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: Washington State University
    amount: $250,000
    city: Vancouver, WA
    year: 2023

    To explore the future of reading and writing in virtual and augmented reality through community dialog, building software, and developing metadata infrastructure

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology
    • Investigator Rudyne Grigar

    To explore the future of reading and writing in virtual and augmented reality through community dialog, building software, and developing metadata infrastructure

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  • grantee: Morgan State University
    amount: $175,000
    city: Baltimore, MD
    year: 2023

    To investigate the relative ease and tradeoffs between OpenSim and Unity for developing immersive student experiences

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology
    • Investigator Carl White

    To investigate the relative ease and tradeoffs between OpenSim and Unity for developing immersive student experiences

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  • grantee: Simon Fraser University
    amount: $41,500
    city: Burnaby, Canada
    year: 2023

    To support a series of workshops which explore design for virtual social interaction based on metaphors from historical literature

    • Program Technology
    • Initiative Virtual Collaboration initiative
    • Sub-program Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology
    • Investigator Carman Neustaedter

    To support a series of workshops which explore design for virtual social interaction based on metaphors from historical literature

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  • grantee: University of Toronto
    amount: $125,000
    city: Toronto, Canada
    year: 2023

    To support a workshop and related activities to set a social interaction-informed research agenda on virtual, augmented, extended, and mixed reality technologies

    • Program Technology
    • Initiative Virtual Collaboration initiative
    • Sub-program Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology
    • Investigator Bree McEwan

    To support a workshop and related activities to set a social interaction-informed research agenda on virtual, augmented, extended, and mixed reality technologies

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  • grantee: Aalborg University
    amount: $23,803
    city: Aalborg East, Denmark
    year: 2023

    To partially support a meeting on human-centered software engineering and artificial intelligence

    • Program Technology
    • Initiative Trust in AI
    • Sub-program Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology
    • Investigator Daniel Russo

    To partially support a meeting on human-centered software engineering and artificial intelligence

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  • grantee: Appropedia Foundation
    amount: $192,600
    city: Arcada, CA
    year: 2023

    To develop and maintain metadata standards for open-source hardware

    • Program Technology
    • Initiative Open Hardware
    • Sub-program Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology
    • Investigator Andrew Lamb

    To develop and maintain metadata standards for open-source hardware

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  • grantee: University of Colorado, Denver
    amount: $49,954
    city: Denver, CO
    year: 2023

    To explore how the latest developments in large language models (LLMs) might inform scientific writing

    • Program Technology
    • Initiative Trust in AI
    • Sub-program Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology
    • Investigator Milton Pividori

    To explore how the latest developments in large language models (LLMs) might inform scientific writing

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  • grantee: University of California, Santa Cruz
    amount: $250,000
    city: Santa Cruz, CA
    year: 2023

    To design, prototype, and validate multi-user Virtual Reality tool designs for collaborative use by distributed science teams

    • Program Technology
    • Initiative Virtual Collaboration initiative
    • Sub-program Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology
    • Investigator Katherine Isbister

    To design, prototype, and validate multi-user Virtual Reality tool designs for collaborative use by distributed science teams

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  • grantee: Princeton University
    amount: $249,779
    city: Princeton, NJ
    year: 2023

    To investigate new models for the evolution and effective use of hybrid and virtual meetings within a globally distributed scientific collaboration

    • Program Technology
    • Initiative Virtual Collaboration initiative
    • Sub-program Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology
    • Investigator Peter Elmer

    To investigate new models for the evolution and effective use of hybrid and virtual meetings within a globally distributed scientific collaboration

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  • grantee: University of Tartu
    amount: $99,604
    city: Tartu, Estonia
    year: 2023

    To study the sociotechnical preparations for and execution of hybrid hackathons

    • Program Technology
    • Initiative Virtual Collaboration initiative
    • Sub-program Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology
    • Investigator Alexander Nolte

    To study the sociotechnical preparations for and execution of hybrid hackathons

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