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Alfred P. Sloan
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- Free allowance
- 'The Foundation does not make grants to individuals except through its Books program' and 'The Alfred P.
- Verdict
- fails: identitythe identity required is not reachable without it
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- institutionno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- write-gatedNo unsolicited proposals are read at all, so the route is a letter of inquiry to a named programme director, and most programmes do not accept even that.
- Evidence
- documented2 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-22checked 2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-22
| Free tier | 'The Foundation does not make grants to individuals except through its Books program' and 'The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation does not accept or review unsolicited grant proposals.' The only individual lane named is book writing, where 'Book grants can be made to individuals or to affiliated nonprofit organizations' and are 'typically $60,000 or less'. unit none; metered on wall-clock; cash-grant |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - write-gated (binding) No unsolicited proposals are read at all, so the route is a letter of inquiry to a named programme director, and most programmes do not accept even that. source
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| Identity | institution not published |
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| Egress | not stated |
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| Interface | unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed |
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| Tooling | not stated |
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| Composes with | The only individual door is a book about science, so this record's use is negative: it stops a reader from spending a week drafting a Sloan proposal that no programme would read. |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | Sloan appears on most lists of open-source and science funders and is the wrong shape for a user: institution-only, no unsolicited proposals, and a book programme as the sole individual route. The USD 60,000 book ceiling is the one number a person could reach, and it buys writing time rather than compute. |
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Evidence 2
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-22 | sloan.org/grants/apply | quoted 'The Foundation does not make grants to individuals except through its Books program' and 'The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation does not accept or review unsolicited grant proposals', plus 'Not all programs accept unsolicited inquiries' |
| 2026-10-22 | sloan.org/programs/public-understanding/books | quoted 'Book grants can be made to individuals or to affiliated nonprofit organizations, such as a university. Book grants are typically $60,000 or less.' |
More fields 1
| facets | {"class": "grant-institutional","free_tier_kind": "cash-grant","shape": null} |
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Unknown values 7
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- egress terms: a source was read and is silent on this field
- interface: the access interface was not established
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
- retention stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- tooling: a source was read and is silent on this field