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 North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    amount: $49,975
    city: Chapel Hill, NC
    year: 2014

    To study the motivation and impact of science philanthropy as practiced by high-net-worth individuals

    • Program Research
    • Initiative Economic Analysis of Science and Technology (EAST)
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Maryann Feldman

    To study the motivation and impact of science philanthropy as practiced by high-net-worth individuals

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  • grantee: Haverford College
    amount: $98,486
    city: Haverford, PA
    year: 2014

    To teach undergraduate social scientists about integrity, transparency, and reproducibility in empirical research

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

    To teach undergraduate social scientists about integrity, transparency, and reproducibility in empirical research

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  • grantee: University of Michigan
    amount: $115,204
    city: Ann Arbor, MI
    year: 2014

    To plan the design and testing of secure multi-party computing systems for the statistical analysis of private data

    • Program Research
    • Initiative Empirical Economic Research Enablers (EERE)
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator George Alter

    To plan the design and testing of secure multi-party computing systems for the statistical analysis of private data

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  • grantee: Philanthropy New York
    amount: $100,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2014

    To fund a new initiative to meet the philanthropic community's needs for the decade to come with enhanced meeting facilities, improved communications and technological capacity, increased programming, deeper public policy engagement, and strengthened fiscal stability in a new era of increased visibility and expectations for the philanthropic sector

    • Program
    • Investigator Kathryn O'Neal-Dunham

    To fund a new initiative to meet the philanthropic community's needs for the decade to come with enhanced meeting facilities, improved communications and technological capacity, increased programming, deeper public policy engagement, and strengthened fiscal stability in a new era of increased visibility and expectations for the philanthropic sector

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  • grantee: Foundation for Earth Science
    amount: $124,995
    city: Raleigh, NC
    year: 2014

    To explore adoption of RFID tracking at professional society meetings in order to improve the network connections among attendees

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Scholarly Communication
    • Investigator Erin Robinson

    To explore adoption of RFID tracking at professional society meetings in order to improve the network connections among attendees

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  • grantee: International Society for Indoor Air Quality and Climate
    amount: $70,000
    city: Santa Cruz, CA
    year: 2014

    To support the Sloan Symposium at Healthy Buildings 2015 Europe

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Microbiology of the Built Environment
    • Investigator Hal Levin

    To support the Sloan Symposium at Healthy Buildings 2015 Europe

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  • grantee: University of Michigan
    amount: $74,444
    city: Ann Arbor, MI
    year: 2014

    To understand the trend of health and socioeconomic position of early retirees by examining a nationally representative survey of older adults over a 15-year period

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Working Longer
    • Investigator Hwajung Choi

    To understand the trend of health and socioeconomic position of early retirees by examining a nationally representative survey of older adults over a 15-year period

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  • grantee: National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    amount: $120,557
    city: Cambridge, MA
    year: 2014

    To study the persistence of high-achieving underrepresented minority students in STEM majors at highly-ranked colleges and universities after participation in summer enrichment programs for rising high school seniors and to test novel and cost-effective data collection techniques and a randomized control design

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Joshua Angrist

    To study the persistence of high-achieving underrepresented minority students in STEM majors at highly-ranked colleges and universities after participation in summer enrichment programs for rising high school seniors and to test novel and cost-effective data collection techniques and a randomized control design

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  • grantee: Missouri University of Science and Technology
    amount: $34,388
    city: Rolla, MO
    year: 2014

    To provide partial support for a workshop on indoor chemistry

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Chemistry of Indoor Environments
    • Investigator Glenn Morrison

    To provide partial support for a workshop on indoor chemistry

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  • grantee: American Geosciences Institute
    amount: $101,375
    city: Alexandria, VA
    year: 2014

    To increase participation of underrepresented minority geoscientists in the Deep Carbon Observatory

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Deep Carbon Observatory
    • Investigator Heather Houlton

    To increase participation of underrepresented minority geoscientists in the Deep Carbon Observatory

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