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: Duke University
    amount: $249,909
    city: Durham, NC
    year: 2019

    To develop and test algorithms based on Bayesian and Machine Learning techniques for efficient entity resolution when linking datasets

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Rebecca Steorts

    To develop and test algorithms based on Bayesian and Machine Learning techniques for efficient entity resolution when linking datasets

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  • grantee: Hopewell Fund
    amount: $248,360
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2019

    To plan and prototype an end-to-end multiparty system for sharing, linking, modeling, and analyzing sensitive datasets while protecting the privacy of each

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Iris Kong

    To plan and prototype an end-to-end multiparty system for sharing, linking, modeling, and analyzing sensitive datasets while protecting the privacy of each

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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: Boston University
    amount: $29,068
    city: Boston, MA
    year: 2019

    To provide partial support for a workshop to examine the role of systems and synthetic biology (SSB) in reducing atmospheric carbon dioxide

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Charles DeLisi

    To provide partial support for a workshop to examine the role of systems and synthetic biology (SSB) in reducing atmospheric carbon dioxide

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  • grantee: University of British Columbia
    amount: $45,000
    city: Vancouver, Canada, Canada
    year: 2019

    To provide empirical evidence that can be used to assess domestic outsourcing as a broad managerial strategy beyond simply reducing firmsХ labor costs

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Outsourcing
    • Investigator Raffaele Saggio

    To provide empirical evidence that can be used to assess domestic outsourcing as a broad managerial strategy beyond simply reducing firmsХ labor costs

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  • grantee: Boston University
    amount: $249,824
    city: Boston, MA
    year: 2019

    To develop and test new modeling techniques for studying the long-term impact of artificial intelligence on the economy generally, and its impact on household labor and saving decisions in particular

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

    To develop and test new modeling techniques for studying the long-term impact of artificial intelligence on the economy generally, and its impact on household labor and saving decisions in particular

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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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