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: Women Make Movies, Inc.
    amount: $500,000
    city: New York, United States
    year: 2022

    To support the production of a feature length documentary called Love + Tech, about the increasing impact of technology on our romantic lives

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Film
    • Investigator Shalini Kantayya

    To support the production of a feature length documentary called Love + Tech, about the increasing impact of technology on our romantic lives

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  • grantee: Family Pictures Institute for Inclusive Storytelling
    amount: $150,000
    city: Greenwood Lake, NY
    year: 2022

    To support the research and writing of a full treatment for My Mother, the Scientist, a 90-minute personal documentary about the challenge of recruiting more Blacks into STEM

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Film
    • Investigator Thomas Allen Harris

    To support the research and writing of a full treatment for My Mother, the Scientist, a 90-minute personal documentary about the challenge of recruiting more Blacks into STEM

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  • grantee: UnionDocs Inc
    amount: $250,000
    city: Brooklyn, NY
    year: 2022

    To support the production of a feature length documentary about the life and work of scientist John Lilly

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Film
    • Investigator Michael Almereyda

    To support the production of a feature length documentary about the life and work of scientist John Lilly

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  • grantee: Columbia University
    amount: $401,713
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2022

    To encourage the next generation of filmmakers to write screenplays and produce short films about science and technology through enhanced research, mentorship, and award opportunities

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Film
    • Investigator Trey Ellis

    This grant provides ongoing funding to the Sloan Film Program at Columbia University, which supports young screenwriters and directors in creating new work with science and technology themes and characters. Under the stewardship of Trey Ellis, grant funds will allow Columbia to maintain two production awards for short films and provide expanded access to a mentorship program offering a stipend and research opportunities to a shortlist of three screenwriters. Grant funds will also allow the film school to expand an annual seminar into a major event at Columbia’s Lenfest Center for the Arts on the Manhattanville campus, which will include scientists and other researchers in addition to would-be applicants to the Sloan Film Program.

    To encourage the next generation of filmmakers to write screenplays and produce short films about science and technology through enhanced research, mentorship, and award opportunities

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  • grantee: New York University
    amount: $441,648
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2022

    To support screenwriting and production of science and technology films and games by top film and game design students

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Film
    • Investigator Michael Burke

    This grant provides ongoing support to the Sloan Film Program at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts (NYU), which will develop science screenplays and produce short science or technology-themed films and games over the next three years. Under the stewardship of Michael Burke, grant funds will allow NYU to maintain three screenwriting awards, one production award, and one gaming award each year, while providing every project with a science advisor.

    To support screenwriting and production of science and technology films and games by top film and game design students

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  • grantee: Metropole Film Board, Inc.
    amount: $250,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2022

    To produce and release a 90-minute documentary The Calling: A Medical Odyssey that will profile BIPOC medical students at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Film
    • Investigator Timothy Smith

    To produce and release a 90-minute documentary The Calling: A Medical Odyssey that will profile BIPOC medical students at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine

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  • grantee: American Museum of the Moving Image
    amount: $598,238
    city: Astoria, NY
    year: 2022

    To maintain the most comprehensive site for the nationwide Sloan Film program, to develop related outreach, events, and educational materials, and to support one year of the Sloan Student Prizes

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Film
    • Investigator Sonia Epstein

    This grant provides ongoing support for the Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI), to maintain and improve the Sloan Science & Film website, scienceandfilm.org, for a further three years. The website, led by Sonia Epstein, remains the most up-to-date, comprehensive resource for the Sloan Film Program, and also offers over 200 articles and interviews with science filmmakers, plus an additional 20 articles about film written by scientists. Grant funds will allow MoMI to publish two new articles on the Sloan Science & Film site each week, for a total of 250 over the grant period; commission over 20 original articles by research scientists; produce at least 8 Science on Screen public events annually; curate at least one science-themed gallery exhibition at the museum; update the site with new Sloan-winning media; promote and disseminate a short film teacher’s guide and a feature film companion guide; form partnerships with science and cultural institutions; represent the initiative at festivals and events; host annual networking events, produce a lookbook of Sloan-winning films; produce a development catalog to become a community resource for the Sloan film community; and award the 2022 Sloan Student Prizes.

    To maintain the most comprehensive site for the nationwide Sloan Film program, to develop related outreach, events, and educational materials, and to support one year of the Sloan Student Prizes

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  • grantee: Film Independent, Inc.
    amount: $94,985
    city: Los Angeles, CA
    year: 2022

    To support the addition of the 2021 Sloan film grantees and COVID-19 testing and accommodations for the postponed Sloan Summit

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Film
    • Investigator Josh Welsh

    To support the addition of the 2021 Sloan film grantees and COVID-19 testing and accommodations for the postponed Sloan Summit

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  • grantee: SF Isle of Man Limited
    amount: $250,000
    city: Douglas, Isle of Man, IM1 IJE, United Kingdom
    year: 2021

    To support the production of the documentary film “We Will Not Die Quietly,” about the 20-year struggle for access to medicines and vaccines, from HIV/AIDS to COVID-19

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Film
    • Investigator Karien Bezuidenhout

    To support the production of the documentary film “We Will Not Die Quietly,” about the 20-year struggle for access to medicines and vaccines, from HIV/AIDS to COVID-19

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  • grantee: Barnard College
    amount: $315,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2021

    To support the leading women’s film festival, the Athena Film Festival at Barnard, with women-in-STEM screenwriting development and festival programming

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Film
    • Investigator Victoria Lesourd

    To support the leading women’s film festival, the Athena Film Festival at Barnard, with women-in-STEM screenwriting development and festival programming

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