Foundations and Other Nonprofit Funding Agencies
This page lists a selection of foundations, professional organizations, and research institutes that fund grants and fellowships for which SIUC faculty or students are eligible. Links may go to an organization's home page or directly to the organization's grant information page. The listing is grouped roughly by disciplinary areas. To catch everything of interest, you may want to check areas closely related to your own, as well as the "Miscellaneous and Multiple Program Areas" section. For example, a scientist interested in plant genetics or environmental sustainability should check the "Science," "Agriculture," and "Miscellaneous and Multiple Program Areas" sections. If you are interested in international programs funded by nonprofits, see the "Research Abroad" category. Need assistance? Contact Joel Fritzler at (618) 453-4530 or jcfritz@siu.edu.
IMPORTANT: If the foundation you're interested in does not offer specific grant programs but invites letters of inquiry for grants, check first with Jill Gobert (453-3974, jgobert@siu.edu) at the SIU Foundation to see if the University is already working with the foundation. Many foundations prefer to have only one contact at an institution and expect all funding requests to be coordinated through that person; Jill can assist your efforts. If a foundation makes only gifts, rather than grants, you must work through the SIU Foundation.
- Agriculture
- Arts & Humanities (includes media arts)
- Education
- Medical Research & Health Care
- Science & Technology, Conservation
- Social Sciences, Communication, Public Policy (includes media research)
- Miscellaneous & Multiple Program Areas
- Research Abroad
AGRICULTURE
- Consortium for Plant Biotechnology Research
- Gloeckner Foundation (floricultural industry)
- Herb Society of America
- Horticultural Research Institute
- Illinois Soybean Program Operating Board
- National Corn Growers Association
- National Pork Producers Council
- Rainforest Alliance: Kleinhans Fellowship for Research in Tropical Non-Timber Forest Products
- Soil and Water Conservation Society of America
- Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education
- United Soybean Board
- Wallace Genetic Foundation (sustainable agriculture, biodiversity, plant genetic research)
ARTS & HUMANITIES (includes media arts)
- Aaron Copland Fund for Music
- Albee Foundation (artist residencies)
- American Antiquarian Society
- American Council of Learned Societies
- American Historical Association
- American Jewish Archives
- American Music Center
- American Philosophical Society
- Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
- Arts Midwest
- Bibliographical Society of America
- College Art Association Fellowships
- Corporation for Public Broadcasting
- Council on Library and Information Resources
- Creative Capital (visual arts, performing arts, film/video arts, emerging arts)
- Creative Connections/Meet The Composer (supporting composers' interaction with performers and audiences)
- Delmas Foundation (humanities, performing arts, Venetian culture)
- Dumbarton Oaks (Byzantine studies, pre-Columbian studies, landscape architecture)
- Early American Industries Association
- Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown (visual arts and creative writing fellowships)
- Folger Shakespeare Library
- Foundation for Jewish Culture (performing, literary, visual, and media arts)
- Getty Trust (visual arts - history and conservation)
- Gottlieb Foundation (grants to visual artists)
- Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
- Graphic Arts Education and Research Foundation
- Hagley Museum & Library: Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society
- Hambidge Center for Creative Arts & Sciences (artist residencies)
- Hoover Presidential Library
- Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Gardens
- Independent Television Service (innovative programming)
- Institute for Research in the Humanities - Solmsen Fellowships (European history pre-1700)
- Isherwood Foundation (fiction writing)
- John Carter Brown Library (history and the humanities)
- Kress Foundation (art history and conservation)
- MacDowell Colony
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Mockingbird Foundation (small grants for music and music education)
- Montalvo Arts Center (artists residencies)
- National Art Education Association
- National Humanities Center
- Native American Public Telecommunications (national public television programming)
- Newberry Library
- Pollock-Krasner Foundation (painting, sculpture, works on paper)
- Princess Grace Awards (dance, theater, film)
- Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
- Recording Academy/GRAMMY Foundation (music archiving/heritage; music and the human condition)
- Rockefeller Archive Center
- Roosevelt Institute (study of F.D.R. era/New Deal)
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (New York Public Library)
- Sinfonia Foundation (music history)
- Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture
- Society of Fellows in the Humanities at Columbia University
- Society for the Humanities at Cornell University
- Stanford Humanities Center Fellowships
- Theatre Communications Group
- Thurber House (writers' residencies)
- UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies (William Andrews Clark Library)
- UCLA Institute of American Cultures (postdoctoral fellowships)
- Very Special Arts (arts programs for people with disabilities)
- Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (artists residencies)
- Winterthur Museum & Library (American art, history, material culture, and design)
- Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry
- Women's Studio Workshop (visual arts fellowships and residencies)
- Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
- Yaddo (artist residencies)
EDUCATION
- American Educational Research Association
- AT&T Foundation (workforce skills, improving the quality of teaching, diversity)
- Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (education)
- Educational Testing Service (ETS) Fellowships
- Hewlett-Packard Foundation (science and technology education)
- Institute for Educational Leadership (Education Policy Fellowship Program)
- Intel Foundation (science, math, and technology education)
- International Reading Association
- Kauffman Foundation (entrepreneurship and education)
- KPMG Foundation (business education)
- Lumina Foundation (education)
- Michigan Education Policy Fellowship Program
- National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowships
- National Geographic Education Foundation (geographic literacy)
- NEA Foundation for the Improvement of Education
- Spencer Foundation (education research)
MEDICAL RESEARCH & HEALTH CARE
- ABMRF/The Foundation for Alcohol Research
- Alzheimer's Association
- American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology
- American Association for Cancer Research
- American Cancer Society
- American Diabetes Association
- American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR)
- American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmFAR)
- American Health Assistance Foundation (Alzheimer's, heart disease/stroke, glaucoma, macular degeneration)
- American Hearing Research Foundation
- American Heart Association
- American Heart Association - Midwest Affiliate
- American Institute for Cancer Research
- American Liver Foundation
- American Lung Association
- American Society for Nutrition
- American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Association
- Arthritis Foundation
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (global health)
- Broad Foundation (inflammatory bowel disease)
- Burroughs Wellcome Fund (medical research and biological sciences)
- Cancer Research Institute
- Caring for Carcinoid Foundation
- Cerebral Palsy International Research Foundation
- Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation
- Cohen Foundation for Ovarian Cancer Research
- Commonwealth Fund (health care, international health policy)
- Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America
- Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
- Deafness Research Foundation
- Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
- Epilepsy Foundation
- Foundation for Digestive Health and Nutrition
- Foundation for Physical Therapy
- Gerontological Society of America
- Health Effects Institute (health effects of air pollution)
- Helen Hay Whitney Foundation (postdoctoral research training in basic biomedical sciences)
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Human Growth Foundation
- International Life Sciences Institute (nutrition, food safety, health)
- Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research
- Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation (education of health professionals and representation of minorities in the health professions)
- Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International
- Klingenstein Fund (mental health research)
- Kornfeld Foundation (medical research and education, bioethics, palliative care)
- Lalor Foundation (mammalian reproductive biology and fertility regulation)
- Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
- March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation
- Mayday Fund (pain management)
- Muscular Dystrophy Association
- NAMM Foundation (music participation; effects of music making across the lifespan)
- National Kidney Foundation
- National Multiple Sclerosis Society
- National Parkinson Foundation
- National Reye's Syndrome Foundation
- NEOSE Technologies (carbohydrate-based therapeutic products)
- Pardee Foundation (cancer research)
- PhRMA (Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America) Foundation
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (health care)
- Stanley Medical Research Institute (schizophrenia and bipolar disorder)
- Susan G. Komen for the Cure (breast cancer)
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, CONSERVATION
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
- American Association of Petroleum Geologists Foundation
- American Chemical Society
- American Mathematical Society
- American Museum of Natural History
- American Physiological Society
- American Society for Engineering Education
- American Society for Microbiology
- Association for Women in Science
- Beckman Foundation (chemistry and life sciences)
- BFGoodrich Collegiate Inventors Program
- Biotechnology Research & Development Corporation
- Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) (visiting fellowships)
- Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation (chemical sciences)
- Earthwatch Institute (conservation/sustainability)
- Electric Power Research Institute
- Great Lakes Biomass State-Regional Partnership (biomass energy)
- Great Lakes Protection Fund
- Human Frontier Science Program
- Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation
- Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant Program
- Illinois Water Resources Center
- Innovative Pavement Research Foundation
- Institute for Advanced Study (mathematics, social science, natural science, historical studies)
- International Foundation for Ethical Research (alternatives to animal research)
- Life Sciences Research Foundation
- Lindbergh Foundation (balance between technology and environment)
- Link Foundation Fellowships (energy research)
- McDonnell Foundation (neuroscience, cognitive science, brain cancer research)
- Mizutani Foundation for Glycoscience
- Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory
- National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (technology and entrepreneurship)
- National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
- National Geographic Committee for Research and Exploration (scientific fieldwork)
- National Institute for Global Environmental Change (student support)
- National Zoo (research internships and fellowships)
- Research Corporation (basic research in the physical sciences)
- Savannah River Ecology Lab (NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates program)
- Semiconductor Research Corp.
- Sigma Delta Epsilon/Graduate Women in Science
- Sigma Xi (student grants-in-aid in science)
- Society of Manufacturing Engineers Education Foundation
- Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program
- Sun Microsystems Foundation (computer and information technology)
- Udall Foundation: Environmental Public Policy and Conflict Resolution Dissertation Fellowships
- Welder Wildlife Foundation
- Whitehall Foundation (basic research in neurobiology)
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (fellowships)
SOCIAL SCIENCES, COMMUNICATION, PUBLIC POLICY (includes media research)
- American Bar Foundation
- American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
- American Institute for Economic Research
- American Psychological Association
- American Psychological Society
- American Sociological Association
- American Statistical Association
- American Suicide Foundation
- Arca Foundation (the media)
- Archaeological Institute of America
- Aspen Institute (leadership and nonpartisan inquiry)
- Benton Foundation (digital media and public service)
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (poverty and development)
- Bradley Foundation (promoting citizenship as an ideal)
- Carthage Foundation (national and international public policy)
- Cattell Fund at Duke University (sabbatical awards in psychology)
- Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
- Center for International Security & Arms Control
- Center for the Study of Philanthropy
- Deloitte Foundation (accounting and business)
- Dirksen Congressional Center
- Frederick Douglass Institute for African & African-American Studies: Teaching Scholars Program
- Economic History Association
- Ford Foundation (knowledge, creativity, and freedom; peace and social justice; community development)
- Foundation for Child Development
- William T. Grant Foundation (youth development)
- Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation (violence, aggression, dominance)
- Hartford Foundation Gerontological Social Work Initiative
- Hastings Center (visiting scholars program in bioethics)
- Institute for Humane Studies
- Joint Center for Poverty Research
- Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation Public Policy Fellowships (mental disabilities)
- Leakey Foundation (human origins)
- MacArthur Foundation (human and community development, global security and sustainability)
- Marketing Science Institute
- Mailman Family Foundation (early childhood development)
- McCormick Tribune Foundation (journalism/press freedom)
- Henry A. Murray Research Center of Radcliffe College (social science/study of lives)
- National Association of Broadcasters (research on issues of importance to broadcasting industry)
- National Center for Responsible Gaming (gambling addiction)
- NATO Research Fellowships (political/social science issues)
- Pacific Cultural Foundation (seminars in Chinese studies)
- Poverty & Race Research Action Council
- Public Welfare Foundation (youth leadership development, early intervention, violence prevention)
- Resources for the Future (environmental policy)
- Retirement Research Foundation
- Russell Sage Foundation (social sciences)
- Sarah Scaife Foundation (domestic and international public policy)
- Scripps Howard Foundation (journalism and press freedom)
- Silberman Fund (social work)
- Social Science Research Council
- Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues
- Society for Technical Communication
- State Farm Companies (doctoral dissertation awards in insurance and business)
- State Justice Institute (grants to improve quality of justice in state courts)
- Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
- Verizon Foundation (literacy, workforce development, technology connectivity)
- Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
- Women's Research & Education Institute (fellowships)
- Zonta International (status of women)
MISCELLANEOUS & MULTIPLE PROGRAM AREAS
- American Association of University Women (AAUW)
- American Express Philanthropic Program (cultural heritage, economic independence, community service)
- ASIS Foundation (security industry)
- Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. (health and education)
- Carnegie Corporation of New York (education, peace and security, international development, strengthening U.S. democracy)
- Coleman Foundation (cancer research and treatment, entrepreneurship education, services for the disabled)
- Charles A. Dana Foundation (science, health)
- Dow Creativity Center (fellowships for innovative projects)
- Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (arts, environment, medical research, child abuse prevention)
- Greenwall Foundation (arts and humanities, bioethics)
- John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowships (all fields except performing arts)
- Hewlett Foundation (social and environmental problems)
- Howard Foundation (arts, social sciences)
- Ittleson Foundation (AIDS, environment, mental health - applied research/demonstration projects)
- Keck Foundation (science & engineering, medical research, liberal arts)
- Kellogg Foundation (health, food systems/rural development, youth and education, volunteerism)
- Kresge Foundation (facilities, science equipment)
- Luce Foundation (American art; Asia; environment; women in science, math, or engineering)
- McKnight Foundation (environment--Mississippi River Basin, international collaborative crops research, neuroscience)
- Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (higher ed., museums, performing arts, environment, public affairs)
- Michigan Society of Fellows (postdoctoral fellowships in various disciplines)
- Mott Foundation (environment, civil society, poverty)
- F. W. Olin Foundation (facilities)
- Packard Foundation (conservation and science; population; children, families, and communities)
- Pew Charitable Trusts (public policy and other initiatives)
- Population Council (biomedical, social science, and public health research)
- Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (fellowships for women scholars, scientists, writers, and artists)
- RGK Foundation (community, education, medicine/health)
- Rockefeller Foundation (creativity and culture, health equity, food security, working communities)
- School of American Research (anthropology, humanities, Native American art)
- Sloan Foundation (science & technology, U.S. economy & working families)
- Smithsonian Institution (fellowships and internships in art, science, history, conservation)
- Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (multidisciplinary)
- Surdna Foundation (environment, arts, community revitalization)
- Voice Foundation (voice disorders, vocal arts)
- Woodson Institute for Afro-American and African Studies (humanities and social sciences)
- Yivo Institute for Jewish Research
RESEARCH ABROAD
- American Academy in Rome (arts & humanities)
- American Councils for International Education (education/research in Eastern Europe/Eurasia)
- American Institute of Indian Studies
- American Research Center in Egypt
- Asian Cultural Council
- Robert Bosch Foundation Fellowship Program (exchange program with Germany)
- Chateaubriand Fellowships (to work in science laboratories in France)
- Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange
- Civilian Research & Development Foundation (science and engineering - projects between U.S. and former Soviet Union states)
- Council of American Overseas Research Centers
- Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE)
- Council for International Exchange of Scholars
- Eurasia Foundation
- Fulbright Program (Institute for International Education)
- Fyssen Foundation (France) (cognitive science, thought, reasoning)
- German Academic Exchange Service-DAAD
- German Marshall Fund of the United States
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (research fellowships in Germany)
- Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (Edinburgh)
- Institute of International Education
- International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX) (education, independent media, civil society, Internet development)
- Japan Foundation (arts and cultural exchange programs, Japanese studies)
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (research in Japan)
- Japan-United States Friendship Commission
- Lady Davis Fellowship Trust (fellowships in Israel)
- LASPAU: Academic and Professional Programs for the Americas
- NAFSA: Association of International Educators (international education training)
- National Council for Eurasian and East European Research
- Open Society Institute (Soros Foundations) (global projects in multiple areas, including media & culture, governance, health, and economic development)
- Organization of American States - Fellowships
- Rotary Foundation (master's fellowships in peace studies and conflict resolution; faculty fellowships to teach in developing nations)
- United States-Japan Foundation (U.S./Japan policy and communication)
- U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation (international collaboration in science and technology, primarily U.S./Eurasia)