National Endowment for the Humanities’s Celebrate America! is a new initiative designed to recognize the nation’s semiquincentennial on July 4, 2026. Through this program, NEH will award 250 grants for projects that focus on the founding of the American nation, key historical figures, and milestones that reflect the exceptional achievements of the United States. Amount:

NEH’s Public Scholars Program supports well-researched books in the humanities intended to reach a broad readership. In honor of the upcoming 250th anniversary of America’s Founding, the 2026 Public Scholars competition will accept projects that promote a deeper understanding of our nation’s extraordinary heritage, including our record of advancing liberty, prosperity, and human flourishing. NEH

Greenwall Foundation’s Bridging Bioethics Research & Policymaking supports innovative and practical integration of bioethics into policy. This initiative does not fund bioethics research but, rather, supports bioethics researchers, policymakers, and others to take the next step and bridge the divide between research results and policymaking. Relevant policymaking under this initiative can occur at the federal,

Brady Education Foundation seeks to support projects that develop and test the feasibility of new programs for promoting positive cognitive and/or achievement outcomes for children as well as projects that evaluate the effectiveness of such programs. OFR Contact: Mike McMahon. Amount: not specified (recent grants range from $25,000-$790,000). Deadline: 8/1/25.

Wenner-Gren Foundation’s Engaged Researched Grants support research partnerships that empower those who have historically been among those researched in anthropology, rather than researchers themselves. These partnerships bring together scholars and their interlocutors in the mutual production of anthropological knowledge aimed at combatting inequality and promoting the flourishing of human and more than human worlds. The

Templeton Foundation’s Research Grants invest in bold ideas from contrarian thinkers — ideas that cross disciplinary boundaries and challenge conventional assumptions. Further, the Foundation funds innovative programs that engage the public with these ideas, in an effort to open minds, deepen understanding, and inspire curiosity. The Foundation is accepting proposals aligned with its funding areas:

The G. Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Foundation provides support for basic science that has potential for translational applications. Examples of current research areas that are supported include immunology, microbiome, structural biology, cellular physiology, cancer biology, genetics, genomics, microbiology and infectious diseases, stem cell biology, and neuroscience. Amount: $700,000-Unspecified. Deadline: 6/11/25 (LOI); Internal proposal deadline 7/9/25.

Wallace Foundation’s Landscape Study of Community-Based Youth Arts Programs with Workforce Development Components emphasizes developing young people’s social capital and worklife skills. Competitive proposals will include a landscape analysis to characterize the existing field of community-based youth arts programs that include a paid internship element. Funded projects will then utilize their landscape analysis to identify

Leakey Foundation’s Research Grants on Human Origins aims to increase scientific knowledge, education, and public understanding of human origins, evolution, and behavior. The funder prioritizes funding for the exploratory phases of promising new research projects and innovative, multidisciplinary approaches that expand the boundaries of the field’s current understanding. PhD candidates are eligible to apply. OFR

Greenwall Foundation’s Making a Difference in Real-world Bioethics Dilemmas supports research to help resolve an important emerging or unanswered problem in clinical, biomedical, or public health decision-making, policy, or practice. The Foundation is particularly interested in proposals that address the following: 1) Bias and discrimination against patients or clinicians, which may be based on a