Finding Grants and Funding

Issue/Question

You want to find grant funding to support your research and other projects.

Environment

• Faculty
• Staff
• Students

Cause

You need grant funding for your work, but aren't sure where to begin.

Resolution

In addition to the following list, please visit the article on using InfoED SPIN to locate funding opportunities.

South Dakota

• The South Dakota Arts Council

• The South Dakota Community Foundation

• The South Dakota Humanities Council

Regional

• Bush Foundation

• Great Plains Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (GPCESU)

Federal

• Grants.gov (listing of all federal grant opportunities)

• Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

• Department of Energy (DOE)  

• National Institutes of Health (NIH) Guide to Grants and Contracts

• National Science Foundation (NSF)

• National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

• Office of Naval Research (ONR)

• U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)

• U.S. Department of Education open competitions and grant opportunity forecast

Fellowships

• American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowships

• Fulbright Scholar Program (to teach or conduct research abroad)

• John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship

• Harvard Radcliffe Foundation Fellowship

• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship

Private Foundations

• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (STEM and economics)

• American Chemical Society (ACS)

• American Philosophical Society (APS) Franklin Research Grants 

• Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (Arts and Humanities)

• Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation (Chemical Sciences)

• David and Lucile Packard Foundation

• Henry Luce Foundation

• Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) (Undergraduate Science Education)

• Pew Charitable Trusts

• Research Corporation (Chemistry, Physics/Astronomy)

• W. K. Kellogg Foundation

• W. M. Keck Foundation