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American Museum of Natural History

to identify nearby accelerating stars and create a target list for follow-up discovery and characterization of as-yet unseen companions

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$55,000

Year Granted

2018

American Museum of Natural History

to determine brown dwarf ages from white dwarf ages using wide binary systems

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$55,000

Year Granted

2019

Arizona Board of Regents, University of Arizona

to test theories of binary star formation and tidal evolution

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$36,666

Year Granted

2018

Arizona Board of Regents, University of Arizona

to develop technology and techniques that will advance the state-of-the-art in direct exoplanet imaging

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$335,297

Year Granted

2020

Arizona Board of Regents, University of Arizona

for the upgrade and refurbishment of the 90Prime optical imager on the Bok 90-inch telescope

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$849,941

Year Granted

2020

Arizona Board of Regents, University of Arizona

to support the second development phase of MagAOX

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$1,476,018

Year Granted

2021

Arizona Board of Regents, University of Arizona

for the 51 Pegasi b Fellowship

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$353,337

Year Granted

2022

Arizona Board of Regents, University of Arizona

for the 51 Pegasi b Fellowship

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$353,337

Year Granted

2022

Arizona Board of Regents, University of Arizona

to investigate how volcanic rocks contribute to chemical evolution in a prebiotic environment

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$55,000

Year Granted

2023

Arizona Board of Regents, University of Arizona

for the development of Skipper technology

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$1,347,900

Year Granted

2023

Arizona Board of Regents, University of Arizona

for the research and related work of Antranik Sefilian in connection with the 51 Pegasi b Fellowship program

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$394,083

Year Granted

2024

Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University

for examining whether M-Earths can sustain surface liquid water via alternative reservoirs

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$54,988

Year Granted

2022

Association of Universities for Research Astronomy Inc

to accelerate the development and scale-up of the ANTARES community broker to effectively operate on the ZTF public alert stream

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$567,571

Year Granted

2018

Association of Universities for Research Astronomy Inc

to determine brown dwarf ages from white dwarf ages using wide binary systems

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$55,000

Year Granted

2019

Association of Universities for Research Astronomy Inc

for purchase of an emergency backup generator and related equipment

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$73,415

Year Granted

2022

Astrophysical Research Consortium

to support the design and build of the Local Volume Mapper instrument for SDSS-V

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$1,981,451

Year Granted

2019

Bard College

for the simulation and detection of potential biosignatures

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$124,936

Year Granted

2023

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

Brown University of Providence

for research into the mechanisms that maintain planetary hydrologic cycles

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$125,000

Year Granted

2023

California Association for Research in Astronomy

to support the construction and installation of the Keck Cosmic Web Imager (KCWI) blue channel instrument on the Keck II telescope on Mauna Kea

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$500,000

Year Granted

2014

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

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

California Association for Research in Astronomy

to support the continued development and engineering of the Keck Planet Finder

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$705,517

Year Granted

2018

California Association for Research in Astronomy

for Program Related Investment

Program

Science

Grant Type

PRI

Grant Amount

$2,500,000

Year Granted

2019

California Association for Research in Astronomy

for the development and fabrication of a laser frequency comb for the W. M. Keck Observatory

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$1,175,973

Year Granted

2020

California Association for Research in Astronomy

for Program Related Investment

Program

Science

Grant Type

PRI

Grant Amount

$2,500,000

Year Granted

2021

California Association for Research in Astronomy

for the Keck Planet Finder Solar Calibrator

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$150,000

Year Granted

2022

California Association for Research in Astronomy

to support development of the SCALES instrument

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$1,200,000

Year Granted

2023

California Association for Research in Astronomy

for upgrades and engineering interventions for the Keck Planet Finder (KPF)

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$599,671

Year Granted

2023

California Association for Research in Astronomy

to investigate spectroscopic signatures of planet formation

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$98,742

Year Granted

2023

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

California Institute of Technology

for the 51 Pegasi b Fellowship

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$363,586

Year Granted

2016

California Institute of Technology

for the design and construction of the Gattini-IR wide-field infrared imager

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$50,000

Year Granted

2017

California Institute of Technology

to support a graduate student to run models, analyze data, and bridge the theory and observational research of white dwarf stars and type 1ax supernovae

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$50,000

Year Granted

2017

California Institute of Technology

for the design and development of a high-performance, high-contrast coronagraph module for the Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer System (KPIC)

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$735,287

Year Granted

2017

California Institute of Technology

for the 51 Pegasi b Fellowship

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$485,389

Year Granted

2017

California Institute of Technology

for a three-day workshop focused on combining high-resolution spectroscopy and high-contrast imaging for exoplanet characterization

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$33,902

Year Granted

2018

California Institute of Technology

to test theories of binary star formation and tidal evolution

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$36,666

Year Granted

2018

California Institute of Technology

to explore the landscape of stellar death and search for and study exotic binary systems through the Zwicky Transient Facility

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$899,694

Year Granted

2018

California Institute of Technology

for the development and implementation of the core infrastructure for the ZTF Data Space

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$604,569

Year Granted

2018

California Institute of Technology

for the 51 Pegasi b Fellowship

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$488,842

Year Granted

2019

California Institute of Technology

for the 51 Pegasi b Fellowship

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$485,373

Year Granted

2019

California Institute of Technology

for integrating a helium filter onto the wide field infrared camera (WIRC) on the Hale Telescope

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$23,611

Year Granted

2019

California Institute of Technology

for the science verification and exploitation of the Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer System (KPIC)

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$512,206

Year Granted

2019

California Institute of Technology

to research surface processes on icy ocean worlds

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$156,080

Year Granted

2019

California Institute of Technology

for the development of orbitize!, a comprehensive orbit-fitting software package for the high-contrast imaging community

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$45,857

Year Granted

2019

California Institute of Technology

for the development and fabrication of the Next Generation Palomar Spectrograph

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$1,000,000

Year Granted

2020

California Institute of Technology

for the 51 Pegasi b Fellowship

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$367,650

Year Granted

2020

California Institute of Technology

for the 51 Pegasi b Fellowship

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$367,650

Year Granted

2020

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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.