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

160 Grants
Grantee
Amount
City
Year
  • 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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  • grantee: Mallary Tenore Tarpley
    amount: $50,000
    city: Pflugerville, TX
    year: 2023

    To support the research and writing of SLIP: Sickness, Recovery & the Space in Between to be published by Simon & Schuster

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Mallary Tenore Tarpley

    To support the research and writing of SLIP: Sickness, Recovery & the Space in Between to be published by Simon & Schuster

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  • grantee: Paige Madison
    amount: $46,701
    city: Bozeman, MT
    year: 2023

    To support the research and writing of Strange Creatures Beyond Count: How Fossil Hobbits Helped Show Us Who We Are, to be published by Scribner Books

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Paige Madison

    To support the research and writing of Strange Creatures Beyond Count: How Fossil Hobbits Helped Show Us Who We Are, to be published by Scribner Books

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  • grantee: Alec Nevala-Lee
    amount: $40,000
    city: Oak Park, IL
    year: 2023

    To support the research and writing of The Man Who Solved Problems: The Life and Genius of Luis W. Alvarez to be published by W.W. Norton

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Alec Nevala-Lee

    To support the research and writing of The Man Who Solved Problems: The Life and Genius of Luis W. Alvarez to be published by W.W. Norton

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  • grantee: Samantha Culp
    amount: $32,500
    city: West Hollywood, CA
    year: 2023

    To support the research and writing of What Was the Future? to be published by Crown Publishing

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Samantha Culp

    To support the research and writing of What Was the Future? to be published by Crown Publishing

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  • grantee: New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
    amount: $49,776
    city: Socorro, NM
    year: 2023

    To support the research and writing of Wild Anthropocene: Nature, Democracy, and the Future of Biodiversity, to be published by MIT Press in 2024

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Taylor Dotson

    To support the research and writing of Wild Anthropocene: Nature, Democracy, and the Future of Biodiversity, to be published by MIT Press in 2024

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