CALS Grant Development
Proposal Development
Budget Building
Proposal Submission
Grant Matchmaking
Funding Opportunities
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The Grant Development Specialist tracks open funding opportunities in a database located in the “Funding Opportunity Announcements” tab and can assist you with utilizing search tools tailored to your specific research and help match your interests to funding programs.
Funding Opportunity Announcements
| Amount | Limited | Due (m/d/y) | Length | Sponsor | Program Title | Description | Added (m/d/y) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10,000,000 | No | 01/01/1111 | Department of Defense (DOD-DARPA) | Biological Technologies (rolling submission) | Revolutionary research ideas for biological technology topics not being addressed by other solicitations. | ||
| 10,000,000 | No | 01/01/1111 | Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) | ARPA-H (rolling submission) | ARPA-H creates an environment to support the best ideas from Program Managers that bring together dynamic teams to solve the toughest health challenges. | ||
| 150,000 | No | 01/01/1111 | 1 year | Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR) | Rapid Outcomes from Agricultural Research (rolling submission) | Deploys urgent funding to support research and outreach in response to emerging or unanticipated threats to the nation’s food supply or agricultural systems. | |
| 1 | No | 01/01/1111 | 5 years | National Instittutes of Health (NIH) | Implementation Science for Climate Change and Health (rolling submission) | Implementation studies to understand and address barriers to the adoption, implementation, scale-up, and sustainment to prevent or mitigate the health effects of climate change in the United States and globally. | 01/10/2025 12:37 PM |
| 1 | No | 01/01/1111 | 5 years | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Chemical Evolution of the Solid Earth and Volcanology (CESEV; rolling submission) | Laboratory, field, experimental, theoretical, and/or computational studies that explore the continuous high-temperature igneous and metamorphic geochemical and petrologic processes that shape the Earth. | |
| 1 | No | 01/01/1111 | 3 years | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Environmental Sustainability (rolling submission) | Promote sustainable engineered systems that support human well-being and that are also compatible with sustaining natural (environmental) systems. | |
| 1 | No | 01/01/1111 | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Life and Environments Through Time (rolling submission) | Advances knowledge about the patterns and processes relating to the origin and evolution of Earth’s climate, environments, life, and sedimentary record. | ||
| 1 | No | 01/01/1111 | 3 years | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Multilateral Partnerships Leveraging Excellence (MultiPLEx; rolling submission) | International multilateral research partnerships that are required to hasten progress in addressing grand challenges by leveraging research excellence in the U.S. & around the globe. | |
| 500,000 | No | 01/01/1111 | 5 years | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Research Coordination Networks (RCN; rolling submission) | To advance a field or create new directions in research or education by supporting groups of investigators to communicate & coordinate their research, training & educational activities. | |
| 1 | No | 01/01/1111 | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Structure and Physics of the Solid Earth (SPSE; rolling submission) | Advance fundamental knowledge about the ongoing dynamical processes over the age of the Earth that evolve the structure of planet Earth and underpin geohazards. | ||
| 1 | No | 01/01/1111 | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Water, Landscape, and Critical Zone Processes (WaLCZ; rolling submission) | Advance fundamental knowledge in Earth surface processes, leading to transformational discoveries in Earth Sciences. | ||
| 1 | No | 01/01/1111 | U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center | Propose R&D Concepts for Potential Collaboration (rolling submission) | Propose collaborations with Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, Environmental Laboratory, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, and Geospatial Research Laboratory. | 01/03/2025 09:17 AM | |
| 156,000 | Yes | 04/01/2025 | 3 years | Beckman Foundation | 2026 Beckman Scholars Program (Limited Submission) | Stimulate, encourage, and support research activities by undergraduate students in either chemistry, biochemistry, the biological and medical sciences, or some interdisciplinary combination of these subjects. | 02/26/2025 12:26 PM |
| 300,000 | Yes | 04/01/2025 | 4 years | The Pew Charitable Trusts | Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences 2026 (Limited Submission) | Funding for young investigators of outstanding promise in science relevant to the advancement of human health. | 03/06/2025 09:46 AM |
| 10,000 | No | 04/01/2025 | 2 years | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) | Facilitating Community-Based Research Partnerships in Wisconsin | Funds may be used to initiate a new study or to provide additional resources for ongoing community-based studies for which existing research funding does not provide any support to individuals in the community. | 03/11/2025 09:39 AM |
| 1,000,000 | No | 04/02/2025 | 3 years | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Collaborations in Artificial Intelligence and Geosciences (CAIG) | Advance the development and adoption of innovative artificial intelligence (AI) methods to increase scientific understanding of the Earth system. | 01/06/2025 11:00 AM |
| 8,000,000 | No | 04/11/2025 | 2 years | Department of Energy (DOE) | Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) Accelerating CO2 Conversion Technology Development and Deployment – Biological, Catalytic, and Mineralization Pathways | Research and development proposals to advance the pilot scale testing of carbon conversion technologies with high technology readiness level capable of achieving significant carbon mitigation via biological, catalytic, or mineralization pathways. | 01/22/2025 01:20 PM |
| 100,000 | No | 04/11/2025 | 3 years | Daybreak Fund | Daybreak Fund | Nature-based projects in the Western Lake Michigan Basin at the intersection of climate change and water quality. | 03/05/2025 01:20 PM |
| 6,000,000 | No | 04/16/2025 | 3 years | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) | NOAA's Transformational Habitat Restoration and Coastal Resilience Grants Under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Round 3 | To support transformational habitat restoration projects that restore marine, estuarine, coastal, or Great Lakes ecosystems, using approaches that enhance community and ecosystem resilience to climate hazards. | |
| 29,000,000 | No | 04/18/2025 | 5 years | Foreign Agricultural Service (USDA-FAS) | FY2025 McGovern-Dole International Food For Education and Child Nutrition Program | Provide school feeding through U.S.-donated & locally & regionally procured commodities and address literacy & nutrition in Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Honduras, Mozambique, Pakistan, Senegal, and/or Sierra Leone. | 01/27/2025 02:05 PM |
| 2,750,000 | No | 04/22/2025 | 5 years | Department of Energy (DOE) | Early Career Research Program | Development of individual research programs of outstanding scientists early in their careers and to stimulate research careers. | 01/22/2025 01:58 PM |
| 400,000 | No | 04/23/2025 | 2 years | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Sea Grant College Program (SG) | FY2025 Young Fishermen’s Career Development Projects | Projects that provide career development opportunities in commercial fisheries. | |
| 750,000 | Yes | 04/24/2025 | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | NIH Shared Instrumentation Grant (SIG) Program (S10) 2025 (Limited Submission) | Applications from groups of NIH-supported investigators to purchase or upgrade a single item of high-priced, specialized, commercially available instruments or integrated instrumentation system. | 02/12/2025 10:16 AM | |
| 2,000,000 | Yes | 04/24/2025 | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | NIH High-End Instrumentation (HEI) Grant Program (S10) 2025 (Limited Submission) | Applications from groups of NIH-supported investigators to purchase or upgrade a single item of high-end, specialized, commercially available instruments or integrated systems. | 02/12/2025 10:16 AM | |
| 1 | No | 04/30/2025 | 1 year | Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) | Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) | Toxic Substances and Areas of Concern; Invasive Species; Nonpoint Source Pollution Impacts to Nearshore Health; Habitats and Species; Foundations for Future Restoration Actions | 02/26/2025 10:00 AM |
| 125,000 | No | 04/30/2025 | 1 year | National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) | Morpho Initiative | Convenes scientific working groups across government agencies, NGOs, tribes, academia, and the private sector to develop and accelerate management-relevant “science in-service-of solutions". | 02/04/2025 01:11 PM |
| 250,000 | No | 04/30/2025 | 2 years | UW-Madison OVCR | UW Distinguished Research Fellows Program | Support emerging scholars in collaborative research spanning schools, colleges, centers at UW–Madison, and that synergizes distinct disciplinary approaches in areas related to RISE-AI, RISE-THRIVE, and RISE-EARTH. | 01/23/2025 01:23 PM |
| 1,000,000 | Yes | 04/30/2025 | 5 years | W.M. Keck Foundation | Keck Foundation Science and Engineering Research Program (Limited Submission) | Funds endeavors that are distinctive and novel in their approach and encourages projects that are high-risk with the potential for transformative impact. | 03/11/2025 09:54 AM |
| 1,000,000 | Yes | 04/30/2025 | 5 years | W.M. Keck Foundation | Keck Foundation Medical Research Program (Limited Submission) | Funds endeavors that are distinctive and novel in their approach and encourages projects that are high-risk with the potential for transformative impact. | 03/11/2025 09:59 AM |
| 1,500,000 | No | 04/30/2025 | 3 years | Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust | Understanding and Targeting Innate Immunity in Type 1 Diabetes Pathogenesis | Support the discovery and development of new therapies to prevent or delay T1D and the identification and validation of biomarkers to predict disease initiation and progression. | 03/11/2025 10:37 AM |
| 50,000 | No | 05/01/2025 | 1 year | Blooming Prairie Foundation | 2025 Blooming Prairie Foundation Grant Cycle | Developmental, research and education efforts in the organic industry and the cooperative community; development of organic and natural products or services; cooperative development in the natural products or organic industry. | 02/26/2025 10:23 AM |
| 1 | No | 05/01/2025 | 2 years | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Use-Inspired Creativity Extension for the Bioeconomy (UICREX-Bioeconomy) | To extend current NSF use-inspired research projects that are adventurous, high-risk, and have the potential for commercial translation or widespread adoption. | |
| 300,000 | No | 05/01/2025 | 3 years | Environmental Research & Education Foundation (EREF) | Research Grants | Innovative solutions and a deeper understanding of Climate Change Impacts/Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Emerging Contaminants, & Advancing Materials Circularity & Recycling | 03/11/2025 10:21 AM |
| 500,000 | No | 05/13/2025 | 2 years | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | Discovery and Development of Natural Products for Cancer Interception and Prevention (UG3/UH3 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) | Support the discovery and development of novel natural products that are safe, nontoxic, and efficacious for cancer interception and prevention. | |
| 3,500,000 | No | 05/15/2025 | 3 years | Department of Energy (DOE) | Maximizing Algal System Yield (MASY) | Relieving ‘pinch points’ in algal system cultivation and preprocessing to improve process economics for biofuels/bioproducts. | 01/23/2025 01:03 PM |
| 1,500,000 | No | 05/15/2025 | 5 years | The Simons Foundation | Pivot Fellowship | Support researchers with a strong track record of success and achievement in their current field, and a deep interest, curiosity and drive to make contributions to a new discipline. | 03/11/2025 10:30 AM |
| 2,500,000 | No | 05/30/2025 | 2 years | Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (DOE-EERE) | Sustainable Propane and Renewable Chemicals (SPARC) | Supports research and development of domestic chemicals and fuels from a variety of biomass and waste resources. | 01/22/2025 12:42 PM |
| 35,000 | No | 05/31/2025 | 1 year | Horticultural Research Institute, Inc. | Strategic Grantmaking | HRI-supported projects focus on significant problems, regulatory issues, and emerging opportunities in the nursery, greenhouse, retail, and landscape industry. | 03/11/2025 10:40 AM |
| 2,000,000 | No | 06/02/2025 | 1 year | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | High-End Instrumentation (HEI) Grant Program (S10 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) | Funds to purchase or upgrade a single item of expensive, leading-edge, specialized, commercially available instrument or an integrated instrumentation system. | |
| 350,000 | No | 06/02/2025 | 5 years | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | Enhancing Mechanistic Research on Precision Probiotic Therapies (R61/R33 Clinical Trial Optional) | To support highly innovative mechanistic research to accelerate the development of effective precision probiotic interventions using a milestone-driven, biphasic award mechanism. | |
| 30,000 | No | 06/06/2025 | 1 year | Great Plains Center for Agricultural Health | 2025 Request for Proposals for GPCAH Pilot/Feasibility Projects | Pilot projects addressing work-related stress and mental health; the prevention of slips, trips and falls; equipment and tool safety; and chemical safety. | 02/27/2025 11:38 AM |
| 229,500 | Yes | 06/15/2025 | 3 years | Helen Hay Whitney Foundation | Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (Limited Submission) | The Foundation grants financial support of sufficient duration to help further the careers of young men and women engaged in biological or medical research. | 02/26/2025 11:02 AM |
| 250,000 | No | 06/30/2025 | 5 years | Nathan Cummings Foundation (NCF) | Letters of Inquiry (LOI) | Six to eight new grants per racial justice, economic justice, and environmental justice area with a focus on initiatives in the U.S. South. | 01/22/2025 10:59 AM |
| 2,500,000 | No | 07/02/2025 | 5 years | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | Advanced-Stage Development and Utilization of Research Infrastructure for Interdisciplinary Aging Studies (R33 Clinical Trial Optional) | Advanced-stage development and utilization of novel research infrastructure to advance the science of aging in specific areas requiring interdisciplinary partnerships or collaborations. | |
| 350,000 | No | 09/04/2025 | 5 years | Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (USDA-NIFA-AFRI) | US-Ireland research and development partnership call in agriculture - Agricultural Microbiomes in Plant Systems and Natural Resources; and Inter-Disciplinary Engagement in Animal Systems (IDEAS) | Supports tri-partite research projects on agricultural microbiomes in plant systems and natural resources, and interdisciplinary engagement in animal systems, between Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and the US. | 01/22/2025 12:39 PM |
| 150,000 | No | 09/04/2025 | 3 years | National Endowment for the Humanities | Humanities Connections | Projects should plan or implement a curriculum connecting the humanities to one or more non-humanities fields (physical, natural sciences; law & business; computer & data science). | |
| 150,000 | No | 09/04/2025 | 2 years | National Endowment for the Humanities | Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities | NEH is particularly interested in projects that examine the role of technology in shaping current social and cultural issues. | |
| 7,500,000 | No | 09/05/2025 | 5 years | Office of Naval Research (DoD-ONR) | Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 Department of Defense Multidisciplinary Research Program of the University Research Initiative (MURI) | Basic research in science and engineering at U.S. institutions of higher education focused on multidisciplinary research efforts where more than one traditional discipline interacts to provide rapid advances in scientific areas of interest to the DoD. | 03/05/2025 10:58 AM |
| 150,000 | No | 09/15/2025 | 3 years | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WI-DNR) | Wisconsin DNR Surface Water Grant Program | Supports surface water management from start to finish, including: outreach, assessments and surveys, planning, project design, or management. | |
| 750,000 | No | 10/27/2025 | 5 years | National Science Foundation (NSF) | International Research Experiences for Students (IRES) | IRES focuses on the development of a world-class U.S. STEM workforce through international research experiences for cohorts of U.S. students. | |
| 1,000,000 | No | 11/01/2025 | 2 years | Science for Nature and People Partnership (SNAPP) | Annual Request for Proposals | Funds expert teams to deliver rapid solutions to the most critical challenges facing humans and our planet (no IDC allowed). | |
| 700,000 | No | 01/22/2026 | 4 years | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Ethical and Responsible Research (ER2) | Promotes the development, improvement, and dissemination of responsible and ethical research practices and aims to build on organizational cultures that value and reward such practices. | 02/10/2025 09:11 AM |
| 2,000,000 | No | 02/19/2026 | 4 years | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Enabling Discovery through GEnomics (EDGE) | Development of innovative tools, technologies, resources, and infrastructure that advance biological research focused on the identification of the causal mechanisms connecting genes and phenotypes. | 03/11/2025 10:07 AM |
| 25,000 | Yes | 04/11/2025 | 1 year | Stanley Smith Horticultural Trust | Stanley Smith Horticultural Trust 2026 (Limited Submission) | The Trust supports education and research in ornamental horticulture, and the development and maintenance of public gardens and arboreta that offer educational experiences to their visitors. | 03/14/2025 08:35 AM |
| Amount | Limited | Due (m/d/y) | Length | Sponsor | Program Title | Description | Added (m/d/y) |
Grant Schedules
Coming soon.
Writing Resources
List of Collaborators (conflict of interest)
- Collaborators and Other Affiliations (NSF template)
Mentoring Plans
- Mentoring Plan (NSF template)
Letters of Collaboration
- Letter of Collaboration (NSF template)
Data Management Plans
- DMPTool for writing Data Management Plans (all sponsors)
- How to Create a DMP
- Data Management and Sharing Plan (NSF template)
Writing Courses/Services
- The Writing Center (UW-Madison)
- Libraries Research Guides (UW-Madison)
- Libraries Teaching & Learning (UW-Madison)
Collaboration Resources
- Sustainability Research Hub works collaboratively with CALS Grant Development to submit proposals (supports matchmaking, proposal development, project coordination, editing, graphics, budget development).
- medRISE (Research Investigator Support and Education) is housed in the School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH).
- Collective for Research Impact and Social Partnerships (CRISP) connects partners to researchers, bridges different cultures and contexts, translates and aligns interests, and moves alliances and projects forward (College of Letters & Science).
- RABBIT (Research and Business-Bridging Intelligence Tool), developed by the Office of Business Engagement (OBE) and Data Science Institute (DSI) helps UW-Madison scientists discover relevant research, shared interests and potential collaborators across campus.
- Campus Sustainability Experts Database is intended to foster the UW-Madison sustainability community and encourage collaboration.
Proposals
About
Ensure sufficient planning for an upcoming proposal submission; learn about CALS lead time policy under the Planning tab. Additional resources coming soon.
Planning
- CALS Lead Time Policy (5 business days prior to submission deadline)
- Roles and Responsibilities (RSP)
- Proposal Submission (Cayuse)
Budget Development
About
Find current budget templates in addition to RSP Budget Development Tools. Additional resources coming soon.
Standard Budget
- CALS Standard Budget Template (including 3 subawards; updated Jan 2025)
- CALS Budget Justification Template
Cost Share
Guidance on Cost Share.
Approvals
About
Guidance on PI Status & Effort. Additional resources coming soon.
PI Status & Effort
Tenure-track faculty members automatically have PI Status which can be granted to academic staff in three ways (one-time limited, blanket limited, and permanent; see PI Status Guidelines and Procedures).
Faculty and staff must certify their own effort and may also be responsible for certifying the effort of research staff.
- Effort Reporting is completed using UW-Madison’s Effort Commitments and Payroll Certification system.
- RSP Guidelines for Effort Reporting
Proposal Submission
RAMP Guides
Templates
About
Find all templates referenced on this page here. Current resources include CALS Budget Templates, Grants.Gov RR-Family Templates, and Proposal Document Templates. Additional resources coming soon.
CALS Budget Templates
- CALS Standard Budget Template (including 3 subawards; updated Jan 2025)
Grants.Gov RR-Family Templates
- Grants.Gov RR-Family Templates are available on the web. If submitting system-to-system (S2S), these “forms” will be an inherent component of the S2S and not require PDF attachment.
Proposal Document Templates
- Collaborators and Other Affiliations (NSF template)
- Mentoring Plan (NSF template)
- Letter of Collaboration (NSF template)
- Data Management and Sharing Plan (NSF template)
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Grant Development SpecialistShanon Hankin