Pivot-RP
Turn research funding opportunities into outcomes
Get the right funding opportunities to the right researchers
Pivot-RP is an expert-curated source of global research funding opportunities with powerful workflow, intelligence, and discovery tools.
Curated data
Strategic intelligence
Workflow tools
Turn opportunities into outcomes
Billions of dollars in research funding
Discover global research funding opportunities worth billions of dollars across the widest variety of funding types.
Editorially curated funding database
A dedicated team of editors ensures timely discoverability and accuracy of eligibility criteria and deadlines.
AI-powered funding recommendations
The AI-driven Pivot-RP Funding Advisor recommends funding opportunities based on a researcher’s profile.
Institution-specific customization
Promote the research office’s services and resources by customizing the Pivot-RP interface with institutional branding.
Efficient communication tools
Communicate effectively and efficiently across your organization with built-in features for sharing funding information.
Research policy news
An additional resource, Research Professional News™, provides timely and trusted global news on research funding and policy.
Streamlined funding workflows
Curate funding lists, automate newsletters, and communicate deadlines — all in one place.
AI-enhanced semantic search
Find more relevant funding with natural language search that understands meaning, not just keywords.
AI-generated titles and summaries
Get clearer context with AI-created titles and summaries that make funding opportunities easier to find and understand.
Pivot-RP workflow tools
Lift administrative burden with time-saving workflow tools to help the research office deliver more funding.
Pivot-RP by the numbers
$86.53b+
34k+
20k+
5m+
Benefit from a trusted global funding database
Resources
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Frequently asked questions
Pivot-RP is designed for researchers, research administrators, and institutional staff who need to discover funding opportunities and manage research development activities. Researchers can find grants and collaborators aligned with their expertise, while administrators can curate opportunities, share updates, and streamline funding workflows across the institution. Institutional staff and leaders can leverage Pivot-RP insights to support strategic initiatives and strengthen the institution’s overall research impact.
Pivot-RP provides access to funding opportunities from global sponsors, including government agencies, foundations, and corporations. Users can identify grants, fellowships, prizes, and other funding programs across all disciplines and career stages, with filters to match specific research interests and eligibility criteria.
Pivot-RP’s global team of expert editors continuously curates and verifies funding opportunities from thousands of sources. Each record is reviewed and updated daily for accuracy, timeliness, eligibility criteria, deadlines, and funding details, ensuring users can rely on trusted, up-to-date information.
Pivot-RP uses responsible, transparent AI built on Clarivate’s Academic AI Platform to improve funding discovery and researcher matching. AI powers features such as the Funding Advisor®, which recommends opportunities aligned with a researcher’s profile, and semantic search, which understands meaning beyond keywords. It also generates titles and summaries to help users quickly assess funding relevance — all based on verified, expertly curated data rather than scraped web content.
Yes. Pivot-RP’s AI-powered Funding Advisor automatically recommends funding opportunities that match a researcher’s profile, discipline, and research interests. Recommendations are based on verified, expertly curated funder data, ensuring relevant and trustworthy results tailored to each user.
Yes, promote your research funding opportunities to millions of Pivot-RP users worldwide.
Use on-demand videos and resources to start using the platform today. For more in-depth training, institution-specific training sessions can be scheduled.
Find the most up-to-date information, release notes and resources for Pivot-RP in our Knowledge Center. The website is broken down into easy-to-navigate sections.
https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Pivot
Yes, promote your conference’s call for papers and presentation proposals by visiting Conferences and Papers Invited. Complete the form to submit your requests.
Our enhancement ideas and prioritization is heavily influenced by our users.
Pivot-RP currently includes more than 34,000 active funding opportunities worth over $86 billion USD, with historical insight into more than 5 million previously awarded grants.
Pivot-RP monitors more than 20,000 global funders, including government agencies, foundations, nonprofits, academic institutions, and corporate sponsors.
Research offices can curate and share targeted funding lists, automate newsletters, and communicate internal deadlines — all from within Pivot-RP. These workflow tools help align researchers with institutional priorities and strengthen proposal pipelines.
