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: Columbia University
    amount: $20,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2019

    To develop and validate new methods of using natural language processing to study how scientific publications inform patentable innovations

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Bhaven Sampat

    To develop and validate new methods of using natural language processing to study how scientific publications inform patentable innovations

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  • grantee: Industrial Organizational Society, Inc.
    amount: $22,000
    city: Boston, MA
    year: 2019

    To support graduate student presentations at the International Industrial Organization Conference

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Marc Rysman

    To support graduate student presentations at the International Industrial Organization Conference

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  • grantee: Center for Innovative Governance
    amount: $20,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2019

    To fund student scholarships for participation in a conference on the economic implications of mechanism design and other market-based organizational innovations

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Mark Lutter

    To fund student scholarships for participation in a conference on the economic implications of mechanism design and other market-based organizational innovations

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  • grantee: Indiana University
    amount: $19,960
    city: Bloomington, IN
    year: 2019

    To support a workshop on improving rigor, reproducibility, and transparency in science

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator David Allison

    To support a workshop on improving rigor, reproducibility, and transparency in science

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  • grantee: National Academy of Sciences
    amount: $25,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2018

    To develop a shared vision and approach for a collaboration between NASEM, OECD and IAP to understand the impact of AI on work by assessing AI and robotics capabilities

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Stuart Elliott

    To develop a shared vision and approach for a collaboration between NASEM, OECD and IAP to understand the impact of AI on work by assessing AI and robotics capabilities

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  • grantee: University of Maryland, College Park
    amount: $1,975
    city: College Park, MD
    year: 2018

    To develop measurement tools for assessing public attitudes toward potential privacy protection techniques

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Frauke Kreuter

    To develop measurement tools for assessing public attitudes toward potential privacy protection techniques

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  • grantee: The University of Chicago
    amount: $20,000
    city: Chicago, IL
    year: 2018

    To support the work of a Committee for the Study of Digital Platforms in preparation for an international conference on antitrust and competition research

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Luigi Zingales

    To support the work of a Committee for the Study of Digital Platforms in preparation for an international conference on antitrust and competition research

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  • grantee: Cornell University
    amount: $50,000
    city: Ithaca, NY
    year: 2018

    To enhance the transparency, reproducibility, and replicability of empirical research in the social sciences by simplifying how authors can, when submitting a paper to a journal, also provide structured metadata about the provenance and archiving of code, data, and other supplementary materials

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Lars Vilhuber

    To enhance the transparency, reproducibility, and replicability of empirical research in the social sciences by simplifying how authors can, when submitting a paper to a journal, also provide structured metadata about the provenance and archiving of code, data, and other supplementary materials

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  • grantee: George Washington University
    amount: $50,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2018

    To design, vet, and launch plans for federal agencies and private data holders to cooperate on improving federal economic statistics

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Andrew Reamer

    To design, vet, and launch plans for federal agencies and private data holders to cooperate on improving federal economic statistics

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  • grantee: University of Florida
    amount: $124,998
    city: Gainesville, FL
    year: 2018

    To pilot the acquisition, ingestion, and standardization processes necessary to compile a national voter registration database for use by academics and officials conducting non-partisan research

    • Program Research
    • Initiative Empirical Economic Research Enablers (EERE)
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Michael McDonald

    To pilot the acquisition, ingestion, and standardization processes necessary to compile a national voter registration database for use by academics and officials conducting non-partisan research

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