While the ORA will run individual searches for specific projects and funding opportunities by request, your best chance to find funding opportunities that match your exact wants and needs is to set up a search profile with funding databases. Once you set up your search profile, you will automatically receive email updates with funding opportunities that match your specific profile.
InfoEd's SPIN Funding Opportunity Database is a robust tool available to all WCU faculty, staff and students to find relevant programs available to fund all types of research. SPIN offers researchers the ability to customize funding searches and set up email alerts for opportunities that meet your search criteria.
You can create your own SPIN profile or reach out to us via email to have the ORA create your profile and assist with setting up funding alerts. Profile requests in SPIN must be approved manually. Within one business day, you will receive a confirmation email of your request, and from there you will be able to create a password and log in.
For detailed instructions, view this guide on How to Create New Profile.
Connect and subscribe to Grants.gov to receive daily email notificiations of new federal funding opportunities. Grants.gov allows you to subscribe to all new opportunities, saved searches or to specific opportunities that you want to track.
This website provides listings of internships, experiential learning opportunities, academic fellowships and scholarships funded by government and private sector organizations. Visitors to the site may view available opportunities by selecting the Opportunity Catalog.
The RTI University Scholars Program is designed to drive growth, foster collaboration, build scientific stature, and develop opportunities for externally funded joint projects.
Submitting Expressions of Interest to the RTI University Scholars Program
The RTI University Scholars Program invites Expressions of Interest for the 2025-2026 academic year from tenured or research-track faculty members at the Associate Professor level or higher with a commitment to collaboration and a research project related to RTI practice areas. Expressions of Interests are due by January 23, 2025.
In 2024 – 2025 the RTI University Scholars Program prioritized projects related to climate change, environmental justice, energy, data modernization and data science, global health security, pandemic preparedness, agriculture, food security and nutrition.
The Foundation Center (Candid) is a funding resource service for U.S-based nonprofit and grantmaking organizations. Users can sign up to receive an RFP Bulletin, a weekly newsletter of recently announced Requests for Proposals from private, corporate, and government funding sources.
Listed below is a selection of funding opportunities that are not limited submissions. Please note that the following information does not replace a sponsor's actual funding opportunity announcement. Always review a sponsor's current solicitation to verify program availability, guidelines, requirements and deadlines.
| Sponsor | Program | Deadline | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alfred P. Sloan Foundation | Sloan Research Fellowships | September | $75,000 |
| National Science Foundation | Major Research Instrumentation Program | November | $4,000,000 |
| National Science | Engineering Research Initiation | September 16, 2025 | $200,000 |
| National Science Foundation | Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Computing in Undergraduate Education | April | No Stated Limit |
| National Science Foundation | Innovations in Graduate Education Program | March | $300,000 to $1,000,000 |
| National Science Foundation | International Research Experiences for Students | October | $150,000 |
| National Institute of Standards and Technology | Measurement Science and Engineering (MSE) Research Grant Programs | March 5, 2026 | $5,000 to $2,500,000 |
| National Science Foundation | Biosensing | Rolling | No Stated Limit |
| National Science Foundation | Mechanics of Materials and Structures (MOMS) | Rolling | No Stated Limit |
| Sponsor | Program | Deadline | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Science Foundation | Life and Environments Through Time | Rolling | No Stated Limit |
| World Wood Day | 2025 - 2026 WWDF Research Grant | February 14, 2025 | $12,000 |
| Natural Hazards Center | Quick Response Proposal | Rolling | $10,000 to $50,000 |
| National Science Foundation | Water, Landscape, and Critical Zone Processes (WaLCZ) | Rolling | No Stated Limit |
| National Science Foundation | Humans, Disasters, and the Built Environment | Rolling | No Stated Limit |
| National Science Foundation | Environmental Sustainability | Rolling | No Stated Limit |
| National Science Foundation | Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program | August | $50,000 to $500,000 |
| Sponsor | Program | Deadline | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Science Foundation | Geosciences Open Science Ecosystem |
Track 1: February Track 2: November |
$500,000 to $1,000,000 |
| National Science Foundation | Sedimentary Geology and Paleobiology | Rolling | No Stated Limit |
| National Science Foundation | Collaborations in Artificial Intelligence and Geosciences (CAIG) | Rolling until February 4, 2026 | No Stated Limit |
| Sponsor | Program | Deadline | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Golden LEAF Foundation | Open Grants Program |
April 24, 2025 |
$500,000 |
| FINRA Investor Education Foundation | General Grant Program | Rolling | $50,000 to $100,000 |
| Sponsor | Program | Deadline | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Natural Hazards Center |
Special Call for Health Outcomes and Climate-Related Disaster ResearchTeaching and Leadership |
Rolling |
$50,000 |
| National Institutes of Health | Bidirectional Influences Between Adolescent Social Media Use and Mental Health (R21 Clinical Trial Optional) | October 20, 2025 | $275,000 |
| Robert Wood Johnson Foundation | Pioneering Ideas: Exploring the Future to Build a Culture of Health | Rolling | No Stated Limit |
| National Institutes of Health | Examining the Impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on Healthcare Safety (R18) | Rolling until May 26, 2027 | $500,000 to $1,000,000 |
| Sponsor | Program | Deadline | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belk Foundation |
Rolling |
$200,000 | |
| Herst Foundation | Transformational Partnerships Fund | Rolling | $100,000 |
| ECMC Foundation | ECMC Foundation Grants | Rolling | No Stated Limit |
| Sponsor | Program | Deadline | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Endowment for the Humanities | February 12, 2025 | $190,000 | |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Spotlight on Humanities in Higher Education | October 7, 2025 | $30,000 to $60,000 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Media Projects | January 8, 2025 | $75,000 to $1,000,000 |
| Mellon Foundation | Arts and Culture Grants | Rolling | No Stated Limit |
| Sponsor | Program | Deadline | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Federal Bureau of Investigation |
FBI Critical Incident Response Group (CIRG) Research Opportunity |
Rolling | To Be Determined by CIRG Officials |
| Arnold Ventures | Rolling | $500,000 |
| Sponsor | Program | Deadline | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Science Foundation |
Rolling |
$500,000 | |
| National Science Foundation | Communications, Circuits, and Sensing-Systems (CCSS) | Rolling | $500,000 |
| National Science Foundation | Biosensing | Rolling | No Stated Limit |
| National Science Foundation | Energy, Power, Control, and Networks (EPCN) | Rolling | $500,000 |
| Sponsor | Program | Deadline | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Science Foundation | Artificial Intelligence, Formal Methods, and Mathematical Reasoning | Rolling until February 5, 2026 | $500,000 to $1,200,000 |
| National Science Foundation | Smart Health and Biomedical Research in the Era of Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Data Science (SCH) | October 3, Annually | $1,200,000 |
| National Science Foundation | Mathematical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence | Rolling until October 9, 2026 | $500,000 to $1,500,000 |
| National Science Foundation | Collaborations in Artificial Intelligence and Geosciences (CAIG) | Rolling until February 4, 2026 | No Stated Limit |
| National Institutes of Health | Examining the Impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on Healthcare Safety (R18) | Rolling until May 26, 2027 | $500,000 to $1,000,000 |