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: Jason Dearen
    amount: $50,000
    city: Gainesville, FL
    year: 2019

    To support the research and writing of "Kill Shot: The Race to Stop a Deadly Disease and the Shadow Industry that Unleashed It,"Кpublished by Penguin Random House

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Jason Dearen

    To support the research and writing of "Kill Shot: The Race to Stop a Deadly Disease and the Shadow Industry that Unleashed It,"Кpublished by Penguin Random House

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  • grantee: Dan Levitt
    amount: $54,000
    city: Cambridge, MA
    year: 2019

    To support the research and writing of "What's Gotten Into You: A History of Your Body from the Big Bang Through Last Night's Dinner," published by Flatiron Press in 2020

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Dan Levitt

    To support the research and writing of "What's Gotten Into You: A History of Your Body from the Big Bang Through Last Night's Dinner," published by Flatiron Press in 2020

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  • grantee: Jaime Green
    amount: $51,400
    city: Brooklyn, NY
    year: 2019

    To support the research and writing of ТThe Possibility of Life,У published by Hanover Square Press in 2021

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Jaime Green

    To support the research and writing of ТThe Possibility of Life,У published by Hanover Square Press in 2021

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  • grantee: North Carolina State University
    amount: $49,999
    city: Raleigh, NC
    year: 2019

    To support the research and writing of ТRivers: Ten Rules for Understanding the Future of Life and Human Civilization,У published by Basic Books

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Robert Dunn

    To support the research and writing of ТRivers: Ten Rules for Understanding the Future of Life and Human Civilization,У published by Basic Books

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  • grantee: Quinn Eastman
    amount: $30,000
    city: Decatur, GA
    year: 2019

    To support the research and writing of ТThe Woman Who CouldnХt Wake Up,У published by Columbia University Press

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Quinn Eastman

    To support the research and writing of ТThe Woman Who CouldnХt Wake Up,У published by Columbia University Press

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  • grantee: University of Maryland, Baltimore County
    amount: $37,000
    city: Baltimore, MD
    year: 2019

    To support the research and writing of the book ТHow to Build the Universe Using Only Numbers,У published by W.W. Norton

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Manil Suri

    To support the research and writing of the book ТHow to Build the Universe Using Only Numbers,У published by W.W. Norton

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  • grantee: Northeastern University
    amount: $49,879
    city: Boston, MA
    year: 2019

    To support the research and writing of ТSeven Insights about the Brain,У to be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Lisa Feldman Barrett

    To support the research and writing of ТSeven Insights about the Brain,У to be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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  • grantee: Charles Seife
    amount: $43,275
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2019

    To support the research and writing of a non-hagiographic biography of Stephen Hawking, published by Basic Books by 2022

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Charles Seife

    To support the research and writing of a non-hagiographic biography of Stephen Hawking, published by Basic Books by 2022

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  • grantee: Carl Erik Fisher
    amount: $50,000
    city: Brooklyn, NY
    year: 2019

    To support Over the Dark Edge, a book on the scientific, cultural, intellectual, and philosophical history of addiction, to be published by Penguin Press in 2020

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Carl Fisher

    To support Over the Dark Edge, a book on the scientific, cultural, intellectual, and philosophical history of addiction, to be published by Penguin Press in 2020

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  • grantee: Johns Hopkins University
    amount: $48,830
    city: Baltimore, MD
    year: 2019

    To support the research and writing of Unique, a book about the science of human individuality, to be published by Basic Books in 2020

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator David Linden

    To support the research and writing of Unique, a book about the science of human individuality, to be published by Basic Books in 2020

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