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: NumFOCUS
    amount: $20,000
    city: Austin, TX
    year: 2015

    To support travel by students and junior faculty to a workshop focused on the development scientific software in the R statistical computing language

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Data & Computational Research
    • Investigator Karthik Ram

    To support travel by students and junior faculty to a workshop focused on the development scientific software in the R statistical computing language

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  • grantee: University of Michigan
    amount: $10,000
    city: Ann Arbor, MI
    year: 2015

    To foster the development and interaction of the scientific and professional communities working the analysis of extreme values and events

    • Program Research
    • Investigator Stilian Stoev

    To foster the development and interaction of the scientific and professional communities working the analysis of extreme values and events

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  • grantee: Colorado State University Foundation
    amount: $63,773
    city: Fort Collins, CO
    year: 2015

    To analyze existing data linked from two sources, the Health and Retirement Study and the Occupational Information Network (O*NET) database, to study two novel research questions regarding workers’ perceptions of their work ability (i.e., job-related functional capacity)

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Working Longer
    • Investigator Gwenith Fisher

    To analyze existing data linked from two sources, the Health and Retirement Study and the Occupational Information Network (O*NET) database, to study two novel research questions regarding workers’ perceptions of their work ability (i.e., job-related functional capacity)

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  • grantee: The Aspen Institute
    amount: $20,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2015

    To support a national Native youth engagement strategy to ensure Native youth have new access to resources and support that help them succeed in higher education, especially making graduate programs more of a reality

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Erin Bailey

    To support a national Native youth engagement strategy to ensure Native youth have new access to resources and support that help them succeed in higher education, especially making graduate programs more of a reality

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  • grantee: Foundation Center
    amount: $75,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2015

    To support work on behalf of the nonprofit and charitable community

    • Program
    • Investigator Bradford Smith

    To support work on behalf of the nonprofit and charitable community

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  • grantee: Columbia University
    amount: $43,767
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2015

    To develop new statistical methods for improving the design, analysis, and efficiency of randomized experiments and observational studies of causal effects

    • Program Research
    • Investigator Jose Zubizarreta

    To develop new statistical methods for improving the design, analysis, and efficiency of randomized experiments and observational studies of causal effects

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  • grantee: Philanthropy New York
    amount: $28,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2015

    To support work on behalf of the nonprofit and charitable community

    • Program
    • Investigator Ronna Brown

    To support work on behalf of the nonprofit and charitable community

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  • grantee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    amount: $124,718
    city: Cambridge, MA
    year: 2015

    To catalogue promising but underfunded opportunities for investing in scientific research

    • Program Research
    • Initiative Economic Analysis of Science and Technology (EAST)
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Maria Zuber

    To catalogue promising but underfunded opportunities for investing in scientific research

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  • grantee: National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    amount: $19,472
    city: Cambridge, MA
    year: 2015

    To support a pre-conference as part of a larger project to better understand the retirement and work prospects of women by connecting events in their early adult lives to their later employment histories

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Working Longer
    • Investigator Claudia Goldin

    To support a pre-conference as part of a larger project to better understand the retirement and work prospects of women by connecting events in their early adult lives to their later employment histories

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  • grantee: University of Cincinnati
    amount: $110,000
    city: Cincinnati, OH
    year: 2015

    To support scientific exchange with research groups in Finland and neighboring countries

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Microbiology of the Built Environment
    • Investigator Tiina Reponen

    To support scientific exchange with research groups in Finland and neighboring countries

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