For the latest funding news, check Office of Sponsored Projects

Search for Funding Sources

IRIS: The Illinois Researcher Information Service
a user-friendly database that allows you to do computerized funding searches specific to your discipline.

IRIS Alert Service - Receive funding announcements automatically.

GrantSearch is an additional source to perform funding searches.

Grants.gov - the official E-Grants website where applicants may find and apply to funding opportunities from all Federal grant-making agencies

Internet Prospector / Foundations

Foundation Finder - Provides facts and links to more than 50,000 U.S. Foundations, corporate grantmakers and public charities

Grantsmart.org

Guidestar - Searchable database of more than 600,000 nonprofit organizations including public charities and private foundations.
 

Funding

Federal Funding Sources

• National Science Foundation
• National Institute of Health
• National Endowment for the Arts
• National Endowment for the Humanities
• National Register
• Department of Education
• Department of Agriculture
• GrantsNet (Department of Health and Human Services)
• Government Nonprofit Gateway
• United States Agency for International Development

State Funding Sources (Illinois)

• Illinois Board of Higher Education
• State Board of Education
• Department of Agriculture
• Department of Commerce and Community Affairs
• Office of the Governor
• Department of Human Services
• Central Management Services
• Department of Public Health

Private Funding Sources

• Foundation Center
• Council on Foundations
• National Networks for Grant Makers
• The Grantsmanship Center

Administration for Children and Families

ACF Programs
Telephone Directory

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

AHRQ Funding Opportunities

Agency for Toxic Substances & Disease Registry
 

Air Force Office of Scientific Research

Army Medical Research Material Command

Army Research Office

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Application forms
Funding Opportunities
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
 

Corporation for National Service (CNS)

AmeriCorps
Learn and Serve America

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Department of Agriculture

Department of Commerce

Department of Defense

Department of Education

Discretionary Grant Application Packages
Federal Register Announcements
FIPSE The Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education website
Guide to Department of Education Programs

Department of Energy

Office of Science
 

Department of Health and Human Services

Employee Locator

Department of the Interior

Department of Justice

Department of Justice Funding Opportunities
National Criminal Justice Reference Service
Office of Justice Programs
National Institute of Justice

Department of Labor

Employment Training Administration
School-to-work

Department of State

Department of Transportation

Grant Information and Policy

Environmental Protection Agency

EPA Offices, Regions, and Laboratories
EPA Grants Page

John E. Fogarty International Center

Food and Drug Administration

Health Resources and Services Administration

Maternal and Child Health Bureau

Housing and Urban Development

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NASA's Office of Procurement

National Endowment for the Arts

National Endowment for the Humanities

NEH Grant Information

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

National Institute of Standards and Technology

Employee Locator
NIST Programs

National Institutes of Health

Office of Extramural Research
NIH Guide
CRISP
Forms
Grants Policy Statement
 

National Ocean and Atmosphere Administration

Procurement and Grant Information
Telephone Directory

National Research Council

National Science Foundation

Custom News Service
Deadlines and Target Dates
Grant Proposal Guide and Forms Kit
Grants and Awards
Grants Policy Manual
NSF Fastlane
NSF Award Data

National Telecommunications & Infrastructure Administration

NTIA Grants

Navy

Naval Research Laboratory
Office of Naval Research

SBIR/STTR homepage Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer Research Program (STTR)

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

U.S. Agency for International Development

Office of Procurement

U.S. Geological Survey

Contracts and Grants Information

U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)

U.S. Institute of Peace

U.S. Trade and Development Agency

Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology

Center for Advanced Study

Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB)

Institute of Government and Public Affairs

National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)

Illinois Arts Council

Illinois Board of Higher Education

Illinois Department of Commerce & Community Affairs (link to RFPs)

Illinois Department of Natural Resources

Illinois Department of Natural Resources, Waste Management and Research Center (WMRC)

Illinois Department of Public Health

Illinois Humanities Council

Illinois State Board of Education (link to RFPs)

State of Illinois homepage

Research Integrity at NIU

Institutional Review Board (IRB)

Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC)

Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC)

Intellectual Property Policy

NIU Policies for the Responsible Conduct of Scholarship

The Statement on Professional Ethics

Colleges and Departments at NIU

Council on Foundations. A membership organization of more than 2,000 grantmaking foundations and giving programs worldwide.

The Society of Research Administrators (SRA) SRA also maintains a comprehensive website of government resources and private funding sources.

Electronic forms

NSF Guide to Proposal Writing

Research / Artistry

University policies

Intellectual Property Policy

The Office of Sponsored Projects at NIU offers a page of Listserv information

The Office of Research at the University of Pittsburgh maintains a list of foundations on the Internet.

The National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE)