Funding Opportunities

We encourage you to contact your Institutional Representative to notify them about your application, especially if it's an electronic submission.

• RPM department assignments
• OSR Contract & Grant Officers
• ERA- Engineering Research Admins.

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Funding
The ARRA provides $288 Billion in relief, a large portion of which will be spent on research and education. As funding opportunities become available, we will post them here (please note, this is not an all-inclusive list). For details, check our Stimulus Webpage.

• NIH Stimulus Grants - Includes links to the Challenge Grants (High Instrumentation Grant, Construction grants, etc.), terms & conditions, Search Tool for Challenge Grants, and more.
• Other ARRA Opportunities

Index of Funding Information Web Resources

This information is maintained by the School of Medicine, but it's open to the entire community.

Grants.gov is a central storehouse for information on over 1,000 grant programs and access to approximately $400 billion in annual awards. Apply for grants from 26 different Federal agencies. Check the Grants.gov at Stanford website for instructions on downloading, completing and submitting federal grant applications.

proposalCENTRAL is an e-grantmaking website shared by many government, non-profit, and private grant-making organizations. Over twenty thousand applicants and reviewers interact electronically with the grant-makers that are members of proposalCENTRAL.


Stanford University Research
This research is funded by various Schools and Departments in strategic programs and initiatives.

Do you have a research program to post here? Let us know!

External Funding Opportunities

Community of Science Funding Opportunities Despite its name, COS includes information about sponsors in all disciplines. COS provides information on federal, non- federal, and international funding opportunities. Access is restricted to Stanford community only.

IRIS (Illinois Researcher Information System) is a national funding opportunities database for researchers and scholars in the sciences, arts and humanities. Opportunities are listed by keyword. Contains federal and private agency information, sponsor descriptions, programs, and deadlines. Access is restricted to Stanford community only.

Commerce Business Daily contract solicitations, BAAs, and RFPs via Community of Science

GrantsNet provides funding information for postdocs and faculty who are in the early stages of their biomedical research careers.

Proposals for individual student scholarships, student loan support, graduate awards, and fellowships (stipends) are not processed through OSR. Students seeking funding support should check with:

The following links may also help:

FastWEB (Financial Aid Search Through the WEB) -- an online searchable database of more than 180,000 private sector scholarships, fellowships, grants, and loans for Graduate and Postdoctoral students.

Scholarship Resource Network Express (SRN) a search engine and database of private scholarships designed to assist students identify sources for undergraduate through postgraduate study.

Community of Science (COS) Funding Opportunities database External scholarships, fellowships, and grants in support of undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral students, including California sponsors, (formerly FOLIO Awards database) has migrated to COS. Also see the Stanford University Community of Science page.