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 Virginia
    amount: $250,000
    city: Charlottesville, United States
    year: 2022

    To launch a Use Case Research Program that will help inform, test, and prioritize the design of a Curated Data Enterprise as envisioned by the Census Bureau

    • Program Research
    • Initiative Empirical Economic Research Enablers (EERE)
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Stephanie Shipp

    To launch a Use Case Research Program that will help inform, test, and prioritize the design of a Curated Data Enterprise as envisioned by the Census Bureau

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  • grantee: The University of Texas, Austin
    amount: $49,906
    city: Austin, United States
    year: 2022

    To assess the impact of residential building end-use electrification and demand response on the Texas grid

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Sergio Castellanos

    To assess the impact of residential building end-use electrification and demand response on the Texas grid

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  • grantee: Society for Science & the Public
    amount: $206,000
    city: Washington, United States
    year: 2022

    To support the production, publication and dissemination of two Science News series, one on underrepresented figures in science and one on promise and perils of neural implants

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program New Media
    • Investigator Nancy Shute

    To support the production, publication and dissemination of two Science News series, one on underrepresented figures in science and one on promise and perils of neural implants

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  • grantee: National Academy of Sciences
    amount: $200,000
    city: Washington, United States
    year: 2022

    To support the launch of the Roundtable on Mentorship, Well-being, and Professional Development in Higher Education and Scientific Research with a focus on graduate students and postdoctoral scholars

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Maria Dahlberg

    To support the launch of the Roundtable on Mentorship, Well-being, and Professional Development in Higher Education and Scientific Research with a focus on graduate students and postdoctoral scholars

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  • grantee: Bipartisan Policy Center
    amount: $240,000
    city: Washington, United States
    year: 2022

    To translate academic research on industrial policy into guides and options for policymakers

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Dane Stangler

    To translate academic research on industrial policy into guides and options for policymakers

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  • grantee: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
    amount: $250,000
    city: Atlanta, United States
    year: 2022

    To examine the historical development of power system optimization and control algorithms to inform understanding of the changing power grid

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Daniel Molzahn

    To examine the historical development of power system optimization and control algorithms to inform understanding of the changing power grid

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  • grantee: Anna Von Mertens
    amount: $50,000
    city: Peterborough, United States
    year: 2022

    To support the research and writing of "Attention is Discovery: The Life and Work of Henrietta Leavitt," to be published by MIT Press

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Anna Von Mertens

    To support the research and writing of "Attention is Discovery: The Life and Work of Henrietta Leavitt," to be published by MIT Press

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  • grantee: University of Central Florida Foundation
    amount: $249,984
    city: Orlando, United States
    year: 2022

    To increase the numbers and success rates of Latina/o/x STEM graduate students through Florida's Academic Consortium to Cultivate Engineering & Science Opportunities (ACCESO)

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator John Weishampel

    To increase the numbers and success rates of Latina/o/x STEM graduate students through Florida's Academic Consortium to Cultivate Engineering & Science Opportunities (ACCESO)

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  • grantee: Simon Parkin
    amount: $40,000
    city: Barnham, United Kingdom
    year: 2022

    To support the research and writing of "The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad," to be published by Scriber (Simon & Schuster) in the U.S., and Sceptre (Hodder & Stoughton) in the U.K.

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Simon Parkin

    To support the research and writing of "The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad," to be published by Scriber (Simon & Schuster) in the U.S., and Sceptre (Hodder & Stoughton) in the U.K.

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  • grantee: Carl Zimmer
    amount: $55,000
    city: Guilford, United States
    year: 2022

    To support the research and writing of "Air-Borne" by Carl Zimmer to be published by Dutton

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Carl Zimmer

    To support the research and writing of "Air-Borne" by Carl Zimmer to be published by Dutton

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