Civic Science Funding Index

The Civic Science Funding Index (CSF-Index) is an evolving experimental tool designed to track the global ecosystem of entities that have historically supported or are currently supporting civic science activities. These activities include public engagement, science communication, science outreach, informal science education, and related scholarship and practice, funded through sponsorships, grants, and various types of awards.

The information presented is derived from publicly available sources, including organization websites and databases. This ongoing mapping effort began in 2022 and led to the first publication titled “Distribution of the National Science Foundation’s Advancing Informal STEM Learning Awards (AISL) between 2006-21” on BioRxiv which was followed up with the release of the dashboard and our ongoing reporting [search “funding” on the terminal search function].

The searchable dashboard is structured into two key sections:

• Page 1: A broad overview of organizations that have provided funding for civic science initiatives.

• Page 2: A live tracker of individual grants awarded by dates, descriptions, geographical areas, funding amounts, recipient organizations, PIs, and any other available information.