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 Southern California
    amount: $55,000
    city: Los Angeles, United States
    year: 2023

    To support Dr. Shaama Mallikarjun Sharada in a collaborative research project to explore the utilization of captured carbon dioxide as industrial feedstock, resulting from the 2022 Scialog conference on negative emissions science

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Shaama Mallikarjun Sharada

    To support Dr. Shaama Mallikarjun Sharada in a collaborative research project to explore the utilization of captured carbon dioxide as industrial feedstock, resulting from the 2022 Scialog conference on negative emissions science

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  • grantee: Scripps Research Institute
    amount: $55,000
    city: La Jolla, United States
    year: 2023

    To support Dr. Ahmed Badran in a collaborative research project to explore the utilization of captured carbon dioxide as industrial feedstock, resulting from the 2022 Scialog conference on negative emissions science

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Ahmed Badran

    To support Dr. Ahmed Badran in a collaborative research project to explore the utilization of captured carbon dioxide as industrial feedstock, resulting from the 2022 Scialog conference on negative emissions science

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  • grantee: Peter Westwick
    amount: $46,250
    city: Santa Barbara, CA
    year: 2023

    To support the research and writing of 'Engineering California: Science and Technology in the Golden State,' from Sutter’s Mill to Silicon Valley, to be published by Oxford University Press

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Peter Westwick

    To support the research and writing of 'Engineering California: Science and Technology in the Golden State,' from Sutter’s Mill to Silicon Valley, to be published by Oxford University Press

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  • grantee: Carnegie Mellon University
    amount: $250,000
    city: Pittsburgh, United States
    year: 2023

    To conduct research on industries, technologies, and interventions that are critical for enhancing U.S. global competitiveness

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

    To conduct research on industries, technologies, and interventions that are critical for enhancing U.S. global competitiveness

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  • grantee: PARPA, Inc.
    amount: $50,000
    city: Princeton, United States
    year: 2023

    To support a workshop on and comparison of different approaches to research roadmapping and program design

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology
    • Investigator Benjamin Reinhardt

    To support a workshop on and comparison of different approaches to research roadmapping and program design

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  • grantee: Julia Belluz
    amount: $60,000
    city: Vienna, Austria
    year: 2023

    To support the research and writing of Why We Eat, to be published by the Penguin in the US and Hachette in the UK in 2024

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Julia Belluz

    To support the research and writing of Why We Eat, to be published by the Penguin in the US and Hachette in the UK in 2024

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  • grantee: Roberta Kwok
    amount: $49,530
    city: Kirkland, United States
    year: 2023

    To support the research and writing of MINUTIAE: The Tiny Details That Scientists Pursue to Illuminate Big Questions to be published by Sourcebooks in 2025

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Roberta Kwok

    To support the research and writing of MINUTIAE: The Tiny Details That Scientists Pursue to Illuminate Big Questions to be published by Sourcebooks in 2025

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  • grantee: Lauren Elizabeth Oakes
    amount: $27,900
    city: Bozeman, United States
    year: 2023

    To support the research and writing of TREEKEEPERS, to be published by Basic Books in 2024

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Lauren Elizabeth Oakes

    To support the research and writing of TREEKEEPERS, to be published by Basic Books in 2024

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  • grantee: University of California, Santa Cruz
    amount: $49,998
    city: Santa Cruz, United States
    year: 2023

    To perform experiments that explore whether chiral molecules interacting with polarized radiation constitutes a plausible mechanism for the emergence of biological homochirality

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Matter-to-Life
    • Investigator Noemie Globus

    To perform experiments that explore whether chiral molecules interacting with polarized radiation constitutes a plausible mechanism for the emergence of biological homochirality

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  • grantee: Colorado State University
    amount: $50,000
    city: Fort Collins, CO
    year: 2023

    To further refine, implement, and disseminate the Boyer 2030 Commission Report, The Equity/Excellence Imperative: A 2030 Blueprint for Undergraduate Education at U.S. Research Universities, via a national symposium and edited volume

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Steven Dandaneau

    To further refine, implement, and disseminate the Boyer 2030 Commission Report, The Equity/Excellence Imperative: A 2030 Blueprint for Undergraduate Education at U.S. Research Universities, via a national symposium and edited volume

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