Find Funding Opportunities

Reminders and top sources when looking for funding:

For Advertised Funding Opportunities

• Use Pivot.  Pivot is a tool intended to help find funding.  It matches advertised funding opportunities against your searches and profile, and includes an alert option.  That is, you may ask to receive notifications about new funding opportunities that match your interests.

• Check essential agencies.  If you do not want to miss any opportunites from a particular agency, be sure to follow funding announcements from that agency.  
• Find matching organizations.  Also, especially if you are thinking of travel, scholarships, or smaller awards, remember membership organizations for your area of interest.
• Sign up.  Sign up for notifications when you can.

Funding Opportunities Through Foundations

• Foundations and the Right Match.  Establishment of a foundation implies an intention to support certain causes or types of work.  We don't expect the foundation to advertise its funding opportunities; instead, we look to find the right foundation. 
• Foundation Searching and access options.  As explained on the Foundations page of this guide, foundation information is available through online, searchable databases. 
  • The best known of these is the professional version of the Foundation Directory Online.  It is available to:
    • Cardholders with Austin Public Library to use wherever they are.
    • Those who go to the Texas Grants Resource Center (a unit of UT-Austin).