The Office of Sponsored Programs provides this centralized index to assist faculty, staff, and researchers in identifying external funding. While we curate these links to support your search, we recommend verifying individual deadlines and compliance rules directly on each sponsor's website.
🏛️ Federal Agency Sourcing
Direct access to official United States government discretionary grants, cooperative agreements, and fellowship programs.
Primary Federal Gateways
- Grants.gov Gateway: Preeminent centralized clearinghouse to find and apply for discretionary funding opportunities across all 26 federal grant-making agencies.
Agency-Specific Solicitations
- National Science Foundation (NSF): Major funder of non-medical basic research, STEM education initiatives, and institutional infrastructure upgrades.
- National Institutes of Health (NIH): Dominant sponsor for biomedical, behavioral, and public health research worldwide.
- U.S. Department of Education (ED): Primary engine funding state programs, academic equity initiatives, and higher education institutional research.
- Department of Agriculture (USDA): Core agency funding agricultural development, environmental conservation, and rural community economic sustainability.
- Department of Energy (DOE): Sponsor supporting physical science innovation, advanced computing infrastructure, and clean energy development.
- National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH): Dedicated provider supporting cultural preservation, digital humanities projects, and individual faculty fellowships.
- National Endowment for the Arts (NEA): Federal allocator funding artistic excellence, community engagement projects, and creative arts organizations.
🎗️ Non-Profit, Corporate, & Philanthropic Networks
Private foundations and charitable organizations funding targeted community, social science, and clinical research projects.
- Candid Foundation Directory: Extensive philanthropic database tracing the giving histories, tax filings, and specific priorities of corporate and private foundations.
- American Cancer Society (ACS): Non-profit funder championing clinical, psychosocial, and behavioral cancer research grants.
- American Heart Association (AHA): Dedicated sponsor supporting basic, clinical, and translational cardiovascular research.
- Kirkpatrick Foundation: Funds Central Oklahoma nonprofits focusing on arts and culture, education, animal wellbeing, historic preservation, and environmental conservation.
- Oklahoma ARTS Council: The Oklahoma Arts Council awards matching grants to cultural organizations, schools and local governments in order to increase resources available to non-profit organizations producing community arts and arts education programs throughout the state.
- Oklahoma Humanities Council (OHC): Oklahoma Humanities accepts funding requests for projects that bring the ideas and insights of the humanities to life. Projects should engage humanities scholarship to analyze significant themes in disciplines such as history, literature, ethics, and art history. Oklahoma Humanities funding supports projects in three program categories: Public Programs, Preservation and Access Projects, and Education Projects.
- Oklahoma City Community Foundation (OCCF): One of the area's largest grant providers. It manages regular community grant cycles focusing on opportunities for children, health care access, culture and community, and services for older adults.
🤝 Professional Development & Administration Associations
Networks providing institutional support, policy guidelines, and career-advancing research fellowships.
- SRA International: Global network providing continuing education, research administration certifications, and professional development resources.
- Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR): National organization supporting collaborative student-faculty research models and institutional funding advocacy.
- NCURA Network: Professional association advancing the field of research administration through peer networking, regulatory updates, and compliance toolkits.
- Grants Professionals Association (GPA): International membership association for grants industry focused on grants research, proposal development, and post-award management.
