Funding Search Databases

GrantForward

GrantForward is a funding search and grant recommendation service. It provides a database of more than 89,000 grants from over 20,000 sponsors updated daily. In addition to searching by keywords and advanced filters, GrantForward also recommends grants based on your research interests. Create a free account and login with your Stanford email address thanks to our institutional subscription.

DeepResearch

VPDoR and Stanford Libraries maintain a comprehensive Funding Resources Search data base of opportunities, awarded grants, and news. DeepResearch allows you to search across multiple databases at once. Log in using your Stanford email address.

Dimensions

Dimensions Plus, a fee-based service for which Stanford has a subscription, brings together publications, datasets, grants, citations, and other documents to deliver a platform that enables users to gather insights to inform future strategy. Log in using your Stanford email address.

Grants.gov

A publicly accessible database that houses information on over 1,000 grant programs and vets grant applications for 26 federal grant-making agencies

Grants.ca.gov

Managed and hosted by the California State Library and provides a centralized location to find state grant opportunities

Foundation Directory Online

With information on more than 140,000 grantmakers, FDO can help you find the foundation funders you don't know yet. The majority of these grantmakers do not have websites and would otherwise be almost impossible to find. Updated weekly.

Stanford Seed Funding

Seed Funding is a site for faculty to find and apply for internal funding opportunities. This service is part of a Dean of Research initiative to reduce the administrative burden incurred by faculty and their teams and to afford them more time for our shared core mission of research and teaching.

SOLO

Curated by the Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education, Stanford On & Off-Campus Learning Opportunities (SOLO) provides links to current funding opportunities and fellowships for undergraduate and graduate students.

Limited Submissions

Stanford’s Limited Submission Opportunities portal shows internal competitions for external funding opportunities that limit the number of institutional applicants. In these cases, investigators must obtain institutional approval before submitting their proposal to the external sponsor.