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

201 Grants
Grantee
Amount
City
Year
  • grantee: University of Glasgow
    amount: $48,598
    city: Glasgow, United Kingdom
    year: 2025

    To support the research and writing of The Wealth of Nations at 250: Understanding Prosperity and Development in the Modern World to be published in 2026

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Alex Trew

    To support the research and writing of The Wealth of Nations at 250: Understanding Prosperity and Development in the Modern World to be published in 2026

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  • grantee: Dan Fagin
    amount: $35,000
    city: Sea Cliff, NY
    year: 2025

    To support the research and writing of Monarchy: A Butterfly and the Future of Life to be published by Random House in 2026

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Dan Fagin

    To support the research and writing of Monarchy: A Butterfly and the Future of Life to be published by Random House in 2026

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  • grantee: Daniela Hernandez
    amount: $56,050
    city: Brooklyn, NY
    year: 2025

    To support the research and writing of "Quantum Lives: The New Science of Personal Transformation" to be published by W.W. Norton

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Daniela Hernandez

    To support the research and writing of "Quantum Lives: The New Science of Personal Transformation" to be published by W.W. Norton

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  • grantee: Vanderbilt University
    amount: $54,545
    city: Nashville, TN
    year: 2025

    To support the research and writing of Bin Baz’s World: Technology and the Rise of Everyday Salafism to be published by Harvard University Press in 2026

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Leor Halevi

    To support the research and writing of Bin Baz’s World: Technology and the Rise of Everyday Salafism to be published by Harvard University Press in 2026

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  • grantee: Elizabeth Kolbert
    amount: $30,500
    city: Williamstown, MA
    year: 2025

    To support the research and writing of Under the Glacier: How Ice Made Our World and Will Determine Its Future to be published by Random House in 2026

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Elizabeth Kolbert

    To support the research and writing of Under the Glacier: How Ice Made Our World and Will Determine Its Future to be published by Random House in 2026

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  • grantee: University of Mississippi
    amount: $54,506
    city: University, MS
    year: 2025

    To support the research and writing of "Hive Minds: Flocks, Swarms, Schools, and the Intelligence of Nature" to be published by Henry Holt & Company in 2026

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Vanessa Gregory

    To support the research and writing of "Hive Minds: Flocks, Swarms, Schools, and the Intelligence of Nature" to be published by Henry Holt & Company in 2026

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  • grantee: Emily Sohn
    amount: $64,400
    city: Minneapolis, MN
    year: 2025

    To support the research and writing of "The New Wilderness: How Life Finds a Way in the Most Unexpected Places" to be published by Sourcebooks in 2026

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Emily Sohn

    To support the research and writing of "The New Wilderness: How Life Finds a Way in the Most Unexpected Places" to be published by Sourcebooks in 2026

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  • grantee: Hanna Kozlowska
    amount: $49,897
    city: Bronx, NY
    year: 2025

    To support the research and writing of U Up? A Social History of Online Dating to be published by Simon & Schuster in 2027

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Hanna Kozlowska

    To support the research and writing of U Up? A Social History of Online Dating to be published by Simon & Schuster in 2027

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  • grantee: Shoshi Parks
    amount: $57,758
    city: San Jose, CA
    year: 2025

    To support the research and writing of "The Human Zoo: Colonial Upheaval, Human Spectacle and the Birth of Anthropology "to be published by Beacon Press

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Shoshi Parks

    To support the research and writing of "The Human Zoo: Colonial Upheaval, Human Spectacle and the Birth of Anthropology "to be published by Beacon Press

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  • grantee: Columbia University
    amount: $21,667
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2025

    To support the research and writing of "The Web Beneath the Waves" to be published by Columbia Global Reports

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Nicholas Lemann

    To support the research and writing of "The Web Beneath the Waves" to be published by Columbia Global Reports

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