Government agencies help people meet their goals through a huge number and variety of programs and support. In addition to grants, these include loans, technical assistance, training grants, research and scholarship funds, and project grants for specific projects. Each individual agency offers a wide variety of programs. The largest number of individual federal grants are for scholarships. Following that, there is money for fellowships, independent projects or research and doctoral dissertations.

Department of Health and Human Services
NIH works toward that mission by: conducting research in its own laboratories; supporting the research of non-Federal scientists in universities, medical schools, hospitals, and research institutions throughout the country and abroad." The site offers details on Research Contracts, including resources for preparing proposals and the "NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts," which lists the available projects.

National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts. The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has recently opened a Web site. It consists of three parts: a guide to the NEA, with an overview of the NEA grant making program that includes applicant guidelines and staff information, as well as a hyper linked list of state and regional arts organizations; an arts resource center, with a listing of NEA publications, information about international funding opportunities, and a large listing of arts service organizations in over 20 subject categories; and "arts. community," an online NEA publication that contains features such as a focus on a particular community, a featured artist, a writer’s corner, and endowment news, as well as links to other arts related sites.