Find Funding
Thousands of private foundations and hundreds of federal agencies award billions of dollars in grants each year.
A variety of tools exist to help identify funders whose interests align with any given project.
Recommended Sites
- Atom Grants - Middlebury offers this AI-powered platform that provides customized results (based on your research interests) from federal, public, and private funding sources
- Grants.gov for federal grant funding opportunities
- InfoEd’s SPIN is a search engine that identifies funding opportunities from public and private sources. SPIN access is integrated right into the InfoEd home screen. Anyone signed into InfoEd with their Middlebury credentials can access SPIN. If you would like help searching this database for specific funders, contact the Grants Office.
- Guidestar is a searchable database of private and corporate foundations.
Other Resources
- VT-EPSCoR has state opportunities for physical and environmental sciences.
- The Vermont Directory of Foundations Online has information on in-state and out-of-state foundations that like to support Vermont-focused projects.