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

2,950 Grants
Grantee
Amount
City
Year
  • grantee: Council on Library and Information Resources
    amount: $1,299,616
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2013

    To support two cohorts of data curation postdoctoral fellows, in order to develop emerging leaders in the field and encourage permanent staffing solutions within academic libraries

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Data & Computational Research
    • Investigator Charles Henry

    This grant provides support for the expansion of a successful postdoctoral fellowship program run by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The program aims to help academic libraries provide a new set of services that support data- and computation-intensive research through funding postdoctoral fellows devoted to data management and curation in the natural and social sciences. Grant funds will provide salary support to two cohorts of fellows (ten in 2013 and 12 in 2014) as well as various support and training activities such as professional training, travel, and networking with other data curation professionals.

    To support two cohorts of data curation postdoctoral fellows, in order to develop emerging leaders in the field and encourage permanent staffing solutions within academic libraries

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  • grantee: Council on Foundations, Inc.
    amount: $45,000
    city: Arlington, VA
    year: 2013

    To support work on behalf of the nonprofit and charitable community

    • Program
    • Investigator Vikki Spruill

    To support work on behalf of the nonprofit and charitable community

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  • grantee: American Academy of Arts and Sciences
    amount: $50,000
    city: Cambridge, MA
    year: 2013

    To advance thinking about how the nation can improve policy making in areas related to science and technology. It will draw on the best thinking of a distinguished committee to produce recommendations to sustain interest and implement key...

    • Program
    • Investigator Neal Lane

    To advance thinking about how the nation can improve policy making in areas related to science and technology. It will draw on the best thinking of a distinguished committee to produce recommendations to sustain interest and implement key...

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  • grantee: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
    amount: $70,000
    city: Blacksburg, VA
    year: 2013

    To determine whether participation in targeted programming can encourage development of innovative thinking skills and if in doing so, facilitate retention to degree among engineering undergraduates

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Bevlee Watford

    To determine whether participation in targeted programming can encourage development of innovative thinking skills and if in doing so, facilitate retention to degree among engineering undergraduates

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

    To provide support for editing an educational video about financial innovation, markets, and regulation so that it meets WNET/PBS guidelines for broadcasting

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Bruce Kogut

    To provide support for editing an educational video about financial innovation, markets, and regulation so that it meets WNET/PBS guidelines for broadcasting

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  • grantee: Technology Affinity Group
    amount: $5,000
    city: Wayne, PA
    year: 2013

    For 2013 Membership Dues

    • Program
    • Investigator Lisa Pool

    For 2013 Membership Dues

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  • grantee: Dartmouth College
    amount: $13,075
    city: Hanover, NH
    year: 2013

    To incorporate and improve MathOverflow, an open question-and-answer exchange site for mathematicians

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Scholarly Communication
    • Investigator Francois Dorais

    To incorporate and improve MathOverflow, an open question-and-answer exchange site for mathematicians

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  • grantee: Robert Kanigel
    amount: $50,000
    city: Cambridge, MA
    year: 2013

    To research and write a biography of Jane Jacobs

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Robert Kanigel

    To research and write a biography of Jane Jacobs

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  • grantee: Catherine Price LLC
    amount: $50,675
    city: Philadelphia, PA
    year: 2013

    For support for travel and research on a book about the science and history of vitamins

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Catherine Price

    For support for travel and research on a book about the science and history of vitamins

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  • grantee: Tribeca Film Institute
    amount: $100,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2013

    For support for research and writing of a treatment and first draft of a mini-series about Hedy Lamarr based on Richard Rhodes’s book

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Television
    • Investigator Natalie Mooallem

    For support for research and writing of a treatment and first draft of a mini-series about Hedy Lamarr based on Richard Rhodes’s book

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