Foundation Grants
APF is seeking to seed innovation through supporting projects and programs that use psychology to solve social problems. APF grants align with our mission of enhancing psychology to elevate the human condition and advance human potential. We offer grants for Early Career Funding and Seed Grants for Research and for Targeted Programs.
Below is a list of programs available.
Early Career Funding and Seed Grants for Research
Culbertson Travel Grant: $1,500 to support women from developing countries who are in the early stages of their careers by providing travel funds to attend conferences in psychology.
Division 29 Early Career Award: $2,500 to recognize promising contributions to psychotherapy.
Esther Katz Rosen Early Career Research Grant: Up to $50,000 to promote an early career psychologist whose work centers on the psychological understanding of gifted and talented children and adolescents.
F. J. McGuigan Young Investigator Prize: $25,000 to support research that aims to advance, both empirically and theoretically, a materialistic understanding of the human mind.
Henry David Research Grant: $1,500 for work in the behavioral aspects of human reproductive behavior or an area related to population concerns.
Pearson Early Career Grant: $12,000 to support early career psychologists to work in an area of critical social need.
Robert L. Fantz Award: $2,000 to support careers of promising young investigators in psychology or related disciplines.
Theodore Blau Early Career Award: $5,000 to honor a clinical psychologist for professional accomplishments in clinical psychology.
Visionary and The Drs. Rosalee G. and Raymond A. Weiss Research and Program Innovation Grants: $5,000 to $20,000 to seed innovation through supporting research, education, and intervention projects and programs.
Targeted Program Grants
Alexander Gralnick Investigator Prize: $20,000 to support exceptional research and mentoring accomplishments in the area of serious mental illness.
APF Lectures at the APA Convention: APF sponsors lectures at the annual APA Convention.
Charles L. Brewer Distinguished Teaching of Psychology Award: $2,000 to recognize a significant career of contributions of a psychologist who is an exceptional teacher of psychology.
Disaster Relief Grant: Funding psychology-based programs that respond to emergencies or disaster relief and contribute to the sustained rebuilding of communities.
Division 17 Counseling Psychology Grants: Up to $5,000 available to enhance the science and practice of counseling psychology.
Dorothy W. Cantor Fund: This fund supports innovative research and programs on understanding the connection between mental and physical health. The Cantor fund is not currently accepting applications.
Gold Medal Awards for Life Achievement: Bestowed in recognition of a distinguished career and enduring contribution to psychology.
IUPsyS fund: This fund addresses educational, development, and programmatic activities of the International Union of Psychological Science (IUPsyS). The IUPsyS fund is not currently accepting applications.
Joseph B. Gittler Award: $10,000 for the most scholarly contribution to the philosophical foundations of psychological knowledge.
Lizette Peterson Homer Grant: $5,000 for research on the prevention of injuries in children and adolescents through accidents, violence, abuse, or suicide.
Mamie P. and Kenneth B. Clark Fund: This fund supports research projects intended to lead to an increased understanding of personal factors, social arrangements, social institutions and physical factors affecting the well being of disesteemed or disadvantaged persons. The Clark Fund is not currently accepting applications.
Pre-College Grants: $20,000 to support the science and application of psychological science among talented high school students.
Randy Gerson Memorial Grant: $6,000 for work in the systemic understanding of couple and/or family dynamics and/or multi-generational processes.
Timothy Jeffrey Award: $3,000 to recognize the outstanding commitment to clinical health psychology by a full-time provider of direct clinical services.
Theodore Millon Award in Personality Psychology: $1,000 to honor an outstanding psychologist engaged in advancing the science of personality psychology.
Violence Prevention and Intervention Grant: $20,000 to encourage the transfer of psychological science with regard to violence, its prevention, and intervention strategies to applications within the community.
This grant will not be offered in 2011.
Visionary and The Drs. Rosalee G. and Raymond A. Weiss Research and Program Innovation Grants: $5,000 to $20,000 to seed innovation through supporting research, education, and intervention projects and programs.
Wayne F. Placek Grants: $15,000 to support empirical research from all fields of the behavioral and social sciences on any topic related to lesbian, gay, or bisexual issues.
Wilhelm Wundt-William James Award: Recognizes a significant record of trans-Atlantic research collaboration.
