Looking for Funding?

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