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: Mallary Tenore Tarpley
    amount: $50,000
    city: Pflugerville, TX
    year: 2023

    To support the research and writing of SLIP: Sickness, Recovery & the Space in Between to be published by Simon & Schuster

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Mallary Tenore Tarpley

    To support the research and writing of SLIP: Sickness, Recovery & the Space in Between to be published by Simon & Schuster

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  • grantee: Paige Madison
    amount: $46,701
    city: Bozeman, MT
    year: 2023

    To support the research and writing of Strange Creatures Beyond Count: How Fossil Hobbits Helped Show Us Who We Are, to be published by Scribner Books

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Paige Madison

    To support the research and writing of Strange Creatures Beyond Count: How Fossil Hobbits Helped Show Us Who We Are, to be published by Scribner Books

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  • grantee: Alec Nevala-Lee
    amount: $40,000
    city: Oak Park, IL
    year: 2023

    To support the research and writing of The Man Who Solved Problems: The Life and Genius of Luis W. Alvarez to be published by W.W. Norton

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Alec Nevala-Lee

    To support the research and writing of The Man Who Solved Problems: The Life and Genius of Luis W. Alvarez to be published by W.W. Norton

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  • grantee: Samantha Culp
    amount: $32,500
    city: West Hollywood, CA
    year: 2023

    To support the research and writing of What Was the Future? to be published by Crown Publishing

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Samantha Culp

    To support the research and writing of What Was the Future? to be published by Crown Publishing

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  • grantee: New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
    amount: $49,776
    city: Socorro, NM
    year: 2023

    To support the research and writing of Wild Anthropocene: Nature, Democracy, and the Future of Biodiversity, to be published by MIT Press in 2024

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Taylor Dotson

    To support the research and writing of Wild Anthropocene: Nature, Democracy, and the Future of Biodiversity, to be published by MIT Press in 2024

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  • grantee: Simson L. Garfinkel
    amount: $50,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2023

    To support the research and writing of Differential Privacy, to be published by MIT Press

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Simson Garfinkel

    To support the research and writing of Differential Privacy, to be published by MIT Press

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  • grantee: Edmund Stump
    amount: $20,000
    city: Tempe, AZ
    year: 2023

    To support the research and writing of Otherworldly Antarctica: Ice, Rock, and Wind at the Polar Extreme, to be published by The Chicago University Press in 2024

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Edmund Stump

    To support the research and writing of Otherworldly Antarctica: Ice, Rock, and Wind at the Polar Extreme, to be published by The Chicago University Press in 2024

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  • grantee: Kelly Clancy
    amount: $53,760
    city: Emeryville, CA
    year: 2023

    To support the research and writing of Mind Games to be published by Riverhead in 2024

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Kelly Clancy

    To support the research and writing of Mind Games to be published by Riverhead in 2024

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  • grantee: Kristin Hugo
    amount: $56,053
    city: Danville, CA
    year: 2023

    To support the research and writing of Carcass: On the Afterlives of Animal Bodies to be published by the MIT Press

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Kristin Hugo

    To support the research and writing of Carcass: On the Afterlives of Animal Bodies to be published by the MIT Press

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  • grantee: Mark Kozek
    amount: $49,984
    city: Redondo Beach, CA
    year: 2023

    To support the research and writing of Mathematics and Storytelling: Stories in Print and On Screen About Mathematics, to be published by AK Peters/CRC Press in 2024

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Mark Kozek

    To support the research and writing of Mathematics and Storytelling: Stories in Print and On Screen About Mathematics, to be published by AK Peters/CRC Press in 2024

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