Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Along with the NSF, this private institution provides loads of dough for scientists. Also like the NSF, grad students are asked to look for money from HHMI.

The MERCURY Consortium website.

National Institutes of Health. According to their website, “the NIH mission is to uncover new knowledge that will lead to better health for everyone.” They dole out money and jobs, like any good government program should.

National Science Foundation. This government-sponsored program is one of the biggest funding sources for the sciences in the United States. Applicants to graduate school are often asked by their prospective schools to apply for grants from the NSF.