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Arts & Hummanities
American Philosophical Society (APS)
APS promotes useful knowledge in the sciences and humanities through excellence in scholarly research, professional meetings, publications, library resources, and community outreach.
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation currently makes grants in five core program areas: higher education, museums and art conservation, performing arts, conservation and the environment, and public affairs.
Annenberg Foundation
The Annenberg Foundation exists to advance the public well-being through improved communication. As the principal means of achieving its goal, the Foundation encourages the development of more effective ways to share ideas and knowledge. The Annenberg Foundation provides support for projects within its grant-making interest areas of education and youth, arts and culture, civic and community, and health.
Broad Foundation
The Broad Foundations focus on three program areas: Education-transforming urban K-12 education through better governance, management, labor relations, and competition; Art-fostering public appreciation of contemporary art by increasing access for audience worldwide; and Science-making significant contributions to advance major scientific and medical research.
Creative Capital
Creative Capital supports artists who pursue innovation in form and/or content in the performing and visual arts, film and video, and in emerging fields.
Folger Shakespeare Library
The mission of the Folger Shakespeare Library is to preserve and enhance its collections; to render the collections, in appropriate formats, accessible to scholars; and to advance understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's writings and of the culture of early modern Europe more generally through various programs designed for all students and for the general public
Henry Luce Foundation, Inc.
The work of the Luce Foundation focuses on the interdisciplinary exploration of higher education; increased understanding between Asia and the United States; the study of religion and theology; scholarship in American art; opportunities for women in science and engineering; and environmental and public policy programs.
Institute for Advanced Study
The Institute for Advanced Study is one of the world’s leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. The Institute exists to encourage and support fundamental scholarship – the original, often speculative, thinking that produces advances in knowledge. It provides for the mentoring of younger scholars by Faculty, and it offers all who work there the freedom to undertake research that will make significant contributions in any of the broad range of fields in the sciences and humanities studied at the Institute.
Italian Renaissance Studies, Harvard University Center for (Villa I Tatti)
The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti is devoted to advanced study of the Italian Renaissance in all its aspects: the history of art; political, economic, and social history; the history of science, philosophy, and religion; and the history of literature and music.
Merrill Lynch & Co.,Foundation
Merrill Lynch & Co. Foundation supports a variety of programs including those focusing on Arts & Culture, Civics, Education, Health & Hospitals, and Human Services.
Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation
The Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation (MAAF) celebrates, promotes and supports the richness and diversity of the region’s arts resources and works to increase access to the arts and cultures of the region and the world. The MAAF supports four program areas: Performing Arts Touring and Presentation, Artists’ Programs, Traditional Arts, International and Special Projects.
The NAMM Foundation
The NAMM Foundation Research Division, formerly the International Foundation for Music Research (IMFR), aims to support scientific research to explore the relationship between music and physical and emotional wellness, with particular attention to the elderly population, the impact of music making on at-risk youth, and music education and the effect of music and music making. The NAMM Foundation Research Division also convenes scientists, educators and others around critical issues in music research and disseminates research through various online research referral services and archives.
National Endowment for Arts (NEA)
The National Education Association (NEA), the nation's largest professional employee organization, is committed to advancing the cause of public education.
National Endowment for Humanities (NEH)
NEH is an independent grant-making agency of the United States government dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities.
National Humanities Center
The National Humanities Center is the only major independent American institute for advanced study in all fields of the humanities. It provides a national focus for the best work in the liberal arts, drawing attention to the enduring value of ancient and modern history, language and literature, ethical and moral reflection, artistic and cultural traditions, and critical thought in every area of humanistic investigation. By encouraging excellence in scholarship, the Center seeks to insure the continuing strength of the liberal arts and to affirm the importance of the humanities in American life.
Smithsonian Institution
Fellowships at the Smithsonian Institution provide students and scholars with opportunities to pursue independent research projects in association with members of the Smithsonian professional research staff.
Virginia Commission for the Arts (VCA)
The Virginia Commission for the Arts aims to support and stimulate excellence in all of the arts, in their full cultural and ethnic diversity, in order to enhance the quality of life, to stimulate economic development, to support educational advancement, and to make the arts accessible to all Virginians.
Virginia Foundation for Humanities and Public Policy
The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFH) develops and supports education, research, and public programs in the humanities. VFH projects apply the various perspectives of history, literature, philosophy, cultural and religious studies, and other fields of the humanities to contemporary and abiding human questions. They contribute to the interpretation and understanding of cultural traditions and current policy debates.
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 Business
The Actuarial Foundation
The Actuarial Foundation’s mission is to develop, fund and execute education and research programs that serve the public by harnessing the talents of actuaries. Funding is available in the areas of youth education, consumer education, and research and actuarial education.
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is a philanthropic nonprofit institution that supports a wide variety of program areas, including Science and Technology, Standard of Living and Economic Performance, Education and Careers in Science and Technology, Selected National Issues, and Civic Programs.
Broad Foundation
The Broad Foundations focus on three program areas: Education-transforming urban K-12 education through better governance, management, labor relations, and competition; Art-fostering public appreciation of contemporary art by increasing access for audience worldwide; and Science-making significant contributions to advance major scientific and medical research.
Department of Commerce
The historic mission of the Department is “to foster, promote, and develop the foreign and domestic commerce” of the United States. This has evolved, as a result of legislative and administrative additions, to encompass broadly the responsibility to foster, serve, and promote the Nation’s economic development and technological advancement.
Ewing Marion Kaufmann Foundation
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation works with partners to encourage entrepreneurship across America and improve the education of children and youth. The Foundation focuses its operations and grantmaking on two areas: entrepreneurship and education.
National Endowment for Financial Education
The National Endowment for Financial Education (NEFE) is a dedicated to helping Americans acquire the information and gain the skills necessary to take control of their financial lives. The grants program seeks innovative research and research-based development projects that can make a profound contributuion to the field of financial literacy.
Small Business Administration
The SBA’s mission is to maintain and strengthen the nation's economy by aiding, counseling, assisting and protecting the interests of small businesses and by helping families and businesses recover from national disasters.
Virginia Business-Education Partnership (VBEP)
The Virginia Business-Education Partnership (VBEP) was created in 1993 to promote, coordinate, and recognize partnerships between schools, parents, and businesses to increase student learning and academic achievement and prepare students to lead fulfilling lives, have successful careers, and be active and responsible citizens.
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Community
A.L. Mailman Family Foundation
The A.L. Mailman Family Foundation's mission is to enhance the ability of families and communities to nurture their children. Their Program areas are Early Care and Education, Family Support, and Moral Education and Social Responsibility.
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is a philanthropic nonprofit institution that supports a wide variety of program areas, including Science and Technology, Standard of Living and Economic Performance, Education and Careers in Science and Technology, Selected National Issues, and Civic Programs.
The Allstate Foundation
The Allstate Foundation supports national and local programs that fit within three focus areas: Safe and vital communities, Economic empowerment, and Tolerance, inclusion and diversity
American Association of University Women (AAUW)
AAUW promotes equity for all women and girls, lifelong education, and positive societal change. AAUW is one of the world's largest sources of funding exclusively for graduate women.
Annenberg Foundation
The Annenberg Foundation exists to advance the public well-being through improved communication. As the principal means of achieving its goal, the Foundation encourages the development of more effective ways to share ideas and knowledge. The Annenberg Foundation provides support for projects within its grant-making interest areas of education and youth, arts and culture, civic and community, and health.
Annie E. Casey Foundation
The primary mission of the Annie E. Casey Foundation is to foster public policies, human service reforms, and community supports that more effectively meet the needs of today's vulnerable children and families. Grant making by the Annie E. Casey Foundation is limited to initiatives that have significant potential to demonstrate innovative policy, service delivery, and community supports for children and families.
Beaumont Foundation of America
The Beaumont Foundation of America (BFA) aims to provide assistance to and for the benefit of the poor, underserved and underprivileged.
Charles Stuart-Mott Foundation
The Foundation seeks to support efforts that promote a just, equitable and sustainable society. Grants from the Foundation are made in four different programs: Civil Society, Environment, Flint Area and Pathways Out of Poverty.
Ewing Marion Kaufmann Foundation
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation works with partners to encourage entrepreneurship across America and improve the education of children and youth. The Foundation focuses its operations and grantmaking on two areas: entrepreneurship and education.
Ford Foundation
The Ford Foundation is a resource for innovative people and institutions worldwide. Their goals are to strengthen democratic values, reduce poverty and injustice, promote international cooperation and advance human achievement.
Gates Foundation
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation aims to help reduce inequities in the United States and around the world.
Lumina Foundation for Education
Lumina Foundation for Education strives to help people achieve their potential by expanding access and success in education beyond high school. Through grants for research, innovation, communication, and evaluation, as well as policy education and leadership development, Lumina Foundation addresses issues that affect access and educational attainment among all students, particularly underserved student groups, including adult learners. The Foundation bases its mission on the belief that postsecondary education remains one of the most beneficial investments that individuals can make in themselves and that society can make in its people.
McArthur Foundation
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is dedicated to helping groups and individuals foster lasting improvement in the human condition. The Foundation fosters the development of knowledge, nurtures individual creativity, helps strengthen institutions, helps improve public policy, and provides information to the public, primarily through support for public interest media. The Foundation makes grants through four programs (Global Security and Sustainability, Human and Community Development, General Program Support, and The MacArthur Fellows Program) and by making program-related investments.
Packard Foundation
The foundation funds initiatives to improve the lives of children, enable the creative pursuit of science, advance reproductive health, and conserve and restore earth's natural systems.
Rockefeller Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation works around the world to expand opportunities for poor or vulnerable people and to help ensure that globalization’s benefits are more widely shared. Initiatives are largely focused in a small group of areas in which the Rockefeller Foundation may play a special role by virtue of our history and legacy: global health, agricultural productivity, innovation for development, economic resilience and urban life.
The Skoll Foundation
The Skoll Foundation’s mission is to advance systemic change to benefit communities around the world by investing in, connecting and celebrating social entrepreneurs.
Surdna Foundation
The Surdna foundation makes grants in the areas of environment, community revitalization, effective citizenry, the arts and the nonprofit sector, with annual grantmaking of approximately $30 million.
Verizon Foundation
The Verizon Foundation supports and invests in the people and organizations working to improve the quality of life in our communities. The foundation places emphasis on education - from innovative programs such as MarcoPolo, which provides Web-based educational resources to help K-12 teachers prepare students for success in the 21st century, to basic literacy. In addition, they address health and safety issues by fostering awareness and prevention of domestic violence in America, as well as using technology to make the Internet a safe place for children and families.
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Education
The Actuarial Foundation
The Actuarial Foundation’s mission is to develop, fund and execute education and research programs that serve the public by harnessing the talents of actuaries. Funding is available in the areas of youth education, consumer education, and research and actuarial education.
A.L. Mailman Family Foundation
The A.L. Mailman Family Foundation's mission is to enhance the ability of families and communities to nurture their children. Their Program areas are Early Care and Education, Family Support, and Moral Education and Social Responsibility.
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is a philanthropic nonprofit institution that supports a wide variety of program areas, including Science and Technology, Standard of Living and Economic Performance, Education and Careers in Science and Technology, Selected National Issues, and Civic Programs.
American Association of University Women (AAUW)
AAUW promotes equity for all women and girls, lifelong education, and positive societal change. AAUW is one of the world's largest sources of funding exclusively for graduate women.
American Educational Research Association (AERA)
The American Educational Research Association (AERA) is concerned with improving the educational process by encouraging scholarly inquiry related to education and evaluation and, by promoting the dissemination and practical application of research results.
American Mathematical Society (AMS)
The mission of AMS is to further mathematical research and scholarship through programs and services that promote mathematical research and its uses, strengthen mathematical education, and foster awareness and appreciation of mathematics and its connections to other disciplines and to everyday life.
American Psychological Foundation
The American Psychological Foundation (APF) is a nonprofit, philanthropic organization that advances the science and practice of psychology as a means of understanding behavior and promoting health, education, and human welfare. APF seeks to advance psychology and its impact on improving the human condition.
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation currently makes grants in five core program areas: higher education, museums and art conservation, performing arts, conservation and the environment, and public affairs.
Annenberg Foundation
The Annenberg Foundation exists to advance the public well-being through improved communication. As the principal means of achieving its goal, the Foundation encourages the development of more effective ways to share ideas and knowledge. The Annenberg Foundation provides support for projects within its grant-making interest areas of education and youth, arts and culture, civic and community, and health.
Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation
The Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation seeks to align the focus areas of the Foundation with the most pressing needs of the society in which our company operates. The Foundation’s activities support a broad range of programs that address important health matters and educational issues around the world. Among the Foundation’s major initiatives are the Unrestricted Biomedical Research Grants Program, which provides no-strings-attached research grants in the areas of cancer, cardiovascular, infectious and metabolic diseases, neuroscience and nutrition.
Broad Foundation
The Broad Foundations focus on three program areas: Education-transforming urban K-12 education through better governance, management, labor relations, and competition; Art-fostering public appreciation of contemporary art by increasing access for audience worldwide; and Science-making significant contributions to advance major scientific and medical research.
Ewing Marion Kaufmann Foundation
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation works with partners to encourage entrepreneurship across America and improve the education of children and youth. The Foundation focuses its operations and grantmaking on two areas: entrepreneurship and education.
Fulbright Scholar Program (CIES)
The Fulbright Program, the U.S. government's flagship program in international educational exchange, to promote mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries of the world.
Goldman Sachs Foundation
The Foundation's mission is to promote excellence and innovation in education and to improve the academic performance and lifelong productivity of young people worldwide.
Henry Luce Foundation, Inc.
The work of the Luce Foundation focuses on the interdisciplinary exploration of higher education; increased understanding between Asia and the United States; the study of religion and theology; scholarship in American art; opportunities for women in science and engineering; and environmental and public policy programs.
Lumina Foundation for Education
Lumina Foundation for Education strives to help people achieve their potential by expanding access and success in education beyond high school. Through grants for research, innovation, communication, and evaluation, as well as policy education and leadership development, Lumina Foundation addresses issues that affect access and educational attainment among all students, particularly underserved student groups, including adult learners. The Foundation bases its mission on the belief that postsecondary education remains one of the most beneficial investments that individuals can make in themselves and that society can make in its people.
Merrill Lynch & Co.,Foundation
Merrill Lynch & Co. Foundation supports a variety of programs including those focusing on Arts & Culture, Civics, Education, Health & Hospitals, and Human Services.
NASA Graduate Fellowship (GSRP)
The NASA Graduate Student Researchers Program (GSRP) is designed to help meet the continuing needs of the nation's aeronautics and space effort by increasing the number of highly trained scientists and engineers in aerospace; space; Earth; physical and biological sciences; space applications; and space technology.
National Endowment for Arts (NEA)
The National Education Association (NEA), the nation's largest professional employee organization, is committed to advancing the cause of public education.
National Endowment for Financial Education
The National Endowment for Financial Education (NEFE) is a dedicated to helping Americans acquire the information and gain the skills necessary to take control of their financial lives. The grants program seeks innovative research and research-based development projects that can make a profound contributuion to the field of financial literacy.
National Endowment for Humanities (NEH)
NEH is an independent grant-making agency of the United States government dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities.
Spencer Foundation, research in education for all disciplines
The Foundation is intended, by Spencer's direction, to investigate ways in which education, broadly conceived, can be improved around the world.
U.S. Department of Education
The directive of the U.S. Department of Education is to ensure equal access to education and to promote educational excellence throughout the nation. The Department is dedicated to establishing policies on federal financial aid for education, and distributing as well as monitoring those funds, collecting data on America's schools and disseminating research, focusing national attention on key educational issues, and prohibiting discrimination and ensuring equal access to education.
Verizon Foundation
The Verizon Foundation supports and invests in the people and organizations working to improve the quality of life in our communities. The foundation places emphasis on education - from innovative programs such as MarcoPolo, which provides Web-based educational resources to help K-12 teachers prepare students for success in the 21st century, to basic literacy. In addition, they address health and safety issues by fostering awareness and prevention of domestic violence in America, as well as using technology to make the Internet a safe place for children and families.
Wallace Foundation
The Wallace Foundation seeks to support and share effective ideas and practices that will strengthen education leadership, arts participation and out-of-school learning.
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Engineering
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Environmental Science
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation currently makes grants in five core program areas: higher education, museums and art conservation, performing arts, conservation and the environment, and public affairs.
Center for Field Research (EarthWatch)
Earthwatch is one of the largest private funders of scientific field research. Program areas include: Environmental Impacts: How human activities affect ecosystems, endangered habitats, and threatened species; Biodiversity: How ecological and cultural forces relate to ecosystem processes that maintain biological diversity; Human Ecology: How the environment shapes human adaptation, indigenous knowledge, and socio-economic responses; and Conservation Management: How to foster habitat connectivity, sustainable agriculture, human-wildlife conflict mitigation, and other management practices.
Charles Stuart-Mott Foundation
The Foundation seeks to support efforts that promote a just, equitable and sustainable society. Grants from the Foundation are made in four different programs: Civil Society, Environment, Flint Area and Pathways Out of Poverty.
Chesapeake Bay Restoration Fund
Virginia's Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) coordinates and directs programs and services to prevent degradation of the Commonwealth's water quality and quantity. The major program areas are nonpoint source pollution control, urban programs, and district and landowner assistance. In addition to NPS control, soil and water conservation staff supports DCR's mission of reducing the risk to life and property from flooding and shoreline erosion.
Henry Luce Foundation, Inc.
The work of the Luce Foundation focuses on the interdisciplinary exploration of higher education; increased understanding between Asia and the United States; the study of religion and theology; scholarship in American art; opportunities for women in science and engineering; and environmental and public policy programs.
Virginia Environmental Endowment
The mission of Virginia Environmental Endowment is to improve the quality of the environment by using its capital to encourage all sectors to work together to prevent pollution, conserve natural resources, and promote environmental literacy. Grantmaking priorities in the Virginia Program are focused on water quality research and monitoring of water quality conditions; land and open space conservation; Chesapeake Bay fisheries conservation, research, and education; and environmental education. Although accorded a national scope by our charter, the Endowment currently limits awards to eligible nonprofit organizations for programs conducted in the state of Virginia and in the Kanawha and Ohio River Valleys of Kentucky and West Virginia.
Virginia Water Resources Research Center
The Virginia Water Resources Research Center (VWRRC) works to facilitate the education of future water scientists, encouraging research on solutions to water resources problems and enhancing the transfer of water sciences information to public and private decision makers.
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General
A.L. Mailman Family Foundation :
The A.L. Mailman Family Foundation's mission is to enhance the ability of families and communities to nurture their children. Their Program areas are Early Care and Education, Family Support, and Moral Education and Social Responsibility.
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation currently makes grants in five core program areas: higher education, museums and art conservation, performing arts, conservation and the environment, and public affairs.
Fulbright Scholar Program (CIES)
The Fulbright Program, the U.S. government's flagship program in international educational exchange, to promote mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries of the world.
Henry Luce Foundation, Inc.
The work of the Luce Foundation focuses on the interdisciplinary exploration of higher education; increased understanding between Asia and the United States; the study of religion and theology; scholarship in American art; opportunities for women in science and engineering; and environmental and public policy programs.
Institute for Advanced Study
The Institute for Advanced Study is one of the world’s leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. The Institute exists to encourage and support fundamental scholarship – the original, often speculative, thinking that produces advances in knowledge. It provides for the mentoring of younger scholars by Faculty, and it offers all who work there the freedom to undertake research that will make significant contributions in any of the broad range of fields in the sciences and humanities studied at the Institute.
Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
The Institute of Museum and Library Services is the primary source of federal support for the nation’s 122,000 libraries and 17,500 museums. Its mission is to grow and sustain a “Nation of Learners” because life-long learning is essential to a democratic society and individual success. Through its grant making, convenings, research and publications, the Institute empowers museums and libraries nationwide to provide leadership and services to enhance learning in families and communities, sustain cultural heritage, build twenty-first-century skills, and increase civic participation.
National Geographic Society Committee for Research and Exploration
Since 1890 the National Geographic Society's Committee for Research and Exploration has supported more than 7,500 projects and expeditions—including the excavation of Machu Picchu, the discovery of Titanic, and the work of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and the Leakey family. The committee continues to fund vital research, embodying the Society's 115-year-old mission: "to increase and diffuse geographic knowledge."
National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 "to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; to secure the national defense…" With an annual budget of about $5.5 billion, they are the funding source for approximately 20 percent of all federally supported basic research conducted by America's colleges and universities. In many fields such as mathematics, computer science and the social sciences, NSF is the major source of federal backing.
Open Society Institute/Soros Foundation
The Open Society Institute (OSI), a private operating and grantmaking foundation, aims to shape public policy to promote democratic governance, human rights, and economic, legal, and social reform. On a local level, OSI implements a range of initiatives to support the rule of law, education, public health, and independent media. At the same time, OSI works to build alliances across borders and continents on issues such as combating corruption and rights abuses.
Rockefeller Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation works around the world to expand opportunities for poor or vulnerable people and to help ensure that globalization’s benefits are more widely shared. Initiatives are largely focused in a small group of areas in which the Rockefeller Foundation may play a special role by virtue of our history and legacy: global health, agricultural productivity, innovation for development, economic resilience and urban life.
Small Business Administration
The SBA’s mission is to maintain and strengthen the nation's economy by aiding, counseling, assisting and protecting the interests of small businesses and by helping families and businesses recover from national disasters.
Spencer Foundation, research in education for all disciplines
The Foundation is intended, by Spencer's direction, to investigate ways in which education, broadly conceived, can be improved around the world.
U.S. Department of Education
The directive of the U.S. Department of Education is to ensure equal access to education and to promote educational excellence throughout the nation. The Department is dedicated to establishing policies on federal financial aid for education, and distributing as well as monitoring those funds, collecting data on America's schools and disseminating research, focusing national attention on key educational issues, and prohibiting discrimination and ensuring equal access to education.
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Government & Politcal Science
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation currently makes grants in five core program areas: higher education, museums and art conservation, performing arts, conservation and the environment, and public affairs.
Annenberg Foundation
The Annenberg Foundation exists to advance the public well-being through improved communication. As the principal means of achieving its goal, the Foundation encourages the development of more effective ways to share ideas and knowledge. The Annenberg Foundation provides support for projects within its grant-making interest areas of education and youth, arts and culture, civic and community, and health.
Annie E. Casey Foundation
The primary mission of the Annie E. Casey Foundation is to foster public policies, human service reforms, and community supports that more effectively meet the needs of today's vulnerable children and families. Grant making by the Annie E. Casey Foundation is limited to initiatives that have significant potential to demonstrate innovative policy, service delivery, and community supports for children and families.
Brookings Institution
The Brookings Institution is a private nonprofit organization devoted to independent research and innovative policy solutions. Brookings analyzes current and emerging issues and produces new ideas that matter—for the nation and the world.
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Carnegie Corporation of New York aims to promote "the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding." Program areas include education, international peace and security, international development, and strengthening U.S. democracy.
Ford Foundation
The Ford Foundation is a resource for innovative people and institutions worldwide. Their goals are to strengthen democratic values, reduce poverty and injustice, promote international cooperation and advance human achievement.
McArthur Foundation
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is dedicated to helping groups and individuals foster lasting improvement in the human condition. The Foundation fosters the development of knowledge, nurtures individual creativity, helps strengthen institutions, helps improve public policy, and provides information to the public, primarily through support for public interest media. The Foundation makes grants through four programs (Global Security and Sustainability, Human and Community Development, General Program Support, and The MacArthur Fellows Program) and by making program-related investments.
National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC)
The National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) promotes the preservation and use of America's documentary heritage essential to understanding our democracy, history, and culture.
Open Society Institute/Soros Foundation
The Open Society Institute (OSI), a private operating and grantmaking foundation, aims to shape public policy to promote democratic governance, human rights, and economic, legal, and social reform. On a local level, OSI implements a range of initiatives to support the rule of law, education, public health, and independent media. At the same time, OSI works to build alliances across borders and continents on issues such as combating corruption and rights abuses.
PEW Charitable Trusts
The Trust’s three program areas are: Policy, Information and Civic Life. Paralleling the Trusts' new internal alignment, the guidelines are organized into three sections--Advancing Policy Solutions, Informing the Public and Supporting Civic Life.
State Justice Institute
The State Justice Institute (SJI) was established by Federal law in 1984 to award grants to improve the quality of justice in State courts, facilitate better coordination between State and Federal courts, and foster innovative, efficient solutions to common problems faced by all courts.
Surdna Foundation
The Surdna foundation makes grants in the areas of environment, community revitalization, effective citizenry, the arts and the nonprofit sector, with annual grantmaking of approximately $30 million.
U.S. Department of Justice
The U.S. Department of Justice’s mission is to enforce the law and defend the interests of the United States according to the law; to ensure public safety against threats foreign and domestic; to provide federal leadership in preventing and controlling crime; to seek just punishment for those guilty of unlawful behavior; and to ensure fair and impartial administration of justice for all Americans.
US Institute of Peace
The United States Institute of Peace is an independent, nonpartisan, national institution established and funded by Congress. Its goals are to help prevent and resolve violent international conflicts, promote post-conflict stability and democratic transformations, and increase peacebuilding capacity, tools, and intellectual capital worldwide. The Institute does this by empowering others with knowledge, skills, and resources, as well as by its direct involvement in peacebuilding efforts around the globe.
Virginia Foundation for Humanities and Public Policy
The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFH) develops and supports education, research, and public programs in the humanities. VFH projects apply the various perspectives of history, literature, philosophy, cultural and religious studies, and other fields of the humanities to contemporary and abiding human questions. They contribute to the interpretation and understanding of cultural traditions and current policy debates.
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Health & Medicine
American Federation for Aging Research
AFAR’s mission is to promote healthier aging through biomedical research. Program areas include: supporting research that furthers our understanding of the aging process, developing new and young scientists in aging research and geriatric medicine, offering opportunities for scientists and physicians to exchange new ideas and knowledge about aging, and promoting awareness among the general public about the importance of aging research.
Annenberg Foundation
The Annenberg Foundation exists to advance the public well-being through improved communication. As the principal means of achieving its goal, the Foundation encourages the development of more effective ways to share ideas and knowledge. The Annenberg Foundation provides support for projects within its grant-making interest areas of education and youth, arts and culture, civic and community, and health.
Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation
The Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation seeks to align the focus areas of the Foundation with the most pressing needs of the society in which our company operates. The Foundation’s activities support a broad range of programs that address important health matters and educational issues around the world. Among the Foundation’s major initiatives are the Unrestricted Biomedical Research Grants Program, which provides no-strings-attached research grants in the areas of cancer, cardiovascular, infectious and metabolic diseases, neuroscience and nutrition.
Center for Field Research (EarthWatch)
Earthwatch is one of the largest private funders of scientific field research. Program areas include: Environmental Impacts: How human activities affect ecosystems, endangered habitats, and threatened species; Biodiversity: How ecological and cultural forces relate to ecosystem processes that maintain biological diversity; Human Ecology: How the environment shapes human adaptation, indigenous knowledge, and socio-economic responses; and Conservation Management: How to foster habitat connectivity, sustainable agriculture, human-wildlife conflict mitigation, and other management practices.
Commonwealth Health Research Board (CHRB)
The Commonwealth Health Research Board provides financial support for human health research in the Commonwealth. The Boards's primary responsibility is to make grants for human health research, especially for those efforts that have the potential of maximizing human health benefits for citizens of the Commonwealth.
Jeffress Memorial Trust
The purpose of the Jeffress Trust is to support basic research in chemical, medical or other scientific fields through grants to educational and research institutions in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Grants are given to assist scientists in such institutions to conduct investigations in the natural sciences, generally considered to include chemistry, physics, biology (with the exception of field studies, classification, other largely observational studies), studies in the basic medical sciences, such as biochemistry, microbiology, and others.
Merrill Lynch & Co.,Foundation
Merrill Lynch & Co. Foundation supports a variety of programs including those focusing on Arts & Culture, Civics, Education, Health & Hospitals, and Human Services.
National Fragile X Foundation
The National Fragile X Foundation unites the Fragile X community to enrich lives through educational and emotional support, promote public and professional awareness, and advance research toward improved treatments and a cure for Fragile X.
National Institute of Health (NIH)
The National Institutes of Health today is one of the world's foremost medical research centers, and the Federal focal point for medical research in the United States. The NIH, comprising 27 separate Institutes and Centers, is one of eight health agencies of the Public Health Service which, in turn, is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold. The NIH mission is to uncover new knowledge that will lead to better health for everyone. NIH works toward that mission by: conducting research in its own laboratories; supporting the research of non-Federal scientists in universities, medical schools, hospitals, and research institutions throughout the country and abroad; helping in the training of research investigators; and fostering communication of medical and health sciences information.
Packard Foundation
The foundation funds initiatives to improve the lives of children, enable the creative pursuit of science, advance reproductive health, and conserve and restore earth's natural systems.
Robert Wood Foundation
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation operates as the nation's largest philanthropy devoted to improving health and health care, RWJF supports training, education, research and projects that demonstrate effective ways to deliver health services.
Virginia Tobacco Settlement Foundation
The Foundation is established for the purposes of determining the appropriate recipients of moneys...to assist in financing efforts to restrict the use of tobacco products by minors through such means as educational and awareness programs on the health effects of tobacco use on minors and enforcement of laws restricting the distribution of tobacco products to minors.
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Information Technology
Verizon Foundation
The Verizon Foundation supports and invests in the people and organizations working to improve the quality of life in our communities. The foundation places emphasis on education - from innovative programs such as MarcoPolo, which provides Web-based educational resources to help K-12 teachers prepare students for success in the 21st century, to basic literacy. In addition, they address health and safety issues by fostering awareness and prevention of domestic violence in America, as well as using technology to make the Internet a safe place for children and families.
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International Studies
American Institute of Indian Studies
The Institute is a consortium of universities and colleges in the United States where scholars actively engage in teaching and research about India. The Institute offers a variety of competitive fellowships.
Henry Luce Foundation, Inc.
The work of the Luce Foundation focuses on the interdisciplinary exploration of higher education; increased understanding between Asia and the United States; the study of religion and theology; scholarship in American art; opportunities for women in science and engineering; and environmental and public policy programs.
US Information Agency (USIA)
The United States Information Agency is an independent foreign affairs agency supporting U.S. foreign policy and national interests abroad; USIA conducts international educational and cultural exchanges, broadcasting, and information programs.
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Science & Technology
Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
As a component of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), AFOSR’s mission is to support Air Force goals of control and maximum utilization of air and space.
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is a philanthropic nonprofit institution that supports a wide variety of program areas, including Science and Technology, Standard of Living and Economic Performance, Education and Careers in Science and Technology, Selected National Issues, and Civic Programs.
American Chemical Society/Petroleum Research Fund (PRF)
Offers support for advanced scientific education and fundamental research in the 'petroleum field.' Research is currently supported in chemistry, the earth sciences, chemical and petroleum engineering, and in related fields such as polymers and materials science.
American Mathematical Society (AMS)
The mission of AMS is to further mathematical research and scholarship through programs and services that promote mathematical research and its uses, strengthen mathematical education, and foster awareness and appreciation of mathematics and its connections to other disciplines and to everyday life.
Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation
The Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation seeks to align the focus areas of the Foundation with the most pressing needs of the society in which our company operates. The Foundation’s activities support a broad range of programs that address important health matters and educational issues around the world. Among the Foundation’s major initiatives are the Unrestricted Biomedical Research Grants Program, which provides no-strings-attached research grants in the areas of cancer, cardiovascular, infectious and metabolic diseases, neuroscience and nutrition.
Broad Foundation
The Broad Foundations focus on three program areas: Education-transforming urban K-12 education through better governance, management, labor relations, and competition; Art-fostering public appreciation of contemporary art by increasing access for audience worldwide; and Science-making significant contributions to advance major scientific and medical research.
Center for Field Research (EarthWatch)
Earthwatch is one of the largest private funders of scientific field research. Program areas include: Environmental Impacts: How human activities affect ecosystems, endangered habitats, and threatened species; Biodiversity: How ecological and cultural forces relate to ecosystem processes that maintain biological diversity; Human Ecology: How the environment shapes human adaptation, indigenous knowledge, and socio-economic responses; and Conservation Management: How to foster habitat connectivity, sustainable agriculture, human-wildlife conflict mitigation, and other management practices.
Chemical Sciences, The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation
The mission of The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc is "to advance the science of chemistry, chemical engineering and related sciences as a means of improving human relations and circumstances around the world." The Foundation makes awards to academic and other eligible institutions through several awards programs and occasionally may make unsolicited grants at its discretion within its general area of interest.
Chesapeake Bay Restoration Fund
Virginia's Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) coordinates and directs programs and services to prevent degradation of the Commonwealth's water quality and quantity. The major program areas are nonpoint source pollution control, urban programs, and district and landowner assistance. In addition to NPS control, soil and water conservation staff supports DCR's mission of reducing the risk to life and property from flooding and shoreline erosion.
Commonwealth Technology Research Fund
From its original mission to enhance the research and technology transfer activities of Virginia universities, CIT has moved its focus toward the new technologies, entrepreneurs and technology companies that make innovation happen.
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is the central research and development organization for the Department of Defense (DoD). It manages and directs selected basic and applied research and development projects for DoD, and pursues research and technology where risk and payoff are both very high and where success may provide dramatic advances for traditional military roles and missions.
Henry Luce Foundation, Inc.
The work of the Luce Foundation focuses on the interdisciplinary exploration of higher education; increased understanding between Asia and the United States; the study of religion and theology; scholarship in American art; opportunities for women in science and engineering; and environmental and public policy programs.
Jeffress Memorial Trust
The purpose of the Jeffress Trust is to support basic research in chemical, medical or other scientific fields through grants to educational and research institutions in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Grants are given to assist scientists in such institutions to conduct investigations in the natural sciences, generally considered to include chemistry, physics, biology (with the exception of field studies, classification, other largely observational studies), studies in the basic medical sciences, such as biochemistry, microbiology, and others.
Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) exists to further mathematical research through broadly based programs in the mathematical sciences and closely related activities.
NASA Graduate Fellowship (GSRP)
The NASA Graduate Student Researchers Program (GSRP) is designed to help meet the continuing needs of the nation's aeronautics and space effort by increasing the number of highly trained scientists and engineers in aerospace; space; Earth; physical and biological sciences; space applications; and space technology.
National Fragile X Foundation
The National Fragile X Foundation unites the Fragile X community to enrich lives through educational and emotional support, promote public and professional awareness, and advance research toward improved treatments and a cure for Fragile X.
Petroleum Research Fund/American Chemical Society
The Petroleum Research Fund was originally established as a Trust by seven major oil companies in 1944. The American Chemical Society, to whom the assets of the Fund were transferred in 2000, must use the income "for advanced scientific education and fundamental research in the 'petroleum field,' which may include any field of pure science which in the judgment of the Transferee may afford a basis for subsequent research directly connected with the petroleum field." Grants are made to nonprofit institutions in the United States and other countries in response to proposals. Fundamental research is currently supported in chemistry, the earth sciences, chemical and petroleum engineering, and in related fields such as polymers and materials science.
Research Corporation (chemistry, physics, and astronomy)
Major activities of Research Corporation are associated with grants activities operated through five major programs: the Department Development Awards, the Cottrell College Science Awards, the Research Innovation Awards, the Cottrell Scholar Awards, and the Research Opportunity Awards.
Sigma-Xi – The Scientific Research Society
The Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research (GIAR) program has been providing undergraduate and graduate students with valuable educational experiences for more than 80 years. By encouraging close working relationships between students and faculty, the program promotes scientific excellence and achievement through hands-on learning.
U.S. Department of Energy
The U.S. Department of Energy’s education programs help ensure an adequate supply of scientists, engineers and technicians for energy-related research, production activities, and the transfer of technology. The advancement of science, mathematics and technology education is an essential part of Energy's mission.
Virginia Academy of Science
The Academy's purpose is to establish and maintain an association of persons and organizations interested in science and scientific research in all of its branches; to solicit financial and other support; to cooperate with educational institutions, industries, and state agencies in fostering an interest in scientific matters, in promoting scientific investigations and in spreading knowledge of the sciences; to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of papers on scientific subjects and facilities for their publication; to provide opportunities for the cooperation and fellowship among its members; and generally, in doing these things, to benefit not only its own members, but to promote the civic, agricultural, academic, industrial, and commercial welfare of the people of Virginia.
Virginia Space Grant Consortium
The Virginia Space Grant Consortium (VSGC) is a coalition of five Virginia colleges and universities, NASA, state educational agencies, Virginia's Center for Innovative Technology, and other institutions representing diverse aerospace education and research. The VSGC acts as an umbrella organization, coordinating and developing aerospace-related and high technology educational and research efforts throughout the Commonwealth and connecting Virginia's effort to a national community of shared aerospace interests.
Virginia Water Resources Research Center
The Virginia Water Resources Research Center (VWRRC) works to facilitate the education of future water scientists, encouraging research on solutions to water resources problems and enhancing the transfer of water sciences information to public and private decision makers.
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Social Science
American Federation for Aging Research
AFAR’s mission is to promote healthier aging through biomedical research. Program areas include: supporting research that furthers our understanding of the aging process, developing new and young scientists in aging research and geriatric medicine, offering opportunities for scientists and physicians to exchange new ideas and knowledge about aging, and promoting awareness among the general public about the importance of aging research.
American Psychological Foundation
The American Psychological Foundation (APF) is a nonprofit, philanthropic organization that advances the science and practice of psychology as a means of understanding behavior and promoting health, education, and human welfare. APF seeks to advance psychology and its impact on improving the human condition.
American Sociological Association
The American Sociological Association is dedicated to advancing sociology as a scientific discipline and profession serving the public good.
Charles Stuart-Mott Foundation
The Foundation seeks to support efforts that promote a just, equitable and sustainable society. Grants from the Foundation are made in four different programs: Civil Society, Environment, Flint Area and Pathways Out of Poverty.
National Institute of Health (NIH)
The National Institutes of Health today is one of the world's foremost medical research centers, and the Federal focal point for medical research in the United States. The NIH, comprising 27 separate Institutes and Centers, is one of eight health agencies of the Public Health Service which, in turn, is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold. The NIH mission is to uncover new knowledge that will lead to better health for everyone. NIH works toward that mission by: conducting research in its own laboratories; supporting the research of non-Federal scientists in universities, medical schools, hospitals, and research institutions throughout the country and abroad; helping in the training of research investigators; and fostering communication of medical and health sciences information.
Russell Sage Foundation
The Russell Sage Foundation is a funding source for studies by scholars at other academic and research institutions, and an active member of the nation's social science community.
Sigma-Xi – The Scientific Research Society
The Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research (GIAR) program has been providing undergraduate and graduate students with valuable educational experiences for more than 80 years. By encouraging close working relationships between students and faculty, the program promotes scientific excellence and achievement through hands-on learning.
Social Science Research Council (SSRC)
The SSRC is committed to the idea that social science can produce necessary knowledge—necessary for citizens to understand their societies and necessary for policy makers to decide on crucial questions.
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