Grant name and brief focus
| Sponsor | Notes |
| Acorn Program grants - $12,000 or less, designed for small, relatively short projects, to test hypotheses, and/or generate preliminary data | AKC Canine Health Foundation | Awards within 90 days; apply any time. |
| Urgent study grant, for urgent and time-sensitive needs | ACVIM Foundation | Considered on an expedited basis, outside normal grant timelines |
| Maddie's Shelter Medicine Research for colleges of veterinary medicine for the discovery of shelter medicine that helps advance adoption guarantee shelter practices and methods | Maddie's Fund | Continuous |
| Michelson Grants in Reproductive Biology; promising research in non-surgical sterilization of cats and dogs | Found Animals Foundation; email MichelsonPrize@foundanimals.org for more info. | January 2009 and onward (rolling basis) |
| Pet Advocacy Grants - funds 50% of community-based projects to make life better for pets and their families. Examples: veterinary education projects, preventive health care for pets, educating children about vet med and their pets. | Banfield Charitable Trust | June 30 and November 30 of each year |
