Links to Funding Sources

Searchable Grant Database

• IRIS -- Illinois Research Information Service (Search available from Whitworth computers only)

Federal Funding

• Corporation for National Service
  • Learn and Serve America
  • AmeriCorps
• Council for International Education of Scholars (CIES)
  • Fulbright Programs
• Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
  • Environmental Education Grants
• Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission
• NASA
• National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
  • NEA Guide to Programs
• National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
  • NEH Grants Information
• National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • NIH Office of Extramural Research (Grant Programs)
• National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
• National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • NSF Funding Opportunities & Awards
  • NSF FastLane
  • NSF Guide to Programs
  • NSF Custom News (you can set this up by keyword to be e-mailed to you)
  • NSF Bulletin (Monthly news about NSF programs and funding opportunities)
• US Department of Agriculture (USDA)
• U. S. Department of Education
  • Education Department Grants & Contracts Page
  • Office of Postsecondary Education
  • Office of Education Sciences
  • Office of English Language Acquisition
  • Office of Special Educational and Rehabilitative Services
  • Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools
  • Office of Elementary and Secondary Education
• U. S. Department of Commerce
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
• U. S. Department of Homeland Security
• U.S. Department of Justice
• U. S. International Information Programs
• U. S. Institute of Peace (USIP)
  • USIP Grants
  • USIP Fellowships

State Funding

• Humanities Washington
• Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction
• Higher Education Coordinating Board
• Washington Technology Center

Private Funding

• The Foundation Center's list of private grant makers
• Academy for Educational Development
• Alliance for Aging Research
• AARP Andrus Foundation
• American Association of University Women Educational Foundation
• American Chemical Society
• American Council of Learned Societies
• American Educational Research Association
• American Educational Research Association
• American Express Company
• American Federation for Aging Research
• American Historical Association
• American Museum of Natural History
• American Philosophical Society
• American Political Science Association
• American Schools of Oriental Research
• American Society for Engineering Education
• AT&T Foundation
• Amoco Foundation
• Argonne National Laboratory
• Asian Cultural Council
• Association for Asian Studies
• Bermuda Biological Station for Research, Inc.
• Bradley (Lynde and Harry) Foundation Inc.
• Carnegie Corporation of New York
• Council of Christian Colleges and Universities
• Council for Exceptional Children
• Council for Int'l Exchange of Scholars -- Fulbright Scholar Program
• Dreyfus (Camille and Henry) Foundation
• Eurasia Foundation
• Ford Foundation
• Getty Grant Program
• German Academic Exchange Service
• Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
• Hewlett (William and Flora) Foundation
• Hewlett-Packard
• Institute of International Education
• International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX)
• W. K. Kellogg Foundation
• MacArthur Foundation
• McDonnell (James S.) Foundation
• Mott Foundation
• M. J. Murdock Charitable Trust
• NAFSA Association of International Educators
• National Geographic Society Foundation
• NEC Foundation of America
• Retirement Research Foundation
• Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues
• Soros Foundation
• Spencer Foundation
• U.S.-Japan Foundation
• Wallace-Readers Digest Foundation
• DeWitt Wallace-Readers Digest Foundation
• Kurt Weill Foundation for Music

Leave Funding

• AAUW
• ACLS
• American Philosophical Society -- Sabbatical Program
• Consortium of Humanities Centers & Institutes DAAD -- German Academic Exchange Service
• Five College Women's Studies Research Center
• Guggenheim Foundation
• IREX -- International Research and Exchange
• Radcliffe Institute Fellowships
• Social Science Research Council
• Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Independent Research Libraries

• The Folger Shakespeare Library
• The Huntington Library
• The Newberry Library
• The New York Public Library

Archives, Libraries and Museums

• Library of Congress
• National Archives and Records Administration
• Smithsonian Institution