The Pennsylvania State University to support the development and application of data assimilation techniques in paleoclimate deep time Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $340,026 Year Granted 2016 Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the 51 Pegasi b Fellowship Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $371,032 Year Granted 2016 University of Washington to support the development and application of data assimilation techniques in paleoclimate deep time Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $551,124 Year Granted 2016 Neptune Studios LLC for the sponsorship of MinutePhysics and MinuteEarth videos Program Science Grant Type DCA Grant Amount $54,500 Year Granted 2016 Regents of the University of Michigan to support the development and application of data assimilation techniques in paleoclimate deep time Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,164 Year Granted 2016 California Institute of Technology for the 51 Pegasi b Fellowship Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $363,586 Year Granted 2016 University of Florida Board of Trustees for two summer research projects in axion physics that will investigate new observational signatures for axion dark matter detection Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $21,900 Year Granted 2016 Yale University for the development of strategic communication tools to effectively engage Hispanics in climate change solutions Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $299,000 Year Granted 2016 Regents of the University of California at Riverside to support the development and application of data assimilation techniques in paleoclimate deep time Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $34,395 Year Granted 2016 California Association for Research in Astronomy to support the preliminary design of the Keck Planet Finder (KPF) and the purchase of long lead time items critical to the timely completion of this instrument Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $2,500,000 Year Granted 2016 National Academy of Sciences to support committee planning for the Astro2020 decadal survey and board activities in space studies, physics, and astronomy Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2016 Arizona Board of Regents, University of Arizona to support the development and application of data assimilation techniques in paleoclimate deep time Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $598,231 Year Granted 2016 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support ($150,000) and for the development of the Spotlights multimedia project ($50,000) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2016 California Science Center Foundation for the development and fabrication of an exoplanet exhibit at the California Science Center Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $165,000 Year Granted 2016 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to fund activities during Phase 1 of the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr), a search for ultra-light dark matter particles such as axions and dark photons Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $435,986 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Riverside to support the development of a comprehensive proxy-focused model of how marine sediment cores accumulate and change over millennial time scales to form the observed geological record Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $760,371 Year Granted 2015 University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center to support the use of novel biophysical and computational approaches to predict how proteins self-assemble to ultimately form ordered super-structures Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2015 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University to fund activities during Phase 1 of the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr), a search for ultra-light dark matter particles such as axions and dark photons Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $264,098 Year Granted 2015 Trustees of Boston University to fund Boston University’s activities during Phase 1 of the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr), a search for ultra-light dark matter particles such as axions and dark photons Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $408,766 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California, Davis to support the development of statistical and computational algorithmic tools to reduce systematic errors on data taken by the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support retreats, strategic planning meetings, and special seminars for the Joint BioEnergy Institute Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $225,000 Year Granted 2015 University of Florida Board of Trustees to support a laboratory search for axions, hidden-sector photons, and vacuum magnetic birefringence Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $838,463 Year Granted 2015 University of Florida Board of Trustees to support research in axion physics that will allow scientists to derive new observational signatures and laboratory strategies for axion dark matter detection Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $135,732 Year Granted 2015 Berkeley Lab Foundation for a program-related investment (PRI) for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Program Science Grant Type PRI Grant Amount $2,500,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California, Davis to support the design and construction of a zero-net-energy home to compete in the 2015 U.S Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2015 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University to support a workshop on precision measurement devices to study high energy physics in laboratory-scale experiments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $93,150 Year Granted 2015 University of Chicago to fund the University of Chicago to develop high frequency, large volume, low loss resonant structures for use in future axion dark matter experiments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $138,619 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $40,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to support the development of a paleoclimate version of the Community Earth System Model (CESM) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $1,264,273 Year Granted 2015 Ocean Foundation for four Satlantic Sea Field Effect Transistor (SeaFET) Ocean Acidification (OA) sensors that will be used to monitor ocean acidification off the southeastern coast of Africa Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $66,667 Year Granted 2015 University of California Berkeley Foundation for the endowment of the Eugene D. Commins Chair in Experimental Physics Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $171,897 Year Granted 2015 The Pennsylvania State University to support the development of a comprehensive proxy-focused model of how marine sediment cores accumulate and change over millennial time scales to form the observed geological record Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $326,444 Year Granted 2015 Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop cryogenic osmium-based detectors to investigate neutrino scattering phenomena Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $675,692 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to support theory development at the interface of cosmology and quantum mechanics to identify observational signatures that can distinguish competing models of how the universe was formed and evolved Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $657,425 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to design and build the fiber injection module for W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrograph Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $697,964 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support geological research on the Deccan Traps flood basalts of India Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $172,500 Year Granted 2015 University of Washington to support a workshop on microwave cavity design for axion research Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $95,515 Year Granted 2015 National Academy of Sciences to conduct a fast-track examination of the science of attribution of extreme weather events to human-caused climate change and natural variability Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2015 California Association for Research in Astronomy to support the upgrade of W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrometer (NIRSPEC) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $215,000 Year Granted 2015 Smithsonian Institution Office Of The Comptroller to support timely ecological field measurements in secondary tropical forests Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $74,960 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to use novel biophysical and computational approaches to predict how proteins self-assemble to form ordered super-structures Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $2,023 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to upgrade the charge coupled device on the red channel of the Kast spectrometer on the Shane Telescope at the University of California Observatories Lick Observatory Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $300,000 Year Granted 2014 Yale University to develop and upgrade the site and experimental infrastructure in which thin-film superconducting cavities and squeezed-vacuum state amplifiers will be used to detect axion dark matter particles with energies of 5-20 gigahertz (GHz) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maine System Inc. to design, engineer, and deploy on Helheim Glacier in Greenland a fully-autonomous, ground-based glacier-monitoring instrument based on Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $558,718 Year Granted 2014 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Aspen Global Change Institute Inc. to develop and support a high-level corps of Climate Change Ambassadors to advance the societal conversation on climate change and actions to respond to it Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California, Davis to use novel synthetic DNA-based tracers to identify and characterize hydrologic flow pathways in agricultural to glacier-dominated environments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 … 8 9 10 11 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the 51 Pegasi b Fellowship Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $371,032 Year Granted 2016 University of Washington to support the development and application of data assimilation techniques in paleoclimate deep time Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $551,124 Year Granted 2016 Neptune Studios LLC for the sponsorship of MinutePhysics and MinuteEarth videos Program Science Grant Type DCA Grant Amount $54,500 Year Granted 2016 Regents of the University of Michigan to support the development and application of data assimilation techniques in paleoclimate deep time Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,164 Year Granted 2016 California Institute of Technology for the 51 Pegasi b Fellowship Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $363,586 Year Granted 2016 University of Florida Board of Trustees for two summer research projects in axion physics that will investigate new observational signatures for axion dark matter detection Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $21,900 Year Granted 2016 Yale University for the development of strategic communication tools to effectively engage Hispanics in climate change solutions Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $299,000 Year Granted 2016 Regents of the University of California at Riverside to support the development and application of data assimilation techniques in paleoclimate deep time Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $34,395 Year Granted 2016 California Association for Research in Astronomy to support the preliminary design of the Keck Planet Finder (KPF) and the purchase of long lead time items critical to the timely completion of this instrument Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $2,500,000 Year Granted 2016 National Academy of Sciences to support committee planning for the Astro2020 decadal survey and board activities in space studies, physics, and astronomy Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2016 Arizona Board of Regents, University of Arizona to support the development and application of data assimilation techniques in paleoclimate deep time Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $598,231 Year Granted 2016 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support ($150,000) and for the development of the Spotlights multimedia project ($50,000) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2016 California Science Center Foundation for the development and fabrication of an exoplanet exhibit at the California Science Center Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $165,000 Year Granted 2016 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to fund activities during Phase 1 of the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr), a search for ultra-light dark matter particles such as axions and dark photons Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $435,986 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Riverside to support the development of a comprehensive proxy-focused model of how marine sediment cores accumulate and change over millennial time scales to form the observed geological record Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $760,371 Year Granted 2015 University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center to support the use of novel biophysical and computational approaches to predict how proteins self-assemble to ultimately form ordered super-structures Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2015 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University to fund activities during Phase 1 of the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr), a search for ultra-light dark matter particles such as axions and dark photons Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $264,098 Year Granted 2015 Trustees of Boston University to fund Boston University’s activities during Phase 1 of the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr), a search for ultra-light dark matter particles such as axions and dark photons Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $408,766 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California, Davis to support the development of statistical and computational algorithmic tools to reduce systematic errors on data taken by the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support retreats, strategic planning meetings, and special seminars for the Joint BioEnergy Institute Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $225,000 Year Granted 2015 University of Florida Board of Trustees to support a laboratory search for axions, hidden-sector photons, and vacuum magnetic birefringence Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $838,463 Year Granted 2015 University of Florida Board of Trustees to support research in axion physics that will allow scientists to derive new observational signatures and laboratory strategies for axion dark matter detection Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $135,732 Year Granted 2015 Berkeley Lab Foundation for a program-related investment (PRI) for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Program Science Grant Type PRI Grant Amount $2,500,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California, Davis to support the design and construction of a zero-net-energy home to compete in the 2015 U.S Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2015 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University to support a workshop on precision measurement devices to study high energy physics in laboratory-scale experiments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $93,150 Year Granted 2015 University of Chicago to fund the University of Chicago to develop high frequency, large volume, low loss resonant structures for use in future axion dark matter experiments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $138,619 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $40,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to support the development of a paleoclimate version of the Community Earth System Model (CESM) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $1,264,273 Year Granted 2015 Ocean Foundation for four Satlantic Sea Field Effect Transistor (SeaFET) Ocean Acidification (OA) sensors that will be used to monitor ocean acidification off the southeastern coast of Africa Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $66,667 Year Granted 2015 University of California Berkeley Foundation for the endowment of the Eugene D. Commins Chair in Experimental Physics Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $171,897 Year Granted 2015 The Pennsylvania State University to support the development of a comprehensive proxy-focused model of how marine sediment cores accumulate and change over millennial time scales to form the observed geological record Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $326,444 Year Granted 2015 Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop cryogenic osmium-based detectors to investigate neutrino scattering phenomena Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $675,692 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to support theory development at the interface of cosmology and quantum mechanics to identify observational signatures that can distinguish competing models of how the universe was formed and evolved Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $657,425 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to design and build the fiber injection module for W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrograph Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $697,964 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support geological research on the Deccan Traps flood basalts of India Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $172,500 Year Granted 2015 University of Washington to support a workshop on microwave cavity design for axion research Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $95,515 Year Granted 2015 National Academy of Sciences to conduct a fast-track examination of the science of attribution of extreme weather events to human-caused climate change and natural variability Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2015 California Association for Research in Astronomy to support the upgrade of W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrometer (NIRSPEC) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $215,000 Year Granted 2015 Smithsonian Institution Office Of The Comptroller to support timely ecological field measurements in secondary tropical forests Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $74,960 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to use novel biophysical and computational approaches to predict how proteins self-assemble to form ordered super-structures Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $2,023 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to upgrade the charge coupled device on the red channel of the Kast spectrometer on the Shane Telescope at the University of California Observatories Lick Observatory Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $300,000 Year Granted 2014 Yale University to develop and upgrade the site and experimental infrastructure in which thin-film superconducting cavities and squeezed-vacuum state amplifiers will be used to detect axion dark matter particles with energies of 5-20 gigahertz (GHz) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maine System Inc. to design, engineer, and deploy on Helheim Glacier in Greenland a fully-autonomous, ground-based glacier-monitoring instrument based on Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $558,718 Year Granted 2014 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Aspen Global Change Institute Inc. to develop and support a high-level corps of Climate Change Ambassadors to advance the societal conversation on climate change and actions to respond to it Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California, Davis to use novel synthetic DNA-based tracers to identify and characterize hydrologic flow pathways in agricultural to glacier-dominated environments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 … 8 9 10 11 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
University of Washington to support the development and application of data assimilation techniques in paleoclimate deep time Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $551,124 Year Granted 2016 Neptune Studios LLC for the sponsorship of MinutePhysics and MinuteEarth videos Program Science Grant Type DCA Grant Amount $54,500 Year Granted 2016 Regents of the University of Michigan to support the development and application of data assimilation techniques in paleoclimate deep time Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,164 Year Granted 2016 California Institute of Technology for the 51 Pegasi b Fellowship Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $363,586 Year Granted 2016 University of Florida Board of Trustees for two summer research projects in axion physics that will investigate new observational signatures for axion dark matter detection Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $21,900 Year Granted 2016 Yale University for the development of strategic communication tools to effectively engage Hispanics in climate change solutions Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $299,000 Year Granted 2016 Regents of the University of California at Riverside to support the development and application of data assimilation techniques in paleoclimate deep time Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $34,395 Year Granted 2016 California Association for Research in Astronomy to support the preliminary design of the Keck Planet Finder (KPF) and the purchase of long lead time items critical to the timely completion of this instrument Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $2,500,000 Year Granted 2016 National Academy of Sciences to support committee planning for the Astro2020 decadal survey and board activities in space studies, physics, and astronomy Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2016 Arizona Board of Regents, University of Arizona to support the development and application of data assimilation techniques in paleoclimate deep time Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $598,231 Year Granted 2016 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support ($150,000) and for the development of the Spotlights multimedia project ($50,000) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2016 California Science Center Foundation for the development and fabrication of an exoplanet exhibit at the California Science Center Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $165,000 Year Granted 2016 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to fund activities during Phase 1 of the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr), a search for ultra-light dark matter particles such as axions and dark photons Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $435,986 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Riverside to support the development of a comprehensive proxy-focused model of how marine sediment cores accumulate and change over millennial time scales to form the observed geological record Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $760,371 Year Granted 2015 University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center to support the use of novel biophysical and computational approaches to predict how proteins self-assemble to ultimately form ordered super-structures Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2015 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University to fund activities during Phase 1 of the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr), a search for ultra-light dark matter particles such as axions and dark photons Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $264,098 Year Granted 2015 Trustees of Boston University to fund Boston University’s activities during Phase 1 of the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr), a search for ultra-light dark matter particles such as axions and dark photons Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $408,766 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California, Davis to support the development of statistical and computational algorithmic tools to reduce systematic errors on data taken by the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support retreats, strategic planning meetings, and special seminars for the Joint BioEnergy Institute Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $225,000 Year Granted 2015 University of Florida Board of Trustees to support a laboratory search for axions, hidden-sector photons, and vacuum magnetic birefringence Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $838,463 Year Granted 2015 University of Florida Board of Trustees to support research in axion physics that will allow scientists to derive new observational signatures and laboratory strategies for axion dark matter detection Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $135,732 Year Granted 2015 Berkeley Lab Foundation for a program-related investment (PRI) for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Program Science Grant Type PRI Grant Amount $2,500,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California, Davis to support the design and construction of a zero-net-energy home to compete in the 2015 U.S Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2015 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University to support a workshop on precision measurement devices to study high energy physics in laboratory-scale experiments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $93,150 Year Granted 2015 University of Chicago to fund the University of Chicago to develop high frequency, large volume, low loss resonant structures for use in future axion dark matter experiments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $138,619 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $40,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to support the development of a paleoclimate version of the Community Earth System Model (CESM) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $1,264,273 Year Granted 2015 Ocean Foundation for four Satlantic Sea Field Effect Transistor (SeaFET) Ocean Acidification (OA) sensors that will be used to monitor ocean acidification off the southeastern coast of Africa Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $66,667 Year Granted 2015 University of California Berkeley Foundation for the endowment of the Eugene D. Commins Chair in Experimental Physics Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $171,897 Year Granted 2015 The Pennsylvania State University to support the development of a comprehensive proxy-focused model of how marine sediment cores accumulate and change over millennial time scales to form the observed geological record Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $326,444 Year Granted 2015 Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop cryogenic osmium-based detectors to investigate neutrino scattering phenomena Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $675,692 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to support theory development at the interface of cosmology and quantum mechanics to identify observational signatures that can distinguish competing models of how the universe was formed and evolved Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $657,425 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to design and build the fiber injection module for W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrograph Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $697,964 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support geological research on the Deccan Traps flood basalts of India Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $172,500 Year Granted 2015 University of Washington to support a workshop on microwave cavity design for axion research Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $95,515 Year Granted 2015 National Academy of Sciences to conduct a fast-track examination of the science of attribution of extreme weather events to human-caused climate change and natural variability Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2015 California Association for Research in Astronomy to support the upgrade of W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrometer (NIRSPEC) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $215,000 Year Granted 2015 Smithsonian Institution Office Of The Comptroller to support timely ecological field measurements in secondary tropical forests Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $74,960 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to use novel biophysical and computational approaches to predict how proteins self-assemble to form ordered super-structures Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $2,023 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to upgrade the charge coupled device on the red channel of the Kast spectrometer on the Shane Telescope at the University of California Observatories Lick Observatory Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $300,000 Year Granted 2014 Yale University to develop and upgrade the site and experimental infrastructure in which thin-film superconducting cavities and squeezed-vacuum state amplifiers will be used to detect axion dark matter particles with energies of 5-20 gigahertz (GHz) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maine System Inc. to design, engineer, and deploy on Helheim Glacier in Greenland a fully-autonomous, ground-based glacier-monitoring instrument based on Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $558,718 Year Granted 2014 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Aspen Global Change Institute Inc. to develop and support a high-level corps of Climate Change Ambassadors to advance the societal conversation on climate change and actions to respond to it Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California, Davis to use novel synthetic DNA-based tracers to identify and characterize hydrologic flow pathways in agricultural to glacier-dominated environments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 … 8 9 10 11 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
Neptune Studios LLC for the sponsorship of MinutePhysics and MinuteEarth videos Program Science Grant Type DCA Grant Amount $54,500 Year Granted 2016 Regents of the University of Michigan to support the development and application of data assimilation techniques in paleoclimate deep time Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,164 Year Granted 2016 California Institute of Technology for the 51 Pegasi b Fellowship Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $363,586 Year Granted 2016 University of Florida Board of Trustees for two summer research projects in axion physics that will investigate new observational signatures for axion dark matter detection Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $21,900 Year Granted 2016 Yale University for the development of strategic communication tools to effectively engage Hispanics in climate change solutions Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $299,000 Year Granted 2016 Regents of the University of California at Riverside to support the development and application of data assimilation techniques in paleoclimate deep time Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $34,395 Year Granted 2016 California Association for Research in Astronomy to support the preliminary design of the Keck Planet Finder (KPF) and the purchase of long lead time items critical to the timely completion of this instrument Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $2,500,000 Year Granted 2016 National Academy of Sciences to support committee planning for the Astro2020 decadal survey and board activities in space studies, physics, and astronomy Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2016 Arizona Board of Regents, University of Arizona to support the development and application of data assimilation techniques in paleoclimate deep time Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $598,231 Year Granted 2016 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support ($150,000) and for the development of the Spotlights multimedia project ($50,000) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2016 California Science Center Foundation for the development and fabrication of an exoplanet exhibit at the California Science Center Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $165,000 Year Granted 2016 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to fund activities during Phase 1 of the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr), a search for ultra-light dark matter particles such as axions and dark photons Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $435,986 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Riverside to support the development of a comprehensive proxy-focused model of how marine sediment cores accumulate and change over millennial time scales to form the observed geological record Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $760,371 Year Granted 2015 University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center to support the use of novel biophysical and computational approaches to predict how proteins self-assemble to ultimately form ordered super-structures Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2015 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University to fund activities during Phase 1 of the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr), a search for ultra-light dark matter particles such as axions and dark photons Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $264,098 Year Granted 2015 Trustees of Boston University to fund Boston University’s activities during Phase 1 of the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr), a search for ultra-light dark matter particles such as axions and dark photons Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $408,766 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California, Davis to support the development of statistical and computational algorithmic tools to reduce systematic errors on data taken by the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support retreats, strategic planning meetings, and special seminars for the Joint BioEnergy Institute Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $225,000 Year Granted 2015 University of Florida Board of Trustees to support a laboratory search for axions, hidden-sector photons, and vacuum magnetic birefringence Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $838,463 Year Granted 2015 University of Florida Board of Trustees to support research in axion physics that will allow scientists to derive new observational signatures and laboratory strategies for axion dark matter detection Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $135,732 Year Granted 2015 Berkeley Lab Foundation for a program-related investment (PRI) for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Program Science Grant Type PRI Grant Amount $2,500,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California, Davis to support the design and construction of a zero-net-energy home to compete in the 2015 U.S Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2015 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University to support a workshop on precision measurement devices to study high energy physics in laboratory-scale experiments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $93,150 Year Granted 2015 University of Chicago to fund the University of Chicago to develop high frequency, large volume, low loss resonant structures for use in future axion dark matter experiments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $138,619 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $40,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to support the development of a paleoclimate version of the Community Earth System Model (CESM) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $1,264,273 Year Granted 2015 Ocean Foundation for four Satlantic Sea Field Effect Transistor (SeaFET) Ocean Acidification (OA) sensors that will be used to monitor ocean acidification off the southeastern coast of Africa Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $66,667 Year Granted 2015 University of California Berkeley Foundation for the endowment of the Eugene D. Commins Chair in Experimental Physics Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $171,897 Year Granted 2015 The Pennsylvania State University to support the development of a comprehensive proxy-focused model of how marine sediment cores accumulate and change over millennial time scales to form the observed geological record Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $326,444 Year Granted 2015 Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop cryogenic osmium-based detectors to investigate neutrino scattering phenomena Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $675,692 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to support theory development at the interface of cosmology and quantum mechanics to identify observational signatures that can distinguish competing models of how the universe was formed and evolved Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $657,425 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to design and build the fiber injection module for W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrograph Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $697,964 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support geological research on the Deccan Traps flood basalts of India Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $172,500 Year Granted 2015 University of Washington to support a workshop on microwave cavity design for axion research Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $95,515 Year Granted 2015 National Academy of Sciences to conduct a fast-track examination of the science of attribution of extreme weather events to human-caused climate change and natural variability Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2015 California Association for Research in Astronomy to support the upgrade of W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrometer (NIRSPEC) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $215,000 Year Granted 2015 Smithsonian Institution Office Of The Comptroller to support timely ecological field measurements in secondary tropical forests Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $74,960 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to use novel biophysical and computational approaches to predict how proteins self-assemble to form ordered super-structures Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $2,023 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to upgrade the charge coupled device on the red channel of the Kast spectrometer on the Shane Telescope at the University of California Observatories Lick Observatory Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $300,000 Year Granted 2014 Yale University to develop and upgrade the site and experimental infrastructure in which thin-film superconducting cavities and squeezed-vacuum state amplifiers will be used to detect axion dark matter particles with energies of 5-20 gigahertz (GHz) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maine System Inc. to design, engineer, and deploy on Helheim Glacier in Greenland a fully-autonomous, ground-based glacier-monitoring instrument based on Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $558,718 Year Granted 2014 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Aspen Global Change Institute Inc. to develop and support a high-level corps of Climate Change Ambassadors to advance the societal conversation on climate change and actions to respond to it Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California, Davis to use novel synthetic DNA-based tracers to identify and characterize hydrologic flow pathways in agricultural to glacier-dominated environments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 … 8 9 10 11 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
Regents of the University of Michigan to support the development and application of data assimilation techniques in paleoclimate deep time Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,164 Year Granted 2016 California Institute of Technology for the 51 Pegasi b Fellowship Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $363,586 Year Granted 2016 University of Florida Board of Trustees for two summer research projects in axion physics that will investigate new observational signatures for axion dark matter detection Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $21,900 Year Granted 2016 Yale University for the development of strategic communication tools to effectively engage Hispanics in climate change solutions Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $299,000 Year Granted 2016 Regents of the University of California at Riverside to support the development and application of data assimilation techniques in paleoclimate deep time Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $34,395 Year Granted 2016 California Association for Research in Astronomy to support the preliminary design of the Keck Planet Finder (KPF) and the purchase of long lead time items critical to the timely completion of this instrument Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $2,500,000 Year Granted 2016 National Academy of Sciences to support committee planning for the Astro2020 decadal survey and board activities in space studies, physics, and astronomy Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2016 Arizona Board of Regents, University of Arizona to support the development and application of data assimilation techniques in paleoclimate deep time Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $598,231 Year Granted 2016 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support ($150,000) and for the development of the Spotlights multimedia project ($50,000) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2016 California Science Center Foundation for the development and fabrication of an exoplanet exhibit at the California Science Center Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $165,000 Year Granted 2016 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to fund activities during Phase 1 of the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr), a search for ultra-light dark matter particles such as axions and dark photons Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $435,986 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Riverside to support the development of a comprehensive proxy-focused model of how marine sediment cores accumulate and change over millennial time scales to form the observed geological record Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $760,371 Year Granted 2015 University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center to support the use of novel biophysical and computational approaches to predict how proteins self-assemble to ultimately form ordered super-structures Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2015 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University to fund activities during Phase 1 of the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr), a search for ultra-light dark matter particles such as axions and dark photons Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $264,098 Year Granted 2015 Trustees of Boston University to fund Boston University’s activities during Phase 1 of the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr), a search for ultra-light dark matter particles such as axions and dark photons Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $408,766 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California, Davis to support the development of statistical and computational algorithmic tools to reduce systematic errors on data taken by the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support retreats, strategic planning meetings, and special seminars for the Joint BioEnergy Institute Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $225,000 Year Granted 2015 University of Florida Board of Trustees to support a laboratory search for axions, hidden-sector photons, and vacuum magnetic birefringence Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $838,463 Year Granted 2015 University of Florida Board of Trustees to support research in axion physics that will allow scientists to derive new observational signatures and laboratory strategies for axion dark matter detection Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $135,732 Year Granted 2015 Berkeley Lab Foundation for a program-related investment (PRI) for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Program Science Grant Type PRI Grant Amount $2,500,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California, Davis to support the design and construction of a zero-net-energy home to compete in the 2015 U.S Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2015 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University to support a workshop on precision measurement devices to study high energy physics in laboratory-scale experiments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $93,150 Year Granted 2015 University of Chicago to fund the University of Chicago to develop high frequency, large volume, low loss resonant structures for use in future axion dark matter experiments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $138,619 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $40,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to support the development of a paleoclimate version of the Community Earth System Model (CESM) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $1,264,273 Year Granted 2015 Ocean Foundation for four Satlantic Sea Field Effect Transistor (SeaFET) Ocean Acidification (OA) sensors that will be used to monitor ocean acidification off the southeastern coast of Africa Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $66,667 Year Granted 2015 University of California Berkeley Foundation for the endowment of the Eugene D. Commins Chair in Experimental Physics Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $171,897 Year Granted 2015 The Pennsylvania State University to support the development of a comprehensive proxy-focused model of how marine sediment cores accumulate and change over millennial time scales to form the observed geological record Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $326,444 Year Granted 2015 Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop cryogenic osmium-based detectors to investigate neutrino scattering phenomena Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $675,692 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to support theory development at the interface of cosmology and quantum mechanics to identify observational signatures that can distinguish competing models of how the universe was formed and evolved Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $657,425 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to design and build the fiber injection module for W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrograph Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $697,964 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support geological research on the Deccan Traps flood basalts of India Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $172,500 Year Granted 2015 University of Washington to support a workshop on microwave cavity design for axion research Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $95,515 Year Granted 2015 National Academy of Sciences to conduct a fast-track examination of the science of attribution of extreme weather events to human-caused climate change and natural variability Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2015 California Association for Research in Astronomy to support the upgrade of W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrometer (NIRSPEC) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $215,000 Year Granted 2015 Smithsonian Institution Office Of The Comptroller to support timely ecological field measurements in secondary tropical forests Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $74,960 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to use novel biophysical and computational approaches to predict how proteins self-assemble to form ordered super-structures Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $2,023 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to upgrade the charge coupled device on the red channel of the Kast spectrometer on the Shane Telescope at the University of California Observatories Lick Observatory Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $300,000 Year Granted 2014 Yale University to develop and upgrade the site and experimental infrastructure in which thin-film superconducting cavities and squeezed-vacuum state amplifiers will be used to detect axion dark matter particles with energies of 5-20 gigahertz (GHz) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maine System Inc. to design, engineer, and deploy on Helheim Glacier in Greenland a fully-autonomous, ground-based glacier-monitoring instrument based on Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $558,718 Year Granted 2014 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Aspen Global Change Institute Inc. to develop and support a high-level corps of Climate Change Ambassadors to advance the societal conversation on climate change and actions to respond to it Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California, Davis to use novel synthetic DNA-based tracers to identify and characterize hydrologic flow pathways in agricultural to glacier-dominated environments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 … 8 9 10 11 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
California Institute of Technology for the 51 Pegasi b Fellowship Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $363,586 Year Granted 2016 University of Florida Board of Trustees for two summer research projects in axion physics that will investigate new observational signatures for axion dark matter detection Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $21,900 Year Granted 2016 Yale University for the development of strategic communication tools to effectively engage Hispanics in climate change solutions Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $299,000 Year Granted 2016 Regents of the University of California at Riverside to support the development and application of data assimilation techniques in paleoclimate deep time Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $34,395 Year Granted 2016 California Association for Research in Astronomy to support the preliminary design of the Keck Planet Finder (KPF) and the purchase of long lead time items critical to the timely completion of this instrument Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $2,500,000 Year Granted 2016 National Academy of Sciences to support committee planning for the Astro2020 decadal survey and board activities in space studies, physics, and astronomy Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2016 Arizona Board of Regents, University of Arizona to support the development and application of data assimilation techniques in paleoclimate deep time Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $598,231 Year Granted 2016 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support ($150,000) and for the development of the Spotlights multimedia project ($50,000) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2016 California Science Center Foundation for the development and fabrication of an exoplanet exhibit at the California Science Center Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $165,000 Year Granted 2016 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to fund activities during Phase 1 of the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr), a search for ultra-light dark matter particles such as axions and dark photons Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $435,986 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Riverside to support the development of a comprehensive proxy-focused model of how marine sediment cores accumulate and change over millennial time scales to form the observed geological record Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $760,371 Year Granted 2015 University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center to support the use of novel biophysical and computational approaches to predict how proteins self-assemble to ultimately form ordered super-structures Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2015 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University to fund activities during Phase 1 of the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr), a search for ultra-light dark matter particles such as axions and dark photons Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $264,098 Year Granted 2015 Trustees of Boston University to fund Boston University’s activities during Phase 1 of the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr), a search for ultra-light dark matter particles such as axions and dark photons Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $408,766 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California, Davis to support the development of statistical and computational algorithmic tools to reduce systematic errors on data taken by the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support retreats, strategic planning meetings, and special seminars for the Joint BioEnergy Institute Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $225,000 Year Granted 2015 University of Florida Board of Trustees to support a laboratory search for axions, hidden-sector photons, and vacuum magnetic birefringence Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $838,463 Year Granted 2015 University of Florida Board of Trustees to support research in axion physics that will allow scientists to derive new observational signatures and laboratory strategies for axion dark matter detection Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $135,732 Year Granted 2015 Berkeley Lab Foundation for a program-related investment (PRI) for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Program Science Grant Type PRI Grant Amount $2,500,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California, Davis to support the design and construction of a zero-net-energy home to compete in the 2015 U.S Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2015 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University to support a workshop on precision measurement devices to study high energy physics in laboratory-scale experiments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $93,150 Year Granted 2015 University of Chicago to fund the University of Chicago to develop high frequency, large volume, low loss resonant structures for use in future axion dark matter experiments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $138,619 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $40,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to support the development of a paleoclimate version of the Community Earth System Model (CESM) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $1,264,273 Year Granted 2015 Ocean Foundation for four Satlantic Sea Field Effect Transistor (SeaFET) Ocean Acidification (OA) sensors that will be used to monitor ocean acidification off the southeastern coast of Africa Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $66,667 Year Granted 2015 University of California Berkeley Foundation for the endowment of the Eugene D. Commins Chair in Experimental Physics Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $171,897 Year Granted 2015 The Pennsylvania State University to support the development of a comprehensive proxy-focused model of how marine sediment cores accumulate and change over millennial time scales to form the observed geological record Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $326,444 Year Granted 2015 Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop cryogenic osmium-based detectors to investigate neutrino scattering phenomena Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $675,692 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to support theory development at the interface of cosmology and quantum mechanics to identify observational signatures that can distinguish competing models of how the universe was formed and evolved Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $657,425 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to design and build the fiber injection module for W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrograph Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $697,964 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support geological research on the Deccan Traps flood basalts of India Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $172,500 Year Granted 2015 University of Washington to support a workshop on microwave cavity design for axion research Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $95,515 Year Granted 2015 National Academy of Sciences to conduct a fast-track examination of the science of attribution of extreme weather events to human-caused climate change and natural variability Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2015 California Association for Research in Astronomy to support the upgrade of W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrometer (NIRSPEC) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $215,000 Year Granted 2015 Smithsonian Institution Office Of The Comptroller to support timely ecological field measurements in secondary tropical forests Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $74,960 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to use novel biophysical and computational approaches to predict how proteins self-assemble to form ordered super-structures Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $2,023 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to upgrade the charge coupled device on the red channel of the Kast spectrometer on the Shane Telescope at the University of California Observatories Lick Observatory Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $300,000 Year Granted 2014 Yale University to develop and upgrade the site and experimental infrastructure in which thin-film superconducting cavities and squeezed-vacuum state amplifiers will be used to detect axion dark matter particles with energies of 5-20 gigahertz (GHz) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maine System Inc. to design, engineer, and deploy on Helheim Glacier in Greenland a fully-autonomous, ground-based glacier-monitoring instrument based on Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $558,718 Year Granted 2014 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Aspen Global Change Institute Inc. to develop and support a high-level corps of Climate Change Ambassadors to advance the societal conversation on climate change and actions to respond to it Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California, Davis to use novel synthetic DNA-based tracers to identify and characterize hydrologic flow pathways in agricultural to glacier-dominated environments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 … 8 9 10 11 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
University of Florida Board of Trustees for two summer research projects in axion physics that will investigate new observational signatures for axion dark matter detection Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $21,900 Year Granted 2016 Yale University for the development of strategic communication tools to effectively engage Hispanics in climate change solutions Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $299,000 Year Granted 2016 Regents of the University of California at Riverside to support the development and application of data assimilation techniques in paleoclimate deep time Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $34,395 Year Granted 2016 California Association for Research in Astronomy to support the preliminary design of the Keck Planet Finder (KPF) and the purchase of long lead time items critical to the timely completion of this instrument Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $2,500,000 Year Granted 2016 National Academy of Sciences to support committee planning for the Astro2020 decadal survey and board activities in space studies, physics, and astronomy Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2016 Arizona Board of Regents, University of Arizona to support the development and application of data assimilation techniques in paleoclimate deep time Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $598,231 Year Granted 2016 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support ($150,000) and for the development of the Spotlights multimedia project ($50,000) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2016 California Science Center Foundation for the development and fabrication of an exoplanet exhibit at the California Science Center Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $165,000 Year Granted 2016 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to fund activities during Phase 1 of the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr), a search for ultra-light dark matter particles such as axions and dark photons Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $435,986 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Riverside to support the development of a comprehensive proxy-focused model of how marine sediment cores accumulate and change over millennial time scales to form the observed geological record Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $760,371 Year Granted 2015 University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center to support the use of novel biophysical and computational approaches to predict how proteins self-assemble to ultimately form ordered super-structures Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2015 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University to fund activities during Phase 1 of the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr), a search for ultra-light dark matter particles such as axions and dark photons Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $264,098 Year Granted 2015 Trustees of Boston University to fund Boston University’s activities during Phase 1 of the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr), a search for ultra-light dark matter particles such as axions and dark photons Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $408,766 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California, Davis to support the development of statistical and computational algorithmic tools to reduce systematic errors on data taken by the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support retreats, strategic planning meetings, and special seminars for the Joint BioEnergy Institute Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $225,000 Year Granted 2015 University of Florida Board of Trustees to support a laboratory search for axions, hidden-sector photons, and vacuum magnetic birefringence Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $838,463 Year Granted 2015 University of Florida Board of Trustees to support research in axion physics that will allow scientists to derive new observational signatures and laboratory strategies for axion dark matter detection Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $135,732 Year Granted 2015 Berkeley Lab Foundation for a program-related investment (PRI) for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Program Science Grant Type PRI Grant Amount $2,500,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California, Davis to support the design and construction of a zero-net-energy home to compete in the 2015 U.S Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2015 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University to support a workshop on precision measurement devices to study high energy physics in laboratory-scale experiments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $93,150 Year Granted 2015 University of Chicago to fund the University of Chicago to develop high frequency, large volume, low loss resonant structures for use in future axion dark matter experiments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $138,619 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $40,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to support the development of a paleoclimate version of the Community Earth System Model (CESM) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $1,264,273 Year Granted 2015 Ocean Foundation for four Satlantic Sea Field Effect Transistor (SeaFET) Ocean Acidification (OA) sensors that will be used to monitor ocean acidification off the southeastern coast of Africa Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $66,667 Year Granted 2015 University of California Berkeley Foundation for the endowment of the Eugene D. Commins Chair in Experimental Physics Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $171,897 Year Granted 2015 The Pennsylvania State University to support the development of a comprehensive proxy-focused model of how marine sediment cores accumulate and change over millennial time scales to form the observed geological record Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $326,444 Year Granted 2015 Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop cryogenic osmium-based detectors to investigate neutrino scattering phenomena Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $675,692 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to support theory development at the interface of cosmology and quantum mechanics to identify observational signatures that can distinguish competing models of how the universe was formed and evolved Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $657,425 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to design and build the fiber injection module for W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrograph Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $697,964 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support geological research on the Deccan Traps flood basalts of India Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $172,500 Year Granted 2015 University of Washington to support a workshop on microwave cavity design for axion research Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $95,515 Year Granted 2015 National Academy of Sciences to conduct a fast-track examination of the science of attribution of extreme weather events to human-caused climate change and natural variability Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2015 California Association for Research in Astronomy to support the upgrade of W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrometer (NIRSPEC) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $215,000 Year Granted 2015 Smithsonian Institution Office Of The Comptroller to support timely ecological field measurements in secondary tropical forests Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $74,960 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to use novel biophysical and computational approaches to predict how proteins self-assemble to form ordered super-structures Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $2,023 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to upgrade the charge coupled device on the red channel of the Kast spectrometer on the Shane Telescope at the University of California Observatories Lick Observatory Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $300,000 Year Granted 2014 Yale University to develop and upgrade the site and experimental infrastructure in which thin-film superconducting cavities and squeezed-vacuum state amplifiers will be used to detect axion dark matter particles with energies of 5-20 gigahertz (GHz) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maine System Inc. to design, engineer, and deploy on Helheim Glacier in Greenland a fully-autonomous, ground-based glacier-monitoring instrument based on Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $558,718 Year Granted 2014 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Aspen Global Change Institute Inc. to develop and support a high-level corps of Climate Change Ambassadors to advance the societal conversation on climate change and actions to respond to it Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California, Davis to use novel synthetic DNA-based tracers to identify and characterize hydrologic flow pathways in agricultural to glacier-dominated environments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 … 8 9 10 11 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
Yale University for the development of strategic communication tools to effectively engage Hispanics in climate change solutions Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $299,000 Year Granted 2016 Regents of the University of California at Riverside to support the development and application of data assimilation techniques in paleoclimate deep time Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $34,395 Year Granted 2016 California Association for Research in Astronomy to support the preliminary design of the Keck Planet Finder (KPF) and the purchase of long lead time items critical to the timely completion of this instrument Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $2,500,000 Year Granted 2016 National Academy of Sciences to support committee planning for the Astro2020 decadal survey and board activities in space studies, physics, and astronomy Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2016 Arizona Board of Regents, University of Arizona to support the development and application of data assimilation techniques in paleoclimate deep time Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $598,231 Year Granted 2016 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support ($150,000) and for the development of the Spotlights multimedia project ($50,000) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2016 California Science Center Foundation for the development and fabrication of an exoplanet exhibit at the California Science Center Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $165,000 Year Granted 2016 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to fund activities during Phase 1 of the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr), a search for ultra-light dark matter particles such as axions and dark photons Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $435,986 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Riverside to support the development of a comprehensive proxy-focused model of how marine sediment cores accumulate and change over millennial time scales to form the observed geological record Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $760,371 Year Granted 2015 University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center to support the use of novel biophysical and computational approaches to predict how proteins self-assemble to ultimately form ordered super-structures Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2015 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University to fund activities during Phase 1 of the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr), a search for ultra-light dark matter particles such as axions and dark photons Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $264,098 Year Granted 2015 Trustees of Boston University to fund Boston University’s activities during Phase 1 of the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr), a search for ultra-light dark matter particles such as axions and dark photons Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $408,766 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California, Davis to support the development of statistical and computational algorithmic tools to reduce systematic errors on data taken by the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support retreats, strategic planning meetings, and special seminars for the Joint BioEnergy Institute Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $225,000 Year Granted 2015 University of Florida Board of Trustees to support a laboratory search for axions, hidden-sector photons, and vacuum magnetic birefringence Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $838,463 Year Granted 2015 University of Florida Board of Trustees to support research in axion physics that will allow scientists to derive new observational signatures and laboratory strategies for axion dark matter detection Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $135,732 Year Granted 2015 Berkeley Lab Foundation for a program-related investment (PRI) for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Program Science Grant Type PRI Grant Amount $2,500,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California, Davis to support the design and construction of a zero-net-energy home to compete in the 2015 U.S Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2015 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University to support a workshop on precision measurement devices to study high energy physics in laboratory-scale experiments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $93,150 Year Granted 2015 University of Chicago to fund the University of Chicago to develop high frequency, large volume, low loss resonant structures for use in future axion dark matter experiments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $138,619 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $40,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to support the development of a paleoclimate version of the Community Earth System Model (CESM) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $1,264,273 Year Granted 2015 Ocean Foundation for four Satlantic Sea Field Effect Transistor (SeaFET) Ocean Acidification (OA) sensors that will be used to monitor ocean acidification off the southeastern coast of Africa Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $66,667 Year Granted 2015 University of California Berkeley Foundation for the endowment of the Eugene D. Commins Chair in Experimental Physics Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $171,897 Year Granted 2015 The Pennsylvania State University to support the development of a comprehensive proxy-focused model of how marine sediment cores accumulate and change over millennial time scales to form the observed geological record Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $326,444 Year Granted 2015 Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop cryogenic osmium-based detectors to investigate neutrino scattering phenomena Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $675,692 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to support theory development at the interface of cosmology and quantum mechanics to identify observational signatures that can distinguish competing models of how the universe was formed and evolved Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $657,425 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to design and build the fiber injection module for W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrograph Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $697,964 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support geological research on the Deccan Traps flood basalts of India Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $172,500 Year Granted 2015 University of Washington to support a workshop on microwave cavity design for axion research Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $95,515 Year Granted 2015 National Academy of Sciences to conduct a fast-track examination of the science of attribution of extreme weather events to human-caused climate change and natural variability Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2015 California Association for Research in Astronomy to support the upgrade of W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrometer (NIRSPEC) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $215,000 Year Granted 2015 Smithsonian Institution Office Of The Comptroller to support timely ecological field measurements in secondary tropical forests Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $74,960 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to use novel biophysical and computational approaches to predict how proteins self-assemble to form ordered super-structures Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $2,023 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to upgrade the charge coupled device on the red channel of the Kast spectrometer on the Shane Telescope at the University of California Observatories Lick Observatory Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $300,000 Year Granted 2014 Yale University to develop and upgrade the site and experimental infrastructure in which thin-film superconducting cavities and squeezed-vacuum state amplifiers will be used to detect axion dark matter particles with energies of 5-20 gigahertz (GHz) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maine System Inc. to design, engineer, and deploy on Helheim Glacier in Greenland a fully-autonomous, ground-based glacier-monitoring instrument based on Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $558,718 Year Granted 2014 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Aspen Global Change Institute Inc. to develop and support a high-level corps of Climate Change Ambassadors to advance the societal conversation on climate change and actions to respond to it Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California, Davis to use novel synthetic DNA-based tracers to identify and characterize hydrologic flow pathways in agricultural to glacier-dominated environments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 … 8 9 10 11 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
Regents of the University of California at Riverside to support the development and application of data assimilation techniques in paleoclimate deep time Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $34,395 Year Granted 2016 California Association for Research in Astronomy to support the preliminary design of the Keck Planet Finder (KPF) and the purchase of long lead time items critical to the timely completion of this instrument Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $2,500,000 Year Granted 2016 National Academy of Sciences to support committee planning for the Astro2020 decadal survey and board activities in space studies, physics, and astronomy Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2016 Arizona Board of Regents, University of Arizona to support the development and application of data assimilation techniques in paleoclimate deep time Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $598,231 Year Granted 2016 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support ($150,000) and for the development of the Spotlights multimedia project ($50,000) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2016 California Science Center Foundation for the development and fabrication of an exoplanet exhibit at the California Science Center Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $165,000 Year Granted 2016 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to fund activities during Phase 1 of the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr), a search for ultra-light dark matter particles such as axions and dark photons Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $435,986 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Riverside to support the development of a comprehensive proxy-focused model of how marine sediment cores accumulate and change over millennial time scales to form the observed geological record Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $760,371 Year Granted 2015 University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center to support the use of novel biophysical and computational approaches to predict how proteins self-assemble to ultimately form ordered super-structures Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2015 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University to fund activities during Phase 1 of the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr), a search for ultra-light dark matter particles such as axions and dark photons Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $264,098 Year Granted 2015 Trustees of Boston University to fund Boston University’s activities during Phase 1 of the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr), a search for ultra-light dark matter particles such as axions and dark photons Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $408,766 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California, Davis to support the development of statistical and computational algorithmic tools to reduce systematic errors on data taken by the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support retreats, strategic planning meetings, and special seminars for the Joint BioEnergy Institute Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $225,000 Year Granted 2015 University of Florida Board of Trustees to support a laboratory search for axions, hidden-sector photons, and vacuum magnetic birefringence Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $838,463 Year Granted 2015 University of Florida Board of Trustees to support research in axion physics that will allow scientists to derive new observational signatures and laboratory strategies for axion dark matter detection Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $135,732 Year Granted 2015 Berkeley Lab Foundation for a program-related investment (PRI) for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Program Science Grant Type PRI Grant Amount $2,500,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California, Davis to support the design and construction of a zero-net-energy home to compete in the 2015 U.S Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2015 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University to support a workshop on precision measurement devices to study high energy physics in laboratory-scale experiments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $93,150 Year Granted 2015 University of Chicago to fund the University of Chicago to develop high frequency, large volume, low loss resonant structures for use in future axion dark matter experiments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $138,619 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $40,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to support the development of a paleoclimate version of the Community Earth System Model (CESM) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $1,264,273 Year Granted 2015 Ocean Foundation for four Satlantic Sea Field Effect Transistor (SeaFET) Ocean Acidification (OA) sensors that will be used to monitor ocean acidification off the southeastern coast of Africa Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $66,667 Year Granted 2015 University of California Berkeley Foundation for the endowment of the Eugene D. Commins Chair in Experimental Physics Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $171,897 Year Granted 2015 The Pennsylvania State University to support the development of a comprehensive proxy-focused model of how marine sediment cores accumulate and change over millennial time scales to form the observed geological record Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $326,444 Year Granted 2015 Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop cryogenic osmium-based detectors to investigate neutrino scattering phenomena Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $675,692 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to support theory development at the interface of cosmology and quantum mechanics to identify observational signatures that can distinguish competing models of how the universe was formed and evolved Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $657,425 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to design and build the fiber injection module for W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrograph Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $697,964 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support geological research on the Deccan Traps flood basalts of India Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $172,500 Year Granted 2015 University of Washington to support a workshop on microwave cavity design for axion research Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $95,515 Year Granted 2015 National Academy of Sciences to conduct a fast-track examination of the science of attribution of extreme weather events to human-caused climate change and natural variability Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2015 California Association for Research in Astronomy to support the upgrade of W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrometer (NIRSPEC) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $215,000 Year Granted 2015 Smithsonian Institution Office Of The Comptroller to support timely ecological field measurements in secondary tropical forests Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $74,960 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to use novel biophysical and computational approaches to predict how proteins self-assemble to form ordered super-structures Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $2,023 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to upgrade the charge coupled device on the red channel of the Kast spectrometer on the Shane Telescope at the University of California Observatories Lick Observatory Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $300,000 Year Granted 2014 Yale University to develop and upgrade the site and experimental infrastructure in which thin-film superconducting cavities and squeezed-vacuum state amplifiers will be used to detect axion dark matter particles with energies of 5-20 gigahertz (GHz) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maine System Inc. to design, engineer, and deploy on Helheim Glacier in Greenland a fully-autonomous, ground-based glacier-monitoring instrument based on Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $558,718 Year Granted 2014 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Aspen Global Change Institute Inc. to develop and support a high-level corps of Climate Change Ambassadors to advance the societal conversation on climate change and actions to respond to it Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California, Davis to use novel synthetic DNA-based tracers to identify and characterize hydrologic flow pathways in agricultural to glacier-dominated environments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 … 8 9 10 11 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
California Association for Research in Astronomy to support the preliminary design of the Keck Planet Finder (KPF) and the purchase of long lead time items critical to the timely completion of this instrument Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $2,500,000 Year Granted 2016 National Academy of Sciences to support committee planning for the Astro2020 decadal survey and board activities in space studies, physics, and astronomy Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2016 Arizona Board of Regents, University of Arizona to support the development and application of data assimilation techniques in paleoclimate deep time Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $598,231 Year Granted 2016 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support ($150,000) and for the development of the Spotlights multimedia project ($50,000) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2016 California Science Center Foundation for the development and fabrication of an exoplanet exhibit at the California Science Center Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $165,000 Year Granted 2016 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to fund activities during Phase 1 of the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr), a search for ultra-light dark matter particles such as axions and dark photons Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $435,986 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Riverside to support the development of a comprehensive proxy-focused model of how marine sediment cores accumulate and change over millennial time scales to form the observed geological record Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $760,371 Year Granted 2015 University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center to support the use of novel biophysical and computational approaches to predict how proteins self-assemble to ultimately form ordered super-structures Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2015 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University to fund activities during Phase 1 of the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr), a search for ultra-light dark matter particles such as axions and dark photons Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $264,098 Year Granted 2015 Trustees of Boston University to fund Boston University’s activities during Phase 1 of the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr), a search for ultra-light dark matter particles such as axions and dark photons Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $408,766 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California, Davis to support the development of statistical and computational algorithmic tools to reduce systematic errors on data taken by the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support retreats, strategic planning meetings, and special seminars for the Joint BioEnergy Institute Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $225,000 Year Granted 2015 University of Florida Board of Trustees to support a laboratory search for axions, hidden-sector photons, and vacuum magnetic birefringence Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $838,463 Year Granted 2015 University of Florida Board of Trustees to support research in axion physics that will allow scientists to derive new observational signatures and laboratory strategies for axion dark matter detection Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $135,732 Year Granted 2015 Berkeley Lab Foundation for a program-related investment (PRI) for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Program Science Grant Type PRI Grant Amount $2,500,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California, Davis to support the design and construction of a zero-net-energy home to compete in the 2015 U.S Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2015 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University to support a workshop on precision measurement devices to study high energy physics in laboratory-scale experiments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $93,150 Year Granted 2015 University of Chicago to fund the University of Chicago to develop high frequency, large volume, low loss resonant structures for use in future axion dark matter experiments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $138,619 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $40,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to support the development of a paleoclimate version of the Community Earth System Model (CESM) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $1,264,273 Year Granted 2015 Ocean Foundation for four Satlantic Sea Field Effect Transistor (SeaFET) Ocean Acidification (OA) sensors that will be used to monitor ocean acidification off the southeastern coast of Africa Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $66,667 Year Granted 2015 University of California Berkeley Foundation for the endowment of the Eugene D. Commins Chair in Experimental Physics Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $171,897 Year Granted 2015 The Pennsylvania State University to support the development of a comprehensive proxy-focused model of how marine sediment cores accumulate and change over millennial time scales to form the observed geological record Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $326,444 Year Granted 2015 Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop cryogenic osmium-based detectors to investigate neutrino scattering phenomena Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $675,692 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to support theory development at the interface of cosmology and quantum mechanics to identify observational signatures that can distinguish competing models of how the universe was formed and evolved Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $657,425 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to design and build the fiber injection module for W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrograph Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $697,964 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support geological research on the Deccan Traps flood basalts of India Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $172,500 Year Granted 2015 University of Washington to support a workshop on microwave cavity design for axion research Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $95,515 Year Granted 2015 National Academy of Sciences to conduct a fast-track examination of the science of attribution of extreme weather events to human-caused climate change and natural variability Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2015 California Association for Research in Astronomy to support the upgrade of W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrometer (NIRSPEC) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $215,000 Year Granted 2015 Smithsonian Institution Office Of The Comptroller to support timely ecological field measurements in secondary tropical forests Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $74,960 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to use novel biophysical and computational approaches to predict how proteins self-assemble to form ordered super-structures Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $2,023 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to upgrade the charge coupled device on the red channel of the Kast spectrometer on the Shane Telescope at the University of California Observatories Lick Observatory Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $300,000 Year Granted 2014 Yale University to develop and upgrade the site and experimental infrastructure in which thin-film superconducting cavities and squeezed-vacuum state amplifiers will be used to detect axion dark matter particles with energies of 5-20 gigahertz (GHz) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maine System Inc. to design, engineer, and deploy on Helheim Glacier in Greenland a fully-autonomous, ground-based glacier-monitoring instrument based on Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $558,718 Year Granted 2014 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Aspen Global Change Institute Inc. to develop and support a high-level corps of Climate Change Ambassadors to advance the societal conversation on climate change and actions to respond to it Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California, Davis to use novel synthetic DNA-based tracers to identify and characterize hydrologic flow pathways in agricultural to glacier-dominated environments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 … 8 9 10 11 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
National Academy of Sciences to support committee planning for the Astro2020 decadal survey and board activities in space studies, physics, and astronomy Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2016 Arizona Board of Regents, University of Arizona to support the development and application of data assimilation techniques in paleoclimate deep time Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $598,231 Year Granted 2016 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support ($150,000) and for the development of the Spotlights multimedia project ($50,000) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2016 California Science Center Foundation for the development and fabrication of an exoplanet exhibit at the California Science Center Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $165,000 Year Granted 2016 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to fund activities during Phase 1 of the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr), a search for ultra-light dark matter particles such as axions and dark photons Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $435,986 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Riverside to support the development of a comprehensive proxy-focused model of how marine sediment cores accumulate and change over millennial time scales to form the observed geological record Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $760,371 Year Granted 2015 University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center to support the use of novel biophysical and computational approaches to predict how proteins self-assemble to ultimately form ordered super-structures Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2015 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University to fund activities during Phase 1 of the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr), a search for ultra-light dark matter particles such as axions and dark photons Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $264,098 Year Granted 2015 Trustees of Boston University to fund Boston University’s activities during Phase 1 of the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr), a search for ultra-light dark matter particles such as axions and dark photons Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $408,766 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California, Davis to support the development of statistical and computational algorithmic tools to reduce systematic errors on data taken by the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support retreats, strategic planning meetings, and special seminars for the Joint BioEnergy Institute Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $225,000 Year Granted 2015 University of Florida Board of Trustees to support a laboratory search for axions, hidden-sector photons, and vacuum magnetic birefringence Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $838,463 Year Granted 2015 University of Florida Board of Trustees to support research in axion physics that will allow scientists to derive new observational signatures and laboratory strategies for axion dark matter detection Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $135,732 Year Granted 2015 Berkeley Lab Foundation for a program-related investment (PRI) for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Program Science Grant Type PRI Grant Amount $2,500,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California, Davis to support the design and construction of a zero-net-energy home to compete in the 2015 U.S Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2015 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University to support a workshop on precision measurement devices to study high energy physics in laboratory-scale experiments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $93,150 Year Granted 2015 University of Chicago to fund the University of Chicago to develop high frequency, large volume, low loss resonant structures for use in future axion dark matter experiments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $138,619 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $40,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to support the development of a paleoclimate version of the Community Earth System Model (CESM) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $1,264,273 Year Granted 2015 Ocean Foundation for four Satlantic Sea Field Effect Transistor (SeaFET) Ocean Acidification (OA) sensors that will be used to monitor ocean acidification off the southeastern coast of Africa Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $66,667 Year Granted 2015 University of California Berkeley Foundation for the endowment of the Eugene D. Commins Chair in Experimental Physics Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $171,897 Year Granted 2015 The Pennsylvania State University to support the development of a comprehensive proxy-focused model of how marine sediment cores accumulate and change over millennial time scales to form the observed geological record Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $326,444 Year Granted 2015 Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop cryogenic osmium-based detectors to investigate neutrino scattering phenomena Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $675,692 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to support theory development at the interface of cosmology and quantum mechanics to identify observational signatures that can distinguish competing models of how the universe was formed and evolved Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $657,425 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to design and build the fiber injection module for W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrograph Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $697,964 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support geological research on the Deccan Traps flood basalts of India Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $172,500 Year Granted 2015 University of Washington to support a workshop on microwave cavity design for axion research Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $95,515 Year Granted 2015 National Academy of Sciences to conduct a fast-track examination of the science of attribution of extreme weather events to human-caused climate change and natural variability Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2015 California Association for Research in Astronomy to support the upgrade of W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrometer (NIRSPEC) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $215,000 Year Granted 2015 Smithsonian Institution Office Of The Comptroller to support timely ecological field measurements in secondary tropical forests Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $74,960 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to use novel biophysical and computational approaches to predict how proteins self-assemble to form ordered super-structures Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $2,023 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to upgrade the charge coupled device on the red channel of the Kast spectrometer on the Shane Telescope at the University of California Observatories Lick Observatory Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $300,000 Year Granted 2014 Yale University to develop and upgrade the site and experimental infrastructure in which thin-film superconducting cavities and squeezed-vacuum state amplifiers will be used to detect axion dark matter particles with energies of 5-20 gigahertz (GHz) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maine System Inc. to design, engineer, and deploy on Helheim Glacier in Greenland a fully-autonomous, ground-based glacier-monitoring instrument based on Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $558,718 Year Granted 2014 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Aspen Global Change Institute Inc. to develop and support a high-level corps of Climate Change Ambassadors to advance the societal conversation on climate change and actions to respond to it Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California, Davis to use novel synthetic DNA-based tracers to identify and characterize hydrologic flow pathways in agricultural to glacier-dominated environments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 … 8 9 10 11 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
Arizona Board of Regents, University of Arizona to support the development and application of data assimilation techniques in paleoclimate deep time Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $598,231 Year Granted 2016 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support ($150,000) and for the development of the Spotlights multimedia project ($50,000) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2016 California Science Center Foundation for the development and fabrication of an exoplanet exhibit at the California Science Center Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $165,000 Year Granted 2016 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to fund activities during Phase 1 of the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr), a search for ultra-light dark matter particles such as axions and dark photons Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $435,986 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Riverside to support the development of a comprehensive proxy-focused model of how marine sediment cores accumulate and change over millennial time scales to form the observed geological record Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $760,371 Year Granted 2015 University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center to support the use of novel biophysical and computational approaches to predict how proteins self-assemble to ultimately form ordered super-structures Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2015 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University to fund activities during Phase 1 of the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr), a search for ultra-light dark matter particles such as axions and dark photons Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $264,098 Year Granted 2015 Trustees of Boston University to fund Boston University’s activities during Phase 1 of the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr), a search for ultra-light dark matter particles such as axions and dark photons Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $408,766 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California, Davis to support the development of statistical and computational algorithmic tools to reduce systematic errors on data taken by the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support retreats, strategic planning meetings, and special seminars for the Joint BioEnergy Institute Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $225,000 Year Granted 2015 University of Florida Board of Trustees to support a laboratory search for axions, hidden-sector photons, and vacuum magnetic birefringence Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $838,463 Year Granted 2015 University of Florida Board of Trustees to support research in axion physics that will allow scientists to derive new observational signatures and laboratory strategies for axion dark matter detection Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $135,732 Year Granted 2015 Berkeley Lab Foundation for a program-related investment (PRI) for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Program Science Grant Type PRI Grant Amount $2,500,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California, Davis to support the design and construction of a zero-net-energy home to compete in the 2015 U.S Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2015 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University to support a workshop on precision measurement devices to study high energy physics in laboratory-scale experiments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $93,150 Year Granted 2015 University of Chicago to fund the University of Chicago to develop high frequency, large volume, low loss resonant structures for use in future axion dark matter experiments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $138,619 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $40,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to support the development of a paleoclimate version of the Community Earth System Model (CESM) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $1,264,273 Year Granted 2015 Ocean Foundation for four Satlantic Sea Field Effect Transistor (SeaFET) Ocean Acidification (OA) sensors that will be used to monitor ocean acidification off the southeastern coast of Africa Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $66,667 Year Granted 2015 University of California Berkeley Foundation for the endowment of the Eugene D. Commins Chair in Experimental Physics Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $171,897 Year Granted 2015 The Pennsylvania State University to support the development of a comprehensive proxy-focused model of how marine sediment cores accumulate and change over millennial time scales to form the observed geological record Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $326,444 Year Granted 2015 Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop cryogenic osmium-based detectors to investigate neutrino scattering phenomena Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $675,692 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to support theory development at the interface of cosmology and quantum mechanics to identify observational signatures that can distinguish competing models of how the universe was formed and evolved Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $657,425 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to design and build the fiber injection module for W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrograph Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $697,964 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support geological research on the Deccan Traps flood basalts of India Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $172,500 Year Granted 2015 University of Washington to support a workshop on microwave cavity design for axion research Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $95,515 Year Granted 2015 National Academy of Sciences to conduct a fast-track examination of the science of attribution of extreme weather events to human-caused climate change and natural variability Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2015 California Association for Research in Astronomy to support the upgrade of W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrometer (NIRSPEC) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $215,000 Year Granted 2015 Smithsonian Institution Office Of The Comptroller to support timely ecological field measurements in secondary tropical forests Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $74,960 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to use novel biophysical and computational approaches to predict how proteins self-assemble to form ordered super-structures Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $2,023 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to upgrade the charge coupled device on the red channel of the Kast spectrometer on the Shane Telescope at the University of California Observatories Lick Observatory Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $300,000 Year Granted 2014 Yale University to develop and upgrade the site and experimental infrastructure in which thin-film superconducting cavities and squeezed-vacuum state amplifiers will be used to detect axion dark matter particles with energies of 5-20 gigahertz (GHz) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maine System Inc. to design, engineer, and deploy on Helheim Glacier in Greenland a fully-autonomous, ground-based glacier-monitoring instrument based on Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $558,718 Year Granted 2014 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Aspen Global Change Institute Inc. to develop and support a high-level corps of Climate Change Ambassadors to advance the societal conversation on climate change and actions to respond to it Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California, Davis to use novel synthetic DNA-based tracers to identify and characterize hydrologic flow pathways in agricultural to glacier-dominated environments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 … 8 9 10 11 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support ($150,000) and for the development of the Spotlights multimedia project ($50,000) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2016 California Science Center Foundation for the development and fabrication of an exoplanet exhibit at the California Science Center Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $165,000 Year Granted 2016 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to fund activities during Phase 1 of the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr), a search for ultra-light dark matter particles such as axions and dark photons Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $435,986 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Riverside to support the development of a comprehensive proxy-focused model of how marine sediment cores accumulate and change over millennial time scales to form the observed geological record Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $760,371 Year Granted 2015 University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center to support the use of novel biophysical and computational approaches to predict how proteins self-assemble to ultimately form ordered super-structures Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2015 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University to fund activities during Phase 1 of the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr), a search for ultra-light dark matter particles such as axions and dark photons Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $264,098 Year Granted 2015 Trustees of Boston University to fund Boston University’s activities during Phase 1 of the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr), a search for ultra-light dark matter particles such as axions and dark photons Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $408,766 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California, Davis to support the development of statistical and computational algorithmic tools to reduce systematic errors on data taken by the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support retreats, strategic planning meetings, and special seminars for the Joint BioEnergy Institute Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $225,000 Year Granted 2015 University of Florida Board of Trustees to support a laboratory search for axions, hidden-sector photons, and vacuum magnetic birefringence Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $838,463 Year Granted 2015 University of Florida Board of Trustees to support research in axion physics that will allow scientists to derive new observational signatures and laboratory strategies for axion dark matter detection Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $135,732 Year Granted 2015 Berkeley Lab Foundation for a program-related investment (PRI) for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Program Science Grant Type PRI Grant Amount $2,500,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California, Davis to support the design and construction of a zero-net-energy home to compete in the 2015 U.S Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2015 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University to support a workshop on precision measurement devices to study high energy physics in laboratory-scale experiments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $93,150 Year Granted 2015 University of Chicago to fund the University of Chicago to develop high frequency, large volume, low loss resonant structures for use in future axion dark matter experiments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $138,619 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $40,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to support the development of a paleoclimate version of the Community Earth System Model (CESM) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $1,264,273 Year Granted 2015 Ocean Foundation for four Satlantic Sea Field Effect Transistor (SeaFET) Ocean Acidification (OA) sensors that will be used to monitor ocean acidification off the southeastern coast of Africa Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $66,667 Year Granted 2015 University of California Berkeley Foundation for the endowment of the Eugene D. Commins Chair in Experimental Physics Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $171,897 Year Granted 2015 The Pennsylvania State University to support the development of a comprehensive proxy-focused model of how marine sediment cores accumulate and change over millennial time scales to form the observed geological record Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $326,444 Year Granted 2015 Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop cryogenic osmium-based detectors to investigate neutrino scattering phenomena Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $675,692 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to support theory development at the interface of cosmology and quantum mechanics to identify observational signatures that can distinguish competing models of how the universe was formed and evolved Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $657,425 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to design and build the fiber injection module for W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrograph Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $697,964 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support geological research on the Deccan Traps flood basalts of India Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $172,500 Year Granted 2015 University of Washington to support a workshop on microwave cavity design for axion research Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $95,515 Year Granted 2015 National Academy of Sciences to conduct a fast-track examination of the science of attribution of extreme weather events to human-caused climate change and natural variability Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2015 California Association for Research in Astronomy to support the upgrade of W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrometer (NIRSPEC) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $215,000 Year Granted 2015 Smithsonian Institution Office Of The Comptroller to support timely ecological field measurements in secondary tropical forests Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $74,960 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to use novel biophysical and computational approaches to predict how proteins self-assemble to form ordered super-structures Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $2,023 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to upgrade the charge coupled device on the red channel of the Kast spectrometer on the Shane Telescope at the University of California Observatories Lick Observatory Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $300,000 Year Granted 2014 Yale University to develop and upgrade the site and experimental infrastructure in which thin-film superconducting cavities and squeezed-vacuum state amplifiers will be used to detect axion dark matter particles with energies of 5-20 gigahertz (GHz) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maine System Inc. to design, engineer, and deploy on Helheim Glacier in Greenland a fully-autonomous, ground-based glacier-monitoring instrument based on Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $558,718 Year Granted 2014 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Aspen Global Change Institute Inc. to develop and support a high-level corps of Climate Change Ambassadors to advance the societal conversation on climate change and actions to respond to it Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California, Davis to use novel synthetic DNA-based tracers to identify and characterize hydrologic flow pathways in agricultural to glacier-dominated environments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 … 8 9 10 11 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
California Science Center Foundation for the development and fabrication of an exoplanet exhibit at the California Science Center Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $165,000 Year Granted 2016 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to fund activities during Phase 1 of the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr), a search for ultra-light dark matter particles such as axions and dark photons Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $435,986 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Riverside to support the development of a comprehensive proxy-focused model of how marine sediment cores accumulate and change over millennial time scales to form the observed geological record Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $760,371 Year Granted 2015 University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center to support the use of novel biophysical and computational approaches to predict how proteins self-assemble to ultimately form ordered super-structures Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2015 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University to fund activities during Phase 1 of the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr), a search for ultra-light dark matter particles such as axions and dark photons Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $264,098 Year Granted 2015 Trustees of Boston University to fund Boston University’s activities during Phase 1 of the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr), a search for ultra-light dark matter particles such as axions and dark photons Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $408,766 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California, Davis to support the development of statistical and computational algorithmic tools to reduce systematic errors on data taken by the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support retreats, strategic planning meetings, and special seminars for the Joint BioEnergy Institute Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $225,000 Year Granted 2015 University of Florida Board of Trustees to support a laboratory search for axions, hidden-sector photons, and vacuum magnetic birefringence Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $838,463 Year Granted 2015 University of Florida Board of Trustees to support research in axion physics that will allow scientists to derive new observational signatures and laboratory strategies for axion dark matter detection Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $135,732 Year Granted 2015 Berkeley Lab Foundation for a program-related investment (PRI) for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Program Science Grant Type PRI Grant Amount $2,500,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California, Davis to support the design and construction of a zero-net-energy home to compete in the 2015 U.S Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2015 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University to support a workshop on precision measurement devices to study high energy physics in laboratory-scale experiments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $93,150 Year Granted 2015 University of Chicago to fund the University of Chicago to develop high frequency, large volume, low loss resonant structures for use in future axion dark matter experiments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $138,619 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $40,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to support the development of a paleoclimate version of the Community Earth System Model (CESM) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $1,264,273 Year Granted 2015 Ocean Foundation for four Satlantic Sea Field Effect Transistor (SeaFET) Ocean Acidification (OA) sensors that will be used to monitor ocean acidification off the southeastern coast of Africa Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $66,667 Year Granted 2015 University of California Berkeley Foundation for the endowment of the Eugene D. Commins Chair in Experimental Physics Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $171,897 Year Granted 2015 The Pennsylvania State University to support the development of a comprehensive proxy-focused model of how marine sediment cores accumulate and change over millennial time scales to form the observed geological record Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $326,444 Year Granted 2015 Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop cryogenic osmium-based detectors to investigate neutrino scattering phenomena Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $675,692 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to support theory development at the interface of cosmology and quantum mechanics to identify observational signatures that can distinguish competing models of how the universe was formed and evolved Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $657,425 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to design and build the fiber injection module for W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrograph Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $697,964 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support geological research on the Deccan Traps flood basalts of India Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $172,500 Year Granted 2015 University of Washington to support a workshop on microwave cavity design for axion research Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $95,515 Year Granted 2015 National Academy of Sciences to conduct a fast-track examination of the science of attribution of extreme weather events to human-caused climate change and natural variability Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2015 California Association for Research in Astronomy to support the upgrade of W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrometer (NIRSPEC) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $215,000 Year Granted 2015 Smithsonian Institution Office Of The Comptroller to support timely ecological field measurements in secondary tropical forests Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $74,960 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to use novel biophysical and computational approaches to predict how proteins self-assemble to form ordered super-structures Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $2,023 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to upgrade the charge coupled device on the red channel of the Kast spectrometer on the Shane Telescope at the University of California Observatories Lick Observatory Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $300,000 Year Granted 2014 Yale University to develop and upgrade the site and experimental infrastructure in which thin-film superconducting cavities and squeezed-vacuum state amplifiers will be used to detect axion dark matter particles with energies of 5-20 gigahertz (GHz) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maine System Inc. to design, engineer, and deploy on Helheim Glacier in Greenland a fully-autonomous, ground-based glacier-monitoring instrument based on Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $558,718 Year Granted 2014 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Aspen Global Change Institute Inc. to develop and support a high-level corps of Climate Change Ambassadors to advance the societal conversation on climate change and actions to respond to it Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California, Davis to use novel synthetic DNA-based tracers to identify and characterize hydrologic flow pathways in agricultural to glacier-dominated environments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 … 8 9 10 11 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to fund activities during Phase 1 of the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr), a search for ultra-light dark matter particles such as axions and dark photons Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $435,986 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Riverside to support the development of a comprehensive proxy-focused model of how marine sediment cores accumulate and change over millennial time scales to form the observed geological record Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $760,371 Year Granted 2015 University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center to support the use of novel biophysical and computational approaches to predict how proteins self-assemble to ultimately form ordered super-structures Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2015 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University to fund activities during Phase 1 of the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr), a search for ultra-light dark matter particles such as axions and dark photons Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $264,098 Year Granted 2015 Trustees of Boston University to fund Boston University’s activities during Phase 1 of the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr), a search for ultra-light dark matter particles such as axions and dark photons Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $408,766 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California, Davis to support the development of statistical and computational algorithmic tools to reduce systematic errors on data taken by the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support retreats, strategic planning meetings, and special seminars for the Joint BioEnergy Institute Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $225,000 Year Granted 2015 University of Florida Board of Trustees to support a laboratory search for axions, hidden-sector photons, and vacuum magnetic birefringence Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $838,463 Year Granted 2015 University of Florida Board of Trustees to support research in axion physics that will allow scientists to derive new observational signatures and laboratory strategies for axion dark matter detection Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $135,732 Year Granted 2015 Berkeley Lab Foundation for a program-related investment (PRI) for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Program Science Grant Type PRI Grant Amount $2,500,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California, Davis to support the design and construction of a zero-net-energy home to compete in the 2015 U.S Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2015 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University to support a workshop on precision measurement devices to study high energy physics in laboratory-scale experiments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $93,150 Year Granted 2015 University of Chicago to fund the University of Chicago to develop high frequency, large volume, low loss resonant structures for use in future axion dark matter experiments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $138,619 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $40,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to support the development of a paleoclimate version of the Community Earth System Model (CESM) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $1,264,273 Year Granted 2015 Ocean Foundation for four Satlantic Sea Field Effect Transistor (SeaFET) Ocean Acidification (OA) sensors that will be used to monitor ocean acidification off the southeastern coast of Africa Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $66,667 Year Granted 2015 University of California Berkeley Foundation for the endowment of the Eugene D. Commins Chair in Experimental Physics Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $171,897 Year Granted 2015 The Pennsylvania State University to support the development of a comprehensive proxy-focused model of how marine sediment cores accumulate and change over millennial time scales to form the observed geological record Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $326,444 Year Granted 2015 Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop cryogenic osmium-based detectors to investigate neutrino scattering phenomena Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $675,692 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to support theory development at the interface of cosmology and quantum mechanics to identify observational signatures that can distinguish competing models of how the universe was formed and evolved Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $657,425 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to design and build the fiber injection module for W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrograph Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $697,964 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support geological research on the Deccan Traps flood basalts of India Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $172,500 Year Granted 2015 University of Washington to support a workshop on microwave cavity design for axion research Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $95,515 Year Granted 2015 National Academy of Sciences to conduct a fast-track examination of the science of attribution of extreme weather events to human-caused climate change and natural variability Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2015 California Association for Research in Astronomy to support the upgrade of W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrometer (NIRSPEC) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $215,000 Year Granted 2015 Smithsonian Institution Office Of The Comptroller to support timely ecological field measurements in secondary tropical forests Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $74,960 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to use novel biophysical and computational approaches to predict how proteins self-assemble to form ordered super-structures Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $2,023 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to upgrade the charge coupled device on the red channel of the Kast spectrometer on the Shane Telescope at the University of California Observatories Lick Observatory Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $300,000 Year Granted 2014 Yale University to develop and upgrade the site and experimental infrastructure in which thin-film superconducting cavities and squeezed-vacuum state amplifiers will be used to detect axion dark matter particles with energies of 5-20 gigahertz (GHz) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maine System Inc. to design, engineer, and deploy on Helheim Glacier in Greenland a fully-autonomous, ground-based glacier-monitoring instrument based on Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $558,718 Year Granted 2014 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Aspen Global Change Institute Inc. to develop and support a high-level corps of Climate Change Ambassadors to advance the societal conversation on climate change and actions to respond to it Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California, Davis to use novel synthetic DNA-based tracers to identify and characterize hydrologic flow pathways in agricultural to glacier-dominated environments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 … 8 9 10 11 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
Regents of the University of California at Riverside to support the development of a comprehensive proxy-focused model of how marine sediment cores accumulate and change over millennial time scales to form the observed geological record Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $760,371 Year Granted 2015 University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center to support the use of novel biophysical and computational approaches to predict how proteins self-assemble to ultimately form ordered super-structures Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2015 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University to fund activities during Phase 1 of the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr), a search for ultra-light dark matter particles such as axions and dark photons Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $264,098 Year Granted 2015 Trustees of Boston University to fund Boston University’s activities during Phase 1 of the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr), a search for ultra-light dark matter particles such as axions and dark photons Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $408,766 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California, Davis to support the development of statistical and computational algorithmic tools to reduce systematic errors on data taken by the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support retreats, strategic planning meetings, and special seminars for the Joint BioEnergy Institute Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $225,000 Year Granted 2015 University of Florida Board of Trustees to support a laboratory search for axions, hidden-sector photons, and vacuum magnetic birefringence Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $838,463 Year Granted 2015 University of Florida Board of Trustees to support research in axion physics that will allow scientists to derive new observational signatures and laboratory strategies for axion dark matter detection Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $135,732 Year Granted 2015 Berkeley Lab Foundation for a program-related investment (PRI) for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Program Science Grant Type PRI Grant Amount $2,500,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California, Davis to support the design and construction of a zero-net-energy home to compete in the 2015 U.S Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2015 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University to support a workshop on precision measurement devices to study high energy physics in laboratory-scale experiments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $93,150 Year Granted 2015 University of Chicago to fund the University of Chicago to develop high frequency, large volume, low loss resonant structures for use in future axion dark matter experiments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $138,619 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $40,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to support the development of a paleoclimate version of the Community Earth System Model (CESM) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $1,264,273 Year Granted 2015 Ocean Foundation for four Satlantic Sea Field Effect Transistor (SeaFET) Ocean Acidification (OA) sensors that will be used to monitor ocean acidification off the southeastern coast of Africa Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $66,667 Year Granted 2015 University of California Berkeley Foundation for the endowment of the Eugene D. Commins Chair in Experimental Physics Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $171,897 Year Granted 2015 The Pennsylvania State University to support the development of a comprehensive proxy-focused model of how marine sediment cores accumulate and change over millennial time scales to form the observed geological record Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $326,444 Year Granted 2015 Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop cryogenic osmium-based detectors to investigate neutrino scattering phenomena Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $675,692 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to support theory development at the interface of cosmology and quantum mechanics to identify observational signatures that can distinguish competing models of how the universe was formed and evolved Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $657,425 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to design and build the fiber injection module for W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrograph Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $697,964 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support geological research on the Deccan Traps flood basalts of India Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $172,500 Year Granted 2015 University of Washington to support a workshop on microwave cavity design for axion research Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $95,515 Year Granted 2015 National Academy of Sciences to conduct a fast-track examination of the science of attribution of extreme weather events to human-caused climate change and natural variability Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2015 California Association for Research in Astronomy to support the upgrade of W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrometer (NIRSPEC) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $215,000 Year Granted 2015 Smithsonian Institution Office Of The Comptroller to support timely ecological field measurements in secondary tropical forests Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $74,960 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to use novel biophysical and computational approaches to predict how proteins self-assemble to form ordered super-structures Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $2,023 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to upgrade the charge coupled device on the red channel of the Kast spectrometer on the Shane Telescope at the University of California Observatories Lick Observatory Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $300,000 Year Granted 2014 Yale University to develop and upgrade the site and experimental infrastructure in which thin-film superconducting cavities and squeezed-vacuum state amplifiers will be used to detect axion dark matter particles with energies of 5-20 gigahertz (GHz) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maine System Inc. to design, engineer, and deploy on Helheim Glacier in Greenland a fully-autonomous, ground-based glacier-monitoring instrument based on Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $558,718 Year Granted 2014 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Aspen Global Change Institute Inc. to develop and support a high-level corps of Climate Change Ambassadors to advance the societal conversation on climate change and actions to respond to it Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California, Davis to use novel synthetic DNA-based tracers to identify and characterize hydrologic flow pathways in agricultural to glacier-dominated environments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 … 8 9 10 11 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center to support the use of novel biophysical and computational approaches to predict how proteins self-assemble to ultimately form ordered super-structures Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2015 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University to fund activities during Phase 1 of the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr), a search for ultra-light dark matter particles such as axions and dark photons Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $264,098 Year Granted 2015 Trustees of Boston University to fund Boston University’s activities during Phase 1 of the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr), a search for ultra-light dark matter particles such as axions and dark photons Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $408,766 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California, Davis to support the development of statistical and computational algorithmic tools to reduce systematic errors on data taken by the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support retreats, strategic planning meetings, and special seminars for the Joint BioEnergy Institute Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $225,000 Year Granted 2015 University of Florida Board of Trustees to support a laboratory search for axions, hidden-sector photons, and vacuum magnetic birefringence Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $838,463 Year Granted 2015 University of Florida Board of Trustees to support research in axion physics that will allow scientists to derive new observational signatures and laboratory strategies for axion dark matter detection Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $135,732 Year Granted 2015 Berkeley Lab Foundation for a program-related investment (PRI) for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Program Science Grant Type PRI Grant Amount $2,500,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California, Davis to support the design and construction of a zero-net-energy home to compete in the 2015 U.S Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2015 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University to support a workshop on precision measurement devices to study high energy physics in laboratory-scale experiments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $93,150 Year Granted 2015 University of Chicago to fund the University of Chicago to develop high frequency, large volume, low loss resonant structures for use in future axion dark matter experiments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $138,619 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $40,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to support the development of a paleoclimate version of the Community Earth System Model (CESM) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $1,264,273 Year Granted 2015 Ocean Foundation for four Satlantic Sea Field Effect Transistor (SeaFET) Ocean Acidification (OA) sensors that will be used to monitor ocean acidification off the southeastern coast of Africa Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $66,667 Year Granted 2015 University of California Berkeley Foundation for the endowment of the Eugene D. Commins Chair in Experimental Physics Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $171,897 Year Granted 2015 The Pennsylvania State University to support the development of a comprehensive proxy-focused model of how marine sediment cores accumulate and change over millennial time scales to form the observed geological record Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $326,444 Year Granted 2015 Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop cryogenic osmium-based detectors to investigate neutrino scattering phenomena Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $675,692 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to support theory development at the interface of cosmology and quantum mechanics to identify observational signatures that can distinguish competing models of how the universe was formed and evolved Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $657,425 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to design and build the fiber injection module for W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrograph Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $697,964 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support geological research on the Deccan Traps flood basalts of India Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $172,500 Year Granted 2015 University of Washington to support a workshop on microwave cavity design for axion research Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $95,515 Year Granted 2015 National Academy of Sciences to conduct a fast-track examination of the science of attribution of extreme weather events to human-caused climate change and natural variability Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2015 California Association for Research in Astronomy to support the upgrade of W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrometer (NIRSPEC) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $215,000 Year Granted 2015 Smithsonian Institution Office Of The Comptroller to support timely ecological field measurements in secondary tropical forests Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $74,960 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to use novel biophysical and computational approaches to predict how proteins self-assemble to form ordered super-structures Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $2,023 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to upgrade the charge coupled device on the red channel of the Kast spectrometer on the Shane Telescope at the University of California Observatories Lick Observatory Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $300,000 Year Granted 2014 Yale University to develop and upgrade the site and experimental infrastructure in which thin-film superconducting cavities and squeezed-vacuum state amplifiers will be used to detect axion dark matter particles with energies of 5-20 gigahertz (GHz) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maine System Inc. to design, engineer, and deploy on Helheim Glacier in Greenland a fully-autonomous, ground-based glacier-monitoring instrument based on Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $558,718 Year Granted 2014 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Aspen Global Change Institute Inc. to develop and support a high-level corps of Climate Change Ambassadors to advance the societal conversation on climate change and actions to respond to it Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California, Davis to use novel synthetic DNA-based tracers to identify and characterize hydrologic flow pathways in agricultural to glacier-dominated environments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 … 8 9 10 11 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University to fund activities during Phase 1 of the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr), a search for ultra-light dark matter particles such as axions and dark photons Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $264,098 Year Granted 2015 Trustees of Boston University to fund Boston University’s activities during Phase 1 of the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr), a search for ultra-light dark matter particles such as axions and dark photons Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $408,766 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California, Davis to support the development of statistical and computational algorithmic tools to reduce systematic errors on data taken by the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support retreats, strategic planning meetings, and special seminars for the Joint BioEnergy Institute Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $225,000 Year Granted 2015 University of Florida Board of Trustees to support a laboratory search for axions, hidden-sector photons, and vacuum magnetic birefringence Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $838,463 Year Granted 2015 University of Florida Board of Trustees to support research in axion physics that will allow scientists to derive new observational signatures and laboratory strategies for axion dark matter detection Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $135,732 Year Granted 2015 Berkeley Lab Foundation for a program-related investment (PRI) for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Program Science Grant Type PRI Grant Amount $2,500,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California, Davis to support the design and construction of a zero-net-energy home to compete in the 2015 U.S Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2015 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University to support a workshop on precision measurement devices to study high energy physics in laboratory-scale experiments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $93,150 Year Granted 2015 University of Chicago to fund the University of Chicago to develop high frequency, large volume, low loss resonant structures for use in future axion dark matter experiments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $138,619 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $40,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to support the development of a paleoclimate version of the Community Earth System Model (CESM) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $1,264,273 Year Granted 2015 Ocean Foundation for four Satlantic Sea Field Effect Transistor (SeaFET) Ocean Acidification (OA) sensors that will be used to monitor ocean acidification off the southeastern coast of Africa Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $66,667 Year Granted 2015 University of California Berkeley Foundation for the endowment of the Eugene D. Commins Chair in Experimental Physics Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $171,897 Year Granted 2015 The Pennsylvania State University to support the development of a comprehensive proxy-focused model of how marine sediment cores accumulate and change over millennial time scales to form the observed geological record Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $326,444 Year Granted 2015 Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop cryogenic osmium-based detectors to investigate neutrino scattering phenomena Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $675,692 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to support theory development at the interface of cosmology and quantum mechanics to identify observational signatures that can distinguish competing models of how the universe was formed and evolved Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $657,425 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to design and build the fiber injection module for W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrograph Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $697,964 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support geological research on the Deccan Traps flood basalts of India Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $172,500 Year Granted 2015 University of Washington to support a workshop on microwave cavity design for axion research Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $95,515 Year Granted 2015 National Academy of Sciences to conduct a fast-track examination of the science of attribution of extreme weather events to human-caused climate change and natural variability Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2015 California Association for Research in Astronomy to support the upgrade of W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrometer (NIRSPEC) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $215,000 Year Granted 2015 Smithsonian Institution Office Of The Comptroller to support timely ecological field measurements in secondary tropical forests Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $74,960 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to use novel biophysical and computational approaches to predict how proteins self-assemble to form ordered super-structures Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $2,023 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to upgrade the charge coupled device on the red channel of the Kast spectrometer on the Shane Telescope at the University of California Observatories Lick Observatory Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $300,000 Year Granted 2014 Yale University to develop and upgrade the site and experimental infrastructure in which thin-film superconducting cavities and squeezed-vacuum state amplifiers will be used to detect axion dark matter particles with energies of 5-20 gigahertz (GHz) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maine System Inc. to design, engineer, and deploy on Helheim Glacier in Greenland a fully-autonomous, ground-based glacier-monitoring instrument based on Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $558,718 Year Granted 2014 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Aspen Global Change Institute Inc. to develop and support a high-level corps of Climate Change Ambassadors to advance the societal conversation on climate change and actions to respond to it Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California, Davis to use novel synthetic DNA-based tracers to identify and characterize hydrologic flow pathways in agricultural to glacier-dominated environments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 … 8 9 10 11 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
Trustees of Boston University to fund Boston University’s activities during Phase 1 of the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr), a search for ultra-light dark matter particles such as axions and dark photons Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $408,766 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California, Davis to support the development of statistical and computational algorithmic tools to reduce systematic errors on data taken by the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support retreats, strategic planning meetings, and special seminars for the Joint BioEnergy Institute Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $225,000 Year Granted 2015 University of Florida Board of Trustees to support a laboratory search for axions, hidden-sector photons, and vacuum magnetic birefringence Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $838,463 Year Granted 2015 University of Florida Board of Trustees to support research in axion physics that will allow scientists to derive new observational signatures and laboratory strategies for axion dark matter detection Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $135,732 Year Granted 2015 Berkeley Lab Foundation for a program-related investment (PRI) for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Program Science Grant Type PRI Grant Amount $2,500,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California, Davis to support the design and construction of a zero-net-energy home to compete in the 2015 U.S Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2015 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University to support a workshop on precision measurement devices to study high energy physics in laboratory-scale experiments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $93,150 Year Granted 2015 University of Chicago to fund the University of Chicago to develop high frequency, large volume, low loss resonant structures for use in future axion dark matter experiments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $138,619 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $40,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to support the development of a paleoclimate version of the Community Earth System Model (CESM) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $1,264,273 Year Granted 2015 Ocean Foundation for four Satlantic Sea Field Effect Transistor (SeaFET) Ocean Acidification (OA) sensors that will be used to monitor ocean acidification off the southeastern coast of Africa Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $66,667 Year Granted 2015 University of California Berkeley Foundation for the endowment of the Eugene D. Commins Chair in Experimental Physics Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $171,897 Year Granted 2015 The Pennsylvania State University to support the development of a comprehensive proxy-focused model of how marine sediment cores accumulate and change over millennial time scales to form the observed geological record Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $326,444 Year Granted 2015 Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop cryogenic osmium-based detectors to investigate neutrino scattering phenomena Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $675,692 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to support theory development at the interface of cosmology and quantum mechanics to identify observational signatures that can distinguish competing models of how the universe was formed and evolved Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $657,425 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to design and build the fiber injection module for W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrograph Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $697,964 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support geological research on the Deccan Traps flood basalts of India Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $172,500 Year Granted 2015 University of Washington to support a workshop on microwave cavity design for axion research Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $95,515 Year Granted 2015 National Academy of Sciences to conduct a fast-track examination of the science of attribution of extreme weather events to human-caused climate change and natural variability Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2015 California Association for Research in Astronomy to support the upgrade of W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrometer (NIRSPEC) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $215,000 Year Granted 2015 Smithsonian Institution Office Of The Comptroller to support timely ecological field measurements in secondary tropical forests Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $74,960 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to use novel biophysical and computational approaches to predict how proteins self-assemble to form ordered super-structures Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $2,023 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to upgrade the charge coupled device on the red channel of the Kast spectrometer on the Shane Telescope at the University of California Observatories Lick Observatory Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $300,000 Year Granted 2014 Yale University to develop and upgrade the site and experimental infrastructure in which thin-film superconducting cavities and squeezed-vacuum state amplifiers will be used to detect axion dark matter particles with energies of 5-20 gigahertz (GHz) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maine System Inc. to design, engineer, and deploy on Helheim Glacier in Greenland a fully-autonomous, ground-based glacier-monitoring instrument based on Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $558,718 Year Granted 2014 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Aspen Global Change Institute Inc. to develop and support a high-level corps of Climate Change Ambassadors to advance the societal conversation on climate change and actions to respond to it Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California, Davis to use novel synthetic DNA-based tracers to identify and characterize hydrologic flow pathways in agricultural to glacier-dominated environments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 … 8 9 10 11 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
Regents of the University of California, Davis to support the development of statistical and computational algorithmic tools to reduce systematic errors on data taken by the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support retreats, strategic planning meetings, and special seminars for the Joint BioEnergy Institute Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $225,000 Year Granted 2015 University of Florida Board of Trustees to support a laboratory search for axions, hidden-sector photons, and vacuum magnetic birefringence Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $838,463 Year Granted 2015 University of Florida Board of Trustees to support research in axion physics that will allow scientists to derive new observational signatures and laboratory strategies for axion dark matter detection Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $135,732 Year Granted 2015 Berkeley Lab Foundation for a program-related investment (PRI) for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Program Science Grant Type PRI Grant Amount $2,500,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California, Davis to support the design and construction of a zero-net-energy home to compete in the 2015 U.S Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2015 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University to support a workshop on precision measurement devices to study high energy physics in laboratory-scale experiments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $93,150 Year Granted 2015 University of Chicago to fund the University of Chicago to develop high frequency, large volume, low loss resonant structures for use in future axion dark matter experiments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $138,619 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $40,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to support the development of a paleoclimate version of the Community Earth System Model (CESM) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $1,264,273 Year Granted 2015 Ocean Foundation for four Satlantic Sea Field Effect Transistor (SeaFET) Ocean Acidification (OA) sensors that will be used to monitor ocean acidification off the southeastern coast of Africa Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $66,667 Year Granted 2015 University of California Berkeley Foundation for the endowment of the Eugene D. Commins Chair in Experimental Physics Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $171,897 Year Granted 2015 The Pennsylvania State University to support the development of a comprehensive proxy-focused model of how marine sediment cores accumulate and change over millennial time scales to form the observed geological record Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $326,444 Year Granted 2015 Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop cryogenic osmium-based detectors to investigate neutrino scattering phenomena Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $675,692 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to support theory development at the interface of cosmology and quantum mechanics to identify observational signatures that can distinguish competing models of how the universe was formed and evolved Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $657,425 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to design and build the fiber injection module for W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrograph Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $697,964 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support geological research on the Deccan Traps flood basalts of India Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $172,500 Year Granted 2015 University of Washington to support a workshop on microwave cavity design for axion research Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $95,515 Year Granted 2015 National Academy of Sciences to conduct a fast-track examination of the science of attribution of extreme weather events to human-caused climate change and natural variability Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2015 California Association for Research in Astronomy to support the upgrade of W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrometer (NIRSPEC) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $215,000 Year Granted 2015 Smithsonian Institution Office Of The Comptroller to support timely ecological field measurements in secondary tropical forests Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $74,960 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to use novel biophysical and computational approaches to predict how proteins self-assemble to form ordered super-structures Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $2,023 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to upgrade the charge coupled device on the red channel of the Kast spectrometer on the Shane Telescope at the University of California Observatories Lick Observatory Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $300,000 Year Granted 2014 Yale University to develop and upgrade the site and experimental infrastructure in which thin-film superconducting cavities and squeezed-vacuum state amplifiers will be used to detect axion dark matter particles with energies of 5-20 gigahertz (GHz) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maine System Inc. to design, engineer, and deploy on Helheim Glacier in Greenland a fully-autonomous, ground-based glacier-monitoring instrument based on Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $558,718 Year Granted 2014 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Aspen Global Change Institute Inc. to develop and support a high-level corps of Climate Change Ambassadors to advance the societal conversation on climate change and actions to respond to it Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California, Davis to use novel synthetic DNA-based tracers to identify and characterize hydrologic flow pathways in agricultural to glacier-dominated environments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 … 8 9 10 11 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support retreats, strategic planning meetings, and special seminars for the Joint BioEnergy Institute Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $225,000 Year Granted 2015 University of Florida Board of Trustees to support a laboratory search for axions, hidden-sector photons, and vacuum magnetic birefringence Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $838,463 Year Granted 2015 University of Florida Board of Trustees to support research in axion physics that will allow scientists to derive new observational signatures and laboratory strategies for axion dark matter detection Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $135,732 Year Granted 2015 Berkeley Lab Foundation for a program-related investment (PRI) for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Program Science Grant Type PRI Grant Amount $2,500,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California, Davis to support the design and construction of a zero-net-energy home to compete in the 2015 U.S Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2015 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University to support a workshop on precision measurement devices to study high energy physics in laboratory-scale experiments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $93,150 Year Granted 2015 University of Chicago to fund the University of Chicago to develop high frequency, large volume, low loss resonant structures for use in future axion dark matter experiments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $138,619 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $40,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to support the development of a paleoclimate version of the Community Earth System Model (CESM) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $1,264,273 Year Granted 2015 Ocean Foundation for four Satlantic Sea Field Effect Transistor (SeaFET) Ocean Acidification (OA) sensors that will be used to monitor ocean acidification off the southeastern coast of Africa Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $66,667 Year Granted 2015 University of California Berkeley Foundation for the endowment of the Eugene D. Commins Chair in Experimental Physics Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $171,897 Year Granted 2015 The Pennsylvania State University to support the development of a comprehensive proxy-focused model of how marine sediment cores accumulate and change over millennial time scales to form the observed geological record Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $326,444 Year Granted 2015 Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop cryogenic osmium-based detectors to investigate neutrino scattering phenomena Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $675,692 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to support theory development at the interface of cosmology and quantum mechanics to identify observational signatures that can distinguish competing models of how the universe was formed and evolved Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $657,425 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to design and build the fiber injection module for W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrograph Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $697,964 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support geological research on the Deccan Traps flood basalts of India Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $172,500 Year Granted 2015 University of Washington to support a workshop on microwave cavity design for axion research Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $95,515 Year Granted 2015 National Academy of Sciences to conduct a fast-track examination of the science of attribution of extreme weather events to human-caused climate change and natural variability Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2015 California Association for Research in Astronomy to support the upgrade of W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrometer (NIRSPEC) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $215,000 Year Granted 2015 Smithsonian Institution Office Of The Comptroller to support timely ecological field measurements in secondary tropical forests Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $74,960 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to use novel biophysical and computational approaches to predict how proteins self-assemble to form ordered super-structures Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $2,023 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to upgrade the charge coupled device on the red channel of the Kast spectrometer on the Shane Telescope at the University of California Observatories Lick Observatory Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $300,000 Year Granted 2014 Yale University to develop and upgrade the site and experimental infrastructure in which thin-film superconducting cavities and squeezed-vacuum state amplifiers will be used to detect axion dark matter particles with energies of 5-20 gigahertz (GHz) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maine System Inc. to design, engineer, and deploy on Helheim Glacier in Greenland a fully-autonomous, ground-based glacier-monitoring instrument based on Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $558,718 Year Granted 2014 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Aspen Global Change Institute Inc. to develop and support a high-level corps of Climate Change Ambassadors to advance the societal conversation on climate change and actions to respond to it Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California, Davis to use novel synthetic DNA-based tracers to identify and characterize hydrologic flow pathways in agricultural to glacier-dominated environments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 … 8 9 10 11 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
University of Florida Board of Trustees to support a laboratory search for axions, hidden-sector photons, and vacuum magnetic birefringence Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $838,463 Year Granted 2015 University of Florida Board of Trustees to support research in axion physics that will allow scientists to derive new observational signatures and laboratory strategies for axion dark matter detection Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $135,732 Year Granted 2015 Berkeley Lab Foundation for a program-related investment (PRI) for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Program Science Grant Type PRI Grant Amount $2,500,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California, Davis to support the design and construction of a zero-net-energy home to compete in the 2015 U.S Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2015 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University to support a workshop on precision measurement devices to study high energy physics in laboratory-scale experiments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $93,150 Year Granted 2015 University of Chicago to fund the University of Chicago to develop high frequency, large volume, low loss resonant structures for use in future axion dark matter experiments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $138,619 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $40,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to support the development of a paleoclimate version of the Community Earth System Model (CESM) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $1,264,273 Year Granted 2015 Ocean Foundation for four Satlantic Sea Field Effect Transistor (SeaFET) Ocean Acidification (OA) sensors that will be used to monitor ocean acidification off the southeastern coast of Africa Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $66,667 Year Granted 2015 University of California Berkeley Foundation for the endowment of the Eugene D. Commins Chair in Experimental Physics Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $171,897 Year Granted 2015 The Pennsylvania State University to support the development of a comprehensive proxy-focused model of how marine sediment cores accumulate and change over millennial time scales to form the observed geological record Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $326,444 Year Granted 2015 Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop cryogenic osmium-based detectors to investigate neutrino scattering phenomena Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $675,692 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to support theory development at the interface of cosmology and quantum mechanics to identify observational signatures that can distinguish competing models of how the universe was formed and evolved Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $657,425 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to design and build the fiber injection module for W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrograph Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $697,964 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support geological research on the Deccan Traps flood basalts of India Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $172,500 Year Granted 2015 University of Washington to support a workshop on microwave cavity design for axion research Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $95,515 Year Granted 2015 National Academy of Sciences to conduct a fast-track examination of the science of attribution of extreme weather events to human-caused climate change and natural variability Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2015 California Association for Research in Astronomy to support the upgrade of W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrometer (NIRSPEC) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $215,000 Year Granted 2015 Smithsonian Institution Office Of The Comptroller to support timely ecological field measurements in secondary tropical forests Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $74,960 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to use novel biophysical and computational approaches to predict how proteins self-assemble to form ordered super-structures Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $2,023 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to upgrade the charge coupled device on the red channel of the Kast spectrometer on the Shane Telescope at the University of California Observatories Lick Observatory Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $300,000 Year Granted 2014 Yale University to develop and upgrade the site and experimental infrastructure in which thin-film superconducting cavities and squeezed-vacuum state amplifiers will be used to detect axion dark matter particles with energies of 5-20 gigahertz (GHz) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maine System Inc. to design, engineer, and deploy on Helheim Glacier in Greenland a fully-autonomous, ground-based glacier-monitoring instrument based on Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $558,718 Year Granted 2014 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Aspen Global Change Institute Inc. to develop and support a high-level corps of Climate Change Ambassadors to advance the societal conversation on climate change and actions to respond to it Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California, Davis to use novel synthetic DNA-based tracers to identify and characterize hydrologic flow pathways in agricultural to glacier-dominated environments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 … 8 9 10 11 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
University of Florida Board of Trustees to support research in axion physics that will allow scientists to derive new observational signatures and laboratory strategies for axion dark matter detection Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $135,732 Year Granted 2015 Berkeley Lab Foundation for a program-related investment (PRI) for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Program Science Grant Type PRI Grant Amount $2,500,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California, Davis to support the design and construction of a zero-net-energy home to compete in the 2015 U.S Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2015 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University to support a workshop on precision measurement devices to study high energy physics in laboratory-scale experiments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $93,150 Year Granted 2015 University of Chicago to fund the University of Chicago to develop high frequency, large volume, low loss resonant structures for use in future axion dark matter experiments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $138,619 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $40,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to support the development of a paleoclimate version of the Community Earth System Model (CESM) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $1,264,273 Year Granted 2015 Ocean Foundation for four Satlantic Sea Field Effect Transistor (SeaFET) Ocean Acidification (OA) sensors that will be used to monitor ocean acidification off the southeastern coast of Africa Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $66,667 Year Granted 2015 University of California Berkeley Foundation for the endowment of the Eugene D. Commins Chair in Experimental Physics Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $171,897 Year Granted 2015 The Pennsylvania State University to support the development of a comprehensive proxy-focused model of how marine sediment cores accumulate and change over millennial time scales to form the observed geological record Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $326,444 Year Granted 2015 Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop cryogenic osmium-based detectors to investigate neutrino scattering phenomena Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $675,692 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to support theory development at the interface of cosmology and quantum mechanics to identify observational signatures that can distinguish competing models of how the universe was formed and evolved Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $657,425 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to design and build the fiber injection module for W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrograph Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $697,964 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support geological research on the Deccan Traps flood basalts of India Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $172,500 Year Granted 2015 University of Washington to support a workshop on microwave cavity design for axion research Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $95,515 Year Granted 2015 National Academy of Sciences to conduct a fast-track examination of the science of attribution of extreme weather events to human-caused climate change and natural variability Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2015 California Association for Research in Astronomy to support the upgrade of W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrometer (NIRSPEC) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $215,000 Year Granted 2015 Smithsonian Institution Office Of The Comptroller to support timely ecological field measurements in secondary tropical forests Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $74,960 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to use novel biophysical and computational approaches to predict how proteins self-assemble to form ordered super-structures Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $2,023 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to upgrade the charge coupled device on the red channel of the Kast spectrometer on the Shane Telescope at the University of California Observatories Lick Observatory Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $300,000 Year Granted 2014 Yale University to develop and upgrade the site and experimental infrastructure in which thin-film superconducting cavities and squeezed-vacuum state amplifiers will be used to detect axion dark matter particles with energies of 5-20 gigahertz (GHz) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maine System Inc. to design, engineer, and deploy on Helheim Glacier in Greenland a fully-autonomous, ground-based glacier-monitoring instrument based on Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $558,718 Year Granted 2014 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Aspen Global Change Institute Inc. to develop and support a high-level corps of Climate Change Ambassadors to advance the societal conversation on climate change and actions to respond to it Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California, Davis to use novel synthetic DNA-based tracers to identify and characterize hydrologic flow pathways in agricultural to glacier-dominated environments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 … 8 9 10 11 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
Berkeley Lab Foundation for a program-related investment (PRI) for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Program Science Grant Type PRI Grant Amount $2,500,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California, Davis to support the design and construction of a zero-net-energy home to compete in the 2015 U.S Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2015 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University to support a workshop on precision measurement devices to study high energy physics in laboratory-scale experiments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $93,150 Year Granted 2015 University of Chicago to fund the University of Chicago to develop high frequency, large volume, low loss resonant structures for use in future axion dark matter experiments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $138,619 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $40,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to support the development of a paleoclimate version of the Community Earth System Model (CESM) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $1,264,273 Year Granted 2015 Ocean Foundation for four Satlantic Sea Field Effect Transistor (SeaFET) Ocean Acidification (OA) sensors that will be used to monitor ocean acidification off the southeastern coast of Africa Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $66,667 Year Granted 2015 University of California Berkeley Foundation for the endowment of the Eugene D. Commins Chair in Experimental Physics Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $171,897 Year Granted 2015 The Pennsylvania State University to support the development of a comprehensive proxy-focused model of how marine sediment cores accumulate and change over millennial time scales to form the observed geological record Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $326,444 Year Granted 2015 Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop cryogenic osmium-based detectors to investigate neutrino scattering phenomena Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $675,692 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to support theory development at the interface of cosmology and quantum mechanics to identify observational signatures that can distinguish competing models of how the universe was formed and evolved Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $657,425 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to design and build the fiber injection module for W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrograph Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $697,964 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support geological research on the Deccan Traps flood basalts of India Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $172,500 Year Granted 2015 University of Washington to support a workshop on microwave cavity design for axion research Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $95,515 Year Granted 2015 National Academy of Sciences to conduct a fast-track examination of the science of attribution of extreme weather events to human-caused climate change and natural variability Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2015 California Association for Research in Astronomy to support the upgrade of W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrometer (NIRSPEC) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $215,000 Year Granted 2015 Smithsonian Institution Office Of The Comptroller to support timely ecological field measurements in secondary tropical forests Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $74,960 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to use novel biophysical and computational approaches to predict how proteins self-assemble to form ordered super-structures Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $2,023 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to upgrade the charge coupled device on the red channel of the Kast spectrometer on the Shane Telescope at the University of California Observatories Lick Observatory Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $300,000 Year Granted 2014 Yale University to develop and upgrade the site and experimental infrastructure in which thin-film superconducting cavities and squeezed-vacuum state amplifiers will be used to detect axion dark matter particles with energies of 5-20 gigahertz (GHz) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maine System Inc. to design, engineer, and deploy on Helheim Glacier in Greenland a fully-autonomous, ground-based glacier-monitoring instrument based on Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $558,718 Year Granted 2014 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Aspen Global Change Institute Inc. to develop and support a high-level corps of Climate Change Ambassadors to advance the societal conversation on climate change and actions to respond to it Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California, Davis to use novel synthetic DNA-based tracers to identify and characterize hydrologic flow pathways in agricultural to glacier-dominated environments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 … 8 9 10 11 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
Regents of the University of California, Davis to support the design and construction of a zero-net-energy home to compete in the 2015 U.S Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2015 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University to support a workshop on precision measurement devices to study high energy physics in laboratory-scale experiments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $93,150 Year Granted 2015 University of Chicago to fund the University of Chicago to develop high frequency, large volume, low loss resonant structures for use in future axion dark matter experiments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $138,619 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $40,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to support the development of a paleoclimate version of the Community Earth System Model (CESM) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $1,264,273 Year Granted 2015 Ocean Foundation for four Satlantic Sea Field Effect Transistor (SeaFET) Ocean Acidification (OA) sensors that will be used to monitor ocean acidification off the southeastern coast of Africa Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $66,667 Year Granted 2015 University of California Berkeley Foundation for the endowment of the Eugene D. Commins Chair in Experimental Physics Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $171,897 Year Granted 2015 The Pennsylvania State University to support the development of a comprehensive proxy-focused model of how marine sediment cores accumulate and change over millennial time scales to form the observed geological record Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $326,444 Year Granted 2015 Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop cryogenic osmium-based detectors to investigate neutrino scattering phenomena Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $675,692 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to support theory development at the interface of cosmology and quantum mechanics to identify observational signatures that can distinguish competing models of how the universe was formed and evolved Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $657,425 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to design and build the fiber injection module for W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrograph Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $697,964 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support geological research on the Deccan Traps flood basalts of India Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $172,500 Year Granted 2015 University of Washington to support a workshop on microwave cavity design for axion research Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $95,515 Year Granted 2015 National Academy of Sciences to conduct a fast-track examination of the science of attribution of extreme weather events to human-caused climate change and natural variability Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2015 California Association for Research in Astronomy to support the upgrade of W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrometer (NIRSPEC) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $215,000 Year Granted 2015 Smithsonian Institution Office Of The Comptroller to support timely ecological field measurements in secondary tropical forests Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $74,960 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to use novel biophysical and computational approaches to predict how proteins self-assemble to form ordered super-structures Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $2,023 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to upgrade the charge coupled device on the red channel of the Kast spectrometer on the Shane Telescope at the University of California Observatories Lick Observatory Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $300,000 Year Granted 2014 Yale University to develop and upgrade the site and experimental infrastructure in which thin-film superconducting cavities and squeezed-vacuum state amplifiers will be used to detect axion dark matter particles with energies of 5-20 gigahertz (GHz) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maine System Inc. to design, engineer, and deploy on Helheim Glacier in Greenland a fully-autonomous, ground-based glacier-monitoring instrument based on Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $558,718 Year Granted 2014 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Aspen Global Change Institute Inc. to develop and support a high-level corps of Climate Change Ambassadors to advance the societal conversation on climate change and actions to respond to it Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California, Davis to use novel synthetic DNA-based tracers to identify and characterize hydrologic flow pathways in agricultural to glacier-dominated environments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 … 8 9 10 11 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University to support a workshop on precision measurement devices to study high energy physics in laboratory-scale experiments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $93,150 Year Granted 2015 University of Chicago to fund the University of Chicago to develop high frequency, large volume, low loss resonant structures for use in future axion dark matter experiments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $138,619 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $40,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to support the development of a paleoclimate version of the Community Earth System Model (CESM) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $1,264,273 Year Granted 2015 Ocean Foundation for four Satlantic Sea Field Effect Transistor (SeaFET) Ocean Acidification (OA) sensors that will be used to monitor ocean acidification off the southeastern coast of Africa Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $66,667 Year Granted 2015 University of California Berkeley Foundation for the endowment of the Eugene D. Commins Chair in Experimental Physics Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $171,897 Year Granted 2015 The Pennsylvania State University to support the development of a comprehensive proxy-focused model of how marine sediment cores accumulate and change over millennial time scales to form the observed geological record Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $326,444 Year Granted 2015 Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop cryogenic osmium-based detectors to investigate neutrino scattering phenomena Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $675,692 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to support theory development at the interface of cosmology and quantum mechanics to identify observational signatures that can distinguish competing models of how the universe was formed and evolved Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $657,425 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to design and build the fiber injection module for W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrograph Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $697,964 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support geological research on the Deccan Traps flood basalts of India Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $172,500 Year Granted 2015 University of Washington to support a workshop on microwave cavity design for axion research Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $95,515 Year Granted 2015 National Academy of Sciences to conduct a fast-track examination of the science of attribution of extreme weather events to human-caused climate change and natural variability Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2015 California Association for Research in Astronomy to support the upgrade of W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrometer (NIRSPEC) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $215,000 Year Granted 2015 Smithsonian Institution Office Of The Comptroller to support timely ecological field measurements in secondary tropical forests Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $74,960 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to use novel biophysical and computational approaches to predict how proteins self-assemble to form ordered super-structures Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $2,023 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to upgrade the charge coupled device on the red channel of the Kast spectrometer on the Shane Telescope at the University of California Observatories Lick Observatory Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $300,000 Year Granted 2014 Yale University to develop and upgrade the site and experimental infrastructure in which thin-film superconducting cavities and squeezed-vacuum state amplifiers will be used to detect axion dark matter particles with energies of 5-20 gigahertz (GHz) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maine System Inc. to design, engineer, and deploy on Helheim Glacier in Greenland a fully-autonomous, ground-based glacier-monitoring instrument based on Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $558,718 Year Granted 2014 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Aspen Global Change Institute Inc. to develop and support a high-level corps of Climate Change Ambassadors to advance the societal conversation on climate change and actions to respond to it Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California, Davis to use novel synthetic DNA-based tracers to identify and characterize hydrologic flow pathways in agricultural to glacier-dominated environments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 … 8 9 10 11 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
University of Chicago to fund the University of Chicago to develop high frequency, large volume, low loss resonant structures for use in future axion dark matter experiments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $138,619 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $40,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to support the development of a paleoclimate version of the Community Earth System Model (CESM) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $1,264,273 Year Granted 2015 Ocean Foundation for four Satlantic Sea Field Effect Transistor (SeaFET) Ocean Acidification (OA) sensors that will be used to monitor ocean acidification off the southeastern coast of Africa Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $66,667 Year Granted 2015 University of California Berkeley Foundation for the endowment of the Eugene D. Commins Chair in Experimental Physics Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $171,897 Year Granted 2015 The Pennsylvania State University to support the development of a comprehensive proxy-focused model of how marine sediment cores accumulate and change over millennial time scales to form the observed geological record Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $326,444 Year Granted 2015 Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop cryogenic osmium-based detectors to investigate neutrino scattering phenomena Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $675,692 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to support theory development at the interface of cosmology and quantum mechanics to identify observational signatures that can distinguish competing models of how the universe was formed and evolved Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $657,425 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to design and build the fiber injection module for W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrograph Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $697,964 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support geological research on the Deccan Traps flood basalts of India Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $172,500 Year Granted 2015 University of Washington to support a workshop on microwave cavity design for axion research Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $95,515 Year Granted 2015 National Academy of Sciences to conduct a fast-track examination of the science of attribution of extreme weather events to human-caused climate change and natural variability Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2015 California Association for Research in Astronomy to support the upgrade of W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrometer (NIRSPEC) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $215,000 Year Granted 2015 Smithsonian Institution Office Of The Comptroller to support timely ecological field measurements in secondary tropical forests Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $74,960 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to use novel biophysical and computational approaches to predict how proteins self-assemble to form ordered super-structures Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $2,023 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to upgrade the charge coupled device on the red channel of the Kast spectrometer on the Shane Telescope at the University of California Observatories Lick Observatory Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $300,000 Year Granted 2014 Yale University to develop and upgrade the site and experimental infrastructure in which thin-film superconducting cavities and squeezed-vacuum state amplifiers will be used to detect axion dark matter particles with energies of 5-20 gigahertz (GHz) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maine System Inc. to design, engineer, and deploy on Helheim Glacier in Greenland a fully-autonomous, ground-based glacier-monitoring instrument based on Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $558,718 Year Granted 2014 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Aspen Global Change Institute Inc. to develop and support a high-level corps of Climate Change Ambassadors to advance the societal conversation on climate change and actions to respond to it Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California, Davis to use novel synthetic DNA-based tracers to identify and characterize hydrologic flow pathways in agricultural to glacier-dominated environments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 … 8 9 10 11 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $40,000 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to support the development of a paleoclimate version of the Community Earth System Model (CESM) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $1,264,273 Year Granted 2015 Ocean Foundation for four Satlantic Sea Field Effect Transistor (SeaFET) Ocean Acidification (OA) sensors that will be used to monitor ocean acidification off the southeastern coast of Africa Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $66,667 Year Granted 2015 University of California Berkeley Foundation for the endowment of the Eugene D. Commins Chair in Experimental Physics Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $171,897 Year Granted 2015 The Pennsylvania State University to support the development of a comprehensive proxy-focused model of how marine sediment cores accumulate and change over millennial time scales to form the observed geological record Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $326,444 Year Granted 2015 Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop cryogenic osmium-based detectors to investigate neutrino scattering phenomena Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $675,692 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to support theory development at the interface of cosmology and quantum mechanics to identify observational signatures that can distinguish competing models of how the universe was formed and evolved Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $657,425 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to design and build the fiber injection module for W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrograph Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $697,964 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support geological research on the Deccan Traps flood basalts of India Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $172,500 Year Granted 2015 University of Washington to support a workshop on microwave cavity design for axion research Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $95,515 Year Granted 2015 National Academy of Sciences to conduct a fast-track examination of the science of attribution of extreme weather events to human-caused climate change and natural variability Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2015 California Association for Research in Astronomy to support the upgrade of W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrometer (NIRSPEC) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $215,000 Year Granted 2015 Smithsonian Institution Office Of The Comptroller to support timely ecological field measurements in secondary tropical forests Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $74,960 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to use novel biophysical and computational approaches to predict how proteins self-assemble to form ordered super-structures Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $2,023 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to upgrade the charge coupled device on the red channel of the Kast spectrometer on the Shane Telescope at the University of California Observatories Lick Observatory Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $300,000 Year Granted 2014 Yale University to develop and upgrade the site and experimental infrastructure in which thin-film superconducting cavities and squeezed-vacuum state amplifiers will be used to detect axion dark matter particles with energies of 5-20 gigahertz (GHz) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maine System Inc. to design, engineer, and deploy on Helheim Glacier in Greenland a fully-autonomous, ground-based glacier-monitoring instrument based on Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $558,718 Year Granted 2014 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Aspen Global Change Institute Inc. to develop and support a high-level corps of Climate Change Ambassadors to advance the societal conversation on climate change and actions to respond to it Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California, Davis to use novel synthetic DNA-based tracers to identify and characterize hydrologic flow pathways in agricultural to glacier-dominated environments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 … 8 9 10 11 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to support the development of a paleoclimate version of the Community Earth System Model (CESM) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $1,264,273 Year Granted 2015 Ocean Foundation for four Satlantic Sea Field Effect Transistor (SeaFET) Ocean Acidification (OA) sensors that will be used to monitor ocean acidification off the southeastern coast of Africa Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $66,667 Year Granted 2015 University of California Berkeley Foundation for the endowment of the Eugene D. Commins Chair in Experimental Physics Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $171,897 Year Granted 2015 The Pennsylvania State University to support the development of a comprehensive proxy-focused model of how marine sediment cores accumulate and change over millennial time scales to form the observed geological record Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $326,444 Year Granted 2015 Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop cryogenic osmium-based detectors to investigate neutrino scattering phenomena Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $675,692 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to support theory development at the interface of cosmology and quantum mechanics to identify observational signatures that can distinguish competing models of how the universe was formed and evolved Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $657,425 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to design and build the fiber injection module for W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrograph Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $697,964 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support geological research on the Deccan Traps flood basalts of India Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $172,500 Year Granted 2015 University of Washington to support a workshop on microwave cavity design for axion research Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $95,515 Year Granted 2015 National Academy of Sciences to conduct a fast-track examination of the science of attribution of extreme weather events to human-caused climate change and natural variability Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2015 California Association for Research in Astronomy to support the upgrade of W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrometer (NIRSPEC) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $215,000 Year Granted 2015 Smithsonian Institution Office Of The Comptroller to support timely ecological field measurements in secondary tropical forests Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $74,960 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to use novel biophysical and computational approaches to predict how proteins self-assemble to form ordered super-structures Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $2,023 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to upgrade the charge coupled device on the red channel of the Kast spectrometer on the Shane Telescope at the University of California Observatories Lick Observatory Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $300,000 Year Granted 2014 Yale University to develop and upgrade the site and experimental infrastructure in which thin-film superconducting cavities and squeezed-vacuum state amplifiers will be used to detect axion dark matter particles with energies of 5-20 gigahertz (GHz) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maine System Inc. to design, engineer, and deploy on Helheim Glacier in Greenland a fully-autonomous, ground-based glacier-monitoring instrument based on Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $558,718 Year Granted 2014 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Aspen Global Change Institute Inc. to develop and support a high-level corps of Climate Change Ambassadors to advance the societal conversation on climate change and actions to respond to it Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California, Davis to use novel synthetic DNA-based tracers to identify and characterize hydrologic flow pathways in agricultural to glacier-dominated environments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 … 8 9 10 11 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
Ocean Foundation for four Satlantic Sea Field Effect Transistor (SeaFET) Ocean Acidification (OA) sensors that will be used to monitor ocean acidification off the southeastern coast of Africa Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $66,667 Year Granted 2015 University of California Berkeley Foundation for the endowment of the Eugene D. Commins Chair in Experimental Physics Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $171,897 Year Granted 2015 The Pennsylvania State University to support the development of a comprehensive proxy-focused model of how marine sediment cores accumulate and change over millennial time scales to form the observed geological record Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $326,444 Year Granted 2015 Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop cryogenic osmium-based detectors to investigate neutrino scattering phenomena Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $675,692 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to support theory development at the interface of cosmology and quantum mechanics to identify observational signatures that can distinguish competing models of how the universe was formed and evolved Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $657,425 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to design and build the fiber injection module for W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrograph Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $697,964 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support geological research on the Deccan Traps flood basalts of India Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $172,500 Year Granted 2015 University of Washington to support a workshop on microwave cavity design for axion research Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $95,515 Year Granted 2015 National Academy of Sciences to conduct a fast-track examination of the science of attribution of extreme weather events to human-caused climate change and natural variability Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2015 California Association for Research in Astronomy to support the upgrade of W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrometer (NIRSPEC) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $215,000 Year Granted 2015 Smithsonian Institution Office Of The Comptroller to support timely ecological field measurements in secondary tropical forests Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $74,960 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to use novel biophysical and computational approaches to predict how proteins self-assemble to form ordered super-structures Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $2,023 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to upgrade the charge coupled device on the red channel of the Kast spectrometer on the Shane Telescope at the University of California Observatories Lick Observatory Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $300,000 Year Granted 2014 Yale University to develop and upgrade the site and experimental infrastructure in which thin-film superconducting cavities and squeezed-vacuum state amplifiers will be used to detect axion dark matter particles with energies of 5-20 gigahertz (GHz) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maine System Inc. to design, engineer, and deploy on Helheim Glacier in Greenland a fully-autonomous, ground-based glacier-monitoring instrument based on Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $558,718 Year Granted 2014 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Aspen Global Change Institute Inc. to develop and support a high-level corps of Climate Change Ambassadors to advance the societal conversation on climate change and actions to respond to it Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California, Davis to use novel synthetic DNA-based tracers to identify and characterize hydrologic flow pathways in agricultural to glacier-dominated environments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 … 8 9 10 11 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
University of California Berkeley Foundation for the endowment of the Eugene D. Commins Chair in Experimental Physics Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $171,897 Year Granted 2015 The Pennsylvania State University to support the development of a comprehensive proxy-focused model of how marine sediment cores accumulate and change over millennial time scales to form the observed geological record Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $326,444 Year Granted 2015 Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop cryogenic osmium-based detectors to investigate neutrino scattering phenomena Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $675,692 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to support theory development at the interface of cosmology and quantum mechanics to identify observational signatures that can distinguish competing models of how the universe was formed and evolved Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $657,425 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to design and build the fiber injection module for W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrograph Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $697,964 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support geological research on the Deccan Traps flood basalts of India Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $172,500 Year Granted 2015 University of Washington to support a workshop on microwave cavity design for axion research Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $95,515 Year Granted 2015 National Academy of Sciences to conduct a fast-track examination of the science of attribution of extreme weather events to human-caused climate change and natural variability Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2015 California Association for Research in Astronomy to support the upgrade of W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrometer (NIRSPEC) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $215,000 Year Granted 2015 Smithsonian Institution Office Of The Comptroller to support timely ecological field measurements in secondary tropical forests Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $74,960 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to use novel biophysical and computational approaches to predict how proteins self-assemble to form ordered super-structures Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $2,023 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to upgrade the charge coupled device on the red channel of the Kast spectrometer on the Shane Telescope at the University of California Observatories Lick Observatory Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $300,000 Year Granted 2014 Yale University to develop and upgrade the site and experimental infrastructure in which thin-film superconducting cavities and squeezed-vacuum state amplifiers will be used to detect axion dark matter particles with energies of 5-20 gigahertz (GHz) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maine System Inc. to design, engineer, and deploy on Helheim Glacier in Greenland a fully-autonomous, ground-based glacier-monitoring instrument based on Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $558,718 Year Granted 2014 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Aspen Global Change Institute Inc. to develop and support a high-level corps of Climate Change Ambassadors to advance the societal conversation on climate change and actions to respond to it Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California, Davis to use novel synthetic DNA-based tracers to identify and characterize hydrologic flow pathways in agricultural to glacier-dominated environments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 … 8 9 10 11 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
The Pennsylvania State University to support the development of a comprehensive proxy-focused model of how marine sediment cores accumulate and change over millennial time scales to form the observed geological record Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $326,444 Year Granted 2015 Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop cryogenic osmium-based detectors to investigate neutrino scattering phenomena Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $675,692 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to support theory development at the interface of cosmology and quantum mechanics to identify observational signatures that can distinguish competing models of how the universe was formed and evolved Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $657,425 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to design and build the fiber injection module for W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrograph Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $697,964 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support geological research on the Deccan Traps flood basalts of India Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $172,500 Year Granted 2015 University of Washington to support a workshop on microwave cavity design for axion research Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $95,515 Year Granted 2015 National Academy of Sciences to conduct a fast-track examination of the science of attribution of extreme weather events to human-caused climate change and natural variability Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2015 California Association for Research in Astronomy to support the upgrade of W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrometer (NIRSPEC) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $215,000 Year Granted 2015 Smithsonian Institution Office Of The Comptroller to support timely ecological field measurements in secondary tropical forests Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $74,960 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to use novel biophysical and computational approaches to predict how proteins self-assemble to form ordered super-structures Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $2,023 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to upgrade the charge coupled device on the red channel of the Kast spectrometer on the Shane Telescope at the University of California Observatories Lick Observatory Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $300,000 Year Granted 2014 Yale University to develop and upgrade the site and experimental infrastructure in which thin-film superconducting cavities and squeezed-vacuum state amplifiers will be used to detect axion dark matter particles with energies of 5-20 gigahertz (GHz) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maine System Inc. to design, engineer, and deploy on Helheim Glacier in Greenland a fully-autonomous, ground-based glacier-monitoring instrument based on Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $558,718 Year Granted 2014 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Aspen Global Change Institute Inc. to develop and support a high-level corps of Climate Change Ambassadors to advance the societal conversation on climate change and actions to respond to it Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California, Davis to use novel synthetic DNA-based tracers to identify and characterize hydrologic flow pathways in agricultural to glacier-dominated environments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 … 8 9 10 11 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop cryogenic osmium-based detectors to investigate neutrino scattering phenomena Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $675,692 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to support theory development at the interface of cosmology and quantum mechanics to identify observational signatures that can distinguish competing models of how the universe was formed and evolved Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $657,425 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to design and build the fiber injection module for W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrograph Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $697,964 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support geological research on the Deccan Traps flood basalts of India Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $172,500 Year Granted 2015 University of Washington to support a workshop on microwave cavity design for axion research Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $95,515 Year Granted 2015 National Academy of Sciences to conduct a fast-track examination of the science of attribution of extreme weather events to human-caused climate change and natural variability Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2015 California Association for Research in Astronomy to support the upgrade of W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrometer (NIRSPEC) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $215,000 Year Granted 2015 Smithsonian Institution Office Of The Comptroller to support timely ecological field measurements in secondary tropical forests Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $74,960 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to use novel biophysical and computational approaches to predict how proteins self-assemble to form ordered super-structures Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $2,023 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to upgrade the charge coupled device on the red channel of the Kast spectrometer on the Shane Telescope at the University of California Observatories Lick Observatory Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $300,000 Year Granted 2014 Yale University to develop and upgrade the site and experimental infrastructure in which thin-film superconducting cavities and squeezed-vacuum state amplifiers will be used to detect axion dark matter particles with energies of 5-20 gigahertz (GHz) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maine System Inc. to design, engineer, and deploy on Helheim Glacier in Greenland a fully-autonomous, ground-based glacier-monitoring instrument based on Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $558,718 Year Granted 2014 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Aspen Global Change Institute Inc. to develop and support a high-level corps of Climate Change Ambassadors to advance the societal conversation on climate change and actions to respond to it Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California, Davis to use novel synthetic DNA-based tracers to identify and characterize hydrologic flow pathways in agricultural to glacier-dominated environments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 … 8 9 10 11 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
California Institute of Technology to support theory development at the interface of cosmology and quantum mechanics to identify observational signatures that can distinguish competing models of how the universe was formed and evolved Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $657,425 Year Granted 2015 California Institute of Technology to design and build the fiber injection module for W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrograph Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $697,964 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support geological research on the Deccan Traps flood basalts of India Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $172,500 Year Granted 2015 University of Washington to support a workshop on microwave cavity design for axion research Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $95,515 Year Granted 2015 National Academy of Sciences to conduct a fast-track examination of the science of attribution of extreme weather events to human-caused climate change and natural variability Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2015 California Association for Research in Astronomy to support the upgrade of W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrometer (NIRSPEC) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $215,000 Year Granted 2015 Smithsonian Institution Office Of The Comptroller to support timely ecological field measurements in secondary tropical forests Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $74,960 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to use novel biophysical and computational approaches to predict how proteins self-assemble to form ordered super-structures Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $2,023 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to upgrade the charge coupled device on the red channel of the Kast spectrometer on the Shane Telescope at the University of California Observatories Lick Observatory Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $300,000 Year Granted 2014 Yale University to develop and upgrade the site and experimental infrastructure in which thin-film superconducting cavities and squeezed-vacuum state amplifiers will be used to detect axion dark matter particles with energies of 5-20 gigahertz (GHz) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maine System Inc. to design, engineer, and deploy on Helheim Glacier in Greenland a fully-autonomous, ground-based glacier-monitoring instrument based on Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $558,718 Year Granted 2014 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Aspen Global Change Institute Inc. to develop and support a high-level corps of Climate Change Ambassadors to advance the societal conversation on climate change and actions to respond to it Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California, Davis to use novel synthetic DNA-based tracers to identify and characterize hydrologic flow pathways in agricultural to glacier-dominated environments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 … 8 9 10 11 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
California Institute of Technology to design and build the fiber injection module for W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrograph Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $697,964 Year Granted 2015 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support geological research on the Deccan Traps flood basalts of India Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $172,500 Year Granted 2015 University of Washington to support a workshop on microwave cavity design for axion research Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $95,515 Year Granted 2015 National Academy of Sciences to conduct a fast-track examination of the science of attribution of extreme weather events to human-caused climate change and natural variability Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2015 California Association for Research in Astronomy to support the upgrade of W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrometer (NIRSPEC) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $215,000 Year Granted 2015 Smithsonian Institution Office Of The Comptroller to support timely ecological field measurements in secondary tropical forests Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $74,960 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to use novel biophysical and computational approaches to predict how proteins self-assemble to form ordered super-structures Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $2,023 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to upgrade the charge coupled device on the red channel of the Kast spectrometer on the Shane Telescope at the University of California Observatories Lick Observatory Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $300,000 Year Granted 2014 Yale University to develop and upgrade the site and experimental infrastructure in which thin-film superconducting cavities and squeezed-vacuum state amplifiers will be used to detect axion dark matter particles with energies of 5-20 gigahertz (GHz) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maine System Inc. to design, engineer, and deploy on Helheim Glacier in Greenland a fully-autonomous, ground-based glacier-monitoring instrument based on Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $558,718 Year Granted 2014 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Aspen Global Change Institute Inc. to develop and support a high-level corps of Climate Change Ambassadors to advance the societal conversation on climate change and actions to respond to it Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California, Davis to use novel synthetic DNA-based tracers to identify and characterize hydrologic flow pathways in agricultural to glacier-dominated environments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 … 8 9 10 11 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support geological research on the Deccan Traps flood basalts of India Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $172,500 Year Granted 2015 University of Washington to support a workshop on microwave cavity design for axion research Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $95,515 Year Granted 2015 National Academy of Sciences to conduct a fast-track examination of the science of attribution of extreme weather events to human-caused climate change and natural variability Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2015 California Association for Research in Astronomy to support the upgrade of W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrometer (NIRSPEC) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $215,000 Year Granted 2015 Smithsonian Institution Office Of The Comptroller to support timely ecological field measurements in secondary tropical forests Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $74,960 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to use novel biophysical and computational approaches to predict how proteins self-assemble to form ordered super-structures Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $2,023 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to upgrade the charge coupled device on the red channel of the Kast spectrometer on the Shane Telescope at the University of California Observatories Lick Observatory Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $300,000 Year Granted 2014 Yale University to develop and upgrade the site and experimental infrastructure in which thin-film superconducting cavities and squeezed-vacuum state amplifiers will be used to detect axion dark matter particles with energies of 5-20 gigahertz (GHz) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maine System Inc. to design, engineer, and deploy on Helheim Glacier in Greenland a fully-autonomous, ground-based glacier-monitoring instrument based on Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $558,718 Year Granted 2014 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Aspen Global Change Institute Inc. to develop and support a high-level corps of Climate Change Ambassadors to advance the societal conversation on climate change and actions to respond to it Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California, Davis to use novel synthetic DNA-based tracers to identify and characterize hydrologic flow pathways in agricultural to glacier-dominated environments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 … 8 9 10 11 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
University of Washington to support a workshop on microwave cavity design for axion research Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $95,515 Year Granted 2015 National Academy of Sciences to conduct a fast-track examination of the science of attribution of extreme weather events to human-caused climate change and natural variability Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2015 California Association for Research in Astronomy to support the upgrade of W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrometer (NIRSPEC) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $215,000 Year Granted 2015 Smithsonian Institution Office Of The Comptroller to support timely ecological field measurements in secondary tropical forests Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $74,960 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to use novel biophysical and computational approaches to predict how proteins self-assemble to form ordered super-structures Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $2,023 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to upgrade the charge coupled device on the red channel of the Kast spectrometer on the Shane Telescope at the University of California Observatories Lick Observatory Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $300,000 Year Granted 2014 Yale University to develop and upgrade the site and experimental infrastructure in which thin-film superconducting cavities and squeezed-vacuum state amplifiers will be used to detect axion dark matter particles with energies of 5-20 gigahertz (GHz) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maine System Inc. to design, engineer, and deploy on Helheim Glacier in Greenland a fully-autonomous, ground-based glacier-monitoring instrument based on Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $558,718 Year Granted 2014 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Aspen Global Change Institute Inc. to develop and support a high-level corps of Climate Change Ambassadors to advance the societal conversation on climate change and actions to respond to it Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California, Davis to use novel synthetic DNA-based tracers to identify and characterize hydrologic flow pathways in agricultural to glacier-dominated environments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 … 8 9 10 11 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
National Academy of Sciences to conduct a fast-track examination of the science of attribution of extreme weather events to human-caused climate change and natural variability Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $75,000 Year Granted 2015 California Association for Research in Astronomy to support the upgrade of W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrometer (NIRSPEC) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $215,000 Year Granted 2015 Smithsonian Institution Office Of The Comptroller to support timely ecological field measurements in secondary tropical forests Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $74,960 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to use novel biophysical and computational approaches to predict how proteins self-assemble to form ordered super-structures Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $2,023 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to upgrade the charge coupled device on the red channel of the Kast spectrometer on the Shane Telescope at the University of California Observatories Lick Observatory Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $300,000 Year Granted 2014 Yale University to develop and upgrade the site and experimental infrastructure in which thin-film superconducting cavities and squeezed-vacuum state amplifiers will be used to detect axion dark matter particles with energies of 5-20 gigahertz (GHz) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maine System Inc. to design, engineer, and deploy on Helheim Glacier in Greenland a fully-autonomous, ground-based glacier-monitoring instrument based on Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $558,718 Year Granted 2014 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Aspen Global Change Institute Inc. to develop and support a high-level corps of Climate Change Ambassadors to advance the societal conversation on climate change and actions to respond to it Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California, Davis to use novel synthetic DNA-based tracers to identify and characterize hydrologic flow pathways in agricultural to glacier-dominated environments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 … 8 9 10 11 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
California Association for Research in Astronomy to support the upgrade of W.M. Keck Observatory’s near-infrared spectrometer (NIRSPEC) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $215,000 Year Granted 2015 Smithsonian Institution Office Of The Comptroller to support timely ecological field measurements in secondary tropical forests Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $74,960 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to use novel biophysical and computational approaches to predict how proteins self-assemble to form ordered super-structures Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $2,023 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to upgrade the charge coupled device on the red channel of the Kast spectrometer on the Shane Telescope at the University of California Observatories Lick Observatory Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $300,000 Year Granted 2014 Yale University to develop and upgrade the site and experimental infrastructure in which thin-film superconducting cavities and squeezed-vacuum state amplifiers will be used to detect axion dark matter particles with energies of 5-20 gigahertz (GHz) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maine System Inc. to design, engineer, and deploy on Helheim Glacier in Greenland a fully-autonomous, ground-based glacier-monitoring instrument based on Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $558,718 Year Granted 2014 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Aspen Global Change Institute Inc. to develop and support a high-level corps of Climate Change Ambassadors to advance the societal conversation on climate change and actions to respond to it Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California, Davis to use novel synthetic DNA-based tracers to identify and characterize hydrologic flow pathways in agricultural to glacier-dominated environments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 … 8 9 10 11 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
Smithsonian Institution Office Of The Comptroller to support timely ecological field measurements in secondary tropical forests Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $74,960 Year Granted 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to use novel biophysical and computational approaches to predict how proteins self-assemble to form ordered super-structures Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $2,023 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to upgrade the charge coupled device on the red channel of the Kast spectrometer on the Shane Telescope at the University of California Observatories Lick Observatory Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $300,000 Year Granted 2014 Yale University to develop and upgrade the site and experimental infrastructure in which thin-film superconducting cavities and squeezed-vacuum state amplifiers will be used to detect axion dark matter particles with energies of 5-20 gigahertz (GHz) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maine System Inc. to design, engineer, and deploy on Helheim Glacier in Greenland a fully-autonomous, ground-based glacier-monitoring instrument based on Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $558,718 Year Granted 2014 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Aspen Global Change Institute Inc. to develop and support a high-level corps of Climate Change Ambassadors to advance the societal conversation on climate change and actions to respond to it Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California, Davis to use novel synthetic DNA-based tracers to identify and characterize hydrologic flow pathways in agricultural to glacier-dominated environments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 … 8 9 10 11 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
American Association for the Advancement of Science to support the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $20,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to use novel biophysical and computational approaches to predict how proteins self-assemble to form ordered super-structures Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $2,023 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to upgrade the charge coupled device on the red channel of the Kast spectrometer on the Shane Telescope at the University of California Observatories Lick Observatory Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $300,000 Year Granted 2014 Yale University to develop and upgrade the site and experimental infrastructure in which thin-film superconducting cavities and squeezed-vacuum state amplifiers will be used to detect axion dark matter particles with energies of 5-20 gigahertz (GHz) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maine System Inc. to design, engineer, and deploy on Helheim Glacier in Greenland a fully-autonomous, ground-based glacier-monitoring instrument based on Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $558,718 Year Granted 2014 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Aspen Global Change Institute Inc. to develop and support a high-level corps of Climate Change Ambassadors to advance the societal conversation on climate change and actions to respond to it Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California, Davis to use novel synthetic DNA-based tracers to identify and characterize hydrologic flow pathways in agricultural to glacier-dominated environments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 … 8 9 10 11 Next The list above contains awards approved by the Foundation. These are primarily grants, but also include direct charitable activities (DCAs) and program-related investments (PRIs). DCAs are distributions a foundation makes to conduct its own charitable activities, rather than by or through other organizations. PRIs are investments with a charitable purpose for which the Foundation’s primary purpose is not to produce income. Under IRS regulations, the expenses associated with DCAs and PRIs count toward a foundation’s qualifying distributions and are reported on its IRS Form 990-PF.
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to use novel biophysical and computational approaches to predict how proteins self-assemble to form ordered super-structures Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $2,023 Year Granted 2014 University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to upgrade the charge coupled device on the red channel of the Kast spectrometer on the Shane Telescope at the University of California Observatories Lick Observatory Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $300,000 Year Granted 2014 Yale University to develop and upgrade the site and experimental infrastructure in which thin-film superconducting cavities and squeezed-vacuum state amplifiers will be used to detect axion dark matter particles with energies of 5-20 gigahertz (GHz) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maine System Inc. to design, engineer, and deploy on Helheim Glacier in Greenland a fully-autonomous, ground-based glacier-monitoring instrument based on Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $558,718 Year Granted 2014 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Aspen Global Change Institute Inc. to develop and support a high-level corps of Climate Change Ambassadors to advance the societal conversation on climate change and actions to respond to it Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California, Davis to use novel synthetic DNA-based tracers to identify and characterize hydrologic flow pathways in agricultural to glacier-dominated environments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 … 8 9 10 11 Next
University of Washington to enable the Axion Dark Matter experiment (ADMX) to dramatically upgrade the microwave-resonant cavity experimental system and create and test a second, prototype system capable of sampling higher frequencies than the cavity system Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $625,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to upgrade the charge coupled device on the red channel of the Kast spectrometer on the Shane Telescope at the University of California Observatories Lick Observatory Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $300,000 Year Granted 2014 Yale University to develop and upgrade the site and experimental infrastructure in which thin-film superconducting cavities and squeezed-vacuum state amplifiers will be used to detect axion dark matter particles with energies of 5-20 gigahertz (GHz) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maine System Inc. to design, engineer, and deploy on Helheim Glacier in Greenland a fully-autonomous, ground-based glacier-monitoring instrument based on Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $558,718 Year Granted 2014 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Aspen Global Change Institute Inc. to develop and support a high-level corps of Climate Change Ambassadors to advance the societal conversation on climate change and actions to respond to it Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California, Davis to use novel synthetic DNA-based tracers to identify and characterize hydrologic flow pathways in agricultural to glacier-dominated environments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 … 8 9 10 11 Next
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley to support the conceptual design and systems design review phases of the optics and mechanical structure for the Stable High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer for Keck (SHREK) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,118 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to upgrade the charge coupled device on the red channel of the Kast spectrometer on the Shane Telescope at the University of California Observatories Lick Observatory Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $300,000 Year Granted 2014 Yale University to develop and upgrade the site and experimental infrastructure in which thin-film superconducting cavities and squeezed-vacuum state amplifiers will be used to detect axion dark matter particles with energies of 5-20 gigahertz (GHz) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maine System Inc. to design, engineer, and deploy on Helheim Glacier in Greenland a fully-autonomous, ground-based glacier-monitoring instrument based on Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $558,718 Year Granted 2014 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Aspen Global Change Institute Inc. to develop and support a high-level corps of Climate Change Ambassadors to advance the societal conversation on climate change and actions to respond to it Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California, Davis to use novel synthetic DNA-based tracers to identify and characterize hydrologic flow pathways in agricultural to glacier-dominated environments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 … 8 9 10 11 Next
Regents of the University of California Santa Cruz to upgrade the charge coupled device on the red channel of the Kast spectrometer on the Shane Telescope at the University of California Observatories Lick Observatory Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $300,000 Year Granted 2014 Yale University to develop and upgrade the site and experimental infrastructure in which thin-film superconducting cavities and squeezed-vacuum state amplifiers will be used to detect axion dark matter particles with energies of 5-20 gigahertz (GHz) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maine System Inc. to design, engineer, and deploy on Helheim Glacier in Greenland a fully-autonomous, ground-based glacier-monitoring instrument based on Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $558,718 Year Granted 2014 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Aspen Global Change Institute Inc. to develop and support a high-level corps of Climate Change Ambassadors to advance the societal conversation on climate change and actions to respond to it Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California, Davis to use novel synthetic DNA-based tracers to identify and characterize hydrologic flow pathways in agricultural to glacier-dominated environments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 … 8 9 10 11 Next
Yale University to develop and upgrade the site and experimental infrastructure in which thin-film superconducting cavities and squeezed-vacuum state amplifiers will be used to detect axion dark matter particles with energies of 5-20 gigahertz (GHz) Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $500,000 Year Granted 2014 University of Maine System Inc. to design, engineer, and deploy on Helheim Glacier in Greenland a fully-autonomous, ground-based glacier-monitoring instrument based on Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $558,718 Year Granted 2014 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Aspen Global Change Institute Inc. to develop and support a high-level corps of Climate Change Ambassadors to advance the societal conversation on climate change and actions to respond to it Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California, Davis to use novel synthetic DNA-based tracers to identify and characterize hydrologic flow pathways in agricultural to glacier-dominated environments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 … 8 9 10 11 Next
University of Maine System Inc. to design, engineer, and deploy on Helheim Glacier in Greenland a fully-autonomous, ground-based glacier-monitoring instrument based on Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $558,718 Year Granted 2014 Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Aspen Global Change Institute Inc. to develop and support a high-level corps of Climate Change Ambassadors to advance the societal conversation on climate change and actions to respond to it Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California, Davis to use novel synthetic DNA-based tracers to identify and characterize hydrologic flow pathways in agricultural to glacier-dominated environments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 … 8 9 10 11 Next
Science Friday Initiative, Inc. for general support Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $150,000 Year Granted 2014 Aspen Global Change Institute Inc. to develop and support a high-level corps of Climate Change Ambassadors to advance the societal conversation on climate change and actions to respond to it Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California, Davis to use novel synthetic DNA-based tracers to identify and characterize hydrologic flow pathways in agricultural to glacier-dominated environments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014 Previous 1 … 8 9 10 11 Next
Aspen Global Change Institute Inc. to develop and support a high-level corps of Climate Change Ambassadors to advance the societal conversation on climate change and actions to respond to it Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $200,000 Year Granted 2014 Regents of the University of California, Davis to use novel synthetic DNA-based tracers to identify and characterize hydrologic flow pathways in agricultural to glacier-dominated environments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014
Regents of the University of California, Davis to use novel synthetic DNA-based tracers to identify and characterize hydrologic flow pathways in agricultural to glacier-dominated environments Program Science Grant Type Grant Grant Amount $450,000 Year Granted 2014