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: Brooklyn Academy of Music
    amount: $20,000
    city: Brooklyn, NY
    year: 2011

    To support BAM’s special 150th anniversary exhibition on the Shackleton Trans-Antarctic Expedition with enhanced scientific context

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program New Media
    • Investigator Violaine Huisman

    To support BAM’s special 150th anniversary exhibition on the Shackleton Trans-Antarctic Expedition with enhanced scientific context

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  • grantee: Technology Affinity Group
    amount: $5,000
    city: Wayne, PA
    year: 2011

    Membership Dues 2011

    • Program
    • Investigator Lisa Pool

    Membership Dues 2011

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  • grantee: University of California, Irvine
    amount: $119,756
    city: Irvine, CA
    year: 2011

    To evaluate how public access to mapping software and data, including initiatives supported by Foundation grants, impacts the redistricting process

    • Program Technology
    • Investigator Bernard Grofman

    To evaluate how public access to mapping software and data, including initiatives supported by Foundation grants, impacts the redistricting process

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  • grantee: Columbia University
    amount: $124,948
    city: New York, NY
    year: 2011

    To conduct behavioral research on decision-making by consumers that informs the design of health insurance exchanges

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Eric Johnson

    To conduct behavioral research on decision-making by consumers that informs the design of health insurance exchanges

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  • grantee: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
    amount: $19,800
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2011

    To fund the travel of American Participants in a conference on reprocessing in Northeast Asia to be hosted by the China Arms Control and Disarmament Association

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Energy and Environment
    • Investigator Lora Saalman

    To fund the travel of American Participants in a conference on reprocessing in Northeast Asia to be hosted by the China Arms Control and Disarmament Association

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  • grantee: New Venture Fund
    amount: $124,781
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2011

    To study financial institutions' use of obfuscation in marketing credit cards to consumers

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Rachael Raab

    To study financial institutions' use of obfuscation in marketing credit cards to consumers

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  • grantee: MentorNet
    amount: $60,000
    city: Sunnyvale, CA
    year: 2011

    To develop and launch a campaign on web-based social channels to recruit students directly into MentorNet's mentoring program

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator David Porush

    To develop and launch a campaign on web-based social channels to recruit students directly into MentorNet's mentoring program

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  • grantee: The Brookings Institution
    amount: $19,616
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2011

    To hold a meeting to assess the current state of research in industrial organization and to explore ways to make the field more engaged with live empirical and policy issues

    • Program Research
    • Sub-program Economics
    • Investigator Clifford Winston

    To hold a meeting to assess the current state of research in industrial organization and to explore ways to make the field more engaged with live empirical and policy issues

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  • grantee: Council on Foundations, Inc.
    amount: $45,000
    city: Arlington, VA
    year: 2011

    To support work on behalf of the nonprofit and charitable community

    • Program
    • Investigator Keith Greene

    To support work on behalf of the nonprofit and charitable community

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  • grantee: Independent Sector
    amount: $17,500
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2011

    To support work on behalf of the nonprofit and charitable community

    • Program
    • Investigator Kris Prendergast

    To support work on behalf of the nonprofit and charitable community

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