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General searchable funding opportunity databases

IRIS: Illinois Researcher Information Service, from University of Illinois Library. Search IRIS, view upcoming deadlines in over 25 subject areas, or use the IRIS Alert Service to receive e-mail notices of funding sources based on your own research profile.
(Access restricted to Colgate users.)

The Grant Advisor: An online monthly newsletter and database. Search the Grant Advisor or view upcoming deadlines in 10 categories.
(Access restricted to Colgate users. For password access from off-campus, contact the Grants Office.)

Grants.gov: Find federal grant programs; register for e-mail notification of grant opportunities; apply to many federal programs.

GrantsNet: Find grant opportunities in the biomedical sciences and undergraduate science education.

• American Council of Learned Societies
• American Philosophical Society
• American Political Science Association
• Association for Asian Studies
• Creative Capital
• Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
• Getty Foundation – history of art
• Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
• George A. and Eliza Howard Foundation – topics change yearly
• Institute of Museum and Library Services
• Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation
• National Endowment for the Arts
• National Endowment for the Humanities
  • All grant programs and deadlines
  • Collaborative Research Grants
  • Enduring Questions (course development grants)
  • Fellowships
  • Summer Stipends
  • Summer Seminars and Institutes
  • Funded projects query form - search NEH awards 
  • NEH staff directory
  • Serve as an NEH panelist or peer reviewer
• New York Council for the Humanities
• New York Foundation for the Arts
• New York State Council on the Arts
• Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts
• Spencer Foundation – education
• Wenner-Gren Foundation – anthropology

• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• American Chemical Society – Petroleum Research Fund
• Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation – chemical sciences
• Energy Foundation
• Eppley Foundation for Research
• Hudson River Foundation
• National Academy of Education
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
• National Geographic Society – field research & exploration
• National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • NIH grants
  • Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA) grants
  • NIH application guidelines (effective January 25, 2010)
  • NIH eRA Commons 
  • NIH grant tutorials
  • NIH modular budgets
  • NIH Conflict of Interest info and tutorial
  • NIH Institutes and Centers
  • NIH New Investigator Guide (from NIAID)
  • "Inside the NIH grant review process"
  • NIH RePORTER - search NIH awards
• National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
• National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • NSF FastLane
  • NSF FastLane Help Page
  • NSF FastLane DEMONSTRATION site
  • NSF Funding Opportunities
  • NSF Grant Proposal Guide 
  • NSF Award Administration Guide 
  • NSF regional grants conferences
  • NSF directory & staff search
  • NSF Update (e-mail alert service)
  • Search NSF awards
  • Serve as an NSF reviewer
        NSF programs of interest:
  • Catalyzing New International Collaborations
  • Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) program
  • Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program
  • Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) supplements and sites
  • Research in Undergraduate Institutions (RUI) program
  • Transforming Undergraduate Education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (TUES)
• New York Sea Grant
• Research Corporation – astronomy, chemistry, physics
• Simons Foundation
• U.S. Department of Agriculture
• U.S. Department of Energy - Office of Science grants

U.S. and global issues and policy

• Carnegie Corporation of New York
• Ford Foundation
• German Marshall Fund of the United States
• Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
• Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy
• W.K. Kellogg Foundation
• John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
• National Council for Eurasian and East European Research
• Rockefeller Foundation
• Russell Sage Foundation
• Smith Richardson Foundation
• Social Science Research Council
• Open Society Foundations
• Spencer Foundation
• U.S. Department of Education
  • Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE)
  • International programs including Fulbright-Hays
• U.S. Department of Justice - Office of Justice Programs
• United States Institute of Peace
• W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

Special programs and multidisciplinary

• American Association of University Women – American Fellowships
• Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation – citizenship
• Nathan Cummings Foundation – multiple disciplines
• John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation – all fields except performing arts
• Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation
• National Academies – Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships
• National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance
• National Geographic Society – field research & exploration grants
• John Templeton Foundation – science and religion

International research and fellowship opportunities

• American Academy in Berlin
• American Academy in Rome
• American Councils for International Education
• American Institute of Indian Studies
• Association for Asian Studies
• Camargo Foundation
• Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation
• Council of American Overseas Research Centers
• Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Program (Dept. of Ed.)
• Fulbright Scholar Program (Council for International Exchange of Scholars)
• German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
• Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
• International Research and Exchanges Board
• Japan Foundation
• Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission
• Liguria Study Center for the Arts and Humanities
• National Council for Eurasian and East European Research
• Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center
• U.S. Dept. of Education international programs including Fulbright-Hays

Residential fellowships

• American Antiquarian Society
• American Association for the Advancement of Science - fellowships
• Columbia U Society of Fellows in the Humanities
• Cornell Society for the Humanities
• Dumbarton Oaks
• Institute for Advanced Study
• Library of Congress – Kluge Center
• MacDowell Colony
• Millay Colony for the Arts
• National Humanities Center
• National Academies – Research Associateship Program
• New York Public Library – Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers
• Newberry Library fellowships in the humanities
• Princeton University Center for the Study of Religion
• Radcliffe Institute Fellowships
• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
• Smithsonian Institution fellowships
• Stanford Humanities Center
• Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
• Yaddo

Additional foundation links

The Foundation Center Grantmaker Information

Additional government links

Grants.gov - find grant opportunities

Grants.gov - how to apply

Grants.gov help

          Research.gov

U.S. Federal Government Agencies Directory via LSU Libraries