Grants Database

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

2,962 Grants
Grantee
Amount
City
Year
  • grantee: University of Oxford
    amount: $379,789
    city: Oxford, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
    year: 2021

    To pilot machine learning methods for human-in-the-loop serendipitous scientific discovery

    • Program Technology
    • Initiative Trust in AI
    • Sub-program Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology
    • Investigator Christopher Lintott

    To pilot machine learning methods for human-in-the-loop serendipitous scientific discovery

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  • grantee: Utah Film Center on behalf of PSF C19 LLC
    amount: $365,000
    city: Salt Lake City, UT
    year: 2021

    To support a feature-length documentary film about the global race to research, develop, and distribute the COVID-19 vaccines

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Film
    • Investigator Patrick Hubley

    To support a feature-length documentary film about the global race to research, develop, and distribute the COVID-19 vaccines

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  • grantee: WGBH Educational Foundation
    amount: $600,000
    city: Boston, MA
    year: 2021

    To support “The Future: Made in China?,” a two-hour NOVA special about the rise of China as a global leader in science and technology

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Television
    • Investigator Chris Schmidt

    To support “The Future: Made in China?,” a two-hour NOVA special about the rise of China as a global leader in science and technology

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  • grantee: New York Public Radio
    amount: $600,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2021

    To support story-driven health care reporting at WNYC, including coverage of health and health care policy and economics, COVID 19 and climate change, and medical science and discovery

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Radio
    • Investigator Nsikan Akpan

    To support story-driven health care reporting at WNYC, including coverage of health and health care policy and economics, COVID 19 and climate change, and medical science and discovery

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  • grantee: University of Southern California
    amount: $417,923
    city: Los Angeles, CA
    year: 2021

    To support the development and production of science and technology films, television, and new media projects by top film students

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Film
    • Investigator Alan Baker

    To support the development and production of science and technology films, television, and new media projects by top film students

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  • grantee: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
    amount: $1,479,458
    city: Atlanta, GA
    year: 2021

    To work towards demonstrating open-ended evolution using synthetic molecular systems

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Matter-to-Life
    • Investigator Nicholas Hud

    To work towards demonstrating open-ended evolution using synthetic molecular systems

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  • grantee: The Mr. October Foundation for Kids
    amount: $50,000
    city: Carmel, CA
    year: 2021

    To provide partial support for an afterschool and summer STEM enrichment program at seven public schools in the Bronx

    • Program New York City Program
    • Investigator Alan Gomez

    To provide partial support for an afterschool and summer STEM enrichment program at seven public schools in the Bronx

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  • grantee: Urban Justice Center
    amount: $50,000
    city: Brooklyn, NY
    year: 2021

    To help workers & employers understand air safety as part of a holistic set of guidelines to reduce COVID transmission and to improve workplace practices

    • Program New York City Program
    • Investigator Doug Lasdon

    To help workers & employers understand air safety as part of a holistic set of guidelines to reduce COVID transmission and to improve workplace practices

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  • grantee: Black in AI
    amount: $249,960
    city: Palo Alto, CA
    year: 2021

    To support recruitment, belonging, retention, and visibility of Black scholars working in artificial intelligence at the graduate, postdoctoral, and faculty level

    • Program Technology
    • Initiative Trust in AI
    • Sub-program Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology
    • Investigator Rediet Abebe

    To support recruitment, belonging, retention, and visibility of Black scholars working in artificial intelligence at the graduate, postdoctoral, and faculty level

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  • grantee: Simmons University
    amount: $43,916
    city: Boston, MA
    year: 2021

    To study how researchers collaborate using cloud-based file repositories

    • Program Technology
    • Initiative Virtual Collaboration initiative
    • Sub-program Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology
    • Investigator Kyong Eun Oh

    To study how researchers collaborate using cloud-based file repositories

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