Results 201 - 250 of 313

Royal Institution for The Advancement Of Learning/McGill University

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

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$55,000

Year Granted

2022

Royal Institution for The Advancement Of Learning/McGill University

to test whether recalcitrant organic compounds can be used as biosignatures on ocean worlds

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$55,000

Year Granted

2023

Royal Institution for The Advancement Of Learning/McGill University

to investigate how the evolution of the Sun influenced early microbial life

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$60,000

Year Granted

2024

San Francisco State University

to investigate the atmospheres of brown dwarfs and giant exoplanets

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$130,726

Year Granted

2023

Science DCA

for 51 Pegasi b Science Summit expenses

Program

Science

Grant Type

DCA

Grant Amount

$150,000

Year Granted

2018

Science DCA

to fund an Axion Roundtable at the Foundation

Program

Science

Grant Type

DCA

Grant Amount

$20,000

Year Granted

2019

Science DCA

for 51 Pegasi b Science Summit expenses

Program

Science

Grant Type

DCA

Grant Amount

$180,000

Year Granted

2019

Science DCA

for a reconvening for the funded researchers at the Foundation

Program

Science

Grant Type

DCA

Grant Amount

$20,000

Year Granted

2019

Science DCA

to reconvene the funded scientists to describe their project accomplishments after the first summer of field work in Greenland

Program

Science

Grant Type

DCA

Grant Amount

$20,000

Year Granted

2019

Science DCA

for the Direct Imaging Roundtable

Program

Science

Grant Type

DCA

Grant Amount

$15,000

Year Granted

2019

Science DCA

for the 51 Pegasi b Review Panel

Program

Science

Grant Type

DCA

Grant Amount

$25,000

Year Granted

2019

Science DCA

for 51 Pegasi b Science Summit expenses

Program

Science

Grant Type

DCA

Grant Amount

$200,000

Year Granted

2020

Science DCA

for 51 Pegasi b professional development expenses for fellows

Program

Science

Grant Type

DCA

Grant Amount

$50,000

Year Granted

2021

Science DCA

for the 51 Pegasi b Review Panel

Program

Science

Grant Type

DCA

Grant Amount

$12,000

Year Granted

2022

Science DCA

for 51 Pegasi b Science Summit expenses

Program

Science

Grant Type

DCA

Grant Amount

$206,125

Year Granted

2022

Science DCA

for 51 Pegasi b Science Summit expenses

Program

Science

Grant Type

DCA

Grant Amount

$805,748

Year Granted

2022

Science DCA

to support the 2025 51 Pegasi b Summit

Program

Science

Grant Type

DCA

Grant Amount

$319,725

Year Granted

2024

Science DCA

to fund the annual 51 Pegasi b Fellowship review process

Program

Science

Grant Type

DCA

Grant Amount

$35,000

Year Granted

2023

Southwest Research Institute

to assess water world habitability using liquid phase ocean chemistry & atmospheric photochemistry

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$55,000

Year Granted

2023

St. Louis University

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

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

The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University

for equipment and initial development of the Dark Matter Radio search for ultra-light axions and hidden photons

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$510,000

Year Granted

2017

The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University

for the construction and operation of the Phase I Dark Matter Radio experiment

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$580,000

Year Granted

2018

The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University

for 28 nights of observing time on the Anglo-Australian Telescope to complete the Satellites Around Galactic Analogs survey

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$460,000

Year Granted

2019

The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University

for modeling the atmospheric evolution of planets orbiting flaring M dwarf stars

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$55,000

Year Granted

2021

The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

to search for and characterize closely-separated binary systems of super massive black holes

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$55,000

Year Granted

2018

The Governing Council of the University of Toronto

for research on the formation and evolution of gas giant planets

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$125,000

Year Granted

2023

The Pennsylvania State University

to support the development of novel algorithms and computational tools for high precision radial velocity measurements in the near-infrared wavelengths

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$350,550

Year Granted

2017

The Pennsylvania State University

for the 2018 Emerging Researchers in Exoplanet Science Symposium

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$95,533

Year Granted

2018

The Pennsylvania State University

to support the development of a new computational and statistical framework for discovering and characterizing low-mass exoplanets using upcoming extremely precise spectrographs

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$1,000,000

Year Granted

2019

The Pennsylvania State University

for modeling chemistry, heat transfer, and material fluxes at the sea floor of Waterworld oceans.

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$110,000

Year Granted

2021

The Pennsylvania State University

for the Emerging Researchers in Exoplanet Science Symposium VII

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$99,213

Year Granted

2022

The Pennsylvania State University

for the 2024 Order of the Octopus SETI Conference

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$89,987

Year Granted

2024

The Regents of the University of California Los Angeles

for the development of more sophisticated methodologies and computational tools for measuring the stellar orbits of stars near supermassive black holes to further our understanding of the physics associated with black holes

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$1,500,000

Year Granted

2017

The Regents of the University of California Los Angeles

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

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$604,452

Year Granted

2020

The Regents of the University of California Los Angeles

to host a journalism professional development opportunity for current and past Mosaic Prize recipients and judges.

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$390,044

Year Granted

2020

The Regents of the University of California Los Angeles

for the Keck Planet Finder Community Cadence initiative

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$713,597

Year Granted

2022

The Regents of the University of California Los Angeles

to investigate the origin of small planets with the Keck Planet Finder

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$235,996

Year Granted

2022

The UCLA Foundation

to develop novel computational modeling tools to test general relativity at the event horizon of a supermassive black hole

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$170,400

Year Granted

2016

Trustees of Amherst College

to apply astronomical image processing to fluorescence microscopy imagery

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$54,789

Year Granted

2022

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

Trustees of Boston University

to apply astronomical image processing to fluorescence microscopy imagery

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$54,950

Year Granted

2022

Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York

for analyzing data from the Gattini-IR wide-field infrared imager

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$50,000

Year Granted

2017

Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York

to bridge a flight delay for the GAPS experiment

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$226,954

Year Granted

2023

Trustees of Indiana University

to research the origins of Hot Jupiters and Super Earths

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$124,518

Year Granted

2023

Trustees of Princeton University

for the development of novel computational tools and visualization techniques to identify ultra-short period planets using TESS data

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$489,106

Year Granted

2017

Trustees of Princeton University

for the 51 Pegasi b Fellowship

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$265,034

Year Granted

2020

Trustees of Princeton University

for the research and related work of Akash Gupta in connection with the 51 Pegasi b Fellowship program

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$415,000

Year Granted

2023

Trustees of Purdue University

for modeling the availability of chemicals and energy for the emergence and sustainability of life on Waterworlds

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$55,000

Year Granted

2021

Trustees of Purdue University

for research into the origin of life on Earth and on other habitable worlds

Program

Science

Grant Type

Grant

Grant Amount

$138,333

Year Granted

2024

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.