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: Ohio State University
    amount: $20,000
    city: Columbus, OH
    year: 2017

    To support participation of early career scholars and students at the 2017 Energy Impacts Symposium

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Jeffrey Jacquet

    To support participation of early career scholars and students at the 2017 Energy Impacts Symposium

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  • grantee: Resources for the Future, Inc.
    amount: $124,708
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2017

    To develop a research agenda and workplan to comprehensively update the framework for social cost of carbon dioxide estimation to ensure that updated estimates reflect the best available science and economics analysis

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Raymond Kopp

    To develop a research agenda and workplan to comprehensively update the framework for social cost of carbon dioxide estimation to ensure that updated estimates reflect the best available science and economics analysis

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  • grantee: Council on Foreign Relations
    amount: $125,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2017

    To wind down support for current phase of research undertaken by the Program on Energy Security and Climate Change to examine the economic, geopolitical, and technological factors associated with advancing energy innovation

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Varun Sivaram

    To wind down support for current phase of research undertaken by the Program on Energy Security and Climate Change to examine the economic, geopolitical, and technological factors associated with advancing energy innovation

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  • grantee: Resources for the Future, Inc.
    amount: $189,629
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2017

    To develop and apply advanced data analytics tools that improve understanding about energy systems utilization

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Richard Newell

    To develop and apply advanced data analytics tools that improve understanding about energy systems utilization

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  • grantee: Carnegie Mellon University
    amount: $124,916
    city: Pittsburgh, PA
    year: 2016

    To assess the contribution of light water small modular nuclear reactors to reduce carbon emissions from the United States energy system by 2050

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Granger Morgan

    To assess the contribution of light water small modular nuclear reactors to reduce carbon emissions from the United States energy system by 2050

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  • grantee: Harvard University
    amount: $90,070
    city: Cambridge, MA
    year: 2016

    To conduct research and organize a conference examining the risks and benefits of solar geoengineering research

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Gernot Wagner

    To conduct research and organize a conference examining the risks and benefits of solar geoengineering research

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  • grantee: Resources for the Future, Inc.
    amount: $10,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2016

    To support the 2017 Molly K. Macauley Award for Research Innovation and Advanced Analytics for Policy

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Margaret Walls

    To support the 2017 Molly K. Macauley Award for Research Innovation and Advanced Analytics for Policy

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  • grantee: University of California, Davis
    amount: $91,063
    city: Davis, CA
    year: 2016

    To research the economics of energy efficiency, as recommended by a Request for Proposals review committee, focused on understanding how the targeting and timing of energy efficiency information provision impacts program participation

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Kevin Novan

    To research the economics of energy efficiency, as recommended by a Request for Proposals review committee, focused on understanding how the targeting and timing of energy efficiency information provision impacts program participation

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  • grantee: Wake Forest University
    amount: $249,933
    city: Winston-Salem, NC
    year: 2016

    To research the economics of energy efficiency, as recommended by a Request for Proposals review committee, focused on determining how management practices in the industrial sector impact energy efficiency

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Mark Curtis

    To research the economics of energy efficiency, as recommended by a Request for Proposals review committee, focused on determining how management practices in the industrial sector impact energy efficiency

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  • grantee: Western Washington University
    amount: $309,304
    city: Bellingham, WA
    year: 2016

    To research the economics of energy efficiency, as recommended by a Request for Proposals review committee, focused on quantifying the impact of energy efficiency on housing values

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Sharon Shewmake

    To research the economics of energy efficiency, as recommended by a Request for Proposals review committee, focused on quantifying the impact of energy efficiency on housing values

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