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: University of California, San Diego
    amount: $25,000
    city: La Jolla, CA
    year: 2012

    To provide partial support for the 2012 Sloan-Swartz Annual Meeting on Computational Neuroscience

    • Program Research
    • Investigator Terrence Sejnowski

    To provide partial support for the 2012 Sloan-Swartz Annual Meeting on Computational Neuroscience

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  • grantee: American Society for Microbiology
    amount: $81,905
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2012

    To support a colloquium on the microbiology of the drinking water distribution system

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Microbiology of the Built Environment
    • Investigator Ann Reid

    To support a colloquium on the microbiology of the drinking water distribution system

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  • grantee: Mozilla Foundation
    amount: $124,625
    city: Mountain View, CA
    year: 2012

    To prototype online resources to teach software engineering best practices to scientists, and to explore and develop models for training within academic institutions

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Data & Computational Research
    • Investigator Matthew Thompson

    To prototype online resources to teach software engineering best practices to scientists, and to explore and develop models for training within academic institutions

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  • grantee: George Washington University
    amount: $19,972
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2012

    To identify key data sources and plan two conferences on a future research agenda for student learning, persistence, and success, with a special focus on underrepresented minorities and women, in STEM postsecondary education

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Michael Feuer

    To identify key data sources and plan two conferences on a future research agenda for student learning, persistence, and success, with a special focus on underrepresented minorities and women, in STEM postsecondary education

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  • grantee: St. Olaf College
    amount: $19,500
    city: Northfield, MN
    year: 2011

    To develop a new community of practice on evidenced? based design for the planning of undergraduate learning spaces

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Jeanne Narum

    To develop a new community of practice on evidenced? based design for the planning of undergraduate learning spaces

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  • grantee: East Carolina University
    amount: $1,499,989
    city: Greenville, NC
    year: 2011

    To develop the Deep Carbon Observatory's Deep Life Directorate

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Deep Carbon Observatory
    • Investigator Matthew Schrenk

    Established in June 2009, the Deep Carbon Observatory (DCO) aims to address two fundamental issues: the origins, abundance, and distribution of hydrocarbons (including so-called fossil fuels) and the origins of life, for which carbon is the key element. The DCO has organized itself into four "directorates", each tasked with executing a different element of the DCO's ambitious research agenda. In October 2010, the Foundation supported the launch of the DCO's first directorate, on deep life. Funds from this two-year grant will provide support for the continuation and expansion of this directorate's research agenda. The overarching theme of the Deep Life Directorate is understanding microbial transformations in rock-hosted deep subsurface habitats. Over the next two years, researchers organized by the directorate plan to survey the extent and diversity of subsurface microbial communities, catalogue microbial activities relative to their environmental context, and identify relationships between deep subsurface microbial processes and carbon fluxes. Several innovative approaches are planned. For example, Deep Life researchers will lower incubation chambers filled with pre-characterized mineral substrates into boreholes and fracture systems and then observe and measure what ensues. In surface labs, researchers will examine cells that tolerate temperatures above 100 degrees centigrade and pressures approaching 20,000 atmospheres.

    To develop the Deep Carbon Observatory's Deep Life Directorate

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  • grantee: Tribeca Film Institute
    amount: $749,990
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2011

    To develop new science and technology films for production and to showcase science and technology films and hold panels and readings at Tribeca

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Film
    • Investigator Beth Janson

    Funds from this grant provide two years of funding to the Tribeca Film Institute for its ongoing efforts to support films and filmmakers that explore scientific and technological themes. With Sloan Foundation support, the Institute will annually award up to $140,000, in grants from $10,000 to $40,000, to compelling narrative filmmaking that explores scientific, mathematical, and technological themes and storylines, or that features a leading character who is a scientist, engineer, innovator or mathematician. In addition to such financial support, Tribeca provides selected filmmakers with professional guidance and mentorship, including project notes, networking assistance, and exposure to financing and distribution executives. Funds from this grant also support a series of high profile events at the Tribeca Film Festival, including a screening and discussion series, readings of in-progress scripts exploring scientific and technological themes, and an awards ceremony and reception honoring winning filmmakers.

    To develop new science and technology films for production and to showcase science and technology films and hold panels and readings at Tribeca

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  • grantee: Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation
    amount: $463,426
    city: Brookline, MA
    year: 2011

    To support Coolidge Corner Theatre's Science on Screen series and expand it with small grants to 40 theaters nationwide

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Film
    • Investigator Denise Kasell

    In 2010, the Foundation supported a pilot program based at the Coolidge Corner Theatre to support film screenings and subsequent science discussions at art house theaters across the country. That effort, Science on Screen, was successfully piloted at eight independent theaters across the country. Funds from this grant will enable the series to be expanded to include up to 40 theaters over the next two years. Coolidge will prepare a syllabus that includes film programming suggestions, speakers, case studies, and marketing and outreach guidelines and will conduct a major outreach seminar at the Art House Convergence, the largest gathering of art house cinema managers in the country, which convenes annually just before the Sundance Film Festival. Independent theaters who successfully apply to be part of the Coolidge effort will receive $7,000 stipends to help create their own Science on Screen series, which must include a minimum of three screenings or science-themed events during the year. In addition, Coolidge will coordinate a national Science on Screen day, organizing same-day screenings at all participating theaters.

    To support Coolidge Corner Theatre's Science on Screen series and expand it with small grants to 40 theaters nationwide

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  • grantee: Brooklyn Academy of Music
    amount: $600,000
    city: Brooklyn, NY
    year: 2011

    To produce a feature-length documentary on Robert Wilson and Philip Glass's historic opera, Einstein on the Beach, and distribute it for international theatrical release and domestic television broadcast

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Television
    • Investigator Karen Hopkins

    Funds from this grant to the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) will support the development, production, and broadcast of a feature-length documentary on the Philip Glass opera, Einstein on the Beach. The documentary will explore the intersection of Einstein's life and legacy with the making of the opera.

    To produce a feature-length documentary on Robert Wilson and Philip Glass's historic opera, Einstein on the Beach, and distribute it for international theatrical release and domestic television broadcast

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  • grantee: Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc.
    amount: $1,500,000
    city: Arlington, VA
    year: 2011

    For high quality on-air and online coverage on PBS's NewsHour to enhance economic and financial literacy

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Television
    • Investigator Linda Winslow

    This grant provides continued support for enhanced coverage of economic and financial topics on The PBS NewsHour. Through its recurring weekly segment, Making Sen$e with Paul Solman, the NewsHour aims to produce and broadcast at least 60 on-air segments over the next two years covering economic and financial topics. Additional funds from this grant will support a host of complementary web activities, including the production of at least 60 web-only videos on economic topics, continued operation of an online "Q&A desk" where Solman answers questions from readers, the development of a free iPad app allowing iPad users to easily access NewsHour economics content, and the production of syllabi, lesson plans, and other materials to facilitate the use of NewsHour segments in American classrooms.

    For high quality on-air and online coverage on PBS's NewsHour to enhance economic and financial literacy

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