| Funder | Program | Description | Deadline(s) | Maxwell Grants |
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| NSF | Science of Organizations | Funds research that advances our fundamental understanding of how organizations develop, form, and operate. |
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| NSF/NEH | Dynamic Language Infrastructure — Documenting Endangered Languages (DLI-DEL) | Supports projects to develop and advance knowledge concerning dynamic language infrastructure in the context of endangered human languages — languages that are both understudied and at risk of falling out of use. |
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| NEH | Summer Stipends | Aims to stimulate new research in the humanities and its publication by providing awards for advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars. |
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| NEH | Scholarly Editions and Scholarly Translations | Supports the preparation of editions and translations of pre-existing texts of value to the humanities that are currently inaccessible or available only in inaccurate editions or transcriptions. |
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| NEH | Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grants | Aims to strengthen the institutional base of the humanities by enabling infrastructure development and capacity building. | Sep. 28, 2021 | |
| DOD | Minerva Research Initiative | Aims to promote research in specific areas of social science and to promote a candid and constructive relationship between DoD and the social science academic community. | Sep. 29, 2021 | |
| NEH | Archeological and Ethnographic Field Research | Funding to conduct empirical research in the United States or abroad in order to answer questions of importance to the humanities. | Sep. 29, 2021 | |
| FDN | American Philosophical Society: Franklin Research Grants | Provides humanities scholars with grants to cover the costs of travel to libraries and archives for research purposes, the purchase of research materials, or the costs of fieldwork or laboratory expenses. | Oct. 1, 2021; Dec. 1, 2021 | |
| NARA | Access to Historical Records: Archival Projects | Supports projects that will significantly improve online public discovery and use of historical records collections, especially projects centered on collections of America's early legal records, such as the records of colonial, territorial, county, and early statehood and tribal proceedings that document the evolution of the nation's legal history. | Oct. 7, 2021 | |
| NARA | Publishing Historical Records in Documentary Editions | Funding to publish documentary editions of historical records, focusing on broad historical movements in U.S. history, such as law, politics, social reform, business, military, the arts, and other aspects of the national experience. | Oct. 7, 2021 | |
| NARA | Public Engagement with Historical Records | Supports projects that encourage public engagement with historical records, including the development of new tools that enable people to engage online. | Oct. 7, 2021 | |
| NEH | Dialogues on the Experience of War | Supports the study and discussion of important humanities sources about war in the belief that these sources can help U.S. military veterans and others think more deeply about the issues raised by war and military service. | Oct. 14, 2021 | |
| NEH | Collaborative Research | Encourages collaboration that proposed diverse approaches to topics, incorporates multiple points of view, and explores new avenues of inquiry. | Dec. 1, 2021 | |
| NEH | Public Scholars | Supports the creation of well-researched books in the humanities intended to reach a broad readership. | Dec. 15, 2021 | |
| FDN | American Council of Learned Societies — Digital Humanities Grants | Grants to advance humanistic scholarship by enhancing established digital projects, extending their reach to new communities of users, and supporting teams of scholars at all career stages as they participate in digital research. | Jan. 11, 2022 | |
| NEH | Digital Humanities Advancement Grants | Supports digital humanities projects at different stages throughout their lifecycles, from early start-up phases through implementation and sustainability. | Jan. 14, 2022 | |
| NSF | Law & Science | Considers proposals that address social scientific studies of law and law-like systems of rules, as well as studies of how science and technology are applied in legal contexts. | Jan. 17, 2022 Aug. 1, 2022 | |
| NSF | Social Psychology | Supports research and research infrastructure to advance basic knowledge in social psychology, including topics such as: social cognition, attitudes, social and cultural influence, stereotypes, motivation, decision making, group dynamics, aggression, close relationships, social and affective neuroscience, social psychophysiology, emotions, prosocial behavior, health-related behavior, and personality and individual differences. | Jan. 17, 2022 Jul. 15, 2022 | |
| NSF | Linguistics | Basic science in the domain of human language, encompassing investigations of the grammatical properties of individual human languages and of natural language in general. | Jan. 17, 2022 Jul. 15, 2022 | |
| NSF | Sociology | Supports basic research on all forms of human social organization — societies, institutions, groups, and demography — and processes of individual and institutional change. | Jan. 17, 2022 Aug. 15, 2022 | |
| NSF | Human-Environmental & Geographical Sciences Program (HEGS) | Supports basic scientific research about the nature, causes, and/or consequences of the spatial distribution of human activity and/or environmental processes across a range of scales. | Jan. 18, 2022 Aug. 16, 2022 | |
| FDN | Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation | Supports work in the social and natural sciences and aligned disciplines to increase understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence in the contemporary world. Notable programs include Distinguished Scholar, Emerging Scholar, and African Fellows Program. | Feb. 1, Mar. 1, Aug. 1 (varies by program) | |
| NEH | Institutes for Higher Education Faculty | Convenes higher education faculty from across the nation in order to deepen and enrich their understanding of a variety of topics in the humanities and enrich their capacity for effective scholarship and teaching. | Feb. 15, 2022 | |
| NEH | Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities | Supports national or regional (multistate) training programs for scholars, humanities professionals, and advanced graduate students to broaden and extend their knowledge of digital humanities. | Mar. 2, 2022 | |
| NEH | Public Humanities Projects | Supports projects that bring the ideas and insights of the humanities to life for general audiences through in-person programming. | Aug. 2022* (prior deadline: Aug. 11, 2021) | |
| DOD | Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences BAA for Basic Scientific Research, Foundational Science Research Unit (2021-2022) | Supports research on fundamental theories and new domain areas in behavioral and social sciences with high potential impact on Army issues. | Rolling through Aug. 7, 2022 | |
| FDN | Andrew W. Mellon Foundation | Aims to strengthen, promote and defend the contributions of the humanities and arts through four primary programs: Higher Learning; Arts and Culture; Public Knowledge; and Humanities in Place. | Rolling | |
| FDN | Carnegie Corporation of New York | Supports relevant grants in the areas of Education, Democracy, and International Peace and Security. | Rolling | |
| FDN | Ford Foundation | Through the Creative and Free Expression program, supports work that explores how cultural narratives affect and shape our reality and how the arts, journalism, and film can contribute to fairer and more just societies. | Rolling | |
| FDN | Henry Luce Foundation | Offers funding through separate programs for American Art, Religion in International Affairs, Religion & Theology, and others. | Rolling | |
| NSF | Archaeology and Archaeometry | Funds research which furthers anthropologically relevant archaeological knowledge. | Rolling | |
| NSF | Accountable Institutions and Behaviors (AIB) | |||
| NSF | Anthropology, Biological | |||
| NSF | Anthropology, Cultural | |||
| NSF | Decision, Risk and Management Sciences (DRMS) | |||
| NSF | Economics | |||
| NSF | Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier (FW-HTF) | Supports multi-disciplinary research to sustain economic competitiveness, to promote worker well-being, lifelong and pervasive learning, and quality of life, and to illuminate the emerging social and economic context and drivers of innovations that are shaping the future of jobs and work. | None currently | |
| NSF | Growing Convergence Research (GCR) | |||
| NSF | Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics (MMS) | |||
| NSF | Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) | Supports research projects that address cybersecurity and privacy and draw on expertise in one or more of these areas: computing, communication and information sciences; engineering; education; mathematics; statistics; and social, behavioral, and economic sciences. | Sept. 30, 2021 | |
| NSF | Security and Preparedness (SAP) | |||
| NSF | Strengthening American Infrastructure (SAI) | |||
| NIH | Varies by program; see Standard Application Due Dates | |||
| FDN - W.T. Grant | Research Grants on Improving the Use of Research Evidence | Seeks studies about how to improve the use of research evidence in ways that benefit youth. | TBD prior deadline (LOI): | |
| FDN - W.T. Grant | Research Grants on Reducing Inequality | Seeks studies to build, test, and increase understanding of responses to inequality in youth outcomes. | TBD prior deadline (LOI): | 2020 - Sarah Hamersma (CPR): Keeping the 'Great Equalizer' Fed: SNAP Access and Young Adults’ Educational Engagement |
| FDN - W.T. Grant | William T. Grant Scholars | Career development program supporting promising early-career researchers with interests in reducing inequality or understanding the use of research evidence. | TBD prior deadline: | |
| FDN - W.T. Grant | Institutional Challenge Grant | Encourages research institutions to build sustained research-practice partnerships with public agencies or nonprofit organizations in order to reduce inequality in youth outcomes. Applications are welcome from partnerships in youth-serving areas such as education, justice, child welfare, mental health, immigration, and workforce development. |
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| FDN - Russell Sage | Research Grants | Supports research in four principal programs: Behavioral Economics; the Future of Work; Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration; and Social, Political and Economic Inequality. | 2020 - Madonna Harrington Meyer (CPR) and Colleen Heflin (CPR): Hunger Snaps: Food Insecurity Among Older Adults (qualitative study and quantitative study, respectively) | |
| FDN - Russell Sage | Pipeline Grants Competition | Seeks to promote diversity in the social sciences broadly, including racial, ethnic, gender, disciplinary, institutional, and geographic diversity. |
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| FDN - Russell Sage | Improving Education and Reducing Inequality in the United States (Targeted Competition) | TBD prior deadline:
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| FDN - RWJ | Interdisciplinary Research Leaders Program |
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