Funding Sources in the Social Sciences  

A solid directory, the most focused on research funding. Use its excellent index to narrow down to grants that intersect with your research interests.

This one is a mixture of graduate and faculty grants, but it has a nice subject index.

Includes both student and faculty funding. I will update this to the 2012-2014 edition in December.

Please speak with a librarian for access to this tool, which must be used in the library. This tool searches private foundations.

Please see a librarian for access to this database, which must be used in the library. This is a variant of Foundation Search America. It searches both a subset of private and government funding sources, but it does not have the same saving capabilities.

Source for federal grants.

Searches current and archived grant announcements. (Temporarily Down)

A variety of grant opportunities for scholars at all levels. Most focus on international subject areas.

A regularly updated list of funding sources in the social sciences. A mixture of research and student sources.

"The Russell Sage Foundation is the principal American foundation devoted exclusively to research in the social sciences." Projects focus on Future of Work, Immigration, Cultural Contact, Social Inequality and Behavioral Economics.