Results 101 - 150 of 320

Lowell Observatory

to support observing time for the EXPRES 100 Earths Survey

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$950,000

Year Granted

2022

LSST, Inc.

to support the TOM Toolkit Community Workshop

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$199,980

Year Granted

2019

LSST, Inc.

to support the LSST Cadence Hackathon, a 3-day workshop to optimize the timing and targeting of the LSST’s observing schedule

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$149,985

Year Granted

2018

LSST, Inc.

for inclusive participation in astrophysics with LSST

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$449,007

Year Granted

2023

Macalester College

for lab equipment and research support

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$125,000

Year Granted

2023

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

to complete the design, fabrication, and integration of the lithium-drifted silicon (Si(Li)) tracker system for the General Antiparticle Spectrometer (GAPS) experiment

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$346,500

Year Granted

2019

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

for the 51 Pegasi b Fellowship

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$289,806

Year Granted

2020

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

to use molecular clock methods to derive new divergence time estimates for microbes

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$55,000

Year Granted

2021

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

for the 51 Pegasi b Fellowship

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$371,032

Year Granted

2016

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

for the acquisition and testing of critical detector components for the General Anti-Particle Spectrometer (GAPS) instrument

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$570,017

Year Granted

2017

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

to design and build a 1-meter telescope in the northern hemisphere to initiate the monitoring of ultra-cool dwarf stars

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$601,500

Year Granted

2017

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

for the 51 Pegasi b Fellowship

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$292,541

Year Granted

2017

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

to complete detector construction and calibration, and participate in the initial General Anti-Particle Spectrometer (GAPS) flight campaign and subsequent data analysis

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$740,872

Year Granted

2018

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

to support a three-month mission operation extension and data analysis for ASTERIA

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$150,088

Year Granted

2018

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

to support research on exoplanet atmosphere biosignature gases

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$649,945

Year Granted

2018

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

for the 51 Pegasi b Fellowship

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$385,743

Year Granted

2019

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

for the 51 Pegasi b Fellowship

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$389,639

Year Granted

2019

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

for the 51 Pegasi b Fellowship

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$296,932

Year Granted

2022

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

for the 51 Pegasi b Fellowship

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$291,582

Year Granted

2022

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

for the research and related work of Juliana García-Mejía in connection with the 51 Pegasi b Fellowship program

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$411,244

Year Granted

2023

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

to investigate how sulfur assimilation may have impacted redox transitions in the early Earth biosphere

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$55,000

Year Granted

2023

Northwestern University

for the development of software for the rapid identification of transients discovered by astronomical surveys

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$615,917

Year Granted

2018

Northwestern University

for the Code/Astro software engineering workshops for astronomers

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$204,771

Year Granted

2023

Northwestern University

to investigate spectroscopic signatures of planet formation

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$429,819

Year Granted

2023

President and Fellows of Harvard College

for the 51 Pegasi b Fellowship

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$236,316

Year Granted

2020

President and Fellows of Harvard College

for the 51 Pegasi b Fellowship

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$372,413

Year Granted

2022

President and Fellows of Harvard College

for the research and related work of Samuel Yee in connection with the 51 Pegasi b Fellowship program

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$393,428

Year Granted

2023

Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia

to investigate possible sulfur worlds

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$55,000

Year Granted

2022

Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia

for research on the evolution of planetary systems

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$128,333

Year Granted

2023

Regents of the University of California at Berkeley

for follow-up investigations of late-time radio emissions from supernova remnants

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$110,000

Year Granted

2021

Regents of the University of California at Berkeley

for the Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$6,761,347

Year Granted

2012

Regents of the University of California at Berkeley

to develop thin-film superconducting cavities that will be coupled with squeezed-vacuum state receivers in an experimental infrastructure to detect axion dark matter particles with energies of 5-20 gigahertz (GHz)

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$100,000

Year Granted

2014

Regents of the University of California at Berkeley

to fund the initial planning phase of the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment, CASPEr, which aims to search for ultra-light dark matter particles such as axions and massive vector bosons

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$150,000

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 at Berkeley

to grind and polish two long-lead-time lenses for a Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) for use on the four meter Mayall Telescope on Kitt Peak, Arizona

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$1,150,377

Year Granted

2014

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 Berkeley

to support microwave cavity research and development efforts that will improve the discovery potential of axion dark matter by the Extreme Axion Experiment

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$115,000

Year Granted

2016

Regents of the University of California at Berkeley

for the development of detector arrays for the Simons Observatory

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$1,714,203

Year Granted

2016

Regents of the University of California at Berkeley

for the 51 Pegasi b Fellowship

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$342,093

Year Granted

2016

Regents of the University of California at Berkeley

for the 51 Pegasi b Fellowship

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$363,261

Year Granted

2017

Regents of the University of California at Berkeley

for the 51 Pegasi b Fellowship

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$334,628

Year Granted

2017

Regents of the University of California at Berkeley

to develop and implement a predictive wavefront control system at the W.M. Keck Observatory that will demonstrate a factor of two improvement to the detectable planet-to-star contrast ratio

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$338,513

Year Granted

2018

Regents of the University of California at Berkeley

for instrumentation and numerical modeling software development necessary for conducting a survey of supermassive black holes in the southern sky

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$714,885

Year Granted

2018

Regents of the University of California at Berkeley

for the development of stimulated axion decay theory and search strategies for its cosmological signature

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$237,081

Year Granted

2018

Regents of the University of California at Berkeley

for developing and implementing the summer intensive AstroTech program

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$131,479

Year Granted

2018

Regents of the University of California at Berkeley

for the 51 Pegasi b Fellowship

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$337,117

Year Granted

2019

Regents of the University of California at Berkeley

for the new analysis of the Kepler database with a probabilistic approach to planet detection

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$339,392

Year Granted

2021

Regents of the University of California at Berkeley

for the 51 Pegasi b Fellowship

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$374,967

Year Granted

2022

Regents of the University of California at Berkeley

to support detection and characterization of isolated black holes in the Milky Way using gravitational microlensing

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$1,600,000

Year Granted

2022

Regents of the University of California at Berkeley

to support the search for dark matter through signature radio signals

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$189,463

Year Granted

2022

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.