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: Wake Forest University
    amount: $249,933
    city: Winston-Salem, NC
    year: 2016

    To research the economics of energy efficiency, as recommended by a Request for Proposals review committee, focused on determining how management practices in the industrial sector impact energy efficiency

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Mark Curtis

    To research the economics of energy efficiency, as recommended by a Request for Proposals review committee, focused on determining how management practices in the industrial sector impact energy efficiency

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  • grantee: Western Washington University
    amount: $309,304
    city: Bellingham, WA
    year: 2016

    To research the economics of energy efficiency, as recommended by a Request for Proposals review committee, focused on quantifying the impact of energy efficiency on housing values

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Sharon Shewmake

    To research the economics of energy efficiency, as recommended by a Request for Proposals review committee, focused on quantifying the impact of energy efficiency on housing values

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  • grantee: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    amount: $349,700
    city: Champaign, IL
    year: 2016

    To research the economics of energy efficiency, as recommended by a Request for Proposals review committee, focused on evaluating the projected and realized savings from the Weatherization Assistance Program

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Erica Myers

    To research the economics of energy efficiency, as recommended by a Request for Proposals review committee, focused on evaluating the projected and realized savings from the Weatherization Assistance Program

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  • grantee: Ohio State University
    amount: $50,142
    city: Columbus, OH
    year: 2016

    To support a pilot study to establish methods and feasibility for determining how diurnal variation in relative humidity affects microbial communities in carpet

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Microbiology of the Built Environment
    • Investigator Karen Dannemiller

    To support a pilot study to establish methods and feasibility for determining how diurnal variation in relative humidity affects microbial communities in carpet

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  • grantee: RAND Corporation
    amount: $125,000
    city: Santa Monica, CA
    year: 2016

    To analyze how technological change affected the retirement behavior of older workers in the last three decades with a case study of computerization, arguably the most important technological change of our era

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Working Longer
    • Investigator Peter Hudomiet

    To analyze how technological change affected the retirement behavior of older workers in the last three decades with a case study of computerization, arguably the most important technological change of our era

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  • grantee: GuideStar USA, Inc.
    amount: $10,000
    city: Williamsburg, VA
    year: 2016

    To support work on behalf of the nonprofit and charitable community

    • Program
    • Investigator Beth Suarez

    To support work on behalf of the nonprofit and charitable community

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  • grantee: University of Oxford
    amount: $464,129
    city: Oxford, United Kingdom
    year: 2016

    To conduct a field campaign of the Deep Carbon Observatory (DCO) on differentiation of biotic and abiotic carbon uniting a dozen early career scientists representing all four DCO communities in a synoptic study exemplifying fulfillment of the DCO’s decadal goals

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Deep Carbon Observatory
    • Investigator Peter Barry

    Funds from this grant support a field project that aims to separate and quantify the sources, pathways, and fates of carbon that originated as mantle rock or as sedimentary biomass. The location of the fieldwork is west of Costa Rica, where the seafloor sinks or “subducts” beneath the Caribbean plate. A team led by Peter Barry of the University of Oxford will look closely at this subduction zone to see to what extent the burial of microbes (organic material rich in carbon) on the slab during oceanic sedimentation is a one-way road to death. Prior research estimates that 85 percent of the subducted carbon sinks under the tremendous pressure of gravity and the overlying plate into the deep, lifeless mantle, but recent measurements have detected unusually high carbon dioxide degassing from the zone. This opens the possibility that quite a lot of “biotic” carbon in deep seafloor mud might recycle as surface life. The project is a continuation of ongoing work by Deep Carbon Observatory scientists to probe the limits to life and accurately characterize the outer bound of pressures and temperatures that are nonlethal to some environmental microorganisms.

    To conduct a field campaign of the Deep Carbon Observatory (DCO) on differentiation of biotic and abiotic carbon uniting a dozen early career scientists representing all four DCO communities in a synoptic study exemplifying fulfillment of the DCO’s decadal goals

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  • grantee: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    amount: $750,000
    city: Troy, NY
    year: 2016

    To continue to lead the data science and management dimensions of the Deep Carbon Observatory and contribute to program synthesis

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Deep Carbon Observatory
    • Investigator Peter Fox

    This grant continues support to the Data Science Team of the Deep Carbon Observatory (DCO), which provides data and computational infrastructure and services to the DCO membership. Led by Peter Fox at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the Data Science Team provides key services to the DCO. Supported activities include the development and progressive improvement of deepcarbon.net, management of the DCO’s scholar database, and hosting an archive of all DCO plans, policies, publications by member scholars, and scientific data collected or generated by hundreds of individual DCO research projects. In addition, the team is responsible for the DCO’s data science efforts, working with the community to turn DCO data into a searchable corpus that can be agglomerated and analyzed to reveal new geoscientific insights. Finally, the Data Management team is a crucial player in the larger effort to synthesize a series of deep Earth carbon models from knowledge gained from the DCO’s decade of research. Grant funds will provide operational support for these core functions for two years.

    To continue to lead the data science and management dimensions of the Deep Carbon Observatory and contribute to program synthesis

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  • grantee: University of Arizona
    amount: $231,050
    city: Tucson, AZ
    year: 2016

    To elucidate the concept of carbon mineral evolution

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Deep Carbon Observatory
    • Investigator Robert Downs

    This grant funds efforts by Robert Downs of the University of Arizona and Robert Hazen, cofounder of the Deep Carbon Observatory, to undertake a systematic application of evolutionary theories to carbon minerals. Downs and Hazen have argued persuasively that the lens of evolution fruitfully explains key aspects of diversification of mineral species, mineralization rates, and structural complexity through Earth’s 4.5 billion-year history. Two-thirds of Earth’s mineral species are biologically mediated, inextricably linking the geosphere and biosphere in co-evolution. Grant funds support two interconnected activities. First, Downs and Hazen will develop and exploit data resources, statistical modeling, and visualization tools to understand quantitatively Earth’s changing carbon mineralogy from crust to mantle. Second, they will expand and explore the Deep-Time Data Infrastructure, which combines mineralogy, petrology, geochemistry, and proteomics resources. Planned outputs include an open-access carbon mineral data base with more than 10,000 data sets for carbon-bearing minerals that include age, locality, and depth.

    To elucidate the concept of carbon mineral evolution

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  • grantee: University of Maryland, Baltimore
    amount: $249,289
    city: Baltimore, MD
    year: 2016

    To support a scientific meeting celebrating the accomplishments of the MoBE program in 2017

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Microbiology of the Built Environment
    • Investigator Lynn Schriml

    Funds from this grant support MoBE 2017, a two-day Microbiology of the Built Environment Research and Applications Symposium to be held October 11–12, 2017 at the U.S. National Academies in Washington, D.C. The purpose of the symposium is to engage and inform potential funders and community stakeholders by highlighting research findings, identifying intersections with stakeholder missions, and showcasing a National Academies consensus study, Microbiomes of the Built Environment: From Research to Application, which documents the state of knowledge on the microbiome/built environment interface, identifies knowledge gaps, and sets out a list of prioritized areas for future research. Each day of the symposium will include one keynote speaker and four themed sessions. Topics to be discussed include the nexus of microbial exposure and building design, public health and indoor microbial communities, manipulating microbiome composition through architectural choices and material selection, and potential applications of indoor microbial research. A total of 160 guests are expected, including researchers, journalists, industry representatives, and policymakers from state, federal, and international government bodies. MoBE 2017 promises to be an important capstone event for the Foundation’s MoBE program as we near the end of planned grantmaking in 2017. If successful, it will engage and inform potential funders and community stakeholders from government agencies, philanthropic organizations, and companies, while celebrating the scientific achievements of the program.

    To support a scientific meeting celebrating the accomplishments of the MoBE program in 2017

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