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.
- Federal
All federal funding opportunities can be found on Grants.gov. Go to the site to search for funding by keyword or to browse opportunities by agency or category.
- US Department of Agriculture | Funding Information {?}
- USDA Forest Service - US Department of Commerce {?}
- National Institute of Standards & Technology
- National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration - US Department of Defense {?}
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- Army Research Office
- Defense Sciences Office (DARPA)
- Office of Naval Research - US Department of Education | Funding Information {?}
- Fund for the Improvement for Post Secondary Education - US Department of Energy | Funding Information {?}
- Health and Human Services | Funding Information {?}
- National Institutes of Health | Grant Information - US Department of Housing and Urban Development | Funding Information
- US Department of the Interior
- US Fish and Wildlife Service
- US Geological Survey - US Department of Justice | Funding Information
- Office of Justice Programs
- National Institute of Justice - US Department of Labor | Funding Information {?}
- US Department of State {?}
- Bureau of Educational and Cultural Exchanges/ Fulbright Scholars - US Department of Transportation {?}
- US Environmental Protection Agency | Funding Information {?}
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Funding Information {?}
- National Endowment for the Arts | Funding Information {?}
- National Endowment for the Humanities | Funding Information {?}
- NEH Summer Stipends - National Science Foundation | Funding Information {?}
- Institute of Museum and Library services {?}
- US Institute of Peace | Funding Information {?}
- US Department of Agriculture | Funding Information {?}
- State
State Government:
- Illinois Arts Council | Funding Information {?}
- Illinois Board of Higher Education | Funding Information
- Illinois Department on Aging
- Illinois Department of Agriculture
- Illinois Department of Children & Family Services
- Illinois Department of Commerce & Economic Opportunity
- Illinois Department of Human Services | Funding Information
- Illinois Department of Natural Resources | Funding Information
- Illinois Department of Public Health | Funding Information
- Illinois Department of Transportation
- Illinois Department of Veteran’s Affairs
- Illinois Emergency Management Agency
- Illinois Humanities Council | Funding Information {?}
- Illinois State Board of Education | Funding Information
- 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 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
- Crown Family Philanthropies
- Nathan Cummings Foundation
- 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
- John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
- William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- 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
- Robert R. McCormick Foundation
- Mellon Foundation Fellowships
- Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
- Open Society Foundations
- David and Lucille Packard Foundation
- Pew Charitable Trusts
- Polk Bros. Foundation
- Resources for the Future
- Rockefeller Foundation
- Russell Sage Foundation
- Dr. Scholl Foundation
- Alfred P Sloan Foundation
- Spencer Foundation
- Templeton Foundation
- UCLA CALDAR Summer Institute on Longitudinal Research
- Wabash Center
- Graduate Student Funding Opportunities