support the 2025 Self-Assembly and Supramolecular Chemistry Gordon Research Conference

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  • grantee: University of Arizona
    amount: $49,769
    city: Tucson, AZ
    year: 2025

    To collect, preserve, and disseminate learnings from the National Science Foundation ADVANCE Program

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Beth Mitchneck

    To collect, preserve, and disseminate learnings from the National Science Foundation ADVANCE Program

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  • grantee: Social Science Research Council
    amount: $250,000
    city: Brooklyn, NY
    year: 2025

    To continue supporting matchmaking efforts between government agencies and members of civic society in New York City

    • Program New York City Program
    • Investigator Fredrik Palm

    To continue supporting matchmaking efforts between government agencies and members of civic society in New York City

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  • grantee: Astrophysical Research Consortium
    amount: $90,000
    city: Seattle, WA
    year: 2025

    To produce planetarium and science-on-a-sphere shows for the general public describing the hardware, observations, and science of SDSS-V

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program New Media
    • Investigator Juna Kollmeier

    To produce planetarium and science-on-a-sphere shows for the general public describing the hardware, observations, and science of SDSS-V

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