General Interest
- American Association of University Women - Offers fellowships for women in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.
- The American Educational Research Association - The American Educational Research Association is concerned with improving the educational process by encouraging scholarly inquiry related to education and by promoting the dissemination and practical application of research results.
- American Foundation for Suicide Prevention - Supports research projects that help further the understanding and treatment of depression and the prevention of suicide.
- Bogliasco Foundation - The Bogliasco Foundation - Liguria Study Center is located on the Italian Riviera in the small town of Bogliasco and offers residential fellowhips for artists and scholars in the Arts and Humanities.
- Council for International Exchange of Scholars - CIES annually recruits and sends nearly 800 U.S. faculty and professionals to 140 countries on its traditional program and brings 800 foreign faculty and professionals to the U.S.
- Council on Undergraduate Research - Provides support for a seminal experience in the life of an undergraduate natural or social science, mathematics, or engineering student.
- Earthwatch, The Center for Field Research - Supports field work worldwide in the following areas: endangered ecosystems, oceans, biodiversity, cultural diversity, folklore and oral history, global change, world health and archaeology.
- The Greenwall Foundation - Supports research primarily in bioethics and the arts and humanities.
- John Simon Guggenheim Foundation - Provides fellowships in the natural sciences, social sciences, humanities and creative arts.
- Humboldt (Alexander Von) Foundation - Offers support to scholars and scientists to carry out a research project of their own choice in Germany.
- National Academy of Education - Promotes scholarship on matters relevant to education in all of its forms.
- National Security Agency - Supports efforts to foster foreign-language training for Americans.
- Spencer Foundation - Funds projects that investigate ways in which education can be improved around the world and includes a wide range of disciplines.
- The John Templeton Foundation - Funds research on science and religion.
- U.S. Department of Education (homepage)
- U.S. Department of Education (funding opportunities)
- Woodrow Wilson Foundation - Supports research on matters relevant to education.