Guides: Identifying Funding Opportunities: Federal Funding Opportunities

Top Resources

National Science Foundation (NSF)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Grants.gov
A simple, unified source to electronically find, apply, and manage federal grant opportunities

Government agencies maintain their own sites for grant funding, however, use Grants.gov or GrantAdvisor to also find these opportunities.

Early Career/Young Faculty/New Investigator Programs

National Science Foundation: Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program
Provide stable support at a sufficient level and duration to enable awardees to develop careers as outstanding researchers and educators who effectively integrate teaching, learning and discovery.
National Institutes of Health: NIH Director’s New Innovator Award Program (DP2)
Support a small number of early stage investigators of exceptional creativity who propose bold and highly innovative new research approaches that have the potential to produce a major impact on broad, important problems in biomedical and behavioral research.
Department of Energy Early CAREER Research Program
The Early Career program supports the development of individual research programs of outstanding scientists early in their careers and stimulates research careers in the disciplines supported by the DOE Office of Science.
UC Berkeley - More Funding Opportunities for New or Young Faculty

Sometimes viewing awards made in the past can be extremely useful! Here are some examples.