PrintFunding Databases and Resources
- Susan Gomes, FAS Director of Research Development: susan_gomes@harvard.edu
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For limited submission, early career and other notable funding opportunities, please click here. For more information on funding opportunities or advice on developing your proposal, please contact Susan Gomes, Susan_Gomes@harvard.edu, or call 6-9448.
- Stimulus Funding: Vice Provost for Research
- Grants.gov - Search database of all grant opportunities offered by Federal Agencies, and sign up for email alerts
- SPIN - Search funding database and sign up for email alerts
- Community of Science (COS) - Search database of funding opportunities in all fields
- Foundation Center - Search database of private foundations
- NCURA - List of Research Funding Agencies and Nonprofit Research Administration Organizations
- NIH - Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tool (RePORT) and the RePORT Expenditures and Results, or RePORTER system
- Office for Sponsored Programs "Finding Funding" Page
- The Harvard Medical School (HMS) Listserv
- The Office for Sponsored Programs (OSP) Listserv
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Harvard Internal Opportunities
- Provost's Office Funding Page
- FAS Office of Finance and Budgeting Faculty Funding Page
- University Committee on Biological Sciences (UCBS) Fellowships
- Office for Sponsored Programs Internal/Restricted Competitions
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Federal Agencies
- Grants.gov - Search database of all grant opportunities offered by Federal Agencies, and sign up for email alerts
- Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
- National Endowment for the Arts
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- Department of Energy
- Department of Education
- Department of Defense
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- U.S. Agency for International Development(USAID)
- Department of Commerce
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
- State Department - Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
- U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
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Private Foundations
- Andrew W. Mellon Foundation - Offers grants in higher education, scholarly communication, museums and art conservation, performing arts, information technology, and the environment.
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation - Supports research in global development and health, and education in the United States.
- David and Lucile Packard Foundation - Offers grants in conservation and science, population, children, families and communities.
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - Supports education, training and research aimed at improving health and health care in the United States.
- Rockefeller Foundation - Funds research in agriculture, arts and culture, health, employment, housing, education, and globalization in eastern and southern Africa, southeast Asia, and North America.
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute - Supports research and teaching in the biomedical sciences.
- Human Frontier Science Program - Research grants and fellowships in the Life Sciences.
- Ellison Medical Foundation - Supports research in aging and global infectious diseases.
- American Cancer Society - Supports cancer research.
- Smith Richardson Foundation - Funds research in international security, foreign policy, and domestic public policy.
- James S. McDonnell Foundation - Supports scientific research in mind/brain/behavior, complex systems, and brain cancer.
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation - Funds research in science and technology, standards of living and economic performance, education and careers in science and technology, and selected national issues.
- Ford Foundation - Supports programs that strengthen democratic values, reduce poverty and injustice, promote international cooperation, and advance human achievement.
- William and Flora Hewlett Foundation - Supports programs in education, environment, global development, performing arts, philanthropy, and population.
- March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation - Programs fund research into the prevention and treatment of birth defects and prematurity, including genetics, development, and social, behavioral, and environmental hazards.
- John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation - Funds research through four programs: global security and sustainability, human and community development, public interest media, and the MacArthur Fellows program.
