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: American Association for the Advancement of Science
    amount: $50,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2023

    To elevate the role of STEMM societies and their multi-sector partners in taking individual and collective action to advance DEI in a changing legal and policy landscape

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Andrew Black

    To elevate the role of STEMM societies and their multi-sector partners in taking individual and collective action to advance DEI in a changing legal and policy landscape

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  • grantee: The University of Texas at Austin
    amount: $250,000
    city: Austin, TX
    year: 2023

    To examine how state-level pressures and sociopolitical environments are shaping racial inclusion policy and practice on college campuses in and outside of STEM

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Liliana Garces

    To examine how state-level pressures and sociopolitical environments are shaping racial inclusion policy and practice on college campuses in and outside of STEM

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  • grantee: University of Utah
    amount: $78,406
    city: Salt Lake City, UT
    year: 2023

    To study the history of the Eastern Economic Association (EEA) and its role in advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in economics

    • Program Research
    • Investigator Sarah Small

    To study the history of the Eastern Economic Association (EEA) and its role in advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in economics

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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: American Association for the Advancement of Science
    amount: $250,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2023

    To support the AAAS STEMM Opportunity Alliance, a national initiative to create an equitable and excellent STEMM ecosystem by 2050

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Michael Feder

    To support the AAAS STEMM Opportunity Alliance, a national initiative to create an equitable and excellent STEMM ecosystem by 2050

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  • grantee: University of Pennsylvania
    amount: $75,000
    city: Philadelphia, PA
    year: 2023

    To study the history of chimpanzees as scientific commodities in the 20th century United States

    • Program Research
    • Investigator M. Susan Lindee

    To study the history of chimpanzees as scientific commodities in the 20th century United States

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  • grantee: University of Delaware
    amount: $69,205
    city: Newark, DE
    year: 2023

    To support research on the economic and social histories of ubiquitous but poorly-documented tools central to Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

    • Program Research
    • Investigator Julie Klinger

    To support research on the economic and social histories of ubiquitous but poorly-documented tools central to Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

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  • grantee: University of California, Los Angeles
    amount: $100,000
    city: Los Angeles, CA
    year: 2023

    To build synthetic RNA condensates that isothermally self-assemble during transcription and which encapsulate an artificial genome for localized reactions, feedback regulation, and communication

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Matter-to-Life
    • Investigator Jaimie Stewart

    To build synthetic RNA condensates that isothermally self-assemble during transcription and which encapsulate an artificial genome for localized reactions, feedback regulation, and communication

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  • grantee: The New York Academy of Medicine
    amount: $47,000
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2023

    To produce a 45-minute performance of the opera “Semmelweis” with accompanying lectures, moderated discussions, and outreach

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program New Media
    • Investigator Elana Kieffer

    To produce a 45-minute performance of the opera “Semmelweis” with accompanying lectures, moderated discussions, and outreach

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  • grantee: California Institute of Technology
    amount: $200,000
    city: Pasadena, CA
    year: 2023

    To study an electric-dipole-moment (EDM) sensitive state in laser cooled and trapped SrOH, in preparation for future experiments aimed at lowering the upperlimit on the electron EDM

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Small-Scale Fundamental Physics
    • Investigator Nick Hutzler

    To study an electric-dipole-moment (EDM) sensitive state in laser cooled and trapped SrOH, in preparation for future experiments aimed at lowering the upperlimit on the electron EDM

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