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: Cornell University
    amount: $50,000
    city: Ithaca, NY
    year: 2023

    To support the research and writing of Choices and Consequences in Computing, to be published by the Princeton University Press in 2024

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Karen Levy

    To support the research and writing of Choices and Consequences in Computing, to be published by the Princeton University Press in 2024

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  • grantee: Natalie Lampert
    amount: $35,000
    city: Pine, CO
    year: 2023

    To support the research and writing of The Big Freeze: A Reporter’s Journey into the Quest to Control Fertility, to be published by Penguin Random House in 2024

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Natalie Lampert

    To support the research and writing of The Big Freeze: A Reporter’s Journey into the Quest to Control Fertility, to be published by Penguin Random House in 2024

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  • grantee: Jason Bittel
    amount: $55,000
    city: Export, PA
    year: 2023

    To support the research and writing of Sort of Funny Field Guides: North American Animals, to be published by National Geographic Books in 2023

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Jason Bittel

    To support the research and writing of Sort of Funny Field Guides: North American Animals, to be published by National Geographic Books in 2023

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  • grantee: Peter Westwick
    amount: $46,250
    city: Santa Barbara, CA
    year: 2023

    To support the research and writing of 'Engineering California: Science and Technology in the Golden State,' from Sutter’s Mill to Silicon Valley, to be published by Oxford University Press

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Peter Westwick

    To support the research and writing of 'Engineering California: Science and Technology in the Golden State,' from Sutter’s Mill to Silicon Valley, to be published by Oxford University Press

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  • grantee: Julia Belluz
    amount: $60,000
    city: Vienna, Austria
    year: 2023

    To support the research and writing of Why We Eat, to be published by the Penguin in the US and Hachette in the UK in 2024

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Julia Belluz

    To support the research and writing of Why We Eat, to be published by the Penguin in the US and Hachette in the UK in 2024

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  • grantee: Roberta Kwok
    amount: $49,530
    city: Kirkland, United States
    year: 2023

    To support the research and writing of MINUTIAE: The Tiny Details That Scientists Pursue to Illuminate Big Questions to be published by Sourcebooks in 2025

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Roberta Kwok

    To support the research and writing of MINUTIAE: The Tiny Details That Scientists Pursue to Illuminate Big Questions to be published by Sourcebooks in 2025

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  • grantee: Lauren Elizabeth Oakes
    amount: $27,900
    city: Bozeman, United States
    year: 2023

    To support the research and writing of TREEKEEPERS, to be published by Basic Books in 2024

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Lauren Elizabeth Oakes

    To support the research and writing of TREEKEEPERS, to be published by Basic Books in 2024

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  • grantee: Christopher James Fitch
    amount: $15,000
    city: , Portugal
    year: 2022

    To support the research and writing of Wild Cities, to be published by Harper Collins

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Christopher Fitch

    To support the research and writing of Wild Cities, to be published by Harper Collins

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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: 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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