Funding
In Research Services' PTAP system:
Funding opportunity announcements will be emailed to you when they match the keywords in your "Research/Scholarly Interests Profile." To quickly set up your research/scholarly interests profile, click here.
In the federal grants.gov system:
Search for federal grant opportunities here; you may also set up an RSS feed to receive updates on new or modified opportunities.
In the Pivot system*:
Use the Pivot search engine to craft searches that match your interests. Then save those searches and set up funding alerts to be emailed to you every week. Also, set up and/or update your faculty profile so that potential collaborators can link up.
Learn more about Pivot with their online User Training Videos.
Opportunities for Faculty and Graduate Students
Listed are many of the most common federal and state agencies and private foundations/corporations that typically fund research and scholarly activities.
NOTE: Applicants for internal funding may make use of resources available here, including grant writing assistance, statistical consultation, and (when the research is computationally intensive) the Research Data Center.
Federal
All federal funding opportunities can be found on Grants.gov. Go to the site to search for funding by keyword or to browse opportunities by agency or category.
- US Department of Agriculture
- US Department of Commerce
- US Department of Defense
- US Department of Education
- US Department of Energy
- Health and Human Services
- US Department of Housing and Urban Development
- US Department of the Interior
- US Department of Justice
- US Department of Labor
- US Department of State
- US Department of Transportation
- US Environmental Protection Agency
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- National Endowment for the Arts
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- National Science Foundation
- Institute of Museum and Library services
- US Institute of Peace
State Government
- Illinois Arts Council Agency | Funding Information
- Illinois Board of Higher Education Funding Opportunities
- Illinois Department on Aging
- Illinois Department of Agriculture
- Illinois Department of Children & Family Services
- Illinois Department of Commerce & Economic Opportunity
- Illinois Department of Human Services | Funding Information
- Illinois Department of Natural Resources | Funding Information
- Illinois Department of Public Health | Funding Information
- Illinois Department of Transportation
- Illinois Department of Veteran’s Affairs
- Illinois Emergency Management Agency
- Illinois Humanities Council | Funding Information
- Illinois State Board of Education | Funding Information
- Illinois Student Assistance Commission
Prive Foundations/Corporations
Note: Certain private foundations are "restricted" (e.g., will only make one award per year per institution) and so all proposals to foundations will be coordinated with the Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations by the Office of Research Services.
- Abbott Fund
- American Cancer Society
- American Association of Critical Care Nurses
- American Council of Learned Societies
- American Heart Association
- American Lung Association
- American Psychological Association
- Annenberg Foundation
- Baxter International
- Burroughs Wellcome Fund
- Camargo Foundation
- Carnegie Corporation
- Annie E. Casey Foundation
- Chicago Community Trust
- Crown Family Philanthropies
- Nathan Cummings Foundation
- Dana Foundation
- Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
- Ford Foundation
- Lloyd A. Fry Foundation
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
- William T. Grant Foundation
- Greenwall Foundation
- HF Guggenheim Foundation
- John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
- William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- Joyce Foundation
- W.K. Kellogg Foundation
- The Kresge Foundation
- Lilly Endowment
- Louisville Institute
- John D. and Katherine T. MacArthur Foundation
- March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation
- Robert R. McCormick Foundation
- Mellon Foundation Fellowships
- Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
- Open Society Foundations
- David and Lucille Packard Foundation
- Pew Charitable Trusts
- Polk Bros. Foundation
- Resources for the Future
- Rockefeller Foundation
- Russell Sage Foundation
- Dr. Scholl Foundation
- Alfred P Sloan Foundation
- Spencer Foundation
- Templeton Foundation
- UCLA Summer Institute on Longitudinal Research
- Wabash Center
Grants Administered through the Office of Research Services
Funds are available to help Lakeside Loyola researchers and scholars, as described below. The main priority of all internal funding programs administered by the Office of Research Services is to increase the capacity of Loyola faculty to secure external funding for their research and/or other scholarly activities. All applications for internal funds must be submitted through the Internal Proposal Review System (IPRS).
All Lakeside faculty (tenure, tenure track, and non-tenure track) are eligible to apply for the grants below.
- Research Support Grants: All full-time faculty of Loyola University Chicago – Lakeside campuses are eligible to apply for support of research to strengthen external grant proposals. Research Support Grant Guidelines
- Manuscript Publication Assistance Grants: All full-time faculty of Loyola University Chicago - Lakeside campuses are eligible to apply for a manuscript publication assistance grant. Manuscript Publication Assistance Grant Guidelines
- Book Subvention Grant: All full-time faculty of Loyola University Chicago - Lakeside campuses are eligible to apply for a book subvention grant. Book Subvention Grant Guidelines
Comparison Provost Summer Stipend and RSG
NOTE: Applicants for internal funding may make use of resources available here, including grant writing assistance and statistical consultation.
*"Lakeside" means the College of Arts & Sciences, Arrupe College, IPS, SES, the Centers of Excellence, and the schools of Business, Communication, Continuing & Professional Studies, Education, Law, and Social Work.
DEADLINES FOR INTERNAL GRANTS
Research Support Grant: November 1st, February 1st, May 1st, and August 1st
Book Subvention: Reviewed on a rolling basis
Manuscript Publication Assistance: Reviewed on a rolling basis
