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

$199,996
Montana State University Bozeman · Bozeman, MT · 2023
To examine indigenous fiscal policy and community resilience issues for just energy transitions with the crow nation in montana
$199,505
Film Independent · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
To provide direct support to develop and distribute science and technology scripts, teleplays, and films
$199,458
Vanderbilt University · Nashville, TN · 2023
To develop graduate certificate courses and a postdoc-to-faculty program in multimessenger astronomy as an expansion of the fisk-vanderbilt bridge program
$199,438
University of South Carolina · Columbia, SC · 2023
To examine community and worker opportunities for just energy transitions in south carolina and tennessee
$196,796
Stanford University · Stanford, CA · 2022
To help remediate underrepresentation of minorities (urm) in the economics profession focusing on the post-baccalaureate segment of the talent pipeline and mentoring them for successful ph.d. Study at top research insti… read allTo help remediate underrepresentation of minorities (urm) in the economics profession focusing on the post-baccalaureate segment of the talent pipeline and mentoring them for successful ph.d. Study at top research institutions in the u.s. less
$196,650
Stanford University · Stanford, CA · 2024
To help remediate underrepresentation of minorities (urm) in the economics profession focusing on the post-baccalaureate segment of the talent pipeline and mentoring them for successful ph.d. Study at top research insti… read allTo help remediate underrepresentation of minorities (urm) in the economics profession focusing on the post-baccalaureate segment of the talent pipeline and mentoring them for successful ph.d. Study at top research institutions in the u.s. less
$196,650
Stanford University · Stanford, CA · 2023
To help remediate underrepresentation of minorities (urm) in the economics profession focusing on the post-baccalaureate segment of the talent pipeline and mentoring them for successful ph.d. Study at top research insti… read allTo help remediate underrepresentation of minorities (urm) in the economics profession focusing on the post-baccalaureate segment of the talent pipeline and mentoring them for successful ph.d. Study at top research institutions in the u.s. less
$196,132
Carnegie Mellon University · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022
To advance the formation of a national university energy institute collaborative network
$195,822
National Bureau of Economic Research · Cambridge, MA · 2023
To support research on statistical inference when access to economic data is subject to privacy protections
$195,796
University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2022
To design, develop, and implement data linkage tools that connect software mentions to research papers, repositories, and grant sources
$194,418
Vanderbilt University · Nashville, TN · 2024
To develop graduate certificate courses and a postdoc-to-faculty program in multimessenger astronomy as an expansion of the fisk-vanderbilt bridge program
$194,356
Arizona State University · Tempe, AZ · 2022
To support the development, adoption, and promulgation of community-wide standards for fair (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable) practices in computational modeling via the open modeling foundation
$192,600
Appropedia Foundation · Arcata, CA · 2023
To develop and maintain metadata standards for open-source hardware
$192,317
Phoenix Bioinformatics · Redwood City, CA · 2022
To improve the backend systems of and support strategic planning for the phoenix bioinformatics research infrastructure platform
$192,240
National Bureau of Economic Research · Cambridge, MA · 2023
To prepare research agendas, data resources, and organizational plans for an initiative to improve how transportation infrastructure projects are selected, financed, and procured
$190,835
Code for Science and Society · Portland, OR · 2023
To support and strengthen the community focused on the design, production, and maintenance of sustainable research software in the united states
$190,543
Georgia State University Research Foundation · Atlanta, GA · 2023
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
$189,750
Gathering for Open Science Hardware · Hudson, NY · 2022
To support ongoing community coordination and other activities of the gathering for open scientific hardware
$188,342
Electronic Frontier Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2022
To support the research, development, and launch of how to fix the internet, an in-depth podcast about the problems of the modern web geared towards a lay audience
$187,953
University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
To develop and validate a model and resources for implementation of the change leadership toolkit by campus teams
$187,438
University of Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
To develop approaches to creating and characterizing levitated, macroscopic quantum superpositions that could eventually be used to probe the quantum nature of gravity
$187,179
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2023
To expand, diversify, and support the community of metascience researchers conducting randomized controlled trials that test ways of strengthening the processes and pace of scientific progress
$186,797
Suny Polytechnic Institute · Albany, NY · 2022
To support and extend a movement that advocates for the importance of maintenance of technology
$185,786
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, ME · 2022
To support the growth of twelve new sciencefestival initiatives in communities across the country with small resource bases with a special new emphasis on diversity
$184,098
Broad Institute · Cambridge, MA · 2024
To develop multicolor, long-term nanoprobes for single particle tracking, and to perform experiments that demonstrate the utility of these probes for quantifying nonequilibrium dynamics in live cells
$184,000
University of Maryland Baltimore County · Baltimore, MD · 2022
To develop an effective pipeline for under represented minority students to gain admission to and complete highly competitive doctoral programs in economics by providing student support, high-value summer research exper… read allTo develop an effective pipeline for under represented minority students to gain admission to and complete highly competitive doctoral programs in economics by providing student support, high-value summer research experiences, and postbaccalaureate programs less
$182,994
National Center for Civic Innovation · New York, NY · 2024
To develop an interactive online course and complementary materials based on the equity accelerators classroom practices library to transform teaching and learning in the stem classroom
$182,824
Urban Institute · Washington, DC · 2024
To build synthetic tax datasets for use in social science research
$181,516
National Bureau of Economic Research · Cambridge, ME · 2022
To support research and data infrastructure concerning the economics of household finance
$181,453
National Book Foundation · New York, NY · 2024
To honor exceptional books with scientific or technological themes or characters from diverse authors and to support public programming with the winning authors
$180,737
National Book Foundation · New York, NY · 2022
To honor exceptional books with scientific or technological themes or characters from diverse authors and to support public programming with the winning authors
$176,231
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Champaign, IL · 2023
To collect and support the development of policies that foster sustainable research software
$175,971
University of California Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2022
To accelerate the formulation, study, and adoption of macroeconomic models that take behavioral biases into account
$175,755
Northeastern University · Boston, MA · 2024
To implement and analyze support for scientific research teams who are working together on common aims but from multiple locations
$175,264
Urban Institute · Washington, DC · 2023
To build synthetic tax datasets for use in social science research
$175,000
Morgan State University · Baltimore, MD · 2024
To investigate the relative ease and tradeoffs between opensim and unity for developing immersive student experiences
$175,000
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2023
To encourage charitable giving in support of basic scientific research through sloan membership in the science philanthropy alliance
$174,994
North Carolina State University · Raleigh, NC · 2023
To improve access to data science research support in higher education through development and dissemination of best practices in running campus consulting services
$173,978
University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2022
To launch nationally the distributed teaching collaborative (dtc), which seeks to revolutionize msi-to-r1 graduate pathways in robotics
$173,769
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Champaign, IL · 2022
To collect and support the development of policies that foster sustainable research software
$173,358
University of California Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2022
To engage a diverse group of doctoral students in cutting-edge environmental and energy economics research through an advanced summer training program
$173,070
National Bureau of Economic Research · Cambridge, ME · 2022
To support research on statistical inference when access to economic data is subject to privacy protections
$171,522
Northern Arizona University · Flagstaff, AZ · 2022
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
$171,156
University of Oxford · 2022
To pilot machine learning methods for human-in-the-loop serendipitous scientific discovery
$171,023
University of Texas El Paso · El Paso, TX · 2022
To accelerate systemic change across computing alliance hispanic-serving institutions (cahsi) to advance more hispanic students into and through computing graduate programs
$170,000
University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2023
To support historical research on how knowledge communities in engineering coordinated around the problem of reliable numerical computing
$168,873
American Academy of Arts and Sciences · Cambridge, MA · 2023
To support higher-education leadership in making transformative, systemic changes toward diversity, equity, and inclusion in a shifting legal landscape
$167,233
National Book Foundation · New York, NY · 2023
To honor exceptional books with scientific or technological themes or characters from diverse authors and to support public programming with the winning authors
$166,665
National Academy of Sciences · Washington, DC · 2022
To sustain the science and entertainment exchange and the role of science and science consultants in hollywood and to provide programming and science advisors for the sloan film program
$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
$166,452
American Council On Education · Washington, DC · 2023
To create a portfolio of practice-based work on graduate education pathways based on aces seminal study, race and ethnicity in higher education
$165,809
University of Texas El Paso · El Paso, TX · 2023
To accelerate systemic change across computing alliance hispanic-serving institutions (cahsi) to advance more hispanic students into and through computing graduate programs
$165,456
University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2023
To launch nationally the distributed teaching collaborative (dtc), which seeks to revolutionize msi-to-r1 graduate pathways in robotics
$165,437
Urban Institute · Washington, DC · 2022
To build and test a prototype validation server that enables privacy-preserving research on administrative tax data
$165,232
Columbia University · New York, NY · 2024
To develop a unified bayesian approach to estimating heterogeneous causal effects
$165,097
Boston University · Boston, MA · 2023
To study the causes and consequences of unequal investment in intangible capital across u.s. Firms
$164,853
University of Puerto Rico Cayey · 2024
To enhance and broaden pathways to chemistry graduate programs for students from small undergraduate institutions in puerto rico
$163,566
University of California Santa Barbara · Santa Barbara, CA · 2022
To support research on the roles played by scientific support staff in core infrastructural facilities
$163,249
National Bureau of Economic Research · Cambridge, MA · 2024
To strengthen economics research on science funding practices and their impacts by holding conferences, producing a handbook, running boot camps, conducting site visits, and other means of community building
$163,168
University of Texas El Paso · El Paso, TX · 2024
To accelerate systemic change across computing alliance hispanic-serving institutions (cahsi) to advance more hispanic students into and through computing graduate programs
$162,665
Chicago State Foundation · Flossmor, IL · 2023
To establish a joint mentoring program that aims to reduce barriers to graduate education and facilitate systemic change across chicago state and purdue
$161,719
New York University · New York, NY · 2023
For an annual feature film production grant over three years to enable film students to shoot a first feature film about science and technology
$161,460
National Bureau of Economic Research · Cambridge, MA · 2024
To encourage, grow, and further strengthen research on behavioral macroeconomics by providing doctoral fellowships and training support to early-career scholars
$160,856
American Council On Education · Washington, DC · 2024
To refine the carnegie classification of institutions of higher education, including the creation of a classification that measures the success of institutions in fostering social and economic mobility for traditionally… read allTo refine the carnegie classification of institutions of higher education, including the creation of a classification that measures the success of institutions in fostering social and economic mobility for traditionally underserved students less
$160,544
University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2024
To launch nationally the distributed teaching collaborative (dtc), which seeks to revolutionize msi-to-r1 graduate pathways in robotics
$159,488
George Mason University · Fairfax, VA · 2024
To organize a week-long 2024 energy and climate tech innovation boot camp that introduces early-career scholars to the practical and policy dimensions of energy system decarbonization
$159,175
Carnegie Mellon University · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
To grow and sustain the open energy outlook initiative open source modeling collaboration
$159,000
Duke University · Durham, NC · 2022
To expand an interdisciplinary pre-doctoral fellowship program in energy data analytics that enhances student training and fosters collaboration among multiple universities
$158,000
Mathematical Sciences Research Institute · Berkeley, CA · 2022
To increase the number of us students from underrepresented groups in mathematics graduate programs through continued support of the msri-up undergraduate program (msri-up)
$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
$155,380
American Museum of the Moving Image · Astoria, NY · 2023
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
$153,300
Northwestern University · Evanston, IL · 2024
To enhance the integration of contemporary energy economics research in training provided by the institute for regulatory law & economics (irle) to state public utility commission practitioners
$152,371
Spelman College · Atlanta, GA · 2023
To increase access for black women pursuing a career as a data science professional
$151,856
Academy Foundation · Beverly Hills, CA · 2023
To support film screenings, filmmaker discussions, and public programs focused on science and the science and technology of motion pictures
$151,400
Academy Foundation · Beverly Hills, CA · 2024
To support film screenings, filmmaker discussions, and public programs focused on science and the science and technology of motion pictures
$150,000
Carnegie Mellon University · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
To assess the equity and electricity grid impacts of electric vehicle (ev) charging infrastructure siting decisions through two case studies
$150,000
Carnegie Mellon University · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
To examine how household energy insecurity is experienced by different demographic groups at the state and national levels
$150,000
Colorado School of Mines · Golden, CO · 2024
To study how societal considerations can be integrated into the early stages of energy technology research and development processes
$150,000
The University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024
To train pre-doctoral scholars in collaborative energy and environmental economics and policy research by strengthening connections between the expanding diversity in economics (ede) and energy policy institute at chica… read allTo train pre-doctoral scholars in collaborative energy and environmental economics and policy research by strengthening connections between the expanding diversity in economics (ede) and energy policy institute at chicago (epic) fellowship programs less
$150,000
Barry University · Miami Shores, FL · 2023
To develop a place-based just energy transition framework by undertaking four community-engaged case studies in florida, kansas, louisiana, and pennsylvania
$150,000
New York University · New York, NY · 2023
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
$150,000
Northeastern University · Boston, MA · 2023
To investigate the role of crises and disruption in shaping just energy transitions by examining three case studies in puerto rico, west virginia, and massachusetts
$150,000
Stanford University · Stanford, CA · 2023
To develop and apply a framework that classifies, assesses, and compares the explicit and implicit subsidies provided for different energy sources
$150,000
University of Vermont · Burlington, VT · 2023
To examine rural and indigenous just energy transitions associated with renewable energy microgrid development in alaska
$150,000
Catticus Corporation · Berkeley, CA · 2022
To produce the science of friendship, a one-hour documentary to air on pbss nova
$150,000
Family Pictures Institute for Inclusive Storytelling · Greenwood Lake, NY · 2022
To support the research and writing of a full treatment for my mother, the scientist, a 90-minute personal documentary about the challenge of recruiting more blacks into stem
$150,000
Manhattan Theatre Club · New York, NY · 2022
To provide production support for the staging of anchuli felicia kings science-themed play golden shield
$150,000
Montana State University Bozeman · Bozeman, MT · 2022
To examine indigenous fiscal policy and community resilience issues for just energy transitions with the crow nation in montana
$150,000
National Academy of Sciences · Washington, DC · 2022
To sustain the science and entertainment exchange and the role of science and science consultants in hollywood and to provide science advisors for the sloan film program
$150,000
Stanford University · Stanford, CA · 2022
To develop and apply a framework that classifies, assesses, and compares the explicit and implicit subsidies provided for different energy sources
$150,000
University of Maryland College Park · College Park, MD · 2022
To support an interdisciplinary transportation doctoral research fellowship program to connect scholars in engineering, economics, and public policy
$150,000
University of South Carolina · Columbia, SC · 2022
To examine community and worker opportunities for just energy transitions in south carolina and tennessee
$149,998
Carnegie Institution of Washington · Washington, DC · 2024
To investigate the economic and greenhouse gas emissions impacts of centralized and decentralized low-carbon ammonia production in the united states
$149,998
University of California Santa Cruz · Santa Cruz, CA · 2024
To conduct a critical minerals and metals just transition listening project
$149,969
Code for Science and Society · Portland, OR · 2024
To build a comprehensive, shared understanding of the current state of the community and business/operations infrastructure for research software
$149,788
National Bureau of Economic Research · Cambridge, MA · 2023
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
$149,731
Boulder Housing Coalition · Boulder, CO · 2024
To undertake a series of outreach and training activities that engage early career researchers in energy system decarbonization modeling
$149,730
National Bureau of Economic Research · Cambridge, ME · 2022
To advance new economic research on the distributional equity impacts of new energy technologies and policies
$149,712
George Washington University · Washington, DC · 2024
To investigate community perspectives on the social and environmental impacts of critical mineral mining activities in the united states across three comparative case studies
$149,545
University of Maryland College Park · College Park, MD · 2023
To understand the effects of corporate investments on energy technology innovation