Foundation Funding Opportunities

Each year we invite applications for innovative, high-risk, potentially high-yield projects that focus on specific areas of suicide prevention. These areas have been determined by AFSP and its Scientific Council, and are reviewed and updated annually.

More information: https://afsp.org/research-focus-grants/#how-to-apply

The Beckman Young Investigator Program provides research support to the most promising young faculty members in the early stages of their academic careers in the chemical and life sciences, particularly to foster the invention of methods, instruments, and materials that will open up new avenues of research in science.

More information: https://www.beckman-foundation.org/programs/beckman-young-investigator/ 

The mission of the Foundation is to support early stage investigators engaged in basic biomedical research that has the potential to significantly advance the understanding, diagnosis or treatment of disease.

More information: https://emallinckrodtfoundation.org/proposal-submission

The Sociological Initiatives Foundation supports social change by linking research to social action. It funds research projects that investigate laws, policies, institutions, regulations, and normative practices that may limit equality in the U.S. It prioritizes projects that address racism, xenophobia, classism, gender bias, exploitation, or the violation of human rights and freedoms. It also supports research that furthers language learning and behavior and its intersection with social and policy questions.

More information: https://www.sifoundation.org/guidelines/

The Sloan Research Fellowships seek to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise. Fellowships are awarded to scholars whose research is in chemistry, computer science, Earth system science, economics, mathematics, neuroscience, physics, or a related field. Note: In order to be considered for a Sloan Research Fellowship, a candidate must be officially nominated by a department head or other senior researcher.

More information: https://sloan.org/fellowships

ACS Professor awards are primarily honorific awards for individuals who have made seminal contributions in cancer research. Applicants must be at the rank of full professor and have made, and will likely continue to make, impactful contributions to change the direction of cancer research. These notable cancer research achievements could have been fundamental, preclinical, clinical, psychosocial, behavioral, health policy and/or epidemiologic in focus. Commitment and success in scientific mentoring and leadership as well as community engagement are also carefully considered.

More information: https://www.cancer.org/research/we-fund-cancer-research/apply-research-grant/grant-types/research-professor-grants.html 

The Petroleum Research Fund is an endowed fund, managed by the American Chemical Society that supports fundamental research directly related to petroleum or fossil fuels at nonprofit institutions (generally colleges and universities) in the United States and other countries. ACS Petroleum Research Fund (ACS PRF) grants are intended as seed money, to enable an investigator to initiate a new research direction. The investigator should not have published or received financial support from another funding agency for the proposed research.

More information, including research areas: https://www.acs.org/funding/grants/petroleum-research-fund.html 

The ACLS Fellowship program invites research applications in all disciplines of the humanities and related social sciences. ACLS Fellowships are intended as salary replacement to help scholars devote six to twelve continuous months to full-time research and writing.

More information: https://www.acls.org/competitions/acls-fellowships/

Grants awarded to investigators at any level performing research involving two or more unique sites with each site contributing unique expertise, as well as data collection.

This grant mechanism is designed to encourage implementation of a common grant protocol at two or more sites. The idea of the linked grant is that multiple sites are partners, and the study could not be done without expertise from both sites working together on many if not all aspects of the study, above and beyond just doing the same study at both sites or having a study at one site with experts serving as consultants.

More information: https://afsp.org/research-grant-information/

The objective of the Lung Cancer Discovery Award is to support independent investigators conducting clinical, laboratory, epidemiological or any groundbreaking project aimed at revolutionizing our current understanding of lung cancer and improving diagnostic, clinical and treatment methods.

More information: https://www.lung.org/research/awards-and-grants-opportunities

BrightFocus provides research funds for U.S. and international researchers pursuing pioneering research leading to greater understanding, prevention, and treatment of Alzheimer's disease.

More information: https://www.brightfocus.org/about/for-scientists/apply-for-a-research-grant/alzheimers-disease-research-request-for-proposals/

BrightFocus provides research funds for U.S. and international researchers pursuing pioneering research leading to greater understanding, prevention, and treatment of glaucoma.

More information: https://www.brightfocus.org/about/for-scientists/apply-for-a-research-grant/glaucoma-apply-for-grant/

With funding generously provided by The Recording Academy, the GRAMMY Museum Grants Program awards grants each year to organizations and individuals to support efforts that advance the archiving and preservation of the music and recorded sound heritage of North America, and research projects related to the impact of music on the human condition.

More information: https://grammymuseum.org/education/grants-program/

The Searle Scholars Program makes grants to selected universities and research centers to support the independent research of exceptional young faculty in the biomedical sciences and chemistry.

More information: https://searlescholars.org/

The Louisville Institute Grant for Researchers (GFR) supports academic and scholarly research in North American Christianity and related and cognate fields, and topics such as Christian faith and life, the practice of ministry, religious trends and movements, Christian and other faith-based institutions, and religion and social issues. Of particular interest to the Louisville Institute are projects that bridge scholarship and the life of the church in North America.

More information: https://louisville-institute.org/programs-grants-and-fellowships/grants/grant-for-researchers/

The Rally Foundation funds pediatric cancer research in the following areas: 

• Innovative approaches to research which could lead to advanced studies or clinical trials.
• Studies that are likely to lead to a clinical trial.
• Personalized, alternative, or integrative research proposals.
• Under-studied cancer types.
• Quality of life, survivorship and palliative care studies.
• Data utilization through data standardization, collection, storage, analysis and sharing.

More information: https://rallyfoundation.org/become-a-rally-funded-researcher/

The Rally Foundation funds pediatric cancer research in the following areas: 

• Innovative approaches to research which could lead to advanced studies or clinical trials.
• Studies that are likely to lead to a clinical trial.
• Personalized, alternative, or integrative research proposals.
• Under-studied cancer types.
• Quality of life, survivorship and palliative care studies.
• Data utilization through data standardization, collection, storage, analysis and sharing.

More information: https://rallyfoundation.org/become-a-rally-funded-researcher/

The Rally Foundation funds pediatric cancer research in the following areas: 

• Innovative approaches to research which could lead to advanced studies or clinical trials.
• Studies that are likely to lead to a clinical trial.
• Personalized, alternative, or integrative research proposals.
• Under-studied cancer types.
• Quality of life, survivorship and palliative care studies.
• Data utilization through data standardization, collection, storage, analysis and sharing.

More information: https://rallyfoundation.org/become-a-rally-funded-researcher/

The Simons Fellows program is intended to make research leaves more productive by enabling their extension from one academic term to a full academic year. Awards will be based on the applicant’s scientific accomplishments in the five-year period preceding the application and on the potential scientific impact of the work to be done during the leave period.

More information: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-fellows-in-mathematics/

The Targeted Grants to Institutes program is intended to support established institutes or centers in mathematics, theoretical physics and theoretical computer science through funding to help strengthen contacts within the international science community. The aim is to enable institutes to extend and enhance their missions; this program will not provide primary support for operating or establishing an institute.

More information: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/targeted-grants-to-institutes/

The Seed Grant Program provides provide start-up monies for new research projects, especially those undertaken by junior faculty, in the field of neuroscience that will likely lead to extramural funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) or other outside funding sources. BRF Seed Grant awards are not intended to supplement existing grants. To be eligible, PI must be a full-time Assistant or Associate Professor at an invited US academic institution, working in the area of studies of brain function. This includes molecular and clinical neuroscience as well as studies of neural, sensory, motor, cognitive, behavioral and emotional functioning in health and disease. Applicants at the Assistant Professor level should present a new research project that will generate pilot data that will lead to RO1 funding or a comparable outside grant.  Applicants at the Associate Professor level should present a project pursuing new research directions. A new technique is not considered a new direction unless it pertains to a different area of study. Grants are not to be used for bridge funding between grants.

More information: https://www.thebrf.org/seed-grants/

Established in 1967, the International Affairs Fellowship (IAF) aims to bridge the gap between the study and making of U.S. foreign policy by creating the next generation of scholar-practitioners. The program offers its fellows the unique chance to experience a new environment and gain a different perspective at a pivotal moment in their careers. Academics are thus placed in public service and policy-oriented settings and government officials in scholarly settings. 

More information: https://www.cfr.org/fellowships/international-affairs-fellowship#chapter-title-0-1

The Life Sciences Research Foundation aims to identify and fund exceptional young scientists at a critical juncture of their training in all areas of basic life sciences. Note: Individuals who have held a PhD or MD degree for more than 5 years at time of application are not eligible.

More information: https://lsrf.org/

The science underlying the Parkinson's Foundation Impact Award projects should be "outside the box" with the goal of bringing new light to the biology of Parkinson’s disease (PD), a new approach to PD research, or testing a truly novel therapeutic idea. Projects should be based on groundbreaking or unconventional ideas that are unlikely to be funded through more traditional funding mechanisms. Our goal is to provide the support that will enable researchers to test new ideas with an impact on the PD community and generate compelling results that will facilitate continued investment from the Parkinson’s Foundation and other funders. Both established researchers and newcomers to PD research are encouraged to apply.

More information: https://www.parkinson.org/advancing-research/for-researchers/awards-independent-investigators

The aim of the Simons Collaborations in Mathematics and the Physical Sciences (MPS) program is to stimulate progress on fundamental scientific questions of major importance in mathematics, theoretical physics and theoretical computer science. The questions addressed by the collaboration may be concrete or conceptual, but there should be little doubt that answering them would constitute a major scientific milestone. The project should involve outstanding researchers with a range of career stages. Excellence of the scientific leadership is one of the main criteria in the selection process. The project should be organized and managed in a manner engendering a high level of collaboration.

More information: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-collaborations-in-mathematics-and-the-physical-sciences/

Getty Scholar Grants are for established scholars, or individuals who have attained distinction in their fields. Recipients are in residence at the Getty Research Institute or Getty Villa, where they pursue their own projects free from work-related obligations, make use of Getty collections, join their colleagues in a weekly meeting devoted to an annual research theme or the African American Art History Initiative, and participate in the intellectual life of the Getty.

More information: https://www.getty.edu/projects/getty-scholars-program/

The foundation provides funding for research under the following programs:

• Benchmarking Microbial and Chemical Contamination in Source Water Using Hyperspectral Microscopy ($250,000)

• The Foundations of Water Resource Planning: Guidance for Establishing Water Utility Service Levels ($175,000)

• Developing a Protocol for Evaluating Pathogen Concentrations in Secondary Effluent ($200,000)

• Developing Guidelines for Ferrous Pipe Condition Assessment Technology and Risk of Failure Analysis ($250,000)

• Quantifying Point Source Mitigation-Ready Methane Emissions at Water Resource Recovery Facilities ($225,000)

• Maintaining a Minimum Disinfectant Residual in Distribution Systems: Updated Technical Review and Guidance ($300,000)

• Prioritization and Validation Methods for Microplastic Analysis in Drinking Water ($400,000)

• State-of-Practice Manual for Inflow and Infiltration Detection and Mitigation at Street and Private Lateral Levels ($200,000)

• Comprehensive Evaluation of Biosolids Drying Technologies ($200,000)

More information: https://www.waterrf.org/research-priority-program

The purpose of this Exploring Equitable Futures call for proposals (CFP) is to support projects that seed new and unconventional ideas that could radically advance health equity for generations to come.

We aim to fund projects that:

• Explore the future by researching and experimenting with ideas that are ahead of the curve or at the edge of our collective imagination;
• Shine a light on the emerging trends and forces that are shaping our future for better or worse—and suggest ways to navigate them to mitigate harm and advance health equity;
• Dream big and challenge conventional wisdom to surface possibilities and uncover new paths to dismantle structural racism and build a more equitable future.

More information: https://www.rwjf.org/en/grants/active-funding-opportunities/2025/exploring-equitable-futures.html

Launched in 2020, the Pipeline Grants, initially co-funded with the Economic Mobility and Opportunity program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, support early-career scholars (Assistant Professors, Lecturers, and Adjunct Professors) and promotes diversity in the social sciences. They were renamed the Sheldon Danziger Pipeline Grants in 2025.

Since 2020, four rounds of the competition have funded 77 early-career scholars from colleges and universities across the United States. Pipeline grantees are paired with mentors who offer advice on their projects and career development. The competition funds innovative research on economic mobility and access to opportunity in the United States. We are particularly interested in research focused on structural barriers to economic mobility and how individuals, communities and state entities understand, navigate and challenge systemic inequalities. Early-career faculty who have not previously received research support or a visiting fellowship from RSF are eligible to apply.

More information: https://www.russellsage.org/apply/grants/pipeline

The American Chemical Society Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award is designed to recognize and encourage excellence in organic chemistry. Ten Arthur C. Cope Scholars will be named annually in three categories: two who have less than ten years of experience since their terminal degree will receive the Arthur C. Cope Early Career Scholars Award; four who have 10 to 25 years of experience since their terminal degree will receive the Arthur C. Cope Mid Career Scholars Award; and four who have 25 plus years of experience since their terminal degree will receive the Arthur C. Cope Late Career Scholars Award. 

More information: https://www.acs.org/funding/awards/arthur-cope-scholar-award.html

Distinguished Investigator Grants are awarded for a two-year period to investigators who hold an academic rank of associate or full professor and an established record of research and publication in the area of suicide, or who are an established investigator newly entering the field of suicide prevention. 

More information: https://afsp.org/research-grant-information/

The Early Career Research Grant is designed to assist new researchers to obtain the advice, guidance and supervision of an established mentor in a selected area of suicide research. These grants are awarded for a two-year period and are awarded to investigators with an academic rank no higher than assistant professor. This grant is designed for investigators who have completed doctoral studies, although high quality applications from pre-doctoral applicants will be considered. The Early Career Research Grant provides an annual nontransferable fee of $7,000 to the mentor, who serves as an advisor to the applicant.  

More information: https://afsp.org/research-grant-information/

Awarded to investigators at any level, these grants provide seed funding for new projects that have the potential to lead to larger investigations. These grants typically entail feasibility studies rather than hypothesis-driven research. Examples include manual development and new biomarker development.

More information: https://afsp.org/research-grant-information/

Standard Research Grants are for a two-year period, for investigators at any academic rank. Although prior research on suicide is not required, applicants are expected to show evidence of prior research or research training in a related field. These grants are intended to fund new directions and initiatives in suicide research rather than to supplement the applicant's existing research and junior investigators. 

More information: https://afsp.org/research-grant-information/

The Cancer Research Institute Technology Impact Award provides seed funding of up to $300,000 to address the gap between technology development and clinical application of cancer immunotherapies. These grants aim to encourage collaboration between technology developers and clinical cancer immunologists and to generate the proof-of-principle of a novel platform technology in bioinformatics, ex vivo or in silico modeling systems, immunological or tumor profiling instrumentation, methods, reagents and assays, or other relevant technologies that can enable clinician scientists to generate deeper insights into the mechanisms of action of effective or ineffective cancer immunotherapies.

More information: https://www.cancerresearch.org/technology-impact-award

The Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Program in China Studies seeks to maintain the vitality of China Studies in North America through fellowships for scholars early in their careers. Studies on and in China have developed over the last 30 years in the United States and Canada into a robust field, but current conditions pose daunting problems, especially for scholars just after the dissertation. Early Career Fellowships (formerly “postdoctoral fellowships”), support pre-tenure scholars in the humanities and the humanities-related social sciences who are preparing their PhD dissertations for publication, or who are embarking on new research projects. Early Career fellowships support research and writing with a priority given to proposals based on the applicant's research in China. Research in Hong Kong, Macau, Tibet, Xinjiang, and Taiwan is eligible. Research may also be conducted on Chinese culture and society outside these areas, as required by the research plan. However, diaspora studies are not eligible.

More information: https://www.acls.org/competitions/henry-luce-foundation-acls-program-in-china-studies/

The PFF Scholars program is designed to help talented researchers obtain independent funding to continue their studies. The PFF aims to support projects that offer a high likelihood of improving the understanding of pulmonary fibrosis in the areas of basic science, translational research, clinical research, epidemiological research, and health services research.

More information: https://www.pulmonaryfibrosis.org/researchers-healthcare-providers/research-opportunities/scholars

This award is intended to support PhD, MD/PhD and MD physician scientists at earlier stages of their careers to enable them to develop independent programs and compelling careers in breast cancer research. The foundation seeks to fund broadly the very best proposals across all relevant disciplines and as such focus areas can include basic, preclinical, clinical research and clinical care.

More information: https://tbbcf.org/research/#tbbcf-granting-process

A limited number of fellowships are awarded each year for independent projects in selected fields, targeting support specifically to early mid-career individuals, those who have achieved recognition for at least one major project. The Howard Foundation is accepting applications for the upcoming fellowships in Fiction Writing, Poetry, and Literary Arts.

More information: https://howard-foundation.brown.edu/

The BSF Research Grants program is the main program of the BSF, and it funds both U.S. and Israeli scientists who wish to work together.  Applications to the program are made jointly by U.S. and Israeli researchers.  No prior cooperation is required, but the synergy between the researchers must be evident.

More information: https://www.bsf.org.il/funding-opportunities/bsf-research-grants/about/

The Start-Up Grant Program is meant to help newly appointed researchers who are beginning their independent research careers and may not yet have initial results to substantiate their application. Grants are for two years, in order to enable the grantees to submit a standard application to the next competition in their area of research. It is implemented within the framework of the regular BSF Research Grants program, i.e., it must exhibit scientific excellence, have a strong element of cooperation between Israeli and American scientists, and fall within the areas of research supported in that year by the BSF.

More information: https://www.bsf.org.il/funding-opportunities/start-up-research-grants/about/

The Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease (PATH) program provides opportunities for assistant professors to bring multidisciplinary approaches to studying human infectious diseases. The program aims to provide accomplished investigators at the assistant professor level with opportunities to study what happens at the points where the systems of humans and potentially infectious agents connect. The program supports research that sheds light on the fundamentals that affect the outcomes of these encounters: how colonization, infection, commensalism, and other relationships play out at levels ranging from molecular interactions to systemic ones.

PATH is a highly competitive award program that provides $505,000 over five years to study pathogenesis. The program intends to give recipients the freedom and flexibility to pursue new avenues of inquiry, stimulating higher-risk research projects that hold potential for significantly advancing our understanding of how infectious diseases work and how health is maintained.

More information: https://www.bwfund.org/funding-opportunities/infectious-diseases/investigators-in-the-pathogenesis-of-infectious-disease/

Discovery Grants are one-year, $50,000 grants for high risk, high impact research with the potential to change current diagnostic or treatment models.

More information: https://www.abta.org/discovery-grants/

The Research Scholar Grant (RSG) supports investigator-initiated projects across the cancer research continuum. Independent investigators in the first 10 years of an independent research career or full-time faculty appointment are eligible to apply.

More information: https://www.cancer.org/research/we-fund-cancer-research/apply-research-grant/grant-types/research-scholar-grants.html 

Supports highly promising healthcare and academic professionals in the early years of first professional appointment to assure the applicant’s future success as a research scientist in the field of cardiovascular and/or cerebrovascular disease research.

More information: https://professional.heart.org/en/research-programs/aha-funding-opportunities/career-development-award

The American Lung Association Catalyst Award is a mentored award meant to support outstanding investigators on the path to independence for research into the mechanisms for lung disease and general lung biology. Preference is given to projects that are novel; innovative in design/approach; utilize modern technologies; and incorporate a multidisciplinary collaborative training plan. Successful applicants are early career faculty, on-track to pursue a career in lung health research with a mentor who has a demonstrated history of lung disease research and mentorship. 

More information: https://www.lung.org/research/awards-and-grants-opportunities

The American Lung Association Dalsemer Research Grant is a mentored award meant to provide seed monies to junior investigators on the path to independence for researching the mechanisms and biology of interstitial lung disease. Applicants should be on-track to pursue a career in lung health research with a mentor who has a demonstrated history of lung disease research and mentorship.

More information: https://www.lung.org/research/awards-and-grants-opportunities

The award is intended to support highly promising investigators with stellar track records of accomplishment, who have the potential to advance the field of lung disease science. Successful applicants are investigators with evidence of prior excellence and productivity in the early stages of their careers; applicants must have held an NIH K or R type award within three years prior to applying for this Lung Association award. 

More information: https://www.lung.org/research/awards-and-grants-opportunities

The American Lung Association Public Policy Research Award is intended to support research on and evaluation of existing public policy and programs, as well as pilot and demonstration projects that inject innovative ideas and provide evidence for the development of new public policies impacting lung health.

More information: https://www.lung.org/research/awards-and-grants-opportunities

The Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists recognize the country’s most promising faculty-rank researchers in Life Sciences, Physical Sciences & Engineering, and Chemistry. One Blavatnik Laureate in each disciplinary category will receive $250,000 in unrestricted funds. The nominee must hold a doctorate degree and conduct research as a principal investigator in the Life Sciences, Physical Sciences and Engineering, or Chemistry. The Blavatnik Awards strongly encourages the nomination of women and other underrepresented groups in science and engineering. Nominees and their work as independent investigators will be evaluated on the extent to which the work is reliable, valid, credible, and scientifically rigorous; the extent to which the work addresses an important problem and is influential in the nominee’s field; the extent to which the work challenges existing paradigms, employs new methodologies or concepts, and/or pursues an original question; and future prospects in the nominee’s field and potential for further significant contributions to science. 

More information: https://blavatnikawards.org/awards/national-awards/

The priority areas BWF aims to support include underlying mechanisms of normal pregnancy, preeclampsia, preterm birth, and late term pregnancy loss (projects focused on miscarriage at 10 weeks or less and infertility-related loss are beyond the scope of this mechanism). These conditions remain both pervasive challenges in reproductive medicine and persistently underexplored in reproductive biology.

More information: https://www.bwfund.org/funding-opportunities/reproductive-sciences/next-gen-pregnancy-initiative/

The sustainability movement has reached the business models of nearly every industry in the United States, and many companies, municipalities and states have set aggressive sustainability goals that include how waste streams are being managed.  The EREF Board of Directors has set an initiative to ensure research funded reflects EREF’s long-term strategic plan to address all areas of integrated solid waste management, with a strong focus towards research that increased sustainable solid waste management practices. Topics Include:

• Waste minimization
• Recycling
• Waste conversion to energy, biofuels, chemicals, or other useful products
• Strategies to promote diversion to higher and better uses (e.g. organics diversion, market analysis, optimized material management, logistics, etc.)
• Landfilling

More information: https://erefdn.org/research-grants/ 

The Scholar (Career Development) Award is meant to help develop the independent research of highly qualified individuals still early in their careers.

More information: https://www.stbaldricks.org/for-researchers

The Society for Classical Studies invites applications for a one-year Fellowship which will allow an American scholar to conduct lexicographical research at the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL) Institute in Munich. Fellows at the TLL develop a broadened perspective of the range and complexity of the Latin language and culture from the classical period through the early Middle Ages, contribute signed articles to the Thesaurus, have the opportunity to participate in a collaborative international research project in a collegial environment, and work with senior scholars in the field of Latin lexicography. 

More information: https://www.classicalstudies.org/awards-and-fellowships/thesaurus-linguae-latinae-tll-fellowship

The Large Research Grants on Education Program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived, with budgets ranging from $125,000 to $500,000 for projects ranging from one to five years. We anticipate awarding grants with budgets across each of the following funding tiers -- $125,000 to 250,000; $250,001 to $375,000; and $375,001 to $500,000. Within each of our funding tiers, we evaluate projects within tier and strongly encourage applicants to submit for funding that best fits their project rather than applying for the highest amount. We accept Intent to Apply forms twice a year.

This program is “field-initiated” in that proposal submissions are not in response to a specific request for a particular research topic, discipline, design, method, or location. Our goal for this program is to support rigorous, intellectually ambitious and technically sound research that is relevant to the most pressing questions and compelling opportunities in education.

More information: https://www.spencer.org/grant_types/large-research-grant

Supporting pioneering discoveries in science, engineering and medical research has been our mandate from the beginning. By funding the high-risk/high-impact work of leading researchers, we are laying the groundwork for new paradigms, technologies and discoveries that will save lives, provide innovative solutions, and add to our understanding of the world. Both Senior and Early Career investigators are encouraged to apply.

More information: https://www.wmkeck.org/research-overview/#overview

Based in Midland, Michigan, the Allen Foundation's mission and priorities are:

• To make grants to fund relevant nutritional research.
• To support programs for the education and training of mothers during pregnancy and after the birth of their children, so that good nutritional habits can be formed at an early age.
• To assist in the training of persons to work as educators and demonstrators of good nutritional practices.
• To encourage the dissemination of information regarding healthful nutritional practices and habits.

Applications are accepted twice per year in January and July.

More information: https://allenfoundation.org/about/

APDA Research Grants are intended to support research aimed at developing new insights into the pathophysiology, etiology and/or treatment of Parkinson’s disease. Grant proposals can address research questions anywhere along the pipeline from basic science to rehabilitation-focused projects. APDA seeks to promote the entry of new investigators into the field of Parkinson research, as well as to support important new ideas in the field worthy of investigation.

More information: https://www.apdaparkinson.org/research/research-opportunities/grants/ 

The BCAN Bladder Cancer Research Innovation Awards support exceptionally novel, high-risk, high-reward projects with great potential to produce breakthroughs in our understanding of bladder cancer. The proposed research may be basic, translational, clinical or epidemiological and must have direct applicability and relevance to bladder cancer and/or upper tract urothelial carcinoma. Projects must address an important problem and/or critical barrier to progress as well as a significant knowledge gap in the field of bladder cancer research.

More information: https://bcan.org/bcan-research/grants-and-research-funding-opportunities/bladder-cancer-research-innovation-award/

The CRI Lloyd J. Old STAR Program—Scientists Taking Risks—provides long-term funding to mid-career scientists, giving them the freedom and flexibility to pursue high-risk, high-reward research at the forefront of discovery and innovation in cancer immunotherapy.

More information: https://www.cancerresearch.org/lloyd-j-old-star-program

This new investigator award supports creative early career investigators, at the Assistant Professor or equivalent level, with outstanding promise who are interested in the health effects of air pollution.

More information: https://www.healtheffects.org/rfa/rfa-24-3-walter-rosenblith-new-investigator-award 

The Just Tech Fellowship supports and mobilizes diverse and cross-sector cohorts of researchers and practitioners to imagine and create more just, equitable, and representative technological futures. Fellows will identify and challenge injustices emerging from new technologies and pursue solutions that advance social, political, and economic rights.

More information: https://www.ssrc.org/programs/just-tech/just-tech-fellowship/

The Washington Center for Equitable Growth seeks to invest in early career scholars whose research agendas are policy relevant, related to how inequality affects economic growth, and who are interested in engaging with nonacademic audiences.

We are interested in research that will generate actionable insights. This includes research that illuminates the policies that help or hinder more equitable growth in the United States, as well as research that illuminates the need for a policy response. Equitable Growth takes an expansive view of policy, encompassing legislation, investments, regulations, standards, and oversight, among others. Research proposals should relate to the broad areas of the economy described below. The research can take a macro perspective and focus on aggregate outcomes, or a micro perspective and focus on outcomes for individuals, families, or businesses. The development of policy proposals will also be considered but should be grounded in empirical research.

More information: https://equitablegrowth.org/engage/funding-opportunities/early-career-grants/

The AHA Transformational Project Award supports highly innovative, high-impact projects that build on work in progress that could ultimately lead to critical discoveries or major advancements that will accelerate the field of cardiovascular and stroke research. Successful applications are likely to be those building on strong preliminary data supportive of the hypothesis. This program aims to provide funding that should lead to successful competition for additional funding beyond the award period. The principal investigator (PI) is responsible for clearly and explicitly articulating the project's innovation and the potential impact on cardiovascular and stroke research. While no minimum percent effort is specified, the principal investigator must demonstrate that adequate time will be devoted to ensuring successful completion of the proposed project.

This is an annual award. Applications normally open in December and are due in February.

More information (2025 site): https://professional.heart.org/en/research-programs/aha-funding-opportunities/transformational-project-award 

The Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program supports the research and teaching careers of talented young faculty in the chemical sciences. Based on institutional nominations, the program provides discretionary funding to faculty at an early stage in their careers. Criteria for selection include an independent body of scholarship attained in the early years of their appointment and a demonstrated commitment to education.

Institutions may submit only one Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award nomination annually; contact Foundation Relations with questions.

More information: https://www.dreyfus.org/camille-dreyfus-teacher-scholar/ 

The Klingenstein Fellowship Awards in Neuroscience supports early-career investigators engaged in basic or clinical research that may lead to a better understanding of neurological and psychiatric disorders. Several areas within neuroscience are of particular interest:

• Cellular and molecular neuroscience. Studies of the mechanisms of neuronal excitability and development, and of the genetic basis of behavior.
• Neural systems. Studies of the integrative function of the nervous system.
• Translational research. Studies to improve our understanding of the causes, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of neurological and psychiatric disorders.

Application portal opens annually on September 15 and closes on February 1.

More information: https://klingenstein.org/esther-a-joseph-klingenstein-fund/neuroscience/applying/ 

The Mary Kay Ash Foundation is a non-profit public foundation, which focuses on funding research for innovative grants for translational research in ovarian, uterine, breast or cervical cancer. Translational research is broadly defined as research that will provide a scientific  link between laboratory research and the clinic. Ultimately, such research would lead to  improvement in diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, or treatment of the cancer.

More information: https://marykayashfoundation.org/what-we-do/cancer-research/grant-information/

The Allen Distinguished Investigator program supports early-stage research with the potential to reinvent entire fields. With grants between $1 million and $1.5 million to individuals and scientific teams, these researchers receive enough funding to produce momentum in their respective fields. Allen Distinguished Investigators are passionate thought leaders, explorers, and innovators who seek world-changing breakthroughs. Their ideas are transformative and their scientific insights are game-changing. They share a pioneering spirit, the ability to imagine possible futures of science, and the ability to create new ways of thinking to share with the world.

Talent is everywhere. Allen Distinguished Investigators may come from small universities or large institutions, cities, or towns across the world. We explore the landscape of bioscience to identify distinguished leaders who will make a difference.

Research areas vary by cohort and grant cycle.

More information: https://alleninstitute.org/division/frontiers-group/distinguished-investigators/ 

The Petroleum Research Fund is an endowed fund, managed by the American Chemical Society that supports fundamental research directly related to petroleum or fossil fuels at nonprofit institutions (generally colleges and universities) in the United States and other countries. ACS Petroleum Research Fund (ACS PRF) grants are intended as seed money, to enable an investigator to initiate a new research direction. The investigator should not have published or received financial support from another funding agency for the proposed research.

More information, including research areas: https://www.acs.org/funding/grants/petroleum-research-fund.html 

The ASH Award for Research Careers in Hematology (ARCH) succeeds the ASH Bridge Grant program, introducing refinements that include decoupling the program from the National Institutes of Health R01 funding mechanism. ARCH is now an independent award designed to make research in hematology more accessible to independent investigators.

Applicants must submit proposals for research in hematology, which may fall into the following categories:

• Basic Research
• Translational Research
• Patient-Oriented Clinical Research
• Outcomes-Based Research

More information: https://www.hematology.org/awards/career-enhancement-and-training/award-for-research-careers-in-hematology

The AMS-Simons Travel Grants are administered by the AMS with support from the Simons Foundation. Each grant provides an early-career mathematician with $2,500 per year for two years to be used for research-related travel. Applicants must be located in the United States (or be U.S. citizens employed outside the U.S.) and must have completed the PhD within the last four years. The department of the awardee will also receive a small amount of funding to help enhance its research environment.

More information: https://www.ams.org/grants-awards/travel-grants/AMS-SimonsTG

Breast Cancer Alliance invites clinical doctors and research scientists at any stage of their careers, including post docs, whose current proposal is focused on breast cancer, to apply for an Exceptional Project Grant. This award recognizes creative, unique and innovative research related to breast cancer. The term of the Exceptional Project Grant is one year. The grant provides salary support and project costs for a total of $100,000, distributed over a one-year period. This is a LIMITED nomination process.

More information: https://breastcanceralliance.org/researchgrants

This grant is meant for those at an early stage in their research career to help provide seed funding for the research required to apply for larger, longer term grants, often with the NIH. (To secure federal funding, a researcher must prove a theory works; the BCA creates the critical bridge between novel research and the opportunity to generate preliminary results.)

More information: https://breastcanceralliance.org/researchgrants

The Psychosocial Research (PSR) portfolio supports the study of people’s psychological and social wellbeing and research to develop and test interventions that improve an individual’s mental, behavioral, and social welfare following spinal cord injury (SCI). The goal is to build and disseminate solutions that individuals, caregivers, clinicians, and communities can incorporate to address emotional wellbeing and barriers to social engagement. The portfolio seeks to advance meaningful participation of people with lived experience in SCI research design and execution.

Postdoctoral Fellowships: Two-year Postdoctoral Fellowships encourage early-career mentored training to build interest in the field and to encourage researchers from related health disciplines to undertake training in psychosocial research focused on spinal cord injury.

Investigational Grants: Two-year funding that supports research to improve understanding of psychosocial issues and provide insights needed to develop approaches that improve the lives of people affected by spinal cord injury. Studies in this category may involve the development and early testing of an intervention, although this is not a requirement.

Interventional Testing Grants:
Funding for up to three years to support work that leads to the creation, adaptation, and/or refinement of an intervention to address psychosocial challenges for those affected by spinal cord injury. Studies in this category include testing the feasibility, acceptability, and/or initial efficacy of the developed intervention.

More information: https://chnfoundation.org/programs/psychosocial-research/ 

HFSP Research Grants support innovative basic research into fundamental biological problems with emphasis placed on novel and interdisciplinary approaches that involve scientific exchanges across national and disciplinary boundaries. Participation of scientists from disciplines outside the traditional life sciences such as biophysics, chemistry, computational biology, computer science, engineering, mathematics, nanoscience or physics is recommended because such collaborations have opened up new approaches for understanding the complex structures and regulatory networks that characterize living organisms, their evolution and interactions. Research grants are provided for teams of scientists from different countries who wish to combine their expertise in innovative approaches to questions that could not be answered by individual laboratories. Preliminary results are not required and applicants are expected to develop new lines of research through the research collaboration.

Two types of Grant are available: Research Grants – Early Career and Research Grants – Program.

More information: https://www.hfsp.org/funding/hfsp-funding/research-grants 

The Glaucoma Foundation offers grants to researchers striving to improve the lives of glaucoma patients through novel innovations and scientific advances. The areas of current focus for TGF’s Grant Research program are exfoliation syndrome, exfoliation glaucoma and intraocular pressure-independent mechanisms of optic nerve degeneration in glaucoma. Examples of research that may be considered range from basic science to clinical interventions, such as genetics and genomic medicine, disease modeling, assessment of ocular perfusion, artificial intelligence, and clinical research. 

More information: https://glaucomafoundation.org/research-center/grant-application-and-information/ 

The Distinguished Scientist Award (DSA) seeks to provide career and research support to early career scientists who demonstrate outstanding promise for making scientific and medical breakthroughs in the field of brain cancer research. Recipients of the award are inspired individuals with projects that show potential to generate new knowledge relating to causes, cure or treatment of primary brain tumors/brain cancer. 

More information: https://sontagfoundation.org/about-dsa/ 

The AASLD Foundation Bridge Award supports investigators who have recently submitted an NIH R or other federally funded equivalent award and have received competitive scores on their proposal, but were not funded, as they strengthen their proposal for resubmission to the NIH or other federal agency.

More information: https://www.aasldfoundation.org/BridgeAward

OCRA’s Schreiber Research Grants Program, named after Ann and Sol Schreiber, founders of Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance, supports postdoctoral fellows, early career independent investigators, and teams of experienced investigators.

OCRA is proud to support groundbreaking ovarian cancer and related gynecologic cancer research. With an annual grantmaking budget of over $7 million, we fund scientists at all stages of their careers. OCRA-funded scientists are working in areas ranging from AI and basic science to clinical and translational research. They are also exploring disease at the cellular and molecular level.

More information: https://ocrahope.org/research/information-for-researchers/apply-for-a-grant/

The APF Visionary Grants seek to seed innovation through supporting research, education and intervention projects and programs that use psychology to solve social problems in the following priority areas: Applying psychology to at-risk, vulnerable populations (e.g., serious mental illness, returning military, those who are incarcerated or economically disadvantaged); Preventing violence; Understanding the connection between behavior and health (e.g. wellness, diabetes, obesity); Understanding and eliminating stigma and prejudice (e.g., race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability and socioeconomic status).

More information: https://ampsychfdn.org/funding/visionary-grants/ 

FWW Research Awards target small, short-term studies with promise for improving medical care in leading women’s health concerns including cardiovascular disease, female cancers, the role of hormones in disease and stage-of-life health issues like pregnancy and menopause and diseases disproportionately affecting women.

More information: https://thefww.org/research-awards/ 

The THRIVE grant program is designed to provide seed funding to investigators for the testing of initial hypotheses and collecting of preliminary data to help secure long-term funding by the National Institutes of Health and/or other major granting institutions.

More information: https://hesithrive.org/guidelines/ 

These grants support individuals in academia who do not have other substantial sources of research funding. Applicants will be judged on the scientific merit of the proposed research and on the degree of financial need.

Funds must be used to conduct the proposed research. Funds may not be used for salary support of the grantee, except in the Value Assessment-Health Outcomes Research category. Funds may not be used for fringe benefits or indirect costs.

The PhRMA Foundation provides faculty starter grants in these research areas:

• Drug Discovery
• Drug Delivery
• Translational Medicine
• Value Assessment & Health Outcomes

Application due dates may vary.

More information: https://www.phrmafoundation.org/grants-fellowships/faculty-starter-grants/ 

The Small Research Grants on Education Program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived, with budgets up to $50,000 for projects ranging from one to five years. We accept applications three times per year.

This program is “field-initiated” in that proposal submissions are not in response to a specific request for a particular research topic, discipline, design, method, or location. Our goal for this program is to support rigorous, intellectually ambitious and technically sound research that is relevant to the most pressing questions and compelling opportunities in education.

More information: https://www.spencer.org/grant_types/small-research-grant 

Supporting the wide array of research possibilities and opportunities, with the Spinal Cord Injury Research on the Translational Spectrum (SCIRTS) portfolio, we seek to improve the understanding of traumatic spinal cord injury and develop new approaches to alleviate the dysfunction and complications that follow. This broad portfolio encourages limitless creativity and leadership in research and recognizes the encompassing mechanistic, preclinical modeling, translational, and/or clinical research.

Postdoctoral Fellowships: Two-year Postdoctoral Fellowships encourage early-career training and specialization in the field of spinal cord injury research.

Pilot Research Grants: Two-year Pilot Research Grants help to establish new investigators in the field of spinal cord injury research and assume the risk inherent when established investigators undertake new directions in their work. These grants cultivate new lines of research, help move work across the translational spectrum and generate essential preliminary data.

Senior Research Grants: Three-year Senior Research Grants encourage senior-level investigators to expand the scope of their work into new directions through targeted studies with high potential to move the field forward. These grants are intended to encourage investigators to open new areas of research, fill gaps in the spinal cord injury field, and test cutting-edge ideas and approaches.

More information: https://chnfoundation.org/programs/spinal-cord-injury-research-on-the-translational-spectrum-2/ 

The sustainability movement has reached the business models of nearly every industry in the United States, and many companies, municipalities and states have set aggressive sustainability goals that include how waste streams are being managed.  The EREF Board of Directors has set an initiative to ensure research funded reflects EREF’s long-term strategic plan to address all areas of integrated solid waste management, with a strong focus towards research that increased sustainable solid waste management practices. Topics Include:

• Waste minimization
• Recycling
• Waste conversion to energy, biofuels, chemicals, or other useful products
• Strategies to promote diversion to higher and better uses (e.g. organics diversion, market analysis, optimized material management, logistics, etc.)
• Landfilling

More information: https://erefdn.org/research-grants/ 

The Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences provides funding to young investigators of outstanding promise in science relevant to the advancement of human health. The program makes grants to selected academic institutions to support the independent research of outstanding individuals who are in their first few years of their appointment at the assistant professor level.

More information: https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/projects/pew-biomedical-scholars

The Vilcek Foundation will award three prizes of $50,000 each to young foreign-born biomedical scientists who demonstrate outstanding early achievement. Eligible work may be in basic, applied, and/or translational biomedical science. In 2026, the Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise are awarded in Biomedical Science, Fashion & Design, and Fashion & Culture.

More information: https://vilcek.org/prizes/vilcek-prizes-for-creative-promise/

· The Strengthening Evidence RFP will fund rigorous randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that evaluate policy-relevant U.S.-based programs and policies.

· The Building Evidence RFP will fund rigorous, causal research using quasi-experimental methods that align with key AV policy areas: higher education, career education and training, infrastructure, contraceptive choice and access, and public finance.

We encourage researchers interested in seeking funding to submit a three-page letter of interest that outlines a brief overview of the proposed study, team, and project budget. More details on our application process can be found here. The deadline for submission is May 1st.

More information: https://www.arnoldventures.org/work/evidence-evaluation

The ADDF-Harrington Scholar Program is dedicated to advancing academic discoveries into medicines for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. This unique award provides funding and project support by a team of pharmaceutical industry experts through a collaboration with the Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF) and the Brain Health Medicines Centers of the Harrington Discovery Institute. This is a special funding opportunity separate from ADDF’s Therapeutic Funding Programs.

More Information: https://www.alzdiscovery.org/research-and-grants/funding-opportunities/harrington

The Michelson Prizes: Next Generation Grants are research grants given annually to support promising researchers who are applying disruptive concepts and inventive processes to advance human immunology, vaccine discovery and immunotherapy research for major global diseases. While the Michelson Prizes are focused on research in the fields of immunology, vaccine, and immunotherapy discovery, applicants from the full spectrum of related disciplines, including clinical research, biochemistry, molecular biology, protein engineering, computer science, artificial intelligence/machine learning, biophysics, nanotechnology, etc., are encouraged to apply. 

More information: https://www.michelsonmedicalresearch.org/michelson-prizes-next-generation

The Smith Richardson Foundation sponsors an annual Strategy and Policy Fellows grant competition to support young scholars and policy thinkers on American foreign policy, international relations, international security, military policy, and diplomatic and military history.

More information: https://www.srf.org/programs/international-security-foreign-policy/strategy-policy-fellows-program/

Supporting pioneering discoveries in science, engineering and medical research has been our mandate from the beginning. By funding the high-risk/high-impact work of leading researchers, we are laying the groundwork for new paradigms, technologies and discoveries that will save lives, provide innovative solutions, and add to our understanding of the world. Both Senior and Early Career investigators are encouraged to apply.

More information: https://www.wmkeck.org/research-overview/#overview

The Research Scholar Grant (RSG) supports investigator-initiated projects across the cancer research continuum. Independent investigators in the first 10 years of an independent research career or full-time faculty appointment are eligible to apply.

More information: https://www.cancer.org/research/we-fund-cancer-research/apply-research-grant/grant-types/research-scholar-grants.html 

The Innovation Award is designed to provide support for the next generation of exceptionally creative thinkers with "high-risk/high-reward" ideas that have the potential to significantly impact our understanding of and/or approaches to the prevention, diagnosis, or treatment of cancer.

More information: https://www.damonrunyon.org/for-scientists/application-guidelines/innovation

The Foundation welcomes proposals that address Core Funding Areas: Character Virtual Development; Individual Freedom and Free Markets; Life Science; Mathematical and Physical Sciences; Public Engagement; Religion, Science and Society

More information: https://www.templeton.org/grants

Career Catalyst Research Grants provide opportunities for scientists who have held faculty positions for no more than five years. This program supports hypothesis-driven research projects that have significant potential to advance our understanding of breast cancer, lead to reductions in incidence and mortality, and move us toward the goal of a world without breast cancer.

More information: https://www.komen.org/breast-cancer-research/grants/opportunities/

Based in Midland, Michigan, the Allen Foundation's mission and priorities are:

• To make grants to fund relevant nutritional research.
• To support programs for the education and training of mothers during pregnancy and after the birth of their children, so that good nutritional habits can be formed at an early age.
• To assist in the training of persons to work as educators and demonstrators of good nutritional practices.
• To encourage the dissemination of information regarding healthful nutritional practices and habits.

Applications are accepted twice per year in January and July.

More information: https://allenfoundation.org/about/

New philanthropic consortium to invest in reducing the modern risks of nuclear war and promoting next-generation expertise. The members of a new philanthropic consortium — currently Carnegie Corporation of New York, Longview Philanthropy, PAX sapiens, Founders Pledge, and an anonymous donor — invite a first call for applications for projects aimed at reducing nuclear dangers. Additional calls for applications are expected in the future.

1. Emerging and Disruptive Technologies and Nuclear Dangers
   • For example, AI, space, cyber, or quantum technologies and their role in improving or worsening nuclear dangers or crises that could lead to nuclear use.
2. Future of Nonproliferation, Arms Control, and Disarmament
   • For example, the potential for a new proliferation landscape and novel approaches to new arms control arrangements, nuclear risk reduction, and disarmament.
3. Open-Source Information and Strategic Risk Modeling
   • For example, innovative uses of commercial satellite imagery and other available data to illuminate nuclear risks or assess nuclear escalation dynamics; using open-source public data for forecasting, escalation monitoring, early warning indicators, or interactive crisis simulation models.
4. Next-Generation Capacity Building
   • For example, fellowships, education programs (such as short courses or bootcamps), or interventions to improve the academic/policy pipeline.
5. Crisis Management, Stability, and Escalation Control
   • For example, maintaining reliable communication channels during nuclear crises, developing frameworks for de-escalation in the event of nuclear use, understanding decision-making under extreme stress, creating mechanisms for war limitation and termination, and ensuring communications systems remain functional during multi-domain conflicts.

More information: https://www.carnegie.org/news/articles/call-for-proposals-grants-to-support-reducing-nuclear-dangers/?utm_source=Carnegie+Corporation+of+New+York&utm_campaign=5c81e584a6-Email_Consortium_on_ND_June_2025_Round_2&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-271b502fd7-582523261#eligibility

The Cottrell Scholar Award honors and helps to develop outstanding teacher-scholars who are recognized by their scientific communities for the quality and innovation of their research programs and their academic leadership skills. The Cottrell Scholar Award provides entry into a national community of outstanding scholar-educators who produce significant research and educational outcomes.

The Cottrell Scholar Award (CSA) is available to early career faculty at U.S. and Canadian research universities and primarily undergraduate institutions. Eligible applicants are tenure-track faculty who hold primary or courtesy appointments in chemistry, physics, or astronomy departments that offer bachelor's and/or graduate degrees in the applicant's discipline. CSA proposals contain a research plan, an educational plan, and a clear statement on how the applicant will become an outstanding teacher-scholar with strong academic citizenship skills. Proposal plans must be for a period of three years. The ability of applicants to mount a strong and innovative research program, achieve excellence in education, and develop effective academic citizenship skills are key criteria in the selection process.

More information: https://rescorp.org/cottrell-scholars/guidelines 

The Foundation is currently accepting Research Project (RP) proposals and Existing Program Evaluation (EPE) proposals. The Foundation is particularly focused on supporting projects that are consistent with a strength-based perspective and have the potential to inform future educational research, practice, major philanthropic giving, and/or public policy.

More information: https://bradyeducationfoundation.org/application-guidelines/ 

The Elsa U. Pardee Foundation funds research directed toward identifying new treatments or cures for cancer.

More information: https://pardeefoundation.org/how-to-apply/ 

In keeping with our mission, the LCRF grant program provides funding for research into the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure of lung cancer. Our funding mechanisms are designed to fund innovative projects across a variety of diverse topics and to support the careers of talented scientists. To learn about research that has been previously funded by LCRF, please visit the Our Investigators section. Information for investigators seeking funding for research, including an overview of our funding mechanisms and any current requests for proposals, can be found below.

This is a placeholder entry; the type and structure of LCRF grant opportunities change each cycle. Applications for 2025 awards were due in March.

More information: https://www.lungcancerresearchfoundation.org/research/funding-opportunities-2025/ 

The National Geographic Society welcomes proposals for projects in the areas of conservation, education, research, storytelling, and technology. 

This is a placeholder entry; the NGS posts a variety of funding oppotunities at any given time, each with its own due date.

More information: https://www.nationalgeographic.org/society/grants-and-investments/ 

Core Research Grants provide up to $200,000 for PhD holders for research projects aligned with RSF's research priorities.

Three LOI deadlines per year: March, July, October. See the application deadlines website for details on core programs and initiatives for the upcoming deadline.

More information: https://www.russellsage.org/grants/core-research-grants

Through its Grant Programs, the Kress Foundation supports scholarly projects that promote the appreciation, interpretation, preservation, study and teaching of European art from antiquity to the early 19th century. These competitive grants are awarded to institutions only.

• History of Art Grants
  • The History of Art program supports scholarly projects that enhance the appreciation and understanding of European art and architecture of the pre-modern era.
• Conservation Grants
  • The Conservation program supports the professional practice of art conservation.
• Digital Art History Grants
  • The Digital Art History program supports efforts to integrate new technologies into the practice of art history and the creation of important online resources in art history.

More information on all grant programs: https://www.kressfoundation.org/Programs 

The Whitehall Foundation, through its program of grants and grants-in-aid, assists scholarly research in the life sciences. It is the Foundation's policy to assist those dynamic areas of basic biological research that are not heavily supported by Federal Agencies or other foundations with specialized missions. The Foundation is currently interested in basic research in neurobiology, defined as follows: Invertebrate and vertebrate (excluding clinical) neurobiology, specifically investigations of neural mechanisms involved in sensory, motor, and other complex functions of the whole organism as these relate to behavior. The overall goal should be to better understand behavioral output or brain mechanisms of behavior.

More information: https://www.whitehall.org/grants/ 

Over the past decade, a growing body of research has illuminated the conditions that facilitate the use of research evidence in policy and practice. For example, studies find that when research is relevant to decision makers, deliberated over thoughtfully, and embedded in policymaking processes, routines, and tools, the findings are more likely to be used. Still, there remain many unanswered questions that are critical to understanding how to improve the production and use of research evidence. What’s more, there is a scarcity of evidence supporting the notion that research use in policy and practice will necessarily improve youth outcomes. Serious scientific inquiry is needed. We need to know the conditions under which using research evidence improves decision making, policy implementation, service delivery, and, ultimately, youth outcomes. In short, we need research on the use of research.

Toward this end, we seek studies that identify, build, and test strategies to enhance the use of research evidence in ways that benefit youth. We are particularly interested in research on improving the use of research evidence by state and local decision makers, mid-level managers, and intermediaries. Some investigators will focus on the strategies, relationships, and other supports needed for policy and practice organizations to use research more routinely and constructively. Others may investigate structures and incentives within the research community to encourage deep engagement with decision makers. Still other researchers may examine activities that help findings inform policy ideas, shape practice responses, and improve systems.

Deadlines in January, May and August

More information: https://wtgrantfoundation.org/funding/research-grants-on-improving-use-of-research-evidence

The foundation seeks studies that aim to build, test, or increase understanding of programs, policies, or practices to reduce inequality in the academic, social, behavioral, or economic outcomes of young people. They prioritize studies about reducing inequality on the basis of race, ethnicity, economic standing, language minority status, or immigrant origins.

Deadlines: January, May, August

More information: https://wtgrantfoundation.org/funding/research-grants-on-reducing-inequality

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey program aims to accelerate discoveries in astronomy through the support of a variety of astronomical surveys using a pioneering 2.5-meter telescope at Apache Point Observatory, New Mexico that comprehensively maps the sky to examine the history and structure of the universe.

More information: https://sloan.org/programs/research/sloan-digital-sky-survey

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Energy and Environment program looks to achieve its mission by supporting research, training, networking, and dissemination efforts in this domain that shape the direction of scholarship by investigating under-explored questions that warrant further attention, advance collaborative and interdisciplinary research across the social and natural sciences, involve early career faculty and train the next generation of students, link research with practice, and partner with other funders to amplify programmatic impact. The program’s predominant geographic focus is the United States.

More information: https://sloan.org/programs/research/energy-and-environment

The Diagnostics Accelerator challenges the research community to develop cutting-edge biomarkers and explore novel diagnostic technologies that will aid in Alzheimer’s diagnosis and clinical trial design. Research funded to date focuses on various methods and targets including blood tests in various stages of development, as well as eye scans and digital tools.

These awards focus on true collaboration among renown clinicians, who are directly involved with patients and understand the disease, scientists who are developing the tests, and diagnostics companies that understand the regulatory pathways – driving research and product development.

More information:

• https://www.alzdiscovery.org/research-and-grants/diagnostics-accelerator
• https://www.alzdiscovery.org/research-and-grants/funding-opportunities

The ADDF Supports a variety of areas in its Therapeutics Funding area:

• The Drug Development RFP supports investigational new drug (IND)-enabling studies (or the international equivalent) and early-phase clinical trials that test promising pharmacological interventions and devices for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and related dementias. This funding opportunity concentrates on diverse drug mechanisms and modes of action related to the biology of aging and other emerging therapeutic areas for dementia.
• The Neuroimaging and CSF Biomarker Program aims to further develop and validate established biomarkers for which there is a clear clinical need in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. This RFP prioritizes biomarkers with a defined context of use, a clear advantage over other relevant biomarkers, and a path to commercialization and/or clinical use.
• Prevention - The ADDF seeks to support precision prevention studies, combination therapy studies, and comparative effectiveness research that probe whether the use or choice of interventions may reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease or other dementias. Studies that are not in humans will not be considered.

More information: https://www.alzdiscovery.org/research-and-grants/funding-opportunities 

This award program accepts inquiries throughout the year, and its three core programs include: Criminal Justice, Youth Justice, and Workers' Rights.

More information: https://www.publicwelfare.org/grants/

The program is intended to support high-risk theoretical mathematics, physics and computer science projects of exceptional promise and scientific importance on a case-by-case basis.

More information: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/targeted-grants-in-mps/

This initiative supports efforts to prepare students to become informed and engaged participants in the civic life of their local and national communities. Grants of varying amounts, ranging from $100,000- $300,000 over a 24-36 month period, will be made to each funded project participating in this initiative. The size of the grant will be based on the scope of the project. We expect this grant program will remain open for approximately three to five years.

More information: https://www.teaglefoundation.org/Call-for-Proposals/RFPs/Education-for-American-Civic-Life-RFP