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 California, Berkeley
    amount: $250,000
    city: Berkeley, CA
    year: 2022

    To support a special semester focused on advances in causal inference methods

    • Program Research
    • Initiative Empirical Economic Research Enablers (EERE)
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Shafi Goldwasser

    To support a special semester focused on advances in causal inference methods

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  • grantee: Just Human Productions
    amount: $200,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2021

    To support a season of the podcast “Epidemic,” which will share untold stories of smallpox eradication on the Indian subcontinent in the three decades following WWII

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Radio
    • Investigator Celine Gounder

    To support a season of the podcast “Epidemic,” which will share untold stories of smallpox eradication on the Indian subcontinent in the three decades following WWII

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  • grantee: SF Isle of Man Limited
    amount: $250,000
    city: Douglas, Isle of Man, IM1 IJE, United Kingdom
    year: 2021

    To support the production of the documentary film “We Will Not Die Quietly,” about the 20-year struggle for access to medicines and vaccines, from HIV/AIDS to COVID-19

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Film
    • Investigator Karien Bezuidenhout

    To support the production of the documentary film “We Will Not Die Quietly,” about the 20-year struggle for access to medicines and vaccines, from HIV/AIDS to COVID-19

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  • grantee: New York University
    amount: $249,956
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2021

    To develop principles and pathways for public engagement by NYC communities with interpretable, reliable, and actionable flood-related data

    • Program New York City Program
    • Investigator Elizabeth Hénaff

    To develop principles and pathways for public engagement by NYC communities with interpretable, reliable, and actionable flood-related data

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  • 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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