Funding
AAAS List - meta list of funding sources
List of Funding Agencies - other than US NSF
Global¶
UNESCO - Recommendation on Open Science provides an international framework for open science policy and practice that recognizes disciplinary and regional differences in open science perspectives
Americas¶
Canada¶
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) - Canada's federal research funding agency
Mexico¶
CONAHCYT (formerly CONACYT) - Mexico's science and technology council, elevated to Secretariat level in 2025
UC-MEXUS - University of California Institute for Mexico-US collaborative research
Ciencia abierta - open science policy in Latin America
Central America¶
CSUCA - Central American Higher Education Council coordinating regional research
AACR MONARCA Grant - cancer research grants for Latin America researchers
United States¶
Science.gov - Open Science Announcements from Federal Agencies
The Navigation Fund Open Science Grants - funding for open science initiatives and tools
Early Career Funding Opportunities - Johns Hopkins curated list for early career
Grant Explorer - search funded projects from NSF, NIH, DoD
National Science Foundation (NSF) - US federal agency funding fundamental research
National Institutes of Health (NIH) - largest public funder of biomedical research
Department of Energy (DoE) - funds physical sciences and energy research
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) - NASA research funding opportunities through ROSES
National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) - funding for ocean, coastal, and atmospheric research
South America¶
Argentina:
CONICET - Argentina's National Scientific and Technical Research Council, ranked #1 in Latin America
Brazil:
CNPq - National Council for Scientific and Technological Development
CAPES - Brazilian federal agency for graduate education
FAPESP - São Paulo Research Foundation, 1% of state taxes for research
Chile:
ANID - National Research and Development Agency (formerly CONICYT)
Fondecyt - Chile's main basic research funding program
Colombia:
Minciencias - Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (formerly COLCIENCIAS)
Peru:
CONCYTEC - National Council of Science, Technology and Innovation
Regional Latin America¶
RedCLARA - Latin American research and education network
LA Referencia - Latin American network of institutional repositories
SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online for Latin America
AmeliCA - open knowledge cooperative infrastructure for Latin America
Oceania¶
Australian Academy of Science - Australian open science policy and resources
New Zealand MBIE - NZ Ministry funding science and innovation
Europe¶
European Research Council (ERC) - funds investigator-driven frontier research across all fields through Starting, Consolidator, Advanced, and Synergy Grants
UK Grants Online - searchable database of UK funding opportunities
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) - umbrella organization for UK research councils
Horizon Europe - an ambitious 85 billion euros research and innovation programme that started 2021 and will run for seven years
European Commission - Information about research and innovation funding programmes, including Horizon Europe, the Cohesion Fund, LIFE, ERDF, ESIF and RFCS
German Research Foundation (DFG) - Germany's central research funding organization supporting independent research
Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) - French national research funding agency
Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) - Dutch research council funding scientific research
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) - Switzerland's premier research funding organization
Open Research Area (ORA) - collaboration between ANR (France), DFG (Germany), ESRC (UK) and NWO (Netherlands) for social sciences research
Asia-Pacific¶
Japan¶
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) - Japan's premier research funding agency supporting international collaboration and researcher mobility
e-ASIA Joint Research Program - multilateral research funding program among East Asian countries
China¶
National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) - China's primary research funding agency for basic research
India¶
Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) - India's premier social science research funding organization
Department of Science and Technology (DST) India - Indian government agency for science and technology research
Singapore¶
National Research Foundation Singapore - sets research and development direction and funds strategic research initiatives
South Korea¶
National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) - Korea's primary research funding agency
Africa¶
Continental Organizations¶
African Academy of Sciences (AAS) - leading African science academy with multiple funding programs
AESA (Alliance for Accelerating Excellence in Science in Africa) - programmatic arm of AAS mobilizing R&D funding
ARISE Programme - African Research Initiative for Scientific Excellence, €500K grants for 5 years
TWAS (World Academy of Sciences) - research grants for developing countries in Africa
TWAS Seed Grant for New African PIs - grants for early-career African scientists under 40
Science Granting Councils Initiative (SGCI) - strengthening science funding agencies in Sub-Saharan Africa
Science4Africa - resources for African researchers
National Agencies¶
Kenya:
National Research Fund (NRF Kenya) - Kenya's national research funding agency
South Africa:
National Research Foundation (NRF South Africa) - South Africa's leading research funding agency
Foundations¶
Science Philanthropy Alliance - coalition of philanthropies supporting basic scientific research
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation - supports research in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and economics
Arnold Ventures - evidence-based philanthropy with open science guidelines for research grants
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - global health and development research with open access policy
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) - supports open science including Essential Open Source Software for Science program (partnership with Kavli and Wellcome)
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation - funds scientific discovery and environmental conservation research
Kavli Foundation - supports fundamental research in astrophysics, nanoscience, neuroscience, and theoretical physics
Wellcome Trust - UK-based global health research foundation supporting open science and open source software (partner in CZI-Kavli-Wellcome Essential Open Source Software initiative)
Open Research Funders Group (ORFG) - consortium of funding organizations committed to open research practices
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation - supports creative people, effective institutions, and influential networks
OceanKind - supports ocean conservation and marine science research
Research Corporation for Science Advancement - private foundation advancing fundamental research in physics, chemistry, and astronomy
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - largest philanthropy focused on health in the United States
Simons Foundation - supports research in mathematics and the basic sciences
Templeton World Charity Foundation - funds research exploring big questions in science, philosophy, and theology