Grants Database

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

3,133 Grants
Grantee
Amount
City
Year
  • grantee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    amount: $124,718
    city: Cambridge, MA
    year: 2015

    To catalogue promising but underfunded opportunities for investing in scientific research

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

    To catalogue promising but underfunded opportunities for investing in scientific research

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  • grantee: National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    amount: $19,472
    city: Cambridge, MA
    year: 2015

    To support a pre-conference as part of a larger project to better understand the retirement and work prospects of women by connecting events in their early adult lives to their later employment histories

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Working Longer
    • Investigator Claudia Goldin

    To support a pre-conference as part of a larger project to better understand the retirement and work prospects of women by connecting events in their early adult lives to their later employment histories

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  • grantee: University of Cincinnati
    amount: $110,000
    city: Cincinnati, OH
    year: 2015

    To support scientific exchange with research groups in Finland and neighboring countries

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Microbiology of the Built Environment
    • Investigator Tiina Reponen

    To support scientific exchange with research groups in Finland and neighboring countries

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  • grantee: Fedcap Rehabilitation Services Inc
    amount: $124,828
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2015

    To design and pilot a staffing agency focused on placing experienced workers age 55+ in part and full time jobs at market wages and to ensure that the business model for this staffing agency has the potential for achieving solvency within two years

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Working Longer
    • Investigator Lorrie Lutz

    To design and pilot a staffing agency focused on placing experienced workers age 55+ in part and full time jobs at market wages and to ensure that the business model for this staffing agency has the potential for achieving solvency within two years

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  • grantee: Harvard University
    amount: $110,130
    city: Cambridge, MA
    year: 2015

    To examine the efficiency, cost effectiveness, and fiscal impacts of implementing multiple, overlapping renewable energy policy instruments

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Joseph Aldy

    To examine the efficiency, cost effectiveness, and fiscal impacts of implementing multiple, overlapping renewable energy policy instruments

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  • grantee: University of Colorado, Boulder
    amount: $35,612
    city: Boulder, CO
    year: 2015

    To disseminate key results from the Sloan Microbiology of the Built Environment Program at Healthy Buildings 2015 America

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Microbiology of the Built Environment
    • Investigator Shelly Miller

    To disseminate key results from the Sloan Microbiology of the Built Environment Program at Healthy Buildings 2015 America

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  • grantee: Digital Public Library of America, Inc.
    amount: $124,919
    city: Cambridge, MA
    year: 2015

    To help the DPLA launch a new nationwide service bringing together libraries and publishers to provide children with free ebooks

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Universal Access to Knowledge
    • Investigator Daniel Cohen

    To help the DPLA launch a new nationwide service bringing together libraries and publishers to provide children with free ebooks

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  • grantee: University of Iowa
    amount: $105,000
    city: Iowa City, IA
    year: 2015

    To increase the number of students from underrepresented groups who earn doctoral degrees in the mathematical sciences

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Phil Kutzko

    To increase the number of students from underrepresented groups who earn doctoral degrees in the mathematical sciences

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  • grantee: Hypothesis Project
    amount: $20,000
    city: San Francisco, CA
    year: 2014

    To partially support the 2015 IAnnotate workshop on current and future directions for web annotation

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Scholarly Communication
    • Investigator Dan Whaley

    To partially support the 2015 IAnnotate workshop on current and future directions for web annotation

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  • grantee: Yale University
    amount: $25,000
    city: New Haven, CT
    year: 2014

    As support for supplementary images, drawings and video in an interdisciplinary course book on physics and dance

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Emily Coates

    As support for supplementary images, drawings and video in an interdisciplinary course book on physics and dance

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