Who funds religion research?

We count 124 funded religion projects, active between 2019 and 2032, from 3 funders. The most came from EU · MSCA (63 projects), EU · ERC (53 projects) and Wellcome (3 projects). The median award is $914K, across the 121 of 124 projects that list an amount.

Funded projects

124

Funders

3

Median award

$914K

Open calls now

1

Top funders of religion research

Projects whose title or summary mentions religion. Median award: of the projects that list an amount, in US dollars; “—” when fewer than 3 do.

Open religion funding calls

1 open call mentions religion today.

• FY26 DRL/IRF Global Request for Statements of Interest
  Bureau of Democracy Human Rights and Labor$1,000,000 – $3,000,000Deadline: December 7, 2026 ·

Forecast: announced, not open yet

1 forecast call on religion. Funders publish forecasts before a call opens; you can't apply to these yet, and dates can change.

• ForecastNational Humanities Center Residential Fellowships
  National Humanities CenterNot specifiedOpening date not announced

Funded religion projects

A sample, latest start first, at most three per program.

• TRANSOPP - The Dynamics of Transnational Support to Opposition Movements in Lebanon and Iraq
  EU · MSCA · ends 2028
• Studying the Contexts of recent Onset Psychoses in Ethiopia to develop interventions to improve outcomes: the SCOPE study
  Wellcome · £99,927 · ends 2028
• Exploring the Grey Zone: A Biopsychosocial Approach to Religious Delusions and Conspiracy Beliefs
  UKRI · UKRI CRCRM · £995,065 · ends 2027
• Crossing the Atlantic. Diocesan Agents of the Viceroyalty of Peru in Rome (XVI-XVII century)
  EU · MSCA · ends 2027
• Developing a South East Asian Bioethics Network
  Wellcome · £1,190,927 · ends 2027
• Media, Islam, and the Public Sphere: Radio and Religion in Pahlavi Iran, 1939–1957
  EU · MSCA · €260,348 · 2027–2029 · THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
• Occult Atlantic: Chasing Higher Knowledge in North America, the Caribbean, and West Africa
  EU · ERC · €1,499,810 · 2027–2032 · STICHTING RADBOUD UNIVERSITEIT
• Constructive Conversations Pilot Project: Mental Health, Artificial Intelligence and Religious Communities
  Wellcome · £333,742 · ends 2027
• Circle of Justice: Middle Persian Documents as Sources for Sasanian and Early Islamic History
  EU · ERC · €1,495,530 · 2027–2032 · EBERHARD KARLS UNIVERSITAET TUEBINGEN
• Life and Death in Tudor Prisons
  UKRI · AHRC · £80,855 · ends 2027

How we count

Funded projects come from public award records (NIH RePORTER, NSF, EU CORDIS, UKRI Gateway to Research, Wellcome, the Gates Foundation, DOE, NASA and USDA NIFA) whose title or summary matches “religion or religious”. NIH lists each budget year separately; one project counts once. Amounts are as the funder lists them; medians use only projects that list one, in US dollars. Open calls and forecasts are from our listings of October 28, 2026. A project can mention a topic without being mainly about it, so treat the counts as a guide to who funds the area.