LibGuides: Grants and Funding: Federal Funding Resources

Resources

In the United States, federal grants are economic aid issued by the United States government out of the general federal revenue. A federal grant is an award of financial assistance from a federal agency to a recipient to carry out a public purpose of support or stimulation authorized by a law of the United States. Listed below are websites for federal agencies to post discretionary funding opportunities and for grantees to find and apply to receive such grants.

Grants On-Line Database (GOLD)
Gold is a database of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Grants, Working Papers and HHS Recovery Act Project.
Grants.gov
Grants.gov is your place to FIND and APPLY for federal grants. The United States Department of Health and Human Services is proud to be the managing partner for Grants.gov--an initiative that is having an unparalleled impact on the grant community.
National Cancer Institute
Grants available through National Cancer Institute
National Science Foundation Funding
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency.
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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 $7.0 billion (FY 2012), we 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
Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools (RePORT)
The RePORT (Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools) website provides access to a variety of reporting tools, reports, data, and analyses of NIH research activities. One of the tools available on the RePORT site is the RePORTER (RePORT Expenditures and Results) module. RePORTER is an electronic tool that allows users to search a repository of NIH-funded research projects and access publications and patents resulting from NIH funding
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Database that allows you to search grants awarded by the NIH based on investegator names, institutions, toipics and various other search criteria.
CRISP database has been replaced by NIH RePORT
SPARC- Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
This community resource for tracking, comparing, and understanding both current and future U.S. federal funder research data sharing policies is a joint project of SPARC & Johns Hopkins University Libraries. provides a detailed analysis of 16 federal agency responses to the directive issued by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) on Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Research. Specifically, the new resource focuses on how these agencies intend to make the digital data associated with the projects they fund available for access and reuse.