University Advancement

Grants

THE GRANTS OFFICE: Foundations

There are a number of databases and resources you can consult as you seek to identify possible funding organizations.

Foundations and Organizations

Fellowship Programs and Individual Research Grants

The foundations and organizations in this category offer research fellowships or make grants to individuals for research projects.

Program/Project Grants

These foundations and organizations fund larger program areas and mainly support projects (though some will support individual/cooperative research). Grants by these funders tend to be given not to individuals, but rather to institutions (including institutional divisions and programs) and organizations.

Fellowship Programs and Individual Research Grants

The foundations and organizations listed below offer research fellowships or make grants to individuals for research projects.

• American Academy in Rome
• American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
• American Philosophical Society
• James McKeen Cattell Foundation
• Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation
• J. Paul Getty Trust
• John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
• George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation
• Homer Hoyt Advanced Studies Institute
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute
• Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
• Social Science Research Council (SSRC)
• National Humanities Center
• Smithsonian Institution
• Spencer Foundation
• Stanford Humanities Center
• John Templeton Foundation
• Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation

Program/Project Grants

• The Annenberg Foundation
  
• Benton Foundation
  
• Blowitz-Ridgway Foundation
  
• Carnegie Corporation of New York
  
• Arthur Vining Davis Foundation
  
• Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
  
• Ford Foundation
  
• J. Paul Getty Trust
  
• William Randolph Hearst Foundations
  
• William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
  
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute
  
• W. M. Keck Foundation
  
• W. K. Kellogg Foundation
  
• The Henry Luce Foundation
  
• John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
  
• Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
  
• David and Lucile Packard Foundation
  
• Pew Charitable Trusts
  
• Rockefeller Brothers Fund
  
• Spencer Foundation
  
• John Templeton Foundation
  
• United States - Japan Foundation
  
• The Wallace Foundation
  
• U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation

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