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: CERGE-EI Foundation
    amount: $10,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2022

    To support economics students, faculty, and staff affected by the Russian invasion of Ukraine

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Dragana Stanisic

    To support economics students, faculty, and staff affected by the Russian invasion of Ukraine

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  • grantee: Brown University
    amount: $39,341
    city: Providence, RI
    year: 2022

    To develop Dances with Robots, a podcast series that will investigate emerging robotic technologies through the lens of choreography

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Radio
    • Investigator Sydney Skybetter

    To develop Dances with Robots, a podcast series that will investigate emerging robotic technologies through the lens of choreography

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  • grantee: New Venture Fund
    amount: $50,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2022

    To support the Open Research Funders Group, a partnership committed to the open sharing of research outputs

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Open Source in Science
    • Investigator Heather Joseph

    To support the Open Research Funders Group, a partnership committed to the open sharing of research outputs

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  • grantee: Family Pictures Institute for Inclusive Storytelling
    amount: $150,000
    city: Greenwood Lake, NY
    year: 2022

    To support the research and writing of a full treatment for My Mother, the Scientist, a 90-minute personal documentary about the challenge of recruiting more Blacks into STEM

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Film
    • Investigator Thomas Allen Harris

    To support the research and writing of a full treatment for My Mother, the Scientist, a 90-minute personal documentary about the challenge of recruiting more Blacks into STEM

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  • grantee: UnionDocs Inc
    amount: $250,000
    city: Brooklyn, NY
    year: 2022

    To support the production of a feature length documentary about the life and work of scientist John Lilly

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Film
    • Investigator Michael Almereyda

    To support the production of a feature length documentary about the life and work of scientist John Lilly

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  • grantee: Columbia University
    amount: $125,961
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2022

    To provide a profile of coronaviruses circulating among NYC domestic and wild animals and identify heightened risks of spillover to wildlife, pet, and human populations

    • Program New York City Program
    • Investigator Maria Diuk-Wasser

    To provide a profile of coronaviruses circulating among NYC domestic and wild animals and identify heightened risks of spillover to wildlife, pet, and human populations

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  • grantee: Adam Becker
    amount: $57,500
    city: Oakland, CA
    year: 2022

    To support the research and writing of “Denial Valley,” to be published by Basic Books in 2023

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Adam Becker

    To support the research and writing of “Denial Valley,” to be published by Basic Books in 2023

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  • grantee: Electronic Frontier Foundation
    amount: $244,354
    city: San Francisco, CA
    year: 2022

    To support ten new episodes of "How to Fix the Internet," an in-depth podcast about the problems of the modern web geared toward a lay audience

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Radio
    • Investigator Cindy Cohn

    To support ten new episodes of "How to Fix the Internet," an in-depth podcast about the problems of the modern web geared toward a lay audience

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  • grantee: Foundation for California Community Colleges
    amount: $25,000
    city: Sacramento, CA
    year: 2022

    To expand the community of higher education practitioners and leaders through teaching and learning innovations and systems change

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Marisa Cheung

    To expand the community of higher education practitioners and leaders through teaching and learning innovations and systems change

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  • grantee: University of Minnesota
    amount: $50,000
    city: Minneapolis, MN
    year: 2022

    To work towards an artificial translation system capable of building proteins from a wide range of amino acids

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Matter-to-Life
    • Investigator Kate Adamala

    To work towards an artificial translation system capable of building proteins from a wide range of amino acids

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