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: University of Washington, Tacoma
    amount: $74,823
    city: Tacoma, WA
    year: 2021

    To organize a scaffolded research experience that facilitates multiple mentors for undergraduate students using a mentoring course

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Heather Dillon

    To organize a scaffolded research experience that facilitates multiple mentors for undergraduate students using a mentoring course

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  • grantee: North Carolina Central University
    amount: $250,000
    city: Durham, NC
    year: 2021

    To increase the numbers of Black/African American students who earn advanced Chemistry degrees through a MS-to-PhD Bridge Program that links Chemistry Departments at North Carolina Central University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Abdul Mohammed

    To increase the numbers of Black/African American students who earn advanced Chemistry degrees through a MS-to-PhD Bridge Program that links Chemistry Departments at North Carolina Central University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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  • grantee: Arizona State University
    amount: $232,009
    city: Tempe, AZ
    year: 2021

    To increase the number of Native American students pursuing and completing PhD degrees and careers in STEM fields

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Gary Moore

    To increase the number of Native American students pursuing and completing PhD degrees and careers in STEM fields

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  • grantee: University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
    amount: $249,269
    city: Brownsville, TX
    year: 2021

    To formalize a strategic partnership with the University of Texas Dallas to create equitable, inclusive and diverse pathways to graduate study in the mathematical sciences for students at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Josef Sifuentes

    To formalize a strategic partnership with the University of Texas Dallas to create equitable, inclusive and diverse pathways to graduate study in the mathematical sciences for students at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

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  • grantee: Digital Public Library of America, Inc.
    amount: $50,000
    city: Boston, MA
    year: 2021

    To support the creation of a digital archive of social media data available to researchers, policy makers, and the general public

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Universal Access to Knowledge
    • Investigator Michael Della Bitta

    To support the creation of a digital archive of social media data available to researchers, policy makers, and the general public

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  • grantee: Cornell University
    amount: $214,901
    city: Ithaca, NY
    year: 2021

    To identify and test effective interventions for enhancing the quality and completeness of randomized-controlled-trial registries

    • Program Research
    • Initiative Empirical Economic Research Enablers (EERE)
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Lars Vilhuber

    To identify and test effective interventions for enhancing the quality and completeness of randomized-controlled-trial registries

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  • grantee: Open Knowledge Foundation
    amount: $50,000
    city: Cambridge, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
    year: 2021

    To support the maintenance of lightweight data packaging standards and software in order to reduce the frictions experienced in the acquisition, sharing, use, and reuse of research data

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Better Software for Science
    • Investigator Lilly Winfree

    To support the maintenance of lightweight data packaging standards and software in order to reduce the frictions experienced in the acquisition, sharing, use, and reuse of research data

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  • grantee: Rochester Institute of Technology
    amount: $50,000
    city: Rochester, NY
    year: 2021

    To complete development of a search engine that is both user friendly and mathematically aware

    • Program Research
    • Investigator Richard Zanibbi

    To complete development of a search engine that is both user friendly and mathematically aware

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  • grantee: University of Virginia
    amount: $131,628
    city: Charlottesville, VA
    year: 2021

    To extend the scholarly profiling tool Scholia to include data on research-related software

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Better Software for Science
    • Investigator Lane Rasberry

    To extend the scholarly profiling tool Scholia to include data on research-related software

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  • grantee: Wichita State University Foundation
    amount: $243,922
    city: Wichita, KS
    year: 2021

    To support the completion of an app to allow blind and visually impaired (BVI) users to read, explore, and research digitized, archived accessible graphic narratives

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Universal Access to Knowledge
    • Investigator Darren DeFrain

    To support the completion of an app to allow blind and visually impaired (BVI) users to read, explore, and research digitized, archived accessible graphic narratives

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