Leakey Foundation’s Research Grants on Human Origins aims to increase scientific knowledge, education, and public understanding of human origins, evolution, behavior, and survival. Current funding priorities include 1) paleoanthropology of the Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene; and 2) primates (old and new world), including evolution, behavior, morphology, ecology, endocrinology, genetics, isotope studies, and modern hunter-gatherer groups.

Wallace Foundation’s Arts Organizations Founded By/With/For Communities of Color supports research studies that can address important unanswered questions related to the organizational well-being of arts organizations of color. An additional aim of this program is to support early career scholars of color through their inclusion as part of the research teams. OFR Contact: Chloe Taft

Washington Center for Equitable Growth seeks to invest in early career scholars whose research agendas are policy relevant, related to how inequality affects economic growth, and who are interested in engaging with non-academic audiences. The organization is interested in research that illuminates the policies that help or hinder more equitable growth in the United States,

Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR)’s Azrieli Global Scholars provides unrestricted research support to exceptional early-career researchers in the first five years of starting a full-time research position from across the natural, biomedical, life and social sciences and the humanities. Programs accepting applications include: 1) Boundaries, Membership & Belonging; 2)Earth 4D: Subsurface Science & Exploration;

Henry Luce Foundation’s Democracy, Ethics and Public Trust Initiative welcomes proposals focused on information ecosystems, communities and governments, and confidence in democracies. The Information Ecosystems Grants opportunity aims to support news gathering and publishing initiatives to enable journalists and audiences to produce and interpret news more effectively. OFR Contact: Chloe Taft Kang. Amount: Not Specified.

Brady Education Foundation’s Research Project Program seeks to support applications that evaluate the effectiveness of programs designed to promote positive cognitive outcomes for children (birth through 18 years). The aim is to identify ways to close the educational opportunities gaps associated with race, ethnicity and income. OFR Contact: Catherine Cotter. Amount: Not specified. Deadline: 12/1/24

Newhouse Faculty Fellowships at Wellesley College offer faculty the chance to devote themselves primarily to their own research and participate actively in the intellectual life of the larger Wellesley community. Amount: Up to $50,000/2 semesters. Deadline: 12/6/24.

Kress Foundation’s Multiple Programs support scholarly projects that promote the appreciation, interpretation, preservation, study and teaching of European art from antiquity to the early 19th century. These competitive grants are awarded to institutions only. OFR Contact: Chloe Taft Kang. Amount: Not specified (recent grants have averaged $16,000). Deadline: 12/15/24 (LOI).

Spencer Foundation’s Small Research Grants on Education support rigorous, intellectually ambitious and technically sound research that is relevant to the most pressing questions and compelling opportunities in education. OFR Contact: Catherine Cotter. Amount: $50,000. Deadline: 12/4/24.

American Council of Learned Societies’ Digital Justice Grants are designed to promote and provide resources for newly formulated projects that diversify the digital domain, advance justice and equity in digital scholarly practice, and/or contribute to public understanding of racial and social justice issues. OFR Contact: Chloe Taft Kang. Amount: $10,000-$25,000 (Seed Grants); $50,000-$100,000 (Development Grants). Deadline: