There are various ways to search for funding opportunities. Here are a few well-known sources:
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The Community of Science Funding Opportunities database is a comprehensive source of funding information, with more than 23,000 records that represent over 400,000 funding opportunities worth more than $33 billion. The database can be searched by keyword, sponsor, funding type and so on.
(Note: The North Carolina Biotechnology Center's Library has subscription access to COS.)
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(Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects) is a searchable database of federally funded biomedical research projects conducted at universities, hospitals and other research institutions.
The database, maintained by the Office of Extramural Research at the National Institutes of Health, includes projects funded by the National Institutes of Health, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, Food and Drug Administration, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Agency for Health Care Research and Quality and Office of Assistant Secretary of Health.
Users can use the interface to search for scientific concepts, emerging trends and techniques, or identify specific projects and/or investigators.
CRISP interface does not include financial information so you cannot use this database to see how much money was awarded. Award data (the financial information) is available at these sites:
Other information about grants from the National Institutes of Health can be found at the NIH Grants and Funding Opportunities Web site.
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The Foundation Directory is a comprehensive directory providing descriptions of more than 41,000 grantmakers, including private grant-making foundations, community foundations, operating foundations, and corporate grant makers.
Records include entries from the following Foundation Center print publications: The Foundation Directory, The Foundation Directory, Part 2, New York State Foundations, Guide to U.S. Foundations, and National Directory of Corporate Giving.
The Center defines a foundation as a nongovernmental, nonprofit organization with its own funds (usually from a single source, either an individual, family or corporation) and program managed by its own trustees and directors.
Principal sources of information are voluntary reports by many grant makers directly to the Foundation Center and information obtained from public information returns filed each year with the Internal Revenue Service by private foundations.
Search using Dialog file 26.
The North Carolina Biotechnology Center's Library has subscription access to Dialog.
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Foundation Grants Index contains records describing grants that have been awarded to nonprofit organizations by the larger independent, corporate, and community foundations (more than 1,000 in 1995) located in the United States. This file cumulates grant records published in the Foundation Grants Index Annual and Foundation Grants Index Quarterly issues. Designed primarily to serve grant-seeking nonprofit organizations in determining private grantmakers' funding interests, it also serves grantmakers and researchers as a repository of historic information about private philanthropic activity. Individual subscribers can search grants using the Foundation Directory databases at or search using Dialog file 27.
Note: The North Carolina Biotechnology Center's Library has subscription access to Dialog.
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Grants, produced by Oryx Press, an imprint of the Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., provides information on more than 10,000 available grants offered by federal, state, and local governments, commercial organizations, associations, and private foundations.
Each entry includes full description, qualifications, money available, and renewability. Full name, address, and telephone number for each sponsoring organization, if available, are also included.
The Grants database corresponds to the print publications Directory of Research Grants, Directory of Biomedical and Health Care Grants, Directory of Grants in the Humanities, Funding Sources for Community and Economic Development, Funding Sources for K-12 Schools and Educational Organizations and Operating Grants for Nonprofit Organizations.
Individuals can subscribe to GrantSelect, a web version of this database. The Grants database is file 85 on Dialog.
Note: The North Carolina Biotechnology Center's Library has subscription access to Dialog.