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: Fisk University
    amount: $24,998
    city: Nashville, TN
    year: 2025

    To complete data analysis and disseminate findings of a study examining the factors and experiences that inform Black students’ entry into computational careers

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Qingxia Li

    To complete data analysis and disseminate findings of a study examining the factors and experiences that inform Black students’ entry into computational careers

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  • grantee: Stanford University
    amount: $1,110,520
    city: Stanford, CA
    year: 2025

    To increase access to and success within economics doctoral education for students from low-income and first generation to college backgrounds

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Peter Henry

    To increase access to and success within economics doctoral education for students from low-income and first generation to college backgrounds

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  • grantee: Amalgamated Foundation
    amount: $250,000
    city: DC, DC
    year: 2025

    To support proposals submitted to Higher Education Forward in response to RFPs on effective communication related to equity, academic freedom, and democratic principles in higher education, to be managed by Amalgamated Foundation

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Zakiya Smith Ellis

    To support proposals submitted to Higher Education Forward in response to RFPs on effective communication related to equity, academic freedom, and democratic principles in higher education, to be managed by Amalgamated Foundation

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  • grantee: University of Michigan
    amount: $499,469
    city: Ann Arbor, MI
    year: 2025

    To provide support to the SEISMIC community as it works toward sustainable, structural change to foundational STEM courses at institutions across the nation

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Timothy McKay

    To provide support to the SEISMIC community as it works toward sustainable, structural change to foundational STEM courses at institutions across the nation

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  • grantee: Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute
    amount: $249,984
    city: Berkeley, CA
    year: 2025

    To provide opportunities for U.S. mathematicians to conduct collaborative research on topics at the forefront of the mathematical and statistical sciences

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Tatiana Toro

    To provide opportunities for U.S. mathematicians to conduct collaborative research on topics at the forefront of the mathematical and statistical sciences

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  • grantee: University of California, Merced
    amount: $150,000
    city: Merced, CA
    year: 2025

    To understand the impact of legal and policy restrictions on access and opportunity in STEM higher education

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Laura Hamilton

    To understand the impact of legal and policy restrictions on access and opportunity in STEM higher education

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  • grantee: University of Arizona
    amount: $49,769
    city: Tucson, AZ
    year: 2025

    To collect, preserve, and disseminate learnings from the National Science Foundation ADVANCE Program

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Beth Mitchneck

    To collect, preserve, and disseminate learnings from the National Science Foundation ADVANCE Program

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  • grantee: Teachers College, Columbia University
    amount: $249,408
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2025

    To examine opportunities to strengthen community college student pathways to STEM bachelor’s and graduate degrees

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Thomas Brock

    To examine opportunities to strengthen community college student pathways to STEM bachelor’s and graduate degrees

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  • grantee: University of Illinois at Chicago
    amount: $47,572
    city: Chicago, IL
    year: 2025

    To create a virtual and in-person convening and resource sharing space for STEM education researchers

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Terrell Morton

    To create a virtual and in-person convening and resource sharing space for STEM education researchers

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  • grantee: The Foundation for City College
    amount: $499,408
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2025

    To provide community college students with growth-oriented, multi-institutional pathways to STEM graduate education within the CUNY system

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Isabel Estrada

    To provide community college students with growth-oriented, multi-institutional pathways to STEM graduate education within the CUNY system

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