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

2,961 Grants
Grantee
Amount
City
Year
  • grantee: Yale University
    amount: $25,000
    city: New Haven, CT
    year: 2013

    As support for the research and writing of a book and an associated website on the formation and development of the human embryo with 70 visual metaphors to illustrate basic concepts

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Ben-Zion Shilo

    As support for the research and writing of a book and an associated website on the formation and development of the human embryo with 70 visual metaphors to illustrate basic concepts

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  • grantee: Gino Segre
    amount: $16,100
    city: Philadelphia, PA
    year: 2013

    Support for the research and writing of a biography of physicist Enrico Fermi

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Gino Segre

    Support for the research and writing of a biography of physicist Enrico Fermi

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  • grantee: Stuart Firestein
    amount: $40,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2013

    Support for the research and writing of a book on failure and its role in science for the general public

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Stuart Firestein

    Support for the research and writing of a book on failure and its role in science for the general public

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  • grantee: Christie Wilcox
    amount: $25,000
    city:  
    year: 2013

    Support for the research and writing of a comprehensive science blogging guide for writers of all experience levels

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Bora Zickovic

    Support for the research and writing of a comprehensive science blogging guide for writers of all experience levels

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  • grantee: George Washington University
    amount: $109,250
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2013

    To run four popular seminars where a variety of experts help explain the Federal Reserve System to the public

    • Program Research
    • Initiative Economic Implications of the Great Recession (EIGR)
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Paul Berman

    To run four popular seminars where a variety of experts help explain the Federal Reserve System to the public

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  • grantee: Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics
    amount: $45,000
    city: Alexandria, VA
    year: 2013

    To facilitate access to federal administrative data by social science researchers

    • Program Research
    • Initiative Empirical Economic Research Enablers (EERE)
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Katherine Smith

    To facilitate access to federal administrative data by social science researchers

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  • grantee: North Carolina State University
    amount: $81,951
    city: Raleigh, NC
    year: 2013

    To better understand the research on how employees respond to individuals desiring to work longer

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Working Longer
    • Investigator Robert Clark

    To better understand the research on how employees respond to individuals desiring to work longer

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  • grantee: Illinois Institute of Technology
    amount: $120,000
    city: Chicago, IL
    year: 2013

    To study indoor bioaerosol fate, transport and control: Implications for infectious disease transmission

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Microbiology of the Built Environment
    • Investigator Stephanie Kunkel

    To study indoor bioaerosol fate, transport and control: Implications for infectious disease transmission

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  • grantee: New York University
    amount: $20,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2013

    To provide support to the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World in expanding audiences and building engagement for a traveling exhibition exploring the scientific, technological, and cultural roots of time reckoning and our understanding of time

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program New Media
    • Investigator Jennifer Chi

    To provide support to the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World in expanding audiences and building engagement for a traveling exhibition exploring the scientific, technological, and cultural roots of time reckoning and our understanding of time

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  • grantee: University of Pennsylvania
    amount: $15,000
    city: Philadelphia, PA
    year: 2013

    To enable 25 graduate students and international scholars to attend the WFRN 2014 conference

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Working Longer
    • Investigator Jerry Jacobs

    To enable 25 graduate students and international scholars to attend the WFRN 2014 conference

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