In addition to the specific opportunities listed elsewhere on this website, a variety of federal, public, and private agencies support research, teaching, and scholarly and public communication in the humanities. The following links are suggestive not exhaustive, and their funding areas and priorities may change yearly. UF faculty interested in pursuing from private foundations are advised to contact their college development office and/or the University of Florida Foundation Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations for assistance.
- The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation is funded by the government of Germany to promote international co-operation between German institutes of higher education and leading academics from around the world. The foundation sponsors a number of competitive fellowships, ranging from postdoctoral to senior visiting professors. - Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is a philanthropic non-profit organization with interests in the areas of science and technology, standard of living, economic performance, and education and careers in science and technology. - American Association of University Women
AAUW advances educational and professional opportunities for women in the United States and around the globe. Fellowship and grant recipients perform research in a wide range of disciplines and work to improve their schools and communities. - American Council of Learned Societies
ACLS, a private, nonprofit federation of 71 national scholarly organizations, offers peer-reviewed fellowships, convenes and supports scholarly conferences, sponsors reference works and innovations in scholarly communication, strengthens relations among learned societies, encourages the establishment of new societies, and representing humanistic scholarship in the U.S. and internationally. - American Philosophical Society
The American Philosophical Society supports research and discovery through grants and fellowships, lectures, publications, prizes, exhibitions, and public education. - Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is a private foundation with five core areas of interest: Higher education, including the humanities, libraries, and scholarly communication; museums and art conservation; performing arts; conservation and the environment; and information technology. - The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
The Mott Foundation supports nonprofit organizations that are working to strengthen our hometown of Flint and communities around world. The Mott Foundation funds grants in the United States and, on a limited geographic basis, internationally. The Mott Foundation prioritizes projects focusing on civil society, education, environment, and the Flint area. - The Council on Library and Information Resources – An independent, non-profit organization that forges strategies to enhance research, teaching, and learning environments in collaboration with libraries, cultural institutions, and communities of higher learning. Its goals are to foster new approaches to the management of digital and nondigital information resources so that they will be available in the future, for example, through the Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Recordings at Risk programs.
- Network of Institutes for Advanced Study –
NetIAS members share the objective of creating international and multidisciplinary learning communities. This openness and the freedom the fellows enjoy for their researches serve to promote scientific and intellectual exchanges. The fellows are released from their usual teaching and research obligations and pursue their project in a privileged environment, that stimulates reflexion and innovation. IAS tend to break from the intellectual routines, thus fostering the emergence of new perspectives, approaches and paradigms. - Florida Humanities
This funding opportunity aims to increase public participation in — and access to — the humanities by providing relevant, engaging, and meaningful humanities-based programming to all. At its core, Community Project Grants embody our mission to preserve, promote and share the history, literature, culture and personal stories that offer Floridians a better understanding of themselves, their communities and their state. - Ford Foundation
The Ford Foundation is a private foundation which makes grants for projects that focused on strengthening democratic values, community and economic development, education, media, arts and culture, and human rights. - Fulbright Scholar Program
The Fulbright Program is an international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government that currently operates in over 155 countries worldwide. It provides participants with the opportunity to study, teach and conduct research, exchange ideas, and contribute to finding solutions to shared international concerns. The UF International Center maintains resources to support prospective applicants. - Getty Research Institute
The Getty Foundation is part of the J. Paul Getty Trust and awards grants for for “advancing the understanding and preservation of the visual arts locally and throughout the world.” - Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation promotes the advancement of humanistic inquiry and artistic creativity by supporting the humanities, research libraries, and the performing arts. - Henry Luce Foundation
The Henry Luce Foundation seeks to bring important ideas to the center of American life, strengthen international understanding, and foster innovation and leadership in academic, policy, religious and art communities. - Howard Foundation
The Howard Foundation awards a limited number of fellowships each year for independent projects in selected fields, targeting specifically early mid-career individuals. Upcoming subjects of interest include painting, sculpture history of art and architecture, playwriting, music theatre studies, musicology, and history. - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
The Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awards Guggenheim Fellowships to professionals who have demonstrated exceptional ability by publishing a significant body of work in the fields of natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, and the creative arts. - The Knight Foundation – The Knight Foundation’s Engaged Communities program fosters initiatives that develop in people a strong sense of belonging and caring, timely access to relevant information, the ability to understand that information, and the motivation, opportunity and skills to take sustainable action on a range of issues throughout their lives.
- The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation – – Through grants to scholars, educators, designers, and practitioners, MacArthur continues to explore and expand on the hypothesis that digital media use is changing how young people think, learn, interact, confront ethical dilemmas, and engage in civic life, and that there are significant implications for the formal and informal institutions that are responsible for educating American youth.
- National Endowment for the Humanities
The largest federal funding body for the humanities, the NEH funds a variety of projects, including library and museum collections, cultural heritage, scholarly research, large scale digital projects, teaching enhancement, operational costs and endowments, and collaborative research and meetings. Additional program calls are issued yearly on thematic areas of interest. - The National Endowment for the Arts
- National Institute of Health
The National Institute of Health offers grants and funding for a wide array of research and projects. Most offerings are oriented toward health professionals, but the NIH encourages interdisciplinary approaches and supports programs that potentially bridge health and the humanities. Potential areas of crossover include curricula development, public health programs, community applications of health sciences, archive and resource development, and knowledge management. See the comprehensive list of supported activities here. - National Humanities Center
The National Humanities Center is a privately incorporated nonprofit institute for advanced study in the humanities. It offers dedicated programs in support of humanities scholarship and teaching as well as a regular schedule of public events, conferences, and interactive initiatives to engage the public in special topics and emerging issues. - National Science Foundation
A broad federal funding agency, the NSF supports many programs of interest to scholars in the humanities, including Archaeology and Archaeometry, Linguistics, Cultural Anthropology, Documenting Endangered Languages, Antarctic Artists and Writers Program, Science, Technology, and Society, Ethics Education in Science and Engineering, Research on Gender in Science and Engineering, Interdisciplinary Research across the Social and Behavioral Sciences, and IGERT (interdisciplinary graduate education and training programs). Funding opportunities range from dissertation completion grants, to NSF CAREER awards (for early-career scholars), to individual and collaborative research funding. - Rockefeller Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation is a philanthropic private foundation that sponsors a wide variety of projects. Their current areas of interest include global health, climate and the environment, urbanization, and social and economic security. - Russell Sage Foundation
The Russell Sage Foundation is research center devoted exclusively to the social sciences. Areas of research funding include labor markets, immigration, culture and religion, education, and economic and social issues. - Samuel H. Kress Foundation
The Kress Foundation supports the work of individuals and institutions engaged with the appreciation, interpretation, preservation, study and teaching of the history of European art and architecture from antiquity to the dawn of the modern era. The foundation makes grants in defined program areas and offers professional development fellowships for historians of art and architecture, among others. - Smithsonian Fellowships and Internships
The Smithsonian Museum System located in Washington, D.C., regularly supports fifty fellows and over seventy interns drawn from diverse fields and with varying credentials. Research and study opportunities are generally managed by the various museum units. - The Social Science Research Council (SSRC)
For the last decade, the SSRC has focused on conflict and peacebuilding, development and social change, the public sphere, knowledge and learning, and strengthening global social science. The SSRC is guided by the belief that justice, prosperity, and democracy all require better understanding of complex social, cultural, economic, and political processes. It works with practitioners, policymakers, and academic researchers in the social sciences, related professions, and the humanities and natural sciences. - The Spencer Foundation
The Spencer Foundation makes grants to support research for the study of ways in which education, broadly conceived, can be improved around the world. Beginning in February 2006, the Research Grants program began accepting applications that fit within one or more of four areas of inquiry: the relation between education and social opportunity; organizational learning in schools, school systems, and higher education institutions; teaching, learning, and instructional resources; and purposes and values of education. - University-Based Institutes for Advanced Study
By offering various fellowship programmes on different academic levels (junior and senior researchers), UBIAS institutes bring together outstanding researchers from different disciplines, nationalities and academic backgrounds, creating a productive environment for innovative research. These common characteristics have proved to be a fruitful basis for mutual exchange, although the individual institutes display a large variety of different concepts and academic pursuits. With their individual profiles, they answer to the specific needs and strengths of their affiliate university. While many institutes have traditionally concentrated on humanities and social sciences, an increasing number of institutes now incorporate theoretical and experimental sciences. - Watson Brown Foundation
The Watson-Brown Foundation awards grants to qualifying organizations that have an abiding interest in the history and culture of the South. Grants take many forms, including book subventions, museum and archive support, preservation awards, educational programming, and research support. - The Wenner-Gren Foundation
The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research aids basic research in all branches of anthropology and closely related disciplines through funding research projects, conferences, symposia, fellowships, and publication. - William T. Grant Foundation
The William T. Grant Foundation invests in high-quality research focused on reducing inequality in youth outcomes and improving the use of research evidence in decisions that affect young people in the United States. Focus areas include reducing inequality and improving the use of research evidence. - Institute for Citizens and Scholars
Formerly known as the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, this private non-profit administers programs supporting leadership development and build organizational capacity and quality in education.
grants to nonprofit organizations, creative writers and translators, state arts agencies, and regional arts organizations in support of arts projects across the country.