Grants Database

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

2,950 Grants
Grantee
Amount
City
Year
  • grantee: The Wolfram Foundation
    amount: $70,600
    city: Champaign, IL
    year: 2015

    To run a workshop on the semantic representation of mathematical knowledge

    • Program Research
    • Investigator Michael Trott

    To run a workshop on the semantic representation of mathematical knowledge

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  • grantee: Texas A&M University
    amount: $20,000
    city: College Station, TX
    year: 2015

    To co-sponsor, together with NSF, a workshop on evaluating the impact of inquiry-based learning in college mathematics

    • Program Research
    • Investigator Ronald Douglas

    To co-sponsor, together with NSF, a workshop on evaluating the impact of inquiry-based learning in college mathematics

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  • grantee: Stanford University
    amount: $72,758
    city: Stanford, CA
    year: 2015

    To gain new insights regarding labor market pathways to retirement with particular attention to the role of self-employment and to analyze the labor market participation of the 1945 birth cohort from ages 54 – 68 in a comprehensive manner

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Working Longer
    • Investigator John Shoven

    To gain new insights regarding labor market pathways to retirement with particular attention to the role of self-employment and to analyze the labor market participation of the 1945 birth cohort from ages 54 – 68 in a comprehensive manner

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  • grantee: National Geographic Society
    amount: $54,824
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2015

    To produce a short video for The Science Philanthropy Alliance that illustrates its purpose and encourages philanthropic commitments to science funding for presentation with the Giving Pledge group on November 6, 2015

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program New Media
    • Investigator Pam Caragol

    To produce a short video for The Science Philanthropy Alliance that illustrates its purpose and encourages philanthropic commitments to science funding for presentation with the Giving Pledge group on November 6, 2015

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  • grantee: University of Tennessee
    amount: $26,364
    city: Knoxville, TN
    year: 2015

    To support the 2016 Blackwell-Tapia Conference providing early-career minority mathematicians with enhanced understanding of their field, networking with peers, and interactions with senior researchers

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Kelly Sturner

    To support the 2016 Blackwell-Tapia Conference providing early-career minority mathematicians with enhanced understanding of their field, networking with peers, and interactions with senior researchers

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  • grantee: American Association for the Advancement of Science
    amount: $63,694
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2015

    To provide graduate students with the skills to produce and effectively use an annotated version of the primary literature in advanced undergraduate course

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Melissa McCartney

    To provide graduate students with the skills to produce and effectively use an annotated version of the primary literature in advanced undergraduate course

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  • grantee: GuideStar USA, Inc.
    amount: $10,000
    city: Williamsburg, VA
    year: 2015

    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: RAND Corporation
    amount: $20,000
    city: Santa Monica, CA
    year: 2015

    To promote research on behavioral economics and household finance by co-sponsoring the 7th annual RAND Forum on Behavioral Finance

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

    To promote research on behavioral economics and household finance by co-sponsoring the 7th annual RAND Forum on Behavioral Finance

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  • grantee: FPF Education and Innovation Foundation
    amount: $75,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2015

    To partially support a meeting on ethical review processes in corporate human subjects research settings

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Data & Computational Research
    • Investigator Jules Polonetsky

    To partially support a meeting on ethical review processes in corporate human subjects research settings

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  • grantee: Stanford University
    amount: $10,000
    city: Stanford, CA
    year: 2015

    To support the Precourt Energy Efficiency Center to provide stipends to advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and post-doctoral researchers to attend the 2015 Behavior, Energy and Climate Change (BECC) Conference in Sacramento, CA

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator James Sweeney

    To support the Precourt Energy Efficiency Center to provide stipends to advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and post-doctoral researchers to attend the 2015 Behavior, Energy and Climate Change (BECC) Conference in Sacramento, CA

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