Research and evaluation grants
Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families
Federal research on child care, child welfare, Head Start, TANF and family self-sufficiency, including the Child Care Research Scholars awards that fund dissertations with a state agency partner.
- Indicative award
- Amount not published (varies by call)Scholar awards are small; evaluation contracts under the same office are not.
- Timing
- Periodic callsNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Announcements posted through Grants.gov across the year.
- Who can apply
- Doctoral candidate, Early-career faculty, Any faculty rank
- Eligibility
- Several OPRE mechanisms require a formal partnership with a state or tribal administering agency. Line that up before the notice opens, not after.
- SSWR clusters
- Special Interest Groups
- Topics
- child care · TANF · Head Start · administrative data · state partnership
- Apply at
- https://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
Also on the Child Welfare shelf
- Research Grants on Reducing Inequality and on Improving the Use of Research EvidenceWilliam T. Grant Foundation$100k–$1M · Several times a year · Jan, May, Aug
- Fund for Research and ExperimentationFahs-Beck Fund for Research and Experimentation$5k–$20k · Annual cycle · May, Nov
- Young Scholars ProgramFoundation for Child Development$100k–$250k · Annual cycle
- Grants and research partnershipsThe Annie E. Casey FoundationAmount not published · By invitation
- Federal prize competitions and challengesU.S. federal agencies (Challenge.gov)$5k–$500k · Rolling / open
- Grants.gov — the federal opportunity indexU.S. federal governmentNot a cash award · Rolling / open