Here are a number of resources available to assist you in your search for funding:
Fellowship Databases
The Office of Citizen Scholar Development at UVA maintains a sortable awards database.
Graduate Outreach and Engagement within the Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs provides a table of funding opportunities.
Johns Hopkins University continuously updates a database of graduate student funding opportunities and postdoctoral researcher funding opportunities, both of which can be downloaded as an Excel spreadsheet.
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) maintains a graduate student and postdoctoral researcher funding database with various search options.
University of Illinois maintains a Fellowship Finder, which is a database of funding opportunities for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers.
Duke University maintains a research funding database. Among the search options are funding opportunities for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.
Funding Discovery Tools
Available to all UVA faculty, staff, and students.
GrantForward
UVa subscription; create your own account (using your virginia.edu email address) to gain access to all features.
Grants.gov
Grants.gov is the primary source for finding U.S. government grants.
NOTE: Only the UVa Office of Sponsored Programs is authorized to submit proposals via Grants.gov.
InfoEd Sponsored Programs Information Network (SPIN)
InfoEd SPIN is a database of funding opportunities from government and private sources. Researchers who would like to access the database from off-Grounds should use the UVA Anywhere VPN; instructions for setting up UVA Anywhere can be found here.
Foundation Center
This database features contact information on grant-makers in the U.S. including private foundations, community foundations, grantmaking public charities, and corporate giving programs. Also offers IRS 990 forms of foundations. UVa Subscription
Avoid Grant Scams
A useful guide from the US Department of Health and Human Services on how to avoid falling victim to grant scammers.
Research Spending & Results
A database of awards made by the NSF and NASA. Hosted on Research.gov
