Where can I find sources of funding for my research?
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. You may also want to register for RSS feeds from www.grants.gov or National Science Foundation (NSF).
Federal Funding Agencies
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