External Funding Sources
This page offers information on and links to various external funding sources. Here you will find links to a range of small and large grants. We encourage you to explore the sites of those you haven't heard of. Scroll down through the list, or click the following links to go directly to the resources you're most interested in.
We strongly advise you to consult with the Office of Grant and Contract Administration (OGCA) or the Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations (OCFR) for help navigating the options below as our OGCA and OCFR staff know the funding preferences of these agencies and foundations. They can help you sort through the multiple programs to find the best match. If interested in one of these grants, do not submit a proposal directly, but go through OGCA or OCFR and be sure to attend to any limited submission policies.
- Small Travel and Research Grants
- Larger Research Fellowships for Individual Scholars
- Residential Fellowships for Individual Scholars
- Large Scale Government Grants
- Foundation Grants
- Grants for Community and/or Education Projects
- Postdoctoral Fellowships
Click here to access our list of UMass internal funding sources.
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Small Travel and Research Grants
These programs typically offer grants under $6000. They may be residential or non-residential, and often support archival research.
- Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts Visiting Senior Fellowship Program (National Gallery of Art)
- The Everett Helm Visiting Fellowships (Lilly Library, Indiana University)
- Folger Shakespeare Library Short-Term Research Fellowships (Folger Shakespeare Library)
- Franklin Research Grants (American Philosophical Society)
- Friends of the Longfellow House Fellowship (H.W. Longfellow National Historic Site)
- Gantz Zahler Grant for Jewish Nonfiction Publishing (Foundation for Jewish Culture)
- Goldberg Prize for Jewish Fiction by Emerging Authors (Foundation for Jewish Culture)
- J. Franklin Jameson Fellowship in American History (American Historical Association)
- John Carter Brown Library Short-Term Fellowship (Brown University)
- Language Grants to Individuals for Summer Study, East European Studies Program (American Council of Learned Societies)
- The Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research (American Philosophical Society)
- Library Resident Research Fellowship (American Philosophical Society)
- Local Cultural Council Grants (Massachusetts Cultural Council)
- Mass Cultural Council
- Mass Humanities
- Phillips Fund Grant for Native American Research (American Philosophical Society)
- Sidney and Hadassah Musher Subvention Grant for First Book in Jewish Studies (Foundation for Jewish Culture)
- Summer Seminars and Institutes (National Endowment for the Humanities)
- Summer Stipends (National Endowment for the Humanities)
- Travel Grants, East European Studies Program (American Council of Learned Societies)
- Whiting Foundation:Contact Linda Sopp in OCFR about this grant that primarily funds international travel.
Larger Research Fellowships for Individual Scholars
Check individual programs for eligibility information. These are non-residential fellowships.
- ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships (American Council of Learned Societies)
- ACLS Fellowships (American Council of Learned Societies)
- African Humanities Program (American Council of Learned Societies)
- Artist Fellowships (Massachusetts Cultural Council)
- Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts Senior Fellowship Program (National Gallery of Art)
- Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowships (American Council of Learned Societies)
- First Book Grant for Minority Scholars (The Louisville Institute )
- Guggenheim Memorial Fellowships--Latin America/Caribbean (Guggenheim Foundation)
- Guggenheim Memorial Fellowships--US/Canada (Guggenheim Foundation)
- Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Grants to Individuals in East and Southeast Asian Archaeology and Early History (American Council of Learned Societies)
- (National Endowment for the Humanities)
- International Fellowships in Jewish Studies (Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture)
- Mid-Career Fellowship (James Marston Fitch Foundation)
- NEH Fellowships (National Endowment for the Humanities)
- Rockefeller Foundation
- Sabbatical Fellowships in the Humanities and Social Sciences (American Philosophical Society)
Residential Fellowships for Individual Scholars
These fellowships vary in size and term length. Many are affiliated with a specific institution, while others are funded by a particular organization but residential locations may vary.
- The American Research Center in Eqypt
- American Research in the Humanities in China (American Council of Learned Societies)
- Brown University International Writers Program Fellowship
- The Camargo Foundation (Cassis, France)
- Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (National Gallery of Art)
- Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History (Harvard Univ.)
- Chinese Fellowships for Scholarly Development (American Council of Learned Societies)
- Clark Art Institute
- David Laing Fellowship (Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh)
- Folger Shakespeare Library Long-Term Research Fellowships (Folger Shakespeare Library, Mellon Fdtn., NEH)
- Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies (Univ. of Rochester)
- Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowships for Recently Tenured Scholars (American Council of Learned Societies)
- Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad (FRA) Fellowship Program
- Fulbright Scholars Program
- Getty Research Institute
- Harry Ransom Center (The University of Texas at Austin)
- Huntington Library
- Institute for Advanced Study
- John Carter Brown Library Long-Term Fellowship (Brown University)
- Lady Davis Fellowships (Hebrew University)
- Library of Congress
- J. Franklin Jameson Fellowship in American History (sponsored jointly with the American Historical Association)
- Mendel Fellowships (Lilly Library, Indiana University)
- National Humanities Center
- Newberry Library
- New York Public Library
- Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
- Remarque Institute Fellowships (New York University)
- Residential Fellowship Program (American Academy in Berlin)
- Rome Prize Fellowships (American Academy in Rome)
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (NYPL)
- Smithsonian American Art Museum Fellowships
- Villa I Tatti (Florence)
- Visiting Research Fellowship (Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh)
- W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research (Harvard Univ.)
- Woodrow Wilson Center Residential Fellowships (The Woodrow Wilson Center)
- Woodrow Wilson Regional Center Fellowships (The Woodrow Wilson Center)
While many large scale government grants exist, we provide the list below to give you a sense of those available. We advise you to consult with the Office of Grant and Contract Administration (OGCA) for help navigating the options: our OGCA staff know the funding preferences of these agencies and can help you sort through the multiple programs to find the best match. If interested in one of these grants, do not submit a proposal directly, but go through OGCA, and be sure to attend to any limited submission policies.
- Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs - Department of State
- Department of Education
- Massachusetts Cultural Council
- National Endowment for the Arts
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- National Parks Services
- National Science Foundation
While many large scale foundation grants exist, we provide the list below to give you a sense of those available. We advise you to consult with the Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations (OCFR) for help navigating these options: please do not develop an application without contacting OCFR, as doing so might diminish both your chances and the University’s ongoing relationships with these foundations. In addition, our OGCA staff know the funding preferences of these foundations and can help you sort through the multiple programs to find the best match. Also, be sure to attend to any limited submission policies.
- Academy of Motion Pictures of Arts and Sciences
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Bank of America Philanthropic Management: Contact OCFR
- Chamber Music America
- Creative Capital: The Multi-Arts Production Fund
- Delmas Foundation
- Earthwatch Institute
- The Feminist Review Trust
- Luce Foundation
- Meet the Composer
- NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN
Indigenous Contemporary Arts Program - New England Foundation for the Arts
- Surdna Foundation (Arts)
- Terra Foundation for American Art
- USArtists International
Xeric Foundation: Contact CFR
- Limit on 1 application per year from campus
Grants for Community, Teaching, or Collaborative Projects
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ACLS Collaborative Research Awards (American Council of Learned Societies)
- Collaborative Research Grants (National Endowment for the Humanities)
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Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts: Contact CFR
- Conference Grants, East European Studies Program (American Council of Learned Societies)
- Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants (National Endowment for the Humanities)
- Enduring Questions: Pilot Course Grants (National Endowment for the Humanities)
- Five College Women's Studies Research Center (based at Mount Holyoke College)
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Gould Foundation: Contact CFR
- JISC/NEH Transatlantic Digitization Collaboration Grants (National Endowment for the Humanities)
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Mass Humanities Project Grants (Massachusetts Humanities)
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NAMM Foundation (music): Contact CFR
- New Perspectives on Chinese Culture and Society (American Council of Learned Societies)
- Residencies
- Scholarly Editions Grants (National Endowment for the Humanities)
- Teaching Development Fellowships (National Endowment for the Humanities)
These programs fund researchers in the first few years after receiving the doctorate; check individual programs for eligibility information.
- African Humanities Program (American Council of Learned Societies)
- Cambridge University Postdoctoral Fellowships
- Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts A.W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (National Gallery of Art)
- Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)
- includes both graduate and postdoctoral fellowships
- Early-Career Postdoctoral Fellowships in East European Studies (American Council of Learned Societies)
- Institute for Comparative Literature and Society Postdoctoral Fellowship (Columbia Univ.)
- Jackie McLean Fellowship (Univ. of Hartford)
- Jewish Studies Expansion Project (Foundation for Jewish Culture)
- John Templeton Award for Theological Promise
- Junior and Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities (Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Emory Univ.)
- Junior and Postdoctoral Fellowship in Poetics (Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Emory Univ.)
- Mellon/ACLS Recent Doctoral Recipients Fellowships (American Council of Learned Societies)
- Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities (Cogut Center for the Humanities, Brown Univ.)
- Postdoctoral Bursaries (Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Univ. of Edinburgh)
- Postdoctoral Fellowship in International Humanities (Cogut Center for the Humanities, Brown Univ.)
- Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, Ohio State Univ.)
- Program in Early American Economy and Society (PEAES) Postdoctoral Fellowship (The Library Company of Philadelphia)
These programs offer fellowships and grants for dissertation writing and other graduate student work. We encourage graduate students to use this information as a starting point, but it is not intended as a comprehensive list of all available funding. For more information on fellowships and grants for graduate study, contact Graduate Student Grant Services or the Graduate School.
- AAUW American Fellowship (Association of American University Women)
- Boren Awards for International Study
- for graduate and undergraduate students
- Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)
- includes both graduate and postdoctoral fellowships
- Five College Fellowship Andrew W. Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship (American Council of Learned Societies)
- Junior and Postdoctoral Fellowship in Poetics (Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Emory Univ.)
- Junior and Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities (Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Emory Univ.)
- Summer Residency in France for Artists and Scholars
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