Grants and Funding: Additional Funding Resources

Free and subscription databases for locating foundations and charities that give grants. Access funder profiles and their 990 PF tax forms. Training and publication info included. Formerly called Foundation Center, Candid resulted from a merger of the Foundation Center and Guidestar

Candid provides limited access to the Foundation Directory Online with a free required regisration.

ProposalCentral enables researchers to tap into funding, get credit for their contributions, and realize the full potential of their scientific efforts. Signing up for a free account is required.

Philanthropy News Digest publishes Requests for Proposals (RFPs) and notices of awards as a free service for U.S.-based nonprofit and grantmaking organizations.

GRANTWATCH describes itself as "the number 1 website for International, Canada and USA federal, state, local, foundation, and corporation grants with more than 21,146 current grants, funding opportunities, awards, contracts and archived grants"

GrantForward is the only funding opportunity database and recommendation service built by academics for researchers. Certain sections can be accessed free of charge.

AHRQ provides an array of pre-doctoral and postdoctoral educational and career development grants and opportunities in health services research training

The MacArthur Foundation provides funding for people and organizations working to address a variety of complex societal challenges.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation supports a wide range of initiatives to strengthen the humanities, arts, higher education, and cultural heritage. Organizations in those fields can consult descriptions of the Foundation's areas of grant making to determine whether a project fits within the Foundation's programmatic interests and priorities.

The Hearing Health Foundation offers Emerging Research Grants which provide seed money to hearing and balance researchers who focus on researching underfunded areas of otology. Awards are one year in length and are renewable for a second year.

The Hearst Foundations support well-established nonprofit organizations that address significant issues within their major areas of interests – culture, education, health and social service – and that primarily serve large demographic and/or geographic constituencies. In each area of funding, the Foundations seek to identify those organizations achieving truly differentiated results relative to other organizations making similar efforts for similar populations. The Foundations also look for evidence of sustainability beyond their support.

The Sarcoma Foundation issues supports
new or continued research to find new and better therapies against sarcoma. Requests for proposals (RFP) are issued yearly in October-November.