Funding Sources

There are a number of general databases of funding sources that you can search directly, or you can arrange to receive alerts of new granting opportunities.

For general searches: IRIS

For email alerts:  www.grants.gov or fundingopps.cos.com/

You may also want to register for RSS feeds from www.grants.gov or National Science Foundation (NSF)

Federal Funding Agencies

• National Institutes Of Health
• National Science Foundation
• The National Academies
• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA)
• National Endowment For The Arts
• National Endowment For The Humanities
• Agriculture (Department of)
• Defense (Department of)
• Education (Department of)
• Energy (Department of)
• Transportation (Department of)
• National Archives & Records Administration
• Federal Acquisition Jumpstation

Private Foundations & Corporations

Research & Leave Support

• American Academy in Rome
• American Academy of Arts & Sciences
• American Antiquarian Society
• American Association of University Women
• American Philosophical Society
• Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies
• Ford Foundation Fellowships for Minorities
• Fulbright Scholars Program
• Harvard University’s Kathryn W. and Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
• Humanities and Social Sciences Online Funding Resources
• IREX: International Research Exchanges Board
• James McKeen Cattell Foundation
• John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships
• Rockefeller Residencies
• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
• Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

French and Francophone Cultures

• Camargo Foundation
• Gilbert Chinard, Harmon Chadbourn Rorison, and Edouard Morot-Sir Fellowships

Germany

• DAAD (German Academic Exchange Services)
• Humboldt Foundation

Fellowships to Libraries and Museums

• Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
• Folger Shakespeare Library
• Getty Museum Foundation
• Hemingway Research Grants at the JFK Library
• Houghton Library, Harvard
• Huntington Library
• John Carter Brown Library
• Newberry Library in Chicago
• UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

Social Sciences

• American Association for the Advancement of Science
• American Council of Learned Societies
• Asian Cultural Council
• Aspen Institute
• Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences (fellowships)
• The Dirksen Center: Congressional Research Award
• German Marshall Fund of the United States
• Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy
• Human Frontier Science Program
• James S. McConnell Foundation
• Lindbergh Foundation
• Russell Sage Foundation 
• Smith Richardson Foundation
• Social Science Research Council
• Spencer Foundation  
• United States Institute of Peace
• Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc.
• Whitehall Foundation: William T. Grant Foundation

Humanities

• American Council of Learned Societies
• Blakemore Foundation
• Columbia University Society of Fellows in the Humanities
• Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center – University of Texas
• National Humanities Center
• Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, Vanderbilt University
• Stanford Humanities Center Fellowships
• University of Utah Tanner Humanities Center

Arts

• Artist Trust
• Arts Midwest
• Blakemore Foundation
• Getty Museum Foundation
• Japan Foundation
• Ohio Arts Council
• Sinfonia Foundation

Sciences

• ACS Petroleum Research Fund
• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
• American Association for the Advancement of Science
• American Association for Cancer Research
• American Astronomical Society
• American Cancer Society
• American Psychological Association
• Beckman Foundation
• David and Lucile Packard Foundation
• Dreyfus Foundation
• Earthwatch Institute
• Entomological Society of America
• Research Corporation
• United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation
• Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution