Flexible Teaching & Resource Funding: Expense Support Grant

NOTE: Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, and decisions are typically communicated within six weeks of submission. Applications must be submitted at least six weeks before the expense is incurred.
Institute for Humane Studies
The Hayek Fund provides grants of $500 to $5,000 to faculty at accredited colleges and universities conducting research within the classical liberal tradition. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis; applicants typically hear back within six weeks. Applications must be submitted at least six weeks before the expense is incurred.
Flexible Research Grants for Scholars: Expense Support
Research often hinges on timely opportunities—presenting at a conference, accessing an archive, purchasing a dataset, collaborating with a research assistant, or preparing a manuscript for submission. Expense Support helps offset these targeted costs, so your work can move forward without delay.
We support rigorous scholarship that contributes meaningfully to ongoing academic conversations about political, economic, intellectual, and cultural freedom. Awarded faculty retain full independence over research design, analysis, and publication.
Open to faculty members actively engaged in research within the liberal tradition at any accredited college or university.

Eligibility

FacultyEligible ExpensesTravel for conference presentations and archival researchResearch collaboration and hiring a research assistantJournal submission feesPurchase of data setsLLM subscriptions for specialized research sourcesjournal submission feespreparation of research manuscriptsBook publication expenses (e.g. copy editing, indexing)

Ineligibility

Ineligible ExpensesPhD application feesLiving expenses (e.g. rent)Hardware costs (e.g. laptops, printers)Tuition expensesRetroactive expensesConference travel without giving a presentationInstitutional overhead or indirect costs