Grant Finder Overview

The Grant Finder helps you discover funding opportunities relevant to your research. It aggregates grant listings from multiple databases, lets you search and filter them by field, amount, and eligibility, and scores each opportunity against your research profile to surface the best matches.

What the Grant Finder Includes

The Grant Finder is accessible from the Career section in the sidebar at /grants. It provides two main capabilities:

Grant Search -- Browse and search grant databases using keywords, filters, and faceted navigation. Results display essential details such as funding agency, award amount, eligibility requirements, and application deadlines. See Searching Grants for a detailed walkthrough.

Tracking and Match Scoring -- Save grants that interest you, track their deadlines, and view AI-generated match scores that indicate how well each opportunity aligns with your research profile and career stage. See Tracking and Match Scoring for details.

Available Databases

The Grant Finder draws from publicly available grant databases and listings. The specific sources depend on your institution and configuration, but may include:

• Federal funding agencies -- NIH, NSF, DOE, DOD, and other U.S. government sources.
• International funders -- EU Horizon Europe, Wellcome Trust, and other global funding bodies.
• Foundation and private grants -- Listings from philanthropic organizations and private foundations.
• Institutional opportunities -- Internal grants and seed funding offered by your university, when configured by your institution's administrator.

The database coverage is expanding over time. Check the Grant Finder interface for the most current list of indexed sources.

Who Should Use the Grant Finder

The Grant Finder serves anyone seeking research funding:

• Principal investigators looking for their next major grant to support lab operations and student funding.
• Early-career researchers searching for career development awards, K-series grants, or postdoctoral fellowships.
• Graduate students seeking dissertation fellowships, travel grants, or pilot project funding.
• Grant office staff helping faculty identify appropriate opportunities.

Getting Started

1. Navigate to /grants from the sidebar.
2. Enter keywords related to your research area or browse by funding agency.
3. Review the results and check the match score for each opportunity.
4. Save promising grants to your tracking list to monitor their deadlines.

Tips

• A complete career profile improves match scoring accuracy. Upload your CV and connect your ORCID profile before using the Grant Finder.
• Set your research keywords in your profile settings. The Grant Finder uses these keywords, along with your publication history, to calculate match scores.
• Check the Grant Finder regularly. New opportunities are indexed as they become available, and many grants have narrow application windows.