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: San Diego State University
    amount: $125,000
    city: San Diego, CA
    year: 2011

    To conduct a pilot study to examine workplace environments using viral metagenomic analysis

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Microbiology of the Built Environment
    • Investigator Scott Kelley

    To conduct a pilot study to examine workplace environments using viral metagenomic analysis

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  • grantee: American Physical Society
    amount: $18,900
    city: College Park, MD
    year: 2011

    To increase awareness of the contributions to physics of women physicists

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Theodore Hodapp

    To increase awareness of the contributions to physics of women physicists

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  • grantee: Smithsonian Institution
    amount: $60,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2011

    To conduct international dialogues, especially for the Americas, and related activities to explore the feasibility of an international academic network for measurement and monitoring of the world's forests

    • Program Research
    • Initiative Forests
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Leonard Hirsch

    To conduct international dialogues, especially for the Americas, and related activities to explore the feasibility of an international academic network for measurement and monitoring of the world's forests

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  • grantee: University of Leeds
    amount: $60,000
    city: Leeds, United Kingdom
    year: 2011

    To conduct international, especially European, dialogues and related activities to explore the feasibility of an international academic network for measurement and monitoring of the world's forests

    • Program Research
    • Initiative Forests
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Alan Grainger

    To conduct international, especially European, dialogues and related activities to explore the feasibility of an international academic network for measurement and monitoring of the world's forests

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  • grantee: The Internet Archive
    amount: $58,828
    city: San Francisco, CA
    year: 2011

    To support a summit on Linked Open Data in Libraries, Archives, and Museums (LOD-LAM), as well as dissemination of proceedings and outreach around pilot use cases

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Data & Computational Research
    • Investigator Kris Negulescu

    To support a summit on Linked Open Data in Libraries, Archives, and Museums (LOD-LAM), as well as dissemination of proceedings and outreach around pilot use cases

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  • grantee: Azavea, Inc.
    amount: $124,916
    city: Philadelphia, PA
    year: 2011

    To ready public mapping prototype software for open use in the redistricting process

    • Program Technology
    • Investigator Robert Cheetham

    To ready public mapping prototype software for open use in the redistricting process

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  • grantee: Ed Regis
    amount: $40,800
    city: Sabillasville, MD
    year: 2011

    For research and writing of a book on genomic engineering with George Church

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Ed Regis

    For research and writing of a book on genomic engineering with George Church

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  • grantee: Michigan State University
    amount: $49,900
    city: East Lansing, MI
    year: 2011

    To produce an edited volume and build a community of international scholars focused on an international comparative analysis of the impact of working-time configurations on older workers

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Working Longer
    • Investigator Peter Berg

    To produce an edited volume and build a community of international scholars focused on an international comparative analysis of the impact of working-time configurations on older workers

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  • grantee: WNET
    amount: $45,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2011

    To produce and broadcast three 30-minute Open Mind interviews on aging and work

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Working Longer
    • Investigator Richard Heffner

    To produce and broadcast three 30-minute Open Mind interviews on aging and work

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  • grantee: American Chemical Society
    amount: $63,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2010

    To fund a survey of graduate student life and career prospects in the chemical sciences

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Mary Kirchhoff

    To fund a survey of graduate student life and career prospects in the chemical sciences

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