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: Johns Hopkins University
    amount: $125,000
    city: Baltimore, MD
    year: 2014

    To amplify and accelerate data-driven research across Johns Hopkins University

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Data & Computational Research
    • Investigator Alexander Szalay

    To amplify and accelerate data-driven research across Johns Hopkins University

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  • grantee: Barnard College
    amount: $115,888
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2014

    To update the existing content and plan for an extensive renovation of the website, www.reducingstereotypethreat.org, to increase its effectiveness in reducing the experience and consequences of stereotype threat

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Steven Stroessner

    To update the existing content and plan for an extensive renovation of the website, www.reducingstereotypethreat.org, to increase its effectiveness in reducing the experience and consequences of stereotype threat

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  • grantee: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
    amount: $15,500
    city: Cold Spring Harbor, NY
    year: 2014

    To provide partial support for a workshop on enabling undergraduate research at the interface between high performance computing and genomics, genetics, and other areas of "big data" biology

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Microbiology of the Built Environment
    • Investigator David Micklos

    To provide partial support for a workshop on enabling undergraduate research at the interface between high performance computing and genomics, genetics, and other areas of "big data" biology

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  • grantee: J. Craig Venter Institute
    amount: $20,000
    city: Rockville, MD
    year: 2014

    To provide partial support for a training course in microbial ecology for early-career scientists

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Microbiology of the Built Environment
    • Investigator Barbara Methй

    To provide partial support for a training course in microbial ecology for early-career scientists

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  • grantee: Drexel University
    amount: $11,500
    city: Philadelphia, PA
    year: 2014

    To Support a workshop on data remediation and taxonomy strategies for cross-platform, citizen science inventory interoperability and geospatial and badging integrations

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Data & Computational Research
    • Investigator Youngmoo Kim

    To Support a workshop on data remediation and taxonomy strategies for cross-platform, citizen science inventory interoperability and geospatial and badging integrations

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  • grantee: University of Michigan
    amount: $125,000
    city: Ann Arbor, MI
    year: 2014

    To build institutional capacity in support of data science at the University of Michigan, and to increase understanding of the barriers to success of interdisciplinary data-centric research projects

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Data & Computational Research
    • Investigator Carl Lagoze

    To build institutional capacity in support of data science at the University of Michigan, and to increase understanding of the barriers to success of interdisciplinary data-centric research projects

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  • grantee: University of Washington
    amount: $45,987
    city: Seattle, WA
    year: 2014

    To write a review paper that identifies the reasons for women's underrepresentation in computing and provides recommendations for the most promising ways to remedy this underrepresentation

    • Program Higher Education
    • Initiative Professional Advancement of Underrepresented Groups
    • Investigator Sapna Cheryan

    To write a review paper that identifies the reasons for women's underrepresentation in computing and provides recommendations for the most promising ways to remedy this underrepresentation

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  • grantee: Georgia Institute of Technology
    amount: $23,386
    city: Atlanta, GA
    year: 2014

    To identify and analyze existing data and trends on women faculty in computing; 2) identify and analyze the relevant research literature; and 3) identify and characterize the organizations that support women as faculty in computing.

    • Program Higher Education
    • Initiative Professional Advancement of Underrepresented Groups
    • Investigator Mary Fox

    To identify and analyze existing data and trends on women faculty in computing; 2) identify and analyze the relevant research literature; and 3) identify and characterize the organizations that support women as faculty in computing.

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  • grantee: Computing Research Association
    amount: $33,840
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2014

    To gain insight into the representation of women in the computing field through an in-depth analysis of available data from key national surveys, with emphasis on trends in women's representation at different educational levels and different areas.

    • Program Higher Education
    • Initiative Professional Advancement of Underrepresented Groups
    • Investigator Stuart Zweben

    To gain insight into the representation of women in the computing field through an in-depth analysis of available data from key national surveys, with emphasis on trends in women's representation at different educational levels and different areas.

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  • grantee: University of California, Berkeley
    amount: $29,800
    city: Berkeley, CA
    year: 2014

    To bring together world-renowned energy economists to discuss and explore new research ideas on energy markets

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Lucas Davis

    To bring together world-renowned energy economists to discuss and explore new research ideas on energy markets

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