John’s Hopkins hub of COVID-19 Funding Opportunities:
https://hub.jhu.edu/novel-coronavirus-information/research-preparedness/research-preparedness-covid-19-funding-opportunities/
National Institute on Allergy and Infectious Disease’s Multi-Pronged Response to the COVID-2019 Outbreak includes opportunity to amend current NIH research projects and application opportunities for administrative supplements.
https://www.niaid.nih.gov/grants-contracts/response-covid-2019-outbreak
Grantstation.com includes searchable funding opportunities for a variety of target audiences and geographical scopes
https://grantstation.com/covid-19-related-funding
Adira Foundation: Fast-Track Response: COVID-19
Application Deadline: none
Area of Interest: Health/Wellness, Health: Diseases
Geographic Scope: USA
The Adira Foundation is running a fast-track COVID-19 response grant program that offers funding to nonprofits whose focus is on people with neurodegenerative diseases and that are ready to quickly and responsibly assist these communities. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis and will conclude when the funding has been fully distributed.
Booz Allen Foundation
The Booz Allen Foundation has created an Innovation Fund that will make $1 million in grants to nonprofit groups, entrepreneurs, start-ups, and small businesses that are developing solutions to improve Covid-19 relief efforts. Nonprofit organizations can apply for grants of up to $100,000. Of specific interest are ideas to help protect vulnerable communities, support frontline workers, or enable people to safely return to work. Applications are due June 5.
Open Road Alliance
The Open Road Alliance is making grants to charitable groups that are directly responding to the Covid-19 pandemic. Organizations may be based anywhere, but must demonstrate that they are playing a clear and direct role in “flattening the curve” to mitigate the economic, health, and social effects of the pandemic. Grants are worth up to $100,000 each.
Social Science Research Council: Rapid-Response Grants on Covid-19 and the Social Sciences
Application Deadline: June 1, 2020
Area of Interest: Sciences/Social Sciences, Civic Affairs
Geographic Scope: USA, Global
The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) seeks proposals from across the social sciences and related fields that address the social, economic, cultural, psychological, and political impact of Covid-19 in the United States and globally, as well as responses to the pandemic’s wide-ranging effects. Researchers who hold a PhD in any social science disciplines or related interdisciplinary fields are eligible to apply.
In partnership with the Henry Luce Foundation, The Social Science Research Council (SSRC), as part of its Covid-19 Initiative, seeks proposals from across the social sciences and related fields that address the social, economic, cultural, psychological, and political impact of Covid-19 in the United States and globally, as well as responses to the pandemic’s wide-ranging effects.
Applications are due June 1, 2020. For answers to frequently asked questions, please review our FAQ page. Apply online at through our application portal.
Novartis US Foundation: COVID-19 Community Response Fund
Application Deadline: none
Area of Interest: Health: Diseases, Health/Wellness, Sciences/Social Sciences
Geographic Scope: USA
The COVID-19 Community Response Fund will support immediate response and recovery efforts related to the pandemic. Programs must support one or more of the following objectives: strengthening local and national healthcare infrastructure to meet increased demand and protect frontline health workers; establishing digital platforms for COVID-19 related data collection, remote delivery of healthcare, and effective dissemination of important public health information; and creating or enhancing new community health programs specific to the pandemic response. Priority will be given to efforts focused on geographies where Novartis has a physical presence and where there is an acute need, including, but not limited to, NJ, MA, CA, IL, NC, and NY.
Spencer Foundation: Research Grants on Education - COVID-19 Related Special Grant Cycle
Application Deadline: June 8, 2020
Area of Interest: Education, Social Services & Issues
Geographic Scope: USA
The COVID-19 Related Research Grants support education research projects that will contribute to understanding the rapid shifts in education in this time of crisis and change. The focus is on: 1.) studies that aim to understand and disrupt the reproduction and deepening of educational inequality caused by the COVID-19 crisis; and 2.) research projects that are working to reimagine educational opportunities in these times.
NEA Foundation: COVID-19 Rapid Response Grants
Application Deadline: June 11, 2020
Area of Interest: Education
Geographic Scope: USA
COVID-19 Rapid Response Grants will support educator-led initiatives to adapt to the unique circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic during the summer months of 2020. Applicants must be educators or education support professionals as well as current NEA members.
Mosaic: COVID-19 Rapid Response Infrastructure RFP
Application Deadline: June 12 and July 2, 2020
Area of Interest: Environment & Animals, Sciences/Social Sciences
Geographic Scope: USA
Mosaic’s mission is to amplify the power of the environmental field—the people and organizations who devote their efforts in pursuit of environmental protection and healthy and just communities—by bolstering the critical infrastructure all movements need to succeed. Mosaic is launching an open RFP to make $1 million of rapid response grants to individual nonprofit grassroots organizations, and networks of them, focused primarily on environmental protection or environmental justice to fund tools and technology, training, and related resources needed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. U.S. nonprofit grassroots organizations and networks that support grassroots organizations are eligible to apply.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Emergency Response for the Healthcare System Innovation Challenge
Application Deadline: June 12, 2020
Area of Interest: Health/Wellness, Health: Diseases: General, Sciences/Social Sciences
Geographic Scope: USA
The Emergency Response for the Healthcare System Innovation Challenge poses the question, "Can you create a digital tool supporting the healthcare system (including but not limited to providers, government, and public health and community organizations) during a large-scale health crisis (pandemic, natural disaster, or other public health emergency)?" Digital tools can assist the healthcare community as it adapts to quickly changing circumstances and needs by addressing multiple categories: capacity management, clinical integration, communication, data exchange, mental health tools for providers, population health, preparedness, resource management, and data analytics, tracking, and visualization.
GENYOUth: COVID-19 Emergency School Nutrition Funding
Application Deadline: none
Target Population: Children/Youth
Area of Interest: Education, Social Services & Issues
Geographic Scope: USA
The GENYOUth: COVID-19 Emergency School Nutrition Funding program provides grants of up to $3,000 per school to supply much-needed resources for meal distribution and delivery efforts to get food to students during COVID-19.
NEA Foundation: COVID-19 Response Learning & Leadership Grants
Application Deadline: July 15, 2020
Area of Interest: Education
Geographic Scope: USA
COVID-19 Response Learning & Leadership Grants will support educator's professional development focused on adapting teaching and learning to the unique challenges of the 2020-2021 school year. Applicants must be educators or education support professionals as well as current NEA members.
NEA Foundation: COVID-19 Response Student Success Grants
Application Deadline: July 15, 2020
Area of Interest: Education
Geographic Scope: USA
COVID-19 Response Student Success Grants will support educator-led initiatives that increase educational equity and opportunity, responding to student needs that emerged or intensified during the COVID-19 pandemic. Applicants must be educators or education support professionals as well as current NEA members.
The Red Backpack Fund
Application Deadline: Applications will be accepted from April through August of 2020.
Target Population: Women/Girls
Area of Interest: Community & Economic Development
Geographic Scope: USA
The Red Backpack Fund, an initiative of The Spanx by Sara Blakely Foundation managed by GlobalGiving, will make at least 1,000 grants of $5,000 each to female entrepreneurs in the U.S. to help alleviate the immediate needs and support the long-term recovery of those impacted by this crisis. Eligible applicants include majority women-owned businesses and nonprofits with annual revenues less than $5M, at least one additional paid employee, and fewer than 50 individuals on staff.
Circle for Justice Innovations: Strategic Opportunities Support Rapid Response Fund
Application Deadline: none
Area of Interest: Civic Affairs, Health/Wellness, Health: Diseases: General, Social Services & Issues
Geographic Scope: USA
CJI’s SOS Rapid Response Fund has always provided flexible and immediate funding to organizations responding to changing political landscapes and working to build collective power at critical junctures. Grants of $2,500 to $5,000 currently support organizing that responds to opportunities or dangers affecting the health, safety, or human rights of incarcerated and directly impacted people based on Covid-19 policies or practices.
National Science Foundation: Rapid Response Research (RAPID)
Application Deadline: none
Area of Interest: Health/Wellness, Health: Diseases
Geographic Scope: USA
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is accepting proposals to conduct non-medical, non-clinical-care research that can be used immediately to explore how to model and understand the spread of COVID-19, to inform and educate about the science of virus transmission and prevention, and to encourage the development of processes and actions to address this global challenge. Researchers may use the Rapid Response Research (RAPID) funding mechanism to submit requests up to $200,000 and up to one year in duration.
Peace Development Fund: De Colores Rapid Response Fund
Application Deadline: none
Target Population: Minorities
Area of Interest: Social Services & Issues
Geographic Scope: USA
As the outbreak of COVID-19 presents growing and unprecedented challenges for organizers nationwide, the De Colores Rapid Response Fund, designed for strategic intervention in movement moments like this, offers grants of $500 to $1,000 to grassroots organizations working to make positive community interventions through strategic, organizing-focused approaches, especially in marginalized communities of color and working class communities.
Omidyar Network: COVID-19 Economic Response Advocacy Fund
Application Deadline: Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis throughout 2020.
Area of Interest: Community & Economic Development, Civic Affairs, Social Services & Issues
Geographic Scope: USA
The Omidyar Network COVID-19 Economic Response Advocacy Fund plans to infuse 501(c)(4) funding into national, state, and local advocacy and organizing efforts aimed at passing economic stimulus to address the immediate toll of the COVID-19 pandemic on working people while reshaping our economic structure to ensure they are less vulnerable in the future. Omidyar Network will award $1.5 million to groups working to realign this nation’s economic policies and systems so that they work better for everyone. The majority of the grants from the Fund will be for $75,000 or less.
Individual Assistance:
HealthWell Foundation: COVID-19 Ancillary Fund
Application Deadline: none
Area of Interest: Health/Wellness, Health: Diseases, Social Services & Issues
Geographic Scope: USA
HealthWell Foundation’s COVID-19 Ancillary Fund provides individuals assistance with costs associated with delivered food, medication, diagnostics, transportation, and telehealth as a result of COVID-19 risk or incidence. Qualifying individuals include those that have had a positive diagnosis for COVID-19, those that are part of a high-risk group that should be especially mindful of contact with COVID-19, and those that have had a physician or healthcare provider or other official recommend self-quarantine. Grants range up to $250.
