Finding Funding

The UW has a number of resources available to assist faculty and staff with locating funding opportunities, and there are a number of web-based resources (e.g., Grants.gov) that are also available.

Explore Funding Opportunities

Request Email Alerts

• Grants.gov Email Notices - receive grant notices for specific or all federal grants
• Email Alert Service (OSP List)
• Funding Alert Service (RFS List)

Find Funding Sources

• Grants.gov - Postings by All Federal Funding Sources
• Program Announcements from Sponsors (OSP)
• Research Funding Service (RFS) - see "From A to $$: Getting Started with Grants" under presentations
• Grants and Funding Information Service (GFIS)
• NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)

More Resources

• Limited Submission Opportunities for UW Researchers
• Government Resources
• UW Help with Funding
• Funding Opportunities Databases
• Sponsors, List of

Investigate Existing Awards

• CRISP--A database of Biomedical Research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• NSF--Search for information, including abstracts, for awards made since 1989.
• Award Databases for U.S. Department of Education Grants and Contracts
• USDA Current Research Information System (CRIS)--Search for information on over 95% of all publicly supported agricultural and forestry research (some USGS research).
• Facts and Figures About UW Research
• University Initiative Fund (UIF)
• Royalty Research Fund (RRF)
• Mary Gates Endowment for Students Research Training Grants
• Internal Support of Graduate Study and Research from the Office of the Provost
• Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute
• Institute for Ethnic Studies in the United States (IESUS)
• Washington Sea Grant