External Funding

Federal sources

• U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
  • National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA: formerly Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service)
    • NIFA Funding Opportunities
    • NIFA – Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI)
• Department of Commerce (DOC)
  • National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST)
  • NIST Funding Opportunities
  • NIST SBIR/STTR Solicitations
  • NIST Partnerships
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
  • NOAA Acquisition and Grants Office
  • Office of Protected Resources
• Department of Defense (DOD)
  • Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
    • AFOSR Research Opportunities
  • Army Research Laboratory (ARL)
  • Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
    • Microsystems Technology Office (MTO)
    • DARPA Opportunities
  • Office of Naval Research (ONR)
    • ONR Solicitations
    • Naval Research Laboratory Request for Proposals
• Department of Education (DoEd)
  • ED Grants
  • ED.gov How do I
  • American Educational Research Association
  • Institute of Education Sciences
• Department of Energy (DOE)
  • DOE Funding Opportunities
  • Industry Interactive Procurement System (IIPS) Instructions
  • National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) Current solicitations
  • SBIR/STTR
• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
  • EPA Research Grants
• Government Publication Office (GPO)
  • GPO/Access (access to online databases)
• Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
  • HHS agencies and offices
    • Administration for Children and Families (ACF)
    • Administration for Community Living (ACL)
    • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
    • Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR)
    • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
    • Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
    • Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
    • Indian Health Service (IHS)
    • Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
  • Grants and Contracts
  • National Institutes of Health (NIH)
    • NIH E-mail Directory (Searchable)
    • Grants and Funding – Office of Extramural Research (OER)
    • RePORT Expenditures and Results query tool
    • NIH Activity Codes
    • NIH Grant Application Basics
    • NIH Research Grants (Types of Grant Programs)
    • NIH Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tool (RePORT)
    • NIH Standard Due Dates for Competing Applications
    • OER Funding Opportunities and Notices
    • OER Modular Research Grants
    • SBIR/STTR
• Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
  • Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency (HSARPA)
  • Financial Assistance – Grants
• Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
• Department of Interior (DOI)
  • Fish & Wildlife Service
  • Preserve America
  • Highlighted Grants
• Department of Justice (DOJ)
  • DOJ Grants
• National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA)
  • NASA NSPIRES (NASA Solicitation and Proposal Integrated Review and Evaluation System) Research Opportunities
  • NASA Research Opportunities
  • NASA Unsolicited Proposals Guidance
• National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
  • NEA Mid-America Arts Alliance
• National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
• National Science Foundation (NSF)
  • NSF Grant Proposal Guide
  • NSF Policy Office
  • NSF Active Funding Opportunities – Recently Announced
  • NSF Award Search
  • NSF Guide to Programs / Browse Funding Opportunities
  • Industrial Research and Development Information System
  • SBIR/STTR
• Department of State
• Department of Transportation (DOT)
• U. S. Agency for International Development

Related resources

• Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
• Federal Business Opportunities (FedBizOpps)
• The Federal Register
• Grants.gov

State of Iowa and other Iowa resources

• Alliant Energy Charitable Foundation
• Humanities Iowa
• Iowa Academy of Science
• Iowa Arts Council
• Iowa Corn Promotion Board
• Iowa Energy Center Competitive Grants
• Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship
• Iowa Department of Education
• Iowa Department of Natural Resources
• Iowa Department of Human Services
• Iowa Economic Development Authority
• Iowa Grants
• Iowa Women’s Foundation
• R. J. McElroy Trust
• Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust
• Wellmark Foundation

Foundations and other private sources

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Fields of interest: basic research, science education, public understanding of science, economic performance and quality of life, select national issues, and civic initiatives.

American Cancer Society

American Heart Association

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Fields of interest: higher education and scholarship, scholarly communications, research in information technology, museums and art conservation, performing arts, and conservation and the environment.

Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation
Fields of interest: chemistry and the life sciences, broadly interpreted, and particularly to foster the invention of methods, instruments, and materials that will open up new avenues of research in science.

AT&T Foundation
Field of interest: education

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Fields of interest: committed to bring innovations in health and learning to the global community and to improve educational opportunities and access to technology within the United States.

Burroughs Wellcome
Fields of interest: biomedical sciences, infectious disease, interfaces in Science, population and laboratory based sciences, reproductive sciences, science education, translational research.

Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation
Fields of interest: chemistry, chemical engineering, and related sciences.

David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Fields of interest: conservation and science, population and reproductive health, children, families, and communities.

The Lawrence Ellison Foundation
Fields of interest: basic biomedical research on aging relevant to understanding lifespan development processes and age-related diseases and disabilities.

Energy Foundation
Field of interest: energy efficiency and renewable energy-new technologies for power, buildings, transportation, and climate

Fats and Proteins Research Foundation
Field of interest: health, welfare and nutritious feed of many species of animals, enhanced current usage and the development of new uses for rendered animal products.

Ford Foundation
Fields of interest: democratic and accountable government, economic fairness, educational opportunity and scholarship, freedom of expression, human rights, metropolitan opportunity, sexuality and reproductive health and rights, social justice philanthropy, sustainable development.

Gerber Foundation
Field of interest: national programs having a significant impact on issues facing infants and young children, from prebirth to age 3; priority is given to projects that improve nutrition, care, and development of infants and young children from the first year before birth to three years of age.

Getty Foundation
Field of interest: advancing the understanding and preservation of the visual arts locally and throughout the world, including access to museum and archival collections, art history as a global discipline, advancing conservation practice, leadership and professional development

GrantsNet – AAAS

Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Field of interest: biomedical research

Iowa State University Foundation

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Fields of interest: human and community development, including affordable housing, community and economic development, digital media and learning, juvenile justive, mental health, policy research.

Kresge Foundation
Fields of interest: health, environment, arts and culture, community development, education, human services

Laird Norton Family Foundation
Fields of interest: arts in education, climate change, global fundamentals, watershed stewardship

McKnight Foundation
Fields of interest: arts, children and families, environment, neuroscience research,

Morris Animal Foundation
Fields of interest: veterinary medicine

Pew Charitable Trusts
Fields of interest: arts and culture; children and youth; computers and the Internet; corrections and public safety; economic policy, education, elections; environment; family financial security; government performance; health; Hispanics in America, media and journalism; national civic initiatives; public opinion; religion and public life; science; state policy and performance

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Fields of interest: improving health policy and practice, including building human capital, childhood obesity, expanding health coverage, pioneering solutions, public health, quality/equality, vulnerable populations

Spencer Foundation
Field of interest: education, including the relation between education and social opportunity; organizational learning in schools, school systems, and higher education systems; teaching, learning, and instructional resources; purposes and values of education

Whitaker International Program
Field of interest: biomedical engineering, specifically to strengthening international collaborative links between young leaders in BME worldwide

W. K. Kellogg Foundation
Fields of interest: improving the lives of vulnerable children, including, education and learning; food, health, and well-being; family economic security

W. M. Keck Foundation
Fields of interest: science, engineering, and medical research

William T. Grant Foundation
Field of interest: reducing inequality and improving the use of research evidence in decisions affecting young people in the United States