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Alfred P Sloan Foundation: all 1,550 grants

Largest first · $269.5M across 2022–2024 · back to the overview

$50,000
University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
To organize a listening session forum on the future of disseminating research to external audiences for energy system decarbonization
$50,000
University of Rochester · Rochester, NY · 2024
To investigate the historical formation and development of glaciology as a scientific discipline
$50,000
University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 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
$50,000
American Association for the Advancement of Science · Washington, DC · 2023
To elevate the role of stemm societies and their multi-sector partners in taking individual and collective action to advance dei in a changing legal and policy landscape
$50,000
American Museum of Natural History · New York, NY · 2023
To refine 2030stems impact design for long-term growth and sustainability
$50,000
Association of Environmental and Resource Economists · Altamonte Springs, FL · 2023
To continue and expand the aere scholars program that aims to diversify energy and environmental resource economics and create a more inclusive culture across the field by engaging other professional societies
$50,000
Brookings Institution · Washington, DC · 2023
To host a conference on improving financial data collection, standardization, and dissemination
$50,000
Clean Energy Leadership Institute · Oakland, CA · 2023
To support the implementation of the 2023 celi fellowship cohort and initiate a strategic planning process
$50,000
Code for Science and Society · Portland, OR · 2023
To continue support of a forum for connecting and aligning funders who support research software
$50,000
Colorado State University · Fort Collins, CO · 2023
To further refine, implement, and disseminate the boyer 2030 commission report, the equity/excellence imperative: a 2030 blueprint for undergraduate education at u.s. Research universities, via a national symposium and … read allTo further refine, implement, and disseminate the boyer 2030 commission report, the equity/excellence imperative: a 2030 blueprint for undergraduate education at u.s. Research universities, via a national symposium and edited volume less
$50,000
Columbia University · New York, NY · 2023
To scale up usage of a platform for machine learning model sharing and education
$50,000
Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences · Washington, DC · 2023
To support participation by academic and nonprofit-based social scientists at social science foo camp
$50,000
Friends of the American University of Afghanistan · Washington, DC · 2023
To provide a preparatory and pipeline opportunity for advanced learning in science, technology, mathematics, and information technology fields to high-school-aged girls in afghanistan
$50,000
Good Energy Collective · Sacramento, CA · 2023
To initiate a fellowship program to engage undergraduate students from historically black colleges and universities (hbcu) in energy transitions research, resulting from the energy insights 2022 ideas to action call for… read allTo initiate a fellowship program to engage undergraduate students from historically black colleges and universities (hbcu) in energy transitions research, resulting from the energy insights 2022 ideas to action call for proposals less
$50,000
Gordon Research Conferences · West Kingston, RI · 2023
To support student and early-career scholar participation in the 2023 and 2025 gordon research conferences on carbon capture, utilization and storage (grc-ccus)
$50,000
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2023
To develop and support new collaborations with community college educators to adapt open educational resources from mits open courseware for use with their students
$50,000
New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2023
To stimulate open scholarship adoption in networks that have traditionally faced barriers to participation
$50,000
New York University · New York, NY · 2023
To organize a webinar series highlighting the policy implications of interdisciplinary energy and environment research
$50,000
North Carolina a&T State University · Greensboro, NC · 2023
To examine the equity dimensions of the value of lost load metric in multiple regions, resulting from the energy insights 2022 ideas to action call for proposals
$50,000
Northwestern University · Evanston, IL · 2023
To conduct a community-engaged life cycle assessment of critical mineral mining in partnership with indigenous communities, resulting from the energy insights 2022 ideas to action call for proposals
$50,000
Parpa · Princeton, NJ · 2023
To support a workshop on and comparison of different approaches to research road mapping and program design
$50,000
Researchamerica · Alexandria, VA · 2023
To diversify research! America's microgrant program and build a pipeline of scientists of color prepared to engage in civic science
$50,000
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs · Calabasas, CA · 2023
To bring engaging mathematics education to low-income students in new york city
$50,000
Southern Methodist University · Dallas, TX · 2023
To organize two workshops related to a special issue on energy justice in the energy transition for the journal progress in energy
$50,000
STEM Next Opportunity Fund · San Diego, CA · 2023
To support a network of fellows placed across federal agencies and offices with a focus on stem equity
$50,000
The Society for Causal Inference · Eagle, ID · 2023
To foster the science of causal inference and connect disparate fields that use causal knowledge
$50,000
The University of Texas at Austin · Austin, TX · 2023
To produce 6 full-length episodes of power trip: the story of energy, a documentary series about the impact of energy
$50,000
University of California Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
To build synthetic rna condensates that isothermally self-assemble during transcription and which encapsulate an artificial genome for localized reactions, feedback regulation, and communication
$50,000
University of Hawai'I Foundation · Manoa, HI · 2023
To support university of hawai'i maui college stem students directly impacted by the august 2023 maui wildfires
$50,000
University of Illinois at Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2023
To support two sessions of the summer institute climate and the environment (sice) and next generation electrochemistry (ngene) summer program in 2023 and 2024
$50,000
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Champaign, IL · 2023
To support a multi-sectoral workshop on equitable transitions to sustainable transportation, resulting from the energy insights 2022 ideas to action call for proposals
$50,000
American Geophysical Union · Washington, DC · 2022
To gather a broad cross-section of the geoscience community, as well as scholars and practitioners across disciplines to advance racial justice in geoscience
$50,000
Anya Bernstein · Cambridge, MA · 2022
To support the research and writing of pleistocene park: extinction and eternity in the russian arctic, to be published by princeton university press
$50,000
Arizona State University · Tempe, AZ · 2022
To support a series of public roundtables and private workshops on the use of science fiction as a professional tool for futures planning and technology ideation
$50,000
Art of Problem Solving Initiative · New York, NY · 2022
To provide renewed partial support for the beam 6 and beam 7 programs, including covid-safety infrastructure for in-person activities
$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
Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities · Washington, DC · 2022
To host a workshop that acknowledges the history and scope of indigenous land dispossession and shares how land-grant and public universities are supporting native and indigenous students
$50,000
Code for Science and Society · Portland, OR · 2022
To partially support a workshop on diversity, equity, and inclusion (dei) in research software engineering
$50,000
Digital Public Library of America · Boston, ME · 2022
To support the creation of a digital archive of social media data available to researchers, policy makers, and the general public
$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
Multiplier · San Francisco, CA · 2022
To support the training of early career scholars through two cohorts of the science policy scholars-in-residence program by the national science policy network
$50,000
National Academy of Sciences · Washington, DC · 2022
To host a two-part workshop on the social and behavioral research needed to accelerate efficient and equitable industrial decarbonization
$50,000
New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2022
To support the open research funders group, a partnership committed to the open sharing of research outputs
$50,000
New York University · New York, NY · 2022
To host a two-day interdisciplinary conference that links academic scholars with practitioners to advance deep decarbonization interventions in connection with the justice40 initiative
$50,000
New York University · New York, NY · 2022
To assess errors in demography-based race prediction algorithms and explore their implications
$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
$50,000
Nicola Twilley · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
To support the research and writing of the birth of cool, to be published by penguin press
$50,000
Open Knowledge Foundation · 2022
To support the maintenance of lightweight data packaging standards and software in order to reduce the frictions experienced in the acquisition, sharing, use, and reuse of research data
$50,000
Rochester Institute of Technology · Rochester, NY · 2022
To complete development of a search engine that is both user friendly and mathematically aware
$50,000
Rockaway Waterfront Alliance · Far Rockaway, NY · 2022
To provide partial support for the environment or science research internship program
$50,000
Sadie Collective · Washington, DC · 2022
To provide support for the sadie t. M. Alexander conference for economics and related fields, which aims to uplift and provide community, skills building, and career opportunities to black women economists
$50,000
Stanford University · Stanford, CA · 2022
To train a diverse group of ph.d. Students in the latest big data empirical research methodologies in macro-finance
$50,000
STEM Next Opportunity Fund · San Diego, CA · 2022
To build a fellow network of 10 fellows placed across federal agencies and offices
$50,000
University of California Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2022
To extend research on energy system reliability by studying how households in california respond to power system outages
$50,000
University of Minnesota · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
To work towards an artificial translation system capable of building proteins from a wide range of amino acids
$49,999
University of Minnesota · Minneapolis, MN · 2023
To investigate barriers and opportunities for the uptake of low-carbon concrete options in the united states
$49,998
University of California Santa Cruz · Santa Cruz, CA · 2023
To perform experiments that explore whether chiral molecules interacting with polarized radiation constitutes a plausible mechanism for the emergence of biological homochirality
$49,991
Colorado School of Mines · Golden, CO · 2022
To explore the demand and re-use of critical metals and materials in low-carbon energy transitions in the united states
$49,984
Mark Kozek · Redondo Beach, CA · 2023
To support the research and writing of mathematics and storytelling: stories in print and on screen about mathematics, to be published by ak peters/crc press in 2024
$49,979
Rutgers the State University of New Jersey · Newark, NJ · 2022
To support an interdisciplinary workshop on the statistical implications of using privacy-protected files for social science research
$49,975
Rochester Institute of Technology · Rochester, NY · 2022
To convene a community of researchers, practitioners, and industry leaders, to compare and contrast the work of open source software and open science organizations
$49,954
University of Colorado Denver · Denver, CO · 2023
To explore how the latest developments in large language models (llms) might inform scientific writing
$49,953
The Hastings Center · Garrison, NY · 2022
Build on pilot efforts to diversify the pipeline of bioethics scholars
$49,951
University of California Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2023
To partially support across domains (xd) interdisciplinary workshops which bring together researchers who analyze image and text datasets
$49,948
Vassar College · Poughkeepsie, NY · 2022
To address the technical privacy concerns that arise when disaggregating the demographic data needed for equitable and evidence-based policymaking
$49,906
The University of Texas at Austin · Austin, TX · 2023
To assess the impact of residential building end-use electrification and demand response on the texas grid
$49,735
American Economic Association · Nashville, TN · 2022
To reduce the financial burden of participating in a mentoring workshop for women and non-binary ph.d. Students in economics
$49,730
University of Southern Mississippi · Hattiesburg, MS · 2023
To assess the barriers and opportunities associated with inland port electrification in the united states
$49,530
Roberta Kwok · Kirkland, WA · 2023
To support the research and writing of minutiae: the tiny details that scientists pursue to illuminate big questions to be published by sourcebooks in 2025
$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
$49,500
New York University · New York, NY · 2022
To partially support a follow-on workshop on hackathon research and practice
$49,500
University of California San Diego · La Jolla, CA · 2022
To serve as a bridge for students, faculty, and corporate affiliates of the jacobs school of engineering to learn, practice, design, and model projects and behaviors informed by multiculturally diverse systems thinking
$49,496
Duke University · Durham, NC · 2023
To evaluate the effects of non-compete agreement enforceability on innovation and entrepreneurship
$49,440
Janani Balasubramanian Llc · Redmond, WA · 2024
To support the research and writing of undisciplined: radical strategies for growing artist-scientist collaborations to be published by the university of california press
$49,421
North Carolina State University · Raleigh, NC · 2022
To partially support a series of convenings to develop models for data science consulting in higher education
$49,380
Syracuse University · Syracuse, NY · 2022
To examine whether and how government funding strategies influence the direction of clean energy research and the involvement of new researchers in the field
$49,155
University of California Santa Cruz · Santa Cruz, CA · 2024
To support a curioss workshop for community building amongst open source program offices (ospos)
$49,080
Boston College · Chestnut Hill, MA · 2024
Tostudycomparatively how humans and large language models assess the validity of claims
$48,745
Carnegie Mellon University · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022
To develop plans for meeting more of the current demand from decision-makers for timely data and analysis concerning u.s. Competitiveness in critical technologies
$48,232
University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2022
Transfer of an alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for simon peter in computer science, originally awarded to the university of texas, austin
$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
$47,500
Ellen Prager · Annapolis, MD · 2023
To support the research and writing of combating ocean and atmosphere misinformation and misunderstandings, to be published by columbia university press in 2024
$47,156
Rice University · Houston, TX · 2022
Transfer of an alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for brandon levin in mathematics, originally awarded to the university of arizona
$46,700
Mark Wolverton · Narberth, PA · 2022
To support the research and writing of splinters of infinity: cosmic rays and the clash of two nobel-winning scientists over the origins of the universe, to be published by mit press
$46,275
University of Vermont · Burlington, VT · 2024
To support a curioss workshop for community building amongst open source program offices (ospos)
$46,143
Northwestern University · Evanston, IL · 2024
Transfer of an alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for juan du in neuroscience, originally awarded to van andel institute
$45,907
Wichita State University Foundation · Wichita, KS · 2022
To study historical and contemporary decision-support tools to inform the potential role of large language models in scientific tooling
$45,777
Community Initiatives · Oakland, CA · 2022
To provide partial support for carpentrycon 2022 and planning activities to address accessibility needs
$45,200
Santa Fe Institute · Santa Fe, NM · 2024
To support a workshop on research disciplines engagement with ai
$45,118
Aalborg University · 2024
To partially support a meeting on human-centered software engineering and artificial intelligence
$45,000
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2024
To support a one-day conference about building trust in science co-sponsored by mit and the aspen institute
$44,991
Leigh Ann Henion · Boone, NC · 2024
To support the research and writing of the wilderness of possibility: a journey to appreciate the living marvels of darkness to be published by algonquin in 2025
$44,944
National Information Standards Organization · Baltimore, MD · 2024
To support diversity & equity and early career scholarships for attendance at the 2024 niso plus conference
$44,318
North Carolina State University · Raleigh, NC · 2024
To support and diversify student participation at camp resources organized by the center for environmental & resource economic policy
$44,250
Starre Julia Vartan · Bainbridge Island, WA · 2024
To support the research and writing of strength & power: the untold, ignored, and belittled science of womens bodies to be published by perseus books
$43,141
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2024
Transfer of an alfred p. Sloan research fellowship for robert gilliard in chemistry, originally awarded to the university of virginia
$41,500
Simon Fraser University · 2023
To support a series of workshops which explore design for virtual social interaction based on metaphors from historical literature
$41,280
American Association for the Advancement of Science · Washington, DC · 2023
To supplement an existing aaas grant for their facilitation of a learning community for sloans creating equitable pathways to stem graduate education grantees
$40,021
Mathematical Sciences Research Institute · Berkeley, CA · 2023
To facilitate the continuation of research begun during msri-up's six-week undergraduate summer research experience
$38,850
Julia Lee Brownscombe Rosen · Portland, OR · 2024
To support the research and writing of grassroots to be published by ecco/harper collins in 2026