The following organizations are online search engines designed to assist grant seekers in the search for external funding sources.
| Organization | Area of Interest | Type of Search Engine |
| The Foundation Center | Foundation Grants to Individuals On-Line ($$$) | A good source for searching the on-line databases for individual funding. You can sign up for this service on a month by month basis at the price of $9.95 per month. Please contact the Faculty Grant Coordinator to see about getting this cost reimbursed. |
| The Foundation Finder | General Directory | Foundation Finder is a free lookup tool that provides basic facts on more than 70,000 private and community foundations in the U.S. It is designed for those seeking quick access to core information about a foundation. To use Foundation Finder, you can start with as little as a portion of a foundation name. |
| FundSource | Behavioral and Social Sciences | Free funding search tool developed with support from the NSF and APA. |
| Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance | Federal Grants | This web site gives you access to a database of all Federal programs available to State and local governments |
| The Grantsmanship Center | General | For more than 30 years, TGCI has been the world's leading source of grantsmanship training and grant information. |
| Department of Education | General | ED is providing about $2.5 billion to help strengthen teaching and learning in colleges and other postsecondary institutions and about $3.3 billon to support rehabilitation, research and development, statistics, and assessment. |
| Chronicle of Philanthropy | General | Grant announcements and requests for proposals in a wide variety of subject areas. Primarily for institutional grantseekers. |
| GrantsNet | Natural and Behavioral Sciences | Broad range of funding information for training in the sciences and undergraduate science education. Freely available through the support of the HHMI and AAAS. |
| National Institutes of Health | Natural and Behavioral Sciences | NIH is the principal health research agency of the Federal Government. |
| TechLEARNING | Education Technology | Grants, Contests, Funding Opportunities and other resources for education technology leaders. |