American Council of Learned Societies
Website link: American Council of Learned Societies
Program Summary: Fellowships support research in all disciplines of the humanities and related social sciences. The ultimate goal of the project should be a major piece of scholarly work by the applicant.
Funding Amount: $35,000
Deadline: September
American Philosophical Society
Website link: American Philosophical Society
Program Summary: An eminent scholarly organization of international reputation, the American Philosophical Society promotes useful knowledge in the sciences and humanities through excellence in scholarly research, professional meetings, publications, library resources, and community outreach.
Funding Amount: See website
Deadline: See website for requirements for multiple programs
Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
Website link: Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
Program Summary: The foundation welcomes proposals from any of the natural and social sciences and the humanities that promise to increase understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence and aggression in relation to social change, intergroup conflict, war, terrorism, crime, and family relationships, among other subjects. Highest priority is given to research that can increase understanding and amelioration of urgent problems of violence and aggression in the modern world.
Funding Amount: $15,000-$40,000 per year
Deadline: August
Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy
Website link: Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy
Program Summary: The foundation makes targeted grants for work in major areas of the social sciences, including anthropology, area studies, economics, political science, psychology, sociology, and urban studies, as well as newer areas such as evaluation research. Research grants are open to scholars in all social science disciplines for projects that deal with contemporary issues in the social sciences, particularly issues of policy relevance. Preference is given to scholars in the early stages of their careers.
Funding Amount: $3,000-$5,000
Deadline: December
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Website link: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Program Summary: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation supports a wide range of initiatives to strengthen the humanities, arts, higher education, and cultural heritage. Organizations in those fields can consult descriptions of the Foundation’s areas of grantmaking to determine whether a project fits within the Foundation’s programmatic interests and priorities.
Funding Amount: See website
Deadline: See website for requirements for multiple programs
National Council for Eurasian and East European Research
Website link: National Council for Eurasian and East European Research
Program Summary: NCEEER invites proposals for its National Research Competition. This competition provides funds for both collaborative and individual research projects in the humanities and social sciences in or on any country of Eurasia or East-Central Europe.
Funding Amount: $40,000
Deadline: December
Russell Sage Foundation
Website link: Russell Sage Foundation
Program Summary: The Russell Sage Foundation currently pursues four principal programs: Behavioral Economics; the Future of Work; Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration; and Social Inequality. See website for more information.
Funding Amount: See website
Deadline: LOI required
Spencer Foundation
Website link: Spencer Foundation
Program Summary: The Small Research Grants program is intended to support education research projects with budgets of $50,000 or less. In keeping with the Spencer Foundation’s mission, this program aims to fund academic work that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived. Historically, the work we have funded through these grants has spanned, a range of topics and disciplines, including education, psychology, sociology, economics, history, and anthropology, and they employ a wide range of research methods.
Funding Amount: $50,000
Deadline: November
