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: Barnard College
    amount: $340,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2024

    To support the leading women’s film festival, the Athena Film Festival at Barnard, with women-in-STEM screenwriting development and festival programming

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Film
    • Investigator Umbreen Bhatti

    This grant provides three additional years of support to Barnard College to continue the partnership with Athena Film Festival to develop and celebrate films by and about women that focus on STEM themes and characters. Grant funds will support an annual showcase screening at the Athena Film Festival, followed by a panel discussion with scientists and filmmakers; four annual fellowships to support screenwriters with STEM-focused scripts who attend a lab and receive six months of mentorship; and a $20,000 annual Development Grant that goes to an Athena List finalist or winner with a STEM-themed script and which includes a public reading of the winning script that takes place during the festival.

    To support the leading women’s film festival, the Athena Film Festival at Barnard, with women-in-STEM screenwriting development and festival programming

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  • grantee: Research!America
    amount: $230,139
    city: Alexandria, VA
    year: 2024

    To conduct focus groups on how Gen Z engages with science online and to develop messaging that improves their understanding of, and engagement with, science

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Special Initiatives
    • Investigator Jennifer Luray

    To conduct focus groups on how Gen Z engages with science online and to develop messaging that improves their understanding of, and engagement with, science

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  • grantee: Brooke Jarvis
    amount: $50,000
    city: Seattle, WA
    year: 2024

    To support the research and writing of The Invisible Apocalypse to be published by Penguin Random House in 2026

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Brooke Jarvis

    To support the research and writing of The Invisible Apocalypse to be published by Penguin Random House in 2026

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  • grantee: Chelsea L. Wood
    amount: $50,000
    city: Seattle, WA
    year: 2024

    To support the research and writing of Netherworld: The Past, Present, and Future of Parasitism on Planet Earth to be published by Basic Books in 2025

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Chelsea Wood

    To support the research and writing of Netherworld: The Past, Present, and Future of Parasitism on Planet Earth to be published by Basic Books in 2025

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  • grantee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    amount: $90,000
    city: Cambridge, MA
    year: 2024

    To support a one-day conference about building trust in science co-sponsored by MIT and the Aspen Institute

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program New Media
    • Investigator Amy Brand

    To support a one-day conference about building trust in science co-sponsored by MIT and the Aspen Institute

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  • grantee: RAND Corporation
    amount: $241,378
    city: Santa Monica, CA
    year: 2024

    To design and test a pilot survey about daily time-use decisions made by people who have caregiving responsibilities

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Jessie Wang

    To design and test a pilot survey about daily time-use decisions made by people who have caregiving responsibilities

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  • grantee: MPT Foundation Inc
    amount: $60,000
    city: Owings Mills, MD
    year: 2024

    To support the production of The Last Independent Automaker, a six-part three-hour series chronicling the rise and fall of American Motors Corporation

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Television
    • Investigator Joseph Ligo

    To support the production of The Last Independent Automaker, a six-part three-hour series chronicling the rise and fall of American Motors Corporation

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  • grantee: Mirror Biology Dialogues Fund
    amount: $30,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2024

    To support a series of scientist-led dialogues on the potential threat from mirror bacteria

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Matter-to-Life
    • Investigator James Wagstaff

    To support a series of scientist-led dialogues on the potential threat from mirror bacteria

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  • grantee: Brookings Institution
    amount: $240,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2024

    To mobilize and illustrate economic research that improves official cost-benefit analyses

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Benjamin Harris

    To mobilize and illustrate economic research that improves official cost-benefit analyses

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  • grantee: Sustainable Markets Foundation
    amount: $250,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2024

    To support the launch of Fallout Revisited, an interactive website modeling the fallout from all U.S. atmospheric nuclear tests conducted in the US

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program New Media
    • Investigator Susan Alzner

    To support the launch of Fallout Revisited, an interactive website modeling the fallout from all U.S. atmospheric nuclear tests conducted in the US

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