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.
Stanford Research Development Office
Curated Funding Opportunities
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
- Digital humanities research, last update June 2025
- 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
- Public humanities research, last update June 2025
- 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
Created: 10/11/22
Updated: 10/30/25