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: Pecan Street, Inc.
    amount: $2,500,000
    city: Austin, United States
    year: 2023

    To expand and diversify a high-resolution residential energy use monitoring testbed to four new geographies in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, and Oregon

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Scott Hinson

    This grant provides ongoing support to Pecan Street, a non-profit research organization based in Austin, Texas seeking to improve researchers’ access to high resolution residential electricity use data by instrumenting households with energy monitoring devices. Pecan Street installs eGauge devices in participating households to directly measure power flow at the level of the circuit breaker. Each household gets access to their own energy use information, and Pecan Street collects and uploads the data to Dataport, a data sharing system for academic and commercial researchers. Grant funds will allow Pecan Street to greatly expand and diversify the number of instrumented homes in the research testbed by 40%, adding at least 50 homes in each of 4 different geographies, 210 homes in total: Atlanta, Georgia; Central Pennsylvania; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; and Portland, Oregon. All of the newly instrumented homes supported in this project will be from communities of color or lower-income communities not yet represented in Pecan Street’s network. Pecan Street will work closely with academic researchers and local community-based organizations (CBO) in each region to engage participating households and use the collected data to study questions of interest to that particular area. Funds will allow Pecan Street to engage 750 new Dataport users, produce 10-20 journal publications, train multiple graduate students across the four local research projects, support the involvement of the CBOs, and update the Dataport infrastructure with upgraded storage and computer processing capacity. This effort will improve our ability to understand household electricity usage and, ultimately, help to facilitate the transition to low-carbon energy systems.

    To expand and diversify a high-resolution residential energy use monitoring testbed to four new geographies in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, and Oregon

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  • grantee: Colorado School of Mines
    amount: $249,461
    city: Golden, United States
    year: 2023

    To understand the potential for, and consequences of, hydropower dead pool conditions in California

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Adrienne Marshall

    To understand the potential for, and consequences of, hydropower dead pool conditions in California

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  • grantee: Clarkson University
    amount: $55,000
    city: Potsdam, United States
    year: 2023

    To support Dr. Simona Liguori in a collaborative research project to explore the development of carbon-negative methanol production, resulting from the 2022 Scialog conference on negative emissions science

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Simona Liguori

    To support Dr. Simona Liguori in a collaborative research project to explore the development of carbon-negative methanol production, resulting from the 2022 Scialog conference on negative emissions science

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  • grantee: University of Guelph
    amount: $55,000
    city: Guelph, Canada
    year: 2023

    To support Dr. Rafael Santos in a collaborative research project to explore the development of carbon-negative methanol production, resulting from the 2022 Scialog conference on negative emissions science

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Rafael Santos

    To support Dr. Rafael Santos in a collaborative research project to explore the development of carbon-negative methanol production, resulting from the 2022 Scialog conference on negative emissions science

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  • grantee: Southern Methodist University
    amount: $55,000
    city: Dallas, United States
    year: 2023

    To support Dr. Anindita Das in a collaborative research project to explore the development of carbon-negative methanol production, resulting from the 2022 Scialog conference on negative emissions science

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Anindita Das

    To support Dr. Anindita Das in a collaborative research project to explore the development of carbon-negative methanol production, resulting from the 2022 Scialog conference on negative emissions science

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  • grantee: The University of Chicago
    amount: $55,000
    city: Chicago, United States
    year: 2023

    To support Dr. Chibueze Amanchukwu in a collaborative research project to explore the development of new approaches for sorbent regeneration in direct air capture systems, resulting from the 2022 Scialog conference on negative emissions science

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Chibueze Amanchukwu

    To support Dr. Chibueze Amanchukwu in a collaborative research project to explore the development of new approaches for sorbent regeneration in direct air capture systems, resulting from the 2022 Scialog conference on negative emissions science

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  • grantee: University of Cincinnati
    amount: $55,000
    city: Cincinnati, United States
    year: 2023

    To support Dr. Jianbing Jiang in a collaborative research project to explore the utilization of captured carbon dioxide as industrial feedstock, resulting from the 2022 Scialog conference on negative emissions science

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Jianbing Jimmy Jiang

    To support Dr. Jianbing Jiang in a collaborative research project to explore the utilization of captured carbon dioxide as industrial feedstock, resulting from the 2022 Scialog conference on negative emissions science

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  • grantee: Dalhousie University
    amount: $55,000
    city: Halifax, Canada
    year: 2023

    To support Dr. Mita Dasog in a collaborative research project to explore the development of direct air capture systems driven by solar power, resulting from the 2022 Scialog conference on negative emissions science

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Mita Dasog

    To support Dr. Mita Dasog in a collaborative research project to explore the development of direct air capture systems driven by solar power, resulting from the 2022 Scialog conference on negative emissions science

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  • grantee: Johns Hopkins University
    amount: $55,000
    city: Baltimore, United States
    year: 2023

    To support Dr. Yayuan Liu in a collaborative research project to explore the development of new approaches for sorbent regeneration in direct air capture systems, resulting from the 2022 Scialog conference on negative emissions science

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Yayuan Liu

    To support Dr. Yayuan Liu in a collaborative research project to explore the development of new approaches for sorbent regeneration in direct air capture systems, resulting from the 2022 Scialog conference on negative emissions science

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  • grantee: University of California, Riverside
    amount: $55,000
    city: Riverside, United States
    year: 2023

    To support Dr. Kandis Leslie Abdul-Aziz in a collaborative research project to explore the development of direct air capture systems driven by solar power, resulting from the 2022 Scialog conference on negative emissions science

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Kandis Leslie Abdul-Aziz

    To support Dr. Kandis Leslie Abdul-Aziz in a collaborative research project to explore the development of direct air capture systems driven by solar power, resulting from the 2022 Scialog conference on negative emissions science

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