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: Data Foundation
    amount: $250,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2020

    To administer a large-scale, weekly household survey to understand the impact of COVID-19 on the United States

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Joe Willey

    To administer a large-scale, weekly household survey to understand the impact of COVID-19 on the United States

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  • grantee: Pecan Street, Inc.
    amount: $74,931
    city: Austin, TX
    year: 2020

    To create data libraries that will further enhance the use of the Dataport energy information database

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

    To create data libraries that will further enhance the use of the Dataport energy information database

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  • grantee: Inria Fondation
    amount: $199,629
    city: Paris, France
    year: 2020

    To extend the coverage of the Software Heritage archive of source code

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Better Software for Science
    • Investigator Roberto Di Cosmo

    To extend the coverage of the Software Heritage archive of source code

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  • grantee: Yarn Labs
    amount: $150,000
    city: Cambridge, MA
    year: 2020

    To design and prototype a model for an AI Bias Bounty system

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology
    • Investigator Joy Buolamwini

    To design and prototype a model for an AI Bias Bounty system

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  • grantee: Yale University
    amount: $48,326
    city: New Haven, CT
    year: 2020

    To produce a collection of videos that enables the incorporation of recent economic scholarship into the antitrust law curriculum

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Fiona Scott Morton

    To produce a collection of videos that enables the incorporation of recent economic scholarship into the antitrust law curriculum

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  • grantee: Columbia University
    amount: $249,998
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2020

    To support the discovery and iterative use of machine learning models through improvements to the AI Model Share platform

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology
    • Investigator Michael Parrott

    To support the discovery and iterative use of machine learning models through improvements to the AI Model Share platform

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  • grantee: The New York Community Trust
    amount: $250,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2020

    To aid nonprofit service providers struggling with the effects of the coronavirus

    • Program New York City Program
    • Investigator Lorie Slutsky

    To aid nonprofit service providers struggling with the effects of the coronavirus

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  • grantee: American Association for the Advancement of Science
    amount: $48,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2020

    To support a bootcamp to improve journalistic reporting of evidence-based science by bringing scientists and reporters together

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program New Media
    • Investigator Rick Weiss

    To support a bootcamp to improve journalistic reporting of evidence-based science by bringing scientists and reporters together

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  • grantee: University of California, Berkeley
    amount: $203,461
    city: Berkeley, CA
    year: 2020

    To investigate, by developing and studying new sets of patent data, how philanthropic support impacts economic innovation

    • Program Research
    • Initiative Economic Analysis of Science and Technology (EAST)
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Lee Fleming

    To investigate, by developing and studying new sets of patent data, how philanthropic support impacts economic innovation

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  • grantee: World Cares Center, Inc.
    amount: $50,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2020

    To protect NYC’s vulnerable communities during the COVID-19 pandemic through online training of 30,000 COVID-19 responders and volunteers

    • Program New York City Program
    • Investigator Lisa Orloff

    To protect NYC’s vulnerable communities during the COVID-19 pandemic through online training of 30,000 COVID-19 responders and volunteers

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