Federal Sponsors
If federal funding would be appropriate for your research project, the below resources might assist you:
- Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance - CFDA contains detailed program descriptions for over 2,100 federal assistance programs
- Executive Branch Sites - with links to other branches
- Federal Register - official daily publication for rules, proposed rules, and notices of federal agencies and organizations
- FedBizOpps - many federal agencies post opportunities on this site
- Grants.Gov - Federal Announcements and Submissions - your source to find and apply for federal grants
- National Institutes of Health Deadlines - quick link to important dates for NIH
- National Science Foundation Deadlines - quick link to important dates for NSF
Search specific federal agencies for funding opportunities:
- AFOSR - Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- ARL - Army Research Laboratory
- ARO - Army Research Office
- BOEM - Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
- CDC - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Corporation for Public Broadcasting
- DARPA - Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
- DOC - Department of Commerce
- DOD - Department of Defense
- DOE - Department of Energy
- DOI - Department of Interior
- DHS - Department of Homeland Security
- DOJ - Department of Justice
- DOT - Department of Transportation
- ED - U.S. Department of Education
- EPA - Environmental Protection Agency
- FEMA - Federal Emergency Management Agency
- FTA - Federal Transit Administration
- HUD - Housing and Urban Development
- NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- NEA - National Endowment for the Arts
- NEH - National Endowment for the Humanities
- NIDA - National Institute on Drug Abuse
- NIH - National Institutes of Health
- NIJ - National Institute of Justice
- NIMH - National Institute of Mental Health
- NIST - National Institute of Standards and Technology
- NLM - National Library of Medicine
- NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- NSF - National Science Foundation
- NSA - National Security Agency
- NRL - National Research Laboratory
- ONR - Office of Naval Research
- SBA - Small Business Administration
- USAID - U.S. Agency for International Development
- USDA - U.S. Department of Agriculture
- USFWS - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
- USGS - U.S. Geological Survey