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
Germany
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