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Alfred P Sloan Foundation

$269.5M
in grants paid: 1,550
grants: 438
recipients: 2022–2024
filing years

Recent grants

The 100 largest recent grants from this foundation’s filings, newest year first.

$1.5M
Carnegie Mellon University · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
To study the techno-economics of critical industries and their supply chains
$1.3M
Peri Support Fund · Amherst, MA · 2024
To improve the availability, accessibility, and accuracy of data on the u.s. Care economy
$1.0M
Convergent Research · Cambridge, MA · 2024
To make mathematics more reliable, searchable, understandable, and accessible by developing open source proof-assistant software of great value for research, applications, and education
$1.0M
Research Foundation of the City University of Ny · New York, NY · 2024
To provide research experience and mentoring to promising students transferring from cuny community colleges to cuny senior colleges
$1.0M
National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering · Alexandria, VA · 2024
To administer scholarships for the sloan indigenous graduate partnership (sigp) program
$925,775
University of California Santa Cruz · Santa Cruz, CA · 2024
To launch a sustainable network of open source program offices across the university of california system
$875,419
Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2024
To enable the safe analysis of private data by expanding both an open-source library of software tools as well as a growing community of users
$843,319
University of California Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2024
To improve the user experience (ux) of scientific software through development of an open source design system, infrastructure for collaborative prototyping on user interfaces, and training curriculum
$767,551
Social Science Research Council · New York, NY · 2024
To provide professional development opportunities to sloan scholar alumni of the legacy, ucem, and sigp programs via the sloan scholars mentoring network, track scholar outcomes, and facilitate connectivity between curr…
$715,000
Wikimedia Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2024
To leverage ai for the benefit of wikipedias readers and contributors, including tools to address vandalism
$660,000
Research Corporation for Science Advancement · Tucson, AZ · 2024
To administer awards from the 2024 scialog: sustainable minerals, metals, and materials (sm3) conference
$640,000
Ensemble Studio Theatre · New York, NY · 2024
To commission, develop, produce, and disseminate new science plays in new york and across the country
$623,618
University of California Davis · Davis, CA · 2024
To support development of the virtual reality user interface (vrui) and its community of contributors
$605,000
Aspiration · San Francisco, CA · 2024
To support research on the building, deployment, and maintenance of open digital infrastructure
$600,000
Sundance Institute · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
To support a science and technology film program at the nation's pre-eminent independent film center that includes screenwriting fellowships, feature film prizes, science and film panels, and associated outreach
$590,330
Consumer Reports · Yonkers, NY · 2024
To investigate, evaluate and enhance consumer welfare in the financial sector
$580,000
Resources for the Future · Washington, DC · 2024
To advance the evaluation of recent federal clean energy funding programs and policies
$550,000
Colorado School of Mines · Golden, CO · 2024
To examine the role of refineries and mining-refining integration for the production of nickel and cobalt in the united states
$544,673
University of Nebraska at Omaha · Omaha, NE · 2024
To support continued development and adoption in research and practice of open source software community health metrics
$535,120
Santa Fe Institute · Santa Fe, NM · 2024
To support development of the arch platform for virtual collaboration of academic communities
$531,030
American Association for the Advancement of Science · Washington, DC · 2024
To facilitate a multi-faceted community of learning and practice for sloans creating equitable pathways to stem graduate education grantees
$501,463
American University · Washington, DC · 2024
To develop and implement a community-oriented engagement approach on marine carbon dioxide removal (mcdr) in partnership with[c]worthy, a focused research organization
$500,644
Bard College · Bronx, NY · 2024
To support the design of a new science laboratory and teaching curriculum for hands-on research experiences for bard early college new york city students
$500,000
University of California Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2024
To further grow and diversify the field of energy and environmental economics through training programs that engage students and early-career scholars from multiple universities
$500,000
The University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024
To build, from non-living chemicals, a minimal living system capable of reproduction and darwinian evolution
$500,000
Pecan Street · Austin, TX · 2024
To expand and diversify a high-resolution residential energy use monitoring testbed to four new geographies in georgia, pennsylvania, oklahoma, and oregon
$500,000
Wgbh Educational Foundation · Boston, MA · 2024
To support the production and associated marketing and promotion of two prime time american experience documentary films: mr. Polaroid and the war on smog
$496,588
University of California Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2024
To examine the equity implications of critical mineral mining and water scarcity in the great basin region through community-based participatory case studies
$471,587
University of Colorado Boulder · Boulder, CO · 2024
To extend the precision and capabilities of atomic clocks in order to perform the first experiments where both quantum mechanics and general relativity have measurable effects, and to perform novel tests of general rela…
$470,997
University of Maryland College Park · College Park, MD · 2024
To produce, test, and scale infrastructure for re-engineering official economic statistics using administrative data from businesses
$468,000
National Bureau of Economic Research · Cambridge, MA · 2024
To support over 50 programs with thousands of in-person and online participants at the annual nber summer institute
$461,760
National Bureau of Economic Research · Cambridge, MA · 2024
To support early-career researchers working on the net federal budgetary impacts of proposed legislation for enhancing u.s. Productivity
$450,000
Brookings Institution · Washington, DC · 2024
To continue supporting the publication and dissemination of high-quality, influential, and policy-relevant economics research through the brookings papers on economic activity
$450,000
University of California at Irvine · Irvine, CA · 2024
Toevaluate the interactions between critical mineral development and a shift to electrified public transportation using social life cycle assessment methodologies
$445,632
University of Wyoming · Laramie, WY · 2024
To examine the technical, environmental, social, and legal considerations for producing critical minerals and rare earth elements from mining residuals
$438,854
Howard University · Washington, DC · 2024
To enhance the teaching and educational training of howard university students pursuing degrees in economics
$437,500
Rockefeller University · New York, NY · 2024
To study how mechanical force impacts the fidelity of transcription and coordinates the development of multicellular structures
$425,000
Dynamicland Foundation · Berkeley, CA · 2024
To support the development of realtalk as a mode of communal computing in scientific contexts
$417,104
University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
To support the sloan centers for systemic change (scsc) seed grantees by equipping them with research, tools, change management strategies, and a supportive network of colleagues
$402,864
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2024
To expand and diversify the community of researchers conducting randomized controlled trials (rcts) that investigate and address the underlying causes of racial inequity
$400,000
Environmental Defense Fund · New York, NY · 2024
To conduct a field measurement campaign to better quantify emissions from hydrogen fueling stations and heavy-duty vehicles
$400,000
National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering · Alexandria, VA · 2024
To support operations of the alfred p. Sloan ucem program at duke university
$400,000
New York University · New York, NY · 2024
To continue the development of the decarbonizing chemical manufacturing using sustainable electrification (dc-muse) center
$399,803
Community Initiatives · Oakland, CA · 2024
To strengthen the professional network of research software engineers in the united states
$398,982
Boston College · Chestnut Hill, MA · 2024
To analyze how reimbursement policies for home-and-community-based services (hcbs) impact care recipients and their caregivers
$381,940
Purdue University · West Lafayette, IN · 2024
To advance indigenous perspectives in stem graduate education through a multi-campus model focused on outreach, mentoring, community-building, and student financial support
$380,000
University of California Santa Barbara · Santa Barbara, CA · 2024
To strengthen and expand project management and research in the energy and climate program at the environmental markets lab (emlab)
$379,539
University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
To develop an equity-minded, law-attentive organizational learning series for higher education institutions seeking to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion
$375,224
Fund for the City of New York · New York, NY · 2024
To improve local decision-making by continuing to build technical capacity in nyc borough president offices, community boards, agencies, and civic organizations
$375,000
Community Initiatives · Oakland, CA · 2024
To continue enabling academic data science communities to share knowledge, ideas, and lessons learned via the academic data science alliance
$373,768
George Washington University · Washington, DC · 2024
To support the development, maintenance, and sustainability of research software through the establishment of an open source program office at george washington university
$365,000
Tufts University · Medford, MA · 2024
Tostudy the economic and equity impacts of alternative electricity rate structures via a randomized controlled trial with rural electricity cooperatives in the midwest
$359,586
National Bureau of Economic Research · Cambridge, MA · 2024
To support new research on the financial challenges facing the higher education sector in the united states
$356,518
University of Kansas Center for Research · Lawrence, KS · 2024
To study the trade-off between hiring staff scientists or postdoctoral scholars to work in scientific laboratories
$350,000
Film Independent · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
To support the triennial sloan film summit, a three-day event of screenings, panels, staged readings, project updates, networking opportunities, and community building for sloan film grantees
$349,123
University of Wisconsin Madison · Madison, WI · 2024
To support the development, maintenance, and sustainability of research software through the establishment of an open source program office at the university of wisconsin, madison
$347,848
New York University · New York, NY · 2024
To pursue research projects and community-building activities that will advance the development of cognitive economics
$336,493
California Institute of Technology · Pasadena, CA · 2024
To develop a platform that integrates synthetic cell technologies, thereby creating new research opportunities for the synthetic cell community
$333,120
Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2024
To achieve size-regulation of nucleic acid based biomolecular condensates and sustained cycles of condensate formation-growth-dissolution by coupling condensation dynamics and chemical reaction dynamics
$328,119
The University of Texas at Austin · Austin, TX · 2024
To support the development, maintenance, and sustainability of research software through the establishment of an open source program office at the universityof texas, austin
$327,065
St Louis University · St Louis, MO · 2024
To support the institutionalization of an open source programs office at saint louis university
$326,354
University of California Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2024
To optimize, scale, and study the social science prediction platform, an online resource for collecting and cataloguing expert forecasts about the results of social science experiments
$325,669
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, NY · 2024
To continue support for a network of museum partners focused on scientific research in the fields of cultural heritage and art conservation through access to expert researchers and advanced equipment
$325,000
National Public Radio · Washington, DC · 2024
To support nprs coverage of economics via two podcasts, planet money and the indicator; online short videos; a weekly newsletter; and educational outreach
$323,495
Fund for the City of New York · New York, NY · 2024
To provide partial support for the sloan public service awards program
$323,335
University of California Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2024
Toimage the nanoscale organization of major processes in cell biology using correlative cryo-fluorescence super resolution microscopy and cryo-electron tomography
$322,741
Stanford University · Stanford, CA · 2024
To support the development, maintenance, and sustainability of research software through the establishment of an open source program office at stanford university
$322,022
Syracuse University · Syracuse, NY · 2024
To support the development, maintenance, and sustainability of research software through the establishment of an open source program office at syracuse university
$318,703
University of Kansas Center for Research · Lawrence, KS · 2024
To compile and collect high quality data about the u.s. Care economy for use both by researchers and, through an online statistical dashboard, by the public as well
$317,458
University of California Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2024
To establish an interdisciplinary research program on the social science of caregiving and build empirical and theoretical foundations for the cognitive economics of care
$315,958
Georgia Tech Research Corporation · Atlanta, GA · 2024
To support the development, maintenance, and sustainability of research software through the establishment of an open source program office at thegeorgia institute of technology
$313,930
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2024
To expand, diversify, and support the community of metascience researchers conducting randomized controlled trials that test ways of strengthening the processes and pace of scientific progress
$312,604
University of Glasgow · 2024
To observe and quantify the emergence and growth of selection-for-complexity in long term chemical evolution experiments
$300,000
University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2024
To examine the impact of reshoring critical minerals production on electric vehicle manufacturers and surrounding communities in the united states
$300,000
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2024
To assess the barriers and opportunities for establishing a resilient green graphite supply chain in the united states
$300,000
The Pennsylvania State University · University Park, PA · 2024
To expand the multidisciplinary rtogov research network examining the role and governance of regional transmission organizations that manage the electric power grid in the united states
$300,000
Stanford University · Stanford, CA · 2024
To complete a model of e. Coli that accounts for over 90% of the well-characterized gene content
$300,000
University of Maryland College Park · College Park, MD · 2024
To continue and expand an interdisciplinary transportation doctoral fellowship program that connects scholars in engineering, economics, and public policy across multiple institutions
$294,849
Spelman College · Atlanta, GA · 2024
To address the scarcity of black women who pursue and earn economics and related graduate degrees and to grow the number of black women economists in the professoriate
$289,254
Nesta · 2024
To facilitate the use of field experiments in the economics of science, innovation, entrepreneurship, and productivity
$289,181
University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
To support the development and production of science and technology films, television, and new media projects by top film students
$287,670
National Bureau of Economic Research · Cambridge, MA · 2024
To study the economics of digitization and of artificial intelligence in a newly unified working group that covers both topics
$281,631
University of Vermont · Burlington, VT · 2024
To support the institutionalization of an open source programs office at university of vermont
$281,031
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2024
To understand mechanistically how cellular information-processing enables and bounds the ability of bacteria to carry out key functions such as environmental navigation and cell-cell communication
$280,206
University of Missouri Columbia · Columbia, MO · 2024
To develop a bio-physically based model of the simplest form of life, minimal cell jcvi-syn3.0a
$279,482
University of Notre Dame · Notre Dame, IN · 2024
To design, build, and evaluate the impact of immersive reality technologies and artificial intelligence on collaborative scientific work
$267,621
Film Independent · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
To provide direct support to develop and distribute science and technology scripts, teleplays, and films
$263,289
Howard University · Washington, DC · 2024
To explore how spontaneous, self-organizing processes give rise to goal-oriented behaviors in single-cell organisms by studying the reassembly and mass-sensing behaviors of physarum polycephalum
$262,023
University of North Carolina at Charlotte · Charlotte, NC · 2024
To study the relationship between different forms of virtual presence on group entitativity in scientific collaborations
$257,904
Imperial College London · 2024
To use ultracold molecules trapped in an optical lattice to improve the precision of electron electric dipole moment measurements by a factor of forty
$257,676
University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
To augment the penn wharton budget model (pwbm) so that it can analyze the federal budgetary impacts of proposed immigration policies for stem workers
$257,667
Toronto International Film Festival · 2024
To support two years of a science and technology film program at the toronto international film festival, including feature film prizes, screenwriting fellowships, project pitches for filmmakers, science and film panels…
$254,385
University of British Columbia · 2024
To accelerate the production of empirical economics research on industrial strategy
$252,339
University of Wisconsin Madison · Madison, WI · 2024
To develop a comprehensive, publicly available dataset and web-based tool detailing federal, state, and institutional policies and programs that provide financial support for indigenous students seeking postsecondary ed…
$250,000
Afterimage Public Media · San Francisco, CA · 2024
To support the post-production of an all-archival, feature length documentary about climate change and its shift from scientific phenomenon to political battleground
$250,000
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research · 2024
To support an international research initiative on innovation, equity, and the future of prosperity
$250,000
The Hack Foundation · West Hollywood, CA · 2024
To continue supporting a set of coordinated activities at the community, network, and policy layers to maximize the impact of open source and open source program offices in universities
$250,000
Brookings Institution · Washington, DC · 2024
To convene experts for different sectors of the u.s. Care economy and identify priority research questions in each area
$250,000
Social Science Research Council · New York, NY · 2024
To design, test, and promulgate standards for disclosing and auditing the management practices of companies that produce artificial intelligence systems
$250,000
Digital Public Library of America · Boston, MA · 2024
To build and expand a centralized wikimedia engagement program that will make 15 million culturally rich digital files from 1000 member institutions from dpla available on wikipedia, wikimedia commons and related sites

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