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, Los Angeles
    amount: $50,000
    city: Los Angeles, CA
    year: 2020

    To study how new computational techniques move from open source communities into academic research

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Better Software for Science
    • Investigator Tuan Do

    To study how new computational techniques move from open source communities into academic research

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  • grantee: University of Virginia
    amount: $124,000
    city: Charlottesville, VA
    year: 2020

    To conduct research that contributes to a more accurate, cost-effective 2030 Decennial Census and to the development of a universal statistical frame from multiple data sources

    • Program Research
    • Initiative Empirical Economic Research Enablers (EERE)
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Sallie Keller

    To conduct research that contributes to a more accurate, cost-effective 2030 Decennial Census and to the development of a universal statistical frame from multiple data sources

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  • grantee: University of Rochester
    amount: $50,000
    city: Rochester, NY
    year: 2020

    To investigate the impacts on students and their innovative activities when professors with expertise in Artificial Intelligence leave academia for positions in industry

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Michael Gofman

    To investigate the impacts on students and their innovative activities when professors with expertise in Artificial Intelligence leave academia for positions in industry

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  • grantee: FORCE11
    amount: $50,000
    city: San Diego, CA
    year: 2020

    To document and support the deployment of virtual training and community-development techniques in the open science community

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology
    • Investigator Daniel O'Donnell

    To document and support the deployment of virtual training and community-development techniques in the open science community

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  • grantee: University of Manitoba
    amount: $111,582
    city: Winnipeg, Canada
    year: 2020

    To hold a three-day conference at the University of Manitoba in June 2021 that will provide increased awareness of Indigenous history and scientific accomplishments

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Myrle Ballard

    To hold a three-day conference at the University of Manitoba in June 2021 that will provide increased awareness of Indigenous history and scientific accomplishments

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  • grantee: University of Washington
    amount: $50,000
    city: Seattle, WA
    year: 2020

    To develop best practices to transition participant-driven scientific meetings like Hack Weeks online

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology
    • Investigator Anthony Arendt

    To develop best practices to transition participant-driven scientific meetings like Hack Weeks online

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  • grantee: University of Colorado, Denver
    amount: $49,955
    city: Denver, CO
    year: 2020

    To assess the changing trajectory of energy production and governance within critical energy producing states in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Tanya Heikkila

    To assess the changing trajectory of energy production and governance within critical energy producing states in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

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  • grantee: National Academy of Sciences
    amount: $50,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2020

    To complete a study that identifies strategies and practices to mitigate the negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on women in scientific, engineering, and medical research

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Maria Dahlberg

    To complete a study that identifies strategies and practices to mitigate the negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on women in scientific, engineering, and medical research

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  • grantee: Society for Science & the Public
    amount: $150,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2020

    To support the creation of Century of Science, an interactive web experience built on Science News’ archive of more than 80,000 news reports

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program New Media
    • Investigator Elizabeth Quill

    To support the creation of Century of Science, an interactive web experience built on Science News’ archive of more than 80,000 news reports

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  • grantee: The Open Mind Legacy Project
    amount: $200,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2020

    To support eight to ten interviews with Sloan-supported authors and Sloan-related thinkers each year on “The Open Mind”

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Television
    • Investigator Alexander Heffner

    To support eight to ten interviews with Sloan-supported authors and Sloan-related thinkers each year on “The Open Mind”

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