Search Engines for Grant Opportunities

These are grant opportunities search engines that may require logins, but are free of charge to CAHNR.

Grants.gov

Search grants.gov

The clearinghouse search engine for federal grant opportunities. All 30 grant making federal agencies post opportunities through this website.  Search by keyword, department/agency, or other eligibility criteria.

Pivot-PR

Search Pivot-PR

A comprehensive database of federally, locally, and privately funded opportunities, geared to researchers, faculty, and graduate students.  The site is managed through partnership between OVPR and the UConn Library. Create an account and spend time in the brief training videos to fully leverage the power of Pivot. Researchers can create saved searches, which can push through to the recipient by email on a weekly basis. Caution: Pivot lags runs 10 days behind real time in posting opportunities. In other words, RFPs that are released by a sponsor on Day 1 may not appear in Pivot until Day 11.

Training video suggestions to get started include:

Training 1: Getting started with Pivot

Training 2: Advanced Searches with Pivot

Foundation Directory Online

Professional subscription through the university, providing links to foundations. This website provides information on the foundations themselves, not the individual opportunities. Foundations may include federal sources, as well as private and corporate funding sources.

Please access the professional subscription for Foundation Directory Online via the UConn Library link:

UConn Library / Foundation Directory Online