Fellowships For Free (F4F)

fellowships4free.com is the home of this project (moved 2026-10-22 from fellowship4free.com, which 301s to it; the owner bought the new domain that night). Corrected 2026-08-25 by owner ruling. This block previously said the opposite, that the domain was being retired and the project consolidated onto jonathanlindavis.com/f4f. That is stale and was contradicted by live behaviour: jonathanlindavis.com/f4f has 301'd TO fellowship4free.com since 2026-08-22, by owner order recorded at _redirects lines 193 to 196 in the Jonathanlindavis.com repo. Traffic flows from jonathanlindavis.com out to this domain, not the other way.

Two things a maintainer needs to know and neither is obvious from this repo alone. The canonical dataset is data/fellowships.json in the Jonathanlindavis.com repo, not here, so the sync path between that file and what this domain serves has to stay honest or this site silently drifts from canon. And jonathanlindavis.com/open-data-f4f remains live as a mirror, pending the F4F rollout decision, so two pages currently serve the same dataset. Whether that mirror gains a canonical tag pointing here or is retired is an open question, not a settled one.

Because finding money shouldn't cost you money.

A free, public, open-data index of graduate and early-career fellowships — a no-paywall alternative to membership-gated databases.

A Project by Jonathan Lin Davis.

• Live site (index.html): loads data/fellowships.json, with search, filtering, sort, and one-click CSV/JSON export — all in the browser, no backend.
• Open data: data/fellowships.{json,csv} — CC-BY-4.0. Code is MIT.

The weekly RSS-import pipeline described in earlier versions of this README (scripts/fetch_candidates.py, approve_candidates.py, etc.) has been removed. Those scripts were already broken, stale against a schema change from a prior redesign. The original sentence here credited "the jonathanlindavis.com/f4f consolidation" for superseding them, which is wrong on the same 2026-08-25 correction as the header block: no such consolidation is happening. What actually replaced them is the growth scout, run_f4f_growth.ps1, which commits to the canonical dataset in the Jonathanlindavis.com repo on a weekly schedule.

Sourcing policy (historical)

F4F never scraped websites — it read only published RSS/Atom feeds and APIs, and honored robots.txt. This principle carries forward wherever F4F's data collection continues.

Data schema (as last deployed here)

Bare JSON array, one object per fellowship: id, organization, name, url, opens, deadline, amount, other_benefits, eligibility, area, flags, notes

Licenses

Code: MIT (LICENSE). Data: CC-BY-4.0 (LICENSE-DATA).