Catalogue of foundations supporting scientific, scientific and technical, and innovative activities

The Catalogue of foundations is a useful source with a system of filters that allow choosing a foundation  suitable for particular needs of people or organizations interested in financial support.

http://funds.riep.ru/ – the Catalogue website.

User guide:

1. The Catalogue of foundations is designed to promote grant recipients' interest to getting financial support from different foundations, and to give grant receivers access to up-to-date information about funding activities.

2. The Catalogue Navigator (a system of filters) allows selecting a foundation that best suits the requests of a person or an organization interested in receiving a grant.

3. Navigator allows seeking for the suitable foundation that supports projects using Project life cycle stages or using Type of project support.

4. It is impossible to use Project life cycle stages filter and Type of project support filter at the same time.

5. Select a stage or a type that suits you most.

For example:

When you select search by Project life cycle stages, the following stages are available for selection:

• research;
• developments;
• production;
• market.

When selecting, for example, the "research" stage, a user can choose the forms of support of foundations provided at the selected stage. Tick the boxes near the forms you-re interested in.

In the same way, you can work with Type of project support filter.

6. After ticking suitable boxes, click FIND button or keep setting other filters for a more detailed search:

• field of science;
• topics of foundation's contests;
• location of the foundation.

7. Click the FIND button after setting filters as you need.

If no foundations were found, you need to expand the search parameters. For example, do not specify the topics of contests, location, etc.