Grants Database

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

165 Grants
Grantee
Amount
City
Year
  • grantee: Janani Balasubramanian LLC
    amount: $49,440
    city: Redmond, WA
    year: 2024

    To support the research and writing of Undisciplined: Radical Strategies for Growing Artist-Scientist Collaborations to be published by the University of California Press

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Janani Balasubramanian

    To support the research and writing of Undisciplined: Radical Strategies for Growing Artist-Scientist Collaborations to be published by the University of California Press

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  • grantee: Jennifer Frazer LLC
    amount: $55,000
    city: Superior, CO
    year: 2024

    To support the research and writing of The Slime Mold’s Guide to World Domination, to be published by Simon & Schuster

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Jennifer Frazer

    To support the research and writing of The Slime Mold’s Guide to World Domination, to be published by Simon & Schuster

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  • grantee: Jon Gertner
    amount: $58,800
    city: Maplewood, NJ
    year: 2024

    To support the research and writing of How to Build Something That Will Last Forever: NASA Voyager’s Epic Journey into the Cosmos, to be published by Random House

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Jon Gertner

    To support the research and writing of How to Build Something That Will Last Forever: NASA Voyager’s Epic Journey into the Cosmos, to be published by Random House

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  • grantee: Yasheng Huang
    amount: $50,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2024

    To support the research and writing of The Needham Question: The Rise and Fall of Chinese Technology in History, to be published by Princeton University Press

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Yasheng Huang

    To support the research and writing of The Needham Question: The Rise and Fall of Chinese Technology in History, to be published by Princeton University Press

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  • grantee: National Book Foundation, Inc.
    amount: $550,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2024

    To honor exceptional books with scientific or technological themes or characters from diverse authors and to support public programming with the winning authors

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Ruth Dickey

    To honor exceptional books with scientific or technological themes or characters from diverse authors and to support public programming with the winning authors

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  • grantee: Julia Lee Brownscombe Rosen
    amount: $50,000
    city: Portland, OR
    year: 2023

    To support the research and writing of Grassroots to be published by Ecco/Harper Collins in 2026

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Julia Rosen

    To support the research and writing of Grassroots to be published by Ecco/Harper Collins in 2026

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  • grantee: Starre Julia Vartan
    amount: $44,250
    city: Bainbridge Island, WA
    year: 2023

    To support the research and writing of Strength & Power: The Untold, Ignored, and Belittled Science of Women’s Bodies to be published by Perseus Books

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Starre Vartan

    To support the research and writing of Strength & Power: The Untold, Ignored, and Belittled Science of Women’s Bodies to be published by Perseus Books

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  • grantee: Leigh Ann Henion
    amount: $44,991
    city: Boone, NC
    year: 2023

    To support the research and writing of The Wilderness of Possibility: A Journey to Appreciate the Living Marvels of Darkness to be published by Algonquin in 2025

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Leigh Ann Henion

    To support the research and writing of The Wilderness of Possibility: A Journey to Appreciate the Living Marvels of Darkness to be published by Algonquin in 2025

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  • grantee: Charles Piller
    amount: $50,000
    city: Oakland, CA
    year: 2023

    To support the research and writing of DOCTORED: Fakery, Hubris, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer’s to be published by Simon & Schuster

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

    To support the research and writing of DOCTORED: Fakery, Hubris, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer’s to be published by Simon & Schuster

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  • grantee: Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
    amount: $22,350
    city: Waterloo, Canada, Canada
    year: 2023

    To support the research and writing of How to Build a Universe, to be published by Scribner Books

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Katherine Mack

    To support the research and writing of How to Build a Universe, to be published by Scribner Books

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