Find Funding

The following sites and resources serve as databases of external funding opportunities for fellowships and grants. The chart below list the various features each resource offers.

External Funding Platforms

Tool to FindPivotSPINDimensionsFoundation Directory OnlinePhilanthropy News Digest

Funding Opportunities and Set Up Email Alerts

     
Grantees     
Collaborators in my Field(s)     
Funded Projects with Abstracts Similar to Mine     
Philanthropic Funders     

 

Pivot-RP

Pivot-RP includes intelligent mapping features that expedite funding discovery, dissemination and collaboration, providing research administrators, research development professionals and individual faculty members quick and easy access to the right research opportunities, funding and people. 

SPIN Funding Opportunities Database

Click here for step-by-step instructions for using SPIN. SPIN is a web-based, searchable funding opportunities database available to all CU Boulder faculty, staff, and students. NOTE: For best functionality use Google Chrome or Firefox web browsers. For assistance, call InfoEd Global SPIN at 1-800-727-6427.

Dimensions

Dimensions is an innovative grants and funder database providing insights into research activities from multiple perspectives allowing CU Boulder stakeholders to analyze and understand the funding landscape across the U.S. and around the globe.

Foundation Directory Online

Foundation Directory Online includes more than 140,000 foundations, corporate giving programs and grantmaking public charities in the U.S.; a database of more than 4,000 sponsoring companies, offering a quick pathway to corporate funders; and much more.

Philanthropy News Digest

Philanthropy News Digest (PND) covers the philanthropic world, from original content to aggregated stories and daily Request for Proposal (RFP) listings.

Grants.gov

Grants.gov is the single point of access for searching competitive funding opportunities from more than 900 grant programs offered by the 26 federal grant-making agencies.