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: NumFOCUS
    amount: $249,532
    city: Austin, TX
    year: 2020

    To develop and deploy the NumFOCUS Digital Learning and Community Platform

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology
    • Investigator Lorena Barba

    To develop and deploy the NumFOCUS Digital Learning and Community Platform

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  • grantee: Martha L. Crump
    amount: $47,800
    city: Logan, UT
    year: 2020

    To support the research and writing of “Women in Field Biology: Journey into Nature,” published by CRC Press in 2022

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Martha Crump

    To support the research and writing of “Women in Field Biology: Journey into Nature,” published by CRC Press in 2022

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  • grantee: Open Collective Foundation
    amount: $50,000
    city: Walnut, CA
    year: 2020

    To support open source software organizations that have suffered losses due to pandemic-related event cancellations

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology
    • Investigator Duane O'Brien

    To support open source software organizations that have suffered losses due to pandemic-related event cancellations

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  • grantee: Civic Hall Labs
    amount: $50,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2020

    To explore needs for volunteer technical support services for relief and recovery during the Coronavirus crisis

    • Program New York City Program
    • Investigator Eustacio Saldaсa

    To explore needs for volunteer technical support services for relief and recovery during the Coronavirus crisis

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  • grantee: Tufts University
    amount: $49,992
    city: Medford, MA
    year: 2020

    To develop a real-time, spatially disaggregated indicator of economic activity based on electricity consumption data to understand the economic impacts of COVID-19

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Steven Cicala

    To develop a real-time, spatially disaggregated indicator of economic activity based on electricity consumption data to understand the economic impacts of COVID-19

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  • grantee: Digital Public Library of America, Inc.
    amount: $250,000
    city: Boston, MA
    year: 2020

    To support a suite of COVID-19 response activities, including community archives capturing the experiences of African-American communities and expanded online resources

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Universal Access to Knowledge
    • Investigator John Bracken

    To support a suite of COVID-19 response activities, including community archives capturing the experiences of African-American communities and expanded online resources

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  • grantee: University of Wisconsin System
    amount: $49,993
    city: Madison, WI
    year: 2020

    To support the research and writing of “A World Without Soil,” to be published by MIT Press

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Jo Handelsman

    To support the research and writing of “A World Without Soil,” to be published by MIT Press

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  • grantee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    amount: $100,000
    city: Cambridge, MA
    year: 2020

    To support the research and writing of “A Tactical Guide for Science Journalists,” published by Oxford University Press

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Deborah Blum

    To support the research and writing of “A Tactical Guide for Science Journalists,” published by Oxford University Press

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  • grantee: Missouri University of Science and Technology
    amount: $150,000
    city: Rolla, MO
    year: 2020

    To study how community choice aggregation (CCA) energy procurement programs influence consumer adoption of renewable technologies

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Casey Canfield

    To study how community choice aggregation (CCA) energy procurement programs influence consumer adoption of renewable technologies

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  • grantee: Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
    amount: $36,442
    city: Needham, MA
    year: 2020

    To support the research and writing of “Public Utility,” to be published by Riverhead by 2021

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Debbie Chachra

    To support the research and writing of “Public Utility,” to be published by Riverhead by 2021

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