The Foundation Directory Online Professional is an online database licensed by the Levy Library for faculty, students and staff at the Mount Sinai Medical Center. The Foundation Directory provides comprehensive data on U.S. foundations, corporate giving programs, and grantmaking public charities.

The Foundation Directory Online is listed on the Library's Databases page, under the category Reference - Medical and General. Or Click View all Databases by Title. It allows you to search for grants, grantmakers, companies with corporate giving programs, and recently filed IRS 990 forms.

For a guide to searching the Foundation Directory Online, follow the links on their homepage to the Search Tutorial and Guided Tours.

The Foundation Directory Online includes independent foundations, company-sponsored foundations, private operating foundations, community foundations, grantmaking public charities and corporate giving programs. Information is compiled from IRS information returns (990 and 990-PF forms), annual reports, grantmaker websites and other sources, and then verified by the Foundation Center's editorial staff.

The Mount Sinai School of Medicine Grants and Contracts Office provides resources to identify funding opportunities, including governmental grants and contracts, from their Web site at http://www.mssm.edu/grants/funding.shtml
Among the resources provided by the Grants and Contracts office are:

InfoEd: The SPIN and SMARTS/GENIUS tools in InfoEd allow you to set up a personalized account and receive notice via email about funding opportunities. InfoEd also permits access to information about the latest biomedical research being conducted at Mount Sinai and other academic health centers.
NOTE: The InfoED databases are administered by the Grants and Contracts office and are available on campus only. If you have questions about these databases, please contact the Grants and Contracts office by phone at (212) 659-8970 or via email at grants@mssm.edu

Other grant resources that might be helpful include:

GrantsNet: A free database from Sciencecareers.org for finding funds for training in the sciences and undergraduate science education.

NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: The official publication for NIH medical and behavioral research grant policies, guidelines and funding opportunities.

Grants.gov: Provides a single government-wide source for information about grants programs across the federal government.

Librarians are available to support your research. For help searching a database, or to schedule individual assistance, please call (212) 241-7204 or send an email to Ask a Librarian.