Alfred P Sloan Foundation
Historical FunderNew York, New York · EIN 13-1623877 · Private foundation · Website
Grants paid (2024)$89M
Organizations funded499
Typical grant$100,000
Total assets$2.2B
Half of its grants to organizations were between $75,000 and $249,082.
From the return
How to apply
The foundation filed the following application information (Form 990-PF Part XV, tax year 2024):
| Contact | GRANTS |
|---|---|
| Address | 630 FIFTH AVENUE SUITE 2200, NEW YORK NY 10111 |
| Phone | 2126491649 |
| Form and materials | SEE GENERAL EXPLANATION FOR DETAILS |
| Deadlines | NONE |
| Restrictions | SEE GENERAL EXPLANATION FOR DETAILS |
Copied as filed. Deadlines on a tax return describe the foundation's usual process; they are not confirmation of a current open cycle.
What it funds
Share of grant lines on the latest return, classified from the purpose each grant states.
Where it gives
84% of grants went outside New York.
Grants paid in tax year 2024
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, PA | To study the techno-economics of critical industries and their supply chains | $1,479,024 |
| Peri Support Fund | Amherst, MA | To improve the availability, accessibility, and accuracy of data on the u.s. care economy | $1,332,967 |
| Convergent Research | Cambridge, MA | To make mathematics more reliable, searchable, understandable, and accessible by developing open source proof-assistant software of great… | $1,030,788 |
| Research Foundation of the City University of NY | New York, NY | To provide research experience and mentoring to promising students transferring from cuny community colleges to cuny senior colleges | $1,025,621 |
| National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering Inc | Alexandria, VA | To administer scholarships for the sloan indigenous graduate partnership (sigp) program | $1,001,000 |
| University of California Santa Cruz | Santa Cruz, CA | To launch a sustainable network of open source program offices across the university of california system | $925,775 |
| Harvard University | Cambridge, MA | To enable the safe analysis of private data by expanding both an open-source library of software tools as well as a growing community of… | $875,419 |
| University of California Berkeley | Berkeley, CA | To improve the user experience (ux) of scientific software through development of an open source design system, infrastructure for… | $843,319 |
| Social Science Research Council | New York, NY | To provide professional development opportunities to sloan scholar alumni of the legacy, ucem, and sigp programs via the sloan scholars… | $767,551 |
| Wikimedia Foundation | San Francisco, CA | To leverage ai | $715,000 |
| Research Corporation for Science Advancement | Tucson, AZ | To administer awards from the 2024 scialog: sustainable minerals, metals, and materials (sm3) conference | $660,000 |
| Ensemble Studio Theatre Inc | New York, NY | To commission, develop, produce, and disseminate new science plays in new york and across the country | $640,000 |
| University of California Davis | Davis, CA | To support development of the virtual reality user interface (vrui) and its community of contributors | $623,618 |
| Aspiration | San Francisco, CA | To support research on the building, deployment, and maintenance of open digital infrastructure | $605,000 |
| Sundance Institute | Los Angeles, CA | To support a science and technology film program at the nation's pre-eminent independent film center that includes screenwriting… | $600,000 |
| Consumer Reports Inc | Yonkers, NY | To investigate, evaluate and enhance consumer welfare in the financial sector | $590,330 |
| Resources for the Future Inc | Washington, DC | To advance the evaluation of recent federal clean energy funding programs and policies | $580,000 |
| Colorado School of Mines | Golden, CO | To examine the role of refineries and mining-refining integration for the production of nickel and cobalt in the united states | $550,000 |
| University of Nebraska at Omaha | Omaha, NE | To support continued development and adoption in research and practice of open source software community health metrics | $544,673 |
| Santa Fe Institute | Santa Fe, NM | To support development of the arch platform for virtual collaboration of academic communities | $535,120 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science | Washington, DC | To facilitate a multi-faceted community of learning and practice for sloans creating equitable pathways to STEM graduate education grantees | $531,030 |
| American University | Washington, DC | To develop and implement a community-oriented engagement approach on marine carbon dioxide removal (mcdr) in partnership with[c]worthy, a… | $501,463 |
| Bard College | Bronx, NY | To support the design of a new science laboratory and teaching curriculum for hands-on research experiences for bard early college new york… | $500,644 |
| Pecan Street Inc | Austin, TX | To expand and diversify a high-resolution residential energy use monitoring testbed to four new geographies in georgia, pennsylvania,… | $500,000 |
| The University of Chicago | Chicago, IL | To build, from non-living chemicals, a minimal living system capable of reproduction and darwinian evolution | $500,000 |
| University of California Berkeley | Berkeley, CA | To further grow and diversify the field of energy and environmental economics through training programs that engage students and… | $500,000 |
| Wgbh Educational Foundation | Boston, MA | To support the production and associated marketing and promotion of two prime time american experience documentary films: mr. polaroid and… | $500,000 |
| University of California Berkeley | Berkeley, CA | To examine the equity implications of critical mineral mining and water scarcity in the great basin region through community-based… | $496,588 |
| University of Colorado Boulder | Boulder, CO | To extend the precision and capabilities of atomic clocks in order to perform the first experiments where both quantum mechanics and… | $471,587 |
| University of Maryland College Park | College Park, MD | To produce, test, and scale infrastructure for re-engineering official economic statistics using administrative data from businesses | $470,997 |
| National Bureau of Economic Research Inc | Cambridge, MA | To support over 50 programs with thousands of in-person and online participants at the annual nber summer institute | $468,000 |
| National Bureau of Economic Research Inc | Cambridge, MA | To support early-career researchers working on the net federal budgetary impacts of proposed legislation for enhancing u.s. productivity | $461,760 |
| Brookings Institution | Washington, DC | To continue supporting the publication and dissemination of high-quality, influential, and policy-relevant economics research through the… | $450,000 |
| University of California at Irvine | Irvine, CA | Toevaluate the interactions between critical mineral development and a shift to electrified public transportation using social life cycle… | $450,000 |
| University of Wyoming | Laramie, WY | To examine the technical, environmental, social, and legal considerations for producing critical minerals and rare earth elements from… | $445,632 |
| Howard University | Washington, DC | To enhance the teaching and educational training of howard university students pursuing degrees in economics | $438,854 |
| Rockefeller University | New York, NY | To study how mechanical force impacts the fidelity of transcription and coordinates the development of multicellular structures | $437,500 |
| Dynamicland Foundation | Berkeley, CA | To support the development of realtalk as a mode of communal computing in scientific contexts | $425,000 |
| University of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | To support the sloan centers for systemic change (scsc) seed grantees by equipping them with research, tools, change management strategies,… | $417,104 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA | To expand and diversify the community of researchers conducting randomized controlled trials (rcts) that investigate and address the… | $402,864 |
| Environmental Defense Fund Inc | New York, NY | To conduct a field measurement campaign to better quantify emissions from hydrogen fueling stations and heavy-duty vehicles | $400,000 |
| National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering Inc | Alexandria, VA | To support operations of the alfred P. sloan ucem program at duke university | $400,000 |
| New York University | New York, NY | To continue the development of the decarbonizing chemical manufacturing using sustainable electrification (dc-muse) center | $400,000 |
| Community Initiatives | Oakland, CA | To strengthen the professional network of research software engineers in the united states | $399,803 |
| Boston College | Chestnut Hill, MA | To analyze how reimbursement policies for home-and-community-based services (hcbs) impact care recipients and their caregivers | $398,982 |
| Purdue University | West Lafayette, IN | To advance indigenous perspectives in STEM graduate education through a multi-campus model focused on outreach, mentoring,… | $381,940 |
| University of California Santa Barbara | Santa Barbara, CA | To strengthen and expand project management and research in the energy and climate program at the environmental markets lab (emlab) | $380,000 |
| University of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | To develop an equity-minded, law-attentive organizational learning series for higher education institutions seeking to advance diversity,… | $379,539 |
| Fund for the City of New York | New York, NY | To improve local decision-making by continuing to build technical capacity in NYC borough president offices, community boards, agencies,… | $375,224 |
| Community Initiatives | Oakland, CA | To continue enabling academic data science communities to share knowledge, ideas, and lessons learned via the academic data science alliance | $375,000 |
| George Washington University | Washington, DC | To support the development, maintenance, and sustainability of research software through the establishment of an open source program office… | $373,768 |
| Tufts University | Medford, MA | Tostudy the economic and equity impacts of alternative electricity rate structures via a randomized controlled trial with rural electricity… | $365,000 |
| National Bureau of Economic Research Inc | Cambridge, MA | To support new research on the financial challenges facing the higher education sector in the united states | $359,586 |
| University of Kansas Center for Research | Lawrence, KS | To study the trade-off between hiring staff scientists or postdoctoral scholars to work in scientific laboratories | $356,518 |
| Film Independent Inc | Los Angeles, CA | To support the triennial sloan film summit, a three-day event of screenings, panels, staged readings, project updates, networking… | $350,000 |
| University of Wisconsin Madison | Madison, WI | To support the development, maintenance, and sustainability of research software through the establishment of an open source program office… | $349,123 |
| New York University | New York, NY | To pursue research projects and community-building activities that will advance the development of cognitive economics | $347,848 |
| California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, CA | To develop a platform that integrates synthetic cell technologies, thereby creating new research opportunities for the synthetic cell… | $336,493 |
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | To achieve size-regulation of nucleic acid based biomolecular condensates and sustained cycles of condensate formation-growth-dissolution… | $333,120 |
| The University of Texas at Austin | Austin, TX | To support the development, maintenance, and sustainability of research software through the establishment of an open source program office… | $328,119 |
Showing the 60 largest of 499 grants to organizations.
The return also lists 23 grants to individuals ($611,767). We do not publish the names of individual recipients.
Grants approved for future payment
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering Inc | Alexandria, VA | To administer scholarships for the sloan indigenous graduate partnership (sigp) program | $3,003,000 |
| Arizona State University | Tempe, AZ | To advance the development of assembly theory, a framework for understanding and predicting the emergence and evolution of complex objects | $1,482,606 |
| Peri Support Fund | Amherst, MA | To improve the availability, accessibility, and accuracy of data on the u.s. care economy | $1,378,823 |
| University of Colorado Boulder | Boulder, CO | To extend the precision and capabilities of atomic clocks in order to perform the first experiments where both quantum mechanics and… | $1,315,677 |
| Rockefeller University | New York, NY | To study how mechanical force impacts the fidelity of transcription and coordinates the development of multicellular structures | $1,312,500 |
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | To achieve size-regulation of nucleic acid based biomolecular condensates and sustained cycles of condensate formation-growth-dissolution… | $1,166,880 |
| Purdue University | West Lafayette, IN | To advance indigenous perspectives in STEM graduate education through a multi-campus model focused on outreach, mentoring,… | $1,151,418 |
| Howard University | Washington, DC | To enhance the teaching and educational training of howard university students pursuing degrees in economics | $1,061,145 |
| The University of Chicago | Chicago, IL | To build, from non-living chemicals, a minimal living system capable of reproduction and darwinian evolution | $1,000,000 |
| University of California Santa Cruz | Santa Cruz, CA | To launch a sustainable network of open source program offices across the university of california system | $925,774 |
| Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors | New York, NY | To encourage charitable giving in support of basic scientific research through sloan membership in the science philanthropy alliance and… | $800,000 |
| Imperial College London | London, | To use ultracold molecules trapped in an optical lattice to improve the precision of electron electric dipole moment measurements by a… | $797,936 |
| National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering Inc | Alexandria, VA | To provide administrative services, community engagement activities, and research and assessment support for sloan ucem, sigp, and scsc… | $788,066 |
| University of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | To support the sloan centers for systemic change (scsc) seed grantees by equipping them with research, tools, change management strategies,… | $783,199 |
| Digital Public Library of America Inc | Boston, MA | To support the transition of the dpla cultural heritage aggregation project to a new institutional home and develop a strategic plan for… | $771,558 |
| Social Science Research Council | New York, NY | To provide professional development opportunities to sloan scholar alumni of the legacy, ucem, and sigp programs via the sloan scholars… | $759,263 |
| Yale University | New Haven, CT | To understand mechanistically how cellular information-processing enables and bounds the ability of bacteria to carry out key functions… | $719,363 |
| Wikimedia Foundation | San Francisco, CA | To leverage ai | $715,000 |
| University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, MN | To study what limits the range of proteins built by natural cells, and to engineer a translation system that builds a wider range of… | $711,201 |
| Manhattan Theatre Club | New York, NY | To support the mtc/sloan initiative commissioning, developing, and producing new science and technology plays | $710,000 |
| National Bureau of Economic Research Inc | Cambridge, MA | To study transportation infrastructure challenges in the united states, including project selection, financing strategies, and procurement… | $683,744 |
| California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, CA | To create a synthetic cell fate control system | $675,000 |
| University of Kansas Center for Research | Lawrence, KS | To study the trade-off between hiring staff scientists or postdoctoral scholars to work in scientific laboratories | $673,575 |
| University of Glasgow | Glasgow, | To observe and quantify the emergence and growth of selection-for-complexity in long term chemical evolution experiments | $625,209 |
| Consumer Reports Inc | Yonkers, NY | To investigate, evaluate and enhance consumer welfare in the financial sector | $609,660 |
| University of Warwick | Coventry, | To test critical aspects of a plan to probe the quantum nature of gravity by entangling two microdiamonds via their mutual gravitational… | $604,666 |
| Mcgill University | Montral, | To study prebiotically relevant chemistry in droplets that explores whether aerosol droplets can accelerate chemical reactions important to… | $600,000 |
| Resources for the Future Inc | Washington, DC | To advance the evaluation of recent federal clean energy funding programs and policies | $600,000 |
| Stanford University | Stanford, CA | To complete a model of E. coli that accounts for over 90% of the well-characterized gene content | $600,000 |
| Columbia University | New York, NY | To support research and convenings on the design and implementation of effective industrial strategies | $582,724 |
| University of California Davis | Davis, CA | To support development of the virtual reality user interface (vrui) and its community of contributors | $576,229 |
| Upjohn Institute for Employment Research | Kalamazoo, MI | To aid the design of workforce policies in the childcare sector by estimating the responsiveness of the labor supply to changes in wages,… | $562,394 |
| Nesta | London, | To facilitate the use of field experiments in the economics of science, innovation, entrepreneurship, and productivity | $560,508 |
| National Bureau of Economic Research Inc | Cambridge, MA | To strengthen economics research on science funding practices and their impacts by holding conferences, producing a handbook, running boot… | $555,753 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science | Washington, DC | To facilitate a multi-faceted community of learning and practice for sloans creating equitable pathways to STEM graduate education grantees | $546,866 |
| University of California Berkeley | Berkeley, CA | Toimage the nanoscale organization of major processes in cell biology using correlative cryo-fluorescence super resolution microscopy and… | $518,198 |
| University of Nebraska at Omaha | Omaha, NE | To support continued development and adoption in research and practice of open source software community health metrics | $511,481 |
| Syracuse University | Syracuse, NY | To perform in vitro experiments and related simulations exploring how two attributes of cytoplasm -an enzyme-driven active bath and a… | $504,441 |
| Environmental Defense Fund Inc | New York, NY | To conduct a field measurement campaign to better quantify emissions from hydrogen fueling stations and heavy-duty vehicles | $500,000 |
| The Hack Foundation | West Hollywood, CA | To continue supporting a set of coordinated activities at the community, network, and policy layers to maximize the impact of open source… | $500,000 |
| University of California Berkeley | Berkeley, CA | To further grow and diversify the field of energy and environmental economics through training programs that engage students and… | $500,000 |
| University of Maryland College Park | College Park, MD | To continue and expand an interdisciplinary transportation doctoral fellowship program that connects scholars in engineering, economics,… | $500,000 |
| Wgbh Educational Foundation | Boston, MA | To produce and release a one-hour nova documentary about the militarization of space along with a social media campaign and screening events | $500,000 |
| Wgbh Educational Foundation | Boston, MA | To support the production and associated marketing and promotion of two prime time american experience documentary films: mr. polaroid and… | $500,000 |
| Broad Institute Inc | Cambridge, MA | To develop multicolor, long-term nanoprobes for single particle tracking, and to perform experiments that demonstrate the utility of these… | $490,630 |
| National Bureau of Economic Research Inc | Cambridge, MA | To support over 50 programs with thousands of in-person and online participants at the annual nber summer institute | $486,720 |
| The Metropolitan Museum of Art | New York, NY | To continue support for a network of museum partners focused on scientific research in the fields of cultural heritage and art conservation… | $473,271 |
| University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Champaign, IL | To advance our understanding of the genetic circuit deciding between replication and dormancy in bacteriophage lambda, with the ultimate… | $467,664 |
| New York University | New York, NY | To support an annual feature film production grant over three years to enable film students to shoot a first feature film about science and… | $457,890 |
| American University | Washington, DC | To develop and implement a community-oriented engagement approach on marine carbon dioxide removal (mcdr) in partnership with[c]worthy, a… | $450,000 |
| Boston College | Chestnut Hill, MA | To analyze how reimbursement policies for home-and-community-based services (hcbs) impact care recipients and their caregivers | $444,606 |
| The Pennsylvania State University | University Park, PA | To explore how nanoscale solution structure modifies chemical reactions generally, and biochemical reactions in particular | $432,968 |
| Dynamicland Foundation | Berkeley, CA | To support the development of realtalk as a mode of communal computing in scientific contexts | $425,000 |
| National Bureau of Economic Research Inc | Cambridge, MA | To study the economics of digitization and of artificial intelligence in a newly unified working group that covers both topics | $419,940 |
| University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas | Dallas, TX | To use thermodynamic circuit theory to uncover design principles underlying the biochemical networks within organisms, and to understand… | $406,474 |
| Stanford University | Stanford, CA | To develop models that advance our understanding of how forces driving chromosomal motion impact the organization and function of… | $405,822 |
| New York Public Radio | New York, NY | To support story-driven health care reporting at wnyc, including coverage of health and health care policy and economics, covid 19 and… | $400,000 |
| University of Wisconsin Madison | Madison, WI | To perform selection experiments on chemical ecosystems that test the hypothesis that ecosystem-scale selection can yield assemblages of… | $399,351 |
| Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation | Brookline, MA | To sustain and expand the national science on screen program | $394,750 |
| National Book Foundation Inc | New York, NY | To honor exceptional books with scientific or technological themes or characters from diverse authors and to support public programming… | $368,547 |
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants paid | Grant lines |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $89,001,751 | 730 |
| 2023 | $89,745,363 | 737 |
Sources
- IRS Form 990-PF, tax year 2024, filed Nov 15, 2025 - IRS e-file batch, object ID 202533189349105603
- IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search for EIN 13-1623877
- Profile updated Nov 4, 2026
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