External Funding
External Funding Opportunities for Faculty and Graduate Students
Listed are many of the most common federal and state agencies and private foundations/corporations that typically fund research and scholarly activities.
External Funding
- Federal
Federal Government:
As of November 7, 2005, the Office of Federal Financial Management requires all Federal agencies to post all grant opportunities online at www.grants.gov. This is the clearinghouse for all federal grant-making agencies and can be searched by agency, category, or advanced search by keywords. Grants.gov allows organizations to electronically find and apply for competitive grant opportunities from all Federal grant-making agencies.
- US Department of Agriculture
- USDA Forest Service - US Department of Commerce
- National Institute of Standards & Technology
- National Oceanic & Atomspheric Administration - US Department of Defense
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- Army Research Office
- Office of Naval Research - US Department of Education
- Fund for the Improvement for Post Secondary Education - US Department of Energy
- Health and Human Services
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institute of Mental Health
- Health Resources and Services Administration
- Administration for Children and Families
- Administration on Aging
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration - US Department of Housing and Urban Development
- US Department of the Interior
- US Fish and Wildlife Service
- US Geological Survey - US Department of Justice
- Office of Justice Programs
- National Institute of Justice - US Department of Labor
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration - US Department of State
- Bureau of Educational and Cultural Exchanges/ Fulbright Scholars - US Department of Transportation
- US Environmental Protection Agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- National Endowment for the Arts
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- NEH Summer Stipends - National Science Foundation
- Institute of Museum and Library services
- US Institute of Peace
- US Department of Agriculture
- State
State Government:
- Illinois Arts Council
- Illinois Board of Higher Education
- Illinois Department on Aging
- Illinois Department of Agriculture
- Illinois Department of Alcoholism & Substance Abuse
- Illinois Department of Children & Family Services
- Illinois Department of Commerce & Community Affairs
- Illinois Department of Human Services
- Illinois Department of Natural Resources
- Illinois Department of Public Health
- Illinois Department of Transportation
- Illinois Department of Veteran’s Affairs
- Illinois Emergency Management Agency
- Illinois Humanities Council
- Illinois State Board of Education
- Illinois Student Assistance Commission
- Private Foundations/Corporations
Private Foundations/Corporations/Endowments
Note: Certain private foundations are "restricted" (e.g., will only make one award per year per institution) and so all proposals to foundations will be coordinated with the office of Corporate and Foundation Relations by the Office of Research Services.
- Abbott Laboratories Fund
- American Cancer Society
- American Association of Critical Care Nurses
- American Council of Learned Societies
- American Heart Association
- American Lung Association
- American Psychological Association
- Annenberg Foundation
- Baxter International
- Burroughs Wellcome Fund
- Camargo Foundation
- Carnegie Corporation
- Annie E. Casey Foundation
- Chicago Community Trust
- Arie and Ida Crown Memorial
- Nathan Cummings Foundation
- Charles A. Dana Foundation
- Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
- Ford Foundation
- Lloyd A. Fry Foundation
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
- William T Grant Foundation
- Greenwall Foundation
- HF Guggenheim Foundation
- S Guggenheim Fellowships
- William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- The Joyce Foundation
- W.K. Kellogg Foundation
- The Kresge Foundation
- Lilly Endowment
- Lindbergh Foundation
- Louisville Institute
- John D. and Katherine T. MacArthur Foundation
- March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation
- McCormick Tribune Foundation
- Mellon Foundation Fellowships
- Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
- David and Lucille Packard Foundation
- The Pew Charitable Trust
- Polk Bros. Foundation
- Resources for the Future
- Rockefeller Foundation
- Russell Sage Foundation
- Sara Lee Foundation
- Dr. Scholl Foundation
- Alfred P Sloan Foundation
- Soros Foundation/Open Society Institute
- Spencer Foundation
- Templeton Foundation
- UCLA CALDAR Summer Institute on Longitudinal Research
- Wabash Center
- Graduate Student Funding Opportunities