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: Jennifer Frazer LLC
    amount: $55,000
    city: Superior, CO
    year: 2024

    To support the research and writing of The Slime Mold’s Guide to World Domination, to be published by Simon & Schuster

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Jennifer Frazer

    To support the research and writing of The Slime Mold’s Guide to World Domination, to be published by Simon & Schuster

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  • grantee: Jon Gertner
    amount: $58,800
    city: Maplewood, NJ
    year: 2024

    To support the research and writing of How to Build Something That Will Last Forever: NASA Voyager’s Epic Journey into the Cosmos, to be published by Random House

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Jon Gertner

    To support the research and writing of How to Build Something That Will Last Forever: NASA Voyager’s Epic Journey into the Cosmos, to be published by Random House

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  • grantee: University of Southern California
    amount: $50,000
    city: Los Angeles, CA
    year: 2024

    To support the development of a technical assistance project that aids higher education practitioners and policymakers in advancing equitable and diverse learning and research communities

    • Program Higher Education
    • Investigator Jerome Lucido

    To support the development of a technical assistance project that aids higher education practitioners and policymakers in advancing equitable and diverse learning and research communities

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  • grantee: Yasheng Huang
    amount: $50,000
    city: Washington, DC
    year: 2024

    To support the research and writing of The Needham Question: The Rise and Fall of Chinese Technology in History, to be published by Princeton University Press

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Books
    • Investigator Yasheng Huang

    To support the research and writing of The Needham Question: The Rise and Fall of Chinese Technology in History, to be published by Princeton University Press

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  • grantee: Open Source Initiative
    amount: $249,150
    city: West Hollywood, CA
    year: 2024

    To support the development of an Open Source AI Definition supported by a diverse set of stakeholders

    • Program Technology
    • Initiative Trust in AI
    • Sub-program Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology
    • Investigator Stefano Maffulli

    To support the development of an Open Source AI Definition supported by a diverse set of stakeholders

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  • grantee: University of Vermont
    amount: $46,275
    city: Burlington, VT
    year: 2024

    To support a CURIOSS workshop for community building amongst Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs)

    • Program Technology
    • Sub-program Better Software for Science
    • Investigator Kendall Fortney

    To support a CURIOSS workshop for community building amongst Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs)

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  • grantee: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
    amount: $140,173
    city: Blacksburg, VA
    year: 2024

    To design and implement a platform to help research software engineers adopt best practices

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

    To design and implement a platform to help research software engineers adopt best practices

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  • grantee: Friends of Ecole Normale Superieure
    amount: $10,000
    city: Timonium, MD
    year: 2024

    To partially support the 2024 Paris Conference on AI & Digital Ethics

    • Program Technology
    • Initiative Trust in AI
    • Sub-program Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology
    • Investigator Dominique Lestel

    To partially support the 2024 Paris Conference on AI & Digital Ethics

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  • grantee: The Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation
    amount: $25,000
    city: Austin, TX
    year: 2024

    To support a 2-day conference that will explore the challenges the media landscape poses to democracy

    • Program Public Understanding
    • Sub-program Special Initiatives
    • Investigator Mark Updegrove

    To support a 2-day conference that will explore the challenges the media landscape poses to democracy

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  • grantee: Santa Fe Institute
    amount: $45,200
    city: Santa Fe, NM
    year: 2024

    To support a workshop on research disciplines’ engagement with AI

    • Program Technology
    • Initiative Trust in AI
    • Sub-program Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology
    • Investigator David Krakauer

    To support a workshop on research disciplines’ engagement with AI

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