WT Grant Foundation’s William T Grant Scholars Program supports early career researchers in the social, behavioral, and health sciences. Scholars should tackle important questions that will advance theory, policy, and practice for youth. Applicants identify new methods, disciplines, or content they want to learn, and propose five-year research plans that foster their growth in those

AFAR’s McKnight Brain Research Foundation Innovator Awards in Cognitive Aging and Memory Loss make up to two awards: One to support studies focusing on clinical translational research and another award toward understanding basic biological mechanisms underlying cognitive aging and age-related memory loss.OFR Contact: Michelle Melin-Rogovin (Feinberg faculty) or Michael Kelley (Evanston campus faculty). Amount: $750,000. Deadline: 4/15/26

Google.org Impact Challenge’s AI for Government Innovation – Transform how Public Services Function for Social Good is interested in proposals leveraging generative and agentic AI to help governments solve complex societal challenges across health, resilience, and economy — including public infrastructure and affordability. They will consider compelling proposals outside of these topics with strong alignment

Spencer Foundation’s Small Research Grants Program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived, with budgets up to $50,000 for projects ranging from one to five years. This program is “field-initiated” in that proposal submissions are not in response to a specific request for a particular research topic, discipline,

The Falk Catalyst Research Award Program provides seed funding to support high-risk, high-reward translational research that addresses critical scientific and therapeutic roadblocks and can be transferred to clinical practice in the near term. If successful, these projects will have high impact outcomes that open new avenues for treating, curing, and improving the lives of individuals

Sloan Foundation’s Open Source in Science Grants program supports the development of tools and norms that make the most of open source practices to further the development, adoption and maintenance of discovery-enabling software, hardware, and models. Current areas of focus include: Institutional Support for Open Sources, Publication & Archiving, Roles & Career Paths. OFR Contact: Catherine

Brain and Behavior Foundation‘s Young Investigator Grant enables promising investigators in neuroscience and psychiatry to either extend research fellowship training or begin careers as independent research faculty. Funding is intended to help young investigators gather pilot data to apply for larger federal and university grants. All research must be relevant to our understanding, treatment, and

Russell Sage Foundation’s Casual Research on Criminal Justice System requests proposals from tenure-track assistant professors conducting causal research on the criminal justice system. Proposals must include causal research designs that can reliably isolate the treatment effects of a policy, practice, or intervention. Examples include difference-in-differences, regression discontinuity, instrumental variables, and randomized controlled trials. OFR Contact:

Arnold Ventures’s Transportation Research and Policy is a program seeks proposals evaluating the effectiveness and/or benefits of existing transportation or transportation-adjacent policies on outcomes for communities in the United States. This program is primarily focused on traditional surface transportation — road and public transit — but is open to proposals in aviation, maritime, passenger and freight

Arnold Ventures is a philanthropy dedicated to improving the lives of all Americans through evidence-based solutions that maximize opportunity and minimize injustice. This program seeks letters of interest to evaluate the impact of recent state and local policy reforms that legalize or encourage new housing supply, including effects on early development activity, housing production, and