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: 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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  • grantee: Boston College
    amount: $124,950
    city: Chestnut Hill, MA
    year: 2014

    To determine the feasibility of creating a sustainable multidisciplinary aging and work research network

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Working Longer
    • Investigator Jacquelyn James

    To determine the feasibility of creating a sustainable multidisciplinary aging and work research network

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  • grantee: University of Texas, Austin
    amount: $50,000
    city: Austin, TX
    year: 2014

    To produce a 5- to 7-minute demo reel and revised treatment for a 6-part PBS series "Energy at the Movies"

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Television
    • Investigator Michael Webber

    To produce a 5- to 7-minute demo reel and revised treatment for a 6-part PBS series "Energy at the Movies"

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  • grantee: Open Space Institute
    amount: $20,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2014

    To identify and employ the most appropriate technology to equip the performance space at Riverbank State Park to better serve the Harlem community

    • Program
    • Investigator Erik Kulleseid

    To identify and employ the most appropriate technology to equip the performance space at Riverbank State Park to better serve the Harlem community

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  • grantee: University of California, Berkeley
    amount: $78,172
    city: Berkeley, CA
    year: 2014

    To conduct a workshop on one of the decadal questions of the Deep Carbon Observatory, “Is the net flux of carbon into or out of Earth?”

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Deep Carbon Observatory
    • Investigator Barbara Romanowicz

    To conduct a workshop on one of the decadal questions of the Deep Carbon Observatory, “Is the net flux of carbon into or out of Earth?”

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  • grantee: Industrial Organizational Society, Inc.
    amount: $20,000
    city: East Lansing, MI
    year: 2014

    To support graduate student presentations at the International Industrial Organization Conference

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Joseph Harrington

    To support graduate student presentations at the International Industrial Organization Conference

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  • grantee: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
    amount: $75,000
    city: Piscataway, NJ
    year: 2014

    To organize and conduct the second international workshop of early career scientists involved in the Deep Carbon Observatory

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Deep Carbon Observatory
    • Investigator Donato Giovannelli

    To organize and conduct the second international workshop of early career scientists involved in the Deep Carbon Observatory

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  • grantee: University of California, Davis
    amount: $120,000
    city: Davis, CA
    year: 2014

    To examine the role of the built environment as a venue for microbial cross inoculation between infants

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Microbiology of the Built Environment
    • Investigator Zachery Lewis

    To examine the role of the built environment as a venue for microbial cross inoculation between infants

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