Grants Database

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

3,046 Grants
Grantee
Amount
City
Year
  • grantee: Columbia University
    amount: $100,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2008

    For a conference to spur discussion of "imperfect knowledge economics" for problems in exchange rates, equity markets, and behavioral economics

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Edmund Phelps

    For a conference to spur discussion of "imperfect knowledge economics" for problems in exchange rates, equity markets, and behavioral economics

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  • grantee: American Association for the Advancement of Science
    amount: $45,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2008

    To fund a technical legal assistance workshop to help universities implement diversity programs

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Daryl Chubin

    To fund a technical legal assistance workshop to help universities implement diversity programs

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  • grantee: American Society for Engineering Education
    amount: $44,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2008

    To develop and prepare for pilot implementation procedures for collecting and analyzing success data for undergraduate engineering students

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Gene Cilento

    To develop and prepare for pilot implementation procedures for collecting and analyzing success data for undergraduate engineering students

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  • grantee: Foundation Center
    amount: $195,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2008

    For renewal of three year grant for operational support

    • Program
    • Investigator R. Albilal

    For renewal of three year grant for operational support

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  • grantee: Office for Oregon Health Policy Research
    amount: $1,000,000
    city: Salem, OR
    year: 2008

    To study the impact of health insurance coverage on the health and the quality of healthcare for low income adults using the Oregon Health Insurance Lottery as a natural experiment

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Amy Finkelstein

    To study the impact of health insurance coverage on the health and the quality of healthcare for low income adults using the Oregon Health Insurance Lottery as a natural experiment

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  • grantee: Educational Policy Institute, Inc.
    amount: $39,975
    city: Virginia Beach, VA
    year: 2008

    To enable the EPI to identify comprehensively and describe current and recent efforts at the national, regional, state, and institutional levels to collect individual-level data in an effort to track student progress in postsecondary education

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Watson Swail

    To enable the EPI to identify comprehensively and describe current and recent efforts at the national, regional, state, and institutional levels to collect individual-level data in an effort to track student progress in postsecondary education

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  • grantee: University of California, Berkeley
    amount: $657,700
    city: Berkeley, CA
    year: 2008

    To develop fungal barcodes and use them to explore the indoor environment

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Microbiology of the Built Environment
    • Investigator Thomas Bruns

    To develop fungal barcodes and use them to explore the indoor environment

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  • grantee: National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, Inc.
    amount: $456,400
    city: White Plains, NY
    year: 2008

    To enable the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering to continue administering the Sloan Minority Ph.D. Program and American Indian Graduate Program for an additional three years

    • Program Higher Education
    • Initiative Minority Ph.D.
    • Investigator Aileen Walter

    To enable the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering to continue administering the Sloan Minority Ph.D. Program and American Indian Graduate Program for an additional three years

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  • grantee: Marine Biological Laboratory
    amount: $1,215,100
    city: Woods Hole, MA
    year: 2008

    To test and develop the rare biosphere as a field of study

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Microbiology of the Built Environment
    • Investigator Mitchell Sogin

    To test and develop the rare biosphere as a field of study

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  • grantee: Metropolitan Opera Association, Inc.
    amount: $1,000,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2008

    For PBS broadcast and live high-definition transmission into movie theaters of the science opera Dr. Atomic, along with science symposia and ancillary outreach activities.

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program New Media
    • Investigator Elizabeth Hurley

    For PBS broadcast and live high-definition transmission into movie theaters of the science opera Dr. Atomic, along with science symposia and ancillary outreach activities.

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