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: Stanford University
    amount: $114,687
    city: Stanford, CA
    year: 2015

    To explore to what extent health, job demands, and job exposures drive early disability and retirement events for workers in the manufacturing sector

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Working Longer
    • Investigator Mark Cullen

    To explore to what extent health, job demands, and job exposures drive early disability and retirement events for workers in the manufacturing sector

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  • grantee: American Association for the Advancement of Science
    amount: $105,258
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2015

    To support a workshop of ~30 research university teams to improve the recruitment, retention, and success of URM graduate students in STEM by studying strategies employed by peer institutions in the context of the team’s own challenges and aims

    • Program Higher Education
    • Initiative Professional Advancement of Underrepresented Groups
    • Investigator Shirley Malcom

    To support a workshop of ~30 research university teams to improve the recruitment, retention, and success of URM graduate students in STEM by studying strategies employed by peer institutions in the context of the team’s own challenges and aims

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  • grantee: WNET
    amount: $100,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2015

    To  produce at least three annual Sloan-related science, technology, and economics themed episodes of The Open Mind for two years and to support enhanced outreach and promotion for the show to a national PBS audience

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Television
    • Investigator Alexander Heffner

    To  produce at least three annual Sloan-related science, technology, and economics themed episodes of The Open Mind for two years and to support enhanced outreach and promotion for the show to a national PBS audience

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  • grantee: Santa Fe Institute
    amount: $15,000
    city: Santa Fe, NM
    year: 2015

    To organize a workshop addressing the technological, social, and industrial dynamics for innovation and transition in electric power production and delivery

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Cristopher Moore

    To organize a workshop addressing the technological, social, and industrial dynamics for innovation and transition in electric power production and delivery

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  • grantee: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
    amount: $75,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2015

    To provide consistent, open-source baseline data on the different environmental characteristics of oils in production and enhance information dissemination through improved visualizations

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Deborah Gordon

    To provide consistent, open-source baseline data on the different environmental characteristics of oils in production and enhance information dissemination through improved visualizations

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  • grantee: University of Toronto
    amount: $116,035
    city: Toronto, ON, Canada
    year: 2015

    To support a series of dissemination and engagement activities for Sloan Microbiology of the Built Environment (MoBE) and Chemistry of Indoor Environments programs at Indoor Air 2016, as well as pre- and post-meeting workshops

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Microbiology of the Built Environment
    • Investigator Jeffrey Siegel

    To support a series of dissemination and engagement activities for Sloan Microbiology of the Built Environment (MoBE) and Chemistry of Indoor Environments programs at Indoor Air 2016, as well as pre- and post-meeting workshops

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  • grantee: University of Michigan
    amount: $72,846
    city: Ann Arbor, MI
    year: 2015

    To undertake qualitative and survey research that explore the factors related to transportation and travel preferences among younger millennial generations

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Thomas Lyon

    To undertake qualitative and survey research that explore the factors related to transportation and travel preferences among younger millennial generations

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  • grantee: New York University
    amount: $300,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2015

    To conduct planning activities to develop the CUSP Data User Facility

    • Program New York City Program
    • Investigator Julia Lane

    To conduct planning activities to develop the CUSP Data User Facility

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  • grantee: Johns Hopkins University
    amount: $99,955
    city: Baltimore, MD
    year: 2015

    To build an International Deep Earth Water Group for the Deep Carbon Observatory

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Deep Carbon Observatory
    • Investigator Dimitri Sverjensky

    To build an International Deep Earth Water Group for the Deep Carbon Observatory

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  • grantee: Natural Heritage Trust
    amount: $25,000
    city: Albany, NY
    year: 2015

    To connect children and families to New York's state parks

    • Program
    • Investigator Allen Payne

    To connect children and families to New York's state parks

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