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: Nicola Twilley
    amount: $50,000
    city: Los Angeles, CA
    year: 2022

    To support the research and writing of “The Birth of Cool,” to be published by Penguin Press

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Nicola Twilley

    To support the research and writing of “The Birth of Cool,” to be published by Penguin Press

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  • grantee: Lynne Peeples
    amount: $46,970
    city: Seattle, WA
    year: 2022

    To support the research and writing of “It’s Time: Our Broken Clocks, Our Threatened Health, and the Scientific Revolution that Could Reset Us All,” published by Riverhead Books and Bloomsbury in 2023

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Lynne Peeples

    To support the research and writing of “It’s Time: Our Broken Clocks, Our Threatened Health, and the Scientific Revolution that Could Reset Us All,” published by Riverhead Books and Bloomsbury in 2023

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  • grantee: Coastal Carolina University
    amount: $50,000
    city: Conway, SC
    year: 2022

    To support the research and writing of “Breadfruit: the Gift of the Islands,” published by Harvard University Press in 2024

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Russell Fielding

    To support the research and writing of “Breadfruit: the Gift of the Islands,” published by Harvard University Press in 2024

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  • grantee: Anil Ananthaswamy
    amount: $55,000
    city: San Ramon, CA
    year: 2022

    To support the research and writing of “Why Machines Learn,” published by Dutton in 2023

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Anil Ananthaswamy

    To support the research and writing of “Why Machines Learn,” published by Dutton in 2023

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  • grantee: Mark Wolverton
    amount: $46,700
    city: Narbeth, PA
    year: 2022

    To support the research and writing of “Splinters of Infinity: Cosmic Rays and the Clash of Two Nobel-Winning Scientists Over the Origins of the Universe,” to be published by MIT Press

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Mark Wolverton

    To support the research and writing of “Splinters of Infinity: Cosmic Rays and the Clash of Two Nobel-Winning Scientists Over the Origins of the Universe,” to be published by MIT Press

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  • grantee: Alexandra H. Morris
    amount: $54,990
    city: Portland, ME
    year: 2021

    To support the research and writing of a book about gray and harbor seals in New England and the impact of their resurgence

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Alexandra Morris

    To support the research and writing of a book about gray and harbor seals in New England and the impact of their resurgence

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  • grantee: Samuel Cord Stier
    amount: $55,000
    city: Missoula, MO
    year: 2021

    To support the research and writing of “Bioinspired,” a book about the role the natural world plays in the development of technologies which benefit humankind

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Samuel Stier

    To support the research and writing of “Bioinspired,” a book about the role the natural world plays in the development of technologies which benefit humankind

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  • grantee: Anya Bernstein
    amount: $50,000
    city: Cambridge, MA
    year: 2021

    To support the research and writing of “Pleistocene Park: Extinction and Eternity in the Russian Arctic,” to be published by Princeton University Press

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Anya Bernstein

    To support the research and writing of “Pleistocene Park: Extinction and Eternity in the Russian Arctic,” to be published by Princeton University Press

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  • grantee: Leslie Stebbins
    amount: $40,000
    city: Lexington, MA
    year: 2021

    To support the research and writing of “Building Back Truth in an Age of Misinformation,” published by Rowman & Littlefield

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Leslie Stebbins

    To support the research and writing of “Building Back Truth in an Age of Misinformation,” published by Rowman & Littlefield

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  • grantee: Karen Pinchin
    amount: $25,000
    city: Dartmouth, Canada, Canada
    year: 2021

    To support the research and writing of “Kings of Their Own Ocean,” to be published by Knopf Canada

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Karen Pinchin

    To support the research and writing of “Kings of Their Own Ocean,” to be published by Knopf Canada

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