Guides: Identifying Funding Opportunities: Federal Funding Opportunities

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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

Agency Sites

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

Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
Army Research Office (ARO)
Center for Economic Studies (Census Bureau)
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Department of Agriculture (DOA)
Department of Commerce (DOC)
Department of Education
Department of Energy (DOE)
Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
Science and Technology Directorate Solicitations Portal
Department of the Interior (DOI)
Department of Justice (DOJ)
Department of Labor (DOL)
Department of State (DOS)
Department of Transportation (DOT)
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Federal Business Opportunities (FBO)
Institute of Museum and Library Services
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation
Department of Energy Funding & Financing
Massachusetts Technology Collaborative
National Cooperative Highway Research Program
National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Humanities
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Grants & Agreements Management Division
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Office of Extramural Research (OER) Funding Opportunities & Notices Search Engine
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Funding Opportunities Search Engine
Allows end-user to customize funding searches, and to be notified by email when matching funding opportunities arise.
Naval Research Laboratory
NSPIRES NASA Solicitation and Proposal Integrated Review and Evaluation System
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Office of Naval Research (ONR)
Sandia National Laboratories
U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL)
See Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) is to view proposals for basic and applied research
U.S. Fire Administration
U.S. Institute of Peace

Examples of Federal Programs

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

Awards Made

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