A schema (funder name, funder identifier, award number) for describing the funding of academic research and journal articles is published as part of FundRef.

It would be useful to have something similar - and more broadly applicable - in schema.org, to describe the funding of various things.

As an example:

• A CreativeWork would have one or more funding, the value of which is a Funding.
• A Funding would have one or more funder, the value of which is one or more Organisation or Person.
• A Funding would have zero or more awardNumber, the value of which is text (e.g. an NIH grant number).
• A Funding would have zero or more startDate and endDate.

To consider:

• Should the funding property be attached to the CreativeWork, the project, or each Person/contributor?
• When attached to a Person, should this include professional awards, such as fellowships, or employers?