Organizations and Management
Human service organisations, leadership, workforce, financing, and implementation.
210 opportunities · 76 traditional · 134 nontraditional
Traditional (76)
- Health services research grantsFederal grantAgency for Healthcare Research and QualityFunds research on how care is organised, delivered, paid for and made safer — including the social care integration and care-coordination questions social workers own in practice.Amount not published · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- Grants.gov — the federal opportunity indexIn-kind resourceU.S. federal governmentEvery federal discretionary funding notice, searchable and subscribable by keyword and agency. Not a funder — the index you set standing alerts on, so notices reach you rather than the reverse.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- Behavioral health workforce education and trainingTraining & capacityHealth Resources and Services AdministrationFunds field stipends, integrated-care training and workforce pipelines in schools of social work. Not a research grant, but it pays for the students and placements a research programme is built on.$300k–$2M · Annual cycle · Dec, Jan, Feb
- Grants in aging and serious illness careFoundation grantThe John A. Hartford FoundationImproving care for older adults — age-friendly health systems, family caregiving, and serious illness care. Historically the single most important private funder of gerontological social work.$250k–$3M · By invitation
- Behavioral health services and evaluation grantsTraining & capacitySubstance Abuse and Mental Health Services AdministrationService delivery, workforce and infrastructure money rather than investigator-led science — but most awards carry an evaluation requirement, which is a durable route into funded applied research.$100k–$5M · Periodic calls
- Faculty grant programFoundation grantLois and Samuel Silberman FundSupports social work faculty doing applied research and curriculum development tied to practice in the field, with a long-standing interest in the connection between schools of social work and service agencies.up to $50k · Annual cycle
- Research Grants on Reducing Inequality and on Improving the Use of Research EvidenceFoundation grantWilliam T. Grant FoundationTwo standing programmes: studies that build knowledge on reducing inequality in youth outcomes, and studies of how research evidence actually gets used by the systems that serve young people.$100k–$1M · Several times a year · Jan, May, Aug
- Community Health Matching Grant ProgramFoundation grantBlue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan FoundationTwo-year matching grants to Michigan nonprofit community organizations testing new approaches to a health problem. Suits a community agency partnering with a social work researcher on a pilot-and-evaluate design, since the foundation asks for evidence-based and community-inspired solutions across behavioral health, maternal and child health, senior health, nutrition and health care access.up to $25k per year · Several times a year · Jan, Feb, Apr, May, Aug, Oct
- Open Competition: Implementation of Findings From PCORI's Research Investments PCORI Funding Announcement — Cycle 3 2026Foundation grantPatient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)Funds multicomponent implementation projects that move specific named PCORI-funded findings into practice, with a rigorous evaluation plan. Cycle 3 2026 evidence areas include pediatric OCD treatment, direct hospital admission for children, early palliative care in advanced cancer, and school-based caries prevention.up to $1.8M · Several times a year · Jan, May, Sep
- BWH Roybal Center (C4HDS) Behavioral Trials on Medication Use in Older AdultsPilot / seed fundingBrigham and Women's Hospital Roybal Center / Center for Healthcare Delivery SciencesFunds two-year randomized clinical trials of behavioral interventions that improve how older adults use evidence-based medications, covering non-adherence, overuse and underuse. This is one of the most openly external Roybal calls: researchers based anywhere in the U.S., including at nonprofit organisations, may hold the award, and collaboration with experienced pragmatic-trial teams is encouraged rather than required.$200k · Annual cycle · Oct, Dec
- NIA IMPACT Collaboratory ePCT Planning Grant ProgramPilot / seed fundingNIA IMPACT Collaboratory (Hebrew SeniorLife / Brown University)A twelve-month planning award to produce a fully specified, implementation-ready protocol for a Stage IV effectiveness embedded pragmatic trial in dementia care, restricted this cycle to non-pharmacological interventions for behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia in nursing homes. Requires a nursing home organisational partner, at least two nursing home sites, and a resident and care-partner advisory board.up to $150k · Annual cycle · Jun, Sep
- NIA IMPACT Collaboratory Pilot Grants ProgramPilot / seed fundingNIA IMPACT Collaboratory (Hebrew SeniorLife / Brown University)Funds pilot embedded pragmatic clinical trials of non-pharmacological interventions for people living with dementia and their care partners, run inside real health care systems. Awards are large for a pilot mechanism and the design requirement — two or more health care systems or sites — makes this a natural fit for social work researchers who already hold agency or health-system partnerships.up to $300k · Annual cycle · Jul, Nov
- NIH Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program, Phase I and Phase II (R43/R44)Federal grantNational Institutes of Health (NIH SEED / America's Seed Fund)R&D funding for US small businesses developing health-related products — including digital health tools, behavioral and services technologies. Phase I establishes feasibility; Phase II supports full development toward commercialization. The current parent announcements are PA-27-100 (SBIR) and PA-27-101 (Phase IIB).$323k–$2.2M · Several times a year · Jan, Apr, Sep
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy FellowsFellowshipRobert Wood Johnson Foundation (programme office: RWJF Health Policy Fellows)The premier midcareer health policy fellowship, placing accomplished professionals in Washington to work inside Congress or the executive branch on federal health policy. Social work and behavioral health expertise is named among the accepted backgrounds, making this one of the few national fellowships that explicitly opens a federal policy channel to social work researchers.$175k · Annual cycle · Sep, Oct, Nov
- Transformation of Mental Health CareFoundation grantKlingenstein Third Generation FoundationUp to two awards of $200,000 over two years to test novel mental health care delivery or prevention models for children and adolescents, including adaptations for non-traditional settings and digital approaches. Implementation and service outcomes must be measured.$200k · Annual cycle · Aug, Nov
- Institutional Challenge GrantFoundation grantWilliam T. Grant FoundationFunds university-based research institutes, schools or centers to build a sustained research-practice partnership with a public agency or nonprofit, including child welfare agencies, on reducing inequality in outcomes for youth ages 5-25. Covers joint planning, a mid-career fellowship, partnership research and institutional change.$650k · Annual cycle · May, Sep
- Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC): Planning, Development, and Implementation GrantFederal grantSubstance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)Funds organisations to develop and certify new Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics. Recipients must build a sampling methodology and report client-level survey and administrative data into SPARS at intake, six months and closeout.up to $1M per year · Periodic calls · Aug
- Advancing the Science of Engagement in Research PCORI Funding Announcement — Cycle 3 2026Foundation grantPatient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)Funds studies that build the evidence base on engagement in research itself: validated measures of engagement context, process and outcomes, and development or testing of engagement techniques and how their effectiveness varies by setting and community.up to $1.5M · Several times a year · Jan, May, Sep
- Community-Partnered Nursing Research Centers (P20 Clinical Trial Optional)Training & capacityNational Institute of Nursing Research (NIH)NINR-led P20 centre grant building infrastructure for nurse-led, community-partnered research on persistent health challenges, including centralised research resources, interdisciplinary teams, and funded pilot projects.up to $500k per year · Annual cycle · Jan
- ESRC React Awards (pilot)Rapid-response fundUK Research and Innovation – Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)Six-month awards for time-critical social science that supports UK policymakers or frontline public service practitioners, including rapid evidence reviews, evidence synthesis and urgent data collection.$64k–$127k · Rolling / open · Oct
- Improving Methods for Conducting Patient-Centered Comparative Clinical Effectiveness Research PCORI Funding Announcement — Cycle 3 2026Foundation grantPatient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)Funds methods studies addressing named gaps in patient-centered CER: patient-centered measurement, use of real-world data in multi-site studies, artificial intelligence and machine learning in CER, and study design.up to $750k · Several times a year · Jan, May, Sep
- Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian ProgramTraining & capacityInstitute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)Supports building the library and archival workforce and the capacity of libraries, archives and LIS graduate programs. Includes Early Career Research and Applied Research grant categories of $75,000-$750,000.$25k–$1M · Annual cycle · Nov
- Under Secretary's Award in Health Systems ResearchEarly-career awardU.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Research and Development — Health Systems ResearchVA's top honour for health systems researchers. Confers research funds to supplement ongoing peer-reviewed work plus a one-time personal cash award, judged on research impact on veterans' care, mentorship and national visibility.$50k per year · Annual cycle · Aug, Sep
- Innovative Pilot Mental Health Services Research Not Involving Clinical Trials (R34 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)Pilot / seed fundingNational Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), National Institutes of HealthPilot mental health services research in understudied areas, using non-trial designs such as natural experiments, survey and mixed-methods work, clinical epidemiology, and new measures or financing analyses.up to $450k · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- Museum Grants for African American History and CultureTraining & capacityInstitute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)Builds the capacity of African American museums and HBCU collecting institutions and develops their professional workforce, including projects that increase access to museum and archival collections.$5k–$500k · Annual cycle · Mar, Nov
- Partnership Development GrantsFoundation grantSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)One-to-three-year grants to develop partnered research and related activities in the social sciences and humanities, including building the relationships and infrastructure a larger partnership would need.$75k–$250k · Annual cycle · Nov
- National Leadership Grants for LibrariesFederal grantInstitute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)Funds projects that develop, test or adapt replicable practices, models and tools to strengthen library and archival services, including a dedicated Applied Research grant category ($75,000-$750,000).$25k–$1M · Annual cycle · Mar, Nov
- Partnership GrantsFoundation grantSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)Large multi-year support for new and existing formal partnerships advancing research, research training and knowledge mobilization. Two-stage: a letter-of-intent stage, then a full application.$20k–$2.5M · Annual cycle · Feb, Oct
- Native American Library Services: Enhancement GrantsTraining & capacityInstitute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)Supports Federally recognized Native Communities in enhancing library and archival services, including oral history documentation, digitisation, language and cultural materials, and staff training.$50k–$150k · Annual cycle · Apr, Nov
- Partnership Engage GrantsFoundation grantSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)One-year grants for short-term partnered research between a postsecondary institution and a single non-academic organisation, addressing a challenge that organisation actually faces.$10k–$50k · Several times a year · Mar, Jun, Sep, Dec
- Museums for AmericaFederal grantInstitute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)Project grants for museums in three categories: Lifelong Learning, Community Engagement, and Collections Stewardship and Access. Community Engagement projects can include community-partnered documentation and evaluation work.$5k–$350k · Annual cycle · Nov
- Delta States Rural Development Network ProgramFederal grantHealth Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Federal Office of Rural Health PolicyFunds the planning, development and implementation of integrated rural health care networks across the eight Mississippi Delta Region states, to expand access, coordinate care, improve quality and health outcomes, and strengthen the rural health system. Network partners typically include community-based organisations.Amount not published · Periodic calls · Aug
- Grant Opportunities (Housing Stability, Nonprofit Sector Sustainability, Arts, Neighborhood Fund)Foundation grantCommunity Foundation for Greater AtlantaA rolling roster of competitive funds for metro Atlanta nonprofits, including a Housing Stability Grant for homelessness, eviction prevention and housing policy/advocacy work, plus general operating, arts, and place-based neighborhood funds.Amount not published · Several times a year · Feb, Apr, Jun, Jul, Aug
- Open Grant Applications (West Hawaiʻi Fund, Holomua Marine Pāpio Grants, Lānaʻi Community Benefit Fund)Foundation grantHawaiʻi Community FoundationA live listing of Hawaiʻi Community Foundation's currently open competitive funds, several of which support community engagement, organizational capacity and equitable service access rather than direct service alone.Amount not published · Several times a year · Mar, May, Jul, Aug, Nov
- Effectiveness Trials to Test Mental Health System Interventions (R61/R33 Clinical Trial Required)Federal grantNational Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), National Institutes of HealthTwo-phase trials of system-level interventions that change how mental health services are organised, financed, coordinated or delivered, with a feasibility R61 phase preceding an effectiveness R33 phase.Amount not published · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)Federal grantNational Institutes of Health (NIMH is a participating institute)Studies that identify, develop and test strategies for overcoming barriers to the adoption, adaptation, sustainability and scale-up of evidence-based interventions, programmes and policies in clinical and community settings.Amount not published · Several times a year · Feb, Mar, Jun, Jul, Oct, Nov
- Full-Scale Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Trials for Mental Health Interventions (R01 Clinical Trial Required)Federal grantNational Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), National Institutes of HealthHybrid trials that test the effectiveness of a mental health intervention and an implementation strategy at the same time, in community, school, online, or routine care settings, including mechanisms of action.Amount not published · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- Program Grants and Requests for ProposalsFoundation grantConnecticut Health FoundationThe Connecticut Health Foundation is the state's largest independent health philanthropy, created in 1999 from ConnectiCare's conversion to for-profit status, and works entirely on health equity in Connecticut. It funds policy and practice change with systems-level potential, and its grantmaking explicitly covers policy advocacy, research and evaluation rather than service delivery alone. Program grants run $25,000 to $150,000 on a quarterly concept-paper cycle, with smaller discretionary grants available on a rolling basis and periodic RFPs in the $25,000 to $50,000 band.$25k–$150k · Several times a year · Feb, May, Aug, Nov
- Rural Health Research Center (RHRC) ProgramFederal grantHealth Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Federal Office of Rural Health PolicyFour-year cooperative agreements supporting university-based centres that conduct policy-oriented rural health services research on how social factors, financing, organisational structures and behaviour affect access, quality and cost. Centres pick enduring topics of concentration and publish plain-language policy briefs on the Rural Health Research Gateway.$700k–$950k per year · Periodic calls · May
- AmeriCorps Maryland Notices of Funding Opportunity (including Workforce Development Planning Grants)Training & capacityMaryland Department of Service and Civic InnovationMaryland's cabinet-level service department runs three AmeriCorps subgrant lines: competitive operational grants, formula operational grants, and a Workforce Development Planning Grant that funds a six-month design period for a new AmeriCorps programme built around a defined member career pathway. The planning grant is the notable one for research partnerships — it pays for programme design, needs assessment and measurement architecture rather than member positions, which is precisely the work a social work researcher is equipped to do alongside a community agency.up to $240k · Annual cycle · Feb, Apr, May
- Community Impact and Community Capacity GrantsFoundation grantWisconsin Partnership Program, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public HealthThe Wisconsin Partnership Program is an endowed statewide health fund created from the conversion of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Wisconsin and housed at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health. Its community grant stream is unusual in that the community organisation is the grantee rather than the university. Community Capacity grants are aimed at smaller and newer organisations building the infrastructure to do this work; Community Impact grants require substantial and authentic community leadership and target the social determinants of health, making them a natural home for practice-embeddeup to $20k · Annual cycle · May
- IMPACT Collaboratory Health Care Systems Scholars ProgramTraining & capacityNIA IMPACT Collaboratory (Hebrew SeniorLife / Brown University)A one-year mentored immersion placing mid-career investigators inside a health care system to build durable partnerships, learn the system's workflows and priorities, and lay groundwork for future embedded pragmatic trials in dementia care. It funds relationship and capacity building rather than a discrete study, which is unusual and well matched to social work's practice-partnership tradition.$120k · Annual cycle · Apr, May
- Pilot Health Services and Economic Research on the Treatment of Drug, Alcohol, and Tobacco Use Disorders (R34 Clinical Trial Optional)Pilot / seed fundingNational Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), NIHPilot and preliminary services or economic research preparing for a larger effectiveness trial: access, quality, affordability and uptake of substance use and tobacco treatment, including services for co-occurring medical and mental health conditions.up to $450k · Several times a year · Feb, Jun, Oct
- Siegel Family Endowment grantmakingFoundation grantSiegel Family EndowmentTech-derived family foundation funding academic research projects, mission-driven programmes and policy institutions across three areas: Learning, Work, and Infrastructure, with an explicitly inquiry-driven grantmaking method.$100–$3M · By invitation
- ACS Institutional Research Grants (IRG)Pilot / seed fundingAmerican Cancer SocietyA block grant to an institution rather than to an individual investigator: the institution runs its own internal competition and awards pilot projects to newly independent junior faculty so they can generate preliminary findings for national funding. For a social work researcher this is an internal pilot-funding route rather than a direct application.$400k–$480k · Varies by programme
- Colorado Pilot Program (CO-Pilot)Pilot / seed fundingColorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CCTSI), University of Colorado AnschutzOne-year pilot awards for cross-disciplinary proof-of-concept and feasibility studies. $40,000 for mentored and junior investigator awards; $50,000 for CU-CSU collaboration awards spanning two institutions.$40k–$50k · Annual cycle · Nov, Dec, Jan
- APCF Operating GrantFoundation grantAsian Pacific Community FundGeneral operating support for nonprofits serving low-income or underserved Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities, awarded annually at $5,000 to $15,000.$5k–$15k · Annual cycle
- Forte Project GrantsFoundation grantForte – Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and WelfareForte is Sweden's national research council for health, working life and welfare — the closest institutional match in Europe to a social work research funder. The annual project grant is a free-standing, investigator-initiated three-year grant: applicants formulate their own question anywhere inside Forte's remit, which explicitly covers social policy, social services, welfare provision, the labour market, public health and care organisation. Proposals are assessed by nine subject panels, several of which (social policy, welfare services, working life) map directly onto social work scholarshipAmount not published · Annual cycle · Jan, Feb, Mar
- Health Fund Grant Programs (Healthy Aging, Healthy Kids, Behavioral Health, Capacity Building)Foundation grantMichigan Health Endowment FundThe Michigan Health Endowment Fund is a statewide fund created under Michigan law from the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan restructuring, making grants to improve health and wellness across the state with a particular remit for children and seniors. Its 2026 grantmaking runs four programmes: Healthy Aging, Healthy Kids, Behavioral Health and Capacity Building. The Fund describes working with grantees to develop ideas and evaluate impact, so evaluation partnerships are within its normal way of working, and behavioural health is being folded into the Healthy Aging and Healthy Kids programmes Amount not published · Annual cycle
- AmeriCorps Texas Operating and Planning GrantsTraining & capacityOneStar Foundation / OneStar National Service CommissionOneStar is the Texas service commission and subgrants AmeriCorps State funds on two lines: operating grants for organisations enrolling members, and a planning grant for organisations designing an AmeriCorps programme for the following cycle. The planning grant explicitly cannot pay for AmeriCorps members, meaning the money goes to programme design, partnership building, needs assessment and measurement architecture — the phase where a social work researcher's contribution is the substance of the award rather than an add-on.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Apr
- Behavioral Health Workforce Development Technical Assistance (BHWD-TA) ProgramTraining & capacityHealth Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Bureau of Health WorkforceFunds a single national technical assistance provider that supports HRSA's behavioural health workforce grantees, including BHWET for Professionals, BHWET for Paraprofessionals and Graduate Psychology Education recipients, to help those training programmes expand the supply of behavioural health providers.Amount not published · Periodic calls · Mar
- Commonwealth Universal Research Enhancement (CURE) ProgramFederal grantPennsylvania Department of HealthCURE was created by Act 77 Chapter 9 of 2001 and is Pennsylvania's tobacco-settlement-funded health research programme. It runs two award streams each year: formula grants, distributed non-competitively to institutions in proportion to their existing NIH or NCI funding, and nonformula grants awarded through a competitive process. A formula grant may support several projects at once, and eligible project types explicitly include health services research and patient-oriented clinical investigation alongside basic biomedical work, which is the doorway for social work health-services researchers aAmount not published · Annual cycle
- CTSC Annual Pilot Award Program (multi-institution requirement)Pilot / seed fundingClinical and Translational Science Collaborative of Northern Ohio, Case Western Reserve UniversityThe CTSA hub's flagship annual pilot competition, notable because every application must span two or more CTSC partner institutions — the award is designed around cross-institutional teams rather than a single lab. Useful for a social work researcher at one partner who can pair with a clinical or health-services collaborator at another.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Oct, Jan
- Strategic FundFoundation grantNuffield FoundationLarge research grants for original and ambitious projects that confront the scale and urgency of the UK's biggest social and economic challenges. Projects run two to five years, making this one of the few UK routes to programme-scale funding for applied social research outside the research councils. A two-stage process; applicants may first email a one-page summary to check fit before applying.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Mar
- Research on Research Integrity (RRI) ProgramFederal grantHHS Office of Research Integrity (OASH)ORI's extramural grant program funds empirical research on the societal, organizational, group and individual factors that help or harm integrity in research. ORI explicitly invites proposals with relevance to behavioral health science and health services research, which puts social work methodologists, research-ethics scholars and mentorship researchers squarely in scope. FY26 awards are one-year projects and the competition is announced annually.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Jul
- AmeriCorps State Formula Request for Grant Applications and Washington Climate Corps NetworkFederal grantServe Washington (Washington State Commission for National and Community Service)Serve Washington runs AmeriCorps State Formula rounds for new/re-compete and continuation applicants, alongside the Washington Climate Corps Network, a state-funded biennial stream reached through a letter of intent followed by an invited application. Applicants must present evidence-based programme designs and demonstrate organisational competency to manage a complex federal grant, and three-year awards are sustained through annual continuation requests that turn on demonstrated programme and fiscal performance — an ongoing measurement obligation well suited to an academic partner.Amount not published · Annual cycle · May
- FY 2026 Volunteer Generation FundFederal grantAmeriCorps (Corporation for National and Community Service)A federal fund investing in volunteer management practice — recruitment, retention, training and infrastructure for volunteer-engaging organisations — administered through state service commissions, which in turn subgrant to nonprofits in their states. Because the fund is explicitly about improving volunteer management practice, it is one of the few national service streams that routinely supports practice-improvement studies, needs assessments and capacity evaluation of the volunteer workforce, an area of direct interest to social work researchers studying informal helping and organisational Amount not published · Annual cycle · May
- Program Development and Evaluation (PDE) ProgramFederal grantHHS Office of Research Integrity (OASH)Established by ORI in 2020, PDE funds the development, implementation and testing of innovative approaches and tools that promote research integrity and prevent misconduct, including interventions built on empirical evidence and instruments to identify at-risk individuals or laboratories. It is the applied/intervention sibling of ORI's RRI research program and suits social work researchers who build and evaluate training or organizational interventions.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Jul
- ASWB Regulatory Research Grant ProgramFoundation grantAssociation of Social Work Boards (ASWB)Funds research on social work occupational and professional regulation: examination pass rates, licensure impact, supervision, practice standards, electronic practice and regulatory enforcement. ASWB may share its test-taker demographic and performance datasets with funded researchers.Amount not published · Periodic calls · Jun
- Conferences and Workshops Program (CWP)Training & capacityHHS Office of Research Integrity (OASH)CWP supports the planning and execution of conferences and workshops that promote the responsible conduct of research and disseminate findings from research-integrity scholarship. It is a small, practical mechanism for a school of social work or a professional association to convene researchers around research ethics, data stewardship or mentorship practice.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Jul
- Tribal Child Care Data and Research Capacity AwardsTraining & capacityHHS Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE)Phase I planning awards supporting partnerships between Tribal CCDF Lead Agencies and research or coordinating organizations to build tribal early childhood data systems, identify linkable data sources, and use the data to inform tribal child care policy.Not a cash award · Periodic calls
- Líderes FellowshipFellowshipHispanics in PhilanthropyCohort leadership fellowship for mid-career Latine professionals working in philanthropy and nonprofits, focused on equity practice, peer networking and reflective practice through a racial-equity lens.Not a cash award · Annual cycle · Mar, Jun
- Accelerating Capacity for Transformation (ACT) for AANHPI CommunitiesTraining & capacityAsian Pacific FundCohort capacity-building initiative giving AANHPI-focused Bay Area nonprofits culturally relevant skill-building and mentorship to strengthen systems, fundraising strategy and organisational sustainability.Not a cash award · Periodic calls
- Law & Science (LS)Federal grantU.S. National Science Foundation, Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic SciencesSupports social scientific study of law and law-like systems of rules, of law and human behavior, and of how science and technology are used in legal settings.Amount not published · Varies by programme
- Decision, Risk and Management Sciences (DRMS)Federal grantU.S. National Science Foundation, Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic SciencesFunds research that increases understanding of how individuals, organizations and societies make decisions, including judgment and decision making, decision aids, risk analysis and communication, and public policy decision making.Amount not published · Varies by programme
- Science of Organizations (SoO)Federal grantU.S. National Science Foundation, Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic SciencesSupports research advancing theory on the design and management of organizations, the behavior and well-being of individuals within them, and the relationships between people, organizations and systems.Amount not published · Varies by programme
- Health Systems Research (HSR) Investigator-Initiated Research (IIR)Federal grantU.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Research and Development — Health Systems ResearchVA's main investigator-initiated health services research grant. Funds studies of cost, quality and access to VA care, including patient safety and emerging topics, often multi-site to support generalizability and dissemination.Amount not published · Several times a year · Jun, Dec
- QUERI Global Request for ApplicationsFederal grantU.S. Department of Veterans Affairs — Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI)Funds implementation, evaluation, dissemination and training initiatives that scale up evidence-based practices across the VA health system, carried out by investigators embedded in VA facilities in partnership with VA operations leaders.Amount not published · Varies by programme
- Research Grants on Improving the Use of Research EvidenceFoundation grantWilliam T. Grant FoundationFunds studies of how research evidence gets used in decisions affecting young people, including theory-building, measurement development, and evaluations of efforts to increase research use in policy and practice.Amount not published · Several times a year
- Domestic Public Policy ProgramFoundation grantSmith Richardson FoundationSupports research and writing on U.S. public policy, including fiscal policy at national, state and municipal level, human capital and education, and criminal justice cost reduction. Applications start with a concept paper.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- California Health Care Foundation grants and Innovation FundFoundation grantCalifornia Health Care FoundationSolicited and unsolicited project grants, plus program-related investments through the Innovation Fund, for work improving quality, cost and access to care for Californians with low incomes.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- Apply for a Grant (responsive grantmaking)Foundation grantThe Cleveland FoundationYear-round responsive grantmaking from one of the oldest and largest US community foundations, with no fixed deadline and no published ceiling; applicants are told to request the amount actually needed to complete the proposed project.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- Grants (Coalitions Advancing Economic Mobility - Policy Change; Sponsorships)Foundation grantThe Chicago Community TrustThe Trust's discretionary grantmaking, currently centred on a policy and systems change RFP under its economic mobility strategy, plus event sponsorships. Policy-change work of this kind can carry research and evaluation components.Amount not published · Periodic calls
- Grants and Scholarships - Grant OpportunitiesFoundation grantOregon Community FoundationStatewide community foundation running many named funds on staggered application windows, including capacity-building grants for Black-led and Black-serving organizations and housing grants for people with intellectual or developmental disabilities.Amount not published · Several times a year · Jan, Feb, Mar, Jun, Aug, Oct
- React (time-critical pilot awards)Rapid-response fundUK Research and Innovation - Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)Six-month pilot awards for time-critical social science work on public-sector challenges, listed among ESRC's refreshed applicant-led schemes launching from spring 2026. It is ESRC's nearest equivalent to a rapid-response route.Amount not published · Periodic calls
- Commonwealth Fund's Paul Engel Memorial Award (Rockefeller Archive Center research stipend)FellowshipRockefeller Archive Center (with the Commonwealth Fund)Stipends of up to $5,000 toward travel and accommodation for short-term research in the Commonwealth Fund's records held at the Rockefeller Archive Center, a source for the history of philanthropy, child guidance, public health and health policy.up to $5k · Rolling / open
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- Finding your regional and community foundations (Candid)In-kind resourceCandidMost community foundations never post a national call, so their money is invisible unless you go looking. Candid's directory and the free Funding Information Network locations are how you find the ones near your study site.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- Federal prize competitions and challengesPrize or challengeU.S. federal agencies (Challenge.gov)Agencies post cash prizes for solutions to defined problems — including behavioural health, caregiving and child welfare challenges. You are paid for the result, so there is no grant to administer.$5k–$500k · Rolling / open
- Feedback and listening grantsParticipatory grantmakingFund for Shared InsightA funder collaborative paying non-profits to collect and act on feedback from the people they serve — effectively funding applied measurement inside human service organisations.$10k–$100k · Periodic calls
- Environment and Human Services program grantsFoundation grantThe Kresge FoundationClimate resilience built with low-income urban communities, and a human services portfolio funding the modernisation of the safety-net organisations social workers staff.$75k–$1M · Periodic calls
- Emergent VenturesRapid-response fundMercatus Center, George Mason UniversitySmall fast grants to individuals with an unusual idea, decided in weeks with a short application and no institutional overhead. Useful precisely where a conventional grant cycle is too slow to matter.$1k–$100k · Rolling / open
- Federal and state evaluation contracts (SAM.gov)Evaluation contractU.S. federal and state agenciesAgencies buy evaluation as a service through procurement, not as a grant. Deliverable-driven and less prestigious than a grant, but it is steady applied research money most academics never look at.$50k–$5M · Rolling / open
- Building Disaster-Ready Human Services Systems ChallengePrize or challengeU.S. Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Human Services Emergency Preparedness and ResponseA federal prize competition, in two tracks, for implementation-ready and scalable solutions that strengthen human services systems' disaster response capability. Cash prizes, no grant application cycle.$200k–$400k · Periodic calls · Jul, Aug, Sep
- Truist Foundation Inspire Awards (Year 4)Prize or challengeMIT Solve / Truist FoundationAn open innovation challenge for nonprofits serving adult workers in the age of AI. Fifteen semifinalists get $10,000 capacity-building grants; top awards reach $250,000. A researcher's route in is as an evaluation partner to an applicant.$10k–$250k · Annual cycle · Jun, Jul, Aug
- Engagement Award: Building Capacity for Small Organizations To Engage in Patient-Centered Comparative Clinical Effectiveness Research (CER) — Fall 2026 CycleTraining & capacityPatient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)Two-year awards helping small community organisations prepare to engage in patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research. Awardees also receive PCORI technical assistance and join a peer learning network.up to $300k · Several times a year · Mar, Oct
- Engagement Award: Capacity Building — Fall 2026 CycleTraining & capacityPatient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)Builds the capacity and skills of patients, families, caregivers and the broader healthcare community to engage in all phases of patient-centered CER, and strengthens researchers' skills as partners. Does not fund research studies themselves.up to $300k · Several times a year · Mar, Oct
- Engagement Award: Convening Support — Fall 2026 CycleTraining & capacityPatient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)Funds multi-party convenings, meetings and conferences that bring patients, families, caregivers and the healthcare community together around patient-centered CER, or that disseminate PCORI-funded research findings.up to $125k · Several times a year · Mar, Oct
- Fast Forward Accelerator for Tech and AI NonprofitsTraining & capacityFast ForwardAn accelerator for early-stage tech and AI-powered nonprofits, combining unrestricted cash with mentorship, curriculum and a Demo Day. Useful for researchers whose tool or evidence product sits inside a nonprofit.from $25k · Annual cycle · Aug, Sep
- Youth Service Capacity-Building GrantsTraining & capacityWilliam T. Grant FoundationStrengthens the organisational infrastructure of small New York City youth-serving nonprofits, including evaluation systems, staff training, board development and strategic planning.$60k · Annual cycle · Sep
- Engagement Award: Dissemination Initiative — Fall 2026 CycleTraining & capacityPatient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)Supports organisations and communities in actively disseminating published PCORI-funded research results to specific audiences so those audiences can use the findings in healthcare decision making.up to $300k · Several times a year · Mar, Oct
- Philadelphia Works Procurement and Open RFPsEvaluation contractPhiladelphia Works, Inc. (Philadelphia's local workforce development board)Philadelphia's local workforce board runs an open-competition procurement process and currently has two live RFPs, including one for advisory and strategic development consulting services.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- Community Grants (Giving Project)Participatory grantmakingChinook FundColorado's grassroots participatory fund. A Giving Project of community activists with direct social justice experience reviews proposals, conducts site visits and makes funding decisions by consensus. Start-up, established and multi-year tiers support small community-organizing groups, the kind of partner a social work researcher needs for community-based participatory work in Colorado.$4k–$10k · Periodic calls · Feb, Sep
- Wellspring FundParticipatory grantmakingHeadwaters Foundation for JusticeA four-year commitment to BIPOC-led Minnesota organizations testing multi-year projects and campaigns: organizing models, narrative approaches, coalition structures, campaign strategies and healing practices. The long horizon and the explicit interest in testing organizing models make it one of the few movement funds that can carry a real longitudinal practice-research collaboration.$90k per year · By invitation
- Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation Portfolio FundingPilot / seed fundingDraper Richards Kaplan FoundationVenture-philanthropy funding for early-stage social enterprises, delivered as either unrestricted grant funding or investment capital over three years and released in tranches, alongside intensive board-level engagement and pro bono capacity support. The unrestricted character is the point for research-minded organizations: it can pay for the measurement infrastructure, outcome tracking and evaluation partnership that restricted programme grants normally exclude.up to $300k · Rolling / open
- Nonprofit Finance Fund Financing (Term Loans, Bridge Loans and Lines of Credit)Training & capacityNonprofit Finance FundA CDFI lender that supplies working capital, bridge loans against committed grants and contracts, lines of credit and term loans to mission-driven nonprofits, paired with financial-management consulting. For social work research it is most relevant as reimbursement-gap financing: agencies delivering the intervention under study can borrow against a signed contract so service delivery and data collection do not pause between payments, and NFF's advisory arm builds the financial-management capacity that a multi-site evaluation depends on.$250k–$8M · Rolling / open
- Open Road Impact Fund Bridge LoansRapid-response fundOpen Road Impact (formerly Open Road Alliance)Fast, flexible short-term debt for impact-first organizations facing a temporary cash-flow gap ahead of a committed but delayed inflow — a delayed government contract, a signed but unpaid grant, or a slipped philanthropic tranche. For a research or evaluation shop, this is the instrument that keeps a funded study staffed while the money is in transit rather than forcing a stop-work. Loans are underwritten on the certainty of the future receipt, not on collateral or endowment.$250k–$1.5M · Rolling / open
- Communities of Color Nonprofit Stabilization Fund (CCNSF)Training & capacityHispanic Federation, with Coalition for Asian American Children and Families, New York Urban League, Asian American Federation and Black Agency ExecutivesA capacity-building fund run by Latino, Black and Asian umbrella organisations for NYC nonprofits of colour. Evaluation systems and management information systems are named eligible project areas, so it can pay for building an organisation's own data and evaluation capacity.$35k–$45k · Annual cycle · Sep, Oct
- CPWR Small Study ProgramPilot / seed fundingCPWR - The Center for Construction Research and Training (the research arm of North America's Building Trades Unions)Seed funding from the building-trades unions' research center to test promising construction safety and health research or practical interventions. The page frames it as the on-ramp to larger projects and notes that over 60 percent of funded researchers have published in peer-reviewed journals.up to $30k · Rolling / open
- Proposal Development AwardTraining & capacityBlue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan FoundationA rolling capacity award that pays for the grant-writing itself: technical assistance, freelance proposal writers and related proposal development costs for Michigan nonprofits that lack in-house grant writing capacity. Useful for a community agency preparing a research or evaluation proposal to the Foundation, the Michigan Health Endowment Fund or a federal agency.up to $4k · Rolling / open
- Connecting Talent to Opportunity ChallengePrize or challengeU.S. Department of EducationA large federal ideation prize competition to develop integrated state 'Talent Marketplaces' linking people's skills and credentials to education and job opportunities. Relevant to workforce and employment-services research.up to $15M · Periodic calls · Jan
- Capacity Building GrantsTraining & capacityArchstone FoundationGrants to strengthen California nonprofits serving older adults at a structural level — building organizational ability to deliver on mission over time, rather than covering routine operating or ongoing programme costs.up to $50k · Periodic calls
- Opportunity FundRapid-response fundBread & Roses Community FundVery small monthly grants for an emerging issue or situation outside a group's ongoing work. Bread & Roses distributes through a community funding model in which people doing the work and affected by injustice make the decisions.up to $1k · Several times a year · Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec
- Black Future Co-Op Fund — "We See You" GrantsParticipatory grantmakingBlack Future Co-Op Fund (Washington State)A Black-led, trust-based fund for Black-led organizations across Washington State, urban and rural. There is no application: organizations are surfaced by community nomination and relationship, and no reports are required.$10k–$50k · By invitation
- Echoing Green FellowshipFellowshipEchoing GreenA competitive fellowship for founders at the earliest stage of a social-change organization, giving $100,000 in seed funding over 18 months plus leadership support. Useful for building the capacity to document and evaluate your own work.$100k stipend · Annual cycle
- Crisis Response FundRapid-response fundCIVICUSRolling grants for civil society groups hit by new or escalating restrictions on assembly, association or expression — funding advocacy campaigns, counter-narrative work, digital security and collective care.up to $20k · Rolling / open
- West Coast Poverty Center Mini-GrantsPilot / seed fundingWest Coast Poverty Center, University of WashingtonSeed funding for research collaborations between university researchers and nonprofit community organizations in the Seattle area, covering research assistant time, partner staff wages, travel, data access and statistical consulting.up to $12k · Annual cycle · Jul
- Asian Community Fund general grantsParticipatory grantmakingAsian Community Fund at the Boston FoundationAn AAPI-community-built fund inside the Boston Foundation making general operating grants to Massachusetts organizations serving AAPI communities, with explicit priority for very small and first-time applicants.$5k–$25k · Annual cycle · Apr
- SBIR and STTR (America's Seed Fund)Pilot / seed fundingU.S. Small Business Administration (coordinating 11 participating federal agencies)Equity-free federal seed funding to small businesses to develop and commercialise a technology or service. Several participating agencies, including HHS components, award it as contracts rather than grants.$323k–$2.2M · Several times a year
- Housing Affordability Breakthrough Challenge — National Grant CompetitionPrize or challengeEnterprise Community Partners (with Wells Fargo Foundation)Open competition awarding five $2 million grants to scale tested innovations in housing design and construction, housing finance, or service delivery and programs. Applicants must show proof-of-concept or pilot outcomes and a pathway to scale.$2M · Periodic calls · Apr, May, Aug, Sep
- The Elevate PrizePrize or challengeThe Elevate Prize FoundationAn annual prize to ten social-impact leaders, giving unrestricted funding plus a two-year visibility, growth-strategy and leadership programme. Winners are surfaced by nomination and then invited to apply.$300k · Annual cycle · Apr, May, Jun
- Unlocked Futures (Catalyze cohort)Training & capacityNew ProfitA year-long cohort for nonprofits led by formerly incarcerated and directly impacted social entrepreneurs, combining unrestricted money with convenings, strategic advising and leadership development.$110k · Annual cycle · Feb
- With Youth For Youth (WYFY) — Western New YorkParticipatory grantmakingCommunity Foundation for Greater BuffaloA 24-member youth advisory board aged 13-17 directly awards over $2 million in grants of $25,000-$150,000 to out-of-school-time and youth sports programs across nine Western New York counties.$25k–$150k · Annual cycle · Jan, Feb
- Microsoft Nonprofit Azure Grant and Cloud DiscountsIn-kind resourceMicrosoftA standing annual Azure credit grant plus deep discounts on Microsoft 365, Copilot and Dynamics for verified nonprofits. Supports the data infrastructure an organisation needs to document and evaluate its own work.$2k per year · Rolling / open
- Refugee Leadership Fund (RLO-to-RLO Fund)Participatory grantmakingResourcing Refugee Leadership Initiative, housed at Asylum AccessA fund described as "for refugees by refugees" that aggregates contributions and redistributes them directly to refugee-led organizations, with Boost grants for newer groups and Advance grants for established ones.$25k–$200k per year · Periodic calls
- Latino Equity FundParticipatory grantmakingThe Boston FoundationA Massachusetts Latino-led fund guided by a community and nonprofit Advisory Committee that runs an open RFP and also commissions its own research on Latino communities in the Commonwealth.$25k · Annual cycle · Dec
- A4 Arts FundParticipatory grantmakingAsian American Arts Alliance (A4)A national regranting fund run by an AAPI arts service organization, giving unrestricted general operating support to small AAPI arts and culture organizations selected by a review panel.$10k–$15k · Periodic calls · May, Jun, Jul
- AWS Imagine GrantPilot / seed fundingAmazon Web ServicesAnnual competitive corporate grant giving registered nonprofits unrestricted cash plus AWS credits to build or modernise technology for mission delivery, including data and AI projects that support evaluation and measurement.up to $200k · Annual cycle · Mar, Apr, May, Jun
- Skoll Award for Social InnovationPrize or challengeSkoll FoundationA $2 million unrestricted award to fewer than ten organisations a year that are scaling proven social innovations. Candidates are sourced by the foundation over several years rather than through an open call.$2M · By invitation
- Microsoft nonprofit Azure credit grantIn-kind resourceMicrosoftAnnual in-kind cloud grant giving eligible nonprofits Azure services credits, usable for hosting, data storage and analytics work that underpins programme evaluation and administrative-data research.$2k per year · Rolling / open
- Seed FundParticipatory grantmakingCrossroads FundCrossroads Fund's largest grantmaking programme, decided by a Grantmaking Committee that includes community participants from the fund's Giving Project alongside board and staff.up to $15k · Annual cycle · Feb
- Sector Transformation Initiative — Rapid Response Technical Assistance (Level 3: Intensive TA plus Micro-Grant)Rapid-response fundAIDS UnitedRapid-response support for HIV service organizations facing funding contraction: a $15,000 micro-grant plus a dedicated technical assistance liaison and customized training. Relevant to syringe services and harm reduction programmes housed within HIV service organizations.$15k · Rolling / open
- Resident Engagement GrantsParticipatory grantmakingRaymond John Wean FoundationSmall grants of $500 to $5,000 for grassroots efforts that expand resident participation in Warren and Youngstown, Ohio. Attending a Resident Engagement workshop is a prerequisite to applying.$500–$5k · Annual cycle
- Local- and State-Level Policy Work GrantsPilot / seed fundingSociety for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI)Funds teams of social scientists to influence local and state policy through applied research, covering research costs, participant incentives, student support and meeting expenses.up to $2k · Annual cycle · Sep
- Awesome Foundation micro-grantsParticipatory grantmakingThe Awesome Foundation (independent chapters)A network of independent local chapters where ten trustees each put in $100 a month and pick one project to fund outright, with no strings attached and no institutional paperwork.$1k · Rolling / open · Jan, Feb, Mar
- Rapid Response Technical Assistance Program (Sector Transformation Initiative)Training & capacityAIDS UnitedTiered technical assistance for HIV service organizations navigating funding contraction, from open-access courses through hours of one-to-one TA up to intensive support paired with a micro-grant.$15k · Rolling / open
- AARP Purpose PrizePrize or challengeAARPAn annual prize for people aged 50 and over who founded nonprofits serving the needs of Americans 50+, giving cash plus a year of organisational support to grow the nonprofit's impact.$75k · Annual cycle · Mar, Apr, May
- Seal of DistinctionPrize or challengeCall of Duty EndowmentAn award for nonprofits that place veterans in quality jobs, judged on documented placement, performance and cost data. The Seal carries a $30,000 award and is the gateway to the Endowment's larger restricted grants.$30k · Periodic calls
- Small-Scale Events Advancing SPSSI (SEAS) GrantsTraining & capacitySociety for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI)Reimbursement-based grants for local research symposia, mini-conferences, speaker events and cross-career networking that build research community around social issues scholarship.up to $1k · Rolling / open · Sep
- Kresge Foundation Social Investment PracticeFoundation grantThe Kresge FoundationKresge's balance-sheet arm, deploying program-related investments and loans, equity, strategic deposits and unfunded guarantees across all seven of the foundation's programme areas — including Health and Human Services, the two most directly aligned with social work. The guarantee instrument is the distinctive one: Kresge absorbs first-loss risk so other investors will fund a community project, which makes it a route to capitalizing demonstration projects whose outcomes a research partner can then study.Amount not published · By invitation
- Mulago Foundation Fellows and Portfolio FundingPilot / seed fundingMulago FoundationA design-for-impact funder that combines grants with debt or equity where the structure fits, and pairs money with explicit training in impact measurement and scaling strategy. The measurement training is the substantive draw for this database: Mulago's model is built on defining and tracking a single outcome metric, so a funded organization becomes a natural partner for rigorous outcome research, and the training itself builds evaluation capacity inside the organization.Amount not published · By invitation
- Seed Commons Non-Extractive LoansTraining & capacitySeed Commons: A Community Wealth CooperativeA national network of locally rooted loan funds making explicitly non-extractive loans — repayment is structured so it never exceeds the wealth the borrower's enterprise actually generates, and no personal collateral is at risk. This is the participatory-finance end of impact investing and a direct object of study for social work research on community wealth building, as well as a capital source for the worker cooperatives and community organizations that such research is conducted with.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- TrustAfrica GrantmakingFoundation grantTrustAfricaAn African-led foundation headquartered in Dakar that has moved over USD 80 million through more than 600 grants to civil society organisations in 34 African countries since 2006, currently distributing roughly USD 2 million a year in partnership with other philanthropies. Its three initiative areas are democratic governance (social movements, youth leadership, rights work), equitable development (illicit financial flows, smallholder farmer policy, higher education reform) and African philanthropy, where it funds research on the field itself. Its Senegal base and francophone working capacity mAmount not published · Periodic calls
- Community Vision Lending and Real Estate AdvisingTraining & capacityCommunity Vision Capital & ConsultingA certified CDFI pairing flexible loans with culturally centred real estate and financial-management consulting for mission-driven organizations in California, aimed particularly at helping community organizations secure and preserve the physical space they operate from. Space stability is an underrated precondition for longitudinal community-based research: an agency displaced mid-study takes the cohort with it, and the advising side builds the financial-management capacity that grant-funded research administration requires.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- Lipman Family PrizePrize or challengeUniversity of Pennsylvania — The Wharton SchoolAn annual global prize run out of the Wharton School that celebrates leadership and innovation in the social sector with an emphasis on impact and the transferability of practices. Beyond cash, winners receive engagement with Penn faculty and students, which is the feature that makes it relevant to a research database: the prize routinely pairs awarded organisations with university analytic capacity to document and transfer what works. Focus areas visible on the site include economic development, environmental sustainability, poverty alleviation, gender equality and food security, and 2026 winAmount not published · Annual cycle
- Community GrantsFoundation grantThe Miami FoundationThe Miami Foundation's core nonprofit grant program, which invests in an organization's mission with two years of general operating support rather than project-restricted funding. The Foundation runs Community Grants Engagement Sessions with nonprofit leaders as part of the process. Multi-year unrestricted support is one of the few grant forms that lets a Greater Miami agency build the internal data and evaluation capacity a research partnership depends on.Amount not published · Periodic calls
- Massachusetts Determination of Need Community Health Initiative planning toolsIn-kind resourceMassachusetts Department of Public Health, Determination of Need ProgramFree state-issued instruments for community-engaged health planning: Community Engagement Guidelines for Community Health Planning, a CHNA/CHIP self-assessment, a Community Engagement Plan template and an online Community Engagement Partner Assessment that collects partners' own ratings of engagement quality.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- City of Philadelphia Professional Services Contracting (eContract Philly / PHLContracts)Evaluation contractCity of Philadelphia Procurement DepartmentPhiladelphia posts professional-services opportunities on eContract Philly and other procurement opportunities on PHLContracts, with a Contracts Hub that searches multiple city procurement sites at once. Professional services is the route municipal research and evaluation work travels.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- Health at Home ChallengePrize or challengeAdministration for Community Living (ACL), U.S. Department of Health and Human ServicesA three-phase prize competition to scale advanced community care networks led by community care hubs that integrate health care and community services for people dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid, with measurable implementation progress required at each phase.Amount not published · Periodic calls · Apr, May, Jul, Aug
- Colorado Hospital Community Benefit Accountability program materialsIn-kind resourceColorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF)Colorado requires reporting hospitals to file needs assessments, community benefit implementation plans, 340B figures and full public-meeting records, and publishes a Best Practices in Community Engagement Guide and resource repository developed with the Colorado Health Institute.Not a cash award · Annual cycle · Jul
- NIJ Law Enforcement Advancing Data and Science (LEADS) Scholars Program for AcademicsIn-kind resourceNational Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of JusticeA three-year non-monetary scholars programme for early-career academics who do research with law enforcement agencies. NIJ covers domestic travel, accommodation and per diem for LEADS events, and provides networking, peer review and funding-notification access.Not a cash award · Annual cycle · Mar, Apr, May
- California Grants PortalEvaluation contractCalifornia State Library (State of California)Statewide catalogue of competitive and first-come grants and loans offered by every California state agency, searchable by category and by time remaining until deadline. Includes health, housing, education and human services funding that can carry evaluation components.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- OMH Requests for Proposals and Requests for InformationEvaluation contractNew York State Office of Mental HealthNew York's state mental health authority posts its RFPs and RFIs on this page, including data-collection and reporting work such as the National Outcome Measures project. A tentative forward procurement schedule is also published so bidders can plan.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- Sponsored Projects ProgramIn-kind resourceAllied Media ProjectsAMP fiscally sponsors projects making media for liberation, providing financial stewardship and administrative capacity so a project without its own nonprofit status can receive funding for community documentation and participatory media research.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- New York State Contract ReporterEvaluation contractState of New YorkNew York's official source of state contracting opportunities, described as bringing business and government together — the board where state health and human services agency solicitations, including evaluation and consulting services, are advertised.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- National Leadership Circle FellowshipTraining & capacityFoster AmericaA yearlong fellowship for people with lived experience of the child welfare system who now hold professional roles at agencies, universities and advocacy organizations, supporting them to develop and pursue system-change strategies together.Not a cash award · Annual cycle
- COMMBUYSEvaluation contractCommonwealth of Massachusetts, Operational Services DivisionThe Commonwealth of Massachusetts e-procurement platform. Posts open bid solicitations, statewide contracts and blanket agreements from state agencies, including professional-services solicitations that can cover programme evaluation.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- CalOptima Health community sponsorships and letters of supportIn-kind resourceCalOptima Health (Orange County, California Medi-Cal health plan)A county Medi-Cal plan that does not run a grants programme but does provide event sponsorships, letters of support for eligible projects, use of its logo, and free presentations on Medi-Cal — practical assets for a study needing a plan partner.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- Catalog of State Financial Assistance (CSFA) and weekly Notice of Funding Opportunity feedEvaluation contractIllinois Grant Accountability and Transparency Unit, Governor's Office of Management and BudgetIllinois' single authoritative statewide source of state financial assistance programme information, listing active grant programmes and open funding opportunities. Free email subscription delivers weekly notices of funding opportunities.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- Fairfax County Department of Procurement and Material ManagementEvaluation contractFairfax County, VirginiaFairfax County's central procurement department handles purchasing and contracting for all county agencies, and operates a Vendor Pitch Portal that lets a firm present its services to county agencies and the school system at once.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- Denver General Services Purchasing — Bidding OpportunitiesEvaluation contractCity and County of DenverDenver procures goods and related services for all city and county agencies through competitive bidding, posting solicitations to the Rocky Mountain E-Purchasing System, and runs regular small and minority business onboarding sessions.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- PA eMarketplace — Commonwealth of Pennsylvania solicitationsEvaluation contractCommonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of General ServicesPennsylvania's online board where state agencies — including human services and health agencies — post Invitations for Bid, Requests for Proposal and Requests for Quote across services, including research and evaluation services.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- OASIS+ (One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services Plus)Evaluation contractU.S. General Services Administration (GSA)GSA's governmentwide multiple-award IDIQ program for professional services, with 13 domains including Social Services and Research & Development. Federal agencies place evaluation and research task orders against it.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- OEWD Bid and Funding OpportunitiesEvaluation contractSan Francisco Office of Economic and Workforce Development (City and County of San Francisco)San Francisco's workforce and economic development office posts its RFPs and RFQs here; two solicitations were live when checked. It is a city-agency route into workforce contracting rather than a grant competition.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board Contracting Opportunities (WEBS)Evaluation contractWashington State Workforce Training and Education Coordinating BoardWashington's Workforce Board is the state's independent evaluator of the workforce system, and it buys outside research and analysis through competitively bid contracts posted on the state's WEBS procurement system.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- Caregiver Artificial Intelligence Prize ChallengePrize or challengeAdministration for Community Living (ACL), U.S. Department of Health and Human ServicesA three-phase competition (design, implementation, scaling) for AI-enabled tools supporting family caregivers (Track 1) and expanding the direct care workforce (Track 2). Teams must develop, test and scale a working tool rather than propose a study.Amount not published · Periodic calls · Mar, Apr, May, Jul, Sep
- Black Legacy FundParticipatory grantmakingGrand Rapids Community FoundationA Black community endowment at the Grand Rapids Community Foundation. A Black Legacy Fund Advisory Committee reviews every application and decides awards, and community feedback sessions shape future grantmaking priorities.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Jan, Feb, Mar
- Texas Workforce Commission Procurement OpportunitiesEvaluation contractTexas Workforce CommissionThe state workforce agency for Texas posts its competitive solicitations here, including Requests for Qualification used specifically for professional services — the usual vehicle for research and evaluation work.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- Workforce Solutions for Tarrant County Procurement and Bidders ListEvaluation contractWorkforce Solutions for Tarrant County (local workforce development board, Texas)A local Texas workforce board that contracts out community service delivery and posts procurements here. Its standing bidders list is the practical way to hear about solicitations that never circulate more widely.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Foundation research grant programsPilot / seed fundingBlue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan FoundationA health plan foundation that funds applied health services research in Michigan — investigator-initiated projects, physician pilot studies, student awards, and proposal development awards to help nonprofits strengthen applications.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- Anticipated Procurement OpportunitiesEvaluation contractWisconsin Department of Children and FamiliesAdvance notice of child welfare and child care procurements Wisconsin DCF intends to release, posted months before the RFP itself. It is the rare early-warning list that lets an outside team assemble a bid before the clock starts.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- GFCF Small Grants for Community Philanthropy OrganisationsTraining & capacityGlobal Fund for Community Foundations (South Africa)Small grants to build the capacity of community philanthropy organisations worldwide, explicitly including those piloting participatory grantmaking — one of the few sources that funds the infrastructure of community-led funding itself.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS)Evaluation contractU.S. General Services Administration (GSA)GSA's Federal Supply Schedule, through which federal, state, local and tribal governments buy commercial services at pre-negotiated prices, including consulting, auditing and research and analysis services.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- Fiscal Sponsorship (Model A and Model C)In-kind resourceSocial Good FundA low-barrier fiscal sponsor with no minimum balance and no sign-up cost, offering both Model A (project inside the sponsor) and Model C (pre-approved grant relationship) so small or new projects can receive research and documentation funding.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- Prague Civil Society Centre Grants — Eastern Europe, South Caucasus and Central AsiaFoundation grantPrague Civil Society CentreOne of the few grantmakers that treats Eastern Europe, the South Caucasus and Central Asia as a single working region, awarding institutional core support, project support, emergency support and small follow-up grants across 12 countries. The follow-up grants are unusual and useful: participants in the Centre's events and workshops can get small grants to carry an idea forward, a low-friction route into funded work for groups with no grant history. Selection is competitive and uses external experts, and some calls are invitation-based rather than open.Amount not published · Varies by programme
- Empower! Black Futures Community FundParticipatory grantmakingSanta Fe Community FoundationAn identity-based giving circle for Black life, arts and culture in New Mexico. A named volunteer advisory committee of people who identify with New Mexico's Black communities leads the grantmaking decisions.Amount not published · Annual cycle
- Omaha Neighborhood GrantsParticipatory grantmakingOmaha Community FoundationA twelve-member committee of residents from across Omaha decides these grants to neighborhood associations, averaging about $2,500 from an annual pool of up to $80,000, with an explicit aim of building resident leadership skills.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Jan, Feb, Mar
- FundActionParticipatory grantmakingFundActionActivist-led participatory fund for Europe that shifts funding decisions from funders to activists. Members apply for grants and are required to review each other's applications and vote on what gets funded.Amount not published · Several times a year
- Capital Impact Partners Mission-Driven Financing and Capacity ProgramsTraining & capacityCapital Impact PartnersA CDFI providing flexible, affordable capital to nonprofits and community organizations alongside a set of named capacity-building programmes — among them Co-op Innovation Awards, the Housing Accelerator Fellowship, Equitable Development Initiative training for community-rooted developers, and the Nourish DC food-access collaborative. The fellowship and award programmes are the research-relevant openings: they fund structured learning and model development, not only bricks and mortar.Amount not published · Varies by programme
- Fiscal Sponsorship (fees and minimums)In-kind resourceCommunity InitiativesCommunity Initiatives acts as the legal and financial home for projects that are not their own nonprofit, handling grants management, payroll, HR, insurance, and tax compliance so a project team can hold research or evaluation funding.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- Fiscal Sponsorship ProgramIn-kind resourceTSNE (Third Sector New England)TSNE provides a legal and employment home for mission-aligned charitable projects, including contract and grant management, legal, HR, payroll and benefits, so a project without its own 501(c)(3) can hold research or evaluation awards.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- AISP Learning CommunityTraining & capacityActionable Intelligence for Social Policy, University of PennsylvaniaA cohort-based learning community and technical assistance network for organizations building integrated data systems, drawing on AISP's framework and its partnerships with 70 data sharing efforts.Not a cash award · Annual cycle
- The Consultant Connection — City of Seattle Consultant OpportunitiesEvaluation contractCity of Seattle — Finance and Administrative Services, Purchasing and ContractingSeattle announces its consultant RFPs and RFQs — including work tagged as evaluation, management and auditing — through a dedicated Consultant Connection feed run by the city's purchasing division.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- SAM.gov Contract OpportunitiesEvaluation contractU.S. General Services Administration (SAM.gov, Integrated Award Environment)The single federal portal where every agency posts procurement notices, including the evaluation, data-collection and policy-research solicitations that never circulate on academic listservs.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- VA Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU) contracting pathwayEvaluation contractU.S. Department of Veterans AffairsVA's route for small businesses, especially veteran-owned ones, to win VA contracts, including the studies and evaluation work relevant to veteran mental health, homelessness and family services.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- DHS Business Center Procurement (RFPs, IFBs, Expressions of Interest, Bid Board)Evaluation contractMaryland Department of Human ServicesThe posting hub for Maryland's human services and child welfare agency. Requests for Proposals, Invitations for Bids, Requests for Expressions of Interest and a Bid Board are each maintained here with archives of past solicitations.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- Texas Office of Court Administration Contracting and ProcurementsEvaluation contractTexas Office of Court Administration (judicial branch agency)The judicial branch agency that runs Texas court data and administration explains here how it buys services. Its bid opportunities post to the Electronic State Business Daily rather than to a court-specific list.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- Amazon Research AwardsIn-kind resourceAmazon (Amazon Science)Twice-yearly topic-specific calls giving researchers unrestricted funds plus AWS Promotional Credits. Awards are structured as unrestricted gifts to the PI's institution, with Amazon retaining no intellectual property.Not a cash award · Several times a year · May, Nov
- eVA — Virginia's eProcurement MarketplaceEvaluation contractVirginia Department of General Services, Division of Purchases and SupplyVirginia's centralised eProcurement marketplace. Hosts Virginia Business Opportunities postings, construction and government-to-government contracts, plus public spend reports and a searchable contract database.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- New York State Grants Management (Grants Gateway / Statewide Financial System)Evaluation contractNew York State Grants ManagementCentral New York State system for finding state grant opportunities, managing awarded contracts and requesting payments. Search for open grants runs through the Statewide Financial System.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- Judicial Council of California Bidders and SolicitationsEvaluation contractJudicial Council of CaliforniaThe standing solicitation portal for California's judicial branch, searchable by request type, department, topic, year, and status. This is where branch-wide professional-services and consulting RFPs appear.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- PA eMarketplaceEvaluation contractPennsylvania Department of General ServicesPennsylvania's official bidding and contract information portal. Posts general solicitations, sole-source and emergency procurements, upcoming procurements and the debarment list for Commonwealth agencies.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- Fiscal Sponsorship (Become a Project)In-kind resourceMultiplierMultiplier houses unincorporated projects under its 501(c)(3) so they can receive grants, run payroll, and manage contracts without forming a nonprofit. Onboarding runs about six weeks.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- OregonBuys — Oregon state procurement platformEvaluation contractState of Oregon, Department of Administrative ServicesOregon's procurement platform where state agencies post bid opportunities and blanket contracts, including the route for Oregon Health Authority and human services evaluation and analytic solicitations.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- DataKind PartnershipIn-kind resourceDataKindDataKind matches mission-driven organisations with volunteer data scientists to scope and build data and AI projects. The resource is analytic capacity and volunteer labour rather than a cash award.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- DFPS Contracting and Funding Opportunities (Solicitations over $25,000)Evaluation contractTexas Department of Family and Protective ServicesThe standing entry point for Texas child protective services contracting. DFPS announces every procurement above $25,000 here as an RFP, RFA, RFO, RFQ or IFB, including evaluation and analytic work.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- Doing Business with DCF (eSupplier solicitations)Evaluation contractWisconsin Department of Children and FamiliesThe registration and bidding route for Wisconsin DCF contracts. Explains the competitive process, the STAR supplier registration, and how to subscribe to eSupplier so child welfare solicitations reach you when they post.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- MoCAP (Missouri Collaborative Application Program) grant-writing assistanceIn-kind resourceMissouri Foundation for HealthFree technical support and grant-writing consultants for organizations pursuing federal or national funding for health or prevention programs. An in-kind capacity resource rather than a cash grant.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- Montgomery County Office of Procurement — Solicitations and ContractsEvaluation contractMontgomery County, Maryland — Office of ProcurementMontgomery County buys goods, services and construction through a central procurement office with an explicit inclusion mandate and a vendor registration database, and posts its solicitations publicly.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- Electronic State Business Daily (ESBD)Evaluation contractTexas Comptroller of Public Accounts, Statewide Procurement DivisionSearchable public listing of Texas state agency procurement solicitations, including service contracts. Searchable by agency, commodity code, keyword and date range, and usable to find agency evaluation and analysis contracts.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- SAM.gov Entity Registration and Unique Entity IDIn-kind resourceU.S. General Services Administration (SAM.gov, Integrated Award Environment)The gateway step for any federal contract or assistance award. Without an active registration an organization cannot bid as a prime on an evaluation contract, no matter how strong the proposal.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- Open Collective Fiscal Hosting and Transparent BudgetsIn-kind resourceOpen CollectivePlatform that lets unincorporated community groups raise, hold and spend money transparently under a fiscal host, without incorporating or opening a bank account — a route for community-partnered research funds.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- Training and Technical Assistance for Harm Reduction ProgramsIn-kind resourceNational Harm Reduction CoalitionLearning, development and technical assistance for community-based organizations implementing harm reduction strategies, including training on evidence-based practice. In-kind capacity support rather than a grant.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- Communities of Color Nonprofit Stabilization Fund (CCNSF)Training & capacityCommunities of Color Nonprofit Stabilization Fund (Hispanic Federation, Coalition for Asian American Children and Families, New York Urban League, Asian AmericaCity Council-funded alliance providing capacity-building support to Black, Latino and Asian-led community-based organisations across New York City's five boroughs; has supported 464 capacity-building projects to date.Amount not published · Annual cycle
- AAPI Civic Engagement Fund grantsFoundation grantAAPI Civic Engagement FundGeneral operating grants for year-round civic engagement work by AAPI-led organisations, plus an annual Creative Catalyst Fellowship pairing artists with organisers. More than $48 million granted to date.Amount not published · By invitation
- Small Communities GrantsTraining & capacityBlandin FoundationSupports rural Minnesota's smallest communities with planning, implementation, and capacity-building grants — strategic planning, consulting, and leadership development are named as fundable activities alongside physical projects.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Apr, May
- Community Foundation LocatorIn-kind resourceCouncil on FoundationsFree searchable map of US community foundations by state, with an optional filter to show only foundations accredited under the Community Foundations National Standards. The practical way to find the local funder for a place-based study or an agency partner.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- Hispanic Federation Nonprofit Network GrantmakingTraining & capacityHispanic FederationRegrants and capacity-building funding for Latino-serving and community-of-colour nonprofits, including the NYC Communities of Color Nonprofit Stabilization Fund and a Connecticut financial-education subgrant line.Amount not published · Varies by programme
- Accessibility Fund cohort microgrants and storytelling supportTraining & capacityThe Accessibility FundA three-year cohort combining unrestricted microgrants with a nonprofit accelerator and storytelling support for grassroots disability organisations, mostly in the Global South.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Nov
- GSA Professional Services Contract VehiclesEvaluation contractU.S. General Services Administration (GSA)GSA's hub for the professional-services vehicles agencies use to buy studies, analysis and evaluation work, listing OASIS+, legacy OASIS, MAS Professional Services and HCaTS side by side.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- Federal Judiciary Business Opportunities (Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts)Evaluation contractAdministrative Office of the United States CourtsThe federal judiciary buys services under its own procurement rules rather than the Federal Acquisition Regulation. This page explains where its solicitations appear and who to contact.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- Lever for Change Open CallsPrize or challengeLever for ChangeThe standing portal where Lever for Change's large-scale philanthropic competitions post. Past rounds include Action for Women's Health ($250M), the Trust in American Institutions Challenge ($10M), Racial Equity 2030, and 100&Change.Amount not published · Varies by programme
- ACCESS Allocations (Explore, Discover, Accelerate, Maximize)In-kind resourceU.S. National Science Foundation (ACCESS program)No-cost allocations of national advanced computing and storage for researchers and educators, in four tiers from a small starter project to a peer-reviewed large allocation.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- Fiscal Sponsorship PartnershipIn-kind resourcePlayers Philanthropy FundPPF opens a named charitable fund for a project or cause under its own 501(c)(3), letting an unincorporated effort accept tax-deductible gifts and grants without incorporating. Onboarding is a six-step process ending in a DocuSigned agreement.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- Listen4Good feedback capacity-building cohortsIn-kind resourceListen4GoodCohort-based capacity building that equips nonprofits to gather, analyse and act on feedback from the people they serve, with feedback tools and methodology, coaching and technical support, data analysis help, peer learning and a resource library; a practical route to client-voice evaluation in human services.Not a cash award · Periodic calls · Dec
- Google.org Impact Challenge: AI for Government InnovationPrize or challengeGoogle.orgGlobal open call funding mission-driven organisations that use AI to help governments improve public services in health access, crisis response and recovery, and essential economic services, with grants plus a multi-month pro bono Google.org Accelerator, training and cloud credits.Amount not published · Periodic calls
- Pro Bono Statistical and Data Science ProjectsIn-kind resourceStatistics Without Borders (American Statistical Association outreach group)Volunteer statisticians and data scientists provide free survey and experimental design, statistical and data analysis, forecasting, dashboards and visual presentations to not-for-profit organisations, helping them understand their data, show the impact of their work and build their own analytic capacity.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- DPSS External Research RequestsIn-kind resourceLos Angeles County Department of Public Social Services (DPSS), Management and Research ServicesProcess through which external researchers ask Los Angeles County's public social services department to take part in a study, supply administrative data, or give access to applicants, participants or staff of programs DPSS administers.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- Heluna Health Fiscal SponsorshipIn-kind resourceHeluna HealthFiscal sponsorship and third-party administration (contracts and grants management, HR, payroll, accounting, IT) for public health and social service programs of academic institutions, government agencies and community organizations.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- Fiscal Sponsorship at PHI (bring your program to PHI)In-kind resourcePublic Health Institute (PHI)Fiscal sponsorship and full-scale operational support for public health programs, letting a principal investigator or public health leader bring an existing, funded program under PHI's nonprofit status and systems.Not a cash award · Rolling / open
- Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) FellowshipTraining & capacityCarnegie Mellon University and the Data Science for Social Good FoundationFull-time summer fellowship in which student teams build machine learning and data science projects with government and nonprofit partners on real social problems; agencies and nonprofits can also propose projects as partners.Not a cash award · Annual cycle · Mar
Other clusters
- Adolescent and Youth Development
- Aging Services and Gerontology
- American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian and Global Indigenous Populations (Indigenous Cluster)
- Asian and Asian-Pacific Islander Focused-Research
- Black and African Diaspora Focused-Research
- Child Welfare
- Communities and Neighborhoods
- Crime and Criminal Justice
- Disability
- Gender
- Gender-Based Violence
- Health
- History
- Inequality, Poverty, and Social Welfare Policy
- International Social Work and Global Issues
- Immigrants and Refugees
- LatinX Focused-Research
- Mental Health
- Military Service Members, Veterans and Their Families
- Race and Ethnicity
- Research Design and Measurement
- Research on Social Work Education
- School Social Work
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Social Work Practice
- Substance Misuse and Addictive Behaviors
- Sustainable Development, Environmental and Climate Justice
- Work and Work-Life Policies and Programs