Find Funding

For foundation or industry sponsored funding announcements, the CAS Corporate and Foundation Relations team is available to support you with pre-proposals and full proposals to ensure they are internally competitive. Please reach out to them before starting an application for RFP from Corporate and Foundation sponsors, as many foundations will invite a proposal only after establishing a relationship.

To help you find funding in these areas, the CFR Funding Opportunities Dashboard is a great resource updated weekly by our partners in UW Advancement.

Royalty Research Fund (RRF) - Through the Royalty Research Fund (RRF), the Office of Research supports UW faculty in two ways. The Royalty Research grant supports those seeking to establish new research programs, and the Royalty Scholar award provides one quarter of release time for faculty with full teaching loads to engage in concentrated scholarly activities. The purpose of the Royalty Research Fund (RRF) is to advance new directions, particularly:

1. in disciplines for which external funding opportunities are minimal, and/or
2. for faculty who are junior in rank, and/or
3. in cases where funding may provide unique opportunities to increase applicants’ competitiveness for subsequent funding  

Round Deadlines:

For both rounds, please make an effort to route your eGC1 and attached documents to the Dean's office by the previous Thursday, so that we can review and provide feedback in time to allow researchers to make edits by the deadline.

Resources: RRF Summer 2022 Slides

Some sponsors will limit the number of applications coming from one institution; these are called Limited Submissions. At UW, the process is managed by the Office of Research and details are listed on their website. Pre-proposals are due to the Office of Research office in advance of the sponsor deadline for internal committee review. If selected by the committee, a full proposal will be routed to OSP using an eGC1.