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: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    amount: $50,000
    city: Cambridge, MA
    year: 2013

    To support a two-day workshop on the changing face of public science engagement and potential research in this area

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program New Media
    • Investigator David Kaiser

    To support a two-day workshop on the changing face of public science engagement and potential research in this area

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  • grantee: ARTstor, Inc.
    amount: $17,451
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2013

    To support a planning meeting on potential uses of ARTstor in image-based natural sciences

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Data & Computational Research
    • Investigator James Shulman

    To support a planning meeting on potential uses of ARTstor in image-based natural sciences

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  • grantee: Boston Symphony Orchestra
    amount: $122,280
    city: Boston, MA
    year: 2013

    To support the development of an open source web interface that links historical performance data with digitized programs and other archival material

    • Program Technology
    • Investigator Bridget Carr

    To support the development of an open source web interface that links historical performance data with digitized programs and other archival material

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  • grantee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    amount: $20,000
    city: Cambridge, MA
    year: 2013

    To explore new methods for funding scientific research

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

    To explore new methods for funding scientific research

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  • grantee: National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, Inc.
    amount: $3,835,000
    city: White Plains, NY
    year: 2013

    To cover expected obligations to be incurred by NACME to provide phase 1 transitional support for the Sloan MPHD program as campus programs compete for new multi-year grants for University Centers of Exemplary Mentoring or Programs of Exemplary Mentoring

    • Program Higher Education
    • Initiative Minority Ph.D.
    • Investigator Aileen Walter

    To cover expected obligations to be incurred by NACME to provide phase 1 transitional support for the Sloan MPHD program as campus programs compete for new multi-year grants for University Centers of Exemplary Mentoring or Programs of Exemplary Mentoring

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  • grantee: Yale University
    amount: $49,336
    city: New Haven, CT
    year: 2013

    To examine how building moisture influences fungal and bacterial ecology in house dust

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Microbiology of the Built Environment
    • Investigator Jordan Peccia

    To examine how building moisture influences fungal and bacterial ecology in house dust

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  • grantee: National Academy of Sciences
    amount: $17,886
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2013

    To provide partial support for a scoping meeting to examine fundamental shifts in life science

    • Program Research
    • Investigator Katherine Bowman

    To provide partial support for a scoping meeting to examine fundamental shifts in life science

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  • grantee: Northwestern University
    amount: $77,947
    city: Evanston, IL
    year: 2013

    To support a landscape survey and workshop on data sharing from research using technological tools to study human behavior in digital environments

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Scholarly Communication
    • Investigator Eszter Hargittai

    To support a landscape survey and workshop on data sharing from research using technological tools to study human behavior in digital environments

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  • grantee: Finance Flows, Inc
    amount: $20,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2013

    To establish a non-profit designed to launch and administer a 2 year fellowship work program re-employing older (50+) senior managers in multiple New York City metro area industries

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Working Longer
    • Investigator Joan Biermann

    To establish a non-profit designed to launch and administer a 2 year fellowship work program re-employing older (50+) senior managers in multiple New York City metro area industries

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  • grantee: Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities
    amount: $74,865
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2013

    To examine the need and value of establishing a robust network and communication among university-based STEM Education Centers to contribute to transforming undergraduate science, technology, engineering and mathematics education

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Noah Finkelstein

    To examine the need and value of establishing a robust network and communication among university-based STEM Education Centers to contribute to transforming undergraduate science, technology, engineering and mathematics education

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