Limited Submission Opportunities
W.M. Keck Foundation [new]
Research Program Awards (2026 Dec. Cycle)
Internal Deadline: 12/01/2025
Optional Counseling Period: 01/01-02/15/2026
Funder Deadline: 05/01/2026 (Phase 1 Application)
Amount: $1 million - 1.3 million
Focus: Medical Research and Science & Engineering
Warren Alpert Foundation
Distinguished Scholars Fellowship Award
Internal Deadline: 09/01/2025
Funder Deadline: 11/01/2025
Amount: $400,000
Focus: Postdoctoral scientists in neurosciences
Frontiers Research Foundation
Frontiers Planet Prize 2026
Internal Deadline: 09/15/2025
Funder Deadline: 11/01/2025
Amount: Up to $1 Million
Focus: Breakthrough research across all disciplines, on condition that it is focused on the 9 Planetary Boundaries
Moore Inventor Fellows Program
We have been informed by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation that its annual Inventor Fellows Program limited submission opportunity has concluded and that there will no longer be a call for applications. The program was launched in 2016 and committed to supporting 50 fellows over 10 years, with five fellows selected each year.
Fellowships - Humanities, Arts, Education, Social & Behavioral Sciences
Society for American Music [NEW]
John Koegel Latin American and Latinx Music Fellowship
Funder Deadline: 10/15 (Annual deadline)
Amount: Up to $2,000
Note: Applicants must be members in good standing of the Society for American Music.
Stanford University [NEW]
Fellowship - Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
Funder Deadline: 10/31/2025
Amount: Based on fellows' salary
Note: The 2026-27 cycle application will be open in mid-August.
National Humanities Center [Initial Post Date: 07/21/2025]
2026-27 Fellowships Program
Funder Deadline: 10/02/2025
Amount: Unspecified
Focus: In addition to all fields of the humanities, the Center also accepts applications from scholars in the natural and social sciences, the arts, the professions, and public life who are engaged in humanistic projects.
The American Academy in Berlin [Initial Post Date: 06/16/2025]
2026-27 Berlin Prize Fellowships
Funder Deadline: 09/22/2025
Amount: Monthly stipend of $5000, transportation, and accommodations
Focus: A broad range of disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, law, journalism, and various areas of public policy
Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, University of Michigan [Initial Post Date: 05/05/2025]
Frankel Institute Fellowship
Funder Deadline: 11/02/2025
Amount: $62,000 (full academic year)
Focus: Tenured & untenured faculty and recent Ph.D.’s
American Association for the Advancement of Science [Initial Post Date: 04/14/2025]
Science & Technology Policy Fellowships
Funder Deadline: 11/01/2025
Amount: Up to $129,000
Focus: To provide opportunities for outstanding scientists and engineers to learn first-hand about policymaking while contributing their knowledge and analytical skills to the federal policymaking process
American Institute for Conservation [Initial Post Date: 12/23/2024]
Kress Conservation Fellowship Program
Funder Deadline: 01/22 (annual deadline)
Amount: $44,000
MacDowell [Initial Post Date: 11/25/2024]
MacDowell Fellowship
Funder Deadline: 09/10/2025 (for Spring Summer 2026)
Amount: Food and accommodation for 2-6 weeks.
Note: Need-based stipends and travel reimbursement grants are available by application.
Focus: Artists in architecture, film/video arts, interdisciplinary arts, literature, music composition, theatre, and visual arts
Wenner-Gren Foundation [Initial Post Date: 10/28/2024]
Wadsworth International Fellowship
Funder Deadline: 03/01 (annual deadline)
Amount: Up to $60,000
Focus: Doctoral students in anthropology
Fellowships - Life Sciences & Medical Research
Institute for Advanced Study [NEW]
School of Natural Sciences 2026-2027 Membership
Funder Deadline: Rolling (biology)
Amount: Unspecified
Note: Membership positions include visiting professorships, sabbaticals, postdoctoral members and more. Please see Description of Positions for details. Biology applicants should directly email materials to these materials to @email.
Cancer Research Institute [Initial Post Date: 07/21/2025]
CRI Irvington Postdoctoral Fellowship
Funder Deadline: 03/01 and 09/01 (annual deadline)
Amount: $228,000
Focus: Early-career researchers in immunology
Note: When the deadline dates fall on the weekend or holiday, applications are due the following workday. The upcoming deadline is 09/02/2025
Immuno-Informatics Postdoctoral Fellowship
Funder Deadline: 03/01 and 09/01 (annual deadline)
Amount: $228,000
Note: When the deadline dates fall on the weekend or holiday, applications are due the following workday. The upcoming deadline is 09/02/2025.
CRI Lloyd J. Old STAR Program
Funder Deadline: 01/15 (LOI, annual deadline)
Amount: Up to $125,000
Focus: Mid-career researchers in cancer immunology
CRI Technology Impact Award
Funder Deadline: 11/15 (LOI, annual deadline); 03/03 (Full Application, annual deadline)
Amount: Up to $300,000
Focus: Addressing gaps between technology development and clinical application of cancer immunotherapies
National Humanities Center [Initial Post Date: 06/02/2025]
2026-27 Fellowships Program
Funder Deadline: 10/02/2025
Amount: Unspecified
Focus: In addition to all fields of the humanities, the Center also accepts applications from scholars in the natural and social sciences, the arts, the professions, and public life who are engaged in humanistic projects.
Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation [Initial Post Date: 06/02/2025]
Arnold O Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship
Funder Deadline: 09/05/2025
Amount: Up to $342,000 (Track 1); Up to $542,000 (Track 2)
Focus: Chemical Sciences and Chemical Instrumentation
Note: Fellowships are offered in two tracks (applicants will choose one).
Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation [Initial Post Date: 02/24/2025]
Damon Runyon Fellowship Award
Funder Deadline: 08/15/2025
Amount: $300,000
Fellowships - Physical Sciences, Engineering & Computer Science
Institute for Advanced Study [NEW]
School of Natural Sciences 2026-207 Membership
Funder Deadline: 11/15/2025 (physics and astrophysics)
Amount: Unspecified
Note: Membership positions include visiting professorships, sabbaticals, postdoctoral members and more. Please see Description of Positions for details.
American Mathematical Society [Initial Post Date: 07/21/2025]
The AMS Centennial Fellowship
Funder Deadline: 09/30/2025
Amount: $75,000
National Humanities Center [Initial Post Date: 07/21/2025]
2026-27 Fellowships Program
Funder Deadline: 10/02/2025
Amount: Unspecified
Focus: In addition to all fields of the humanities, the Center also accepts applications from scholars in the natural and social sciences, the arts, the professions, and public life who are engaged in humanistic projects.
American Association for the Advancement of Science [Initial Post Date: 04/14/2025]
Science & Technology Policy Fellowships
Funder Deadline: 11/01/2025
Amount: Up to $129,000
Focus: To provide opportunities for outstanding scientists and engineers to learn first-hand about policymaking while contributing their knowledge and analytical skills to the federal policymaking process
Fellowships - Nursing, Public Health & Healthcare Delivery
National Humanities Center [Initial Post Date: 07/21/2025]
2026-27 Fellowships Program
Funder Deadline: 10/02/2025
Amount: Unspecified
Focus: In addition to all fields of the humanities, the Center also accepts applications from scholars in the natural and social sciences, the arts, the professions, and public life who are engaged in humanistic projects.
American Association for the Advancement of Science [Initial Post Date: 04/14/2025]
Science & Technology Policy Fellowships
Funder Deadline: 11/01/2025
Amount: Up to $129,000
Focus: To provide opportunities for outstanding scientists and engineers to learn first-hand about policymaking while contributing their knowledge and analytical skills to the federal policymaking process
Grant Opportunities - Humanities, Arts, Education, Social & Behavioral Sciences
Conference on College Composition and Communication [NEW]
Funder Deadline: 09/01/2025
Amount: Up to $8,000
Focus: Key challenges faced by literacy, communication, rhetoric, and writing instructors and administrators in their classrooms and programs
Note: PI must be member of CCCC at the time of proposal submission.
Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library & Museum [NEW]
Funder Deadline: 03/15 and 09/15 (annual deadlines)
Amount: Up to $2,200
Focus: To support a research trip to the Ford Library in Ann Arbor, MI. Library collections focus on Federal policies, U.S. foreign relations, national politics and domestic issues in the 1960s and 1970s.
Ploughshares [Initial Post Date: 07/28/2025]
Funder Deadline: 08/25/2025
Amount: Up to $50,000
WITH Foundation [Initial Post Date: 07/28/2025]
Funder Deadline: 08/15/2025
Amount: $100,000
Focus: Policy Advocacy, Resource and Tool Development, Community-Driven Organizing, and Applied Research and Data Strategies
Dan David Prize [Initial Post Date: 07/21/2025]
Funder Deadline: 09/24/2025
Amount: $300,000
Focus: Early and mid-career scholars in history, archaeology, art history, digital humanities and human paleontology, as well as independent scholars, public historians, museum curators and documentary filmmakers
Note: Self-nominations will not be considered. Renominations from previous years are encouraged.
Children and Screens: The Institute of Digital Media and Child Development [Initial Post Date: 07/21/2025]
Funder Deadline: 10/03/2025
Amount: Up to $150,000
Note: At least one PI, Co-PI or Co-I must have attended the 2025 Digital Media and Developing Minds International Scientific Congress
John F. Kennedy Library Foundation [Initial Post Date: 07/21/2025]
Russell Sage Foundation [Updated, Initial Post Date: 08/08/2024]
Funder Deadline: 10/29/2025
Amount: Up to $200,000
Focus: Accepting LOIs for the following programs
- Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration
- Behavioral Science and Decision Making in Context
- Immigration and Immigrant Integration
- Implications of the 2023 Supreme Court Decision to Ban Race-Conscious Admissions at Colleges and Universities for Educational Attainment and Economic Mobility
Leukemia & Lymphoma Society [Initial Post Date: 07/14/2025]
Equity in Access Research Grants
Funder Deadline: 09/11/2025 (LOI); 01/29/2026 (Full Application)
Amount: Up to $2.5 million
Focus: Multi-disciplinary teams are encouraged; disciplines include but not limited to medicine/oncology, nursing, social work, public health, health services research, economics, sociology, health communication, epidemiology, and biostatistics
International Center for Responsible Gaming [Initial Post Date: 07/14/2025]
RFP: Research on Responsible Gaming
Funder Deadline: 08/15/2025
Amount: Up to $437,500
Focus: Evidence-based strategies that promote meaningful behavior change, enhance player protection, and improve engagement with RG tools and messaging
Rita Allen Foundation [Initial Post Date: 06/16/2025]
Civic Science Media: 2025 Funding Opportunity
Funder Deadline: 08/31/2025
Amount: Up to $15,000
Focus: Short-term pilot projects. Priority areas include artificial intelligence, climate science, and neuroscience.
Leakey Foundation [Initial Post Date: 06/16/2025]
Research Grants
Recurring Funder Deadlines: 01/10 and 07/15
Amount: Up to $30,000
Focus: Human origins and evolution
Note: PhD candidates and post-PhD researchers are both eligible.
Wenner-Gren Foundation [Initial Post Date: 06/09/2025]
Engaged Research Grant
Recurring Funder Deadline: 08/01
Amount: Up to $25,000
Focus: Doctoral students and doctorates in anthropology or related fields
Post-PhD Research Grant
Recurring Funder Deadlines: 05/01 and 11/01 (annual deadlines)
Amount: $25,000
Focus: Anthropology or a closely related field
Nathan Cummings Foundation [Initial Post Date: 05/26/2025]
FY2025 Grants
Funder Deadline: The application portal will re-open on 10/01/2025
Amount: Up to $250,000
Focus: Racial Justice, Economic Justice, and Environmental Justice
Note: Campus-based programs are not supported.
William T. Grant Foundation [Initial Post Date: 05/12/2025]
Institutional Challenge Grant
Funder Deadline: 9/15/2025
Amount: Up to $650,000
Focus: Projects that build sustained research-practice partnerships with public agencies or nonprofit organizations to reduce inequality in youth outcomes
Centene Foundation [Initial Post Date: 05/12/2025]
Grants
Recurring Funder Deadlines: 05/31 and 11/29
Amount: Unspecified (Featured grantees)
Focus: To build partnerships in education, health care, and social services that can grow over time and position communities to thrive
John Templeton Foundation [Initial Post Date: 04/21/2025]
Character Virtue Development
Funder Deadlines: 08/15/2025 (LOI); 01/16/2026 (Full Proposal)
Amount: Unspecified (Past Grants)
Focus: For the 2025 cycle, the Foundation is particularly interested in projects that highlight the role of relationships and communities in helping to address some of the most pressing issues individuals will face in the next decade:
- Purpose and Agency
- Character and Free Societies
- Moral Imagination and Hope
- Humility and Love
- Cooperation and Competition
Religion, Science, and Society
Funder Deadlines: 08/15/2025 (LOI); 01/16/2026 (Full Proposal)
Amount: Unspecified (Past Grants)
Focus: For the 2025 cycle, the Foundation is particularly interested in
- Understanding Religious and Cultural Change
- Health, Religion, and Spirituality
- Meaning Making in the Modern World
- Additional topical areas can be found here.
Public Engagement
Funder Deadlines: 08/15/2025 (LOI); 01/16/2026 (Full Proposal)
Amount: Unspecified (Past Grants)
Focus: Content projects and campus programming highlighting the role of virtues like intellectual humility, gratitude, curiosity, and love in solving the society's most pressing problems
Individual Freedom & Free Markets
Funder Deadlines: 08/15/2025 (LOI); 01/16/2026 (Full Proposal)
Amount: Unspecified (Past Grants)
Brady Foundation [Updated: 12/02/2024]
Proposals for Research Projects and Existing Program Evaluations
Funder Deadlines: 12/01/2025 (recurring deadlines)
Amount: Unspecified
Focus: Projects that will provide data to inform how to address disparities in educational opportunities
Center for the Study of Federalism [Initial Post Date: 02/17/2025]
Research Grants
Funder Deadline: 09/15/2025
Amount: Up to $15,000
Retirement Research Foundation (dba Foundation for Aging) [Initial Post Date: 02/17/2025]
Research Grants
Recurring Funder Deadlines: 05/01 (LOI) and 08/05 (Proposal); 11/01 (LOI) and 02/05 (Proposal); 02/01 (LOI) and 05/05 (Proposal)
Amount: Unspecified, past grants can be found here
Focus: Interventions, policies and practices to improve the well-being of older adults and/or their caregivers
Note: Navigating RRF's Application Process webinar
Engineering Information Foundation [Initial Post Date: 01/13/2025]
Engineering Education Grants
Funder Deadline: 02/28 and 08/31 (annual deadlines)
Amount: Up to $25,000
Focus: Program areas include Enhancing Communication in Engineering and Women in Engineering - Projects Directed by Engineering Educators
Kress Foundation [Initial Post Date: 01/06/2025]
Digital Art History Grants
Funder Deadlines: 03/01 and 09/01 (annual LOI deadlines)
Amount: Unspecified (Past Grants)
Conservation Grants
Funder Deadlines: 03/01, 09/01, and 12/15 (annual LOI deadlines)
Amount: Unspecified (Past Grants)
History of Art Grants
Funder Deadlines: 03/01, 09/01, and 12/15 (annual LOI deadlines)
Amount: Unspecified (Past Grants)
Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation [Initial Post Date: 11/18/2024]
Transformation of Mental Health Care Program
Funder Deadline:12/15 (annual deadline)
Amount: $200,000
Les Paul Foundation [Initial Post Date: 11/18/2024]
Grants
Funder Deadline: 09/15/2025
Amount: $1,500-2,000
Focus: Innovative programs in music production and/or performance and STEM or STEAM programs for students in challenging situations; medical research related to hearing impairment issues
Henry Luce Foundation [Initial Post Date: 09/30/2024]
Funder Deadline: Rolling
Amount: Unspecified (Past Grants)
Note: See guidelines for the review timeline
American Art - Responsive Grants
Funder Deadline: Rolling
Amount: Unspecified (Past Grants)
Focus: Scholarly loan exhibitions
Note: See guidelines for the review timeline
Asia - Responsive Grants
Funder Deadline: Rolling
Amount: Unspecified (Past Grants)
Note: See guidelines for the review timeline
Religion and Theology - Responsive Grant
Funder Deadline: Rolling
Amount: Unspecified (Past Grants)
Note: See guidelines for the review timeline
Open Philanthropy [Initial Post Date: 08/08/2024]
Request for Proposals: AI Governance
Funder Deadline: Rolling LOI
Amount: $200,000-$2,000,000
Funder Deadline: Rolling LOI
Amount: Unspecified (Past Grants)
Focus: Biosecurity and Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Sloan Foundation [Initial Post Date: 07/05/2024]
Funder Deadline: Rolling LOI
Amount: Unspecified (Recent Grants)
Focus: Collaborative, interdisciplinary scholarship across the social and natural sciences.
ECMC Foundation [Initial Post Date: 07/05/2024]
Funder Deadline: Rolling LOI
Amount: Unspecified (Past Grants)
Focus: Addressing basic needs insecurity among college students