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: Skylar Young-Bayer
    amount: $15,000
    city: Bristol, RI
    year: 2021

    To support the research and writing of “Uncharted: how scientists navigate health, research, and bias,” to be published by Columbia University Press

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Skylar Young-Bayer

    To support the research and writing of “Uncharted: how scientists navigate health, research, and bias,” to be published by Columbia University Press

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  • grantee: Second Nature, Inc.
    amount: $50,000
    city: Boston, MA
    year:

    To examine how changes in federal funding approaches for energy research might impact universities and the higher education landscape.

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Timothy Carter

    To examine how changes in federal funding approaches for energy research might impact universities and the higher education landscape.

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  • grantee: University of California, Davis
    amount: $250,000
    city: Davis, CA
    year: 2021

    To advance faculty diversity in STEM and help faculty in priority populations (e.g., persons of color, women) overcome barriers to advancement that the COVID-19 crisis has only magnified

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Mariel Vazquez

    To advance faculty diversity in STEM and help faculty in priority populations (e.g., persons of color, women) overcome barriers to advancement that the COVID-19 crisis has only magnified

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  • grantee: Sam Houston State University
    amount: $40,804
    city: Huntsville, TX
    year: 2021

    To support the research and writing of “Things That Go Bump in the Universe,” to be published by Johns Hopkins University Press

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator C. Renee James

    To support the research and writing of “Things That Go Bump in the Universe,” to be published by Johns Hopkins University Press

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  • grantee: Chelsea Byun
    amount: $44,375
    city: South Portland, ME
    year: 2021

    To support the research and writing of “Mother Brain: How Neuroscience Is Rewriting the Story of Parenthood,” to be published by Henry Holt & Co

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Chelsea Byun

    To support the research and writing of “Mother Brain: How Neuroscience Is Rewriting the Story of Parenthood,” to be published by Henry Holt & Co

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  • grantee: Coco Krumme
    amount: $47,000
    city: Lopez Island, WA
    year: 2021

    To support the research and writing of “False Gods: how optimization seduced us, consumed us, and ultimately failed us,” to be published by Riverhead

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Coco Krumme

    To support the research and writing of “False Gods: how optimization seduced us, consumed us, and ultimately failed us,” to be published by Riverhead

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  • grantee: Christopher R. Miller
    amount: $54,950
    city: Belmont, MA
    year: 2021

    To support the research and writing of “The Switch,” to be published by Simon & Shuster

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Christopher Miller

    To support the research and writing of “The Switch,” to be published by Simon & Shuster

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  • grantee: Siobhan Roberts
    amount: $50,000
    city: Toronto, Canada, Canada
    year: 2021

    To support the research and writing of “Let Five Be Even,” to be published by Pantheon Books

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Siobhan Roberts

    To support the research and writing of “Let Five Be Even,” to be published by Pantheon Books

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  • grantee: California Ocean Science Trust
    amount: $103,448
    city: Sacramento, CA
    year: 2021

    To develop replicable positive ways to advance DEI in coastal and marine sciences towards a vision of a diverse and inclusive science-policy workforce

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Lida Teneva

    To develop replicable positive ways to advance DEI in coastal and marine sciences towards a vision of a diverse and inclusive science-policy workforce

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  • grantee: Pecan Street, Inc.
    amount: $100,000
    city: Austin, TX
    year: 2021

    To establish a high-resolution residential energy use monitoring testbed in Puerto Rico through Pecan Street’s new Center for Race, Energy & Climate Justice

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Suzanne Russo

    To establish a high-resolution residential energy use monitoring testbed in Puerto Rico through Pecan Street’s new Center for Race, Energy & Climate Justice

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