Grant Source Web Sites: Private Foundations
The Foundation Center – listing of all current private foundation Requests for Proposals (RFP's)
http://fdncenter.org/pnd/rfp
Non-Profit Resource Center of Texas – catalog of all Texas private foundations Request access information and authority from the Office of Sponsored Projects
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation - grants in areas of interest: science and technology, standard of living and economic performance, education and careers in science and technology, and national issues (bioterrorism, federal statistics)
www.sloan.org/programs/index.shtml
American Council of Learned Societies – Fellowships and grants for faculty and staff primarily doing research in the humanities and related social sciences. Southeast European Language Training Grants. Committee on Scholarly Communications with China grants. New Perspectives in Chinese Culture and Society grants.
www.acls.org/ex-felcomp.htm
American Museum of Natural History -- Modest short term awards are offered to advanced graduate students and postdoctoral researchers who are commencing their careers in the fields of zoology, paleontology, anthropology, astrophysics and earth and planetary science. Approximately 200 grants are awarded annually. Research projects do not have to be carried out at the American Museum. Frank M. Chapman Memorial Grants support and foster research in ornithology, both neontological and palenontological. Lerner-Gray Grants provide financial assistance to highly qualified persons starting careers in marine zoology. Support is limited to projects dealing with systematics, evolution, ecology and field-oriented behavioral studies of marine animals. Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Grants support research on North American fauna in any phase of wildlife conservation or natural history related to the activities of the American Museum.
http://research.amnh.org/grants/grantsprog.html
American Philosophical Society – grants for research in the humanities, library resident fellowships for research in Early American history, sabbatical fellowships
www.amphilsoc.org/grants/
Charles A. Dana Foundation – grants for brain research, immunology, and arts education
www.dana.org/grants/
Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation -- grants to support teaching and research in the chemical sciences.
www.dreyfus.org
Earthwatch Institute -- Earthwatch is one of the largest private funders of scientific field research. Each year 130 to 140 field research projects are supported with grants, and approximately 4000 volunteer field assistants are provided to scientists doing research around the world. Supports field research that explores: 1) environmental impacts - how human activities affect ecosystems, endangered habitats, and threatened species; 2) biodiversity - how ecological and cultural forces related to ecosystem processes that maintain biological diversity; 3) human ecology - how the environment shapes human adaptation, indigenous knowledge, and socio-economic responses; 4) conservation management - how to foster habitat connectivity, sustainable agriculture, human-wildlife conflict mitigation, and other management practices.
www.earthwatch.org/site/pp.asp?c=dsJSK6PFJnH&b=392419
Engineering Information Foundation -- The EIF's grant activity supports developmental projects, instructional projects and training programs in engineering education and research. Current areas of interest include the availability and use of published information, women in engineering and information access in developing countries. EIF likes to see innovative projects with measurable results, projects that promote signficant and lasting change, projects that can be successfully replicated elsewhere, and methodologies that are specific, well-defined and cost-effective. Grant amounts range from $5,000 to $25,000. Matching funds/grants are encouraged.
www.eifgrants.org/info/index.html
Ford Foundation – grants to support three program areas: Asset Building and Community Development, Peace and Social Justice, and Knowledge and Creativity
www.fordfound.org/about/guideline.cfm
Fulbright Awards – grants for faculty university study abroad
www.cies.org
Lockheed Martin Corporation - Lockheed Martin's primary areas of funding are K-16 math, science, and engineering education initiatives including the Lockheed Martin Space Day Education Initiative, MATHCOUNTS, National Engineers Week and employee mentoring programs nationally and in its local communities. Lockheed dedicates most of its education funding to these activities. On occasion it considers local programs that support these priorities. Total funding available annually is based on the previous year's sales and earnings, and related factors such as perfromance and business priorities. Applications must be in writing (letter of less than two pages) and are accepted year-round.
www.lockheedmartin.com/wms/findPage.do?dsp=fec&ci=13019&rsbci=12908&fti=0&ti=0&sc=400
Motorola Foundation - funding for higher education focused on math, science and engineering education. Areas of interest: Education "Innovation Generation" supporting continuous improvements in schools at all grade levels, especially for under-represented groups; Community "Connections" supporting non-profit organizations, including those impacting arts and cultural programs; and Environment "One World"
www.motorola.com/content/jsp?globalObjectID=5120-8165
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (private) - The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) operates a conservation grants program that awards matching grants, on a competitive basis, to eligible grant recipients, including federal, tribal, state, and local governments, educational institutions, and non-profit conservation organizations. Project proposals are received on a year-round, revolving basis with two decision cycles peryear. Grants typically range from $25,000 to $250,000 based upon need. Pre-proposal deadlines are April 1 and September 1; full proposal deadlines are June 1 and November 1.
www.nfwf.org/guideines.cfm
National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts (NFAA) - NFAA seeks out artistically accomplished young people throughout the United States and gives them national recognition through cash awards and scholarships. NFAA encourages artistic growth and career development through workshops, public performances and exhibitions, internships, underwriting of creative projects, and residency fellowships. Areas of interest: classical, jazz and popular music; voice; dance; film and video; photography; theater; visual arts; and writing.
www.nfaa.org/aboutnfaa.htm
NEC Foundation of America – grants to nonprofit organizations to support the development, application and use of technology by and for people with disabilities
www.necfoundation.org/guidelines/
Poets and Writers – the nation’s largest nonprofit literary organization. Grants to organizations (e.g. libraries, colleges, bookstores) to pay fees to writers giving readings or conducting workshops in New and California and in Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, and Seattle
www.pw.org/rw/
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation -- RWJF is the nation's largest philanthropy dedicated to improving health and health care. RWJF supports training, education, research and projects that demonstrate effective ways to deliver health services, especially for the most vulnerable among us. Interest areas: addiction prevention and treatment, building human capital, childhood obesity, disparities, health insurance coverage, nursing, pioneer, public health, quality health care, tobacco use and exposure, and vlunerable populations. Specific grant programs include: Project HealthDesign - rethinking the power and potential of personal health records; Aligning Forces for Quality - helping communities dramatically improve the quality of the health care they provide for chronic diseases in ambulatory settings; and Fresh Ideas: Community-based Approaches to Improve Care for Vulnerable Populations.
www.rwjf.org/
SBC Foundation – education initiatives that support new classroom technology, after-school programs, teacher preparedness and other educational endeavors, particularly educational programs that use new technologies to enhance education.
http://att.sbc.com/gen/corporate-citizenship?pid=7736
Sherwood Anderson Grants for Writers
http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/journalism/comp.html
Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society – grants for full-time graduate and undergraduate students conducting scientific research in any field of science, technology and engineering. Individual award maximum usually is $1,000. Membership in Sigma Xi is not required; however, about 75% of awards are reserved for members.
www.sigmaxi.org/programs/giar/index.shtml
Social Science Research Council - fellowships for pre-dissertation and dissertation researchers whose work “targets the spaces between disciplines.” Interest areas: global security and cooperation, human migration, knowledge institutions, the public sphere
www.ssrc.org/fellowships/
Spencer Foundation – grants to “investigate ways in which education, broadly conceived, can be improved around the world”
www.spencer.org/programs/index.htm
The Energy Foundation – areas of research: reduce carbon emissions from utility industry, increase energy efficiency of U.S. homes and businesses, reduce vehicle global warming pollution and oil consumption, develop and promote policies to reduce global warming pollution, and assist China’s transition to a sustainable energy future
www.ef.org/programs.cfm
The Leakey Foundation -- The Leakey Foundation was formed to further research into human origins. Recent priorities include research into the environments, archeology and human paleontology; into the behavior, morphology and ecology of the great apes and other primate species; and into the behavioral ecology of contemporary hunter-gatherers. Other areas of study are rarely considered.
www.leakeyfoundation.org/grants/g2.jsp
The Merck Company Foundation – undergraduate science research program to support research stipends for undergraduate students who are double chemistry/biology majors
www.merckaaasusrp.org
The Smithsonian Institution -- Fellowships are offered for pre- and post-doctoral study and research in residence at the Smithsonian for not less than six nor more than twelve months. Graduate student fellowships are availablefor ten-week periods under the guidance of Smithsonian staff members. Internships for Native American undergraduate and graduate students are available for periods of nine to twelve weeks during the summer or academic year and include stipends and travel allowance. Minority internships for junior and senior undergraduates and graduate students also are available for those interested in independent research or in participating in ongoing research of museum-related activities. The National Museum of Natural History's Research Training Program offers ten-week internships for 24-30 outstanding undergraduate students, selected from around the world.
www.nmnh.si.edu/anthro/outreach/internsh.html
The Welch Foundation - fundamental chemistry research at universities, colleges or other educational institutions within the state of Texas. Minimum of $150,000 in funding over a three year period to support research in chemistry by a full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty member who serves as principal investigator.
The Wenner-Gren Foundation -- The foundation has two funding goals: advance basic research in anthropology and build an international community of anthropologists. Grants are available for basic research in all branches of anthropology. Amounts are up to $25,000 for Disssertation Fieldwork and Post-PhD grants and up to $40,000 for Richard Carely Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowships.
www.wennergren.org/programsirg.html