Grants Databases
The grants databases listed below focus primarily on funding for nonprofit organizations
If you are looking for academic funding, be sure to consult the Grants for Individuals Section, which includes a Electronic Databases Section identifying additional databases more appropriate for this area.
Foundation Directory Online Professional
Available in Main Library
According to the Foundation Center, The Foundation Directory Online Professional is our "next-generation" service tier that provides Subscribers with access to an unprecedented wealth of timely, comprehensive information on grantmakers and their grants. You'll find detailed profiles of over 92,000 U.S. grantmakers...with records for more than 1.3 million recently awarded grants! Work smarter—and faster—to find the funds you need. Professional lets you keyword-search across more than 447,000 IRS 990s for grantmaking organizations. With unique funder portfolios of news, RFPs, key staff affiliations, and color-coded grant distribution charts. Professional is the best choice for successful grantseekers.
(Last checked 01/17/11
Philanthropy In/Sight
Available in Main Library
This resource is an interactive mapping tool that combines the Foundation Center's data on grantmakers and their grants with familiar Google maps to tell the story of philanthropy. Choosing from a wide range of customization options, you can quickly create maps that reveal patterns of giving and funding relationships. See examples that show the impact of funding for arts, the environment, and more.
(Last checked 01/17/11
COS Funding Opportunities Database
Also known as Community of Science Funding Opportunities Database
On campus access
Off campus access using EZ Proxy Server
Michigan State university faculty, staff, and students can identify additional funding opportunities by searching this database. Although primarily an academic funding database, some of the funders also support nonprofit organizations.
(Last checked 01/17/11
GrantSelect
http://ezproxy.msu.edu:2047/login?url=http://www.grantselect.com/access
An extensive online grants database owned and operated by Schoolhouse Partners, and it contains more than 16,000 funding opportunities provided by more than 5,100 unique sponsoring organizations. Also provides a selection of funding news.
(Last checked 01/17/11)
Foundation Grants to Individuals Online
Available in Main Library
Updated quarterly. Includes descriptions of more than 6,000 foundations and public charities that fund individual grantseekers, and is searchable by nine different criteria. Records provide contact information, financial data, application information, and program descriptions, with links to more than 500 foundation Web sites. Updated quarterly.
(Last checked 01/17/11
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