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.

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73 Grants

Grantee

Amount

City

Year

grantee: WGBH Educational Foundation

amount: $250,000

city: Boston, MA

year: 2023
To produce and release a one-hour NOVA documentary about personal data and privacy along with a social media campaign, screening events, virtual fieldtrip and classroom-ready assets hosted on PBS LearningMedia
- Program Public Understanding
- Sub-program Television
- Investigator Julia Cort
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To produce and release a one-hour NOVA documentary about personal data and privacy along with a social media campaign, screening events, virtual fieldtrip and classroom-ready assets hosted on PBS LearningMedia
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grantee: Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc.

amount: $250,000

city: Arlington, VA

year: 2023
To support the production and associated marketing and promotion of a two-part, four-hour documentary about Leonardo da Vinci
- Program Public Understanding
- Sub-program Television
- Investigator John Wilson
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To support the production and associated marketing and promotion of a two-part, four-hour documentary about Leonardo da Vinci
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grantee: The Open Mind Legacy Project

amount: $220,088

city: New York, NY

year: 2023
To support 15 to 17 interviews with Sloan-supported authors and Sloan-related thinkers each year for two years on 'The Open Mind'
- Program Public Understanding
- Sub-program Television
- Investigator Alexander Heffner
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To support 15 to 17 interviews with Sloan-supported authors and Sloan-related thinkers each year for two years on 'The Open Mind'
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grantee: The University of Texas, Austin

amount: $50,000

city: Austin, TX

year: 2023
To produce 6 full-length episodes of Power Trip: The Story of Energy, a documentary series about the impact of energy
- Program Public Understanding
- Sub-program Television
- Investigator Michael Webber
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To produce 6 full-length episodes of Power Trip: The Story of Energy, a documentary series about the impact of energy
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grantee: WGBH Educational Foundation

amount: $1,000,000

city: Boston, United States

year: 2022
To support the production and associated marketing and promotion of two prime time American Experience documentary films: Love Canal and The Pap Test.
- Program Public Understanding
- Sub-program Television
- Investigator Cameo George
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To support the production and associated marketing and promotion of two prime time American Experience documentary films: Love Canal and The Pap Test.
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grantee: WGBH Educational Foundation

amount: $500,000

city: Boston, MA

year: 2022
To produce and release a two-hour PBS NOVA documentary examining the roots of systemic racism in our medical system along with a social media campaign, screening events, virtual field trip, and classroom-ready assets hosted on PBS Learning Media
- Program Public Understanding
- Sub-program Television
- Investigator Julia Cort
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To produce and release a two-hour PBS NOVA documentary examining the roots of systemic racism in our medical system along with a social media campaign, screening events, virtual field trip, and classroom-ready assets hosted on PBS Learning Media
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grantee: WGBH Educational Foundation

amount: $1,000,000

city: Boston, MA

year: 2022
To support the production and associated marketing and promotion of two prime time American Experience documentary films about the role of science and technology in history
- Program Public Understanding
- Sub-program Television
- Investigator Cameo George
This grant provides ongoing support to American Experience, a popular and award-winning PBS history documentary series to integrate science and technology themes and profiles of scientists, engineers, and mathematicians. Grant funds will allow American Experience to research, produce, and broadcast two new one-hour documentary shows telling historical tales about the overlooked contributions of women and people of color in science and technology. The Sun Queen will tell the story of Maria Telkes, a physical chemist who was consumed from an early age by the potential of using the sun as a viable energy source. Zora Neale Hurston, meanwhile, recounts the story of the famous writer and Harlem Renaissance literary figure who led a second, less well-known life as a pioneering anthropologist. The two films will be broadcast during primetime on PBS.

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To support the production and associated marketing and promotion of two prime time American Experience documentary films about the role of science and technology in history
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grantee: Verse Video Education, Inc.

amount: $125,656

city: Brookline, MA

year: 2022
To support the production of one science-themed episode of “Poetry in America,” a public television series to enhance appreciation of poetry
- Program Public Understanding
- Sub-program Television
- Investigator Elisa New
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To support the production of one science-themed episode of “Poetry in America,” a public television series to enhance appreciation of poetry
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grantee: Catticus Corporation

amount: $250,000

city: Berkeley, CA

year: 2021
To produce “The Science of Friendship,” a one-hour documentary to air on PBS’s NOVA
- Program Public Understanding
- Sub-program Television
- Investigator Kiki Kapany
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To produce “The Science of Friendship,” a one-hour documentary to air on PBS’s NOVA
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grantee: WGBH Educational Foundation

amount: $600,000

city: Boston, MA

year: 2021
To support “The Future: Made in China?,” a two-hour NOVA special about the rise of China as a global leader in science and technology
- Program Public Understanding
- Sub-program Television
- Investigator Chris Schmidt
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To support “The Future: Made in China?,” a two-hour NOVA special about the rise of China as a global leader in science and technology
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