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While the ORA will run individual searches for specific projects and funding opportunities by request, your best chance to find funding opportunities that match your exact wants and needs is to set up a search profile with funding databases. Once you set up your search profile, you will automatically receive email updates with funding opportunities that match your specific profile.

InfoEd's SPIN Funding Opportunity Database is a robust tool available to all Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵfaculty, staff and students to find relevant programs available to fund all types of research. SPIN offers researchers the ability to customize funding searches and set up email alerts for opportunities that meet your search criteria.

You can create your own SPIN profile or reach out to us via email to have the ORA create your profile and assist with setting up funding alerts. Profile requests in SPIN must be approved manually. Within one business day, you will receive a confirmation email of your request, and from there you will be able to create a password and log in.

  • Go to  and select Need to create a new profile?
  • On the Create Profile page enter:
    • Institution: Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ
    • First Name
    • Last Name
    • Email Address (wcu.edu email addresses only)
    • Username
  • Click Save in the upper right-hand corner.

For detailed instructions, view this guide on How to Create New Profile.

Connect and subscribe to Grants.gov to receive daily email notificiations of new federal funding opportunities. Grants.gov allows you to subscribe to all new opportunities, saved searches or to specific opportunities that you want to track.

This website provides listings of internships, experiential learning opportunities, academic fellowships and scholarships funded by government and private sector organizations. Visitors to the site may view available opportunities by selecting the Opportunity Catalog.

The RTI University Scholars Program is designed to drive growth, foster collaboration, build scientific stature, and develop opportunities for externally funded joint projects.

The RTI University Scholars Program invites Expressions of Interest for the 2025-2026 academic year from tenured or research-track faculty members at the Associate Professor level or higher with a commitment to collaboration and a research project related to RTI practice areas. Expressions of Interests are due by January 23, 2025.

In 2024 – 2025 the RTI University Scholars Program prioritized projects related to climate change, environmental justice, energy, data modernization and data science, global health security, pandemic preparedness, agriculture, food security and nutrition.

The Foundation Center (Candid) is a funding resource service for U.S-based nonprofit and grantmaking organizations. Users can sign up to receive an RFP Bulletin, a weekly newsletter of recently announced Requests for Proposals from private, corporate, and government funding sources. 

Funding Opportunities

Listed below is a selection of funding opportunities that are not limited submissions. Please note that the following information does not replace a sponsor's actual funding opportunity announcement. Always review a sponsor's current solicitation to verify program availability, guidelines, requirements and deadlines.

Sponsor Program Deadline Amount
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation September $75,000
National Science Foundation November $4,000,000
National Science  September 16, 2025 $200,000
National Science Foundation April No Stated Limit
National Science Foundation March $300,000 to $1,000,000
National Science Foundation October $150,000
National Institute of Standards and Technology March 5, 2026 $5,000 to $2,500,000
National Science Foundation Rolling No Stated Limit
National Science Foundation Rolling No Stated Limit
Sponsor Program Deadline Amount
National Science Foundation Rolling No Stated Limit
World Wood Day February 14, 2025 $12,000
Natural Hazards Center Rolling $10,000 to $50,000
National Science Foundation Rolling No Stated Limit
National Science Foundation Rolling No Stated Limit
National Science Foundation Rolling No Stated Limit
National Science Foundation August $50,000 to $500,000

 

Sponsor Program Deadline Amount
National Science Foundation

Track 1: February

Track 2: November

$500,000 to $1,000,000
National Science Foundation Rolling No Stated Limit
National Science Foundation Rolling until February 4, 2026 No Stated Limit
Sponsor Program Deadline Amount
Golden LEAF Foundation

April 24, 2025

$500,000
FINRA Investor Education Foundation Rolling $50,000 to $100,000
Sponsor Program Deadline Amount
Natural Hazards Center

Rolling

$50,000
National Institutes of Health October 20, 2025 $275,000
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Rolling No Stated Limit
National Institutes of Health Rolling until May 26, 2027 $500,000 to $1,000,000
Sponsor Program Deadline Amount
Belk Foundation

Rolling

$200,000
Herst Foundation Rolling $100,000
ECMC Foundation Rolling No Stated Limit
Sponsor Program Deadline Amount
National Endowment for the Humanities

February 12, 2025 $190,000
National Endowment for the Humanities October 7, 2025 $30,000 to $60,000
National Endowment for the Humanities January 8, 2025 $75,000 to $1,000,000
Mellon Foundation Rolling No Stated Limit
Sponsor Program Deadline Amount
Federal Bureau of Investigation

Rolling To Be Determined by CIRG Officials
Arnold Ventures

Rolling $500,000
Sponsor Program Deadline Amount
National Science Foundation

Rolling

$500,000
National Science Foundation Rolling $500,000
National Science Foundation Rolling No Stated Limit
National Science Foundation Rolling $500,000
Sponsor Program Deadline Amount
National Science Foundation Rolling until February 5, 2026 $500,000 to $1,200,000
National Science Foundation October 3, Annually $1,200,000
National Science Foundation Rolling until October 9, 2026 $500,000 to $1,500,000
National Science Foundation Rolling until February 4, 2026 No Stated Limit
National Institutes of Health Rolling until May 26, 2027 $500,000 to $1,000,000