Alfred P Sloan Foundation
Accepts applications
Alfred P Sloan Foundation is a private foundation in New York, New York. In tax year 2024 it gave $85.4 million in 522 grants; the typical grant was $98,105 and the largest $1.5 million. It accepts applications; its filing gives the instructions below.
From its IRS Form 990-PF for tax year 2024.
- Grants paid, 2024$85.4 million
- Number of grants522
- Typical grant$98,105
- Largest grant$1.5 million
- Assets$2.2 billion
- New grantees37%
Giving in 2024 was down from $93.6 million the year before.
37% of its 2024 grantees had not received a grant from it the year before, a mix of repeat and new grantees.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants paid | Number of grants | Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | $93.6 million | 526 | $2.1 billion |
| 2024 | $85.4 million | 522 | $2.2 billion |
How to apply
| Contact | Grants 630 Fifth Avenue Suite 2200, New York, NY 10111 |
|---|---|
| Phone or email | (212) 649-1649 |
| What to submit, restrictions | See general explanation for details |
Foundation website IRS filings on ProPublica
What Alfred P Sloan Foundation funds
Where it gives
Its US grants went to recipients in 39 states, the most to California. It also paid $3.4 million in 26 grants to recipients outside the US.
| State | Grants | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| California | 105 | $19.5 million |
| New York | 76 | $13.6 million |
| Massachusetts | 57 | $12.5 million |
| District of Columbia | 33 | $7.0 million |
| Pennsylvania | 21 | $4.5 million |
| Illinois | 24 | $2.9 million |
| Virginia | 9 | $2.5 million |
| Texas | 16 | $2.0 million |
| Maryland | 15 | $1.9 million |
| Colorado | 9 | $1.7 million |
Grants paid in 2024
| Recipient | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Carnegie Mellon University | To study the techno-economics of critical industries and their supply chains | $1.5 million |
| Peri Support Fund | To improve the availability, accessibility, and accuracy of data on the u.s. Care economy | $1.3 million |
| Convergent Research | To make mathematics more reliable, searchable, understandable, and accessible by developing open source proof-assistant software of great value for research, applications, and education | $1.0 million |
| Research Foundation of the City University of Ny | To provide research experience and mentoring to promising students transferring from cuny community colleges to cuny senior colleges | $1.0 million |
| National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering Inc | To administer scholarships for the sloan indigenous graduate partnership (sigp) program | $1.0 million |
| University of California Santa Cruz | To launch a sustainable network of open source program offices across the university of california system | $925,775 |
| Harvard University | 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 users | $875,419 |
| University of California Berkeley | To improve the user experience (ux) of scientific software through development of an open source design system, infrastructure for collaborative prototyping on user interfaces, and training curriculum | $843,319 |
| Social Science Research Council | To provide professional development opportunities to sloan scholar alumni of the legacy, ucem, and sigp programs via the sloan scholars mentoring network, track scholar outcomes, and facilitate connectivity between current sloan scholars and alumni | $767,551 |
| Wikimedia Foundation | To leverage ai for the benefit of wikipedias readers and contributors, including tools to address vandalism | $715,000 |
| Research Corporation for Science Advancement | To administer awards from the 2024 scialog: sustainable minerals, metals, and materials (sm3) conference | $660,000 |
| Ensemble Studio Theatre Inc | To commission, develop, produce, and disseminate new science plays in new york and across the country | $640,000 |
| University of California Davis | To support development of the virtual reality user interface (vrui) and its community of contributors | $623,618 |
| Aspiration | To support research on the building, deployment, and maintenance of open digital infrastructure | $605,000 |
| Sundance Institute | To support a science and technology film program at the nation's pre-eminent independent film center that includes screenwriting fellowships, feature film prizes, science and film panels, and associated outreach | $600,000 |
| Consumer Reports Inc | To investigate, evaluate and enhance consumer welfare in the financial sector | $590,330 |
| Resources for the Future Inc | To advance the evaluation of recent federal clean energy funding programs and policies | $580,000 |
| Colorado School of Mines | 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 | To support continued development and adoption in research and practice of open source software community health metrics | $544,673 |
| Santa Fe Institute | To support development of the arch platform for virtual collaboration of academic communities | $535,120 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science | To facilitate a multi-faceted community of learning and practice for sloans creating equitable pathways to STEM graduate education grantees | $531,030 |
| American University | To develop and implement a community-oriented engagement approach on marine carbon dioxide removal (mcdr) in partnership with[c]worthy, a focused research organization | $501,463 |
| Bard College | To support the design of a new science laboratory and teaching curriculum for hands-on research experiences for bard early college new york city students | $500,644 |
| Pecan Street Inc | To expand and diversify a high-resolution residential energy use monitoring testbed to four new geographies in georgia, pennsylvania, oklahoma, and oregon | $500,000 |
| The University of Chicago | To build, from non-living chemicals, a minimal living system capable of reproduction and darwinian evolution | $500,000 |
| University of California Berkeley | To further grow and diversify the field of energy and environmental economics through training programs that engage students and early-career scholars from multiple universities | $500,000 |
| WGBH Educational Foundation | To support the production and associated marketing and promotion of two prime time american experience documentary films: mr. Polaroid and the war on smog | $500,000 |
| University of California Berkeley | To examine the equity implications of critical mineral mining and water scarcity in the great basin region through community-based participatory case studies | $496,588 |
| University of Colorado Boulder | To extend the precision and capabilities of atomic clocks in order to perform the first experiments where both quantum mechanics and general relativity have measurable effects, and to perform novel tests of general relativity | $471,587 |
| University of Maryland College Park | 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 | 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 | To support early-career researchers working on the net federal budgetary impacts of proposed legislation for enhancing u.s. Productivity | $461,760 |
| Brookings Institution | To continue supporting the publication and dissemination of high-quality, influential, and policy-relevant economics research through the brookings papers on economic activity | $450,000 |
| University of California at Irvine | Toevaluate the interactions between critical mineral development and a shift to electrified public transportation using social life cycle assessment methodologies | $450,000 |
| University of Wyoming | To examine the technical, environmental, social, and legal considerations for producing critical minerals and rare earth elements from mining residuals | $445,632 |
| Howard University | To enhance the teaching and educational training of howard university students pursuing degrees in economics | $438,854 |
| Rockefeller University | To study how mechanical force impacts the fidelity of transcription and coordinates the development of multicellular structures | $437,500 |
| Dynamicland Foundation | To support the development of realtalk as a mode of communal computing in scientific contexts | $425,000 |
| University of Southern California | To support the sloan centers for systemic change (scsc) seed grantees by equipping them with research, tools, change management strategies, and a supportive network of colleagues | $417,104 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | To expand and diversify the community of researchers conducting randomized controlled trials (rcts) that investigate and address the underlying causes of racial inequity | $402,864 |
Officers and trustees
- Adam Falk
- Ruth Brenner
- Cynthia Barnhart
- Bonnie L Bassler
- Francine Berman
- Judith Chevalier
- Frederick Henderson
- Thad Hill
- Paul Jacobson
- Ray Jayawardhana
- Jeff Knight
- Michael Purugganan
- Valerie Smith
- Susan Tierney
- Diana Wagner
Questions people ask
Does Alfred P Sloan Foundation accept grant applications?
Yes. Its latest IRS filing says it accepts applications.
How much does Alfred P Sloan Foundation give?
$85.4 million in tax year 2024, across 522 grants, with a typical grant of $98,105.
Who runs Alfred P Sloan Foundation?
Its 2024 filing lists Adam Falk (Trustee/President), Ruth Brenner (Treasurer/Secretary/Sr VP Finance & Op), Cynthia Barnhart (Trustee) and Bonnie L Bassler (Trustee) among 15 officers and trustees.
What does Alfred P Sloan Foundation fund?
Based on its grants, mainly education, science and research and environment and conservation.