Research funding
Economics
50+ open programsCatalog updated
Economics has fewer open private programs than most disciplines its size, and the ones that exist cluster in a few places.
The History of Economics Society runs the largest block, which says something about where private money in the field goes: history of thought, methodology and the discipline's own institutions, rather than applied empirical work, which is more often funded federally or by a university. The Association for Social Economics, the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association Trust, the National Bureau of Economic Research and the American Economic Association make up most of the rest.
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General awards and prizes are more than half the hub, and the median award is $10,000. Several listed programs are explicitly mentoring awards, meaning the funding pays for a relationship rather than a study, which is easy to miss when scanning for grant money.
This hub is deliberately academic. Community and economic development programs carry economics-adjacent labels but are not what someone searching for economics research grants is looking for.
Open programs 50+
Business Attraction Prime Sites
The **Business Attraction Prime Sites** grant, offered by the Illinois Commerce and Economic Opportunity Agency, aims to attract businesses to prime sites in Illinois, with a total program funding of $60,000,000 and individual awards ranging from $250,000 to $25,000,000.
- Deadline
- Amount
- $120,000,000
Business Attraction Prime Sites
The Business Attraction Prime Sites grant, offered by the Illinois Commerce and Economic Opportunity Agency, provides funding for prime site development to attract businesses to Illinois.
- Deadline
- Amount
- $120,000,000
Anthropic Economic Futures Program — Research Awards, Policy Symposia, and Strategic Partnerships
Anthropic’s Economic Futures program funds multidisciplinary research, policy development, and data-infrastructure projects to measure and inform responses to AI’s economic transformation, offering Research Awards ($10,000–$50,000), Claude API credits, consultation on the Anthropic Economic Index, and opportunities to present at policy symposia.
- Deadline
- Not listed
- Amount
- $50,000
These are the soonest deadlines of 50+ open programs. FundFit holds every one, screens it against the researchers at your institution, and names who should apply.
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