Undergraduate Research Grant
Funding Amount
Not stated
Deadline
Deadline not published
Grant Type
Foundation
Deadline history & next window
- Cycle
- Annual
- Tracked since
- April 2026
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Eligible organizations
- Undergraduate students
Other requirements
- Diverse backgrounds encouraged
- Must be conducting scientifically important research
Overview
ASF offers annual summer research fellowships to promising undergraduate students conducting scientifically driven autism research.
Geographic Scope: United States (examples include UCLA, Indiana University, Harvard University, Caltech)
Focus Areas:
- Autism spectrum disorder disparities in diagnosis
- Early motor development and language links
- Telehealth and assessment technologies
- Mental health services for people with autism
- Inclusive research involving underserved communities
Eligibility:
- Undergraduate students
- Diverse backgrounds encouraged
- Must be conducting scientifically important research
What They Fund:
- Summer research fellowships for undergraduates
- Research addressing service disparities in marginalized communities
- Projects with mentorship from established researchers
Background: This is the eighth year (as of 2021) ASF has offered grants to promising young researchers. Inside Philanthropy (2018) noted that funding undergraduates is rare, and ASF claims to be alone among funders in viewing support for undergrads as a worthwhile use of research dollars.
Past recipients of this program
Recent awards under this program (from Autism Science Foundation's IRS filings)
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC · 2023
$39K
1 grant in Autism Science Foundation's 2023 filings reference “Undergraduate Research Grant” in their stated purpose. Amounts and places as reported by the funder.
What Autism Science Foundation actually gave
Source: IRS Form 990, 2024
- Grants in 2024
- 11
- Total given
- $426K
- Median grant
- $35K
- Range
- $10K–$98K
- By dollars: California 39%, New Jersey 12%, Connecticut 8%. Top recipient cities: Davis, CA; Piscaraway, NJ; New Haven, CT.
- 0% of grants with a stated purpose were for general or operating support.
Example grants
The Regents of the University of California Davis · Davis, CA
Next gent sibs grant and post-undergrad fellowship grant
$98K
Rutgers University · Piscaraway, NJ
Pre-doc grant
$50K
Yale University · New Haven, CT
Profound pilot grant
$35K
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · Chapel Hill, NC
Pre-doctorate grant
$35K
Regents Univ of California · Los Angeles, CA
Post-undergrad grant
$35K
Focus Areas & Funding Uses
Fields of Work
- Autism
- Science research
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