Funding search · EIN 131623877 · New York, NY

Alfred P Sloan Foundation

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

1,550
grants reported
$269.5M
total given
2022–2024
filing years
$99,762
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 20222024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Where the money goes

  • Open source research software and university Open Source Program Offices
  • Energy, critical minerals, and clean energy policy economics
  • STEM graduate pathways for underrepresented and Indigenous students
  • Economics research infrastructure: NBER, care economy data, official statistics
  • Fundamental physics, chemistry of life, and synthetic cell biology
  • Science on screen and stage: film, television, theater, public radio

Typical grant

Median grant is just under $100,000 and the middle half sits between $75,000 and $249,000, so most of the portfolio is modest project support. The seven-figure checks go to infrastructure builds and scholarship administration (Carnegie Mellon supply chain techno-economics at $1.48M, PERI care economy data at $1.33M, NACME's Indigenous Graduate Partnership at $1.0M). With 1,550 grants across only 438 recipients over three years, repeat funding is the norm rather than the exception.

Their words

Phrases from their own grant descriptions, worth speaking back to them.

  • open source
  • development, maintenance, and sustainability of research software
  • expand and diversify
  • community-building
  • techno-economics
  • critical minerals

Positioning adjacent work

  • Tie adjacent work to open source infrastructure or an Open Source Program Office; that cluster is funded repeatedly at $280K-$930K.
  • Ask $250K-$500K for a defined research project; reserve seven-figure asks for data infrastructure or scholarship administration.
  • Frame outputs as tools, datasets, or platforms others reuse, not as papers. They fund shared community assets.
  • Critical minerals and supply chains draw multiple 2024 grants; connect mining, refining, or reshoring questions to equity and community impact.

Worth knowing: California and New York take over a third of grants, with Berkeley, NBER, MIT, and USC appearing repeatedly across programs, and several intermediaries (NACME, Community Initiatives, Fund for the City of New York, Film Independent) administer whole Sloan-branded programs. Recent giving leans heavily into open source software infrastructure, critical minerals supply chains, and the care economy, all themes that barely existed in older Sloan portfolios.

98 grants matching “physical · $14.7M

  • $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

  • $156,012

    University of Nevada Las Vegas · Las Vegas, NV · 2024

    To develop an infrastructure that increases diversity, fosters inclusion, and closes equity gaps among ph.d. Students in the physical sciences and engineering

  • $142,226

    Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2024

    To help develop the next generation of matter-to-life scholars by supporting a center fellow pursuing physics-of-life research

  • $122,998

    University of Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024

    To build a networked improvement community that serves to enact systemic change with a focus on equitable participation, experiences and outcomes in the physical sciences and engineering

  • $75,000

    California Institute of Technology · Pasadena, CA · 2024

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for lee mcculler in physics

  • $75,000

    Cornell University · Ithaca, NY · 2024

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for karan mehta in physics

  • $75,000

    Cornell University · Ithaca, NY · 2024

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for chao-ming jian in physics

  • $75,000

    Cornell University · Ithaca, NY · 2024

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for anna ho in physics

  • $75,000

    Georgia Institute of Technology · Atlanta, GA · 2024

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for chunhui du in physics

  • $75,000

    Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2024

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for suyang xu in physics

  • $75,000

    Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2024

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for yahui zhang in physics

  • $75,000

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2024

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for andrew vanderburg in physics

  • $75,000

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2024

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for lina necib in physics

  • $75,000

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2024

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for soonwon choi in physics

  • $75,000

    Northwestern University · Evanston, IL · 2024

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for daniel lecoanet in physics

  • $75,000

    Stanford University · Stanford, CA · 2024

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for susan clark in physics

  • $75,000

    University of Arizona · Tucson, AZ · 2024

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for kate alexander in physics

  • $75,000

    University of California Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2024

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for geoff penington in physics

  • $75,000

    University of California San Diego · La Jolla, CA · 2024

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for abdoulaye ndao in physics

  • $75,000

    University of California Santa Barbara · Santa Barbara, CA · 2024

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for xiao luo in physics

  • $75,000

    University of California Santa Barbara · Santa Barbara, CA · 2024

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for chenhao jin in physics

  • $75,000

    University of Maryland College Park · College Park, MD · 2024

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for alexander philippov in physics

  • $75,000

    University of Minnesota · Minneapolis, MN · 2024

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for zhen liu in physics

  • $75,000

    University of Wisconsin Madison · Madison, WI · 2024

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for ke fang in physics

  • $75,000

    Boston University · Boston, MA · 2024

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for hadi nia in physics

  • $75,000

    Boston University · Boston, MA · 2024

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for chuanfei dong in physics

  • $75,000

    California Institute of Technology · Pasadena, CA · 2024

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for vikram ravi in physics

  • $75,000

    University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2024

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for martin claassen in physics

  • $75,000

    University of Toronto · 2024

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for maya fishbach in physics

  • $57,251

    University of California Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2024

    Transfer of an alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for shimon kolkowitz in physics, originally awarded to the university of wisconsin, madison

  • $50,000

    Aspen Center for Physics · Aspen, CO · 2024

    To reduce barriers to participation in the summer programs of the aspen center for physics for early-career scientists belonging to groups underrepresented in physics

  • $20,000

    New York University · New York, NY · 2024

    To help address the stark underrepresentation of women in the field of physics

  • $1.8M

    Astrophysical Research Consortium · Seattle, WA · 2023

    To undertake the sloan digital sky survey v (sdss-v), which will utilize all-sky spectroscopic observations to explain the genesis of the milky way and its neighbors, comprehensively test stellar astrophysics and star-p read all
  • $1.4M

    Rockefeller University · New York, NY · 2023

    To test the hypotheses that biomechanical forces are key to overcoming errors associated with random physical processes and that they mediate coordination between biological units

  • $504,714

    University of Colorado Boulder · Boulder, CO · 2023

    To search for evidence of physics beyond the standard model and attempt to cast light on the original asymmetry (matter/antimatter asymmetry) of the universe

  • $272,873

    University of Missouri Columbia · Columbia, MO · 2023

    To develop a bio-physically based model of the simplest form of life, minimal cell jcvi-syn3.0a

  • $240,000

    American Physical Society · College Park, MD · 2023

    Funding for three initiatives to support physicists who have been displaced or are threatened by the political situation in their home countries

  • $137,218

    Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2023

    To help develop the next generation of matter-to-life scholars by supporting a center fellow pursuing physics-of-life research

  • $75,000

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2023

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for erin kara in physics

  • $75,000

    New York University · New York, NY · 2023

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for dries sels in physics

  • $75,000

    Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2023

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for sanfeng wu in physics

  • $75,000

    Syracuse University · Syracuse, NY · 2023

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for alison patteson in physics

  • $75,000

    The University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2023

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for irina zhuravleva in physics

  • $75,000

    The University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2023

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for clay cordova in physics

  • $75,000

    University of British Columbia · 2023

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for alannah hallas in physics

  • $75,000

    University of California Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2023

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for benjamin safdi in physics

  • $75,000

    University of California San Diego · La Jolla, CA · 2023

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for javier duarte in physics

  • $75,000

    University of California Santa Barbara · Santa Barbara, CA · 2023

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for tejaswi venumadhav nerella in physics

  • $75,000

    University of California Santa Barbara · Santa Barbara, CA · 2023

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for sagar vijay in physics

  • $75,000

    University of Colorado Boulder · Boulder, CO · 2023

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for shuo sun in physics

  • $75,000

    University of Colorado Boulder · Boulder, CO · 2023

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for orit peleg in physics

  • $75,000

    University of Mississippi · University, MS · 2023

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for leo stein in physics

  • $75,000

    University of Maryland College Park · College Park, MD · 2023

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for benedikt diemer in physics

  • $75,000

    Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2023

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for jing yan in physics

  • $75,000

    Boston College · Chestnut Hill, MA · 2023

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for qiong ma in physics

  • $75,000

    Brown University · Providence, RI · 2023

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for jia (leo) li in physics

  • $75,000

    California Institute of Technology · Pasadena, CA · 2023

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for alireza marandi in physics

  • $75,000

    Cornell University · Ithaca, NY · 2023

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for debanjan chowdhury in physics

  • $75,000

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2023

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for ronald fernando garcia ruiz in physics

  • $75,000

    University of North Carolina Chapel Hill · Chapel Hill, NC · 2023

    Transfer of an alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for carl rodriguez in physics, originally awarded to carnegie mellon university

  • $75,000

    University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2023

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for robyn sanderson in physics

  • $75,000

    University of Toronto · 2023

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for maria drout in physics

  • $75,000

    University of Virginia · Charlottesville, VA · 2023

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for peter schauss in physics

  • $49,530

    Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2023

    To support historical research on the use of physical simulations of weather and seismic events in various us-based industries since the early 20th century

  • $47,622

    University of Maryland College Park · College Park, MD · 2023

    Transfer of an alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for andrey gromov in physics, originally awarded to brown university

  • $20,000

    The Graduate Center of the City University of New York · New York, NY · 2023

    To supporta regional conference for undergraduate women in physics in january 2024

  • $11,175

    Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics · 2023

    To support the research and writing of how to build a universe, to be published by scribner books

  • $2.4M

    Astrophysical Research Consortium · Seattle, WA · 2022

    To undertake the sloan digital sky survey v (sdss-v), which will utilize all-sky spectroscopic observations to explain the genesis of the milky way and its neighbors, comprehensively test stellar astrophysics and star-p read all
  • $692,998

    Rockefeller University · New York, NY · 2022

    To test the hypotheses that biomechanical forces are key to overcoming errors associated with random physical processes and that they mediate coordination between biological units

  • $265,754

    University of Missouri Columbia · Columbia, MT · 2022

    To develop a bio-physically based model of the simplest form of life, minimal cell jcvi-syn3.0a

  • $255,463

    University of Colorado Boulder · Boulder, CO · 2022

    To search for evidence of physics beyond the standard model and attempt to cast light on the original asymmetry (matter/antimatter asymmetry) of the universe

  • $246,697

    American Institute of Physics · College Park, MD · 2022

    To support global, digital access to the wenner collection on the history of physics via detailed cataloging, description, online availability, and initial outreach

  • $75,000

    Columbia University · New York, NY · 2022

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for j. Colin hill in physics

  • $75,000

    Columbia University · New York, NY · 2022

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for georgia karagiorgi in physics

  • $75,000

    Columbia University · New York, NY · 2022

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for karen kasza in physics

  • $75,000

    Cornell University · Ithaca, NY · 2022

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for peter mcmahon in physics

  • $75,000

    Duke University · Durham, NC · 2022

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for daniel scolnic in physics

  • $75,000

    Harvard University · Cambridge, ME · 2022

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for julia mundy in physics

  • $75,000

    Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2022

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for danielle speller in physics

  • $75,000

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, ME · 2022

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for netta engelhardt in physics

  • $75,000

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, ME · 2022

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for long ju in physics

  • $75,000

    Northeastern University · Boston, ME · 2022

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for dapeng bi in physics

  • $75,000

    Northwestern University · Evanston, IL · 2022

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for wen-fai fong in physics

  • $75,000

    Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2022

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for lawrence cheuk in physics

  • $75,000

    Stony Brook University · Stony Brook, NY · 2022

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for jennifer cano in physics

  • $75,000

    The Pennsylvania State University · University Park, PA · 2022

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for david radice in physics

  • $75,000

    The University of Texas Austin · Austin, TX · 2022

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for brendan bowler in physics

  • $75,000

    University of California Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2022

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for grace gu in physics

  • $75,000

    University of California Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2022

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for mikhail solon in physics

  • $75,000

    University of Wisconsin Madison · Madison, WI · 2022

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for shimon kolkowitz in physics

  • $75,000

    Arizona State University · Tempe, AZ · 2022

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for antia botana in physics

  • $75,000

    Brown University · Providence, RI · 2022

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for andrey gromov in physics

  • $75,000

    California Institute of Technology · Pasadena, CA · 2022

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for katerina chatziioannou in physics

  • $75,000

    Carnegie Mellon University · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for carl rodriguez in physics

  • $75,000

    University of Maryland College Park · College Park, MD · 2022

    Alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for alicia kollar in physics

  • $50,000

    Aspen Center for Physics · Aspen, CO · 2022

    To reduce barriers to participation in the summer programs of the aspen center for physics for early-career scientists belonging to groups underrepresented in physics

  • $50,000

    Filmmakers Collaborative · Melrose, ME · 2022

    To support the resistance project, a feature-length documentary that uses geology, geography, physics, soil science, and statistics to examine holocaust resistance movements

  • $50,000

    New York University · New York, NY · 2022

    To reduce barriers to participation in the visitor program of nyus center for cosmology and particle physics for scientists belonging to groups underrepresented in physics and astrophysics

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

  • Astrophysical Research Consortium3 grants · $10.1M
  • University of California Berkeley55 grants · $10.0M
  • National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering13 grants · $7.5M
  • National Bureau of Economic Research32 grants · $7.0M
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology45 grants · $6.4M
  • The University of Chicago31 grants · $5.4M
  • Stanford University37 grants · $5.1M
  • Carnegie Mellon University23 grants · $4.9M
  • New York University28 grants · $4.5M
  • Cornell University23 grants · $4.1M

Giving over time

$90.8M
2022
$89.7M
2023
$89.0M
2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 1,550 grants.

  • $6.0M

    Astrophysical Research Consortium · Seattle, WA · 2022

    To achieve the full promise of the sloan digital sky survey v (sdss-v) by completing a five-year, all-sky, spectroscopic survey observing supermassive black holes, the milky way galaxy, and interstellar gas in the milky read all
  • $2.4M

    Astrophysical Research Consortium · Seattle, WA · 2022

    To undertake the sloan digital sky survey v (sdss-v), which will utilize all-sky spectroscopic observations to explain the genesis of the milky way and its neighbors, comprehensively test stellar astrophysics and star-p read all
  • $1.8M

    Astrophysical Research Consortium · Seattle, WA · 2023

    To undertake the sloan digital sky survey v (sdss-v), which will utilize all-sky spectroscopic observations to explain the genesis of the milky way and its neighbors, comprehensively test stellar astrophysics and star-p read all
  • $1.7M

    Pecan Street · Austin, TX · 2023

    To expand and diversify a high-resolution residential energy use monitoring testbed to four new geographies in georgia, pennsylvania, oklahoma, and oregon

  • $1.5M

    Carnegie Mellon University · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024

    To study the techno-economics of critical industries and their supply chains

  • $1.4M

    Rockefeller University · New York, NY · 2023

    To test the hypotheses that biomechanical forces are key to overcoming errors associated with random physical processes and that they mediate coordination between biological units

  • $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

  • $1.0M

    Wgbh Educational Foundation · Boston, MA · 2023

    To support the production and associated marketing and promotion of two prime time american experience documentary films: love canal and the pap test.

  • $1.0M

    Wgbh Educational Foundation · Boston, ME · 2022

    To support the production and associated marketing and promotion of two prime time american experience documentary films about the role of science and technology in history

  • $937,080

    Convergent Research · Cambridge, MA · 2023

    To make mathematics more reliable, searchable, understandable, and accessible by developing open source proof-assistant software of great value for research, applications, and education

  • $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

  • $897,945

    Social Science Research Council · New York, NY · 2022

    To create a research consortium on gender equity in economics that studies and promotes scalable interventions for increasing womens representation in the economics profession

  • $883,622

    Cornell University · Ithaca, NY · 2023

    To conduct the first large-scale and methodologically rigorous survey on management practices and culture in research laboratories

  • $875,893

    University of Maryland College Park · College Park, MD · 2022

    To produce, test, and scale infrastructure for re-engineering official economic statistics using administrative data from businesses

  • $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

  • $875,000

    National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering · Alexandria, VA · 2022

    To provide partial funding to support the sloan indigenous graduate partnership (sigp) program for four years, in accordance with the proposal submitted to the sloan foundation by the institutions comprising the sigp

  • $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

  • $805,518

    University of California Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2022

    To image the nanoscale organization of major processes in cell biology using correlative cryo-fluorescence super resolution microscopy and cryo-electron tomography

  • $787,373

    National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering · Alexandria, VA · 2023

    To provide administrative services, community engagement activities, and research and assessment support for sloan ucem, sigp, and scsc programs

  • $787,340

    National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering · Alexandria, VA · 2023

    To provide partial funding to support the sloan indigenous graduate partnership (sigp) program for four years, in accordance with the proposal submitted to the sloan foundation by the institutions comprising the sigp

  • $774,850

    Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation · Brookline, MA · 2023

    To sustain and expand the national science on screen program

  • $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 read all
  • $718,799

    Social Science Research Council · New York, NY · 2023

    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 read all
  • $715,000

    Wikimedia Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    To leverage ai for the benefit of wikipedias readers and contributors, including tools to address vandalism

  • $715,000

    Wikimedia Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2023

    To leverage ai for the benefit of wikipedias readers and contributors, including tools to address vandalism

  • $705,151

    Cornell University · Ithaca, NY · 2022

    To support the growth of a public and sustainable patent data infrastructure and research collaborative that enables novel innovation research

  • $700,000

    Wikimedia Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2022

    To support the extension of structured data from wikimedia commons across all wikimedia content, improving the search function and making it easier to read, edit, and access knowledge

  • $693,927

    The Pennsylvania State University · University Park, PA · 2022

    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

  • $692,998

    Rockefeller University · New York, NY · 2022

    To test the hypotheses that biomechanical forces are key to overcoming errors associated with random physical processes and that they mediate coordination between biological units

  • $686,541

    National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering · Alexandria, VA · 2022

    To support operations of the alfred p. Sloan ucem program at the university of illinois at urbana-champaign and the university of california, san diego

  • $686,540

    National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering · Alexandria, VA · 2023

    To support operations of the alfred p. Sloan ucem program at the university of illinois at urbana-champaign and the university of california, san diego

  • $680,598

    New York University · New York, NY · 2022

    To study and build a research community around the genesis of data used to train and evaluate the performance of ai systems

  • $660,000

    Research Corporation for Science Advancement · Tucson, AZ · 2024

    To administer awards from the 2024 scialog: sustainable minerals, metals, and materials (sm3) conference

  • $655,055

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, ME · 2022

    To explore how nonequilibrium dynamics can structure biological systems across scales from molecules to ecosystems

  • $646,990

    Fund for the City of New York · New York, NY · 2023

    To provide partial support for the sloan public service awards program

  • $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

  • $640,000

    Ensemble Studio Theatre · New York, NY · 2023

    To commission, develop, produce, and disseminate new science plays in new york and across the country

  • $640,000

    Ensemble Studio Theatre · New York, NY · 2022

    To commission, develop, produce, and disseminate new science plays in new york and across the country

  • $625,000

    University of North Carolina Chapel Hill · Chapel Hill, NC · 2022

    To perform experiments and analysis that test the peptide-rna origin-of-life scenario for the evolution of present-day proteins

  • $624,605

    University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2022

    To realize the first de novo designed multicomponent artificial biomolecular machine

  • $624,581

    President and Fellows of Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2023

    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

  • $624,060

    Harvard University · Cambridge, ME · 2022

    To explore the rules of cellular organization and development by determining how cell development is influenced by molecular-scale properties of scaffolding on which cells are grown

  • $624,060

    Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2022

    To understand the basic properties of biomolecular condensates based on dna/rna and to control condensate properties, interactions, and dynamic responses using nucleic acid circuits

  • $623,618

    University of California Davis · Davis, CA · 2024

    To support development of the virtual reality user interface (vrui) and its community of contributors

  • $617,059

    Georgia Tech Research Corporation · Atlanta, GA · 2022

    To work towards demonstrating open-ended evolution using synthetic molecular systems

  • $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

  • $600,000

    Stanford University · Stanford, CA · 2023

    To complete a model of e. Coli that accounts for over 90% of the well-characterized gene content

  • $590,330

    Consumer Reports · Yonkers, NY · 2024

    To investigate, evaluate and enhance consumer welfare in the financial sector

  • $581,194

    The University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2023

    To pilot an international survey of expectations about inflation

  • $580,000

    Resources for the Future · Washington, DC · 2024

    To advance the evaluation of recent federal clean energy funding programs and policies

  • $579,859

    Consumer Reports · Yonkers, NY · 2023

    To design and validate a cybersecurity labeling system for internet of things (iot) devices to reduce individual and societal threats, and to support new sloan fellows

  • $568,650

    Consumer Reports · Yonkers, NY · 2022

    To design and validate a cybersecurity labeling system for internet of things (iot) devices to reduce individual and societal threats, and to support new sloan fellows

  • $567,691

    Mathematical Sciences Research Institute · Berkeley, CA · 2023

    To support two special semester-long programs at msri on market and mechanism design and algorithmic fairness

  • $563,074

    The University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2023

    To search for new fundamental particles by using cold thorium oxide molecules to measure whether an electron has an asymmetric distribution of charge

  • $562,243

    California Institute of Technology · Pasadena, CA · 2022

    To evaluate the feasibility of using laser cooled and trapped ytterbium hydroxide molecules for an ultraprecise measurement of the electron's electric dipole moment

  • $555,113

    University of Nebraska at Omaha · Omaha, NE · 2023

    To support continued development and adoption in research and practice of open source software community health metrics

  • $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

  • $542,916

    National Bureau of Economic Research · Cambridge, ME · 2022

    To advance research on the economics of digitization including topics like algorithmic fairness and privacy as well as platform competition and regulation

  • $542,833

    Harvard University · Cambridge, ME · 2022

    To support the development and implementation of a longitudinal survey of scientists to understand the determinants of scientific productivity

  • $536,714

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, NY · 2023

    To support a new york-area 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

  • $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

  • $524,768

    Seattle University · Seattle, WA · 2023

    To assess experimentally how researcher degrees of freedom influence and potentially distort the publication, interpretation, and reliability of empirical literature

  • $513,652

    Fund for the City of New York · New York, NY · 2023

    To improve local decision-making by continuing to build technical capacity in nyc borough president offices, community boards, agencies, and civic organizations

  • $504,714

    University of Colorado Boulder · Boulder, CO · 2023

    To search for evidence of physics beyond the standard model and attempt to cast light on the original asymmetry (matter/antimatter asymmetry) of the universe

  • $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

    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

    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

    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

    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

  • $500,000

    National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering · Alexandria, VA · 2023

    To support graduate student fellowships, mentoring, and related activities at the university centers of exemplary mentoring (ucem) at cornell university, georgia institute of technology, andpennsylvania state university read all
  • $500,000

    North Carolina a&T State University · Greensboro, NC · 2023

    To engage black american undergraduate students in research experiences and see them successfully enroll in and graduate from environmental science ph.d. Programs

  • $500,000

    The University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2023

    To build, from non-living chemicals, a minimal living system capable of reproduction and darwinian evolution

  • $500,000

    University of California Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2023

    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

    Women Make Movies · New York, NY · 2023

    To support the production of a feature length documentary called love + tech, about the increasing impact of technology on our romantic lives

  • $500,000

    National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering · Alexandria, VA · 2022

    To support graduate student fellowships, mentoring, and related activities at the university centers of exemplary mentoring (ucem) at cornell university, georgia institute of technology, and pennsylvania state universit read all
  • $500,000

    Social Science Research Council · New York, NY · 2022

    To provide mentoring, networking and professional development services to sloan mphd graduates through the sloan scholars mentoring network (ssmn), and to review the impacts of the ssmn and mphd as sloan scholars move t read all
  • $500,000

    The University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2022

    To build, from non-living chemicals, a minimal living system capable of reproduction and darwinian evolution

  • $500,000

    University of California Irvine · Irvine, CA · 2022

    To advance electrochemical carbon dioxide capture and concentration technology

  • $499,264

    Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2022

    To conduct a field study that will quantify greenhouse gas emissions and ammonia from the wastewater and agricultural waste systems

  • $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

  • $494,969

    Ohio State University · Columbus, OH · 2022

    To research the development and evaluation of pathways to net-zero emission agriculture and cropping systems

  • $489,050

    University of North Carolina Chapel Hill · Chapel Hill, NC · 2022

    To create artificial living systems that mimic the shape-dependent signaling of natural cells

  • $486,403

    Oregon State University · Corvallis, OR · 2022

    To develop and deploy novel sensor technologies for improved wildland urban interface (wui) fire resilience

  • $486,360

    Columbia University · New York, NY · 2022

    To examine carbon mineralization in rock formations for carbon dioxide removal from air and for solid storage

  • $474,090

    Research Foundation of the City University of Ny · New York, NY · 2023

    To provide research experience and mentoring to promising students transferring from cuny community colleges to cuny senior colleges

  • $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 read all
  • $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

  • $466,335

    Howard University · Washington, DC · 2023

    To enhance the teaching and educational training of black and other minority students pursuing degrees in economics

  • $466,334

    Howard University · Washington, DC · 2022

    To enhance the teaching and educational training of black and other minority students pursuing degrees in economics

  • $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

  • $460,300

    Cornell University · Ithaca, NY · 2022

    To develop magnetic-digital-polymers as an abiotic platform for exploring life-like behaviors

  • $460,087

    Carnegie Institution of Washington · Washington, DC · 2022

    To advance our understanding of abiotic atmospheres on sub-neptune and rocky planets, the most common planets in our galaxy

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