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Field-Specific Grants

Topical Index:

 

Art, Architecture, Design

Architecture

Grant Description/Eligibility Deadline

Graham Foundation

  • Individuals may only apply for one grant per year
  • Collaborative projects are eligible for funding

Inquiry Form: Sept 15

 

James Marston Fitch Mid-Career Fellowship

  • Research grant of up to $15,000
  • Applicants must be mid-career professionals with at least 10 years experience in historic preservation or related fields, including architecture, landscape architecture, architectural conservation, urban design, etc. 

Fall

 

 

Kress Foundation

  • The Kress Foundation offers a History of Art grant for research in European art and architecture
Jan 15, April 1, Oct 1

Art/Design

Grant Description/Eligibility Deadline

College Art Association

  • Website provides a list of various awards, grants, and fellowships

 

Grant specific

 

Graham Foundation

  • Individuals may only apply for one grant per year
  • Collaborative projects are eligible for funding
Inquiry Form: Sept 15

 

Kress Foundation

  • The Kress Foundation offers grants in the History of Art, Conservation, and Digital Resources as well as a number of fellowships
Grant Specific

The Renaissance Society of America

  • The RSA offers residential grants and short-term research grants supporting research projects and publications that aim to advance scholarly knowledge about the Renaissance.

December 1

Education

Grant Description/Eligibility Deadline

American Educational Research Assoc.

  • The program seeks to stimulate research on U.S. education issues using data from the large-­scale, national and international data sets supported by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), NSF, and other federal agencies, and to increase the number of education researchers using these data sets.
January 25

Caplan Foundation for Early Childhood

  • Foundation supports projects that will improve the quality of early childhood teaching and learning
Letter of Intent: Oct 1-Dec 31

Consumers Energy

  • Grants are awarded for capital funding and innovative projects and activities that align with the five focus areas: social welfare, community and civic development, education, Michigan growth and environmental enhancement, and culture and the arts

Ongoing

Hearst Foundations

  • The Foundation funds educational institutions demonstrating uncommon success in preparing students to thrive in global society
  • Preference is given to higher education scholarships and professional development for faculty

Ongoing

International Literacy Association

  • The Association grants $2,500 annually for a research study on the effective classroom implementation of In2Books that inspires others to improve teaching and learning in innovative ways. 
Jan 15

Spencer Foundation

  • The Foundation supports research in several relating to education and educational systems

Dependent on area of inquiry

Spencer Foundation (Small Grants)

  • Education Research Projects: Through its Small Research Grants Program, the foundation is accepting research proposals for education research projects. In keeping with the foundation's mission, the program aims to fund academic work that contributes to the improvement of education, broadly conceived.
Feb 1, May 1, Aug 1, Nov 1

The Ella George Children's Foundation

  • The Foundation supports initiatives and programs that enhance the lives of children with positive and measurable outcomes

Ongoing

General/Interdisciplinary

Grant Description/Eligibility Deadline

American Philosophical Society Franklin Research Grants

  • Grants up to $6,000 for traveling to libraries and archives for research purposes; purchase of microfilm, photocopies, etc; costs associated with fieldwork; or laboratory research expenses.
  • Applicants must have a doctorate or have published work of doctoral character or quality

Oct 1 or Dec 1

Fulbright Scholar Program

  • The Fulbright Scholar Program has a variety of opportunities for faculty
  • Contact Marcella Myers, the AU Fulbright Program Advisor for more information
Grant specific

The Meemic Foundation

  • The Foundation funds innovative programs, events or projects that will significantly enhance a students' classroom experience
  • The Foundation also funds the purchasing of books for classrooms, school libraries, or for specific projects

Grant specific

Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Research Grant

  • Grants are for $15,000-$40,000 per year for periods of 1-2 years
  • Grant supports research in any of the natural and social sciences and the humanities relating to the causes, manifestations, and control of violence and aggression
August 1

 

Health Sciences

Healthcare

Grant Description/Eligibility Deadline

Society of Health and Physical Educations (SHAPE)

  • PI must be AAHPERD member
  • Early Career Investigator grant for up to $5,000

Oct 15

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

  • The Foundation seeks to improve the health and health care of all Americans in the following areas: childhood obesity, coverage, human capital, pioneer, public health, quality/equality, and vulnerable populations

Grant specific

Community Health Impact

  • The Community Health Impact program supports bold ideas that empower communities to solve their most pressing health challenges. Grantees are health-focused and community-based, and include grassroots organizations, neighborhood groups, and small to medium nonprofits.
July 15, 2025

Healthy Aging

  • As we age, we all deserve access to the opportunities we need to maintain our health, well-being, and independence, even as we run into challenges that can arise along the way. That’s why the Health Fund invests in programs, partnerships, and models that equip organizations, health care providers, and policy makers to effectively meet the needs we face as we age.
June 5, 2025

Capacity Building

  • The Health Fund knows that nonprofits have a critical role in empowering people and communities across the state to improve their health. Every day, we see organizations working diligently for a healthier Michigan, often constrained by tight budgets, restricted funds, and a small scale. We seek to equip health-focused nonprofits with the funding, tools, and training to level up their work and focus on their mission. To that end, we offer a range of options to grantees to help them build and find additional capacity.

July 22, 2025

 

Physical Therapy

Grant Description/Eligibility Deadline

Foundation for Physical Therapy

  • Foundation provideds support to emerging investigators to promote scientifically based and clinically relevant research related to the effectiveness of physical therapist practice.

 

Humanities

English

Grant Description/Eligibility Deadline

The Renaissance Society of America

  • The RSA offers residential grants and short-term research grants supporting research projects and publications that aim to advance scholarly knowledge about the Renaissance.

December 1

 

History/Political Science

Grant Description/Eligibility Deadline

American Political Science Association

  • Website provides a list of various awards, grants, and fellowship

Grant specific

Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation Research Travel Grant

  • Grant defrays travel, living, and photocopy expenses of a research trip to the Ford Library

 

Application Deadline: March 15, Sept 15

 

 

Searle Freedom Trust

  • Trust invests primarily in scholarship that results in the publication of books, journal articles, and policy papers. 
  • Funding is typically in the form of research grants, fellowships, and other types of targeted project support

Dec 15, April 16, Aug 22

 

Music

Grant Description/Eligibility Deadline

Consumers Energy

  • Grants are awarded for capital funding and innovative projects and activities that align with the five focus areas: social welfare, community and civic development, education, Michigan growth and environmental enhancement, and culture and the arts

Ongoing

 

Theology/Religion

Grant Description/Eligibility Deadline

Mustard Seed Foundation

  • Foundation has three giving programs: Church-Based Grants, Harvey Fellows Program, and Theology of Work Grant Program

Grant specific

 

The Chatlos Foundation

  • The Foundation does not make grants directly to individuals but rather to educational institutions which select recipients
  • The Foundation's areas of interest are: Bible Colleges/ Seminaries, Religious Causes, Medical Concerns, Liberal Arts Colleges and Social Concerns

Ongoing

Lilly Endowment

  • The Endowment has focused on supporting programs and projects that address three broad questions: How do we identify, recruit and call forth a new generation of talented Christian pastors? How do we best prepare and train new ministers for effective and faithful pastoral leadership? How do we improve the skills and sustain the excellence of pastors currently serving congregations? We also fund efforts that enhance the vitality of local congregations and that enable ordinary church members to mine the deep wisdom of the Christian faith and to take up their vocations in the life of the world as people of faith.

Ongoing

 

Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion

  • Project director must be a full-time faculty member in religion or theology
  • Projects must focus on teaching religion or theology in higher education, within the parameters of Wabash center funding priorities

March 1 or Oct 1 for large grants. Small grants are ongoing

 

 

Social Sciences

Anthropology/Archaeology

Grant Description/Eligibility Deadline

CAORC: Multi-Country Research Fellowship Program

  • The Council of American Overseas Research Centers supports advanced regional or trans-regional research in the humanities, social sciences, or allied natural sciences for US doctoral candidates or scholars who have already earned their PhD

 

 

 

CAORC: Andrew W. Mellon Mediterranean Regional Research Fellowship

  • The Andrew W. Mellon Mediterranean Regional Research Fellowship supports Mediterranean-focused research in the humanities and related social sciences in countries bordering the Mediterranean.

 

 

 

National Geographic: Committee for Research and Exploration Grant Application

  • Grants range from $15,000 to $20,000
  • Applicants are expected to have advanced 果冻传媒app (PhD or equivalent) and be associated with an educational organization or institution
At least 10 months in advance of anticipated project dates

 

The Wenner-Gren Foundation Post PhD Research Grant

  • Awarded to individuals holding a PhD or equivalent degree to support individual research projects
  • There is no preference for methodology, research location, or subfield

May 1, Nov 1

 

 

 

Communication/Media/Film

Grant Description/Eligibility Deadline

Knight Foundation

  • Fund arts, communities, journalism and media innovation

Grant specific

 

MacArthur Foundation

  • Supports journalism for television, radio and the web

Grant specific

 

Social Science Research Council

  • The Council offers a variety of fellowships including the Abe Fellowship for Journalists

Grant specific

 

The Glaser Progress Foundation

  • Funds independent media projects through the "Progressive Studies Program" which seeks to increase public awareness of progressive ideas and values, educate public officials and policymakers through lectures, seminars, articles, public events, book discussions, new media tools, and training seminars with activists and young people

Ongoing

 

Community and International Development

Grant Description/Eligibility Deadline

Comerica

  • Funding given for neighborhood revitalization, education, acces to health care and programs supporting diversity and inclusion
March 15, June 15, Sept 15, Nov 15

Consumers Energy

  • Grants are awarded for capital funding and innovative projects and activities that align with the five focus areas: social welfare, community and civic development, education, Michigan growth and environmental enhancement, and culture and the arts

Ongoing

Farver Foundation

  • Foundation does not fund academic research, conferences or exhibits

Ongoing

The Ella George Children's Foundation

  • The Foundation supports initiatives and programs that enhance the lives of children with positive and measurable outcomes

Ongoing

 

 

The Violet Jabara Charitable Trust

  • The Trust supports organization which work in developing countries in the Middles East.
  • The Trust also supports American organizations which promote deeper understanding of Middle Eastern issues and culture

Ongoing

Psychology

Grant Description/Eligibility Deadline

The James McKeen Cattell Fund

  • Applicants must be currently tenured psychology professors
  • Applicants are eligible if they have not had a leave with pay for 5 years preceding the requested sabbatical leave

 

 

Social Work

Grant Description/Eligibility Deadline

Fahs-Beck Fund for Research and Experimentation

  • Applicants must be faculty members of accredited colleges or universities
  • Principal Investigator must have an earned doctorate in a relevant discipline and relevant experience

April 1 and Nov 1

 

Sociology

Grant Description/Eligibility Deadline

The Sociological Initiatives Foundation

  • The Foundation supports research that focuses on impacting: social policy, institutional and educational practices, linguistic issues, community capacity and the organization of previously unorganized groups
  • Desired applicants include academic-community partnerships, advocacy or community groups, academics that organize or link to a constituency

Aug 15

 

STEM

 

General STEM

Grant Description/Eligibility Deadline

The Bay & Paul Foundations

  • Supports scientific research and community-based initatives to preserve or repair biodiversity and ecosystem integrity

Submit Online Funding Inquiry 

Aug 17-Sept 8

 

 

Animal Science

Grant Description/Eligibility Deadline

AKC Canine Health Foundation

  • Grant supports research that advances the overall health of canines 
  • Grant supports the work of researchers from a variety of disciplines.
  • Collaborative projects are encouraged to apply

 

Ongoing

 

 

 

 

Horses and Humans Research Foundation

  • Promotes research that will benefit special program participants by improving equine-assisted activity practices
  • Promotes research that will educate the public, including professional affiliates regarding the value and benefits of horses and equine-assisted activities

Ongoing

 

 

 

 

Morris Animal Foundation

  • Canine Wobbler Syndrome Proposal
  • Feline Health Proposals
September 13

 

Biology

Grant Description/Eligibility Deadline

Morris Animal Foundation

  • Wildlife health, any related topic.
September 13

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

  • Grants are available to support actions identified on the website

Program specific

National Geographic: Committee for Research and Exploration Grant Application

  • Grants range from $15,000 to $20,000
  • Applicants are expected to have advanced 果冻传媒app (PhD or equivalent) and be associated with an educational organization or institution

At least 10 months in advance of anticipated project dates

The Entomological Society of America: Henry and Sylvia Richardson Research Grant

  • Applicant must be a postdoctoral member of the Entomological Society of America with at least one year of promising work experience
  • Priority given to researchers working in insect control by attractants, repellents, biological controls, thermocontrols, or chemical controls

July 1

 

 

 

Whitehall Foundation

  • The Whitehall Foundation suports research in the life sciences. Research grants range from $30,000 to $75,000 per year while Grants-in-Aid do not exceed $30,000. 

Letter of Intent: Jan 15, April 15, Oct 1

 

 

Engineering

Grant Description/Eligibility Deadline

Engineering Education and Centers (EEC)(NSF)

  • Active funding opportunities - Recently Announced
  • Numerous grants

Varies by Grant

Engineering (ENG)(NSF)

  • Active Funding Opportunities
  • Numerous grants

Varies by Grant

National Science Foundation (NSF)

  • Find Funding
  • Search by Research Area

Varies by Grant

Engineering Information Foundation

  • "Our grant activity supports developmental projects, instructional projects, and training programs in engineering education and research that fit our fields of interest. These currently include the availability and use of published information, women in engineering, and information access in developing countries."
  • "We suggest that you request a grant amount between $5,000 and $25,000. We encourage you to attract a matching grant from another source, if necessary."

 

Engineering Education Scholarship and Funding Sources

  • Numerous Sources

 

United Engineering Foundation

  • The United Engineering Foundation advances the engineering arts and sciences for the welfare of humanity.
  • The UEF gives between 5 – 10 grants per year totaling nearly $800,000.

June 1

United Engineering Foundation

  • The United Engineering Foundation advances the engineering arts and sciences for the welfare of humanity.
  • The UEF gives between 5 – 10 grants per year totaling nearly $800,000.

June 1

 

Mathematics

Grant Description/Eligibility Deadline

Simons Collaborations in Mathematics and the Physical Sciences

  • Supports collaborations in the areas of mathematics, theoretical physics, and theoretical computer science.

 

 

 

Simons Fellows in Mathematics

  • The Simons Fellows in Mathematics supports research leaves providing time away from teaching and administration

Sept 30

 

Physics

Grant Description/Eligibility Deadline

The Frederick and Florence Bauder Endowment for the Support of Physics Teaching

  • Only AAPT members may apply

July 1, Dec 1

Sigma Pi Sigma Chapter Project Award

  • Cash award of up to $500 to help fund activities
  • Award given for chapters that raise awareness of Sigma Pi Sigma, encourage inter-chapter activities, increase the induction of new members, etc. 

Dec 15

Simons Fellows in Theoretical Physics

  • The Simons Fellows program enables research leaves providing time away from teaching and administration

Sept 30

Semiconductor Research Corporation: Secure, Trustworthy, Assured and Resilient Semiconductors and Systems

  • Funds proposals that address cybersecurity from the Secure, Trustworthy, Assured and Resilient Semiconductors and Systems (STARSS) perspective

 

 

 

November 18

 

 

 

 

 

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