Research funding
Foundation
4,400+ open programsCatalog updated
Foundation is the largest sponsor category in this catalog and the least uniform. It covers private research foundations that fund investigator-initiated science, disease foundations that fund one condition, and community foundations that fund whatever happens in one county.
That mix is worth knowing before you scan. The Community Foundation of Noble County, Stark Community Foundation and Berkshire Taconic appear near the top by volume, and their programs are geographically restricted in a way a national research foundation's are not. If you are outside their service area, skip them. The research funders sit alongside: the World Wildlife Fund, the Dermatology Foundation, the Mark Foundation for Cancer Research, BrightFocus.
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The median award is $21,900 and under a quarter carry a dated deadline. Rolling applications are more common here than in any other sponsor type, which helps if your timeline does not match a federal cycle.
Foundation review is also shorter and more program-officer-driven than federal review, so a conversation before you apply changes the outcome more often than it does elsewhere.
Open programs 4,400+
Fall 2026 Cystinosis Research Grants and Postdoctoral Fellowships
The Cystinosis Research Foundation’s Fall 2026 call supports 1–2-year bench, clinical, translational research projects, and postdoctoral fellowships to advance treatments and a cure for cystinosis; up to $2 million is available, with fellowship awards capped at $75,000 annually including overhead.
- Deadline
- Amount
- $2,000,000
Ferris Olson Family Foundation for Ocean Stewardship Grants (2026 application for 2027 funding)
The Ferris Olson Family Foundation for Ocean Stewardship (FOFFOS), a 501(c)(3) charitable foundation, provides one-year grants for action-oriented projects—established or pilot—that promote ocean and coastal conservation, ecosystem restoration/protection, community stewardship, advocacy, and marine animal rescue/rehabilitation; purely educational activities are not eligible.
- Deadline
- Amount
- $50,000
2027 Dan David Prize
The Dan David Prize Foundation is awarding nine prizes of $300,000 each in its 2027 cycle to outstanding scholars and practitioners whose research illuminates the human past.
- Deadline
- Amount
- $300,000
These are the soonest deadlines of 4,400+ open programs. FundFit holds every one, screens it against the researchers at your institution, and names who should apply.
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