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: 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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  • grantee: Stanford University
    amount: $50,000
    city: Stanford, CA
    year: 2015

    To organize a one-day conference at the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development exploring the economic, technological, and regulatory barriers to deploying a suite of emerging low carbon energy technologies and resources at scale

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Frank Wolak

    To organize a one-day conference at the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development exploring the economic, technological, and regulatory barriers to deploying a suite of emerging low carbon energy technologies and resources at scale

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  • grantee: Oregon State University
    amount: $119,444
    city: Corvallis, OR
    year: 2015

    To conduct the second field-based summer school of the Deep Carbon Observatory

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Deep Carbon Observatory
    • Investigator Frederick Colwell

    To conduct the second field-based summer school of the Deep Carbon Observatory

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  • grantee: University of South Florida
    amount: $75,000
    city: Tampa, FL
    year: 2015

    To organize a workshop and develop a research agenda that contributes to a better understanding factors and data related to vehicle miles traveled (VMT)

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

    To organize a workshop and develop a research agenda that contributes to a better understanding factors and data related to vehicle miles traveled (VMT)

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  • grantee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    amount: $45,000
    city: Cambridge, MA
    year: 2015

    To organize a workshop that brings together the leadership and management of university energy economics, technology, and policy research initiatives to plan strategically, discuss best practices, and explore possibilities for improved coordination

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Christopher Knittel

    To organize a workshop that brings together the leadership and management of university energy economics, technology, and policy research initiatives to plan strategically, discuss best practices, and explore possibilities for improved coordination

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  • grantee: New America Foundation
    amount: $20,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2015

    To provide partial support for a workshop on encryption and privacy

    • Program New York City Program
    • Investigator Ian Wallace

    To provide partial support for a workshop on encryption and privacy

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  • grantee: American Associates of the National Theatre
    amount: $83,938
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2015

    To support the development of a musical about John Snow, the father of epidemiology, and how he helped solve the cholera outbreak in 1850s London

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Theater
    • Investigator Rufus Norris

    To support the development of a musical about John Snow, the father of epidemiology, and how he helped solve the cholera outbreak in 1850s London

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  • grantee: Emory University
    amount: $10,165
    city: Atlanta, GA
    year: 2015

    To conduct planning activities to organize a multidisciplinary workshop on the microbiology of legionella in the built environment

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

    To conduct planning activities to organize a multidisciplinary workshop on the microbiology of legionella in the built environment

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  • grantee: New York Academy of Sciences
    amount: $12,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2015

    To support dissemination of the proceedings of a conference entitled "Microbes in the City: Mapping the Urban Genome"

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Microbiology of the Built Environment
    • Investigator Brooke Grindlinger

    To support dissemination of the proceedings of a conference entitled "Microbes in the City: Mapping the Urban Genome"

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  • grantee: University of California, Berkeley
    amount: $124,989
    city: Berkeley, CA
    year: 2015

    To train highly qualified Ph.D. graduate students from across North America in energy and environmental economics topics and techniques through an advanced summer training program

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Maximilian Auffhammer

    To train highly qualified Ph.D. graduate students from across North America in energy and environmental economics topics and techniques through an advanced summer training program

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