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| Amount | Limited | Due (m/d/y) | Length | Sponsor | Program Title | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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 | 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. |
| 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. | |
| 500,000 | No | 12/31/2024 | 1 year | Fish and Wildlife Service (DOI-FWS) | Coastal Program FY24 | To restore and protect fish and wildlife habitat on public and private lands. |
| 500,000 | No | 12/31/2024 | 1 year | Fish and Wildlife Service (DOI-FWS) | FY24 Candidate Species Conservation | Accomplish conservation tasks for high priority candidate species or at-risk species in the US, such that identified threats to the species may be reduced or eliminated. |
| 15,000,000 | No | 12/31/2024 | 5 years | Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (USDA-NIFA-AFRI) | Foundational and Applied Science Program | Fundamental and applied research, education, and extension projects in the food and agricultural sciences. |
| 975,000 | No | 01/07/2025 | 3 years | Department of Energy (DOE-BER) | Atmospheric System Research | Quantify the interactions among aerosols, clouds, precipitation, & radiation to improve understanding of key cloud, aerosol, precipitation, & radiation processes that affect the Earth’s radiative balance & hydrological cycle |
| 1,035,000 | Yes | 01/07/2025 | 3 years | Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. | Ono Pharma Breakthrough Science Initiative Awards Program 2025 (Limited Submission) | High-risk and high-reward science research projects which have potential to lead to science discoveries/solutions and, possibly, based on further research, to breakthrough treatments for patients. |
| 3,500,000 | No | 01/08/2025 | 5 years | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) | Projects that center engagement, broadening participation, belonging, and further the well-being of underserved/underrepresented individuals and communities. |
| 500,000 | No | 01/08/2025 | 1 year | Department of Interior (DOI) Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) | Great Lakes Fish and Wildlife Restoration Act FY 2025 | Cooperative conservation, restoration, research, and management of the fish and wildlife resources and their habitats in the Great Lakes Basin. |
| 350,000 | No | 01/10/2025 | 2 years | National Endowment for the Humanities | Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections | The program helps cultural heritage institutions (libraries, archives, museums, and historical organizations) meet the complex challenge of preserving diverse holdings of humanities collections for future generations. |
| 1 | No | 01/14/2025 | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE) | Harness the power of open-source development for the creation of new technology solutions to problems of national and societal importance. | |
| 1 | No | 01/15/2025 | 5 years | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Cultural Anthropology Program Senior Research Awards (CA-SR) | Projects that will be generalizable beyond particular case studies and contribute to building a more robust anthropological science of human society and culture. |
| 150,000 | No | 01/15/2025 | 1 year | Great Lakes Fishery Commission | Fishery Research Program | Fisheries research on human dimensions, coregonine conservation and restoration, and Indigenous-led research. |
| 300,000 | No | 01/15/2025 | 1 year | USDA Forest Service | Eastern Region Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy FY2025 | Support and carry out the first two goals of the National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (NCS) across the Midwestern and Northeastern States; Restore & Maintain Landscapes and Create Fire Adapted Communities. |
| 300,000 | No | 01/15/2025 | 3 years | Whitehall Foundation, Inc. | Research Grants | Applications will be judged on the scientific merit and the innovative aspects of the proposal as well as on the competence of the applicant. |
| 1,000,000 | No | 01/16/2025 | 3 years | National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) | Ecohydrology | Novel strategies for evaluating and improving the realism of modeled ecosystem response sequences to human- and environmentally- forced pulse events. |
| 130,000 | No | 01/17/2025 | 2 years | University of Wisconsin Sea Grant | Wisconsin Sea Grant 2026-28 | Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, & Accessibility; Organic Contaminants & Marine Debris; Human Dimensions; Healthy Coastal Ecosystems; Sustainable Fisheries & Aquaculture; Resilient Communities & Economies. |
| 1,000,000 | No | 01/22/2025 | 2 years | BioMADE | Project Call 5: Technology & Innovation and NSF | Projects related to Technology and Innovation, Education and Workforce Development, and 4S (Safety, Security, Sustainability, and Social Responsibility) & aligns with the focus area(s)/BioMADE Technical Roadmap (limited to BioMADE members). |
| 700,000 | No | 01/23/2025 | 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. |
| 1,000,000 | No | 01/23/2025 | 3 years | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Organismal Response to Climate Change (ORCC) | Integrate the organismal mechanisms of response to climate change with eco-evolutionary approaches to better predict and mitigate the effects of a rapidly changing climate on earth’s living systems. |
| 540,000 | No | 01/23/2025 | 2 years | Simons Foundation | Simons Early Career Investigator in Aquatic Microbial Ecology and Evolution Awards | Microbial ecology, microbial biogeochemistry and/or microbial evolution in marine or natural freshwater systems, who will advance our understanding through field work, experiments, modeling or theory. |
| 875,000 | Yes | 01/26/2025 | 5 years | Packard Foundation | Packard Fellowships in Science and Engineering 2025 (Limited Submission) | Flexible funding to take risks and explore new frontiers for the nation’s most promising early-career scientists and engineers in their fields of study. |
| 300,000 | No | 01/28/2025 | 3 years | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | Discovery and Development of Novel Therapeutics for Select Fungal Pathogens (R21/R33 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) | Milestone-driven, early-stage translational research, drug discovery, and development of novel therapeutics against: Candida auris; Aspergillus fumigatus; Coccidioides; and Mucorales. |
| 6,000,000 | No | 01/28/2025 | 5 years | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | Centers for Accelerating Phage (Bacteriophage) Therapy to Combat ESKAPE Pathogens (CAPT-CEP) (P01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) | Centers will focus on developing preclinical assays, tools, and models for robust phage therapy research and development (R and D) and advancing phage clinical research. |
| 275,000 | No | 01/28/2025 | 2 years | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | Bidirectional Influences Between Adolescent Social Media Use and Mental Health (R21 Clinical Trial Optional) | Understanding bidirectional relationships between social media use & adolescent mental illness, psychiatric symptoms, & risk or resilience for psychopathology. |
| 1 | No | 01/28/2025 | 5 years | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | Bioengineering Partnerships with Industry (U01 Clinical Trial Optional) | Partnerships formed by academic & industrial investigators to accelerate the development & adoption of promising bioengineering tools & technologies that can address important biomedical problems. |
| 1,000,000 | No | 01/29/2025 | 3 years | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) | Establishing and Supporting Partnerships with Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) in Aquaculture: Regional Collaboratives | Create regional Aquaculture Collaboratives to enhance the engagement and support of aquaculture activities at Minority Serving Institutions. |
| 10,000,000 | Yes | 01/31/2025 | Burroughs Welcome Fund | Climate + Health Excellence (CHEX) Centers (Limited Submission) | Research, education, and public communications connections between fields that aim to understand and mitigate the impact of climate change on human health. | |
| 750,000 | No | 01/31/2025 | 1 year | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | Innovations for Exceptionally Low-Cost Monoclonal Antibody (mAb) Manufacturing | The goal is to catalyze and accelerate multiple, diverse, innovative bioprocessing approaches that hold the promise of low cost-of-goods mAbs. |
| 40,000 | No | 01/31/2025 | 5 years | Bureau of Land Management National Conservation Lands (BLM-NCL) | FY 2025 Bureau of Land Management National Conservation Lands - Management Studies Support Program | Studies aimed at increasing our understanding of the resources present on BLM lands, the values these areas protect, and the effectiveness of BLM’s resource management decisions. |
| 30,000 | No | 02/01/2025 | 1 year | Eastern Apiculture Society | Honey Bee Research Grants | Developed from donations received from beekeepers and others interested in funding research on topical problems in honey bees. |
| 500,000 | No | 02/03/2025 | 2 years | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program (HEGS) | Basic scientific research about the nature, causes, consequences, or evolution of the spatial dimensions of human behaviors, activities, & dynamics. |
| 1,000,000 | No | 02/03/2025 | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Building Synthetic Microbial Communities for Biology, Mitigating Climate Change, Sustainability and Biotechnology (Synthetic Communities) | Supports research into synthetic microbial communities, including how they form and evolve, how to use them to address biological questions, and/or how to build them for biotechnology or bioengineering applications. | |
| 3,500,000 | No | 02/03/2025 | 3 years | National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) | Carbon Cycle Science | Projects that make significant use of remote sensing data to improve understanding of changes in the distribution and cycling of carbon among the active land, ocean, coastal, and atmospheric reservoirs. |
| 1,250,000 | No | 02/05/2025 | 5 years | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | Modular R01s in Cancer Control and Population Sciences (R01 Clinical Trial Optional) | Advance cancer research in statistical & analytic methods, epidemiology, cancer survivorship, cancer-related behaviors & behavioral interventions. |
| 1 | No | 02/05/2025 | 5 years | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | Research With Activities Related to Diversity (ReWARD) (R01 Clinical Trial Optional) | Health-related research of scientists who are making a significant contribution to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) and who have no current NIH research project grant funding. |
| 50,000 | No | 02/05/2025 | 3 years | National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) | Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (fellowship) | Graduate student-designed & performed research projects that contribute to the Science Mission Directorate science, technology, and exploration goals. |
| 500,000 | No | 02/05/2025 | 2 years | Department of Defense (DOD-DARPA) | Young Faculty Award (YFA) 2025 | For tenured faculty within 3 years of their tenure date and have not received greater than $500k from DARPA or DoD combined to innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in science, devices, or systems. |
| 1 | No | 02/05/2025 | 5 years | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | Focused Technology Research and Development (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) | Supports projects relevant to the NIGMS mission that focus solely on the development of technologies with potential to enable acquisition of biomedical knowledge. |
| 1 | No | 02/05/2025 | 5 years | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | Impacts of climate change across the cancer control continuum (R01 Clinical Trial Optional) | Innovative research relevant to advancing the understanding of the effects of climate change across the cancer control continuum. |
| 1,750,000 | No | 02/05/2025 | 5 years | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | Secondary Analysis and Integration of Existing Data to Elucidate Cancer Risk and Related Outcomes (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) | The ultimate aim to elucidate cancer risk and related outcomes (e.g., risk prediction or reduction, survival, or response to treatment, etc.). |
| 1 | No | 02/05/2025 | 5 years | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | Microbial-based Cancer Imaging and Therapy - Bugs as Drugs (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) | Utilize bacteria, archaebacteria, bacteriophages, or other non-oncolytic viruses and their natural products to study the underlying mechanisms of the complex interactions between microorganisms, tumors, and the immune system. |
| 1,000,000 | No | 02/05/2025 | 4 years | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | NLM Research Grants in Biomedical Informatics and Data Science (R01 Clinical Trial Optional) | Biomedical discovery & data-powered health, integrating streams of complex & interconnected research outputs that can be translated into scientific insights, clinical care, public health practices, & personal wellness. |
| 450,000 | No | 02/05/2025 | 2 years | Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR) | Understanding Impacts of Hub Farm Resources in Expanding Adoption of Regenerative Agriculture Practices | Socio-economic research on both large and small dairy farms that aims to promote replication of hub farm best management practices across the farm environments. |
| 1 | No | 02/10/2025 | 10 years | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Steenbock Professorship in Biological Sciences (Internal Competition) | Faculty who have made major contributions to the advancement of knowledge, primarily through their research endeavors at UW-Madison, but also as a result of their teaching and service activities. |
| 1 | 02/12/2025 | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Science of Learning and Augmented Intelligence | Develops basic theoretical insights and fundamental knowledge about principles, processes and mechanisms of learning, and about augmented intelligence. | ||
| 115,000 | No | 02/13/2025 | 3 years | National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA-NIFA) | Smith-Lever Special Needs Competitive Grants Program | To enable the Cooperative Extension System to assist in preparing for, providing an educational response to, recovering from, and mitigating disasters and disaster threats. |
| 275,000 | No | 02/14/2025 | 2 years | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | Mechanistic links between diet, lipid metabolism, and tumor growth and progression (UH2 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) | Mechanistic investigations of the links between diet, lipid metabolism and tumor growth and progression. |
| 1,000,000 | No | 02/14/2025 | 3 years | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Geosciences Open Science Ecosystem (GEO OSE) | Supports development of innovative open science approaches that advance geosciences research & education through leveraging expanding information resources & computing capabilities. |
| 3,000,000 | No | 02/14/2025 | 4 years | National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) | Earth Action: Ecological Conservation | Projects that apply Earth observations to improve or develop decision-making activities in ecological conservation and management. |
| 10,000 | No | 02/15/2025 | 1 year | Water@UW-Madison | Community-Based Water Research Grants | Supports UW-Madison faculty, staff, or graduate students that engage community organizations, public sector entities, or grassroots groups to address water-related challenges. |
| 275,000 | No | 02/16/2025 | 2 years | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | Microbial-based Cancer Imaging and Therapy - Bugs as Drugs (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) | Projects can focus on using microorganisms as anti-tumor agents, as activators of anti-tumor immunity, or as delivery vehicles for treatment, diagnosis, or imaging, complementing or synergizing with existing tools and approaches. |
| 525,000 | No | 02/18/2025 | 3 years | American Federation for Aging Research | Glenn Foundation for Medical Research (GFMR) Discovery Award | Research projects with strong potential to develop pioneering discoveries for understanding the underlying biological mechanisms that govern normal human aging and its related physiological decline. |
| 375,000 | No | 02/19/2025 | 3 years | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | NIDCD Early Career Research(ECR) Award (R21 Clinical Trial Optional) | Projects from early career researchers focused on hearing, balance, smell, taste, voice, speech, or language btain sufficient preliminary data for a subsequent R01 application. |
| 1,000,000 | No | 02/20/2025 | 3 years | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Experiential Learning for Emerging and Novel Technologies (ExLENT) | To support experiential learning opportunities for individuals from diverse professional and educational backgrounds that will increase access to, and interest in, career pathways in emerging technology fields. |
| 50,000,000 | No | 02/27/2025 | 7 years | Department of Energy (DOE) | Energy Improvements in Rural or Remote Areas | Provides support for rural and remote communities to build clean energy projects that benefit their communities. |
| 20,000 | No | 02/28/2025 | 2 years | Rainforest Alliance | Kleinhans Fellowship for Community Forestry Research | Funds research that is oriented toward solving real-world problems as defined by community forest enterprises (CFEs). |
| 500,000 | No | 03/03/2025 | 3 years | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Emerging Mathematics in Biology (eMB) | The program emphasizes the uses of mathematical methodologies to advance our understanding of complex, dynamic, and heterogeneous biological systems at all scales. |
| 600,000 | No | 03/03/2025 | 3 years | National Science Foundation (NSF) | NSF Boosting Research Ideas for Transformative and Equitable Advances in Engineering (BRITE) | Proposals that take risks not typically associated with core programs by pivoting to research areas where they have no proven track record or gaining knowledge from a different discipline to forge new directions in their research field. |
| 1,000,000 | No | 03/10/2025 | 5 years | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | Mitochondrial-associated Mechanisms of Neuropathological and Immunodeficient Aging in the Context of HIV and SUD (R01 Clinical Trials Not Allowed) | Promote research investigating protective and pathogenic mechanisms at the nexus of mitochondria function and aging in the context of HIV infection and exposure to addictive substances. |
| 3,400,000 | No | 03/18/2025 | 4 years | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | Environmental Health Sciences Core Centers Program (P30 Clinical Trials Optional) | The overall goal of an EHSCC is to identify and capitalize on emerging issues that advance improving the understanding of the relationships among environmental exposures, human biology, and disease. |
| 7,500,000 | No | 03/26/2025 | 5 years | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Interdisciplinary Research Units (CARBIRUs) (P01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) | Multidisciplinary research programs focused on discovery to early development research to inform new approaches to prevent, diagnose, and treat antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections. |
| 200,000 | No | 04/02/2025 | 2 years | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Sea Grant College Program (SG) | FY2025 Disaster Preparedness for Coastal Communities | To support innovative all-hazard preparedness, response, and recovery initiatives for coastal communities. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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). |
| 2,000,000 | No | 03/03/2025 | 6 years | National Science Foundation (NSF) | NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Program (S-STEM) | To enable academically talented, low-income students to pursue successful careers in promising STEM fields. |
| 800,000 | No | 02/03/2025 | 2 years | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | Time-Sensitive Research Opportunities in Environmental Health Sciences (R21 Clinical Trials Not Allowed) | To support research in environmental health science in which an event occurance provides a limited window to collect data to support the assessment of exposures and human health impact. |
| 750,000 | No | 02/03/2025 | 3 years | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Science and Technology Studies (STS) | Research that addresses complex socio-technical and techno-scientific problems from multiple perspectives that capture the different social facets of the problem. |
| 96,000 | No | 01/09/2025 | 1 year | United States Geological Survey (USGS) | Cooperative Agreement for affiliated Partner with Great Lakes – Northern Forest Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) | Research to describe the growth and diet of alewife in the nearshore environments across Lake Michigan. |
| 1 | No | 03/07/2025 | 3 years | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | In Vivo Non-Invasive Optical Imaging Approaches for Biological Systems (UG3/UH3 Clinical Trials Not Allowed | To develop integrated technologies that can radically increase the depth, speed and scope of imaging in a wide range of biological systems. |
| 350,000 | No | 01/01/1111 | 2 years | Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) | Great Lakes Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Grantmaking Program | The funds are meant to fund community-led efforts that address high-priority local environmental justice, climate, and public health issues. |
| 3,500,000 | No | 02/13/2025 | 4 years | National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA-NIFA) | Organic Agriculture Research and Extension Initiative | Projects that will enhance the ability of producers and processors who have already adopted organic standards to grow and market high quality organic agricultural products. |
| 1 | No | 01/01/1111 | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Water, Landscape, and Critical Zone Processes (WaLCZ) | Advance fundamental knowledge in Earth surface processes, leading to transformational discoveries in Earth Sciences. | |
| 1 | No | 01/01/1111 | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Structure and Physics of the Solid Earth (SPSE) | 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) | Life and Environments Through Time | Advances knowledge about the patterns and processes relating to the origin and evolution of Earth’s climate, environments, life, and sedimentary record. | |
| 250,000 | No | 01/06/2025 | Foreign Agricultural Service (USDA-FAS) | Technical Support for Ukraine’s Dairy Sector​ | To ​provide complementary support to USDA/FAS’s work with a Ukrainian local partner on strengthening Ukraine’s dairy sector. | |
| 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. |
| 5,300,000 | No | 02/04/2025 | 3 years | Fish and Wildlife Service (DOI-FWS) | F25AS00376 MENTOR - ApeHealth | Strengthen capacity within Central African ape range states to effectively address great ape and broader wildlife health security issues. |
| 80,000 | Yes | 02/07/2025 | 1 year | National Forest Foundation (NFF) | Matching Awards Program Connecting People to Forests (Limited Submission) | Must take place on US National Forests and Grasslands or adjacent public lands, and demonstrate benefit to National Forest System lands. |
| 250,000 | No | 01/06/2025 | Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) & Seeding The Future Foundation | Seeding the Future - Global Food System Challenge | To inspire and support innovative, diverse, and multidisciplinary teams to create game-changing innovations that will help transform the food system. | |
| 700,000 | Yes | 01/17/2025 | 3 years | G. Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Foundation | Mathers Foundation Award (Limited Submission) | Immunology, microbiome, structural biology, cellular physiology, cancer biology, genetics, genomics, microbiology and infectious diseases, stem cell biology, and neuroscience. |
| 150,000 | No | 02/06/2025 | 2 years | Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant College Program (IISG) | Lake Michigan Cooperative Science and Monitoring Initiative | Research that addresses the 2025 Lake Michigan Cooperative Science and Monitoring Initiative (CSMI) priorities: nearshore dynamics and overwinter sampling. |
| 1 | No | 01/01/1111 | 5 years | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Chemical Evolution of the Solid Earth and Volcanology (CESEV) | The program encourages a wide range of 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. |
| 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. |
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