Funding search · Alfred P Sloan Foundation · grants

Alfred P Sloan Foundation: all 1,550 grants

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

$312,604
University of Glasgow · 2023
To observe and quantify the emergence and growth of selection-for-complexity in long term chemical evolution experiments
$312,545
President and Fellows of Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2023
To study algorithmic fairness by developing a theory of principled scoring functions based on notions about pseudo randomness and multicalibration
$312,383
Columbia University · New York, NY · 2022
To study fairness and bias concerns about artificial intelligence using causal analysis
$312,097
National Bureau of Economic Research · Cambridge, ME · 2022
To investigate and experiment with alternative peer-review methods for selecting among scientific research proposals
$311,884
George Washington University · Washington, DC · 2023
To support the development, maintenance, and sustainability of research software through the establishment of an open source program office at george washington university
$310,256
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars · Washington, DC · 2023
To support policy engagement with open and low-cost hardware to accelerate innovation in and lower barriers to scientific research
$309,600
Open Collective Foundation · Walnut, CA · 2022
To develop open-source software that facilitates widespread adoption of privacy-preserving methods in artificial intelligence
$309,421
Georgia State University Research Foundation · Atlanta, GA · 2022
To establish a math path program at gsu that supports the recruitment, retention, and progression of undergraduates from diverse backgrounds in pathways to quantitative science graduate programs around the nation
$308,132
Georgia Tech Research Corporation · Atlanta, GA · 2023
To work towards demonstrating open-ended evolution using synthetic molecular systems
$307,832
Georgia Tech Research Corporation · Atlanta, GA · 2023
To support the development, maintenance, and sustainability of research software through the establishment of an open source program office at thegeorgia institute of technology
$307,050
National Bureau of Economic Research · Cambridge, ME · 2022
To renew support for a postdoctoral fellowship program focused on the labor market consequences of an aging population and to support a set of research projects designed to provide new insights on these issues
$304,681
Southern Methodist University · Dallas, TX · 2023
To examine how just energy transitions will affect indigenous tribal nations in the midwest and southwest regions of the united states
$301,181
Spelman College · Atlanta, GA · 2023
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
$300,869
Research Foundation for Suny at Buffalo · Amherst, NY · 2022
To better understand how communities and stakeholders perceive negative emissions technologies and solar radiation management technologies
$300,694
National Bureau of Economic Research · Cambridge, MA · 2023
To continue and expand the environmental and energy policy and the economy (eepe) initiative that connects energy and environmental economics research with decision-makers
$300,004
National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering · Alexandria, VA · 2022
To provide effective and efficient administrative support for the sloan minority graduate scholarship programs (mphd and sigp) with an expanded focus on building connections and community among them
$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
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
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
$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
Biobus · New York, NY · 2023
To provide renewed support to sustainably grow biobus, a mobile science lab for extracurricular stem activities at k-12 schools and public science events in new york city
$300,000
Columbia University · New York, NY · 2023
To enhance the impact, management, and dissemination of research produced by the center on global energy policy and strengthen the connection between scholarship and practice
$300,000
Cornell University · Ithaca, NY · 2023
To develop magnetic-digital-polymers as an abiotic platform for exploring life-like behaviors
$300,000
Environmental Defense Fund · New York, NY · 2023
To conduct an intercomparison study of open source power system models to inform decision-making on energy system decarbonization in the united states
$300,000
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2023
Tostudy the economic and equity impacts of alternative electricity rate structures via a randomized controlled trial with rural electricity cooperatives in the midwest
$300,000
Biobus · New York, NY · 2022
To provide renewed support to sustainably grow biobus, a mobile science lab for extracurricular stem activities at k-12 schools and public science events in new york city
$300,000
Brookings Institution · Washington, DC · 2022
To continue supporting the publication and dissemination of high-quality, influential, and policy-relevant economics research through the brookings papers on economic activity
$300,000
Colorado School of Mines · Golden, CO · 2022
To assess the impacts of community-scale, holistic, residential electrification retrofits in low-income, pre-manufactured home communities
$300,000
New York University · New York, NY · 2022
To establish a center for decarbonizing chemical manufacturing using sustainable electrification (dc-muse) and help diversify the next generation of scholars involved in industrial decarbonization
$300,000
Wgbh Educational Foundation · Boston, ME · 2022
To support the future: made in china?, a two-hour nova special about the rise of china as a global leader in science and technology
$299,946
Houston Advanced Research Center · The Woodlands, TX · 2022
To assemble a multidisciplinary team of researchers to develop a modeling framework to advance a systems-level understanding of the impacts of climate change on power systems
$299,903
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2022
To generate novel research and advance a multi-disciplinary research network that increases understanding of the energy and environmental impacts of the digital economy
$299,821
Ohio State University · Columbus, OH · 2022
To evaluate the economic and distributional impacts of retail electricity market deregulation in ohio and pennsylvania
$299,445
Michigan Technological University · Houghton, MI · 2022
To assess the technical and social barriers and opportunities for resilient electrification of space heating and cooling in rural, northern areas of the upper midwest
$298,809
Purdue University · West Lafayette, IN · 2022
To assess the impacts of electrification and renewable energy use on manufacturing processes and job quality in the united states steel industry
$298,041
Environmental Defense Fund · New York, NY · 2022
To conduct an intercomparison study of open source power system models to inform decision-making on energy system decarbonization in the united states
$297,997
Carnegie Institution of Washington · Washington, DC · 2023
To advance our understanding of abiotic atmospheres on sub-neptune and rocky planets, the most common planets in our galaxy
$297,428
Boston University · Boston, MA · 2023
To assess underexplored equity implications of renewable energy generation through eight case studies across the wind and solar supply chains
$295,812
University of North Carolina at Charlotte · Charlotte, NC · 2023
To study the relationship between different forms of virtual presence on group entitativity in scientific collaborations
$295,806
New York University · New York, NY · 2023
To pursue research projects and community-building activities that will advance the development of cognitive economics
$295,566
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2022
To advance fundamental research on the industrial organization and regulatory economics of markets run by digital platforms
$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
$294,778
American Museum of the Moving Image · Astoria, NY · 2022
To maintain the most comprehensive site for the nationwide sloan film program, to develop related outreach, events, and educational materials, and to support one year of the sloan student prizes
$292,491
Columbia University · New York, NY · 2023
To support research and convenings on the design and implementation of effective industrial strategies
$290,000
University of California Davis · Davis, CA · 2022
To examine the relationship between renewable energy infrastructure siting and environmental conservation
$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
$289,147
The University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2022
To search for new fundamental particles by using cold thorium oxide molecules to measure whether an electron has an asymmetric distribution of charge
$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
$286,844
Community Initiatives · Oakland, CA · 2023
To build an inclusive and diverse community around standards for and the review of scientific python open source software (oss)
$286,557
University of Vermont · Burlington, VT · 2023
To pilot a land-grant university model for supporting open source software as part of the university of vermont open source programs office
$285,000
Fund for the City of New York · New York, NY · 2023
To provide renewed support for the sloan awards for excellence in teaching mathematics and science in new york city public high schools
$283,163
University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
To create a national consortium of graduate programs that collaborate toadvance equity in graduate educationwith a focuson strengthening recruitment, admission, mentoring,and the well-being of historically excluded grou… read allTo create a national consortium of graduate programs that collaborate toadvance equity in graduate educationwith a focuson strengthening recruitment, admission, mentoring,and the well-being of historically excluded groups less
$281,631
University of Vermont · Burlington, VT · 2024
To support the institutionalization of an open source programs office at university of vermont
$281,622
Howard University · Washington, DC · 2022
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
$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
$280,658
Community Initiatives · Oakland, CA · 2022
To build an inclusive and diverse community around standards for and the review of scientific python open source software (oss)
$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
$279,925
University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
To create a national consortium of graduate programs that collaborate to advance equity in graduate education with a focus on strengthening recruitment, admission, mentoring, and the well-being of historically excluded … read allTo create a national consortium of graduate programs that collaborate to advance equity in graduate education with a focus on strengthening recruitment, admission, mentoring, and the well-being of historically excluded groups less
$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
$278,639
Howard University · Washington, DC · 2023
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
$276,265
University of Oxford · 2022
To study trust in ai from the perspectives of philosophy, sociology, social and clinical psychology, computer science, and law, and to operationalize findings in a toolkit for use in diverse contexts
$274,942
University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2022
To develop datasets, tools, and findings that help support the recovery of universities and their academic researchers from the covid-19 pandemic
$274,606
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2023
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
$273,646
University of California Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2022
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
$273,544
American Association for the Advancement of Science · Washington, DC · 2022
To develop and facilitate a multi-faceted learning community for sloans creating equitable pathways to stem graduate education grantees, embedded within the aaas sea change initiative
$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
$271,363
University of Oxford · 2023
To study trust in ai from the perspectives of philosophy, sociology, social and clinical psychology, computer science, and law, and to operationalize findings in a toolkit for use in diverse contexts
$269,810
National Academy of Sciences · Washington, DC · 2022
To study the progress of behavioral economics as a field on the occasion of its 40th anniversary
$269,272
University of Wisconsin Madison · Madison, WI · 2023
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… read allTo 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 education less
$267,621
Film Independent · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
To provide direct support to develop and distribute science and technology scripts, teleplays, and films
$266,910
National Bureau of Economic Research · Cambridge, MA · 2023
To study the economics of digitization and of artificial intelligence in a newly unified working group that covers both topics
$266,762
Stanford University · Stanford, CA · 2022
To conduct research on the data-driven reliability of carbon capture and storage (ccs) systems via harsh environment sensing
$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
$263,404
Film Independent · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
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
$261,828
Stanford University · Stanford, CA · 2022
To develop, test, and disseminate an innovative introductory economics course that engages and empowers diverse undergraduates at minority-serving institutions especially
$260,000
Purdue University · West Lafayette, IN · 2023
To fund a renewal for the sloan indigenous graduate partnership (sigp) to increase the representation of native americans who earn m.s. And ph.d. Degrees and become employed in higher education or the stem workforce
$260,000
Purdue University · West Lafayette, IN · 2022
To fund a renewal for the sloan indigenous graduate partnership (sigp) to increase the representation of native americans who earn m.s. And ph.d. Degrees and become employed in higher education or the stem workforce
$259,579
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, ME · 2022
To investigate how humans and machines collaborate on making decisions
$259,103
Imperial College London · 2022
To produce a sample of optically-trapped, ultracold ytterbium fluoride molecules that can be used to precisely measure the electron's electric dipole moment
$258,388
New York University · New York, NY · 2023
To develop a decentralized, federated framework for institutional archiving of research software and other open scholarly materials
$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… read allTo 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, and associated outreach less
$257,425
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Champaign, IL · 2023
To develop an innovative postsecondary pathway to stem graduate education for domestic black, latinx/a/o, and indigenous students from wilbur wright college to uiuc
$256,652
Research Foundation of Cuny Obo Advanced Science Research Center · New York, NY · 2023
To demonstrate and study a primitive form of learning and memory exhibited by a chemical system
$256,126
University of California Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2022
To study the value of administrative data access for economics research and policy
$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
$254,385
University of British Columbia · 2024
To accelerate the production of empirical economics research on industrial strategy
$254,246
University of British Columbia · 2023
To accelerate the production of empirical economics research on industrial strategy
$253,609
Rochester Institute of Technology · Rochester, NY · 2023
To provide continued support for faculty open source software needs and build capacity for external partnerships at the rochester institute of technology open source projects office
$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… read allTo 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 education less
$252,104
Northern Arizona University · Flagstaff, AZ · 2023
To create long-term, equity-oriented systemic change through a partnership across institutions (nau mountain campus, nau yuma campus, and dine college) aimed at reducing racial disparities in stem graduate pathways
$251,588
Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities · Washington, DC · 2023
To launch a professional development experience for graduate teaching assistants that addresses the importance of inclusive teaching practices and equitable campus policy and practice
$251,467
The Pennsylvania State University · University Park, PA · 2022
To improve how political economy insights are represented in integrated assessment models and deepen collaboration between energy system modelers and social scientists
$250,686
Science Friday Initiative · New York, NY · 2022
To support science friday, focusing on science and the arts, including radio broadcasts, digital science videos, blog posts, live events, and associated media
$250,501
Northwestern University · Evanston, IL · 2022
To consolidate, coordinate, and communicate research on the science of science by establishing both an annual international conference and a multidisciplinary professional society