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: Phoenix Bioinformatics
    amount: $192,317
    city: Redwood City, CA
    year: 2022

    To improve the backend systems of and support strategic planning for the Phoenix Bioinformatics research infrastructure platform

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Scholarly Communication
    • Investigator Joshua Young

    To improve the backend systems of and support strategic planning for the Phoenix Bioinformatics research infrastructure platform

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  • grantee: Association for Computing Machinery
    amount: $20,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2022

    To partially support the 2022 ACM conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency

    • Program Technology
    • Initiative Trust in AI
    • Sub-program Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology
    • Investigator Michael Ekstrand

    To partially support the 2022 ACM conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency

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  • grantee: Film Independent, Inc.
    amount: $94,985
    city: Los Angeles, CA
    year: 2022

    To support the addition of the 2021 Sloan film grantees and COVID-19 testing and accommodations for the postponed Sloan Summit

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Film
    • Investigator Josh Welsh

    To support the addition of the 2021 Sloan film grantees and COVID-19 testing and accommodations for the postponed Sloan Summit

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  • grantee: Verse Video Education, Inc.
    amount: $125,656
    city: Brookline, MA
    year: 2022

    To support the production of one science-themed episode of “Poetry in America,” a public television series to enhance appreciation of poetry

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Television
    • Investigator Elisa New

    To support the production of one science-themed episode of “Poetry in America,” a public television series to enhance appreciation of poetry

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  • grantee: STEM Next Opportunity Fund
    amount: $50,000
    city: San Diego, CA
    year: 2022

    To build a Fellow Network of 10 Fellows placed across Federal Agencies and Offices

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Ron Ottinger

    To build a Fellow Network of 10 Fellows placed across Federal Agencies and Offices

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  • grantee: Rochester Institute of Technology
    amount: $49,975
    city: Rochester, NY
    year: 2022

    To convene a community of researchers, practitioners, and industry leaders, to compare and contrast the work of open source software and open science organizations

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Open Source in Science
    • Investigator Stephen Jacobs

    To convene a community of researchers, practitioners, and industry leaders, to compare and contrast the work of open source software and open science organizations

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  • grantee: University of Virginia
    amount: $247,519
    city: Charlottesville, VA
    year: 2022

    To examine the distributional effects of the clean energy transition in the United States by analyzing Census data

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Jonathan Colmer

    To examine the distributional effects of the clean energy transition in the United States by analyzing Census data

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  • grantee: Manhattan Theatre Club
    amount: $150,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2022

    To provide production support for the staging of Anchuli Felicia King’s science-themed play “Golden Shield”

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Theater
    • Investigator Scott Kaplan

    To provide production support for the staging of Anchuli Felicia King’s science-themed play “Golden Shield”

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  • grantee: University of California, Santa Barbara
    amount: $163,566
    city: Santa Barbara, CA
    year: 2022

    To support research on the roles played by scientific support staff in core infrastructural facilities

    • Program Technology
    • Initiative Virtual Collaboration initiative
    • Sub-program Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology
    • Investigator Stephen Barley

    To support research on the roles played by scientific support staff in core infrastructural facilities

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  • grantee: Lynne Peeples
    amount: $46,970
    city: Seattle, WA
    year: 2022

    To support the research and writing of “It’s Time: Our Broken Clocks, Our Threatened Health, and the Scientific Revolution that Could Reset Us All,” published by Riverhead Books and Bloomsbury in 2023

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Lynne Peeples

    To support the research and writing of “It’s Time: Our Broken Clocks, Our Threatened Health, and the Scientific Revolution that Could Reset Us All,” published by Riverhead Books and Bloomsbury in 2023

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