How to acknowledge funding This question expands a bit on my previous one Acknowledging funding.

I am unsure how to write proper acknowledgments at the end of a research paper. The wording that I read most often is Author XY is [partially] supported by..., which does not correctly describe my situation unless one stretches the meaning of these words.

More in detail, here are the two sources with which I have trouble:


a foundation that used to give me a postdoc grant. I did part of the work of this paper while living off this grant, which expired six months ago, and part of it under my new employer. How should I write this? If I write is supported by, I give the impression that I am currently being paid in full by the foundation; if I write partially supported I give the impression that I just got a smaller grant.
a research institute that paid my travel expenses for a conference. While this funding is not directly related to the paper, I met my co-author there and had a chance to discuss its state. And, besides that, it is basically my only occasion to acknowledge this grant. How should I write this? Is partially supported the correct wording, or is there a better expression?
If I write is supported by, I give the impression that I am currently being paid


"Work by this author was partially supported by the Hitchcock Institute and by the Norman and Norma Bates Foundation."


  if I write partially supported I give the impression that I just got a smaller grant


Nonsense.  Unless the institute was your sole source of income and equipment during the entire research and writing process, "partially supported" is correct.  Also, it's standard idiomatic language; nobody will think twice about it.