Supports explorations of nature-centric decision making, in which nature’s inherent value becomes a central principle and informs institutions’ practices across their activities.

Supports efforts to educate and engage stakeholder groups, as well as the general public, in the movement for safe, secure and beneficial AI.

Supports early and mid-career investigators proposing innovative implementation science studies that align with AHA’s mission and provide optimal approaches to improving public health.

Supports nonprofit organizations that support the whole family in literacy.

*LOI Deadline: 2/6/2025* Supports discrete activities addressing negative impacts of land use policies that work to achieve health equity for all.

Supports academic investigators developing new methodologies or innovative approaches in regulatory science that will ultimately inform the regulatory decisions the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and others make.

Supports research or a research-based project to improve the lives of cancer patients and/or survivors through psychology.

Supports the development of packaging and packaging alternatives for specialty crops compliant with the emergent packaging regulations in the EU, UK, Canada, Japan, and other key markets.

Supports two categories of decarbonization modeling projects : a) sectoral modeling efforts and b) economy-wide modeling efforts on coupling models from different sectors and scales.

Supports community-based initiatives focused on food as medicine, health, and agriculture.

Supports research of the horticultural, scientific, and/or medicinal use of herbs throughout history.

*2/17 (project idea submissions, application deadline 3/10)* Supports focused, results-oriented projects that improve public health data in the thematic areas of the D4H Initiative (data use, civil registration and vital statistics, and cancer registry).

Supports research projects with strong potential to develop pioneering discoveries for understanding the underlying biological mechanisms that govern normal human aging and its related physiological decline.

To assist with the production and presentation of significant programs about architecture and the designed environment in order to promote dialogue, raise awareness, and develop new and wider audiences.

Supports production and presentation grants, which may be applied to the production-related expenses necessary to take a project from conceptualization to realization and public presentation, including exhibitions, installations; film/video/new media web initiatives; public programs; and publications.

ArtsCONNECT supports performing arts touring projects collaboratively developed by presenters working together in the mid-Atlantic region.

Supports early career researchers who show exceptional promise of becoming academic scientists, which includes the potential to build and contribute to an equitable and inclusive scientific culture, as they transition from postdoctoral training to independent faculty appointments.

Supports development or optimization of analytical tools for the detection of doping substances or methods; growth of the Athlete Biological Passport; the pharmacology of prohibited substances and of drug combinations; evaluation of doping potential; and anti-doping testing programs.

*LOI Deadline: 2/28/25* Supports alternative methods to advance science and replace or reduce animal use.

Supports high impact research projects on OCD.

Recognizes a book that embodies historical scholarship, originality, literary quality and broad appeal.

Supports scholarly projects that will enhance the appreciation and understanding of European works of art and architecture from antiquity to the early 19th century.

Supports research projects that investigate laws, policies, institutions, regulations, and normative practices that may limit equality in the U.S.

Supports investigators at the outset of their career to undertake and explore innovative and impactful research projects that address critical challenges in global health security.

Supports emerging African scholars enrolled in Ph.D programs who are studying aspects of violence on or directly related to the African continent.

Curatorial Research Fellowships to cover expenses incurred during the research and development stage of an exhibition, public-facing project, or other visual arts-based initiative that contributes in an original way to contemporary visual arts discourse

Exhibition Support for exhibitions taking place between 6 months and 2 years after the grant notification date, featuring artists whose work has been less celebrated than that of their peers, yet have had a significant impact

Multi-year Program Support for two years of visual arts programming: exhibitions, residencies, public art works, screenings, performances, lectures, publications, mentorships and other professional development opportunities for artists

*LOI Deadline: 3/1/2025* There are three Artist Grants available: Workshop Grants ($3,000), Production Grants ($7,000), and Family Grants ($4,000). All Artist Grants are to be used towards puppetry. This includes the building and performing of the puppets and the integration of the puppets in the piece.

Supports climate adaptation and resilience professionals in their efforts to create or advance a climate resilience plan or project in collaboration with a community that is on the front lines of the climate crisis.

Recognizes outstanding and lasting scholarly contributions to racial, ethnic, and/or religious relations.

Supports activities on the advancement and application of knowledge related to identified gifted and talented children and adolescents, including research, pilot projects, and research-based programs.

Supports fundamental research directly related to petroleum or fossil fuels.

*LOI Deadline: 3/10/2025* Supports innovation in research that enables the detection of the deadliest cancers at earlier stages when they can be intercepted or effectively treated.

Eligible project activities may include performances, public art collaborations, workshops/trainings, exhibitions, fieldwork/documentation, and creation of new traditional work. Mid Atlantic Arts encourages projects that cross state/territory borders, as well as projects that support or engage underserved or underrepresented artists, practitioners, traditions, or constituents

Supports participation in a leadership development program for full-time doctoral students from a wide range of nonclinical, research-focused disciplines in which policy is a key lever for change.

Supports tenure-track assistant professors conducting causal research on the criminal justice system.

Supports innovative investigator-initiated research that examines the roles of race, ethnicity, nativity, legal status —and their interactions with each other and other social categories—in the social, economic, and political outcomes for immigrants, U.S.-born racial and ethnic minorities, and native-born whites.

Supports emerging scientific leaders as they pursue their interest in improving offshore energy system safety.

Recognizes early career scientists who demonstrate outstanding promise for making scientific and medical breakthroughs in the field of brain cancer research.

Supports early-career researchers in mental health, with the intention of serving as catalysts for additional funding, providing researchers with “proof of concept” for their work.

Supports projects that will build the body of proven, effective policies, programs, and interventions by funding researchers to conduct rigorous RCTs across the spectrum of social policy.

Supports interventions to reduce Alzheimer's risk for women due to endocrine aging.

*LOI Deadline: 03/07/2025* Recognizing current and historical inequities in presentations and understandings of American art history, the Terra Foundation encourages temporary loan exhibitions that address these imbalances and exclusions at institutions worldwide.

Supports evidence-based research on autism spectrum disorder.

Supports innovative basic research into fundamental biological problems with emphasis placed on novel and interdisciplinary approaches that involve scientific exchanges across national and disciplinary boundaries.

*LOI Deadline: 3/19/2025* Supports applicants who can demonstrate innovative approaches, produce measurable patient/clinician outcomes, and disseminate findings that result in widespread use to improve patient safety across the healthcare community.

Supports traditional artists/practitioners and organizations that show a deep commitment to sustaining folklife rooted in communities of color.

Supports collaborative teams working to address high-priority research questions in an effort to advance our understanding of Parkinson’s disease (PD) and drive new ideas into the R&D pipeline.

Supports interdisciplinary, collaborative social science research projects led by early- and mid-career scholars that analyze the systemic interactions and connections associated with the transition to a low-carbon economy in the United States.

Supports the discovery of antibiotics with broad spectrum activity against Enterobacteriaceae, using Klebsiella spp. as the pathogen to initiate a discovery program.

Supports research focused on understanding underlying biological mechanisms, particularly related to endometrial dysfunction-related HMB, developing and introducing cost-effective and easy to scale-up diagnostics to identify causes of HMB and guide treatment, and identifying ways to increase acceptability and access to treatments such as the hormonal intrauterine device for women in low-resource settings.

Supports developing solutions upstream to testing that enable easier, more affordable, and self-administered sample collection, sample preparation, and lysis when needed to support innovative PoC tests with faster turnaround times.

Supports fostering innovative modeling approaches that rethink how women's health is measured, using available data, or easily obtainable, in new ways to provide a more holistic and actionable understanding of health outcomes.

Supports innovative solutions for the early detection, prevention, and treatment of preeclampsia, particularly in low- and middle-income countries where maternal mortality rates are high.

Mid Atlantic Tours 2025-2026 roster includes performing artists from across the mid-Atlantic region as well as artists from countries in the Iberian peninsula and Latin America through Mid Atlantic Arts’ partnership with Ibermúsicas.

*Portal Registration Deadline 3/19/2025* Supports exceptional postdoctoral researchers' transitions to an independent career in HIV/AIDS research within an academic institution or nonprofit organization.

*LOI Deadline: 3/28/25* Supports either research support for innovative scientists in Pennsylvania as they transition into an academic position as a new independent investigator, or existing investigators with strong records of research accomplishments to establish collaborations that facilitate innovative interdisciplinary approaches towards a common research question and that require expertise beyond that of any single researcher.

*Registration Deadline is 3/12/25* The 2025 Call for Proposals to Community-Based Archives provides direct support to community-based archives that represent and serve communities marginalized due to oppression.

Recognizes outstanding published work published in 2023 from researchers that can help managed care organizations, policymakers, and related stakeholders improve the affordability and quality of U.S. health care.

Recognizes individuals who were working at the frontlines of science communication or journalism who have developed creative, original work that addresses issues and advances in science, engineering, or medicine for the general public, and who are in career stages or settings where the recognition could have a significant impact on their future career.

Supports scholars who have received their Ph.D. within the past 10 years to conduct research on Russian history and culture.

Supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived.

Supports research on likely future capabilities of large language models (LLMs).

Supports early career artists selected by peer panel review to enable them to produce major performance art works in New York City.

*LOI Deadline: 4/1/2025* Supports innovative pilot activities that initiate long-term transformative change in the field of China studies.

Supports research, education and intervention projects and programs that use psychology to solve social problems in the following priority areas: applying psychology to at-risk, vulnerable populations; preventing violence; understanding the connection between behavior and health; understanding and eliminating stigma and prejudice; and furthering racial equity.

*LOI Deadline: 4/7/2025* Supports investigators for the testing of initial hypotheses and collecting of preliminary data to help secure long-term funding by the National Institutes of Health and/or other major granting institutions.

Supports social sciences and humanities postdoctoral researchers who study the implications of AI for Science.

*LOI Deadline: 4/10/25* Supports efforts to improve the lives of children and youth in the greater Pittsburgh region, with attention to kids whose opportunities are limited due to economic circumstances.

Recognizes outstanding achievement in high-performance computing.

Supports ML research to prepare for the risk that AI systems could be misaligned — that they might pursue goals that no one gave them and harm people in the process.

Supports validation activities for novel targets with a clear therapeutic concept and strong biological rationale related to early intervention in anxiety, depression and/or psychosis.

Supports pilot funding for research projects aiming to improve the assessment, treatment, and prevention of traumatic brain injuries.

Supports early-career psychologists conducting research in the area of early intervention and treatment for serious emotional disturbance in children.

Supports the growth of new connections between scholars working in largely disconnected fields who could together change the course of climate change’s impact on human health.

The J.M.K. Innovation Prize seeks to identify and support bold problem-solvers leading transformative, early-stage projects in the fields of heritage conservation, the environment, and social justice. Awards up to 10 Prizes, each including a cash award of $150,000 over three years and $25,000 in technical assistance funds. Awardees will also have access to hands-on training and support through the Fund's resource network.

Direct support for under-recognized visual artists. Applicants must be 21 years or older and citizens of the US. Applications are evaluated on the quality of the artist’s work, the potential to expand aesthetic inquiry.

Supports research and publication on the Japanese visual arts.

Supports exceptional US poets between 21 and 31 years of age.

Supports transdisciplinary teams to deliver short-term, high-impact projects that make the impacts of climate change on physical and mental health visible to drive urgent climate policy action at scale.

Supports innovative interventions, based on psychological knowledge, that directly address pressing needs of communities.

Supports education research projects that will contribute to understanding and ameliorating racial inequality in education.

Recognizes modern-day heroes and the exceptional impact of their actions on preserving human life and advancing humanitarian causes in the face of adversity.

Recognizes outstanding achievements and contributions by an early career neuroscientist who has demonstrated scholarly independence.

Recognizes individuals, groups, or organizations for outstanding achievement in improving mental health.

Supports innovative community-driven projects created in partnership with an organization that uplift Native communities, promote self-determination, and drive transformative change.

*LOI due: 5/15; full application for invited applicants due 7/17* Artistic Production grants fund the production and exhibition of new artistic commissions, in amounts ranging between $25,000 – $100,000. Often exhibited beyond museum walls in public space, these projects feature high levels of thought leadership, artistic production, and public engagement. VIA Art Fund accepts Letters of Inquiry (LOIs) on a semiannual basis for our Fall and Spring award cycles.

Supports bold young researchers who ask fundamental questions at the intersection of the life and social sciences.

Supports researchers with a strong track record of success and achievement in their current field, and a deep interest, curiosity and drive to make contributions to a new discipline. At the end of the fellowship year, fellows may be eligible to apply for a research award in their new field for up to $1.5 million, plus indirect costs, over five (5) years.

We welcome applications for Huo early-career fellowships, junior faculty research grants and special projects: Huo early-career fellowships – up to three years, up to £130k/$169k pa –to support talented and promising postdoctoral researchers on the path to independence. Typically, the researchers must be within four years of completing PhD and without their first permanent position. Fellows should have a sponsor, who has a permanent position at the host institution. Find out more about applying for this grant. Junior faculty research grants – up to three years, up to £200k/$260k pa – to support focused research projects led by new lecturers/assistant professors, who typically took up their first permanent/tenure-track position within the last two years. Find out more about applying for this grant. Special projects – up to four years, up to £300k/$390k pa – these larger and longer-term awards will allow researchers of all career stages, collaborating as a multi-disciplinary team with different expertise and skills, to take an integrated approach to tackle the more difficult questions in this domain. Find out more about applying for this grant. We are keen to support multi-disciplinary work. We want to help train the next generation of exceptional scientists in this rapidly evolving field.  Applications should attempt to understand mechanisms, causal pathways and directions.

Supports the development a resource for health research that links satellite-derived air quality products to quantified uncertainties and strengthens the understanding of the implications of such uncertainties for exposure, epidemiological, and health assessment research.

*Deadline: Rolling through May 2025* Supports proposals to build large-scale AI/ML models that cannot be created with conventional university resources.

*Nomination Deadline* Recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions to the development of the field of human gene therapy.

Supports exploration/acceleration of decarbonized energy solutions or economy-wide decarbonization that impacts the energy industry.

Supports general production expenses for performances of Kurt Weill’s and/or Marc Blitzstein’s stage works, and to cover musical expenses in connection with performances of Weill’s or Blitzstein’s concert works.

Recognizes an individual for innovative research in the field of water quality and the water environment, with a special focus on those who show promise and make significant contributions in bridging research and its practical application.

Supports outstanding young professionals who wish to enrich public life in the United States by advancing the understanding of foreign countries, cultures and trends through independent writing fellowships abroad.

To support nonprofit organizations that work with immigrant artists and communities, and that promote diversity in the arts, sciences, education, and humanities.

Supports organizations committed to advancing racial, economic, and environmental justice (REEJ).

Supports the theme area of sustainable technologies for steel manufacturing, including decarbonization, CO2 reduction and carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS), among other related technologies.

Supports career development for promising early-career researchers who focus on reducing inequality.

Supports institutions or consortia that are already moving toward establishing themselves as centers of excellence for understanding climate change’s impact on human health and for leadership in climate education OR public communication around climate and health.

Recognizes individuals who have made seminal contributions in cancer research.

Supports a woman recently promoted to Associate Professor or an equivalent position in the mathematical sciences as she spends a semester in the Mathematics Department of Cornell University without teaching obligations.

Supports early career scholars working in critical areas of education research.

*Rolling deadline* Supports proposals that strengthen human rights protections, advance government accountability, and improve the reach and quality of justice.

Supports individuals and teams across the globe working to develop, scale, and commercialize technologies that have the potential to reduce carbon emissions by at least 500 million tons per year by 2050.

(Rolling deadline) Supports the development of courses on a range of topics that are relevant to certain areas of Open Philanthropy’s grantmaking including potential risks from advanced AI, biosecurity and pandemic preparedness, other global catastrophic risks; or to issues that are of cross-cutting relevance to our work.

Rolling deadline* Supports activities that promote equity, justice, safety, and inclusion for women, girls, and people with disabilities, and combat systemic racism that impedes progress for these populations in southwestern Pennsylvania.

Rolling Deadline* Supports the development of books, theater, film, television, radio, and new media to commission, develop, produce, and distribute new work mainstreaming science and technology for the lay public.

Rolling Deadline* Supports areas at the intersection of research and technology where a strategic investment of Foundation resources might be leveraged to empower scholarship.

Rolling Deadline: Supports organizations working to reduce recidivism using evidence-based or best practices methods.

*Rolling Deadline* Supports work end and reverse tropical deforestation while delivering on sustainable development. Please contact me directly at lpicker@andrew.cmu.edu if interested in this opportunity.

*Rolling Deadline* Supports national advocacy, litigation, and innovative strategies not only to defend reproductive rights, but to create new strategies and policies. Please contact me directly at lpicker@andrew.cmu.edu if interested in this opportunity.

*Rolling Deadline* Supports work to ensure a better future for the ocean. Please contact me directly at lpicker@andrew.cmu.edu if interested in this opportunity.

*Rolling Deadline* Supports training for caregivers; increased access to health care for children; and comprehensive paid family leave policies. Please contact me directly at lpicker@andrew.cmu.edu if interested in this opportunity.

*Rolling Deadline Within the U.S., Sony focuses the majority of its charitable giving on art, culture, technology and the environment, with a particular emphasis on education in each of those areas. While support in other areas may also be considered, the Company seeks to apply its financial, technological and human resources to the encouragement of the creative, artistic, technical and scientific skills required of tomorrow's workforce.

*Rolling deadline* Supports the advancement of equity and justice by strengthening an ecosystem of people, organizations, and networks examining and addressing the social impacts of technology. Please contact Shaina Sine at ssine@andrew.cmu.edu to discuss this opportunity.

*Rolling Deadline* Supports the development of new work mainstreaming science and technology for the lay public through books, theater, film, television, radio, and new media.

*Rolling deadline* Supports in-depth, independent research on an area of technology and security policy

*Rolling deadline* Supports proposals from applicants interested in growing our capacity for reducing global catastrophic risks via the kinds of projects described below.

*Rolling Deadline* Supports organizations that have invested in careful planning and consideration of various elements of their STEM program who are providing students with a comprehensive and engaging educational experience.

*Rolling Deadline* Supports high-risk theoretical mathematics, physics, and computer science projects of exceptional promise and scientific importance on a case-by-case basis.

*Rolling Deadline* Supports benchmarks that measure how close LLM agents can get to performing consequential real-world tasks.

*Rolling Deadline* Supports research projects which might shed light on what real-world impacts LLM systems could have over the next few years.

*LOI Deadline: Rolling* Supports research to promote a high-performing, equitable health care system that promotes better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency in health care, particularly for society’s most vulnerable, including people of color, people with low income, and those who are uninsured.

(NB: Proposals accepted on a rolling basis through July 2026, and reviewed quarterly) Supports the growth of new connections between scholars working in largely disconnected fields who might together change the course of climate change’s impact on human health.

*Rolling Deadline* Supports work to develop practices, norms and institutions that can better promote the development and adoption of discovery-enhancing software. Please contact @Shaina Sine with any expressions of interest.

*Rolling Deadline* Supports research on the physical principles and mechanisms that distinguish living systems from inanimate matter, and the conditions under which physical principles and mechanisms guide the complexification of matter towards life. Please contact Shaina Sine at ssine@andrew.cmu.edu with any expressions of interest.

*Rolling Deadline* Supports supplements to existing grants for the recruitment of new lab members from American underrepresented minority groups at the postdoctoral level.

*Rolling Deadline for LOIs* The foundation initializes and promotes domestic and international projects according to the principle, “Help people to help themselves.” These projects have the aim and the potential after initial start-up assistance to further develop independently, to multiply in positive effects and thus to enable better quality of life for an increasing number of people.

*Rolling Deadline for LOIs* This fund supports innovative internet freedom projects, including technology development, research, digital security projects, and convenings

*Rolling Deadline* Unilever seeks partnerships with established suppliers, start-ups, academics, designers, individual inventors to identify and develop practical innovations to help meet shared challenges and drive sustainable growth. Latest challenges and interest areas include: New Routes to Improved Quality Post-Consumer Recycled Plastic; Carbon Neutral or Regenerative Packaging.

*Rolling Deadline* Supports causal research projects of policies, practices, and interventions related to community safety and the criminal justice system.

*Rolling Deadline* Supports primarily biomedical research that has the potential for high impact and is under-supported by other funders, with a particular focus on broad-spectrum antiviral drugs, vaccine development, basic immunology, some aspects of cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer’s disease, predicting mouse-to-human translation, control of inflammation, epigenetics, novel scientific tools and methods, malaria, and research on how biomedical research may be improved.