Grants Databases
The grants databases listed below focus primarily on funding for nonprofit organizations
If you are looking for academic funding, be sure to consult the Grants for Individuals Section, which includes a Electronic Databases Section identifying additional databases more appropriate for this area.
Foundation Directory Online Professional
Available in Main Library
According to the Foundation Center, The Foundation Directory Online Professional is our "next-generation" service tier that provides Subscribers with access to an unprecedented wealth of timely, comprehensive information on grantmakers and their grants. You'll find detailed profiles of over 92,000 U.S. grantmakers...with records for more than 1.3 million recently awarded grants! Work smarter—and faster—to find the funds you need. Professional lets you keyword-search across more than 447,000 IRS 990s for grantmaking organizations. With unique funder portfolios of news, RFPs, key staff affiliations, and color-coded grant distribution charts. Professional is the best choice for successful grantseekers.
(Last checked 03/11/08)
GrantSelect
MSU Access via EZ Proxy Server
Provides grant seekers with up-to-date information related to current funding programs from thousands of sources. According to the publisher, Schoolhouse Partners, it contains over 10,000 funding opportunities provided by over 3,400 sponsoring organizations. Each record includes: contact information, sponsor name and address, subject terms for related searches, and type of sponsor (federal agency, foundation, research institute, etc.). Each record also includes, where available: URLs to more information on the funding opportunity, deadline date(s), restrictions on who may apply (including geographic restrictions), lists of previous awards, amount(s) of grant or award, Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance number, populations encouraged to apply (e.g., women, minorities, disabled), RFA and PA numbers for NIH grants, and program numbers for NSF grants. Funding opportunities range from pure research grants to arts programs, biomedical and health care research, community services programs, children and youth programs, and K-12 education funding. Sponsoring organizations include federal government agencies (including NIH, NSF, Centers for Disease Control, and many others), foundations and other nonprofit organizations, corporations and corporate foundations, research institutes, state agencies, and universities.
(Last checked 03/11/08)
Michigan Foundation Directory
Note: Ask at Reference Desk if campus servers are down; otherwise same information available on Foundation Directory Online Professional.
This searchable database on cd-rom has all the features of the 14th edition of the Michigan Foundation Directory in electronic format. It covers more than 2100 Michigan community, corporate, family, and independent foundations, plus 245 out-of-state grantmakers that fund Michigan nonprofits. Grantmaker profiles include contact information, financial information, funder's areas of interest, geographic preferences, and specific limitations, deadlines, and preferred method of approaching the grantmaker.
(Last checked 03/11/08)
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