MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Total received in grants · trailing 12 months
$68M
$1for every U.S. household÷ 131M U.S. households
In perspective
0.0%of all $401.9B in tracked grants
21separate grants, trailing 12 months
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY has received $68M across 21 federal grants of $1M or more on record.
Data as of August 5, 2026. Source: USAspending.gov, prime contract awards $1M+. Federal spending data lags and has known gaps. This is not a real-time or complete record.
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| Agency | Description | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Department of Commerce | MIT SEA GRANT OMNIBUS 2018-2022 | $9,655,044 |
| Department of Energy | CENTER FOR CO-DESIGN OF DURABLE, REPRODUCIBLE, AND EFFICIENT PEROVSKITE TANDEMS A. PROJECT OBJECTIVES OVERALL PROJECT OBJECTIVES: THIS CENTER WILL EMPOWER INDUSTRY TO ACHIEVE SETO’S PEROVSKITE MODULE TARGETS VIA A FUNDAMENTALLY DIFFERENT PATH. INSTEAD OF CHASING RECORD EFFICIENCIES WITH TINY PIXEL-SIZED DEVICES, AND LATER ATTEMPTING TO STABILIZE THEM, THIS CENTER EMBRACES A “CO-DESIGN” APPROACH THAT SIMULTANEOUSLY TARGETS COMBINATIONS OF TECHNOECONOMIC PARAMETERS INCLUDING STABILITY, REPRODUCIBILITY, AND EFFICIENCY. | $9,571,156 |
| Department of Energy | HIGH EFFICIENCY BIOMIMETIC ORGANIC SOLAR CELLS | $5,120,000 |
| Department of Energy | CENTER FOR ADVANCED SIMULATION OF RF - PLASMA - MATERIAL INTERACTIONS | $4,351,000 |
| Department of Energy | PHASE CONTRAST IMAGING FOR WENDELSTEIN 7-X | $4,040,000 |
| Department of Energy | CREATING AND INTERFACING DESIGNER CHEMICAL QUBITS | $4,000,000 |
| Department of Defense | PROGRAM TO DEVELOP AN EQUATION OF STATE AND CONSTITUTIVE THERMODYNAMIC AND TRANSPORT RELATIONS OF 3HE, 4HE, AND 3HE-4HE MIXTURES | $3,940,182 |
| Department of Energy | CENTER FOR OPTIMIZED MODERN PARALLEL ADAPTIVE SYSTEM SOFTWARE (COMPASS) WILL DEVISE, UTILIZE, AND VALIDATE PERFORMANCE MODELS THAT LEVERAGE MACHINE LEARNING SOLUTIONS TO MODEL AND PREDICT SYSTEM & APPLICATION PERFORMANCE. THE PRIMARY RESEARCH QUESTION ADDRESSED IS AS FOLLOWS: HOW CAN HPC PERFORMANCE MODELS BE STRUCTURED AND TRAINED USING MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES TO PREDICT APPLICATION AND SYSTEM SCALABILITY AND PERFORMANCE, CAPTURE PREDICTION UNCERTAINTY, AND EFFECTIVELY INFORM SYSTEM OPTIMIZATION DECISIONS. | $2,858,543 |
| Department of Energy | EXCITONS IN LOW-DIMENSIONAL PEROVSKITES | $2,854,752 |
| Department of Energy | MACHINE-LEARNED PROCESSING PATHWAYS FOR SOLID STATE ELECTROLYTES | $2,588,021 |
| Department of Energy | MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY THIS PROJECT PROPOSES A FULLY INTEGRATED, THEORY-INFORMED COMPUTATIONAL-EXPERIMENTAL FRAMEWORK TO ACCELERATE THE DISCOVERY AND SCALABLE PRODUCTION OF RARE-EARTH LEAN, HIGH MOMENT MAGNETIC ALLOYS FOR NEXT-GENERATION ENERGY AND ELECTRIFICATION APPLICATIONS. MOTIVATED BY EXCEEDINGLY LONG EMPIRICAL DEVELOPMENT CYCLES AND ENERGY-INTENSIVE CLASSICAL MAGNETIC ALLOY FABRICATION ROUTES, OUR APPROACH UNIFIES PHYSICS-INFORMED ML, FIRST PRINCIPLES AND ATOMISTIC MODELING, CARBON-LEAN FULL SOLID-STATE ALLOY SYNTHESIS, AND HIGH-THROUGHPUT EXPERIMENTATION INTO A CLOSED-LOOP MATERIALS DISCOVERY FRAMEWORK. BY SYNERGIZING THESE COMPLEMENTARY EFFORTS, THE PROJECT AIMS TO ESTABLISH A PREDICTIVE PLATFORM THAT RAPIDLY IDENTIFIES PROMISING MULTI-LIGHT-ELEMENT TRANSITION-METAL-BASED ALLOY CHEMISTRIES ALONG WITH OPTIMAL PROCESSING CONDITIONS, CREATING AN INTEGRATED DESIGN-TO-FABRICATION WORKFLOW THAT ACCELERATES THE TRANSITION FROM MAGNETIC PHYSICS TO DEPLOYABLE BULK ALLOY PRODUCTS. | $2,450,000 |
| Department of Defense | QUANTUM SCIENCE WITH ULTRACOLD ATOMS ON A 50 NM SCALE | $2,399,996 |
| Department of Energy | TRACING THE TOPOLOGICAL FINGERPRINT OF WEYL SEMIMETALS USING NEUTRON PROBES | $2,245,206 |
| Department of Energy | THE OVERARCHING GOAL OF THE PROPOSED PROJECT DIRECTLY ADDRESSES THE ARPA-E MAGNITO PROGRAM OBJECTIVE: TO DISCOVER, SYNTHESIZE, AND VALIDATE NEW, ULTRA-PERFORMING PERMANENT MAGNETS WITH PERFORMANCE BEYOND ND-FE-B MAGNET LIKE ND2FE14B WHILE ENSURING MANUFACTURABILITY, SCALABILITY, AND COST COMPETITIVENESS. OUR APPROACH ESTABLISHES A PROPERTY-FIRST, PHYSICS-INFORMED, CLOSEDLOOP AI-EXPERIMENT SYSTEM THAT UNITES GENERATIVE MODELING, ALLOY AND DEFECT-SENSITIVE REPRESENTATIONS, AB-INITIO AND MICROMAGNETIC SIMULATIONS, AND DIRECT EXPERIMENTAL FEEDBACK. THIS PLATFORM ADVANCES ARPA-E’S MISSION TO REDUCE RELIANCE ON CRITICAL RARE-EARTHS AND ACCELERATE U.S. LEADERSHIP IN NEXT-GENERATION MAGNET TECHNOLOGY. | $2,008,289 |
| Department of Energy | MOLECULAR UNDERSTANDING OF BIFUNCTIONAL SOLID LEWIS ACID ZEOLITES FOR THE C-C COUPLING OF ALPHA KETO ACIDS | $1,850,000 |
| Department of Energy | PERMANENT MAGNETS FEATURING HEAVY MAIN GROUP ELEMENTS FOR MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY | $1,546,752 |
| Department of Energy | NEXT-GENERATION PEROVSKITE PHOTOVOLTAICS: IMPROVING, STABILIZING, AND LEAD-SEALING OF RECORD-SETTING LABORATORY SOLAR CELLS TOWARD COMMERCIALIZATION | $1,400,000 |
| Department of Energy | NOVEL 2D MATERIALS AND STRUCTURES VIA JANUS MANIPULATION | $1,349,999 |
| Department of Energy | AN OPEN SOURCE NUCLEAR MODELING ECOSYSTEM TO SUPPORT FUSION PILOT PLANT DESIGN | $1,262,150 |
| Department of Energy | ULTRAFAST ELECTRONIC AND STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS IN QUANTUM MATERIALS | $1,146,715 |
| Department of Energy | LABORATORY-DRIVEN, MACHINE-LEARNED CONSTITUTIVE MODELS FOR FRACTURE NETWORK EVOLUTION IN THE DEEP CRUST, WITH APPLICATIONS TO EXTRACTION OF THERMAL AND CHEMICAL RESOURCES | $1,062,129 |