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 Washington
    amount: $31,538
    city: Seattle, WA
    year: 2009

    To supplement a previous grant for the Project to Access Climate in Engineering to derive maximum benefit from a newly-planned December 2010 meeting in Banff

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Suzanne Brainard

    To supplement a previous grant for the Project to Access Climate in Engineering to derive maximum benefit from a newly-planned December 2010 meeting in Banff

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  • grantee: Public Library of Science
    amount: $125,000
    city: San Francisco, CA
    year: 2009

    To launch online open access article collections for the Census of Marine Life and to prototype hubs as a new way to organize scientific literature for scholarly and public benefit

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Scholarly Communication
    • Investigator Peter Jerram

    To launch online open access article collections for the Census of Marine Life and to prototype hubs as a new way to organize scientific literature for scholarly and public benefit

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  • grantee: Council of Graduate Schools
    amount: $80,845
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2009

    To develop a national strategy for enhancing the Master's Degree completion in STEM disciplines

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Debra Stewart

    To develop a national strategy for enhancing the Master's Degree completion in STEM disciplines

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  • grantee: Harvard University
    amount: $25,000
    city: Cambridge, MA
    year: 2009

    To provide partial support for the 2009 Sloan-Swartz Meeting on Computational Neuroscience

    • Program Research
    • Investigator Markus Meister

    To provide partial support for the 2009 Sloan-Swartz Meeting on Computational Neuroscience

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  • grantee: American Museum of the Moving Image
    amount: $72,313
    city: Astoria, NY
    year: 2009

    To enhance the Sloan Film Program by showcasing winning films and filmmakers, holding annual events and creating a science and film web hub

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Film
    • Investigator Carl Goodman

    To enhance the Sloan Film Program by showcasing winning films and filmmakers, holding annual events and creating a science and film web hub

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  • grantee: Yale University
    amount: $45,000
    city: New Haven, CT
    year: 2009

    Support for the writing of a scientific memoir by Benoit Mandelbrot

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Michael Frame

    Support for the writing of a scientific memoir by Benoit Mandelbrot

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  • grantee: University of Pittsburgh
    amount: $300,000
    city: Pittsburgh, PA
    year: 2008

    To provide final financial support for Industry Studies Annual Conferences

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Frank Giarratani

    To provide final financial support for Industry Studies Annual Conferences

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  • grantee: Sloan Projects LLC
    amount: $2,500,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2008

    Co-production of a feature film and television broadcast about screen siren and unheralded inventor Hedy Lamarr (Program Related Investment)

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Film
    • Investigator Doron Weber

    Co-production of a feature film and television broadcast about screen siren and unheralded inventor Hedy Lamarr (Program Related Investment)

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  • grantee: Sundance Institute
    amount: $487,000
    city: Beverly Hills, CA
    year: 2008

    To support a program of S&T films, film panels and film fellowships at Sundance

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Film
    • Investigator Kenneth Brecher

    To support a program of S&T films, film panels and film fellowships at Sundance

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  • grantee: Science Festival Foundation
    amount: $650,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2008

    To support the development and production of the second World Science Festival

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program New Media
    • Investigator Judith Cox

    To support the development and production of the second World Science Festival

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