Listed below are the major searchable funding opportunity databases available to all investigators at Tufts University. Investigators may search for funding opportunities directly or request assistance from the Office of Research Administration (ORA).
Please also note that the Office of Proposal Development (OPD) in the Office of the Vice Provost (OVP) can provide custom funding opportunity searches by faculty request. Searches can be targeted to a general investigative field or a specific project idea. To file a funding search request, please complete the OPD request form.
Besides search engines, additional funding opportunities are available via listing of corporations and foundations and Tufts internal funding. Please review these sections if you are considering seeking funding from these sources.
All U.S. government federal funding opportunities are posted on Grants.gov. Those seeking federal funding should look here first. Please see our section on Grants.gov @ Tufts for guides, tips, and samples for the NIH grant application process.
Opportunities are available here from many government agencies, including:
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
- National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
- National Education Association (NEA)
- U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
Please note that the Office of Extramural Research (OER) at NIH is the best source for information on the NIH grants process, including current news, alerts, deadlines, and notices.
The Community of Science (COS) database allows researchers to search more than 25,000 records representing nearly 400,000 opportunities, worth over $33 billion.
You can use the COS Expertise database to identify experts and collaborators, including their current research activity, funding received, publications, patents, new positions, and more. You can also promote your own research by contacting ORA at (617) 636-6550 to create a COS Profile. You can also use RefAware, a current awareness service that monitors over 9,000 resources and alerts you as soon as a new paper, article or other reference matching your criteria is published.
Click here for guides and tips for using COS.
Click here to search for funding on COS.
Illinois Researcher Information Service (IRIS)
Tufts has a subscription to IRIS which may be accessed from any computer logged onto the local Tufts network. Researchers may search the IRIS Database for funding opportunities in every field from agriculture to zoology, or view upcoming deadlines in 25 subject areas.
Click here for the database guide to IRIS.
Click here to search for funding on IRIS.
Tufts has a subscription to ResearchResearch which may be accessed from any computer logged onto the local Tufts network. This database includes every funding opportunity from the NIH, NSF and another 60+ federal agencies in the U.S., as well as private funding sources.
Click here for guides and tips to ResearchResearch.
Click here for "Getting Started with ResearchResearch."
Click here for "Performing a Funding Search."
Tufts has a subscription to GrantsNet which may be accessed from any computer logged onto the local Tufts network. This is a searchable database of funding opportunities in biomedical research and science education. It contains programs that offer training and research funding for graduate and medical students, postdoctoral fellows, and junior faculty.
Click here for the database guide to GrantsNet.
Click here to search for funding on GrantsNet.