Alfred P Sloan Foundation

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.

7 grants matching “released” · $1.5M

• $250,000

  Wgbh Educational Foundation · Boston, MA · 2024

  To produce and release a one-hour nova documentary about personal data and privacy along with a social media campaign, screening events, virtual fieldtrip and classroom-ready assets hosted on pbs learningmedia

• $236,371

  Lost Women of Science Initiative · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  To research, produce, and release 8-12 episodes of lost women of science to tell in-depth stories of overlooked women in stem throughout history

• $332,973

  Lost Women of Science Initiative · San Francisco, CA · 2023

  To research, produce, and release three seasons of lost women of science for a total of 20 podcast episodes telling in-depth stories of overlooked women in stem throughout history

• $125,000

  Metropole Film Board · New York, NY · 2023

  To produce and release a 90-minute documentary the calling: a medical odyssey that will profile bipoc medical students at the albert einstein college of medicine

• $250,000

  Wgbh Educational Foundation · Boston, ME · 2022

  To produce and release a two-hour pbs nova documentary examining the roots of systemic racism in our medical system along with a social media campaign, screening events, virtual field trip, and classroom-ready assets ho… read allTo produce and release a two-hour pbs nova documentary examining the roots of systemic racism in our medical system along with a social media campaign, screening events, virtual field trip, and classroom-ready assets hosted on pbs learning media less
• $166,486

  Lost Women of Science Initiative · San Francisco, CA · 2022

  To research, produce, and release three seasons of lost women of science for a total of 20 podcast episodes telling in-depth stories of overlooked women in stem throughout history

• $125,000

  Metropole Film Board · New York, NY · 2022

  To produce and release a 90-minute documentary the calling: a medical odyssey that will profile bipoc medical students at the albert einstein college of medicine

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

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 allTo 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 way and nearby galaxies less
• $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 allTo 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-planet relations, probe supermassive black hole physics, and map, on unprecedented scales, the milky ways interstellar gas and that of nearby galaxies less
• $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 allTo 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-planet relations, probe supermassive black hole physics, and map, on unprecedented scales, the milky ways interstellar gas and that of nearby galaxies less
• $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 allTo 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 current sloan scholars and alumni less
• $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 allTo 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 current sloan scholars and alumni less
• $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 allTo 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, as well as general ucem support less
• $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 allTo 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 university, as well as general ucem support less
• $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 allTo 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 through their careers less
• $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 allTo 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 relativity less
• $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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