Potential Funding Agencies

National Science Foundation's Find Funding webpage

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950. NSF supports scientific progress, national health, national defense, computer science, mathematics, and similar topics of research in colleges and universities.

Current Open Solicitations

• Division of Environmental Biology (core programs) (DEB) RFP

• Interdisciplinary Behavioral and Social Science Research (IBSS) RFP

USE Science.gov TO NAVIGATE YOUR TOPICS TO NEW FEDERAL FUNDERS!

Grants.gov is a website listing Federal grant opportunities. The website also gives resources for applying as well as policies, procedures, different systems, reporting, etc. You can search for opportunities based on keywords, agency, and even eligibility. Grants.gov also has the latest opportunities listed on their homepage.

• Corporation for National and Community Service
• Federal Business Opportunities
• Human Frontier Science Program
• National Endowment for the Arts
• National Endowment for the Humanities
• National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• • NIH Guide for Grants & Contracts
• National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
• • NOAA Environmental Literacy Grants Program (ELG)
  • NOAA Office of Education Funding Announcements
• National Science Foundation (funding)
• • Division of Environmental Biology (DEB) competition
  • Interdisciplinary Behavioral and Social Science Research (IBSS) competition
• Office of Science
• SAMHSA
• Social Science Research Council
• U.S. Department of Agriculture
• U.S. Department of Commerce
• U.S. Department of Defense
• • Army Corps of Engineers
  • Army Research Laboratory
  • Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
  • Office of Naval Research
  • Naval Research Laboratory
• U.S. Department of Education Forecast of Funding Opportunities
• U.S. Department of Energy
• U.S. Department of Homeland Security
• U.S. Department of Justice
• U.S. Department of Labor
• U.S. Department of Transportation
• U.S. Department of the Interior
• • National Park Service
  • U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Climate Change Program
  • U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Coast Program
  • U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - National Coastal Wetlands Conservation Grants
  • U.S. Geological Survey 
• • USGS contract Solicitations appear at FedBizOpps or FedConnect.
  • USGS Assistance Program announcements
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• • EPA Grant Opportunities
  • EPA Great Lakes Funding
  • Great Lakes National Program Office
  • NCER Funding Opportunities
  • • Funded Aquatic Projects
    • Funded Watershed Projects

State of Minnesota

• Minnesota Pollution Control Agency

State of Wisconsin and The Great Lakes

• Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission (GLIFWC)
• Great Lakes Protection Fund
• University of Wisconsin Sea Grant
• Wisconsin Arts Board
• Wisconsin Coast Management Program, State of Wisconsin Department Administration
• • Wisconsin Coast Management Issues
• Wisconsin Department of Administration
• Wisconsin Department of Education
• Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
• Wisconsin Humanities Council
• Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium
• Wisconsin State Agencies
• Wisconsin State Grants and Financial Assistance
• Wisconsin Water Resources Institute
• • Water Resources Research National Competitive Grants Program

• Aetna Foundation
• American Academy of Religion
• American Association of University Women
• American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
• American Historical Association
• American Musicological Association
• American Philosophical Association
• American Philosophical Society
• • Phillips Fund for Native American Research
• American Political Science Association
• American Psychological Foundation
• American Sociological Association
• Andrew W. Mellon Foundation  
• Camile & Henry Dreyfus Foundation (chemical sciences)
• Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI)
• College Art Association
• CUR (Council on Undergraduate Research)
• Ford Foundation
• Getty Research Institute
• The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
• Hogg Foundation for Mental Health
• Honda Foundation
• Rockefeller Foundation
• Russell Sage Foundation
• Sloan Foundation
• Weyerhaeuser Family Foundation
• Whitehall Foundation (life sciences)
• W.L.S. Spencer Foundation

UW System's Office of Academic and Student Affairs provides opportunities for grants related to both teaching and research. Available grants and deadlines can be found on the System Academic Affairs website.

Applied Research-WiTAG Grants Program - due early January each year

All UW-Superior grants and funding proposals to/for the above-noted opportunities are reviewed and signed by the Grants and Research Administrator and need to be delivered to the Grant and Research Office in Old Main, Room 103, five business days before the proposal is due. Please deliver the internal routing form signed, with your narrative, budget and all attachments five business days before the proposal is due. The Grant and Research Office will secure the required signatures giving you permission to submit.  Call the Grant and Research Office at ext. 8488 for more information and fro assisting developing your grant application and budget.

Additional UW System grant opportunities:

Office of Professional Instructional Development (OPID)

Wisconsin ESEA Improving Teacher Quality Program

• Alcoa Foundation
• AT&T Foundation
• Australian Academy of Science
• Canada's Charity Village; links to Canadian corporate funding programs
• Canada Council for the Arts
• Carnegie Corporation
• Citigroup Foundation
• Coca-Cola Foundation
• Dell, Michael and Susan Foundation
• Dow Chemical Company Foundation
• European Foundation Centre; The European equivalent of the (U.S.) Foundation Center.
• Fogarty International Center (NIH)
• Ford Foundation
• Fulbright Scholar Program
• Fundsnet Services; links to International-Based Foundations
• Gates, Bill and Melinda Foundation
• GE Foundation
• Give2Asia
• Grant Agency of Czech Republic; Grant opportunities in the Czech Republic
• GrantMakers without Borders; A directory of foundations interested in international grantmaking
• Hispanics in Philanthropy
• Kellogg, W.K. Foundation
• MacArthur Foundation
• Michigan State University; A list of funding opportunities related to Women in International Development
• NSF Office of International Science and Engineering
• Packard, David and Lucille Foundation
• Pan American Health Organization; Central American health-related grant opportunities
• Weyerhaeuser Family Foundation

Graduate Student Fellowships:

• Fulbright Scholar Program
• International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) Program
• Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium

Faculty and Post-Doc Fellowship Opportunities:

• ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships
• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship
• American Anthropological Association
• American Councils for International Education Fellowship
• Autrey Fellowships
• Calgary Institute for the Humanities
• Columbia University Society of Fellows in the Humanities
• Ford Foundation Post Doctoral Fellowships
• Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
• Howard Foundation
• Human Frontier Science Program
• Jefferson Science Fellowships
• John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
• National Humanities Center
• Pembroke Center, Brown University Fellowships
• Princeton University School of Social Science
• Research Associate Programs
• Rice University Humanities Research Center
• Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, Rutgers University
• School for Advanced Research (SAR)
• Social Science Research Council (SSRC), International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF)
• Society for the Humanities, Cornell University Fellowships
• Spencer Foundation, The
• Stanford Humanities Center
• UCLA Research Fellowships
• University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Fellowship Database
• University of Sydney Philosophical and Historical Fellowships
• University of Washington, Seattle Fellowships
• Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation