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To learn more about these opportunities or discuss foundations or corporations that do not have active RFPs, please contact Jared Mouro, Foundation Relations Specialist: ag4956@wayne.edu.
| Foundation | Program | Description | Award Amount | Deadline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Panmure House | Panmure House Prize | The Panmure House Prize is an annual award of US$75,000 for research that explores the relationship between long-term thinking and radical innovation. The Prize is awarded to emerging leaders in academia and enables research that embodies Adam Smith's own approach to rigorous empiricism and long-term, inter-disciplinary thinking. The Prize is open to academics in and across all disciplines whose nominations are shortlisted and judged by our specially appointed Panmure House Prize Panel. The Prize is administrated in partnership with FCLTGlobal, and supported by Baillie Gifford. The 2024 Prize was awarded to Professor Kirk Doran, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Notre Dame. Prize winners utilize the award to conduct research from their home institution, working to publicize and publish their findings widely within peer-reviewed journals, national and international press, as well as curating first-look updates and interactive sessions here on the Panmure House website. Online Application: https://www.panmurehouse.org/programmes/panmure-house-prize/submission-guidance-2024/ | $75,000 | 4/07/2025 |
| Environmental Research & Education Foundation | Environmental Research & Education Foundation Research Grant | Average grant amount $160,000. The Priorities are of equal importance, and proposals will not be rated more strongly for one priority area over another. Some subtopics within each priority area also have specific topics of interest identified proposals that are aligned with these subtopics are of particular interest to EREF. Proposals must meet EREF's definition of solid waste as noted at the end of this RFP. Submitted pre-proposals must relate to sustainable solid waste management practices and at least one of the following Priority areas. EREF has established three key research priorities: Climate Change Impacts/Greenhouse Gas Emissions Online Application: https://erefdn.org/research-grants/ | $15,000- $500,000 | 5/1/2025 |
| W.M. Keck Foundation | Research Program | Deadline is for Letter of Inquiry; Full Applications are by invitation only and are due subsequently. The W. M. Keck Research Program seeks to benefit humanity by supporting Medical Research and Science & Engineering projects that are distinctive and novel in their approach, question the prevailing paradigm, or have the potential to break open new territory in their field. Past grants have been awarded to major universities, independent research institutions, and medical schools to support pioneering biological and physical science research and engineering, including the development of promising new technologies, instrumentation or methodologies. Funding is awarded to universities and institutions nationwide for projects that are consistent with the Research Program’s funding priorities: We Fund Projects That: Online Application: Research: Application Process - W.M. Keck Foundation (wmkeck.org) | $1,000,000- $5,000,000 | 5/1/2025 |
| Paul M. Angell Family Foundation (PMAFF) | Paul M. Angell Family Foundation (PMAFF) Grants - Conservation | Deadline is for Letter of Inquiry; Full Applications are by invitation only and are due subsequently. The Paul M. Angell Family Founda4on (PMAFF) Conservation Program works to protect the world’s oceans and marine species by funding programs, projects, and organizations that enhance marine biodiversity and confront the threats that imperil ocean health. In support of this effort, the Conservation Program awards grants to support impactful ocean conservation work via PMAFF’s open, bi-annual grant-making process. Emailed Application: https://pmaff.egnyte.com/dl/7Og5bNGq9y | Varies | 7/18/2025 |
| Alfred P. Sloan Foundation | Technology | Grant-seekers with a relevant research project or meeting idea should submit a Letter of Inquiry of no more than two pages to Program Director Joshua M. Greenberg at greenberg@sloan.org. When Alfred P. Sloan Jr. created this foundation in 1934, he envisioned it would serve as a vehicle for the creation and dissemination of scientific and economic knowledge. Few technological advances have revolutionized those activities more than the development of modern computing and the subsequent explosion in our ability to collect, manipulate, store, analyze, and transmit data. Sloan's programs in Digital Technology explore how the internet and computing technology are creating new opportunities to empower the scientific enterprise and expand the public's access to knowledge. Data & Computational Research: The program goal is to accelerate scientific discovery by helping researchers fully exploit the opportunities created by recent advances in our ability to collect, transmit, analyze, store, and manipulate data. Scholarly Communication: The program goal is to empower researchers by supporting the development and adoption of new resources for managing the increasingly diverse array of digital communication channels, enabling scientists to more effectively locate relevant research, network with other researchers, and disseminate their work to the scientific community and the public. Better Software for Science: The program goal is to develop practices, norms and institutions that can better promote the development and adoption of discovery-enhancing software. Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology: The program goal is to identify areas at the intersection of research and technology where a strategic investment of Foundation resources might be leveraged to empower scholarship. Emailed Application: https://sloan.org/programs/digital-technology | Varies | Rolling |
| Alfred P. Sloan Foundation | Energy & Environment | Must coordinate with Foundation Relations. The goal of the program is to inform the societal transition toward low-carbon energy systems in the United States by investigating economic, environmental, technological, and distributional issues.
Online application: https://sloan.org/grants/apply | $500,000 | Rolling |
| Alfred P. Sloan Foundation | Matter-to-Life Program | Grant-seekers with a relevant research project or meeting idea should submit a Letter of Inquiry of no more than two pages to Program Director Ernie Glover at mattertolife@sloan.org. Sloan's Matter-to-Life program aims to sharpen our scientific understanding of life by supporting curiosity-driven research falling within three focus areas: Building Life, Principles of Life, and Signs of Life. These areas define a broad scientific scope for understanding the physical principles and mechanisms governing living systems, while also highlighting an openness to exploring life broadly conceived by instantiating the distinctive functions of living systems in entities built using various matter platforms. The program will also support scientific meetings that promote information exchange, the development of collaborations, and self-organizing efforts aimed at making a case to other funders for supporting matter-to-life research. Emailed Application: https://sloan.org/programs/research/matter-to-life | Varies | Rolling |
| Simons Foundation | Targeted Grants in Mathematics | Must coordinate with Foundation Relations. The deadline is rolling, and an LOI can be submitted at any time. Full proposals are by invitation only. The program is intended to support high-risk theoretical mathematics, physics and computer science projects of exceptional promise and scientific importance on a case-by-case basis. Online Application: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/targeted-grants-in-mps/ | Varies | Rolling |
| Fred A. and Barbara M. Erb Family Foundation | Environment Grants | Letters of Intent may be submitted at any time and are reviewed on a rolling basis. Full Proposals by invitation only. Must coordinate with Foundation Relations. Primary Topics:
Online Application: https://www.erbff.org/programs/ | <$2,000,000 | Rolling |
| David and Lucile Packard Foundation | Conservation and Science | The Conservation and Science Program invests in action and ideas that conserve and restore ecosystems while enhancing human well-being. The Foundation welcomes ideas for funding requests under the following programs: Climate Online Application: https://www.packard.org/grants-and-investments/for-grantseekers/ | $47,500,000 | Rolling |
| The Nathan Cummings Foundation | Science Climate Program | Supports promising work that addresses climate change by increasing access to modern energy for the world's poor; stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a low level; and improving resilience for those most vulnerable to the negative consequences of climate variability and change. Online Application: http://ncf.org/what-we-fund/our-focus/climat | $3,000- $950,000 | Rolling |