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: National Information Standards Organization
    amount: $44,944
    city: Baltimore, MD
    year: 2024

    To support Diversity & Equity and Early Career Scholarships for attendance at the 2024 NISO Plus conference

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Better Software for Science
    • Investigator Jason Griffey

    To support Diversity & Equity and Early Career Scholarships for attendance at the 2024 NISO Plus conference

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  • grantee: Open Collective Foundation
    amount: $605,000
    city: Walnut, CA
    year: 2023

    To support research on the building, deployment, and maintenance of open digital infrastructure

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Better Software for Science
    • Investigator Katharina Meyer

    To support research on the building, deployment, and maintenance of open digital infrastructure

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  • grantee: North Carolina State University
    amount: $174,994
    city: Raleigh, NC
    year: 2023

    To improve access to data science research support in higher education through development and dissemination of best practices in running campus consulting services

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Better Software for Science
    • Investigator Emily Griffith

    To improve access to data science research support in higher education through development and dissemination of best practices in running campus consulting services

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  • grantee: Educopia Institute
    amount: $249,995
    city: Atlanta, GA
    year: 2023

    To continue support for a movement that advocates for the importance of maintenance, repair, and care

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Better Software for Science
    • Investigator Lauren Dapena Fraiz

    To continue support for a movement that advocates for the importance of maintenance, repair, and care

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  • grantee: Berkeley Lab Foundation
    amount: $245,000
    city: Oakland, CA
    year: 2023

    To continue studying the production and user experience of scientific software to develop a design system for scientific software user interfaces

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Better Software for Science
    • Investigator Lavanya Ramakrishnan

    To continue studying the production and user experience of scientific software to develop a design system for scientific software user interfaces

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  • grantee: Howard University
    amount: $249,947
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2023

    To develop and implement a pilot program to advance open-source skills in faculty research and student training at two Historically Black Colleges and Universities

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Better Software for Science
    • Investigator Nathan Alexander

    To develop and implement a pilot program to advance open-source skills in faculty research and student training at two Historically Black Colleges and Universities

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  • grantee: The University of Texas, Austin
    amount: $650,000
    city: Austin, TX
    year: 2023

    To support the development, maintenance, and sustainability of research software through the establishment of an open source program office at the University of Texas, Austin

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Better Software for Science
    • Investigator Jennifer Schopf

    An Open Source Program Office (OSPO) is an organizational construct, originally developed in technology companies, with dedicated staff who coordinate and support open source activity. When adapted to a university, an OSPO can offer: 1) training and individualized support for faculty, students, and staff who want to grow local software efforts into healthy open source projects, 2) advice on how best to contribute to existing projects, 3) documentation of the value of open source work and 4) facilitation of relationships with other organizational units like technology transfer, research computing, or the library. This grant funds the establishment of an OSPO at the University of Texas at Austin, co-led by Jennifer Schopf, Angela Newell, Michael Shensky, and James Howison. UT Austin’s planned OPSO will be a collaboration between Campus IT, the UT Libraries, the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), and the School of Information. It will structure its activities strategically around a “Participation Pathway” that envisions engaging faculty and students by moving from the basic use of open source software through contribution, sharing, accepting external contributions, and ultimately the development of an ecosystem of related projects. Grant funds will support a portion of the OSPO Director’s time, substantial engagement from two Library-based positions with expertise in open source research software, a pool of trainers to run short bootcamps and courses. We anticipate support for a broad set of faculty-driven open source projects, and the inclusion of additional open source material into several existing support systems on campus. Other funds will support the creation of resources focused on lowering barriers to share and reuse scientific software, including documenting best practices surrounding the containerization, distribution, and deployment of open source software.

    To support the development, maintenance, and sustainability of research software through the establishment of an open source program office at the University of Texas, Austin

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  • grantee: Syracuse University
    amount: $637,390
    city: Syracuse, NY
    year: 2023

    To support the development, maintenance, and sustainability of research software through the establishment of an open source program office at Syracuse University

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Better Software for Science
    • Investigator Duncan Brown

    An Open Source Program Office (OSPO) is an organizational construct, originally developed in technology companies, with dedicated staff who coordinate and support open source activity. When adapted to a university, an OSPO can offer: 1) training and individualized support for faculty, students, and staff who want to grow local software efforts into healthy open source projects, 2) advice on how best to contribute to existing projects, 3) documentation of the value of open source work and 4) facilitation of relationships with other organizational units like technology transfer, research computing, or the library. This grant supports the establishment of an OSPO at Syracuse University. The effort is a collaboration between Syracuse University’s Office of Research, SU Libraries, and Information Technology Services and will be led and championed by Duncan Brown, Syracuse’s Vice President for Research. Sloan Foundation grant funds will support the hiring of a new full-time director who will report directly to Brown. Other grant funds will support a post-doctoral fellow focused on open source software development, an annual summer workshop, support for 15 faculty-driven, open source development or research projects, and the launch of a website portal that will provide access to publications, patents, products, and software developed through collaboration with the OSPO. In addition, the project team will document lessons learned and publish a playbook containing these lessons to inform similar efforts at other university campuses.

    To support the development, maintenance, and sustainability of research software through the establishment of an open source program office at Syracuse University

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  • grantee: Stanford University
    amount: $639,993
    city: Stanford, CA
    year: 2023

    To support the development, maintenance, and sustainability of research software through the establishment of an open source program office at Stanford University

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Better Software for Science
    • Investigator Russell Poldrack

    An Open Source Program Office (OSPO) is an organizational construct, originally developed in technology companies, with dedicated staff who coordinate and support open source activity. When adapted to a university, an OSPO can offer: 1) training and individualized support for faculty, students, and staff who want to grow local software efforts into healthy open source projects, 2) advice on how best to contribute to existing projects, 3) documentation of the value of open source work and 4) facilitation of relationships with other organizational units like technology transfer, research computing, or the library. This grant funds the establishment of an OSPO at Stanford University. Stanford’s OSPO will be anchored in the Center for Open and Reproducible Science and led by cognitive neuroscientist Russell Poldrack. Grants funds will support a host of activities, including the recruitment of a full-time community manager, the establishment of an external advisory board and executive committee, the creation of a registry of open source projects being spearheaded by Stanford faculty, support for at least 20 faculty projects, and an ongoing series of lectures, hackathons and code sprints to engage the campus community. In addition, Poldrack and his team are actively engaged in diversity, equity, and inclusion issues in open source communities and plan to compile a guide of best practices for fostering inclusive, welcoming open source projects.

    To support the development, maintenance, and sustainability of research software through the establishment of an open source program office at Stanford University

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  • grantee: George Washington University
    amount: $685,652
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2023

    To support the development, maintenance, and sustainability of research software through the establishment of an open source program office at George Washington University

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Better Software for Science
    • Investigator Geneva Henry

    An Open Source Program Office (OSPO) is an organizational construct, originally developed in technology companies, with dedicated staff who coordinate and support open source activity. When adapted to a university, an OSPO can offer: 1) training and individualized support for faculty, students, and staff who want to grow local software efforts into healthy open source projects, 2) advice on how best to contribute to existing projects, 3) documentation of the value of open source work and 4) facilitation of relationships with other organizational units like technology transfer, research computing, or the library. This grant supports the establishment of an OSPO at George Washington University. The GW OSPO will sit organizationally within the university’s Libraries and Academic Innovation (LAI) unit and be co-led by Geneva Henry (the dean of LAI as well as the current Vice Provost for libraries and information technology) and Lorena Barba (Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering). Grant funds will support the hiring of a Program Director, consulting services to individual faculty and staff, an annual “Open Source Con” that would bring together developers and contributors from across campus, strategic planning activities around web content and services, and community-building and outreach activities to engage GW faculty and students, including workshops, software camps, information sessions, micro-learning courses, and undergraduate awards program recognizing outstanding open source software contributions by GW students.

    To support the development, maintenance, and sustainability of research software through the establishment of an open source program office at George Washington University

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