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, Berkeley
    amount: $249,516
    city: Berkeley, CA
    year: 2024

    To explore the value of virtual coworking in science

    • Program Technology
    • Initiative Virtual Collaboration initiative
    • Sub-program Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology
    • Investigator Aruna Ranganathan

    To explore the value of virtual coworking in science

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  • grantee: George Mason University
    amount: $159,488
    city: Fairfax, VA
    year: 2024

    To organize a week-long 2024 Energy and Climate Tech Innovation “Boot Camp” that introduces early career scholars to the practical, policy dimensions of energy system decarbonization

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator David Hart

    To organize a week-long 2024 Energy and Climate Tech Innovation “Boot Camp” that introduces early career scholars to the practical, policy dimensions of energy system decarbonization

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  • grantee: National Information Standards Organization
    amount: $44,944
    city: Baltimore, MD
    year: 2024

    To support Diversity & Equity and Early Career Scholarships for attendance at the 2024 NISO Plus conference

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Better Software for Science
    • Investigator Jason Griffey

    To support Diversity & Equity and Early Career Scholarships for attendance at the 2024 NISO Plus conference

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  • grantee: Philanthropy New York
    amount: $28,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2024

    To support work on behalf of the nonprofit and charitable community

    • Program New York City Program
    • Investigator Kathryn O'Neal-Dunham

    To support work on behalf of the nonprofit and charitable community

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  • grantee: Julia Lee Brownscombe Rosen
    amount: $50,000
    city: Portland, OR
    year: 2023

    To support the research and writing of Grassroots to be published by Ecco/Harper Collins in 2026

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Julia Rosen

    To support the research and writing of Grassroots to be published by Ecco/Harper Collins in 2026

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  • grantee: Starre Julia Vartan
    amount: $44,250
    city: Bainbridge Island, WA
    year: 2023

    To support the research and writing of Strength & Power: The Untold, Ignored, and Belittled Science of Women’s Bodies to be published by Perseus Books

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Starre Vartan

    To support the research and writing of Strength & Power: The Untold, Ignored, and Belittled Science of Women’s Bodies to be published by Perseus Books

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  • grantee: New York University
    amount: $50,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2023

    To investigate the causes and consequences of regional differences in the adoption and use of artificial intelligence

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Robert Seamans

    To investigate the causes and consequences of regional differences in the adoption and use of artificial intelligence

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  • grantee: Ohio State University
    amount: $15,000
    city: Columbus, OH
    year: 2023

    To sustain and generate even greater momentum for an annual Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Symposium on Computer Science and Law

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Bryan Choi

    To sustain and generate even greater momentum for an annual Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Symposium on Computer Science and Law

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  • grantee: AfterImage Public Media
    amount: $250,000
    city: San Francisco, CA
    year: 2023

    To support the post-production of an all-archival, feature length documentary about climate change and its shift from scientific phenomenon to political battleground

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Film
    • Investigator Justine Nagan

    To support the post-production of an all-archival, feature length documentary about climate change and its shift from scientific phenomenon to political battleground

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  • grantee: WGBH Educational Foundation
    amount: $250,000
    city: Boston, MA
    year: 2023

    To produce and release a one-hour NOVA documentary about personal data and privacy along with a social media campaign, screening events, virtual fieldtrip and classroom-ready assets hosted on PBS LearningMedia

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Television
    • Investigator Julia Cort

    To produce and release a one-hour NOVA documentary about personal data and privacy along with a social media campaign, screening events, virtual fieldtrip and classroom-ready assets hosted on PBS LearningMedia

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