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: Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities
    amount: $20,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2014

    To explore innovative and effective ways to engage senior tenure-line faculty in physics and chemistry in pedagogical reform of upper division courses at research high or research very high universities

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Kacy Redd

    To explore innovative and effective ways to engage senior tenure-line faculty in physics and chemistry in pedagogical reform of upper division courses at research high or research very high universities

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  • grantee: Columbia University
    amount: $19,385
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2014

    To support a workshop on the history of data science and the use of data in the history of science more broadly

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Data & Computational Research
    • Investigator Matthew Jones

    To support a workshop on the history of data science and the use of data in the history of science more broadly

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  • grantee: New York University
    amount: $15,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2014

    To support a workshop and hackathon on crowdfunding and scientific projects

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Data & Computational Research
    • Investigator Nancy Hechinger

    To support a workshop and hackathon on crowdfunding and scientific projects

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  • grantee: University of Maryland, College Park
    amount: $19,858
    city: College Park, MD
    year: 2014

    To partially support a meeting to share best practices and opportunities in scholarly crowdsourcing across the sciences and humanities

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Data & Computational Research
    • Investigator Neil Fraistat

    To partially support a meeting to share best practices and opportunities in scholarly crowdsourcing across the sciences and humanities

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  • grantee: Stanford University
    amount: $20,000
    city: Stanford, CA
    year: 2014

    To develop and workshop a multidisciplinary research agenda on rethinking regulatory economics

    • Program Research
    • Initiative Behavioral Economics and Household Finance (BEHF)
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Margaret Levi

    To develop and workshop a multidisciplinary research agenda on rethinking regulatory economics

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  • grantee: FORCE11
    amount: $15,000
    city: San Diego, CA
    year: 2014

    To partially support the 2015 Future of Research Communication and e-Scholarship conference

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Scholarly Communication
    • Investigator Maryann Martone

    To partially support the 2015 Future of Research Communication and e-Scholarship conference

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  • grantee: Richard Rhodes
    amount: $125,000
    city: Half Moon Bay, CA
    year: 2014

    To support the research and writing of a book on the history of energy transitions for a general audience to be published by Simon & Schuster

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Richard Rhodes

    To support the research and writing of a book on the history of energy transitions for a general audience to be published by Simon & Schuster

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  • grantee: University of Texas, Austin
    amount: $75,000
    city: Austin, TX
    year: 2014

    To enhance analysis of the Marcellus Shale productivity outlook by reducing ranges of uncertainty for geologic mapping and gas production profiles

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Svetlana Ikonnikova

    To enhance analysis of the Marcellus Shale productivity outlook by reducing ranges of uncertainty for geologic mapping and gas production profiles

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  • grantee: National Opinion Research Center
    amount: $108,880
    city: Chicago, IL
    year: 2014

    To assess the demand among potential audiences for a Working Longer Resource Center that would catalog, synthesize, and disseminate the body of research on the economics of working longer and the aging work force, making it accessible to those people who are in a position to use the information to assess outcomes for older Americans

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Working Longer
    • Investigator Trevor Tompson

    To assess the demand among potential audiences for a Working Longer Resource Center that would catalog, synthesize, and disseminate the body of research on the economics of working longer and the aging work force, making it accessible to those people who are in a position to use the information to assess outcomes for older Americans

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  • grantee: Women Make Movies, Inc.
    amount: $50,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2014

    To support two animated short films about current scientific research that will be distributed on the web

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program New Media
    • Investigator Debra Zimmerman

    To support two animated short films about current scientific research that will be distributed on the web

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