Funding

Discipline(s): All

The Graduate School's Office of Research and Projects (ORP) is offering this monthly e-newsletter of foundation-sponsored grant opportunities available to support the diverse research and creative activities of all faculty.

Les Paul Foundation
Grant Opportunity: General Grants
Summary: Awards grants to programs and projects that encourage innovation in music production and/or performance and to innovative STEM and STEAM programs for students and others in challenging situations. Provides grants for medical research related to curing tinnitus and hearing impairment issues.
Grant Cap: $2,000
Deadline: September 15, 2025
For More Information: Link

Kroger
Grant Opportunity: Disaster Relief, Education, Food, Health, Social Action, Youth
Summary: The Kroger Foundation supports Kroger’s Zero Hunger | Zero Waste social impact plan. They prioritize donations supporting nonprofit organizations and programs that help end hunger and waste in our communities. They also support other nonprofit organizations that are making a difference. Grant making is concentrated in these key focus areas: Hunger relief; Sustainability; Disaster relief; Health & nutrition; Diversity & inclusion; and Education & youth development.
Grant Cap: There is no set award amount. You should request the amount of funding you will need to complete your proposed project—including direct and indirect costs—for the entire duration of your grant.
Deadline: September 19, 2025 (next deadline is December 5, 2025)
For More Information: Link

American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
Grant Opportunity: Fellowship
Summary: The fellowship is open to scholars at all postdoctoral career stages, working on or off the tenure track, who have earned a PhD in the humanities or interpretive social sciences by the application deadline.  Tenure: six to twelve months devoted to full-time research and/or writing, to be initiated between July 1, 2026 and July 1, 2027, and to be completed by December 31, 2027. Six months of the fellowship tenure must be consecutive, but any remainder of the fellow’s award term can be taken separately at a later date within the eligible award window.
Grant Cap: $60,000
Deadline: September 25, 2025
For More Information: Link

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Grant Opportunity: Exploring Equitable Futures Call for Proposals
Summary: The purpose of this Exploring Equitable Futures call for proposals (CFP) is to support projects that seed new and unconventional ideas that could radically advance health equity for generations to come.
Grant Cap: There is no set award amount. You should request the amount of funding you will need to complete your proposed project—including direct and indirect costs—for the entire duration of your grant.
Deadline:  All applications must be submitted before October 15, 2025, 2:00pm cst
For More Information: Link

GEICO Philanthropic Foundation
Grant Opportunity: Community Funding
Summary: The GEICO Philanthropic Foundation provides grants to nonprofit organizations nationwide that deliver programs to support and uplift diverse communities. Its funding priorities include expanding access to education, particularly in STEM, early childhood learning, and safety. The Foundation also invests in community engagement efforts that address issues such as financial literacy, food insecurity, environmental conservation, animal welfare, and health and wellness. In addition, it supports organizations advancing equity, justice, diversity, and inclusion to create fairer opportunities for all.
Grant Cap: There is no set award amount. You should request the amount of funding you will need to complete your proposed project—including direct and indirect costs—for the entire duration of your grant.
Deadline:  Open from October 1-December 31, 2025 (submit atleast 8 weeks prior to the data support is needed)
For More Information: Link

Simons Foundation
Grant Opportunity: Targeted Grants to Institutes
Summary: The program aims to assist established institutes or centers in the mathematics and physical sciences through funding to strengthen contacts within the international scientific community. In addition, it looks to help institutes extend and enhance their missions; this program will not provide primary support for operating or establishing an institute.  The program is intended to support established institutes or centers in the mathematics and physical sciences through funding to help strengthen contacts within the international scientific community. Our aim is to enable institutes to extend and enhance their missions; this program will not provide primary support for operating or establishing an institute.
Grant Cap: $250,000 per year for up to 3 years
Deadline:  October 2, 2025
For More Information:  Link

American Philosophical Society
Grant Opportunity: Franklin Research Grants
Summary: Today, the society sustains this mission by honoring and engaging leading scholars, scientists, and professionals; supporting research and discovery; and serving scholars through a research library of manuscripts and other collections internationally recognized for their enduring historical value. Awards are for support of travel costs to libraries and archives for research purposes; the purchase of microfilm, photocopies, or equivalent research materials; costs associated with fieldwork; or laboratory research expenses to scholars.
Grant Cap: $6,500.00
Deadline: October 1, 2025
For More Information: Link

Whitehall Foundation
Grant Opportunity: LOI for bioscience research projects
Summary: The Whitehall Foundation is a not-for-profit corporation that is focused exclusively on assisting basic research in vertebrate (excluding clinical) and invertebrate neurobiology in the United States. The foundation is interested in basic research in neurobiology, defined as invertebrate and vertebrate (excluding clinical) neurobiology, specifically investigations of neural mechanisms involved in sensory, motor, and other complex functions of the whole organism as these relate to behavior. The goal should be to better understand behavioral output or brain mechanisms of behavior. The principal investigator (PI) must hold at least the position of assistant professor, or the equivalent, to participate in the application process.
Grant Cap: Research: Grants of up to $100,000 per year for two to three years will be awarded to investigators who meet all of the foundation’s eligibility requirements and are working at accredited institutions in the United States. Grants-in-Aid: One-year grants of up to $30,000 will be awarded to researchers at the assistant professor level who experience difficulty in competing for research funds because they have not yet become firmly established.
Deadline: Letters of intent must be received by October 1, 2025, and selected applicants will be invited to submit full applications by February 15, 2026.
For More Information: Link

American Psychological Foundation
Grant Opportunity: Scott and Paul Pearsall grant program
Summary: Support of graduate and early career work that seeks to increase the public’s understanding of the psychological pain and stigma experienced by adults with visible physical disabilities, such as cerebral palsy. The program aims to encourage talented students and early career researchers to orient their careers to understanding the psychological effect of stigma on people with visible disabilities; develop strategies to improve the public’s understanding of the psychological pain and stigma felt by individuals with visible physical disability, in order to reduce harmful misconceptions; and encourage dissemination of findings to the public, expressly through media.
Grant Cap: $10,000
Deadline: October 2, 2025
For More Information: Link

American Psychological Foundation
Grant Opportunity: Dr. Diana Slaughter Kotzin and Mr. Joseph G. Kotzin Fund Grant
Summary: The Dr. Diana Slaughter Kotzin and Mr. Joseph G. Kotzin Fund Grant will support research, practice, or education of an early career psychologist on the topic of child and youth suicide among African Americans.
Grant Cap: $9,500
Deadline: October 2, 2025
For More Information: Link

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