Research Guides: Funding for Graduate and Professional Students: Private Fellowships and Foundations

Private Fellowships and Foundations

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Provides predoctoral and postdoctoral educational and career development grants and opportunities in health services research.
American Association of University Women (AAUW) Fellowships
Dissertation and career development grants for women in graduate programs who have achieved distinction in their fields.
Native Forward Scholars Fund
Offers a variety of funding opportunities for graduate students including MA, MS, PhD, STEM, Medical, Law, MBA, and other professional degrees.
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) Foundation
The foundation awards merit based scholarships and fellowships to accounting scholars, including scholarships for minority doctoral students.
Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellowship
Fellowships offered for original and significant study of ethical or religious values in all fields of the humanities and social sciences.
Ford Foundation Fellowship Program
Fellowship which focuses on diversity in colleges and universities and are offered at the predoctoral, dissertation and postdoctoral levels.
Fulbright U.S. Student Program
The Fulbright U.S. Student Program offers research, study and teaching opportunities in over 140 countries to recent graduates and graduate students.
Hispanic Scholarship Fund
The Hispanic Scholarship Fund is the largest Hispanic scholarship-granting organization in the nation. It provides financial assistance to outstanding Hispanic students in higher education throughout the United States and Puerto Rico.
Pathway to Science
Provides funding to increase diversity in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) workforce.
Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships
Supports a year of research and writing to help advanced graduate students in the humanities and social sciences in the last year of PhD dissertation writing.
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
Awards money for humanities projects via 64,000 grants.
Open Philanthropy
Fellowship for full-time PhD students focused on artificial intelligence.
The Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
Provide opportunities for new Americans to achieve leadership in their chosen fields.
Social Science Research Council
Fellowship and grant programs are targeted to a specific problem and to promote individual and institutional change
Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grants
Supports Ph.D. dissertation research that demonstrates a clear link to anthropological theory and debates.
WW Women's Studies Fellowship
Supports the final year of dissertation writing for Ph.D. candidates in the humanities and social sciences. Student work must address the topics of women and gender in interdisciplinary and original ways.