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: Columbia University
    amount: $250,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2014

    To determine the microflora of mice in proximity to densely populated and high-traffic areas in New York City

    • Program New York City Program
    • Investigator W. Lipkin

    Infectious disease expert Ian Lipkin, M.D., the John Snow Professor of Epidemiology and Director of the Center for Infection and Immunity at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University studied the microbial profiles of 133 rats in lower Manhattan and determined that they harbor multiple human pathogens.  This grant supports Lipkin as he expands this study to mice.  Lipkin will examine the microflora of 100 mice from each of 16 densely populated areas of New York City in order to determine what bacteria, fungi, and viruses are present in native NYC mice and whether the distribution of these microoganisms  differ by borough, season, or socioeconomic status of the surrounding human population.  The project has the potential to identify both known and novel pathogens in rodent vectors, provide insights into otherwise unexplained diseases by revealing links to infection with rodent-borne pathogens, and build support for rodent control.  The new knowledge will be shared through peer-reviewed publications and presentations at scientific and medical meetings.

    To determine the microflora of mice in proximity to densely populated and high-traffic areas in New York City

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  • grantee: The University of Chicago
    amount: $499,156
    city: Chicago, IL
    year: 2014

    To facilitate more efficient movement, management, and sharing of research data

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Data & Computational Research
    • Investigator Ian Foster

    One of the more surprising difficulties of working with big data—more than a few hundred gigabytes—is the sheer difficulty of moving it from place to place.  Though the price of cloud and local computing has dropped and the availability of bandwidth has increased, the standard protocols for transferring data over the Internet (http and ftp) simply start to break down at that scale.  Errors multiply, requiring laborious file integrity checking and repetitive restarting of transfer operations.  There is, as yet, no satisfactory solution to the simple yet thorny issue of moving meso? and larger scale data from one computer to another. Globus, a data management tool developed by a team at the University of Chicago’s Computation Institute, offers a promising solution to these problems, allowing the seamless transfer of large datasets with none of the drawbacks of existing methods.  The project is currently pivoting from support by grant funding to a sustainable nonprofit business model based on both individual and institutional subscriptions (and has already signed up six major universities as charter members).  However, it is facing a catch?22:  The team needs robust marketing and customer support capacity to build up a customer base, but without a customer base they will not have the funds to provide marketing and customer support.  Funds from this grant provide temporary bridge funding to the Globus platform, enabling the project to provide top quality service while it builds a customer base and moves towards independent sustainability.

    To facilitate more efficient movement, management, and sharing of research data

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  • grantee: University of Kansas
    amount: $124,999
    city: Lawrence, KS
    year: 2014

    To examine the data and literature on under-representation of women in Computer Science (CS) degrees and Information Technology (IT) careers

    • Program Higher Education
    • Initiative Professional Advancement of Underrepresented Groups
    • Investigator Donna Ginther

    To examine the data and literature on under-representation of women in Computer Science (CS) degrees and Information Technology (IT) careers

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  • grantee: Data & Society Research Institute
    amount: $10,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2014

    To organize and run a workshop on the social, cultural, and ethical dimensions of big data

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Data & Computational Research
    • Investigator Danah Boyd

    To organize and run a workshop on the social, cultural, and ethical dimensions of big data

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  • grantee: Illinois Institute of Technology
    amount: $25,447
    city: Chicago, IL
    year: 2014

    To support a May 2014 workshop: Building Science to Advance Research in the Microbiology of the Built Environment Program

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Microbiology of the Built Environment
    • Investigator Brent Stephens

    To support a May 2014 workshop: Building Science to Advance Research in the Microbiology of the Built Environment Program

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  • grantee: University of Colorado, Denver
    amount: $106,943
    city: Denver, CO
    year: 2014

    To map the political landscape of national politics on hydraulic fracturing in the United States and draw lessons between North America and Europe about the politics of hydraulic fracturing and the research methods for studying political systems

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Tanya Heikkila

    To map the political landscape of national politics on hydraulic fracturing in the United States and draw lessons between North America and Europe about the politics of hydraulic fracturing and the research methods for studying political systems

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  • grantee: University of Minnesota
    amount: $115,000
    city: Minneapolis, MN
    year: 2014

    To document a notable time period in the participation of women and computing through oral histories of middle-rank professional women employed by three major U.S. corporations

    • Program Higher Education
    • Initiative Professional Advancement of Underrepresented Groups
    • Investigator Thomas Misa

    To document a notable time period in the participation of women and computing through oral histories of middle-rank professional women employed by three major U.S. corporations

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  • grantee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    amount: $80,000
    city: Cambridge, MA
    year: 2014

    To organize and run a workshop on technical, practical, and research questions about big data privacy

    • Program Research
    • Initiative Empirical Economic Research Enablers (EERE)
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Daniel Weitzner

    To organize and run a workshop on technical, practical, and research questions about big data privacy

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  • grantee: New York University
    amount: $15,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2014

    To run a workshop and associated hack day on strategies and tools for cross-platform identity and contribution management in citizen science

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Data & Computational Research
    • Investigator Franзois Grey

    To run a workshop and associated hack day on strategies and tools for cross-platform identity and contribution management in citizen science

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  • grantee: International Energy Program Evaluation Conference
    amount: $20,000
    city: Chatham, MA
    year: 2014

    To accelerate and advance the profession of energy evaluation through instilling an interest in and connections to professional evaluation of energy programs and policies by enabling graduate students to attend the IEPPEC Conference at no charge

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Charles Michaelis

    To accelerate and advance the profession of energy evaluation through instilling an interest in and connections to professional evaluation of energy programs and policies by enabling graduate students to attend the IEPPEC Conference at no charge

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