Funding Opportunities
The Research and Creative Activities vision of the UC San Diego School of Arts and Humanities is to be a leader in innovative, interdisciplinary, and collaborative scholarship and art practice promoting the foundational, transferable and enduring values of the humanities and arts in an increasingly technological and global society.
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA): Grants for Arts Projects
Program Description:
The NEA is seeking proposals for the Grants for Arts Projects (GAP) program, which enable Americans throughout the nation to experience the arts, foster and celebrate America’s artistic heritage and cultural legacy, and benefit from arts education at all stages of life. The program also support arts and health programs, including creative arts therapies, that advance the well-being of people and communities.
The funder strongly encourages applications for arts projects that focus on one or more agency funding priorities. Click Here to see the NEA's funding priorities.
Funding for art projects in the following disciplines is available:
Arts Education, Challenge America, Dance, Design & Our Town, Folk & Traditional Arts, Literary Arts, Local Arts Agencies, Museums, Music, Opera, Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works, Theater & Musical Theater, and Visual & Media Arts.
Funding Organization's Deadline: Thursday, July 9, 2026
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Campus-distributed opportunities
Corporate and Foundation Relations
The Corporate and Foundation Relations team continually adds new funding opportunities from corporate and private foundation funders that are available to the UC San Diego community. The database at the Corporate and Foundation Relations website reflects opportunities with a deadline within the next six months or with a rolling deadline.
Funding opportunity mailing lists
Research Development distributes selected research funding opportunity announcements, including those for limited-submission programs, through two campus-wide lists. To subscribe to listservs, log in at the links below with your SSO (@ucsd.edu) credentials:
- The UC San Diego Funding List announces funding and limited-submission opportunities relevant primarily to investigators on the General Campus and at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
- The Biomedical Limited Submissions List distributes funding and limited-submission opportunities relevant to investigators engaged in biomedical and health-related research.
Subscribe to the Corporate and Foundations Relations newsletter, request a one-on-one virtual meeting with a CFR team member, or quickly let them know who you are so they can include you in communications: Fill out the Faculty Questionnaire, with your name, title, department, start date and research key words.
Limited Submission Programs
Limited-submission funding opportunities are those for which the sponsor limits the number of proposals UC San Diego may submit. Opportunities are posted through an internal application portal (InfoReady Review) and distributed via the two opt-in mail list.
When the number of internal applications for a given funding opportunity exceeds the allowable number of external submissions, internal review is conducted by one or more of four standing faculty committees, members of which are appointed by the Academic Senate. Recommendations on the most competitive applications are provided to the Vice Chancellor for Research. All applicants are notified of the outcome and provided reviewer comments, if any, on their applications.
- Limited Submission Programs guidance (AD login required)
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Internal Funding & Limited Submissions portal (InfoReady Review)
- For questions, contact limitedsub@ucsd.edu
External opportunities
Upcoming Deadlines
The Corporate and Foundation Relations team continually adds new funding opportunities that are available to the UC San Diego community. Please reach out to CFR@ucsd.edu with any questions about an opportunity or if there is an RFP that should be shared with the campus research community.
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The database below reflects all funding opportunities coming up in the next six months.
The database below reflects funding opportunities with rolling or quarterly deadlines.
Sponsor websites and email lists
To find and stay updated on external funding opportunities, you can:
- Review sponsor websites, for example:
- University of California Office of the President (UCOP) Research Grant Programs Office
- Grants.gov, includes funding opportunities from a range of federal agencies
- NIH Funding Opportunities
- NASA
- NSF Find Funding
- DARPA Funding Opportunities
- Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs
- National Endowment for the Arts
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- ARPA-H
- California Grants Portal, includes funding opportunities from a range of California agencies
- Philanthropic Organizations with Upcoming Deadlines
- Subscribe to e-mail lists, for example:
- Grants.gov
- NIH Guide Announcements
- NSF E-mail Updates
- Department of Energy E-mail Updates
- ARPA-E Newsletter
- DARPA Newsletter
- ARPA-H Vitals Newsletter
- California Grants Portal
- Candid/Philanthropy News Digest, private foundation opportunities (most-recent RFPs listed below)
- American Council of Learned Societies
- National Endowment for the Humanities