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: University of California, Irvine
    amount: $20,000
    city: Irvine, CA
    year: 2015

    To extend the just-completed major field experiment on age discrimination from 11 to 50 states, and to provide evidence on the relationships between direct measures of age discrimination in hiring

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Working Longer
    • Investigator David Neumark

    To extend the just-completed major field experiment on age discrimination from 11 to 50 states, and to provide evidence on the relationships between direct measures of age discrimination in hiring

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  • grantee: Institute for the Future
    amount: $35,000
    city: Palo Alto, CA
    year: 2015

    To launch For Future Reference, a 10-episode podcast series on consumer understanding of the latest advances in science and technology

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Radio
    • Investigator Eri Gentry

    To launch For Future Reference, a 10-episode podcast series on consumer understanding of the latest advances in science and technology

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  • grantee: Harvard University
    amount: $124,994
    city: Cambridge, MA
    year: 2015

    To strengthen a new postdoctoral program for interdisciplinary work on data science by including a position for a quantitative social scientist

    • Program Research
    • Initiative Empirical Economic Research Enablers (EERE)
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Richard McCullough

    To strengthen a new postdoctoral program for interdisciplinary work on data science by including a position for a quantitative social scientist

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  • grantee: Duke University
    amount: $108,903
    city: Durham, NC
    year: 2015

    To develop, test, document, and release methods for increasing data quality and decreasing disclosure risk in household datasets for public or restricted use

    • Program Research
    • Initiative Empirical Economic Research Enablers (EERE)
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Jerome Reiter

    To develop, test, document, and release methods for increasing data quality and decreasing disclosure risk in household datasets for public or restricted use

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  • grantee: National Information Standards Organization
    amount: $48,943
    city: Baltimore, MD
    year: 2015

    To partially support a joint international RDA-NISO working group and public symposium on the privacy implications of research data

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Data & Computational Research
    • Investigator Todd Carpenter

    To partially support a joint international RDA-NISO working group and public symposium on the privacy implications of research data

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

    To partially support an international symposium on the future of Artificial Intelligence research and its impact on society

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Data & Computational Research
    • Investigator Yann LeCun

    To partially support an international symposium on the future of Artificial Intelligence research and its impact on society

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  • grantee: Behavioral Science & Policy Association
    amount: $19,700
    city: Durham, NC
    year: 2015

    To promote cooperation between behavioral researchers and policy practitioners

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

    To promote cooperation between behavioral researchers and policy practitioners

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  • grantee: National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    amount: $20,000
    city: Cambridge, MA
    year: 2015

    To launch an active and diverse study group on behavioral macroeconomics

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

    To launch an active and diverse study group on behavioral macroeconomics

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  • grantee: University College London
    amount: $50,000
    city: London, United Kingdom
    year: 2015

    To launch a carefully curated and edited blog that will make insights from microeconomic research more widely and popularly accessible

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Richard Blundell

    To launch a carefully curated and edited blog that will make insights from microeconomic research more widely and popularly accessible

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  • grantee: International Energy Program Evaluation Conference
    amount: $20,000
    city: Chatham, MA
    year: 2015

    To continue in accelerating and advancing the profession of energy evaluation by enabling graduate students to attend the 2016 IEPPEC Conference at no charge

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Charles Michaelis

    To continue in accelerating and advancing the profession of energy evaluation by enabling graduate students to attend the 2016 IEPPEC Conference at no charge

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