Below are a selection of funding opportunities, including federal agencies and private foundations featured in our recent newsletters. Please pay close attention to the deadlines for each opportunity, and refer to the linked materials for more information.
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May 2025
Caplan Foundation for Early Childhood: Grants for Early Childhood Research
Letter of Inquiry Deadline: May 31, 2025
NIH: Silvio O. Conte Centers for Basic Neuroscience or Translational Mental Health Research (P50 Clinical Trial Optional)
Letter of Intent Deadline: May 9, 2025
Deadline: June 09, 2025
NIH: Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) Research (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
Deadlines: June 17, 2025; October 20, 2025; February 19, 2026; June 18, 2026; October 20, 2026
NIH: Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) Small Research Grant (R03 Clinical Trial Optional)
Deadlines: June 17, 2025; October 20, 2025; February 17, 2026; June 18, 2026; October 16, 2026
NIH: Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant (R21 Clinical Trial Optional)
Deadlines: June 17, 2025; October 20, 2025; February 19, 2026; June 18, 2026; October 20, 2026
NIH: Research Infrastructure Development for Interdisciplinary Aging Studies (R61/R33 – Clinical Trial Optional)
Deadlines: July 02, 2025; November 03, 2025
NSF: Human Networks and Data Science (HNDS)
Deadline: July 10, 2025
Russell Sage Foundation: Behavioral Science and Decision Making in Context (BSDMC)
Letter of Inquiry Deadline: July 16, 2025
Russell Sage Foundation – Social, Political, and Economic Inequality (SPEI)
Letter of Inquiry Deadline: July 16, 2025
Russell Sage Foundation – Future of Work (FOW)
Letter of Inquiry Deadline: July 16, 2025
Wellcome: Leveraging Longitudinal Data To Transform Early Intervention In Mental Health
Deadline: July 22, 2025
NSF: Research Grants in Developmental Science
Deadline: July 30, 2025
Brady Education Foundation: Existing Program Evaluation (EPE)
Stage 1 Deadline: August 08, 2025
Brady Education Foundation: Research Project
Stage 1 Deadline: August 08, 2025
American Psychological Foundation: Bruce and Jane Walsh Grant in Memory of John Holland
Deadline: September 18, 2025
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Exploring Equitable Futures
Deadline: October 15, 2025, 2:00 p.m. CT
April 2025
Internal Funding Opportunities:
UNIQ Seed Fund: Inaugural Call for Proposals for AY2025-26 The UNIQ Seed Fund is accepting proposals for the 2025-2026 academic year. This initiative is designed to support promising collaborative projects that aim at strengthening research and educational ties through the university’s trilateral partnership with National Taiwan University and Kyushu University. Proposals from all disciplines are welcome.
Deadline: April 30, 2025
External Funding Opportunities:
One Mind Rising Star Awards – Neuroscience, Psychiatry, Psychology and Related Fields Invites applications from early career investigators in neuroscience, psychiatry, psychology, and related disciplines to apply for a three-year grant of up to $300,000. Supports breakthrough research to deepen our understanding of the brain and mental health conditions, enhance detection and diagnosis, and drive the treatment and prevention of psychiatric disorders.
Deadline: May 15, 2025
The Huo Family Foundation Junior Faculty Research Grants Supports lecturers and assistant professors at the start of their careers to foster independence and gain experience leading research projects and teams. Proposals should tackle key questions within the broad topic of the effects of usage of and exposure to digital technologies on brain development and function (including physiological responses), social behavior and interactions, and mental health of children and young people.
Deadline: May 23, 2025
Wellcome: Generative AI for anxiety, depression and psychosis
Supports fundamental research on using generative AI to improve the measurement or treatment of anxiety, depression and psychosis. Successful teams will research how to optimize generative models for mental health or how generative AI, mental health professionals and people affected by mental health issues can work together safely and efficiently. The application process for this program is two phases: a four-month accelerator stage followed by a separate funding call. Only participants selected for the accelerator stage will be eligible to apply for the funding call.
Accelerator application deadline: May 28, 2025
NIH Risk and Protective Factors of Family Health and Family Level Interventions (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
Supports family level health observational and intervention studies in the biomedical, clinical, population, behavioral or social sciences. Projects are expected to include family health measures (i.e., health outcome(s) or behavior(s) measures for 2 or more family members). Projects must include a focus on families from one or more NIH-designated populations that experience health disparities in the United States.
Deadline: June 5, 2025
The Lalor Foundation: Grants for Programs on Women’s Reproductive Health Supports initiatives that bring women information and access to reproductive health care, contraception, and pregnancy termination to help broaden and enhance their options in life.
Concept Paper Deadline: June 30, 2025
Nathan Cummings Foundation: Funding for Racial, Economic and Environmental Justice Projects Supports finding solutions to the two most challenging problems of our time – the climate crisis and growing inequality – and aim to transform the systems and mindsets that hinder progress toward a more sustainable and equitable future for all people, particularly women and people of color.
Deadline: June 30, 2025
Wellcome Mental Health Award: Leveraging Longitudinal Data
Supports research to develop data-driven or hypothesis-driven early identification models and advance their translational potential, aiming to create a step-change in early intervention for anxiety, depression and/or psychosis.
Webinar Deadline: May 7, 2025
Submission Deadline: July 22, 2025
American Psychological Association: Marian R. Stuart Grant
Supports the research, practice, or education of an early career psychologist on the connection between mental and physical health, particularly for work that contributes to public health. Examples include but are not limited to research-based programs that teach medical doctors counseling skills; research-based programs on the effect of behavior on health; and research-based programs on psychologists’ role in medical settings for the benefit of patients.
Deadline: July 10, 2025
Harry Frank Guggenheim Distinguished Scholar Awards
Supports research that investigates the basic mechanisms in the production of violence, but primacy is given to proposals that make a compelling case for the relevance of potential findings for policies intended to reduce these ills. Highest priority is given to research that addresses urgent, present-day problems of violence—what produces it, how it operates, and what prevents or reduces it.
Deadline: August 1, 2025
American Psychological Association: Psychology of Antisemitism Grant
Supports applicants who design, develop, or implement programs or research projects that aim to reduce antisemitism or mitigate its effects.
Deadline: September 4, 2025
March of Dimes: Discovery Research Grants
Supports seasoned researchers seeking to make consequential translational discoveries that will drastically alter clinical care for pregnant people and babies, whether through evidence-based prevention, diagnosis, or intervention. Discovery Grants are funding vehicles for research inquiries that are as practical as they are ambitious, as attainable as they are groundbreaking, and as transformative as they are necessary.
Deadline: September 8, 2025
American Psychological Association: Bruce and Jane Walsh Grant in Memory of John Holland
Supports scientific, scholarly, or applied research and/or educational activities investigating how personality, culture, and environment influence work behavior and health (mental and physical).
Deadline: September 18, 2025
The Charles Koch Foundation
Supports research that spurs social progress, contributing to a society of mutual benefit. Although the foundation invites proposals for a select number of issues (future of work; liberalism), they encourage proposals for any research that shares the goals and vision of the Foundation.
Deadline: Proposals accepted and evaluated on a rolling basis.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Exploring Equitable Futures
Supports projects that seed new and unconventional ideas that could radically advance health equity for generations to come.
Deadline: October 15, 2025
March 2025
Internal Funding:
Partnerships for Evidence-based Public Policy (PEPP)
Center for Social and Behavioral Sciences (CSBS) and the Institute of Government and Public Affairs (IGPA)
Deadline: April 15
Call for Proposals: Data Hub Research Projects
Institute of Government and Public Affairs (IGPA)
Deadline: April 25
External Funding:
National Research Center on Hispanic Children & Families
Fellowship program for research on early care, education, and economic well-being among Hispanic children and families.
Deadline: April 18
John and Polly Sparks Early Career Grant for Psychologists Investigating Serious Emotional Disturbance (SED)
American Psychological Foundation
Deadline: April 24
Spencer Foundation Racial Equity Research Grant
Supports education research projects that will contribute to understanding and ameliorating racial inequality in education.
LOI Deadline: May 5
Deadline: June 25
William T. Grant Foundation Research Grants on Reducing Inequity, Major Research Grants
Deadlines: May 7, August 6
Addressing Violence and Trauma Topical PCORI Funding Announcement — Cycle 2 2025
LOI Deadline: May 13
Submission Deadline: September 03
Wellcome Foundation Mental Health Award
Leveraging longitudinal data to transform early intervention in mental health
Deadline: May 14
The Huo Family Foundation
Supports projects studying the effects of the usage of digital technology on brain development, social behaviors and mental health in children and young people
Call for Proposals
Deadline: May 23
HEAL Initiative: Research to Increase Implementation of Substance Use Preventive Services (R61/R33 Clinical Trial Optional)
National Institutes of Health
Deadline: June 17
NSF Human Networks and Data Science Program
Supports research that studies the behavior of individuals and groups by leveraging data and network science and the development of data infrastructure.
Deadline: July 10
The Allen Foundation
Supports projects that primarily benefit programs for human nutrition in the areas of health, education, training, and research.
Deadline: July 15
NSF Law & Science Program
Supports studies of the connections between law and systems of rules, law and human behavior, as well as how science and technology are applied in legal contexts.
Deadline: August 1
William T. Grant Foundation Research Grants on Reducing Inequity, Officers’ Research Grants
Deadline: August 6
John Templeton Foundation
Supports interdisciplinary research and catalyzes conversations in areas including individual freedom and free markets, character virtue development, and public engagement.
Online Funding Inquiry
Deadline: August 15
Sociological Initiatives Foundation
Supports social change by linking research to social action, funding projects that investigate law, policies, institutions, regulations, and normative practices that may limit equality in the U.S.
Concept Application
Deadline: August 15
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Exploring Equitable Futures Call for Proposals
Deadline: October 15
Brutten Family Foundation
Supports projects that align with one or more of their core pillars of the environment, education, and mental health. Rolling Deadline
February 2025
Internal Funding:
Jump ARCHES Spring 2025 Request for Proposals
University of Illinois Grainger Health Care Engineering Systems Center
Deadline: April 4, 2025
Linowes Faculty Fellow
Cline Center for Advanced Social Research
Deadline: April 7, 2025
Call for Proposals: Data Hub Research Projects
Institute of Government and Public Affairs (IGPA)
Deadline: April 25, 2025
External Funding:
Broad Agency Announcement for Basic Research (FY2026)
U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (ARI)
White papers deadline: March 9, 2025
Full proposal deadline: July 1, 2025
Behavioral Science and Decision Making in Context OR Race, Ethnicity and Immigration
Russell Sage Foundation
LOI: March 11, 2025
Deadline: June 17, 2025
Local Data for Equitable Communities
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Deadline: March 18, 2025
Call for Letters of Inquiry: Interdisciplinary Social Science Research on Energy System Interactions in the United States
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Deadline: March 25, 2025
Innovative Data and Modeling Approaches to Measure Women’s Health
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Deadline: March 25, 2025
Climate Change and Human Health Seed Grants
Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Deadlines: April 24, 2025; July 24, 2025
J.M.K. Innovation Prize
J.M. Kaplan Fund
Deadline: April 25, 2025
Racial Equity Research Grants
Spencer Foundation
LOI: May 2025
Deadline: June 2025
Research Grants on Reducing Inequality
William T. Grant Foundation
Deadline: May 7, 2025
Research Grants on Improving the Use of Research Evidence
William T. Grant Foundation
Deadline: May 7, 2025
Effects of the Usage of Digital Technology on Brain Development, Social Behaviours and Mental Health in Children and Young People
Huo Family Foundation
Deadline: May 23, 2025
Exploring Equitable Futures
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Deadline: October 15, 2025
January 2025
Risk and Protective Factors of Family Health and Family Level Interventions (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
National Institutes for Health (NIH)
Deadlines: February 5; June 5; October 5
Unveiling Health and Healthcare Disparities in Non-Communicable and Chronic Diseases in Latin America: Setting the Stage for Better Health Outcomes Across the Hemisphere (R01 – Clinical Trials Not Allowed)
National Institutes for Health (NIH)
Deadlines: February 5; June 5; October 5
LOI: Social Sciences Core Research Grants – Multiple Areas
Russell Sage Foundation
Deadline: March 11
Program Solicitation | NSF 25-528: Translation and Diffusion (TD)
National Science Foundation
Deadline: April 1
Notice of Special Interest: Women’s Health Research
National Institutes for Health (NIH)
Deadline: June 5
Professional Development Opportunities:
Early Career Researchers: Submit Your Paper to the Matilda White Riley ESI Competition
Applications are open for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Matilda White Riley (MWR) Early Stage Investigator (ESI) Paper Competition, which recognizes exceptional early stage investigators whose work exemplifies Dr. Matilda White Riley’s vision of advancing health-related behavioral and social sciences research. Deadline: Feb. 14.
Applications open for Health Policy Research Scholars | Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Health Policy Research Scholars program is designed to equip diverse doctoral students from a wide range of research-focused disciplines with the skills, knowledge, and network to advance health equity. Only first year doctoral students, who are beginning their second year in Fall 2025 in a full-time doctoral program are eligible to apply for this opportunity. Deadline: March 11.
2025 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Summer Institute on Randomized Behavioral Clinical Trials
The Summer Institute provides an advanced course in planning, designing, and conducting high-impact randomized controlled trials of health-related behavioral interventions. The program emphasizes programmatic research and prepares fellows to lead or collaborate on systematic efforts to develop and improve health-related behavioral interventions and conduct rigorous, high-impact behavioral trials. Deadline: Jan. 31
November 2024
Build and Broaden: Enhancing Social, Behavioral and Economic Science Research and Capacity at Minority-Serving Institutions (B2)
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Target Dates: January 23rd, 2025
Growing Convergence Research
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Deadline: February 10th, 2025
Civic Innovation Challenge (CIVIC)
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Deadline: February 10th, 2025
Time-Sensitive Opportunities for Health Research (R61/R33 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
National Institutes for Health (NIH)
Due Date: March 1st, 2025
Innovations in Graduate Education Program
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Deadline: March 25th, 2025
Mental Health Research Dissertation Grant to Enhance Workforce Diversity (R36 Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
National Institutes for Health (NIH)
Due Date: April 10th, 2025
Mechanism for Time-Sensitive Substance Use Research (R21 Clinical Trial Optional)
National Institutes for Health (NIH)
Due Date: May 5th, 2025
Examining the Impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on Healthcare Safety (R18)
National Institutes for Health (NIH)
Deadlines: May 25th, 2025 and September 25, 2025
Laboratories to Optimize Digital Health (R01 Clinical Trial Required)
National Institutes for Health (NIH)
Due Date: June 5th, 2025
Research With Activities Related to Diversity (ReWARD) (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
National Institutes for Health (NIH)
Due Date: June 5th, 2025
Personal Health Informatics for Delivering Actionable Insights to Individuals (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
National Institutes for Health (NIH)
Due Date: June 5th, 2025
Research to Action: Assessing and Addressing Community Exposures to Environmental Contaminants (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
National Institutes for Health (NIH)
Due Date: June 5th, 2025
Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program (HEGS)
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Target Dates: August 1st, 2025
Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics (MMS)
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Deadline: August 28th, 2025
Community Level Interventions to Improve Minority Health and Reduce Health Disparities (R01 – Clinical Trial Optional)
National Institutes for Health (NIH)
Due Date: October 5th, 2025