Your mission is to fund research that creates meaningful change. At ScientifyResearch, we work alongside research funders and foundations to help turn grant programs into real-world scientific impact.
Whether you’re advancing breakthroughs in personalized medicine, accelerating climate solutions, or supporting the next generation of scientific discovery; every grant you award is an investment in real-world impact.
For research funders, running a successful funding program, however, takes more than awarding grants. Reaching the right researchers, managing the application process, and ensuring your funding achieves its intended outcomes requires time, expertise, and the right support. Many research funders invest significant resources into developing excellent funding programs. Yet attracting enough high-quality applications remains a common challenge, particularly in niche research areas, or in new or pivoting grant programs. Researchers may not discover the opportunity and internal teams often have limited bandwidth for curating an audience for a particular grant or award.
That’s where ScientifyResearch comes in.
We partner with research funders and foundations to make grant delivery simpler, more effective, and more impactful. By building customized support packages around your organization’s goals, we help you promote funding opportunities, engage the right research community, and deliver grant programs that advance your mission with confidence. If you’d like more personalized information, schedule a consultation today.
The following information outlines our solutions for funders and foundations. We begin with our Funder Membership Program before exploring the range of services available to support your organization. If you’re looking for a tailored solution, we’d be delighted to discuss a custom package designed around your funding objectives.
Reach the researchers who can advance your mission
Your funding can only make an impact if the right researchers know about it.
The ScientifyResearch Funder Membership is designed to help research funders and foundations increase the visibility of their grants, fellowships, and funding opportunities; so they reach qualified researchers who are aligned with your mission. By combining targeted promotion, access to our global research community, and data-driven insights, we help you attract stronger applicants and maximize the return on your research investment.
If you’re a research funder looking to explore what ScientifyResearch can offer, our Freemium Funder Membership is the ideal place to start. You can list your grants, fellowships, and other funding opportunities at no cost, with one priority listing that makes your opportunity visible to researchers worldwide, even those without a ScientifyResearch account. You’ll also gain access to our analytics dashboard to measure engagement and receive our monthly funder newsletter with insights and opportunities to strengthen your funding strategy.
For organizations seeking greater reach and strategic support, our Premium Funder Membership provides a more comprehensive partnership. It is designed to help you expand your visibility, connect with the best suited research communities, and position your funding opportunities for maximum impact. As your needs evolve, Premium Membership can also be paired with additional services to create a fully customized funding support solution.
As a starting point, Premium Membership includes:
- One consultation session alongside our written analytics and impact report: Freemium funder members also receive one consultation session with our team, alongside the one written impact report illustrating the performance of any additional funder services delivered by our team, and easily shared with your organization’s Board.
- All Freemium features as described above.
- Featured database placement for one week: Our “Featured Grant” boosts an opportunity of your choice to the top of our database for one week. The opportunity stays fixed at the top, supporting its broader visibility to our audience of database users actively looking for funding.
- Access to more data within our analytics dashboard: Within the portal, premium funder members are able to view information about their opportunities, including number of unique visitors, total page views, and visitors by country.
Tell the story behind your funding
Researchers are increasingly interested in understanding the purpose and long-term vision behind the funding they apply for. Our Funder Perspective Interviews give your organization the opportunity to share the purpose of your grant program, highlight the impact you hope to achieve, and help researchers determine whether they’re the right fit.
These complimentary written interviews are designed to showcase your funding priorities in a clear, engaging format that encourages high-quality applicants to learn more and apply. We work with you to shape the questions and conversation around the topics that matter most to your organization, and can translate the final interview into Chinese, German, Portuguese, or Spanish to help you connect with researchers around the world.
Put your funding opportunity front and center
Featured grant
Even the best funding opportunity can’t make an impact if researchers don’t see it. A featured grant ensures your funding call stands out by placing it at the top of our funding database, giving it prominent visibility to researchers searching for funding opportunities across every discipline.
Your grant appears at the top of search results regardless of the search terms used and is clearly identified with a featured banner, helping it capture attention and drive more engagement. Featured placements are available in one-week increments, with the flexibility to book consecutive or non-consecutive weeks to align with your recruitment timeline. It’s a simple, effective way to increase awareness, attract more qualified applicants, and ensure your funding opportunity reaches a global audience of active funding seekers.
Grant alert banner
Researchers actively searching for funding not only browse our platform, but also subscribe to receive our grant alerts, making our weekly email one of the most effective ways to place your funding opportunity directly in front of an engaged audience.
Your organization can feature a banner advertisement at the top of our weekly grant alert email, reaching over 50,000 researchers who have opted in to receive relevant, newly published funding opportunities. Placements are available in one-week increments, with the flexibility to schedule consecutive or non-consecutive campaigns to align with your application timeline.
You can supply your own banner creative, or our design team can create one on your behalf. Each banner links directly to your grant or fellowship webpage, making it easy for interested researchers to learn more and apply. We can also incorporate UTM tracking so you can measure click-through performance and better understand how your campaign is engaging prospective applicants.
It’s a simple, measurable way to increase awareness, drive qualified traffic to your funding opportunity, and connect with researchers who are actively looking for their next funding opportunity.
Newsletter advertisement
Getting your funding opportunity noticed is about reaching both researchers and the people who help those researchers discover and pursue funding. Our monthly newsletters help you connect with both audiences, ensuring your opportunity reaches those most likely to generate high-quality applications.
ScientifyResearch publishes two monthly newsletters with a global readership: one for researchers actively seeking funding opportunities, and another for research managers and research offices who share funding calls with faculty, principal investigators, and research teams. Depending on your goals, you can advertise in either newsletter or build a campaign across multiple issues to maintain visibility throughout your application period.
Each sponsored placement receives premium exposure as the featured item in the newsletter. Your opportunity is highlighted in the email subject line, presented as the lead story, and accompanied by a dedicated banner and a concise description that encourages readers to learn more. Every placement links directly to your funding webpage, and UTM tracking can be included to measure click-through performance and campaign effectiveness.
Whether your objective is to engage researchers directly or mobilize the institutions that support them, our newsletters provide a trusted, measurable way to increase awareness, expand your reach, and attract stronger applicants. It’s one of our most popular promotional services because it connects your funding opportunity with audiences that are actively engaged in the research funding landscape.
Sticky banner
Researchers often explore multiple funding opportunities before deciding where to apply. A sticky header banner keeps your organization and funding opportunity visible throughout their search, ensuring your message remains front and centre as they browse the ScientifyResearch platform.
Displayed across every page, the Sticky Header Banner provides continuous, high-impact visibility to researchers who are actively looking for funding. Whether you’re promoting a time-sensitive funding call, launching a new program, or increasing awareness of your organization, this placement helps keep your opportunity top of mind and encourages more qualified researchers to visit your website.
Your banner can be customized to reflect your organization’s branding and campaign objectives, while performance tracking makes it easy to measure engagement and understand how effectively your campaign is driving traffic. It’s a simple, highly visible way to keep your funding opportunity in front of researchers from the moment they begin their search until they’re ready to learn more.
Web banner
The best time to introduce researchers to your funding opportunity is while they’re actively looking for one. A Web banner places your organization in front of an engaged audience as they explore funding opportunities on the ScientifyResearch platform, helping your grant stand out at the moment researchers are deciding what to pursue.
Whether your goal is to increase applications for a specific funding call, build awareness of a new program, or strengthen recognition of your organization, a Web banner helps direct qualified researchers to your website or landing page. Positioned within a trusted, research-focused environment, it keeps your funding opportunity visible to the people most likely to take action.
You’re welcome to provide your own banner artwork, or our design team can create a professionally branded banner that reflects your organization’s identity and campaign objectives. The result is a simple, effective way to increase your organization’s visibility, attract more of the right researchers, and support the success of your funding program. Web banners are placed on the side of selected webpages.
Custom email campaign
For research funders, the success of any funding opportunity depends on reaching the researchers who are best positioned to advance their mission. Our custom email campaigns help you connect directly with carefully targeted audiences, ensuring your grant or fellowship is seen by researchers who are most likely to be interested and eligible to apply.
Campaigns can be tailored by research discipline, career stage, geographic region, or other criteria that align with your funding objectives. Whether you’re launching a new funding call, expanding into new research communities, or promoting a time-sensitive opportunity, targeted email outreach helps increase awareness, generate stronger applications, and engage the researchers you want to reach.
Our team manages the entire campaign in accordance with GDPR requirements, using compliant audience targeting and communication practices. We can create the subject line, email copy, and visual banner for you, or work with materials your organization provides. To maximize visibility throughout your application period, we also offer multi-stage campaigns, such as an announcement when applications open followed by reminder emails as the submission deadline approaches.
By delivering the right message to the right audience at the right time, our custom email campaigns help you attract qualified applicants and maximize the impact of every funding opportunity.
Social media promotion
Not every researcher discovers funding opportunities through a database search. Many stay informed through trusted professional networks and social media, making these channels an important part of reaching the right audience.
Our social media promotion helps your grant, fellowship, or funding program reach ScientifyResearch’s research-focused community on LinkedIn and Instagram, increasing awareness among researchers who are actively exploring funding opportunities and those who are likely to be interested but haven’t yet begun searching. By expanding your visibility beyond the platform, you can introduce your funding opportunity to a broader pool of qualified applicants.
Each post is tailored to showcase the information that matters most to prospective applicants, including application deadlines, eligibility requirements, research priorities, and the impact your funding aims to achieve. Your organization is also encouraged to reshare the content through its own channels, extending its reach even further.
As part of a coordinated, multi-channel promotion strategy, social media promotion helps ensure your funding opportunity is seen more often, by more of the right researchers, increasing awareness, engagement, and ultimately, the quality of your applicant pool.
UX and web design support
Researchers are more likely to apply when they can quickly understand your funding opportunity and confidently navigate the application process. If important information is difficult to find or the applicant journey is unclear, even highly qualified candidates may decide not to apply.
Our UX and web design support helps ensure your grant, fellowship, or funding program is presented in a way that is clear, intuitive, and easy to navigate. We review the applicant journey from the researcher’s perspective, refining page structure, messaging, and content so that essential information (such as eligibility requirements, application deadlines, funding scope, and application steps) is easy to find and understand.
The result is a smoother application experience that reduces confusion, encourages engagement, and helps more of the right researchers take the next step. By making it easier for applicants to understand your opportunity, you can strengthen your applicant pool and maximize the impact of your funding program.
Custom advertising and promotion service bundles for research funders
Every funding opportunity deserves to reach the researchers who can make the greatest impact.
In addition to the benefits included in our membership program, we offer customized advertising and promotional packages designed to help your grants, fellowships, and funding opportunities connect with the right research audience. We work with your organization to understand your program goals, target disciplines, and broader funding strategy, then recommend a tailored combination of promotional services that aligns with your objectives and budget.
Whether you’re launching a new funding initiative or looking to increase the visibility of an established program, we’re here to help you attract the right applicants and maximize the impact of your funding. We’d be happy to discuss how these services could support your next funding opportunity.
Don’t let great research opportunities go unnoticed. Partner with ScientifyResearch to connect your grant programs with the world’s most qualified researchers. Schedule a consultation today.