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: Boston College
    amount: $249,538
    city: Chestnut Hill, MA
    year: 2024

    To study comparatively how humans and large language models assess the validity of claims

    • Program Technology
    • Initiative Trust in AI
    • Sub-program Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology
    • Investigator Liane Young

    To study comparatively how humans and large language models assess the validity of claims

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  • grantee: University of California, Berkeley
    amount: $249,516
    city: Berkeley, CA
    year: 2024

    To explore the value of virtual coworking in science

    • Program Technology
    • Initiative Virtual Collaboration initiative
    • Sub-program Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology
    • Investigator Aruna Ranganathan

    To explore the value of virtual coworking in science

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  • grantee: Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences
    amount: $50,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2023

    To support participation by academic and nonprofit-based social scientists at Social Science Foo Camp

    • Program Technology
    • Initiative Virtual Collaboration initiative
    • Sub-program Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology
    • Investigator Erika Isaly

    To support participation by academic and nonprofit-based social scientists at Social Science Foo Camp

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  • grantee: Washington State University
    amount: $250,000
    city: Vancouver, WA
    year: 2023

    To explore the future of reading and writing in virtual and augmented reality through community dialog, building software, and developing metadata infrastructure

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology
    • Investigator Rudyne Grigar

    To explore the future of reading and writing in virtual and augmented reality through community dialog, building software, and developing metadata infrastructure

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  • grantee: Morgan State University
    amount: $175,000
    city: Baltimore, MD
    year: 2023

    To investigate the relative ease and tradeoffs between OpenSim and Unity for developing immersive student experiences

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology
    • Investigator Carl White

    To investigate the relative ease and tradeoffs between OpenSim and Unity for developing immersive student experiences

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  • grantee: Aalborg University
    amount: $23,803
    city: Aalborg East, Denmark, Denmark
    year: 2023

    To partially support a meeting on human-centered software engineering and artificial intelligence

    • Program Technology
    • Initiative Trust in AI
    • Sub-program Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology
    • Investigator Daniel Russo

    To partially support a meeting on human-centered software engineering and artificial intelligence

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  • grantee: Appropedia Foundation
    amount: $192,600
    city: Arcada, CA
    year: 2023

    To develop and maintain metadata standards for open-source hardware

    • Program Technology
    • Initiative Open Hardware
    • Sub-program Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology
    • Investigator Andrew Lamb

    To develop and maintain metadata standards for open-source hardware

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  • grantee: University of Colorado, Denver
    amount: $49,954
    city: Denver, CO
    year: 2023

    To explore how the latest developments in large language models (LLMs) might inform scientific writing

    • Program Technology
    • Initiative Trust in AI
    • Sub-program Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology
    • Investigator Milton Pividori

    To explore how the latest developments in large language models (LLMs) might inform scientific writing

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  • grantee: University of California, Santa Cruz
    amount: $250,000
    city: Santa Cruz, CA
    year: 2023

    To design, prototype, and validate multi-user Virtual Reality tool designs for collaborative use by distributed science teams

    • Program Technology
    • Initiative Virtual Collaboration initiative
    • Sub-program Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology
    • Investigator Katherine Isbister

    To design, prototype, and validate multi-user Virtual Reality tool designs for collaborative use by distributed science teams

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  • grantee: Princeton University
    amount: $249,779
    city: Princeton, NJ
    year: 2023

    To investigate new models for the evolution and effective use of hybrid and virtual meetings within a globally distributed scientific collaboration

    • Program Technology
    • Initiative Virtual Collaboration initiative
    • Sub-program Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology
    • Investigator Peter Elmer

    To investigate new models for the evolution and effective use of hybrid and virtual meetings within a globally distributed scientific collaboration

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