Non-Government Funding Opportunities By Subject

Agriculture (General, Food Science) | Architecture | Business (Economics, Industry/Free Enterprise, Non-Profit Research) | Education | Engineering (General, Transportation) | Environment (General, Energy Sources) | General (Various Databases, Human Services) | Health/Medicine (General, Specific Diseases, Psychology, Population Research) | Humanities (Arts, Communications, General, History/Social Science/Political Science) | International | Science and Technology

An alphabetical listing of these same sources is located at Non-Government Funding Opportunities Listed Alphabetically.

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Agriculture

General

• W.K.Kellogg Foundation -- Food Systems, Rural Development
• The Charles A and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation
• National Academy of Sciences (NAS), National Academy of Engineering(NAE), Institute of Medicine(IOM), National Research Council (NRC)
• Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation
• The Rockfeller Foundation

Food Sciences

• Conservation, Food, and Health Foundation -- Production/Distribution of Food

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Architecture

• Graham Foundation

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Business

Economics

• Ford Foundation -- Economic Development
• Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment (FREE)
• General Electric Fund -- Management Higher Education
• The Haynes Foundation -- Employment/Workforce in a Restructuring Economy
• The Heinz Endowments -- Efficient Economy
• MetLife Foundation -- Business and Economic Education
• Charles Stewart Mott Foundation -- Employment Development, Capital Development, Income Security, Poverty, Reform of International Trade/Lending Policies, Non Profit research
• Open Society Foundations (SOROS Foundations Network) -- Economic Restructuring
• The Prudential Foundation
• The Russell Sage Foundation
• The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Industry/Free Enterprise

• BIRD Foundation -- Direct support for U.S.-Israel Industrial Cooperation and Innovation
• Eurasia Foundation -- Democratic and Free market Institutions in the Former Soviet Union
• The Edward Lowe Foundation
• The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
• The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

Non-Profit Research

• The Aspen Institute
• Fieldstone Foundation -- Building of Non-Profits through Leadership Programs
• The Rockefeller Brothers Fund
• The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Education

• American Educational Research Association
• Annenburg Foundation -- Public Education for K-12, Early Childhood Education, Child Development
• ATT Foundation
• William Bingham Foundation
• Burroughs Wellcome Fund -- Science Education
• The Charles A. Dana Foundation
• Arthur Vining Davis Foundation -- Secondary Education
• William H. Donner Foundation
• Ford Foundation
• General Electric Fund -- Science, Engineering and Management Higher Education, Precollege Education
• The Heinz Endowments
• William and Flora Hewlett Foundation -- K-12 Education (Bay Area)
• Hewlett Packard Education Grants
• IBM International Foundation
• W.K.Kellogg Foundation
• John S. and James Knight Foundation -- Educational reform
• George Lucas Educational Foundation
• The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
• James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation -- Strengthen Secondary School teaching of the Principals, Framing, and Development of the U.S. Constitution
• The James S. McDonnell Foundation -- Research and Innovation in Education
• The Andrew Mellon Foundation
• MetLife Foundation -- Precollege Education, Business and Economic Education, Higher Education, emphasis on Minorities
• The Millipore Foundation
• Charles Stewart Mott Foundation -- Improving Education, Education in South Africa
• National Academy of Sciences (NAS), National Academy of Engineering(NAE), Institute of Medicine(IOM), National Research Council (NRC)
• NEC Foundation of America -- Science and Technology Education (principally on the secondary level)
• Open Society Foundations (SOROS Foundations Network)
• David and Lucille Packard Foundation
• The Prudential Foundation
• The Rockefeller Foundation -- School Reform
• The Rockefeller Brothers Fund
• Rotary's Foundation -- Fellowships for University Teachers to teach in developing countries
• The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
• Sprint Foundation
• Toyota USA -- K-12 Education
• The US-Japan Foundation -- Precollege Education
• Verizon Foundation -- Mathematics and Science Education

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Engineering

General

• Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation -- Chemical Engineering
• General Electric Fund -- Engineering Higher Education
• W.M. Keck Foundation
• National Academy of Engineering
• Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
• The Whitaker Foundation -- Biomedical engineering

Transportation

• The Energy Foundation
• The Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation -- Aviation
• National Academy of Sciences (NAS), National Academy of Engineering (NAE), Institute of Medicine(IOM), National Research Council (NRC)
• Surdna Foundation

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Environment

• Conservation, Food, and Health Foundation -- Natural Resources
• Cottonwood Foundation
• Nathan Cummings Foundation
• Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment (FREE)
• Global Communications/Progressive Directory
• The Heinz Endowments -- Waste Reduction, Fresh Water and Watershed Protection
• William and Flora Hewlett Foundation -- US West Environment
• The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation -- World Concerns
• The Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation -- Conservation and Waste Minimization
• Charles Stewart Mott Foundation -- Prevention of Toxic Pollution, Manufacturer's Pesticides, Protection of Environment
• The Andrew Mellon Foundation
• National Academy of Sciences (NAS), National Academy of Engineering (NAE), Institute of Medicine(IOM), National Research Council (NRC)
• David and Lucille Packard Foundation -- Conservation, Ocean Science
• Pew Charitable Trusts
• Resources for the Future
• The Rockefeller Foundation -- Global Environment
• The Rockefeller Brothers Fund -- Sustainable Resource Use
• Sierra Club Foundation
• Surdna Foundation -- Biological and cultural diversity, restoring the environment in urban and suburban areas
• Turner Foundation -- Conservation and Wildlife
• Weeden Foundation

Energy Sources

• The Energy Foundation -- Utilities, Building, Transportation, renewable energy, and integrated issues
• Mertz Gillmore Foundation -- Energy Policy
• The Rockefeller Foundation
• Surdna Foundation

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General

• Council on Foundations
• Foundation Center

Human Services/Community Development

• ATT Foundation -- Human Services, Community Service
• William Bingham Foundation
• The Annie E. Casey Foundation -- Policies, reforms, and community supports that meets the needs of children and families
• Crail-Johnson Foundation -- Children
• William H. Donner Foundation -- Human Capital Development
• Fieldstone Foundation -- Children and Families, Community Violence
• Ford Foundation -- Community Resource Development, Human Development
• The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation -- Youth, Family
• The Heinz Endowments -- Community Development as well as Youth and Families
• William and Flora Hewlett Foundation -- Family/Community Development
• IBM International Foundation -- Human Services, Support of the Underrepresented
• The James Irvine Foundation -- Children/Youth, Nonprofit community development, Sustainable Communities
• John S. and James Knight Foundation -- Youth violence
• The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation -- Youth development
• W.K.Kellogg Foundation -- Philanthropy/Volunteerism
• Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation -- Quality of Life, Disabled Youth
• Charles Stewart Mott Foundation -- Building Communities, Poverty, Strengthening Families
• NEC Foundation of America -- Application of Technology to Assist People With Disabilities
• David and Lucille Packard Foundation -- Children, Community
• The Prudential Foundation -- Human Services, Urban and Community Development, Focus on Children and Civic Affairs
• The Rockefeller Foundation -- Job Creation
• Rotary Foundation -- Community
• The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation -- Family
• The Sprint Foundation -- Community Improvement, Youth Development
• Surdna Foundation -- Community Revitalization, Effective Citizenry

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Health & Medicine

General

• ATT Foundation
• California Healthcare Foundation -- Managed care, Special Populations, Health Policy, Consumer Health Info/Education, Public Health
• The California Wellness Foundation -- Community Health, Work and Health
• Conservation, Food, and Health Foundation
• Nathan Cummings Foundation
• The Charles Dana Foundation
• Foundation for Seacoast Health -- Health of Infants,Children and Adolescent, Preventing Disease, Women's Health
• John Hartford Foundation
• IBM International Foundation
• The James Irvine Foundation
• Irvine Health Foundation -- Prevention, Services, Research, Policy, Youth, Seniors Concentrated in Orange County
• The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• The Henry J. Kaiser Foundation -- Health policy, Policy and Innovation in California, Health and Development in South Africa
• W.K.Kellogg Foundation
• Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation -- Public Policy
• John S. and James Knight Foundation -- Immunization
• MayDay Fund -- Treatment of Pain
• The Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation
• The James S. McDonnell Foundation -- Biomedical Sciences
• The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
• MetLife Foundation -- Health (education of young people)
• The Millipore Foundation
• National Academy of Sciences (NAS), National Academy of Engineering (NAE), Institute of Medicine(IOM), National Research Council (NRC)
• Prevent Cancer Foundation
• Prudential Foundation
• The Rockefeller Foundation
• US-Latin American Medical Aid Foundation
• The Whitaker Foundation -- Biomedical Engineering

Specific Diseases

• American Heart Association
• Arthritis Foundation
• Fieldstone Foundation -- Drug and Alcohol Abuse, Child Abuse
• Irvine Health Foundation
  HIV/AIDS and Domestic Violence
• The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation -- Substance Abuse and Cost Containment of Health Industry
• The Henry J. Kaiser Foundation -- HIV policy
• The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation -- Parasitic Disease
• MetLife Foundation -- AIDS, drug and alcohol abuse
• Mike Utley Foundation -- Spinal Cord Injuries
• Prevent Cancer Foundation

Psychology/Behavioral Diseases

• American Psychological Association
• Burroughs Wellcome Fund -- Reproductive Science
• Ford Foundation -- Reproductive Health
• The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
• The James S. McDonnell Foundation -- Behavioral Sciences
• National Academy of Sciences (NAS), National Academy of Engineering (NAE), Institute of Medicine(IOM), National Research Council (NRC)
• Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues

Population

• Woodrow Wilson International Center For Scholars -- Population, Teenage Pregnancy
• The Henry J. Kaiser Foundation -- Reproductive Health
• William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
• The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
• The Andrew Mellon Foundation
• David and Lucille Packard Foundation
• The Rockefeller Foundation
• Turner Foundation
• Weeden Foundation

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Humanities

Arts

• American Council of Learned Societies -- Art History
• ATT Foundation
• William Bingham Foundation
• Nathan Cummings Foundation
• Gladys Kreible Delmas Foundation -- Performing Arts
• Ford Foundation
• General Electric Fund
• Getty Grant Program -- Art History
• Graham Foundation -- Architecture
• The Gunk Foundation -- Public arts projects; Scholarly Artistic Publications
• William and Flora Hewlett Foundation -- Dance Music, Theatre
• IBM International Foundation
• The James Irvine Foundation
• John S. and James Knight Foundation -- Symphony, Museum Loan
• The Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation -- Arts Education
• The Andrew Mellon Foundation -- Cultural affairs and the Performing Arts
• MetLife Foundation -- Arts and the School, Multicultural Art, Traveling Exhibits
• The Millipore Foundation
• New Music USA 
• Open Society Foundations (SOROS Foundations Network)
• David and Lucille Packard Foundation -- Art/Film Preservation
• Prudential Foundation -- Community
• Smithsonian
• The Sprint Foundation
• Kurt Weill Foundation for Music -- Performance and Production, Recording Projects, Research and Travel

Communications

• Cable Television Laboratories
• Corporation for Public Broadcasting
• Arthur Vining Davis Foundation -- Public Television
• Freedom Forum -- Journalism, Free Speech
• Ford Foundation -- Media
• The Henry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
• George Lucas Educational Foundation
• John S. and James Knight Foundation -- Journalism education, Diversity in Journalism, First Amendment, Free Press
• The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation -- Media
• The Markle Foundation -- Media, Interactive Communications Technologies, Communications Policy
• Morino Institute -- Communication for Disadvantaged
• Nieman Foundation for Journalism
• Open Society Foundations (SOROS Foundations Network) -- Internet and Media
• Kurt Weill Foundation for Music -- Broadcasts

General/Miscellaneous

• American Council of Learned Societies
• Cottonwood Foundation -- Cultural Diversity
• Nathan Cummings Foundation -- Jewish Life
• Gladys Kreible Delmas Foundation -- Humanities, Research Library, Venetian Research
• Global Communication/Progressive Directory -- Human rights, nonviolent conflict, resolution, woman's equality
• The James Irvine Foundation -- Ethnic Studies
• W.M. Keck Foundation
• The Andrew Mellon Foundation -- Public Affairs
• MetLife Foundation -- Civic Affairs (affordable housing, community security) Anti-violence
• The Charles A and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation -- Humanities Education
• Charles Stewart Mott Foundation -- Race Relations
• Open Society Foundations (SOROS Foundations Network) -- Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid, Legal Reform
• The Rockefeller Foundation -- Diversity
• The Russell Sage Foundation
• Whirlpool Foundation -- Women Studies
• Woodrow Wilson International Center For Scholars -- Ethnicity, Nuclear Proliferation

History/Political Science/Social Science

• American Council of Learned Societies
• ARCA Foundation -- Public Policy
• CarEth Foundation
• Ford Foundation -- Governance/Civil Society, Human Rights
• General Electric Fund -- Public Policy
• Global Communications/Progressive Directory -- Human rights, nonviolent conflict resolution, social and economic justice, woman's equality
• The Henry Frank Guggenheim Foundation -- Violence Prevention, Crime
• William and Flora Hewlett Foundation -- Conflict resolution
• Innovations in Government
• The Haynes Foundation -- Social/political problems in Los Angeles, Curtailing Crime and Violence in a Free Society, Social Science Research
• The Heinz Endowments -- Urban Inefficiency
• IBM International Foundation -- Public Policy Research
• The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation -- Peace and International Cooperation
• James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation -- Strengthen Secondary School teaching of the Principals, Framing, and Development of the U.S. Constitution
• The Markle Foundation -- Media and Political Participation
• Mertz Gillmore Foundation -- Immigrants' Rights, Gay/Lesbian Rights
• Charles Stewart Mott Foundation -- Political Structures and Conflict Resolution in Central/Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, Democracy in South Africa
• NATO Grants
• The Rockefeller Brothers Fund -- World Security
• The Russell Sage Foundation -- Social Sciences
• Smithsonian -- History
• Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues -- Public Policy
• Woodrow Wilson International Center For Scholars -- US Studies, International History of Cold War

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International

General

• American Council of Learned Societies -- China, Central and Eastern Europe, International Travel Money
• Asia Foundation
• ATT Foundation
• BIRD Foundation -- Direct support for U.S.-Israel Industrial Cooperation and Innovation
• CarEth Foundation -- Global Peace
• Conservation, Food and Health Foundation -- Developing World
• Council on International Educational Exchange -- Exchange programs
• Gladys Kreible Delmas Foundation -- Venetian research
• William H. Donner Foundation -- US/Canada relations
• Earthwatch-- Center for Field Research -- Provides funding for research internationally. Almost all areas of study accepted.
• Eurasia Foundation -- Democratic and Free market Institutions in the Former Soviet Union
• General Electric Fund
• German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
• William and Flora Hewlett Foundation -- US-Latin American Relations
• IBM International Foundation
• International Research and Exchange Board (IREX)
• The Henry J. Kaiser Foundation -- Health and Development in South Africa
• The James S. McDonnell Foundation -- Global Understanding
• Charles Stewart Mott Foundation -- Nonprofit research, Political Structures and Conflict Resolution in Central/Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, Democracy, Education, Women, and Nonprofit resources in South Africa
• National Academy of Sciences (NAS), National Academy of Engineering(NAE), Institute of Medicine(IOM), National Research Council (NRC)
• The Rockefeller Foundation -- Africa
• The Rockefeller Brothers Fund -- South Africa
• Rotary's Foundation -- Fellowships for University Teachers to teach in developing countries
• The US-Japan Foundation --Policy
• Woodrow Wilson International Center For Scholars -- Asia, East and West Europe, Russian Studies, Latin America

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Science/Technology

• American Chemical Society -- Chemistry
• Beckman Foundation -- Chemistry, Life Sciences
• Burroughs Wellcome Fund -- Career Development of Scientists, Reproductive Science, Interaction of Chemistry and Biological Sciences with Computer Science, Science Education
• Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation -- Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Related Sciences
• Foundation for Microbiology
• W.M. Keck Foundation
• National Academy of Sciences (NAS), National Academy of Engineering (NAE), Institute of Medicine(IOM), National Research Council (NRC) -- Computer Science, Life Science, Physical Science, Mathematics, Science Policy
• NEC Foundation of America -- Science and Technology Education
• Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
• Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation -- Plant Biology
• Open Society Foundations (SOROS Foundations Network) -- Science and Mathematics
• David and Lucille Packard Foundation -- Ocean Science, Chemistry, Physics, Math
• The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
• Smithsonian
• Verizon Foundation -- Science and Mathematics Education
• Waksman Institute of Microbiology at Rutgers University

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