Successful grant writing is a fundamental skill for researchers, and competition for research funding is keen. In addition, grant writing is a unique form of writing that often enforces a word-count limit and has other stipulations.

Below you'll find a general list of organizations and other sources that might fund your area of family-related research, or that provide tips for obtaining funding.

Do you have any sources or other resources to share with your colleagues here on our website? Please email them to Jennifer Crosswhite.

Funding and Grant Writing Tips

• Audio: Experts from the NIH and NICHD Talk Funding Opportunities for Family Researchers — available to NCFR members
   
• Tip Sheets: Grant Writing Tips from the NIH
   

Funding Sources

• Collection: Dissertation & Fellowship Funding — from George Washington University
   

Government Sources

• Grants.gov — a centralized location listing all U.S. federal funding opportunities
   
• U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS)
  • Administration for Children & Families
  • National Institutes of Health (NIH)
    • National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
    • Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research
    • OppNet: NIH Basic Behavioral and Social Science Opportunity Network
    • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
       
• National Science Foundation (NSF)
   

Private Sources

• American Psychological Association (APA) Foundation
• American Psychological Association (APA) Scholarships, Grants, and Awards
• American Psychological Association (APA) Science Directorate Awards
• Annie E. Casey Foundation
• Carnegie Corporation of New York
• The Dana Foundation
• The Dibble Institute
• Ford Foundation
• Foundation for Psychocultural Research
• William T. Grant Foundation
• The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
• The John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
• Institute of Education Sciences
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• W.K. Kellogg Foundation
• MacArthur Foundation
• James S. McDonnell Foundation
• The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
• Russell Sage Foundation
• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
• John Templeton Foundation