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: Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences
    amount: $50,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2023

    To support participation by academic and nonprofit-based social scientists at Social Science Foo Camp

    • Program Technology
    • Initiative Virtual Collaboration initiative
    • Sub-program Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology
    • Investigator Erika Isaly

    To support participation by academic and nonprofit-based social scientists at Social Science Foo Camp

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  • grantee: Brookings Institution
    amount: $250,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2023

    To convene experts for different sectors of the U.S. Care Economy and identify priority research questions in each area

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Tara Watson

    To convene experts for different sectors of the U.S. Care Economy and identify priority research questions in each area

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  • grantee: University of Colorado, Boulder
    amount: $249,651
    city: Boulder, CO
    year: 2023

    To transform existing systems and establish new infrastructure to facilitate opportunity and success for graduate students from historically marginalized backgrounds

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator E. Scott Adler

    To transform existing systems and establish new infrastructure to facilitate opportunity and success for graduate students from historically marginalized backgrounds

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  • grantee: University of Wisconsin, Madison
    amount: $249,912
    city: Madison, WI
    year: 2023

    To transform the graduate student experience by fostering collaborative engagement within and across STEM departments to build a multi-layered, cohort-based community of peers and mentors

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator William J. Karpus

    To transform the graduate student experience by fostering collaborative engagement within and across STEM departments to build a multi-layered, cohort-based community of peers and mentors

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  • grantee: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
    amount: $247,812
    city: Las Vegas, NV
    year: 2023

    To develop an infrastructure that increases diversity, fosters inclusion, and closes equity gaps among Ph.D. students in the physical sciences and engineering

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Alyssa Crittenden

    To develop an infrastructure that increases diversity, fosters inclusion, and closes equity gaps among Ph.D. students in the physical sciences and engineering

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  • grantee: Dartmouth College
    amount: $248,377
    city: Hanover, NH
    year: 2023

    To fund dissertation fellowships for PhD candidates to work on policy-relevant economics research within independent or support agencies such as the Congressional Budget Office

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Heidi Williams

    To fund dissertation fellowships for PhD candidates to work on policy-relevant economics research within independent or support agencies such as the Congressional Budget Office

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  • grantee: Lost Women of Science Initiative, Inc.
    amount: $236,371
    city: San Francisco, CA
    year: 2023

    To research, produce, and release 8-12 episodes of Lost Women of Science to tell in-depth stories of overlooked women in STEM throughout history

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Radio
    • Investigator Katie Hafner

    To research, produce, and release 8-12 episodes of Lost Women of Science to tell in-depth stories of overlooked women in STEM throughout history

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  • grantee: Open Collective Foundation
    amount: $605,000
    city: Walnut, CA
    year: 2023

    To support research on the building, deployment, and maintenance of open digital infrastructure

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Better Software for Science
    • Investigator Katharina Meyer

    To support research on the building, deployment, and maintenance of open digital infrastructure

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  • grantee: Leigh Ann Henion
    amount: $44,991
    city: Boone, NC
    year: 2023

    To support the research and writing of The Wilderness of Possibility: A Journey to Appreciate the Living Marvels of Darkness to be published by Algonquin in 2025

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Leigh Ann Henion

    To support the research and writing of The Wilderness of Possibility: A Journey to Appreciate the Living Marvels of Darkness to be published by Algonquin in 2025

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  • grantee: Charles Piller
    amount: $50,000
    city: Oakland, CA
    year: 2023

    To support the research and writing of DOCTORED: Fakery, Hubris, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer’s to be published by Simon & Schuster

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Charles Piller

    To support the research and writing of DOCTORED: Fakery, Hubris, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer’s to be published by Simon & Schuster

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