Curated Funding Opportunities

Open Funding Opportunities

RDO curates lists of currently open and regularly recurring funding opportunities to highlight large, collaborative, and/or strategic funding opportunities that may be of particular interest to the Stanford community. 

Humanities, Arts, and Interpretive Social Sciences

STEM and Quantitative Social Sciences

Recurring Funding Opportunities

Our recurring funding opportunities lists are organized around a range of topics and updated on a rolling basis. If you know of an opportunity that should be included in any of these lists, please let us know!

• Early Career Opportunities; see Funding Opportunity Lists and Search Tools for early career funding opportunity lists targeting a variety of disciplines.
• DEIA opportunities, last update June 2023, *as of Jan 20, 2025, these may be affected by the new administration - be sure to check sponsor websites for the latest updates
• Federal instrumentation and infrastructure grants, last update June 2023
• NEH opportunities for collaborative research, last update May 2023
• NSF opportunities in climate and sustainability, last update June 2024
• Recurring Limited Submissions programs
• Research Centers
  • Major Recurring Center Opportunities list, last update December 2024
  • Climate and Sustainability Center opportunities, last update August 2024
  • Collaborative Funding Mechanisms list compiled by the National Organization of Research Development Professionals
• Archived
  • Public humanities research - ARCHIVED, last update June 2025
  • Digital humanities research - ARCHIVED, last update June 2025