External Funding Sources
Searchable Grants Databases
- Community of Science (COS) - Search engine for information about global expertise, funded research, and funding opportunities across all disciplines
- COS Expertise - Add your profile to this database and receive funding alerts designed around your funding needs
- GrantsNet - Locate resources and funding opportunities for training in the sciences and undergraduate science education
- Grants Resource Center - A comprehensive and searchable listing of grant opportunities. This site is user-friendly and very informative. (Contact the Office of Grants & Research for institutional username and password information)
- GuideStar - Learn about a non-profit's grant-making activity by searching for IRS 990 Forms (IRS reporting forms submitted by most non-profit grant-making foundations). Note that this website requies that you register and log-in, but those seeking to access "Guidestar Basic" services can utilize the search engine free of charge.
Comprehensive Websites for Federal Grants
- Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance - A comprehensive site for federal programs
- Commerce Business Daily - Government contracting opportunities offered through the U.S. Department of Commerce
- Grants.gov- A comprehensive site for federal programs
- Federal Register - Grant and contract notices, rules and proposed rules from federal agencies
Tennessee State Agency Grants
* UTC often receives funding from this agency
- Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
- TN Arts Commission*
- TN Commission on Children and Youth
- TN Board of Architectural & Engineering Examiners*
- TN Department of Education*
- TN Department of Finance and Administration
- TN Higher Education Commission*
- TN Space Grant Consortium
- Humanities Tennessee
Federal Agency Grant and Resource Pages
* UTC often receives funding from this agency
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- Department of Health & Human Services*
- Environmental Protection Agency
- National Academies
- National Aeronautics & Space Administration*
- National Council for Community and Education Partnerships
- National Endowment for the Arts
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- National Institutes of Health*
- National Park Service
- National Science Foundation*
- Office of Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention
- U.S. Department of Agriculture
- U.S. Department of Commerce
- U.S. Department of Defense
- U.S. Department of Education*
- U.S. Department of Energy
- U.S. Department of Justice
- U.S. Department of Transportation
- U.S. Geological Survey
- U.S. Small Business Administration
Foundations, Professional Associations, Philanthropy Groups
* UTC often receives funding from this agency
- Allied Arts of Greater Chattanooga*
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
- American Chemical Society
- American Chestnut Foundation
- American Educational Research Association
- American Philosophical Society
- Association for Asian Studies
- AT&T Foundation
- Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga
- Community Research Council, Inc.
- Council on Foundations
- CreateHere*
- Fundsnet
- Grantmakers in the Arts
- Social Science Research Council
- The Foundation Center Online
- United Way of Greater Chattanooga*
- United Way of Bradley County *
Selected International Opportunities
- American Councils for International Education
- American Institute For Foreign Study International Scholarship
- Carnegie Corporation of New York
- CDS International, Inc.
- Fulbright Program/ Council for the International Exchange of Scholars (CIES)
- Council of American Overseas Research Centers
- Council on Foreign Relations
- European Foundation Centre Funders Online Directory
- Fogarty International Center
- German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
- Hughes (Howard) Medical Institute (HHMI) International Program
- Human Frontier Science Program
- International Research and Exchange Board (IREX)
- MacArthur (John D. and Catherine T.) Foundation
- NAFSA: Association of International Educators
- National Science Foundation International Division
- Organization of American States
- Social Science Research Council
- Soros Foundations Network
- United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- U.S. Department of Education International Education Programs
