Research funding
Private
9,200+ open programsCatalog updated
Private research funding means everything that is not a government agency and not a university: foundations, professional societies and corporations. Together that is the large majority of the open programs in this catalog, and the part of the funding world most research offices track worst.
The reason is structural. Federal opportunities arrive through a handful of portals everyone already watches. Private opportunities are published on several thousand separate websites, in no common format, with no shared deadline calendar. A program can open and close without anyone at your institution seeing it.
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This page groups the three sponsor types so you can see how they differ. Foundations are the biggest and most varied. Societies are the most numerous and the most winnable, because their awards are usually restricted to members of one discipline. Corporate programs are the smallest and behave less like grants than like partnerships.
The median across all three is $5,000, which says something real: most private funding is small, specific, and aimed at a person rather than a project.
Open programs 9,200+
2026 Chester O. McCorkle Jr. Student Scholarship
The Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Trust offers the 2026 Chester O. McCorkle Jr. Student Scholarship to support graduate student applied research on economic issues related to agriculture.
- Deadline
- Amount
- $2,000
2027 McKnight Composer Fellowships
American Composers Forum, with support from the McKnight Foundation, offers the 2027 McKnight Composer Fellowships to recognize and support outstanding mid-career Minnesota composers and culture bearers.
- Deadline
- Amount
- $25,000
2027 USASP Call for Symposia
The United States Association for the Study of Pain (USASP) invites proposals for scientific symposia at its 2027 Annual Scientific Meeting, supporting sessions on clinical practice, basic and mechanistic science, translational research, and advances in pain science and care.
- Deadline
- Amount
- Not listed
These are the soonest deadlines of 9,200+ open programs. FundFit holds every one, screens it against the researchers at your institution, and names who should apply.
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