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: Carnegie Mellon University
    amount: $36,666
    city: Pittsburgh, PA
    year: 2019

    To support Dr. Venkat Viswanathan in undertaking a collaborative research project on lithium battery performance, resulting from the 2018 Scialog conference on advanced energy storage

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Venkat Viswanathan

    To support Dr. Venkat Viswanathan in undertaking a collaborative research project on lithium battery performance, resulting from the 2018 Scialog conference on advanced energy storage

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  • grantee: Purdue University
    amount: $36,666
    city: West Lafayette, IN
    year: 2019

    To support Dr. Partha Mukherjee in undertaking a collaborative research project on lithium battery performance, resulting from the 2018 Scialog conference on advanced energy storage

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Partha Mukherjee

    To support Dr. Partha Mukherjee in undertaking a collaborative research project on lithium battery performance, resulting from the 2018 Scialog conference on advanced energy storage

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  • grantee: Columbia University
    amount: $36,666
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2019

    To support Dr. Lauren Marbella in undertaking a collaborative research project on lithium battery performance, resulting from the 2018 Scialog conference on advanced energy storage

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Lauren Marbella

    To support Dr. Lauren Marbella in undertaking a collaborative research project on lithium battery performance, resulting from the 2018 Scialog conference on advanced energy storage

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  • grantee: University of Tennessee
    amount: $237,415
    city: Knoxville, TN
    year: 2019

    To understand the relationship between customer incentives to invest in distributed solar generation and utility incentives to invest in new resource and transmission assets

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Charles Sims

    To understand the relationship between customer incentives to invest in distributed solar generation and utility incentives to invest in new resource and transmission assets

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  • grantee: Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
    amount: $74,800
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2019

    To organize a week-long training program that introduces early career researchers to the practical considerations that shape policy and managerial decisions about energy innovation in the United States

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

    To organize a week-long training program that introduces early career researchers to the practical considerations that shape policy and managerial decisions about energy innovation in the United States

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  • grantee: University of California, Davis
    amount: $249,456
    city: Davis, CA
    year: 2019

    To understand how future electric vehicle demand will impact the development of electricity distribution infrastructure

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Alan Jenn

    To understand how future electric vehicle demand will impact the development of electricity distribution infrastructure

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  • grantee: Arizona State University
    amount: $20,000
    city: Tempe, AZ
    year: 2018

    To support student participation at the Energy and Society in Transition conference

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Clark Miller

    To support student participation at the Energy and Society in Transition conference

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  • grantee: Council on Foreign Relations
    amount: $50,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2018

    To organize a workshop examining the economic, technical, regulatory and security impacts of climate risks on energy systems

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Amy Jaffe

    To organize a workshop examining the economic, technical, regulatory and security impacts of climate risks on energy systems

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  • grantee: Michigan Technological University
    amount: $49,963
    city: Houghton, MI
    year: 2018

    To support a multidisciplinary research project that scopes the feasibility of using decommissioned mines as underground pumped-storage hydropower

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Roman Sidortsov

    To support a multidisciplinary research project that scopes the feasibility of using decommissioned mines as underground pumped-storage hydropower

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  • grantee: University of Michigan
    amount: $249,284
    city: Ann Arbor, MI
    year: 2018

    To support a multidisciplinary research project that examines the impact of storage additions on transmission system frequency regulation

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Catherine Hausman

    To support a multidisciplinary research project that examines the impact of storage additions on transmission system frequency regulation

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