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This page contains more than 100 currently open funding opportunities. Use Ctrl+F to search by keyword or browse by program title links on the left. For questions about this list, please contact Andy Schade.
Sponsor: The Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST)
Program: 2025 Borlaug CAST Communications Award
Deadline: May 1, 2025
Summary: The Borlaug CAST Communication Award is a prestigious honor that recognizes individuals whose dedication to advancing and promoting agricultural science echoes the transformative legacies of Dr. Norman E. Borlaug and Dr. Charles A. Black. Dr. Borlaug—revered as “The Man Who Fed the World”—authored CAST’s first publication in 1973, while Dr. Black served as CAST’s first President, first Executive Vice President, and a founding committee member. Their shared vision for innovative research, effective communication, and global food security lives on through this award.
https://cast-science.org/2025-borlaug-cast-communication-award/
Sponsor: US Army Corps of Engineers
Program: 2025 ERDC Broad Agency Announcement
Deadline: December 31, 2025
Funding Level: Not specified
Summary: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) is issuing this announcement for various research and development topic areas. The ERDC consists of the Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory (CHL), the Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory (GSL), the Environmental Laboratory (EL) and the Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) in Vicksburg, Mississippi, the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) in Hanover, New Hampshire, the Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (CERL) in Champaign, Illinois, and the Geospatial Research Laboratory (GRL) in Alexandria, Virginia. The ERDC is responsible for conducting research in the broad fields of hydraulics, dredging, coastal engineering, instrumentation, oceanography, remote sensing, geotechnical engineering, earthquake engineering, soil effects, vehicle mobility, self-contained munitions, military engineering, geophysics, pavements, protective structures, aquatic plants, water quality, dredged material, treatment of hazardous waste, wetlands, physical/mechanical/ chemical properties of snow and other frozen precipitation, infrastructure and environmental issues for installations, computer science, telecommunications management, energy, facilities maintenance, materials and structures, engineering processes, environmental processes, land and heritage conservation, and ecological processes.
Sponsor: Native American Agriculture Fund
Program: 2025 RFA Process – General and 2025 RFA Process – Youth
Deadline: May 1, 2025
Funding Level: Varies (most in $100,000 to $250,000 range)
Summary: The Native American Agriculture Fund (NAAF) is a private, charitable trust serving Native farmers and ranchers through strategic grantmaking in the areas of business assistance, agricultural education, technical support and advocacy services. NAAF was created from the historic Keepseagle v. Vilsack litigation settlement. We strongly recommend reading the Trust Agreement before starting an application for funding. NAAF seeks applications that align with a variety of programmatic areas. These areas are informed by strategic planning activities, grantmaking outcomes and online survey responses. For the 2025 funding cycle, applications are sought across a wide variety of projects across several topical areas. NAAF is directed to fund grant projects for a total of twenty (20) years until the year 2038, and in so doing, hopes to make a significant impact across as many Native communities as possible. This 2025 RFA represents the seventh (7th) funding cycle for NAAF.
Sponsor: USDA – Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS)
Program: 2026 Emerging Markets Program
Deadline: June 6, 2025
Funding Level: $500,000
Summary: The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service, announces this funding opportunity to support the Emerging Markets Program by issuing new awards. This opportunity is available to U.S. entities to develop, maintain, or expand markets for exports of United States agricultural commodities and to promote cooperation and exchange of information between agricultural institutions and agribusinesses in the United States and emerging markets.
Sponsor: USDA – Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS)
Program: 2026 Foreign Market Development Cooperator Program
Deadline: June 6, 2025
Funding Level: 20 awards from total program budget of $34,500,000
Summary: The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service, announces this funding opportunity to support the Foreign Market Development Cooperator Program (Cooperator Program) by issuing new awards. This opportunity is available to nonprofit U.S. agricultural trade organizations and is intended to create, expand, and maintain long–term export markets for U.S. agricultural commodities and products.
Sponsor: USDA – Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS)
Program: 2026 Market Access Program
Deadline: June 6, 2025
Funding Level: 60-70 awards from total program budget of $200,000,000
Summary: The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service, announces this funding opportunity to support the Market Access Program (MAP) by issuing new awards. This opportunity is available to nonprofit U.S. agricultural trade organizations, nonprofit state regional trade groups (SRTGs), U.S. agricultural cooperatives, and state agencies and is intended to foster expanded exports and market diversification by encouraging the development, maintenance, and expansion of diverse commercial export markets for United States agricultural commodities and products.
Sponsor: USDA – Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS)
Program: 2026 Technical Assistance for Specialty Crops
Deadline: June 6, 2025
Funding Level: $500,000
Summary: The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agricultural Service, announces this funding opportunity to support the Technical Assistance for Specialty Crops (TASC) program by issuing new awards. This opportunity is available to U.S. entities to provide funding for projects that seek to remove, resolve, or mitigate existing or potential sanitary, phytosanitary, or technical barriers that prohibit or threaten the export of U.S. specialty crops.
Sponsor: Private Company
Program: Adjustable spindle for stretch blow molding machines
Deadline: April 30, 2025
Funding Level: $100,000
Summary: We are a world leader in manufacturing of stretch-blowmolded PET (polyethylene terephthalate) bottles and containers. In stretch blow molding of PET containers, spindles are utilized to transport preforms through the oven of blow molding machines. Each spindle is custom-designed to match the specific neck diameter of the bottle being produced. A high-cavitation blow molder may require over 200 spindles, meaning that a full spindle set must be swapped out when switching to bottles with a different neck diameter. This results in significant downtime and operational inefficiencies. Currently, bottle neck diameters may range from 18 mm to 82 mm, with the most common sizes falling between 26 mm and 38 mm. Developing a spindle design that could be modified to accommodate a range of bottle neck diameters would reduce costs and improve operational efficiency in PET bottle manufacturing. We are looking for spindle designs or mechanical design concepts wherein a single spindle may be adjusted to accommodate a wider range of bottle neck diameters. Preferably, the designed spindle should accommodate neck diameters from 26 mm to 38 mm. However, designs that accommodate a smaller range within this window are also of interest.
Sponsor: Private Company
Program: Advanced thermal insulation materials
Deadline: May 31, 2025
Funding Level: $100,000
Summary: R-value, or thermal resistance value, is the standard measure of how well a material resists heat flow: the higher the R-value per inch, the better the insulation. Most conventional insulation materials, such as closed-cell spray foam or polyisocyanurate boards, offer R-values between 5 and 7 per inch. While effective, they struggle to meet newer energy code thresholds within the space constraints of existing buildings. Alternatives like vacuum insulated panels offer superior R-values above 25 per inch but are limited by high costs, fragility, and installation complexity. New materials with significantly higher R-values per inch would unlock high-performance insulation for space-constrained retrofits. These innovations would enable existing buildings to meet or exceed modern energy codes without compromising interior space or requiring costly structural alterations. We are in search of advanced insulation technologies with high R-value per inch and Class A fire performance, specifically engineered to optimize insulation in space-constrained areas within existing buildings.
https://www.halo.science/request_for_solutions/advanced-thermal-insulation-materials
Sponsor: US Department of Energy
Program: AlgaePrize 2025–2027 Competition
Deadline: September 12, 2025
Funding Level: Student teams compete for a total of $250,000 in prize awards
Summary: The AlgaePrize, is a U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) national competition, in partnership with the Algae Foundation and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. AlgaePrize 2025–2027, part of DOE’s American-Made Challenges, is the third competition. It spans 24 months and challenges students to develop novel solutions to algae production, processing, and new product development, which will help lower the costs of producing algal biofuels and bioproducts.
https://www.energy.gov/eere/bioenergy/algaeprize-2025-2027-competition
Sponsor: American Quarter Horse Foundation
Program: Five grant programs
Deadline: November 1, 2025
Funding Level: Varies by program
Summary: AQHF has five open grant programs:
Sponsor: Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Program: Animal and Veterinary Innovation Centers (U18)
Deadline: June 11, 2028
Funding Level: $1,250,000 (initially)
Summary: The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to solicit applications for inclusion as Animal and Veterinary Innovation Centers, which are intended to form long-term partnerships to address priority areas for FDA's Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM). This includes CVM developing cooperative agreement(s) with academic research institutions (public and private) to:
1. Drive research that supports the development of interventions to prevent, control, or eliminate Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) virus in animals, or interventions that reduce the circulation of the virus in the ecosystem. Work may also include other emerging zoonotic disease threats or One Health issues in future years.
2. Drive research that supports the development of intentional genomic alternations in animals and the advancement of regulatory science in this field, with a focus on intentional genomic alternations that support agricultural resilience, food security, animal health, or public health.
3. Drive research that supports the development of products for minor species, minor uses in major species (dogs, cats, horses, cattle, pigs, chickens, and turkeys) and other unmet veterinary medical needs in major species that create a significant animal or public health burden.
https://grants.gov/search-results-detail/355044
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-24-251.html
Please contact Andy Schade if you are interested in learning more about this opportunity.
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Program: Applied Mathematics
Deadline: November 17, 2025
Funding Level: Not specified
Summary: The Applied Mathematics program supports mathematics research motivated by and contributing to the solution of problems arising in science and engineering. Successful proposals must demonstrate mathematical innovation, as well as breadth and quality of impact on applications. Projects that additionally provide opportunities for rigorous mathematical training of junior applied mathematicians through their involvement in research are encouraged. The proposals considered by the Applied Mathematics program may range from single investigator to interdisciplinary team projects.
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/applied-mathematics
Sponsor: US Army
Program: Army Research Laboratory Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)
Deadline: Varies
Funding Level: Varies
Summary: The DEVCOM ARL Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) is a competitive solicitation procedure used to obtain proposals for basic and applied research that support ARL’s mission. Eligible entities include institutions of higher education, nonprofit organizations, state and local governments, foreign organizations, foreign public entities, and for-profit organizations (i.e. large and small businesses). The BAA is the primary mechanism for DEVCOM ARL to award assistance agreements (grants and cooperative agreements) and can be used to award contracts and other transactions (OTs). ARL’s mission is to operationalize science. The lab operationalizes science by purposefully partnering across our value system to deliver to the Army fundamentally advantageous change. Proposals are sought across many disciplines through this BAA for cutting-edge innovative research to produce discoveries that would have a significant impact on enabling new and improved Army operational capabilities and related technologies.
https://arl.devcom.army.mil/collaborate-with-us/opportunity/arl-baa/
Sponsor: National Energy Technology Laboratory
Program: BIL - Carbon Utilization Procurement Grants under Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Section 40302
Deadline: April 30, 2025
Funding Level: $5,000,000
Summary: Funding Opportunity Announcement No. DE-FOA-0002829, titled BIL-Carbon Utilization Procurement Grants Under Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Section 40302 The overall objective of the planned Funding Opportunity Announcement is to support DOE’s current vision of the Carbon Utilization Procurement Grants Program which will illustrate that several incumbent products can be replaced or supplemented with alternatives that are derived from the conversion of anthropogenic carbon oxides, demonstrating that significant net reductions in greenhouse gas emissions are possible. These grants will illustrate that more sustainable alternatives are viable and will promote the deployment of these products even after the grant ends.
Sponsor: US Department of Defense
Program: Bilateral Academic Research Initiative (BARI) Program – Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE)
Deadline: August 29, 2025
Funding Level: $1,500,000 to $6,000,000
Summary: This NFO is for the Bilateral Academic Research Initiative Pilot Program (BARI), which is jointly sponsored by the US Department of Defense (DoD), Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), and the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE) of the Republic of Korea (ROK). The BARI program addresses high risk basic research as an international collaboration. This research should attempt to provide the scientific foundation towards the design and development of future and ubiquitous information networks that rely on extreme-scale devices, distributed intelligence, and network complexity, and include cognitive and social concepts to inform the technological choices. The goal of this program is to produce significant scientific breakthroughs and knowledge that will be critical steps in enabling revolutions in communication and information technology on a large scale.
Sponsor: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Program: Grand Challenges
Deadline: Varies
Funding Level: Varies
Summary: New Grand Challenges Added. Grand Challenges is a family of initiatives fostering innovation to solve key global health and development problems. Each initiative is an experiment in the use of challenges to focus innovation on making an impact. Individual challenges address some of the same problems, but from differing perspectives.
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Program: Bioengineering Partnerships with Industry (U01 Clinical Trial Optional)
Deadline: May 28, 2025
Funding Level: Not specified
Summary: This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) solicits applications from research partnerships formed by academic and industrial investigators to drive the development and speed the adoption of promising bioengineering tools and technologies that can address important biomedical problems for which insufficient or no solutions exist. The partners on each application will establish an inter-disciplinary, multi-institutional research team to develop these tools and technologies as robust, well-characterized solutions that fulfill an unmet need. Collaboration with an industrial partner is required. The use of engineering principles is encouraged to establish integrative, quantitative, and innovative bioengineering approaches to developing technologies that are capable of enhancing our understanding of life science processes or the practice of medicine. The intended outcome is technological innovations that deliver new capabilities which can realize meaningful solutions within 5 – 10 years. Developing a technology is expected to require innovation, but novelty in and of itself is not a primary requirement.
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-24-325.html
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Program: Biological Oceanography (BioOce)
Deadline: August 15, 2025 (target date)
Funding Level: Not specified
Summary: The Biological Oceanography Program supports fundamental research in biological oceanography and marine ecology in environments ranging from estuarine, coastal, and open ocean systems to the deep sea, as well as in the Great Lakes. Proposals submitted to the Program must have a compelling context in population, community, or ecosystem ecology or oceanography, as well as address topics that will contribute significantly to the understanding of marine or Great Lakes ecosystems. The Program supports interdisciplinary research and often co-reviews and co-funds projects with various programs in the Division of Ocean Sciences and the Directorate of Biological Sciences (BIO), among others
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/biooce-biological-oceanography
Sponsor: US Department of Defense – DARPA Biological Technologies Office
Program: Biological Technologies BAA
Deadline: September 10, 2025
Funding Level: Not specified
Summary: This announcement seeks revolutionary research ideas for topics not being addressed by ongoing BTO programs or other published solicitations. BTO is interested in submissions related to the following topic areas:
Sponsor: Blue Cross and Blue Shield Louisiana Foundation
Program: Grant Program Fund
Deadline: Quarterly (March 1, June 1, September 1, and December 1)
Funding Level: Varies
Summary: The mission of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation is to promote the wellness and well-being of Louisianians by supporting health- or education-related causes. Please contact Andy Schade (aschade@agcenter.lsu.edu) if you are interested in applying to one of the BCBS Louisiana Foundation programs.
Sponsor: World Food Prize Foundation
Program: Borlaug Field Award
Deadline: June 1, 2025
Funding Level: $10,000
Summary: The $10,000 Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application, endowed by The Rockefeller Foundation, will be presented every October in Des Moines, Iowa, by the World Food Prize Foundation. This award will recognize exceptional, science-based achievement in international agriculture and food production by an individual under 40 who has clearly demonstrated intellectual courage, stamina, and determination in the fight to eliminate global hunger and poverty. The award will honor an individual who is working closely and directly “in the field” or at the production or processing level with farmers, animal herders, fishers or others in rural communities, in any discipline or enterprise across the entire food production, processing, and distribution chain.
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Program: BRAIN Initiative: Brain Behavior Quantification and Synchronization- Next Generation Sensor Technology Development (U01 Clinical Trial Optional)
Deadline: June 13, 2025
Funding Level: $1,500,00 (approx.)
Summary: This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) from the NIH Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies® (BRAIN) Initiative is intended to support the development of next generation sensor technologies and bioelectronic devices to further the goals of the Brain Behavior Quantification and Synchronization (BBQS) program of the NIH BRAIN Initiative. The BRAIN Initiative BBQS funding opportunities broadly support 1) development of tools for simultaneous, multimodal measurement of behavior within complex, dynamic physical and/or social environments and synchronize these data with simultaneously-recorded neural activity and 2) development of novel conceptual and computational models that capture dynamic behavior-environment relationships across multiple timescales and that can integrate correlated neural activity into the model.
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-MH-26-140.html
Sponsor: Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Program: Climate + Health Excellence (CHEX) Centers
Deadline: August 7, 2025
Funding Level: $10,000,000
Summary: New institutional awards of up to $10,000,000 to stimulate the development of strong research, education, and public communications connections between fields that aim to understand and mitigate the impact of climate change on human health. In general, this award will support institutions or consortia that are already moving toward establishing themselves as centers of excellence for understanding climate change’s impact on human health and for leadership in climate education OR public communication around climate and health. Applications from institutions just starting to integrate Climate + Health into their planning are expected to be uncompetitive. Up to three awards will be made over two rounds of competition.
Sponsor: Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Program: Climate Change and Human Health Seed Grants
Deadline: April 24 or July 2, 2025
Funding Level: $2,500 to $50,000
Summary: The Burroughs Wellcome Fund aims to stimulate the growth of new connections between thinkers working in largely disconnected fields who might together change the course of climate change’s impact on human health. In the three years between Fall 2023 and Summer 2026, we will dedicate $1M to supporting small, early stage grants of $2,500–$50,000 toward achieving this goal. We are mainly but not exclusively interested in activities that build connections between basic/early biomedical scientific approaches and ecological, environmental, geological, geographic, and planetary-scale thinking, as well as with population-focused fields, including epidemiology and public health, demography, economics, and urban planning. Also of interest is work piloting new approaches or interactions toward reducing the impact of health-centered activities, such as developing more sustainable systems for health care, care delivery, and biomedical research systems. Another area of interest is preparation for the impacts of extreme weather and other crises that can drive large-scale disruptions that will immediately impact human health and the delivery of health care. Public outreach, climate communication, and education efforts focused on the intersection of climate and health are also appropriate for this call. This program supports work conceived through many kinds of creative thinking. Successful applicants include academic scientists, physicians, and public health experts, community organizations, science outreach centers, non-biomedical academic departments, and more.
Sponsor: Private Company
Program: Clinical trial protocols for athletic performance evaluation
Deadline: April 30, 2025
Funding Level: $300,000
Summary: We are a leading brand in hydration solutions, focused on optimizing fluid balance and supporting physical performance and recovery. The athletic performance space continues to be a growing category for consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies, driven by increasing consumer demand for scientifically supported, performance-enhancing products. While numerous pre- and post-workout solutions exist, there remains a critical need for clinically validated innovations that effectively address key performance and recovery outcomes. To advance research in this space, we seek to develop clinical trial protocols that assess the efficacy of pre- and post-workout interventions. By establishing scientific methodologies and fostering research collaborations, we aim to generate high-quality, actionable insights that inform product development and enhance athletic performance outcomes.
https://www.halo.science/request_for_solutions/clinical-trial-protocols-for-athletic-performance
Sponsor: Union Pacific
Program: Community Ties Giving Program Annual Local Grants
Deadline: May 14, 2025
Funding Level: $5,000 to $30,000
Summary: Throughout its existence, the success of Union Pacific's business has been inextricably linked to the economic and community wellbeing of cities and towns across the nation. We take pride in the role we have played in helping communities thrive and believe the impact we can have on local communities is greatest when it is authentic to our history and reflective of the company we are today. As such, we have carefully aligned our Local Grants cause areas to our company's unique heritage, strengths, and assets. Specifically, we prioritize funding for direct services and efforts that build the capacity of organizations focused on the following causes within our local operating communities.
https://www.up.com/aboutup/community/foundation/local-grants/index.htm
Sponsor: US Poultry and Egg Association
Program: Comprehensive Research Program Competition Fall 2025
Deadline: May 1, 2025 (Required Preproposal)
Funding Level: Not specified
Summary: The USPOULTRY industry research grants program encompasses all segments of broiler, turkey, and commercial egg operations. To date over $36 million has been invested in the association's research program. One of USPOULTRY's key strategic objectives is to increase the availability and constant improvement of the quality and safety of poultry products through comprehensive research.
Sponsor: US Department of Defense
Program: Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP)
Deadline: Will be announced when funding opportunities are released
Funding Level: Varies
Summary: On March 15, 2025, the President signed into law the "Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act of 2025," which includes $650M in funding for the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs. Congress provided further direction for CDMRP program-level funding to the Secretary of Defense in Project Level Adjustment Tables to Accompany Division A, Title IV, Department of Defense, H.R. 1968, Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act. The FY25 funded programs are as follows:
https://cdmrp.health.mil/pubs/press/2025/FY25_Appropriations.aspx
Sponsor: Foundation for Food and Agricultural Research (FFAR)
Program: Contracted Work: SMART Broiler Program Evaluation
Deadline: April 30, 2025
Funding Level: $80,000 to $130,000
Summary: FFAR seeks to evaluate the success of the SMART Broiler program. The evaluator, in collaboration with FFAR, will define criteria and standards of success (i.e. metrics). It is important for the evaluator to capture project outputs, outcomes and where available, impacts (including how project outputs have influenced the agriculture value chain and/or informed policy development).
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Program: Crosscutting Activities in Materials Research (XC)
Deadline: Full proposal accepted anytime
Funding Level: Varies
Summary: Crosscutting Activities in Materials Research (XC) coordinates and supports crosscutting activities within the Division of Materials Research (DMR) and more broadly across NSF. The emphasis within XC is diversity and inclusion, international cooperation, and education (including experiential learning at REU/RET Sites). Additionally, activities that broadly engage the community, such as summer schools, institutes, workshops, and conferences that do not fit within just one or two programs in the Division of Materials Research, may be supported by XC. If preparing a workshop proposal, follow the Special Guidelines for Conference Proposals outlined in the Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG). Occasionally projects crossing several programs in DMR are shifted to XC or co-funded by XC. The goal is to bring greater visibility to these projects through DMR’s XC website. Proposals are welcome that do not fit elsewhere at NSF that are also highly relevant for the materials research and education community. Some XC activities are co-funded with other NSF units. XC does not handle traditional research proposals suitable for submission to topical or other programs in DMR. For this reason, the XC Team welcomes inquiries that include a draft of one-page NSF summary, or a shorter write-up. It is highly recommended that you contact one of the Program Directors for XC prior to submission of a full proposal exceeding $50,000. Crosscutting Activities in Materials Research (XC) replaced the Office of Special Programs in Materials Research (OSP) in 2016.
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/xc-crosscutting-activities-materials-research
Sponsor: NASA
Program: D.17 XRISM General Observer Cycle 2
Deadline: May 15, 2025
Funding Level: Total of $3,250,000 available
Summary: This program element solicits proposals for participation in the NASA program for the conduct of space science observations using the X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) and for related supporting atomic physics investigations. The XRISM mission is led by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science of the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (ISAS/JAXA), with significant contributions from NASA and ESA. The primary goal of the XRISM mission is to investigate the nature of astrophysical objects as revealed through detailed observations of their high-energy emission. A broad range of astrophysical sources will be studied, including stars, X-ray binaries, diffuse galactic emission, active galactic nuclei, supernova remnants, and clusters of galaxies.
Sponsor: US Department of Energy – Office of Science
Program: Early Career Research Program
Deadline: April 22, 2025
Funding Level: $2,750,000
Summary: Science for energy, economic and national security―building a foundation of scientific and technical knowledge to spur discoveries and innovations for advancing the Department’s mission. SC supports a wide range of funding modalities from single principal investigators to large team-based activities to engage in fundamental research on energy production, conversion, storage, transmission, and use, and on our understanding of the earth systems. The frontiers of science—exploring nature’s mysteries from the study of fundamental subatomic particles, atoms, and molecules that are the building blocks of the materials of our universe and everything in it to the DNA, proteins, and cells that are the building blocks of life. Each of the programs in SC supports research probing the most fundamental disciplinary questions. The 21st Century tools of science—providing the nation’s researchers with 28 state-of-the-art national scientific user facilities, the most advanced tools of modern science, propelling the U.S. to the forefront of science, technology development, and deployment through innovation. SC is an established leader of the U.S. scientific discovery and innovation enterprise. Over the decades, SC investments and accomplishments in basic research and enabling research capabilities have provided the foundations for new technologies, businesses, and industries, making significant contributions to our nation’s economy, national security, and quality of life.
Sponsor: Centers for Disease Control
Program: Drug-Free Communities (DFC) Support Program - NEW (Year 1)
Deadline: May 5, 2025
Funding Level: $125,000
Summary: The Drug-Free Communities (DFC) Support Program was created by the Drug-Free Communities Act of 1997 (Public Law 105-20). The Executive Office of the President, Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) are accepting applications for Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 Drug-Free Communities (DFC) Support Program grants. The purpose of the DFC Support Program is to establish and strengthen collaboration to support the efforts of community coalitions working to prevent youth substance use. By statute, the DFC Support Program has two goals:1) Establish and strengthen collaboration among communities, public and private non-profit agencies, as well as federal, state, local, and tribal governments to support the efforts of community coalitions working to prevent and reduce substance abuse among youth (individuals 18 years of age and younger).2) Reduce substance abuse among youth and, over time, reduce substance abuse among adults by addressing the factors in a community that increase the risk of substance abuse and promoting the factors that minimize the risk of substance abuse.
Sponsor: Leprino Foods
Program: Elevating lactose and derivatives through innovative processes and applications
Deadline: May 31, 2025
Funding Level: $100,000
Summary: We are in search of transformative technologies that can elevate the value of lactose (including lactose, whey permeate, and de-lactose permeate/mother liquor) beyond its current commodity status. This could include processes that convert lactose into high-demand compounds, the development of high-value products incorporating lactose or its derivatives, and the creation of novel derivatives with scalable production methods and strong market potential. We are also exploring opportunities where lactose or its derivatives can serve as viable replacements for existing high-demand ingredients or compounds, as well as new market applications that expand the commercial potential of lactose-based solutions. By pushing the boundaries of what is possible, we aim to revolutionize the use of lactose and/or its derivatives, creating innovative solutions that meet the evolving needs of various industries.
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Program: Engineering of Biomedical Systems
Deadline: Full proposal accepted anytime
Funding Level: Varies
Summary: The goal of the Engineering of Biomedical Systems (EBMS) program is to provide opportunities for fundamental and transformative research projects that integrate engineering and life sciences to solve biomedical problems and serve humanity in the long term. Projects are expected to use an engineering framework (for example, design or modeling) that supports increased understanding of physiological or pathophysiological processes. Projects must include objectives that advance both engineering and biomedical sciences. Projects may include: methods, models, and enabling tools applied to understand or control living systems; fundamental improvements in deriving information from cells, tissues, organs, and organ systems; or new approaches to the design of systems that include both living and non-living components for eventual medical use in the long term.
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/engineering-biomedical-systems
Sponsor: Entomological Society of America
Program: ESA Founders' Memorial Award
Deadline: April 17, 2025
Funding Level: $1,000
Summary: The Founders’ Memorial Award honors two people at once, giving an entomologist with outstanding credentials the opportunity to present a keynote lecture at the ESA Annual Meeting to showcase the posthumous legacy of a scientist whose work made a significant impact in entomology. The presenter of the memorial lecture must be a current ESA member and have a record of accomplishment in entomology. The scientist who is honored in memoriam must have made major contributions that have had a significant impact on entomology.
Sponsor: US Fish and Wildlife Service
Program: F25AS00165 Partners for Fish and Wildlife FY25
Deadline: September 30, 2025
Funding Level: $750,000
Summary: Note Eligibility – Public and State controlled institutions of higher education are eligible applicants but PFW projects must be on private lands. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) Partners for Fish and Wildlife (PFW) Program helps private landowners restore and protect habitats for fish and wildlife. It offers both technical assistance and financial support, mainly through cooperative agreements. The PFW Program has over 250 staff working in all 50 states and territories. They work together with project partners and stakeholders in key areas for conservation and set habitat goals. These focus areas guide the program on where to direct resources for conserving important habitats for federal trust species. The Program also has strategic plans that help determine which projects receive funding. Since it began in 1987, the PFW Program has successfully assisted many landowners. When choosing projects, the Program aims to support specific priorities set by the Administration and Secretary of the Interior. All projects will promote the goals of the Program, the Department of the Interior, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. These goals focus on increasing biological diversity and are based on sound scientific principles.
Sponsor: US Fish and Wildlife Service
Program: F25AS00188 Coastal Program FY25
Deadline: September 30, 2025
Funding Level: $500,000
Summary: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) Coastal Program is a community-based program that helps coastal areas with technical and financial support to address complex conservation challenges of priority coastal ecosystems. This support is mainly provided through cooperative agreements with conservation partners and landowners, including state and Tribal agencies. The goal is to restore and protect fish and wildlife habitats on both public and private lands. Coastal Program staff work with partners, stakeholders, and other Service programs in important areas for conservation. They set goals and priorities for habitat conservation in these focus areas. The program has specific lists of priority species and focus areas for each U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service region. Applicants seeking technical or financial assistance from the Coastal Program are required to contact a local Program office BEFORE developing or submitting an application. You can find this information in the current strategic plan at this link or by contacting your local Coastal Program office at this link. Projects are developed collaboratively by partners and Service field staff. All Coastal Program projects must align with the missions of the U.S. Department of the Interior, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Coastal Program. They are also based on sound biological principles and the best available science.
Sponsor: US Fish and Wildlife Service
Program: F26AS00004 - NAWCA 2026-1 US Standard Grants
Deadline: July 10, 2025
Funding Level: $3,000,000
Summary: The U.S. Standard Grants Program is a competitive, matching grant program that supports public-private partnerships carrying out projects in the United States that further the goals of the North American Wetlands Conservation Act. The program promotes partnerships projects that must involve a) only long-term protection, restoration, enhancement and/or establishment of wetland and associated upland habitats to benefit diversity of wetland ecosystems and b) maintaining an abundance of waterfowl (ducks, geese, and swans) and other populations of wetlands-associated migratory birds consistent with the objectives of the North American Waterfowl Management Plan, U.S. Shorebird Conservation Plan, Waterbird Conservation Plan for the Americas, and Partners in Flight Bird Conservation Plan. The program requires a 1:1 non-federal match and research funding is ineligible. This program supports the Department of Interior and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service mission of protecting and managing the nation's natural resources by collaborating with partners and stakeholders to conserve land and water and to expand outdoor recreation and access.
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Program: Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER)
Deadline: July 23, 2025
Funding Level: Minimum of $400,000 over five years
Summary: CAREER: The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization. Activities pursued by early-career faculty should build a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research. NSF encourages submission of CAREER proposals from early-career faculty at all CAREER-eligible organizations and especially encourages women, members of underrepresented minority groups, and persons with disabilities to apply.
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Program: Fire Science Innovations through Research and Education (FIRE)
Deadline: June 20, 2025
Funding Level: Not specified
Summary: Wildland fire is a powerful force on the planet, one that is rapidly accelerating in complexity beyond our current understanding. A new approach is needed. This approach requires a proactive and scalable perspective that recognizes the variety and connectedness of components of wildland fire. Coordinated scientific research and education that enables large-scale, cross-cutting breakthroughs to transform our understanding of wildland fire is urgently needed. In an era of rapid change, our society needs forward-looking research built on new frameworks that will realign our relationship with wildland fire.
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/fire-fire-science-innovations-through-research-education
Sponsor: US Department of Defense
Program: Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 Department of Defense (DoD) Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP)
Deadline: April 25, 2025
Funding Level: $50,000 to $3,000,000
Summary: This announcement seeks proposals from universities to purchase equipment and instrumentation in support of research in areas of interest to the DoD. DoD interests include the areas of research supported by the Army Research Office (ARO), the Office of Naval Research (ONR), and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), hereafter generally referred to collectively as “we,” “our,” “us,” or “administering agency.” We use “administering agency” to provide a generic reference to any of the administering agencies. A central purpose of the DURIP is to provide equipment and instrumentation to enhance research related education in areas of interest and priority to the DoD. Therefore, your proposal must address the impact of the equipment or instrumentation on your institution’s ability to educate students through research in disciplines important to DoD missions.
Office of Naval Research NOFO: https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358449
Air Force Office of Science Research NOFO: https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358447
Dept of the Army -- Materiel Command NOFO: https://grants.gov/search-results-detail/358448
Sponsor: US Department of Defense – Office of Naval Research
Program: Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 Department of Defense Multidisciplinary Research Program of the University Research Initiative (MURI)
Deadline: May 2, 2025 (White paper due)
Funding Level: $1,500,000 (approx.)
Summary: DoD's MURI program addresses high-risk basic research and attempts to understand or achieve something that has never been done before. The program was initiated 40 years ago and it has regularly produced significant scientific breakthroughs with far reaching consequences to the fields of science, economic growth, and revolutionary new military technologies. Key to the program’s success is the close management of the MURI projects by Service Program Officers and their active role in providing research guidance.
Sponsor: National Peanut Board
Program: Food Allergy Grant Program
Deadline: May 9, 2025
Funding Level: $550,000
Summary: NPB prioritizes supporting groundbreaking research that drives significant impact in four key areas of food allergy with an emphasis on peanut: prevention, diagnosis, treatment and management. Health equity is a primary lens through which projects will be evaluated, and early-career researchers are encouraged to apply.
Sponsor: Fulbright Scholar Program
Program: Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program
Deadline: Varies
Funding Level: Varies
Summary: The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program offers over 400 awards in more than 135 countries for U.S. citizens to teach, conduct research and carry out professional projects around the world. College and university faculty, as well as artists and professionals from a wide range of fields can join over 400,000 Fulbrighters who have come away with enhanced skills, new connections, and greater mutual understanding.
Sponsor: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Program: FY 2024 – 2026 Broad Agency Announcement (BAA), Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR)
Deadline: September 30, 2026
Funding Level: Varies
Summary: This notice is not a mechanism to fund existing NOAA awards. The purpose of this notice is to request applications for special projects and programs associated with NOAA's strategic plan and mission goals, as well as to provide the general public with information and guidelines on how NOAA will select applications and administer discretionary Federal assistance under this Broad Agency Announcement (BAA). Each NOAA Line Office that supports financial assistance (National Marine Fisheries Service, National Ocean Service, National Weather Service, Office of Atmospheric Research, Office of Education, and National Environmental Satellite Data Information Service) has a separate BAA found in Grants.gov, so applicants should submit their application to the BAA for the Line Office that best fits their application. A description of NOAA Line Offices is found at https://www.corporateservices.noaa.gov/public/lineoffices.html
and https://www.noaa.gov/office-education and applicants may contact the Agency Contacts in Section VII. below for more information. If you submit the same application to more than one Line Office, mention this in your application and notify the relevant contacts in Section VII. so that NOAA may coordinate internally.
Sponsor: US Department of Energy – Office of Science
Program: FY 2025 Continuation of Solicitation for the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program
Deadline: September 30, 2025
Funding Level: $5,000,000
Summary: The SC mission is to deliver scientific discoveries and major scientific tools to transform our understanding of nature and advance the energy, economic and national security of the United States. SC is the Nation’s largest Federal sponsor of basic research in the physical sciences and the lead Federal agency supporting fundamental scientific research for our Nation’s energy future. SC accomplishes its mission and advances national goals by supporting:
Sponsor: US Department of Energy
Program: FY 2025 Continuation of Solicitation for the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program
Deadline: September 30, 2025
Funding Level: $5,000 to $5,000,000
Summary: The Office of Science (SC) of the Department of Energy (DOE) hereby announces its continuing interest in receiving applications for support of work in the following program areas: Advanced Scientific Computing Research, Basic Energy Sciences, Biological and Environmental Research, Fusion Energy Sciences, High Energy Physics, Nuclear Physics, Isotope R&D and Production, and Accelerator R&D and Production. On September 3, 1992, DOE published in the Federal Register the Office of Energy Research Financial Assistance Program (now called the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program), 10 CFR 605, as a Final Rule, which contained a solicitation for this program. Information about submission of applications, eligibility, limitations, evaluation and selection processes and other policies and procedures are specified in 10 CFR 605.
https://science.osti.gov/bes/-/media/grants/pdf/foas/2024/DE-FOA-0003432-000002.pdf
Sponsor: US Department of Energy
Program: FY 2025 Continuation of Solicitation for the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program
Deadline: Varies by program; pre-application recommended. NOFO expires September 30, 2025
Funding Level: Varies; historically awards from $5,000 to $5,000,000 have been made
Summary: The Office of Science (SC) of the Department of Energy (DOE) hereby announces its continuing interest in receiving applications for support of work in the following program areas: Advanced Scientific Computing Research, Basic Energy Sciences, Biological and Environmental Research, Fusion Energy Sciences, High Energy Physics, Nuclear Physics, Isotope R&D and Production, and Accelerator R&D and Production.
https://science.osti.gov/grants/FOAs/-/media/grants/pdf/foas/2024/DE-FOA-0003432-000002.pdf
Sponsor: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Program: FY2025 Sea Grant Contaminants of Emerging Concern
Deadline: May 23, 2025
Funding Level: $1,400,000
Summary: The following entities are eligible to submit to this opportunity: Sea Grant College Programs, Sea Grant Institutional Programs and Sea Grant Coherent Area Programs. The National Sea Grant College Program was enacted by the U.S. Congress in 1966 (amended in 2020, Public Law 116-221) to support leveraged federal and state partnerships that harness the intellectual capacity of the nation’s universities and research institutions to solve problems and generate opportunities in coastal communities. NOAA’s National Sea Grant Office (NSGO) anticipates between $400,000 and $1,400,000 will be available for one (1) award to support future competed research that addresses Contaminants of Emerging Concern (CECs) across a shared geography, biogeography or watershed. Each application should be scalable up to $1,400,000 in federal funds per project and may be for up to three years. Applications require the standard 50% non-federal match for Sea Grant projects. This will be a stand-alone (i.e., non-omnibus) award. It is the NSGO’s intent (pending appropriations) that, based on satisfactory award performance, and continued relevance to program objectives, the selected Sea Grant program will be eligible to receive additional funding to address priority gaps and emerging challenges related to Contaminants of Emerging Concern if additional future funding becomes available. Applicants are encouraged to develop a future competition to fund projects that research and monitor CECs, including PFAS, that may cause ecological or human health impacts in coastal and estuarine waters. If the region has received funding from past Sea Grant CEC competitions, applicants are encouraged to demonstrate how this proposal will build off of those prior collaborative efforts and previously selected CEC projects.
Sponsor: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Program: FY2025 Young Fishermen’s Career Development Projects
Deadline: April 23, 2025
Funding Level: $400,000
Summary: In response to the Young Fishermen’s Development Act (P.L. 116-289), strategic planning listening sessions, and stakeholder needs, Sea Grant will support projects that provide career development opportunities in commercial fisheries. The objective is to increase the number of skilled individuals that are able and encouraged to enter these professions, addressing the current recruitment and retirement challenges these groups face. Sea Grant is supporting grants to develop pilot projects conducting Young Fishermen’s Career Development programs that support the development of sea careers in support of the Young Fishermen's Development Act (YFDA) that may provide training, education, outreach, and technical assistance to the U.S. seafood sector. Proposals responsive to this opportunity will carry out pilot projects to enhance job opportunities for the next generation of commercial fishermen who are vital to supplying high quality seafood to consumers. Specifically, projects should target those who (a) desire to participate in the commercial fisheries of the United States, including the Great Lakes fisheries; (B) have worked as captains, crew members, or deckhands on a commercial fishing vessel for not more than 10 years of cumulative service; or (C) are beginning commercial fisherman. The proposal should focus on executing targeted and innovative training opportunities; growing the economies of coastal and Great Lakes communities; and preserving local culture and heritage foodways. Proposed work must broaden the participation of underrepresented groups in fisheries and related industries and aim to build a more inclusive, sustainable, and resilient industry.
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
Program: Global Infectious Disease Research Training Program (D43 Clinical Trial Optional)
Deadline: August 6, 2025
Funding Level: $1,150,000
Summary: This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) encourages joint applications for the Global Infectious Disease (GID) Research Training programs from low- and middle-income country (LMIC) and U.S. institutions. The application should propose a collaborative training program that will strengthen the capacity of a LMIC institution to conduct infectious disease research (not including HIV/AIDS). FIC will support research training programs that focus on 1) major endemic or life-threatening emerging infectious diseases, 2) neglected tropical diseases, 3) infections that frequently occur as co-infections in HIV infected individuals or 4) infections or microbiomes associated with non-communicable disease conditions of public health importance in LMICs. Advanced scientific training related to prevention, treatment or public health approaches to any technical area of basic, epidemiological, clinical, behavioral or social science health research may be supported. Research training programs should incorporate didactic, mentored research and professional development skills components to prepare individuals for sustainable careers that will have significant impact on the priority health research needs of LMICs.
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-24-174.html
Sponsor: Louisiana Space Grant Consortium
Program: Graduate Interjurisdictional Research Award Fellowship (GIRAF)
Deadline: April 18, 2025
Funding Level: $10,000
Summary: The joint Louisiana Space Grant and Sea Grant Graduate Interjurisdictional Research Award Fellowship (GIRAF) Program invites interdisciplinary proposals from across the state. The fellowship requires the use of data from vast archives and remote-sensing capabilities available through the National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to address a high-priority research need within Louisiana’s nearshore environs, coastal areas, wetlands, watersheds, and/or human activities in these areas (e.g. aquaculture). Successful proposals must adeptly utilize relevant measurement instruments and/or remote-sensing data sources from NASA, NOAA, and/or other sources that can include, but are not limited to, radiometers, spectroradiometers, satellite sensors, LIDAR, aerial imagery, and other data collected from airplanes, unmanned aerial vehicles, and/or unpiloted submersibles in the execution of the proposed work.
Sponsor: Hearst Foundations
Program: Grant Programs
Deadline: No deadline
Funding Level: $100,000 minimum
Summary: Four funding priorities:
Culture - The Hearst Foundations fund cultural institutions that offer meaningful programs in the arts and sciences, prioritizing those that enable engagement by young people and create a lasting and measurable impact. The Foundations also fund select programs nurturing and developing artistic talent. Supported organizations include arts schools, ballets, museums, operas, performing arts centers, symphonies and theaters.
Education - The Hearst Foundations fund educational institutions demonstrating uncommon success in preparing students to thrive in a global society. The Foundations’ focus is largely on higher education, but they also fund innovative models of early childhood and K-12 education, as well as professional development.
Health - The Hearst Foundations assist leading regional hospitals, medical centers and specialized medical institutions providing access to healthcare for high-need populations. In response to the shortage of healthcare professionals necessary to meet the country’s evolving healthcare demands, the Foundations also fund programs designed to enhance skills and increase the number of practitioners and educators across roles in healthcare. The Foundations also support public health, medical research and the development of young investigators to help create a broad and enduring impact on the nation’s health.
Social Service - The Hearst Foundations fund direct-service organizations that tackle the roots of chronic poverty by applying effective solutions to the most challenging social and economic problems. The Foundations prioritize supporting programs that have proven successful in facilitating economic independence and in strengthening families. Preference is also given to programs with the potential to scale productive practices in order to reach more people in need.
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Program: High-End Instrumentation (HEI) Grant Program (S10 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Deadline: June 2, 2025
Funding Level: $2,000,000
Summary: The High-End Instrumentation (HEI) Grant Program encourages applications from groups of NIH-supported investigators to purchase or upgrade a single item of high-end, specialized, commercially available instruments or integrated systems. The minimum award is $750,001. There is no maximum price limit for the instrument; however, the maximum award is $2,000,000. Instruments supported include, but are not limited to, nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometers, X-ray diffractometers, mass spectrometers, high throughput robotic screening systems, DNA and protein sequencers, biosensors, electron and light microscopes, flow cytometers, and biomedical imagers.
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-24-264.html
Sponsor: Horticultural Research Institute
Program: Strategic Grantmaking
Deadline: May 31, 2025
Funding Level: $10,000 to $35,000
Summary: Through strategic grantmaking, Horticultural Research Institute invests in a broad range of highly effective research projects. We invite researchers to explore the competitive grant opportunities made possible by our generous donors. Horticultural Research Institute only funds research that specifically deals with green industry-related issues. HRI-supported projects focus on significant problems, regulatory issues, and emerging opportunities in the nursery, greenhouse, retail, and landscape industry. HRI research focuses on the propagation, production, distribution, marketing, and sale of plant material.
https://www.hriresearch.org/research-application-and-requirements
Sponsor: USDA – Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)
Program: HPAI Poultry Innovation Grand Challenge
Deadline: May 19, 2025
Funding Level: $100,000,000 available for three priorities
Summary: This funding opportunity supports USDA’s new comprehensive strategy to curb highly pathogenic avian influenza, protect the U.S. poultry industry, and lower egg prices as described in the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture’s February 26, 2025, press release, USDA Invests Up To $1 Billion to Combat Avian Flu and Reduce Egg Prices. Funding Priorities: APHIS will make available up to $100,000,000 in funds to support projects that address the funding priorities described in Appendix 1 of the Full Announcement. There is no commitment by USDA to fund any application or to make any Federal award as a result of this announcement. Type of Assistance Instrument: Awards will be funded via cooperative agreements; interagency agreements will be used if the recipient is a federal agency. Cooperative agreements may include substantial involvement by APHIS to assist in the completion of the goals and objectives of the work. Competitive Process: Funds will be awarded to the highest quality proposals through a merit-based competitive review and award process. The proposal review process is described in Section 6. The number of awards is contingent on the submission of a sufficient number of meritorious applications. Final funding decisions are at the discretion of USDA. Based on reviewer recommendations, APHIS may award less than the requested amount of funds for a project. In these cases, applicants may accept or decline the award that is offered. If applicants accept a reduced funding level, applicants will submit a revised application that addresses reviewer concerns and aligns with the award amount. APHIS will provide additional guidance to applicants in these situations.
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358574
https://www.aphis.usda.gov/funding/hpai-poultry-innovation-grand-challenge
Sponsor: Private Company
Program: Improving the viability of live probiotics
Deadline: May 31, 2025
Funding Level: $100,000
Summary: We are looking for technology solutions that would maintain the viability of live probiotic strains (e.g., Lactobacillus acidophilus, Lactobacillus rhamnosus, Lactobacillus plantarum, Bifidobacterium animalis, Bifidobacterium breve, Bifidobacterium longum, etc.) in conventional gelatin and pectin gummy matrices. Ideally, these solutions should be compatible with existing gummy manufacturing conditions (> 80°C, water activity (aw) ~0.6-0.7) and have minimal impact on the sensory profile of the product (i.e., changes in texture or taste).
https://www.halo.science/request_for_solutions/improving-live-probiotic-stability-for-gummy-vitamins
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Program: Infrastructure Systems and People (ISP)
Deadline: Proposals Accepted Anytime
Funding Level: Not specified
Summary: Infrastructure systems comprise complex connections between physical components, organizational structures and operational methods that support the needs of people and communities at the local, regional, national, and global scales. Such systems form the backbone of society, providing essential services as well as ensuring public health and welfare, economic prosperity and national security, and are expected to function under all operational conditions. Supports fundamental research on the design, optimization, sustainability and resilience of infrastructure systems during normal operation and extreme events, such as natural hazards, to serve community needs.
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/isp-infrastructure-systems-people
Sponsor: John Templeton Foundation
Program: Grants Program
Deadline: August 15, 2025 (Required OFI; full proposal due January 16, 2026)
Funding Level: Varies
Summary: The Foundation offers grants in support of research and public engagement in our major Funding Areas. We invest in bold ideas from contrarian thinkers — ideas that cross disciplinary boundaries and challenge conventional assumptions. And we fund innovative programs that engage the public with these ideas, in an effort to open minds, deepen understanding, and inspire curiosity.
The Life Sciences funding area supports research and engagement projects on the fundamental structures of the biological world, from the origin of life to synthetic biology across all the biological kingdoms. We support experimental and theoretical work on the biological mechanisms that produce life in its diverse forms. In 2025, we are prioritizing project ideas in the following topic areas:
Science of Purpose
We support research that advances the scientific understanding of fundamental characteristics of living systems, such as directionality, agency, memory, and adaptive navigation through complex problem spaces.
Other areas of interest
We support theoretical, empirical, and applied research on a range of topics. We will consider funding inquiries that address foundational questions in areas such as complexity, emergence, and the origins of life. Our programs also include genetics research and applications in areas such as epigenetic inheritance, plant resilience, and ecological health.
Sponsor: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Program: Joint Hydrographic Center 2025
Deadline: May 27, 2025
Funding Level: $47,500,000
Summary: The purpose of this notice is to solicit proposals for a single cooperative agreement between NOAA and an institution of higher learning to operate and maintain a Joint Hydrographic Center as authorized in the Ocean and Coastal Mapping Integration Act and the Hydrographic Services Improvement Act. Additional supportive policy statements for the guidance of activities at these centers include the November 2019 Presidential Memorandum on ocean mapping, which calls for mapping, exploring, and characterizing the U.S. EEZ to improve our Nation’s understanding of our vast ocean resources and to advance the economic, security, and environmental interests of the United States. Proposals submitted in response to this announcement should advance the purposes of the Acts and the Presidential Memorandum by addressing the Program Priorities described in this announcement.
Sponsor: Keep Louisiana Beautiful
Program: Three grant programs
Deadline: June 20, 2025
Funding Level: $10,000
Summary: Keep Louisiana Beautiful has three open grant programs:
Sponsor: US DHHS – Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Program: Laboratory Flexible Funding Model (LFFM)
Deadline: January 11, 2028
Funding Level: $1,500,000
Summary: This cooperative agreement is intended to enhance the capacity and capabilities of state human and animal food testing laboratories in support of an integrated food safety system (IFSS). This is achieved through prioritized sample testing and food defense preparedness in the areas of microbiology, chemistry, and radiochemistry, as well as method development and capacity/capability development projects that support and expand food safety and food defense testing.
Sponsor: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
Program: Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley Restoration Fund
Deadline: April 24, 2025
Funding Level: $150,000 to $1,000,000
Summary: The Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley Restoration Fund (Fund) seeks to award grants to:
Funding is provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), International Paper’s Forestland Stewards Partnership, the Walton Family Foundation and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Program: Molecular Mechanisms of Combination Adjuvants (MMCA) (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Deadline: June 10, 2025
Funding Level: $2,500,000 (approx.)
Summary: The purpose of this notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) is to support research studies of two or more vaccine adjuvants (combination adjuvants) in order to understand the mechanisms by which they work in concert. All adjuvants considered must have previously demonstrated immune modulating activity. The long-term goal of this research program is to improve the rational design of vaccines by predicting the immune profile elicited by combination adjuvants.
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-AI-25-006.html
Sponsor: General Mills
Program: Monitoring popcorn kernel moisture content
Deadline: May 31, 2025
Funding Level: Not specified
Summary: We are looking for innovative solutions that enable accurate, in-silo assessment of popcorn kernel moisture content to determine the optimal timing for dispatch to manufacturing. While the primary focus is on real-time internal moisture monitoring, we also welcome technologies that support moisture control during storage, long-term quality preservation, mitigation of pest-related degradation, and improved tools for identifying optimal harvest windows, particularly if they offer greater precision than current agronomic practices.
https://www.halo.science/request_for_solutions/monitoring-popcorn-kernel-moisture-content
Sponsor: North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, & Nutrition
Program: NASPGHAN Foundation Grants
Deadline: July 1, 2025
Funding Level: Varies by program.
Summary: NASPGHAN has several grant programs open including:
Sponsor: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF)
Program: National Coastal Resilience Fund 2025
Deadline: May 6, 2025 (Pre-Proposal due; Invited full proposal due July 17, 2025)
Funding Level: $1,000,000 to $10,000,000
Summary: The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) is pleased to announce the 2025 National Coastal Resilience Fund (NCRF) Request for Proposals (RFP)1. NFWF will make investments in planning, design, and implementation of nature-based solutions to enhance protection for coastal communities from the impacts of storms, floods, and other natural hazards while improving habitats for fish and wildlife. NCRF is a national program focused on reducing risks to coastal communities. Projects must be located within the coastal areas of U.S. coastal states, including the Great Lakes states, and U.S. territories and Tribal lands. Habitats such as coastal marshes and forests, floodplains, rivers and lakes, dune and beach systems, and oyster and coral reefs can provide communities with enhanced protection and buffering from the growing impacts of natural coastal hazards, including rising sea- and lake- levels, changing flood patterns, increased frequency and intensity of storms, and other environmental stressors.
Sponsor: Private Company
Program: Non-destructive detection of membrane weld integrity
Deadline: May 31, 2025
Funding Level: $100,000
Summary: TPO membranes are joined using heat welding methods that fuse overlapping sheets into a continuous, watertight barrier. The quality of these welds is essential: a well-executed weld ensures structural integrity and resistance to environmental stress, while a poor weld can compromise the system, leading to leaks, membrane failure, and costly repairs. A good weld is characterized by a continuous and even bond, proper fusion of the membrane sheets, sufficient strength to pass a peel test, and a uniform appearance without wrinkles, voids, or signs of overheating or underheating. Proper seam alignment and welding pressure are also key to achieving a durable result. In contrast, a bad weld shows signs of inconsistent bonding, weak or incomplete fusion, visual defects such as bubbles or wrinkles, and symptoms of overheating, underheating, misalignment, or incorrect pressure, any of which can reduce the longevity and reliability of the roof. Detecting poor welds early—ideally during or immediately after the welding process—is crucial to maintaining product quality and performance in the field. We are looking for solutions capable of evaluating TPO weld quality in the seams of multiple TPO membrane thicknesses (including 45, 60, and 80 mil) using non-destructive methods. The ultimate goal is to implement a reliable and practical tool that can accurately identify weld defects (hot/cold welds) in real-time, support quality assurance protocols, and help ensure consistent installation standards and long-term membrane performance.
https://www.halo.science/request_for_solutions/non-destructive-detection-of-membrane-weld-integrity
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Program: NSF 20-576: Plant Biotic Interactions
Deadline: Proposals accepted anytime
Funding Level: $50,000 to $300,000 per year for 2 to 4 years
Summary: The Plant Biotic Interactions (PBI) program supports research on the processes that mediate beneficial and antagonistic interactions between plants and their viral, bacterial, oomycete, fungal, plant, and invertebrate symbionts, pathogens and pests. This joint NSF/NIFA program supports projects focused on current and emerging model and non-model systems, and agriculturally relevant plants. The program’s scope extends from fundamental mechanisms to translational efforts, with the latter seeking to put into agricultural practice insights gained from basic research on the mechanisms that govern plant biotic interactions. Projects must be strongly justified in terms of fundamental biological processes and/or relevance to agriculture and may be purely fundamental or applied or include aspects of both perspectives. All types of symbiosis are appropriate, including commensalism, mutualism, parasitism, and host-pathogen interactions. Research may focus on the biology of the plant host, its pathogens, pests or symbionts, interactions among these, or on the function of plant-associated microbiomes. The program welcomes proposals on the dynamics of initiation, transmission, maintenance and outcome of these complex associations, including studies of metabolic interactions, immune recognition and signaling, host-symbiont regulation, reciprocal responses among interacting species and mechanisms associated with self/non-self recognition such as those in pollen-pistil interactions. Explanatory frameworks should include molecular, genomic, metabolic, cellular, network and organismal processes, with projects guided by hypothesis and/or discovery driven experimental approaches. Strictly ecological projects that do not address underlying mechanisms are not appropriate for this program. Quantitative modeling in concert with experimental work is encouraged. Overall, the program seeks to support research that will deepen our understanding of the fundamental processes that mediate interactions between plants and the organisms with which they intimately associate and advance the application of that knowledge to benefit agriculture.
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/plant-biotic-interactions/nsf20-576/solicitation
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Program: NSF 21-508: Transitions to Excellence in Molecular and Cellular Biosciences Research (Transitions)
Deadline: Proposals accepted anytime
Funding Level: $750,000
Summary: The Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences (MCB) has developed a new opportunity to enable researchers with a strong track record of prior accomplishment to pursue a new avenue of research or inquiry. This funding mechanism is designed to facilitate and promote a PI’s ability to effectively adopt empowering technologies that might not be readily accessible in the PI’s current research environment or collaboration network. Transformative research likely spans disciplines and minimizing the practical barriers to doing so will strengthen research programs poised to make significant contributions. The award is intended to allow mid-career or later-stage researchers (Associate or Full Professor, or equivalent) to expand or make a transition in their research programs via a sabbatical leave or similar mechanism of professional development and then develop that research program in their own lab. This award will also enable the PI to acquire new scientific or technical expertise, facilitate the investigator’s competitiveness, and potentially lead to transformational impacts in molecular and cellular bioscience.
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Program: NSF 21-541: Conferences and Workshops in the Mathematical Sciences
Deadline: Proposals accepted anytime
Funding Level: $5,000 to $50,000
Summary: Conferences, workshops, and related events (including seasonal schools and international travel by groups) support research and training activities of the mathematical sciences community. Proposals for conferences, workshops, or conference-like activities may request funding of any amount and for durations of up to three years. Proposals under this solicitation must select "Conference" as the proposal type, and they must be submitted to the appropriate DMS programs in accordance with the lead-time requirements, submission windows, or deadlines specified on the program web page. See the DMS Programs page and click on the appropriate program for program-specific information.
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Program: NSF 21-544: Long Term Research in Environmental Biology (LTREB)
Deadline: Proposals accepted anytime
Funding Level: $600,000 maximum
Summary: The Long Term Research in Environmental Biology (LTREB) Program supports the generation of extended time series of data to address important questions in evolutionary biology, ecology, and ecosystem science. Research areas include, but are not limited to, the effects of natural selection or other evolutionary processes on populations, communities, or ecosystems; the effects of interspecific interactions that vary over time and space; population or community dynamics for organisms that have extended life spans and long turnover times; feedbacks between ecological and evolutionary processes; pools of materials such as nutrients in soils that turn over at intermediate to longer time scales; and external forcing functions such as climatic cycles that operate over long return intervals.
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Program: NSF 21-552: Innovation Corps - National Innovation Network Teams Program (I-CorpsTM Teams)
Deadline: Proposals accepted anytime
Funding Level: $50,000
Summary: The National Science Foundation (NSF) seeks to further develop and nurture a national innovation ecosystem that guides the output of scientific discoveries closer to the development of technologies, products, and services that benefit society. The goals of the NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps) Program, created in 2011 by NSF, are to spur translation of fundamental research to the marketplace, to encourage collaboration between academia and industry, and to train NSF-funded faculty, students and other researchers in innovation and entrepreneurship skills.
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/innovation-corps-teams-program/nsf21-552/solicitation
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Program: NSF 21-621: Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program - Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Awards (HEGS-DDRI)
Deadline: Proposals accepted anytime
Funding Level: $20,000
Summary: The objective of the Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program is to support basic scientific research about the nature, causes and/or consequences of the spatial distribution of human activity and/or environmental processes across a range of scales. Contemporary geographical research is an arena in which diverse research traditions and methodologies are valid. Recognizing the breadth of the field's contributions to science, the HEGS Program welcomes proposals for empirically grounded, theoretically engaged, and methodologically sophisticated, generalizable research in all sub-fields of geographical and spatial sciences.
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Program: NSF 22-577: Earth Sciences Instrumentation and Facilities (EAR/IF)
Deadline: Proposals accepted anytime
Funding Level: Varies by proposal type
Summary: The NSF Division of Earth Sciences (EAR) hereby solicits proposals for research infrastructure that is necessary to advance understanding of the Earth System including: the structure, properties and dynamics of the solid Earth and the interactions between the solid Earth and its biosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere and atmosphere; the history and evolution of life; and the history and dynamics of Earth’s climate.
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Program: NSF 22-586: Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER)
Deadline: July 23, 2025
Funding Level: $400,000 (minimum)
Summary: CAREER: The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization. Activities pursued by early-career faculty should build a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research. NSF encourages submission of CAREER proposals from early-career faculty at all CAREER-eligible organizations and especially encourages women, members of underrepresented minority groups, and persons with disabilities to apply.
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Program: NSF 22-591: Opportunities for Promoting Understanding through Synthesis (OPUS)
Deadline: Proposals accepted anytime
Funding Level: $200,000 to $350,000
Summary: The OPUS program is targeted to individuals, typically at later-career stages, who have contributed significant insights to a field or body of research over time. The program provides an opportunity to revisit and synthesize that prior research into a unique, integrated product(s) useful to the scientific community, now and in the future. All four clusters within the Division of Environmental Biology (Ecosystem Science, Evolutionary Processes, Population and Community Ecology, and Systematics and Biodiversity Science) encourage the submission of OPUS proposals.
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Program: NSF 22-606: Division of Chemistry: Disciplinary Research Programs: No Deadline Pilot (CHE-DRP:NDP)
Deadline: Proposals accepted anytime
Funding Level: $450,000 (approx.)
Summary: With this solicitation, the Division of Chemistry is piloting the removal of deadlines for the submission of proposals to the CLP, CSD and CTMC Programs. The no-deadline pilot seeks to assess the benefits and challenges of removing deadlines in proposal submission for the chemistry research community: the removal of deadlines on proposal submission is intended to allow principal investigators (PIs) more flexibility and better facilitate interdisciplinary research. It may, however, have unanticipated consequences for PIs, reviewers, and institutions. This solicitation applies only to the Chemistry of Life Processes (CLP), Chemical Structure and Dynamics (CSD), and Chemical Theory, Models and Computational Methods (CTMC) programs. Other than the following exceptions, all proposals submitted to the CLP, CSD, and CTMC programs must be submitted through this solicitation, otherwise they will be returned without review.
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Program: NSF 22-629: Science and Technology Studies (STS)
Deadline: August 3, 2025
Funding Level: Varies by proposal type
Summary: Science and Technology Studies (STS) is an interdisciplinary field that investigates the conceptual foundations, historical developments and social contexts of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), including medical science. The STS program supports proposals across a broad spectrum of research that uses historical, philosophical and social scientific methods to investigate STEM theory and practice. STS research may be empirical or conceptual; specifically, it may focus on the intellectual, material or social facets of STEM including interdisciplinary studies of ethics, equity, governance and policy issues.
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/sts-science-technology-studies/nsf22-629/solicitation
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Program: NSF 22-639: Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (AGS-PRF)
Deadline: Proposal accepted anytime
Funding Level: $200,000
Summary: The Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences (AGS), awards Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (PRF) to highly qualified early career investigators to carry out an independent research program. The research plan of each Fellowship must address scientific questions within the scope of AGS disciplines. These disciplines include Atmospheric Chemistry (ATC), Climate and Large-Scale Dynamics (CLD), Paleoclimate (PC), and Physical and Dynamic Meteorology (PDM) in the Atmospheric Sciences, and Aeronomy (AER), Magnetospheric Physics (MAG), Solar Terrestrial (ST), and Space Weather Research (SWR) in the Geospace Sciences. The AGS-PRF program supports researchers (also known as Fellows) for a period of up to 24 months with Fellowships that can be taken to the institution of their choice. The program is intended to recognize beginning investigators of significant potential and provide them with experiences in research that will broaden perspectives, facilitate interdisciplinary interactions, and help establish them in leadership positions within the Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences community. Fellowships are awards to individual Fellows, not institutions, and are administered by the Fellows.
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Program: NSF 23-569: A Science of Science Approach to Analyzing and Innovating the Biomedical Research Enterprise (SoS:BIO)
Deadline: September 9, 2025
Funding Level: $250,000
Summary: Both NSF and NIH believe that there are opportunities and needs for building and supporting research projects with a focus on the scientific research enterprise. The two agencies also recognize that when programmatic goals are compatible, coordinated management and funding of a research program can have a positive synergistic effect on the level and scope of research and can leverage the investments of both agencies. Therefore, NIGMS and SBE are partnering to enable collaboration in research between the SoS:DCI program and NIGMS. This partnership will result in a portfolio of high-quality research to provide scientific analysis of important aspects of the biomedical research enterprise and efforts to foster a diverse, innovative, productive and efficient scientific workforce, from which future scientific leaders will emerge. Prospective investigators are strongly encouraged to discuss their proposals with the program officers before submission to determine project relevance to the priorities of both SBE and NIGMS. Specific questions pertaining to this solicitation can also be directed to the SBE and NIGMS program officers.
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Program: NSF 23-572: Arctic Research Opportunities
Deadline: July 15, 2025
Funding Level: $650,000 (approx.)
Summary: The National Science Foundation (NSF) invites investigators at U.S. organizations to submit proposals to the Arctic Sciences Section in the Office of Polar Programs (OPP) within the Geosciences Directorate, to conduct research about the Arctic region. The goal of this solicitation is to attract research proposals that advance a fundamental, process, and/or systems-level understanding of the Arctic's rapidly changing natural environment, social and cultural systems, and, where appropriate, to improve our capacity to project future change. The Arctic Sciences Section supports research focused on the Arctic region and its connectivity with lower latitudes. The scientific scope is aligned with, but not limited to, research priorities outlined in the Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee (IARPC) five-year plan. The Arctic Sciences Section coordinates with programs across NSF and with other federal and international partners to co-review and co-fund Arctic-related proposals as appropriate. The Arctic Sciences Section also maintains Arctic logistical infrastructure and field support capabilities that are available to enable research.
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/arctic-research-opportunities/nsf23-572/solicitation
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Program: NSF 23-578: Infrastructure Innovation for Biological Research (Innovation)
Deadline: Proposals accepted anytime
Funding Level: Not specified
Summary: The Infrastructure Innovation for Biological Research Program (Innovation) supports research to design novel or greatly improved research tools and methods that advance contemporary biology in any research area supported by the Directorate for Biological Sciences at NSF. The Innovation Program focuses on research infrastructure that is broadly applicable to researchers in three programmatic areas: Bioinformatics, Instrumentation, and Research Methods. Infrastructure supported by this program is expected to advance biological understanding by improving scientists’ abilities to manipulate, control, analyze, or measure critical aspects of biological systems, which can be essential for addressing important fundamental research questions. Proposals submitted to these programmatic areas can do one of three things to advance or transform research in biology: develop novel infrastructure, significantly redesign existing infrastructure, or adapt existing infrastructure in novel ways. Projects are expected to have a significant application to one or more biological science questions and have the potential to be used by a community of researchers beyond a single research team.
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Program: NSF 23-580: Infrastructure Capacity for Biological Research (Capacity)
Deadline: Proposals accepted anytime
Funding Level: Not specified
Summary: The Infrastructure Capacity for Biological Research (Capacity) Program supports the implementation of, scaling of, or major improvements to research tools, products, and services that advance contemporary biology in any research area supported by the Directorate for Biological Sciences at NSF. The Capacity Program focuses on building capacity in research infrastructure that is broadly applicable to a wide range of researchers in three programmatic areas: Cyberinfrastructure, Biological Collections, and Biological Field Stations and Marine Laboratories. This program will also accept proposals for planning activities or workshops to facilitate coordination that may be necessary in building capacity in infrastructure that meets the needs of a research community. Areas not included in this program are instrumentation (PIs should submit to the MRI program) and, projects that develop infrastructure for a specific research project, laboratory, or institution (PIs should submitted to the relevant BIO programs that would normally support that research). Projects are expected to produce quality products, result in important science outcomes that will be achieved by the users of the resource, be openly accessible to a broad scientific and education community, and serve a community of researchers beyond a single research team.
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Program: NSF 23-602: Facility and Instrumentation Request Process (FIRP)
Deadline: Proposals Accepted Anytime
Funding Level: Not specified
Summary: The Facility and Instrumentation Request Process (FIRP) solicitation describes the mechanism by which the research community can propose projects that require access to instrumentation and facilities sponsored by the Facilities for Atmospheric Research and Education (FARE) Program in the Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences (AGS). FARE provides funding to a variety of organizations to make specialized instrumentation and facilities available to the atmospheric science research community through the Lower Atmosphere Observing Facilities (LAOF) and the Community Instruments and Facilities (CIF) programs. FIRP allows for parallel evaluation of intellectual merit and broader impacts along with the feasibility of the proposed project.
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Program: NSF 23-614: Smart Health and Biomedical Research in the Era of Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Data Science (SCH)
Deadline: October 3, 2025
Funding Level: $1,200,000
Summary: The purpose of this interagency program solicitation is to support the development of transformative high-risk, high-reward advances in computer and information science, engineering, mathematics, statistics, behavioral and/or cognitive research to address pressing questions in the biomedical and public health communities. Transformations hinge on scientific and engineering innovations by interdisciplinary teams that develop novel methods to intuitively and intelligently collect, sense, connect, analyze and interpret data from individuals, devices and systems to enable discovery and optimize health. Solutions to these complex biomedical or public health problems demand the formation of interdisciplinary teams that are ready to address these issues, while advancing fundamental science and engineering.
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Program: NSF 24-525: Future Manufacturing (FM)
Deadline: June 18, 2025
Funding Level: $3,000,000 (research grants) or $500,000 (seed grants)
Summary: The goal of Future Manufacturing is to support fundamental research, education, and training of a future workforce to overcome scientific, technological, educational, economic, and social barriers in order to catalyze new manufacturing capabilities that do not exist today. Future Manufacturing seeks inventive approaches to invigorate the manufacturing ecosystem and seed nascent future industries that can only be imagined today. Future Manufacturing supports research and education that will enhance U.S. leadership in manufacturing by providing new capabilities for companies and entrepreneurs, by improving our health, quality of life, and national security, by expanding job opportunities to a diverse STEM workforce, and by reducing adverse impacts of manufacturing on the environment. At the same time, Future Manufacturing enables new manufacturing that will address urgent social challenges arising from climate change, global pandemics and health disparities, social and economic divides, infrastructure deficits of marginalized populations and communities, and environmental sustainability. Future Manufacturing will complement existing efforts, supported by NSF and other federal agencies, in advanced manufacturing, but the focus of this program is to enable new, potentially transformative, manufacturing capabilities rather than to improve current manufacturing. Proposals that are incremental improvements over existing advanced manufacturing technologies will not be competitive.
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/fm-future-manufacturing/nsf24-525/solicitation
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Program: NSF 24-540: Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR): Workshop Opportunities
Deadline: Proposals accepted anytime
Funding Level: $200,000
Summary: The Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) is designed to fulfill the mandate of the National Science Foundation (NSF) to promote scientific progress nationwide. NSF EPSCoR facilitates the establishment of partnerships among academic institutions, government, industry, and non-profit sectors that are designed to promote sustainable improvements in an EPSCoR-eligible jurisdiction’s research infrastructure, Research and Development (R&D) capacity, and R&D competitiveness. Eligibility to participate in NSF EPSCoR funding opportunities, including the EPSCoR Workshop Opportunities program, is described on the EPSCoR website. EPSCoR welcomes proposals for workshops only from institutions within EPSCoR-eligible jurisdictions (i.e. states, territories, commonwealths). These workshops must focus on innovative ways to address multi-jurisdictional efforts on themes of regional or national importance with relevance to the goals and mission of NSF and EPSCoR.
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Program: NSF 24-561: Foundations for Digital Twins as Catalyzers of Biomedical Technological Innovation
Deadline: May 5, 2025
Funding Level: $1,000,000
Summary: The Foundations for Digital Twins as Catalyzers of Biomedical Technological Innovation (FDT-BioTech) program supports inherently interdisciplinary research projects that underpin the mathematical and engineering foundations behind the development and use of digital twins and synthetic data in biomedical and healthcare applications, with a particular focus on digital, in silico models used in the evaluation of medical devices and the relevance of the developed models in addressing current and emerging challenges affecting the development and assessment of biomedical technologies. The goal of the FDT-BioTech initiative is to catalyze biomedical technological innovation through new foundational development of methods and algorithms relevant to digital twins and synthetic humans.
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Program: NSF 24-581: Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)
Deadline: Varies by type
Funding Level: Varies by type
Summary: Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are engineered systems that are built from, and depend upon, the seamless integration of computation and physical components. Advances in CPS will enable capability, adaptability, scalability, resiliency, safety, security, and usability that will expand the horizons of these critical systems. CPS technologies are transforming the way people interact with engineered systems, just as the Internet has transformed the way people interact with information. New, smart CPS drive innovation and competition in a range of application domains including agriculture, aeronautics, building design, civil infrastructure, energy, environmental quality, healthcare and personalized medicine, manufacturing, and transportation. CPS are becoming data-rich enabling new and higher degrees of automation and autonomy. Traditional ideas in CPS research are being challenged by new concepts emerging from artificial intelligence and machine learning. The integration of artificial intelligence with CPS, especially for real-time operation, creates new research opportunities with major societal implications.
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/cps-cyber-physical-systems/nsf24-581/solicitation
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Program: NSF 24-583: Advanced Computing Systems & Services: Adapting to the Rapid Evolution of Science and Engineering Research 2.0
Deadline: June 24, 2025 (Category II)
Funding Level: $10,000,000 to $20,000,000 (Category I) or up to $5,000,000 (Category II)
Summary: The intent of this solicitation is to request proposals from organizations who are willing to serve as resource providers within the NSF Advanced Computing Systems and Services (ACSS) program. Resource providers would (1) provide advanced cyberinfrastructure (CI) resources in production operations to support the full range of computation, data-analysis, and AI research across all of science and engineering (S&E), and (2) enable democratized and equitable access to the proposed resources. The current solicitation is intended to complement previous NSF investments in advanced computational infrastructure by provisioning resources, broadly defined in this solicitation to include systems and services, in two categories:
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Program: NSF 24-587: Research on the Science and Technology Enterprise: Indicators, Statistics, and Methods (NCSES S&T)
Deadline: June 17, 2025
Funding Level: Not specified
Summary: The Center would like to enhance its efforts to support analytic and methodological research in support of its surveys as well as promote the education and training of researchers in the use of large-scale nationally representative datasets. NCSES welcomes efforts by the research community to use NCSES or other data to conduct research on the S&T enterprise, develop improved survey methodologies that could benefit NCSES surveys, explore alternate data sources that could supplement NCSES data, create and improve indicators of S&T activities and resources, strengthen methodologies to analyze S&T statistical data, and explore innovative ways to communicate S&T statistics. To that end, NCSES invites proposals for individual or multi-investigator research projects, doctoral dissertation improvement awards, conferences, experimental research, survey research and data collection, and dissemination projects under its program for Research on the Science and Technology Enterprise: Indicators, Statistics, and Methods (NCSES S&T).
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Program: NSF 24-597: U.S. National Science Foundation Research Traineeship Program
Deadline: September 8, 2025
Funding Level: $200,000 to $3,000,000 (varies by track)
Summary: The NRT program addresses workforce development, emphasizing broad participation, and institutional capacity building needs in graduate education. The program encourages proposals that involve strategic collaborations with the private sector, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), government agencies, national laboratories, field stations, teaching and learning centers, informal science centers, and academic partners. NRT especially welcomes proposals that reflect collaborations between NRT proposals and existing NSF Eddie Bernice Johnson Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (INCLUDES) Initiative, Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU), Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP), NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM), and NSF STEM Ed Organizational Postdoctoral Fellowship program (STEM Ed OPRF) projects, provided the collaboration will strengthen both projects. Researchers at minority serving institutions and emerging research institutions are strongly encouraged to submit proposals. Collaborations between NRT proposals and existing NSF INCLUDES projects should strengthen both NRT and INCLUDES projects.
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Program: NSF 24-608: Safety, Security, and Privacy of Open-Source Ecosystems (Safe-OSE)
Deadline: April 22, 2025
Funding Level: $1,500,000
Summary: Vulnerabilities in an open-source product and/or its continuous development, integration and deployment infrastructure can potentially be exploited to attack any user (human, organization, and/or another product/entity) of the product. To respond to the growing threats to the safety, security, and privacy of open-source ecosystems (OSEs), NSF is launching the Safety, Security, and Privacy for Open-Source Ecosystems (Safe-OSE) program. This program solicits proposals from OSEs, including those not originally funded by NSF's Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE) program, to address significant safety, security, and/or privacy vulnerabilities, both technical (e.g., vulnerabilities in code and side-channels) and socio-technical (e.g., supply chain, insider threats, and social engineering).
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Program: NSF 25-500: Earth Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowships (EAR-PF)
Deadline: October 29, 2025
Funding Level: Salary plus $15,000 per year for research
Summary: The Division of Earth Sciences (EAR) awards postdoctoral fellowships to recent recipients of doctoral degrees to conduct an integrated program of independent research and professional development that address scientific questions within the scope of EAR's disciplinary portfolio. The program supports researchers for a period of up to two years with fellowships that can be taken to an eligible host institution. The program is intended to recognize beginning investigators of significant potential and provide them with research experience, mentorship, and training that will help establish them in leadership positions in the Earth Sciences community. Postdoctoral fellows should pursue research in directions or with tools that will diversify the expertise they gained during their doctoral studies and research. The fellowship should also enable broadening of the fellow's professional network. For these reasons, applicants are strongly encouraged to seek opportunities outside of their doctoral institution and their organization at the time of submission.
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Program: NSF 25-521: Materials Innovation Platforms (MIP)
Deadline: May 15, 2025
Funding Level: $18,000,000 to $30,000,000 over six years
Summary: Materials Innovation Platforms (MIP) is a mid-scale infrastructure program in the Division of Materials Research (DMR) designed to accelerate advances in materials research. MIPs respond to the increasing complexity of materials research that requires close collaboration of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary teams and access to cutting edge tools. These tools in a user facility benefit both a user program and in-house research, which focus on addressing grand challenges of fundamental science and meet national needs. MIPs embrace the paradigm set forth by the Materials Genome Initiative (MGI), which strives to "discover, manufacture, and deploy advanced materials twice as fast, at a fraction of the cost," and conduct research through iterative "closed-loop" efforts among the areas of materials synthesis/processing, materials characterization, and theory/modeling/simulation. In addition, they are expected to engage the emerging field of data science in materials research. Each MIP is a scientific ecosystem, which includes in-house research scientists, external users and other scientists who, collectively, form a community of practitioners and share tools, codes, samples, data and know-how. The knowledge sharing is designed to strengthen collaborations among scientists and enable them to work in new ways, fostering new modalities of research and training, for the purpose of accelerating discovery and development of new materials and novel materials phenomena/properties, as well as fostering their eventual deployment. The third MIP competition, in 2025, will accept proposals on alloys, amorphous, and composite materials. Proposals mainly on biomaterials and polymer research will not be considered in the third MIP competition because the second MIP competition in 2019 included an emphasis on these topics.
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/mip-materials-innovation-platforms/nsf25-521/solicitation
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Program: NSF 25-522: EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement: EPSCoR Research Incubators for STEM Excellence (E-RISE)
Deadline: August 12, 2025
Funding Level: $8,000,000
Summary: Please contact LSU AgCenter Office of Sponsored Programs if you are interested in this opportunity. NSF EPSCoR investments support and build STEM-driven, jurisdiction-wide research activities and incubators with the potential to position the team to be nationally and internationally competitive within a chosen research field. The E-RISE program is designed to provide EPSCoR-eligible jurisdictions with funding to support the ability to competitively engage in high quality research in a scientific field. It also incubates novel, leading-edge ideas that will lead to increased research capacity and competitiveness in the topical area and sustainable improvements in the jurisdiction's academic research infrastructure and human networks related to the chosen topical area. E-RISE projects should include of the breadth of institutions in the jurisdiction, including primarily undergraduate institutions, two-year institutions, and minority-serving institutions, and also link to any NSF active areas of support.
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Program: NSF 25-527: Smart and Connected Communities (S&CC)
Deadline: September 8, 2025 (Required preliminary proposal)
Funding Level: Varies by type up to $5,000,000
Summary: The purpose of the NSF Smart and Connected Communities (S&CC) program solicitation is to accelerate the creation of novel intelligent technologies and concepts through high-risk/high-reward research that addresses major challenges and issues faced by communities across the US. A “smart and connected community” is defined as a community that synergistically integrates intelligent technologies with the natural and built environments and with the functions of civic institutions and organizations. Proposals submitted to the program should be designed to advance one or more of the following community priorities: economic opportunity and growth; safety and security; human and environmental health and wellness; accessibility of critical services and resources; and the overall quality of life for those who live, work, learn, or travel within the community. To meet the goals of the program, researchers should work with community stakeholders to identify and define challenges the community faces, using that interaction and input to generate high-impact, use-inspired, basic research that advances science and engineering.
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/scc-smart-connected-communities/nsf25-527/solicitation
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Program: NSF 25-532: Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers (MRSEC)
Deadline: June 23, 2025 (Required preliminary proposal)
Funding Level: $6,000,000 to $13,500,000 (approx.)
Summary: The Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers (MRSECs) program provides sustained support of materials research and education of the highest quality while addressing fundamental problems in science and engineering. Each MRSEC addresses research of a scope and complexity requiring the scale, synergy, and multidisciplinarity provided by a campus-based research center. The MRSECs support materials research infrastructure in the United States, promote active collaboration between universities and other sectors, including industry and international organizations, and contribute to the development of a national network of university-based centers in materials research, education, and facilities. A MRSEC may be located at a single institution, or may involve multiple institutions in partnership, and is composed of two to three Interdisciplinary Research Groups (IRGs), each addressing a fundamental materials science topic aligned with the Division of Materials Research (DMR).
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Program: NSF 25-534: Strengthening American Infrastructure (SAI)
Deadline: April 17, 2025
Funding Level: $750,000
Summary: Strengthening American Infrastructure (SAI) is an NSF program seeking to stimulate human-centered, use-inspired, fundamental and potentially transformative research aimed at strengthening America’s infrastructure. Effective infrastructure provides a strong foundation for socioeconomic vitality and broad improvement in quality of life. Robust, reliable and effective infrastructure spurs private-sector innovation, grows the economy, creates jobs, makes public-sector service provision more efficient, strengthens communities, promotes equal opportunity, protects the natural environment, enhances national security and fuels American leadership. Achieving these objectives requires the integration of expertise from across all science and engineering disciplines. SAI focuses on how fundamental knowledge about human reasoning and decision-making, governance, and social and cultural processes enables the building and maintenance of effective infrastructure that improves lives and society and builds on advances in technology and engineering. Successful projects will represent a convergence of expertise in one or more social, behavioral or economic sciences, deeply integrated with other disciplines to support substantial and potentially pathbreaking fundamental research applied to strengthening a specific focal infrastructure.
Sponsor: US Department of Energy
Program: Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program
Deadline: May 7, 2025
Summary: The Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program creates a pathway for you to advance your PhD thesis research while working at a Department of Energy (DOE) National Laboratory, collaborating with world-class scientists, and using state-of-the-art facilities and cutting-edge scientific instrumentation. While maximizing the impact of your own research, you will also expand your professional network and develop new opportunities for your future. The expertise, resources, and capabilities available at DOE National Laboratories and User Facilities are a combination not found anywhere else in the country. The unique opportunity to participate in the SCGSR program supports the goal to develop a new generation of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) experts who are critically important to the DOE Office of Science mission.
Sponsor: Cargill
Program: Oleogels for confectionery and fat-based food applications
Deadline: April 30, 2025
Funding Level: Not specified
Summary: We are looking for collaborations with experts to advance the practical use of oleogels in food applications, with a primary focus on confectionery. Our goal is to develop oleogel formulations using widely available ingredients that not only match the functionality and sensory profile of existing fats but also ensure that the final product maintains its expected texture, mouthfeel, and stability. We are particularly interested in applications where oleogels can replace traditional fats, offering clear advantages in sustainability, health, or cost. We are also focused on more challenging uses, such fully replacing confectionery fats in compound coatings while maintaining key sensory and crystallization properties. While confectionery remains the primary focus, we welcome proposals exploring oleogels as viable replacements for traditional fats and structuring agents in bakery products, pastries, breakfast spreads, and meat alternatives, food service, frying and other applications.
Sponsor: The Water Research Foundation
Program: Paul L. Busch Award
Deadline: June 2, 2025
Funding Level: $100,000
Summary: The Paul L. Busch Award recognizes an individual for innovative research in the field of water quality and the water environment, with a special focus on those who show promise and make significant contributions in bridging research and its practical application. The Award carries with it a $100,000 grant, allowing recipients to continue their work, take risks, and explore new directions.
Sponsor: Cargill
Program: Physical segregation of whole cocoa bean fractions
Deadline: May 31, 2025
Funding Level: $100,000
Summary: To ensure the best cocoa quality possible and to minimize the likelihood of contaminants like metals and toxins, the shell and fine components should be separated from the nibs. Current industrial systems, most commonly aspirators that leverage the density difference to blow the lighter components out of the stream, struggle to fully segregate the different components, leading to yield losses from misclassifying nibs as shells/dust. An additional complication is that cocoa beans are naturally high in fat, which can cause caking, where nibs and fines clump together. This reduces the effectiveness of industrial systems (15-20 MT/hour throughput) designed to separate these components and leads to further losses. We are looking for a process and/or equipment capable of segregating cocoa bean fractions - nibs, shells, and fines.
https://www.halo.science/request_for_solutions/segregation-of-whole-cocoa-bean-fractions
Sponsor: Spencer Foundation
Program: Research Grants on Education: Large
Deadline: May 14, 2025 (Intent to Apply; Full proposal due June 17, 2025)
Funding Level: $500,000
Summary: The Large Research Grants on Education Program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived, with budgets ranging from $125,000 up through $500,000 for projects ranging from one to five years. We accept applications twice a year. This program is “field-initiated,” meaning that proposal submissions are not in response to a specific request for a particular research topic, discipline, design, or method. Our goal for this program is to support rigorous, intellectually ambitious and technically sound research that is relevant to the most pressing questions and compelling opportunities in education. We seek to support scholarship that develops new foundational knowledge that may have a lasting impact on educational discourse.
Sponsor: Private Company
Program: Preclinical models to evaluate hair and scalp aging and longevity
Deadline: May 31, 2025
Funding Level: $175,000
Summary: We are seeking a medium to high-throughput screening system/model to evaluate the anti-aging potential of botanicals, natural ingredients, and pharmaceutical references on hair and scalp health. The platform should be suitable for assessing markers related to cellular aging, senescence, and longevity through enzymatic inhibition, receptor interference, activity reduction, and/or gene expression modulation. Additionally, mitochondrial functions, specifically measurements of mitochondrial activity or reduction in mitochondrial potential, should be included as key outputs. Our ultimate goal is to leverage this model to identify targeted interventions addressing the root causes of progressive hair follicle miniaturization, such as cellular arrest, senescence, hormonal influences, and impaired mitochondrial function.
Sponsor: Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR)
Program: Rapid Outcomes from Agricultural Research (ROAR)
Deadline: Concept notes accepted anytime
Funding Level: $150,000
Summary: The Rapid Outcomes from Agricultural Research (ROAR) program deploys urgent funding to support research and outreach in response to emerging or unanticipated threats to the nation’s food supply or agricultural systems. Plant and animal pests and pathogens can strike quickly, devastating crops, livestock and livelihoods. When such events occur, it often takes months to mount an effective response. Researchers must first understand these pests and pathogens before developing an effective solution. While the initial period after pest or pathogen detection is critical to stopping the threat, conventional research funding opportunities take significant time and effort to pursue. To address these outbreaks quickly, the ROAR Program funds rapid research related to response, prevention or mitigation of new pests and pathogens. ROAR’s one-year funding fills urgent research gaps until traditional, longer-term funding can be secured.
https://foundationfar.org/programs/rapid-outcomes-from-agricultural-research/
Sponsor: The G. Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Foundation
Program: Research Funding
Deadline: October 3, 2025 (LOI; Invited formal proposals due December 12, 2025)
Funding Level: $700,000
Summary: The Foundation primarily supports basic science, ideally with potential translational applications. Examples of current research areas we support include immunology, microbiome, structural biology, cellular physiology, cancer biology, genetics, genomics, microbiology and infectious diseases, stem cell biology, and neuroscience. Research areas we will not consider for support include Covid-19 related research projects (aims or sub-aims), Plant Biology Research, Oceanography, Space Exploration. and Global Warming related research. In addition, medical imaging technology related projects and/or electrical engineering technology development projects will not be considered for support. The Foundation does not support research conducted in human subjects and will not fund requests for clinical trials or drug discovery. The Foundation will not support research projects which we consider pre-clinical drug development.
Sponsor: Whitehall Foundation
Program: Research Grants and Grants-in-Aid
Deadline: January 15, April 15, or October 15 (Required LOI due dates)
Funding Level: $100,000 or $30,000
Summary: The Whitehall Foundation, through its program of grants and grants-in-aid, assists scholarly research in the life sciences. It is the Foundation's policy to assist those dynamic areas of basic biological research that are not heavily supported by Federal Agencies or other foundations with specialized missions. In order to respond to the changing environment, the Whitehall Foundation periodically reassesses the need for financial support by the various fields of biological research. The Foundation emphasizes the support of young scientists at the beginning of their careers and productive senior scientists who wish to move into new fields of interest. Consideration is given, however, to applicants of all ages. The chief criteria for support are the quality and creativity of the research as well as the commitment of the Principal Investigator (a minimum time allocation of 20% is required).
Sponsor: Pork Checkoff
Program: Research RFP – Disease Management, Control and Prevention
Deadline: May 12, 2025
Funding Level: $500,000 (overall program budget)
Summary: The Swine Disease Research Task Force has outlined research priorities for the 2025 spring request for proposals. This NPB-led group, comprising producers, veterinarians and subject matter experts, aims to identify knowledge gaps and fund research to address them. For the first half of 2025, the task force is focusing on advancing efforts against endemic diseases. The overarching theme of this RFP is to enhance management and control strategies for the pathogens listed below.
Sponsor: US Department of Energy – Office of Science
Program: Research, Development, and Training in Isotope Production
Deadline: April 17, 2025
Funding Level: $1,500,000
Summary: Isotopes are high-priority commodities of strategic importance for the Nation and are essential in medical diagnosis and treatment, discovery science, national security, industrial processes, advanced manufacturing, space exploration, communications, biology, archaeology, quantum information science, clean energy, environmental science, and other fields. Isotopes can directly enable emerging technologies and contribute to the economic, technical, and scientific strength of the United States. The DOE Office of Science Program for Isotope R&D and Production (also referred to as the DOE Isotope Program or DOE IP) routinely funds research and development (R&D) in isotope science to advance fundamental understanding and develop cutting edge and efficient technologies for enriching, producing, processing, recycling, and purifying radioactive and stable isotopes in short supply. This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is narrowly focused on topics involving AI/ML, enhanced processing chemistry used in matter phase changes, and separation science. Applications incorporating effective ways to train the next generation of personnel with essential knowledge and skills related to the production, processing, and purification of radioactive and enriched stable isotopes are strongly encouraged.
Sponsor: NASA
Program: ROSES 2025
Summary: Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Science (ROSES)-2025 to be Released the Week of February 24. NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD) announces the release of its annual omnibus solicitation for basic and applied research, Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Science (ROSES) 2025 as NNH25ZDA001N the week of February 24, at https://solicitation.nasaprs.com/ROSES2025
ROSES is an omnibus solicitation with many individual program elements, each with its own due dates and topics. Table 2 and Table 3 of this NRA, which will be posted at https://solicitation.nasaprs.com/ROSES2025table2 and https://solicitation.nasaprs.com/ROSES2025table3 respectively, provide proposal due dates and hypertext links to descriptions of the solicited program elements in the Appendices of this NRA. Together, these program elements cover the wide range of basic and applied research and supporting technology in areas supported by SMD.
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Program: SBIR/STTR Commercialization Readiness Pilot (CRP) Program Technical Assistance and Late Stage Development (SB1, Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Deadline: September 5, 2025
Funding Level: Varies by type
Summary: The purpose of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to encourage applications from small business concerns (SBCs) to the newly re-authorized Commercialization Readiness Pilot (CRP) program. The NOFO aims to facilitate the transition of previously or currently funded SBIR and STTR Phase II and Phase IIB projects to the commercialization stage by providing additional support for technical assistance and later stage research and development (R&D) not typically supported through Phase II or Phase IIB grants or contracts. This may include independent replication of key studies, Investigational New Drug (IND)-enabling studies, clinical studies, manufacturing costs, regulatory assistance, or a combination of services. Although a significant amount of the work in a CRP award may be subcontracted to other institutions, the Small Business Concern (SBC) is expected to maintain oversight and management of the R&D throughout the award.
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-23-219.html
Sponsor: US Department of Energy – Office of Science
Program: Scientific Discovery through Computing (SCiDAC): Partnerships in Basic Energy Sciences
Deadline: April 22, 2025
Funding Level: $10,000,000
Summary: The DOE SC programs in Basic Energy Sciences (BES) and Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) announce their interest in receiving applications from interdisciplinary teams to establish partnerships under the Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) program in specific targeted topic areas that relate to the BES and ASCR missions. Targeted topics are described in the Supplementary Information section below. This Announcement invites new research applications for the SciDAC Partnerships in BES that enable or accelerate scientific discovery employing DOE High-Performance Computing (HPC) facilities. For the purpose of this Announcement, the term “DOE HPC” has been expanded to include the high-performance production computational systems at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), or similar DOE computing facilities. DOE HPC includes the exascale machines Frontier and Aurora.
Sponsor: US Department of Energy
Program: SEEDING CRITICAL ADVANCES FOR LEADING ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES WITH UNTAPPED POTENTIAL (SCALEUP) READY
Deadline: September 29, 2029
Funding Level: $20,000,000
Summary: ARPA-E funds research on, and the development of, transformative science and technology solutions to address the energy and environmental missions of the Department. The agency focuses on technologies that can be meaningfully advanced with a modest investment over a defined period of time in order to catalyze the translation from scientific discovery to early-stage technology. For the latest news and information about ARPA-E, its programs and the research projects currently supported, see: http://arpa-e.energy.gov/.
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Program: Shared Instrumentation Grant (SIG) Program (S10 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Deadline: June 2, 2025
Funding Level: $750,000
Summary: The objective of the Shared Instrumentation Grant (SIG) Program is to make available to institutions high-priced research instruments that can only be justified on a shared-use basis and that are needed for NIH-supported projects in basic, translational, or clinical biomedical and biobehavioral research. The SIG Program provides funds to purchase or upgrade a single item of expensive, state-of-the-art, specialized, commercially available instrument or an integrated instrumentation system. An integrated instrumentation system is one in which the components, when used in conjunction with one another, perform a function that no single component can provide. The components must be dedicated to the system and not used independently. Types of supported instruments include, but are not limited to: X-ray diffractometers, mass spectrometers, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometers, DNA and protein sequencers, biosensors, electron and light microscopes, flow cytometers, high throughput robotic screening systems, and biomedical imagers. Applications for standalone computer systems (supercomputers, computer clusters and data storage systems) will only be considered if the system is solely dedicated to biomedical research.
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-24-265.html
Sponsor: Private Company
Program: Shortwave infrared photodetector materials and growth technologies
Deadline: April 30, 2025
Funding Level: $50,000
Summary: We are looking for new materials and manufacturing approaches to enable the next generation of cost-effective, high-performance SWIR photodetectors. Ideal solutions should balance performance, scalability, reliability, and environmental impact while ensuring seamless integration with modern semiconductor manufacturing. We are interested in materials that satisfy our must-have requirements, with III-V compounds being the most desirable option.
https://www.halo.science/request_for_solutions/SWIR-photodetector-materials-and-growth-technologies
Sponsor: Walmart
Program: Spark Good Local Grants
Deadline: Quarterly due April 15, July 15, October 15 or December 31
Funding Level: up to $5,000
Summary: Walmart believes that investing in local communities strengthens our business as well as the communities we serve. Local grants are designed to support local organizations that meet the unique needs of the communities where we operate, build pride among all associates, and deepen relationships with our customers. Each year, Walmart U.S. stores, Sam’s Clubs and Distribution Centers award local cash grants ranging from $250 to $5000. Funding priorities:
https://www.walmart.org/how-we-give/program-guidelines/spark-good-local-grants-guidelines
Sponsor: Stanley Smith Horticultural Trust
Program: Grants Program
Deadline: June 16, 2025 (required LOI; invited proposals due July 15, 2025)
Funding Level: $25,000
Summary: The Stanley Smith Horticultural Trust supports education and research in ornamental horticulture through grants to botanical gardens, arboreta, universities, and other charitable organizations strongly-aligned with its funding interests. The advancement of research in ornamental horticulture and the publication of the results of such research. Examples include:
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Program: Stephen I. Katz Early Stage Investigator Research Project Grant (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
Deadline: May 28 or September 26, 2025
Funding Level: Not limited but needs to reflect the actual needs of the proposed project
Summary: The Stephen I. Katz Early Stage Investigator Research Project Grant supports an innovative project that represents a change in research direction for an early stage investigator (ESI) and for which no preliminary data exist. Applications submitted to this notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) must not include preliminary data. Applications must include a separate attachment describing the change in research direction. The proposed project must be related to the programmatic interests of one or more of the participating NIH Institutes and Centers (ICs) based on their scientific missions.
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-24-075.html
Sponsor: Private Company
Program: Sterilization technologies for shelf-stable meat-based products
Deadline: April 30, 2025
Funding Level: Not specified
Summary: We are interested in processing solutions that can effectively inactivate microorganism spores while maintaining the aroma, color, nutrition, texture, and appearance of the original product. The ideal solution should be commercially available and demonstrate effectiveness in deactivating all spore-forming pathogens in meat-based products and support shelf-stability.
Sponsor: US Department of Energy
Program: Sustainable Propane and Renewable Chemicals (SPARC)
Deadline: May 30, 2025
Funding Level: $2,500,000
Summary: This NOFO supports BETO’s research and development (R&D) priorities in the areas of Conversion R&D. Specifically, it supports research and development of domestic chemicals and fuels from a variety of biomass and waste resources. Producing chemicals and propane/liquid petroleum gas (LPG) from renewable feedstocks helps to safeguard domestic supply chains, secure energy independence, support rural economies, and improve global competitiveness of the industry. This NOFO contains two topics: Topic Area 1: Bio-based Chemicals This Topic Area will support development and adoption of new production methods for value-added chemicals from biomass. Topic Area 2: Bio-based Propane/LPG This Topic Area seeks to pursue new pathways for the production of sustainable liquefied propane and/or petroleum gases (LPG) from a variety of feedstocks including municipal waste, agricultural residues, forest resources, and fats, oils, and grease.
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Program: Time-Sensitive Research Opportunities in Environmental Health Sciences (R21 Clinical Trials Not Allowed)
Deadline: December 1, 2025 (earlier due dates available)
Funding Level: $200,000 (approx.)
Summary: This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is intended to support novel environmental health research in which an unpredictable event or policy change provides a limited window of opportunity to collect human biological samples or environmental exposure data. The primary motivation of the NOFO is to understand the consequences of natural and human-made disasters, emerging environmental public health threats, and policy changes in the U.S. and abroad. A distinguishing feature of an appropriate study is the need for rapid review and funding, substantially shorter than the typical NIH grant review/award cycle, for the research question to be addressed and swiftly implemented.
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-ES-25-003.html
Sponsor: Tulane National Primate Research Center
Program: Pilot Program Grant
Deadline: August 1, 2025 (Required LOI; Full proposal due November 1)
Funding Level: $75,000
Summary: Titles of previously funded projects:
Synthetic virus-like structures as a new platform for vaccines and understanding for vaccines and understanding B cell biology
• Autoantibodies against chemokines as novel therapeutics for COVID-19 and PASC
• Testing a CTL-based HIV vaccine in macaques Autoantibodies against chemokines as novel therapeutics for COVID-19 and PASC Synthetic virus-like structures as a new platform for vaccines and understanding B cell biology
• Eradication of SIV Reservoirs by Targeting the Autophagy and Survival Mechanisms of SIV-infected Cells Harboring Replication-Competent Virus
• A Tick-Targeted Vaccine for Preventing the Transmission of Tick-borne Pathogens
• An animal model to study pathology associated with the novel tick-borne pathogen Borrelia mayonii
• The role of defective HIV proviral DNA in promoting viral escape
• Induction of multiple broadly neutralizing antibody lineages with a multivalent HIV nanoparticle vaccine
• Quantification of Corneal Sensory Nerve Fiber Density to Evaluate ZIKV-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy in NHPs
• Establishing reference values for assays used for diabetes testing
• Oxidative stress induced neuropathy in the aging rhesus macaque brain
• Define the impact of early cART in SIV-infected infant macaque
• Determine the anatomical distribution of SIV/HIV particles in the hours and days after vaginal challenge by correlation of PET and fluorescence imaging approaches
• NK cell modulation of CMV infection in pregnant rhesus macaque dams
https://tnprc.tulane.edu/pilot-program-grant-submission-procedures-and-review-criteria
Sponsor: Gulf Coast Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (GCCESU)
Program: Ungulate Management within Joint Region Marianas Area of Responsibility
Deadline: May 9, 2025
Funding Level: $1,799,412
Summary: In compliance with all applicable environmental laws and regulations, the U.S. Department of the Navy (DON) is committed to stewardship and management of natural resources within JRM AOR. Invasive species are a major concern for federally listed species, ecosystems, and Department of Defense (DoD) assets within the Mariana Islands. Introduced ungulates include feral pig (Sus scrofa), Philippine deer (Rusa mariannus), and Asiatic water buffalo or carabao (Bubalus bubalis). All have significantly impacted the native ecosystems and resulted in mission impacts, including interference with vehicle movements, aviation, utilities, and training operations. Ungulates also have adverse effects on habitats such as wetlands and native limestone forests on DoD lands. Ungulate overgrazing of vegetation and damage to soil resources creates erosion and sediment runoff within numerous watersheds and reservoirs. Sediment runoff also impacts marine ecosystems and causes siltation to coral reefs. Research, control and/or eradication of these ungulates reduce impacts to watersheds and sensitive forest habitats, and enhance populations of native species, particularly threatened and endangered species.
https://gccesu.org/media/te4bjkgn/1-rsoi-ungulate-management_jrm-aor_n40192-25-2-8000.pdf
Sponsor: US Army
Program: US Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) BAA
Deadline: Pre-proposals accepted anytime
Funding Level: Propose R&D Concepts for Potential Collaboration
Summary: The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) has issued a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for various research and development topic areas: hydraulics, dredging, coastal engineering, instrumentation, oceanography, remote sensing, geotechnical engineering, earthquake engineering, soil effects, vehicle mobility, self-contained munitions, military engineering, geophysics, pavements, protective structures, aquatic plants, water quality, dredged material, treatment of hazardous waste, wetlands, physical/mechanical/chemical properties of snow and other frozen precipitation, infrastructure and environmental issues for installations, computer science, telecommunications management, energy, facilities maintenance, materials and structures, engineering processes, environmental processes, land and heritage conservation, and ecological processes.
Sponsor: USDA – Rural Business-Cooperative Service
Program: Value-Added Producer Grant
Deadline: April 17, 2025
Funding Level: $250,000
Summary: Note Eligibility - The objective of this grant program is to assist viable Agricultural Producers, Agricultural Producer Groups, Farmer and Rancher Cooperatives, and Majority-Controlled Producer-Based Businesses in starting or expanding value-added activities related to the processing and/or marketing of Value-Added Agricultural Products. Grants will be awarded competitively for either planning or working capital projects directly related to the processing and/or marketing of value-added products. Generating new products, creating and expanding marketing opportunities, and increasing producer income are the end goals of the program. All proposals must demonstrate economic viability and sustainability to compete for funding.
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Program: Water, Landscape, and Critical Zone Processes (WaLCZ)
Deadline: Proposals accepted anytime
Funding Level: $400,000 (approx.)
Summary: The Water, Landscape, and Critical Zone Processes program supports research on the Earth’s near-surface environment and how that environment responds to change. The Program focuses on the complex interplay amongst and between hydrologic, geomorphic, and geochemical processes and how they regulate the structure and function of the Earth’s near surface. These processes drive weathering and soil development, control water availability and quality, and help regulate the Earth’s climate system, all of which are important for natural resource sustainability and mitigation of natural hazards. It is expected that the research funded in this program will advance fundamental knowledge in Earth surface processes, leading to transformational discoveries in Earth Sciences.
Sponsor: Haleon
Program: Whitening and stain prevention technologies designed for sensitive teeth
Deadline: May 31, 2025
Funding Level: $100,000
Summary: Consumers want visibly whiter teeth but the most effective whitening treatments, i.e. bleaching via peroxides, are known to cause sensitivity. Those who already experience tooth sensitivity are specially cautious about using strong whitening treatments, fearing they will worsen their condition. While sensitivity toothpastes help manage discomfort, they do not provide the level of whitening that many consumers desire. As a result, there is growing interest in whitening solutions that deliver visibly whiter teeth without worsening sensitivity, or ideally, solutions that both brighten teeth and alleviate tooth sensitivity. We are looking for new ingredients, raw materials, and technologies that offer tooth whitening and/or stain prevention benefits and can be formulated into a daily-use toothpaste or potentially other oral care delivery format.
Sponsor: World Food Prize Foundation
Program: World Food Prize
Deadline: May 1, 2025
Summary: The World Food Prize is awarded for a specific, exceptionally significant, individual achievement that advances human development with a demonstrable increase in the quantity, quality, availability of, or access to food through creative interventions at any point within the full scope of the food system. Fields of achievement include, but are not limited to: soil and land; plant and animal science; food science and technology; nutrition; rural development; marketing; food processing, packaging and storage; water and the environment; natural resource conservation; physical infrastructure; transportation and distribution; special or extraordinary feeding programs; social organization and poverty elimination; economics and finance; policy analysis and implementation; and public advocacy.
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