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Current Funding Opportunities

The following is a list of current opportunities populated by the Office of Research and Innovation’s Funding Announcements. Funding Announcements is a weekly list of funding opportunities that aims to keep the UNL community informed of limited submission competitions, external funding opportunities, and internal funding opportunities. If you would like to subscribe to Funding Announcements, please contact Jackson Hardin (jhardin11@unl.edu), funding opportunity coordinator.

Agriculture and Rural Development

American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

ASPCA Research Grants
https://www.aspcapro.org/grant/2025/03/17/2025-aspca-research-grants?utm_source=Funding+Supplement&utm_campaign=d428ad77ef-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_06_03_07_47&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-d428ad77ef-712519256
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/31/2025

This opportunity seeks high-quality research across a variety of disciplines and methods that has clear potential to benefit animals, either directly or through effecting systems-level change.

Clif Family Foundation

Farming and Environmental Grants
https://cliffamilyfoundation.org/grants-program?utm_source=Funding+Supplement&utm_campaign=35e4143c46-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_07_08_05_42&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-35e4143c46-712519256#open-call
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/01/2025

This opportunity seeks to support general operating costs or specific projects related to regenerative and organic farming, food production workers’ health and safety, climate justice, healthy food access, inclusive outdoor access, and indoor and outdoor pollution safety.

Department of Agriculture

Food for Progress Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359897
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/31/2025

This program provides for the donation of U.S. agricultural commodities to developing countries and emerging democracies committed to introducing and expanding free enterprise in the agricultural sector.

Binational Agricultural Research and Development Fund

Pioneer Funding Track
https://www.bard-isus.org/opportunities/pioneer-funding-track/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/15/2025

This opportunity is dedicated to supporting innovative agricultural research projects that promise significant, tangible outcomes. The objective of this track is to foster the development of new directions, pioneering concepts, and novel solutions that address critical challenges in the agricultural sciences.

Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research

Rapid Outcomes from Agricultural Research
https://foundationfar.org/programs/rapid-outcomes-from-agricultural-research/

This opportunity seeks to support research and outreach in response to emerging or unanticipated threats to the nation’s food supply or agricultural systems.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

Arts and Humanities

National Archives and Records Administration

Archival Projects
https://www.archives.gov/nhprc/announcement/archival.html
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 08/15/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 11/05/2025

This opportunity seeks archival projects that will significantly improve online public discovery and use of historical records collections. They welcome projects that engage the public, expand civic education, and promote understanding of the nation’s history, democracy, and culture from the founding era to the present day.

Terra Foundation for American Art

Collections Grants
https://www.terraamericanart.org/grant-program/collections-grants/
Sponsor Letter of Intent Deadline: 08/04/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 10/06/2025

This opportunity seeks to support permanent collection projects that broaden understanding and pursue inclusive and expansive practices of American art, whether through reinstallation or temporary exhibitions drawn primarily from an institution’s permanent collection.

Department of the Interior

Emergency Supplemental Historic Preservation Fund – Preservation
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358913
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/15/2025

This program supports recovery and related expenses for historic and cultural resources in areas impacted by natural disasters that have received a major disaster declaration pursuant to the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (Stafford Act).

National Geographic Society

Enduring Impacts: Archaeology of Sustainability
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/society/grants-and-investments/rfp-enduring-impacts-archaeology-of-sustainability/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/01/2025

This opportunity seeks projects focused on the archaeology of sustainable communities and landscapes in changing climates.

J.M Kaplan Fund and Hawthornden Foundation

Furthermore Nonfiction Book Publishing
https://furthermore.org/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/01/2025

This opportunity seeks work that will appeal to an informed general audience and give evidence of high standards in writing, design, and production. Funding may be applied to specific publication components such as writing, research, editing, indexing, design, illustration, photography, and printing and binding.

Kress Foundation

History of Art
https://www.kressfoundation.org/Programs/Grants/History-of-Art
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/01/2025

This opportunity supports scholarly projects that will enhance the appreciation and understanding of European works of art and architecture from antiquity to the early 19th century.

Queer Art

Illuminations Grant
https://www.queer-art.org/illuminations-grant
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/02/2025

This opportunity aims to shed light on the under-recognized contributions of Black trans women visual artists and provide critical support to their continuing work.

National Endowment for the Humanities

National Garden of American Heroes: Statues
https://www.neh.gov/program/national-garden-american-heroes-statues
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/01/2025

This program supports the design and creation of statues of historical figures from America’s past who have contributed to our cultural, scientific, economic, and political heritage.

National Endowment for the Humanities

Public Impact Projects Celebrating America’s 250th Anniversary
https://www.neh.gov/program/public-impact-projects-celebrating-americas-250th-anniversary
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/09/2025

This opportunity seeks to assist cultural organizations in expanding the scope, reach, and excellence of public programs that examine the founding of the nation and the significance of the Declaration of Independence.

National Endowment for the Humanities

Scholarly Editions in American History
https://www.neh.gov/grants/research/scholarly-editions-and-translations-grants
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 09/29/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 12/03/2025

This opportunity seeks to support collaborative teams who are editing, annotating, and translating foundational humanities texts that are vital to generating new scholarship but are inaccessible or only available in inadequate editions or translations.

PEN America

Writers Aid Initiative
https://pen.org/us-writers-aid-initiative/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/15/2025

This opportunity offers grants for writers in the United States facing acute financial need following an emergency situation.

Centers

Department of Education

IDEA Data Management Center
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359811
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/25/2025

This opportunity seeks to fund a cooperative agreement to establish and operate an IDEA Data Management Center.

Department of Education

National Center to Improve Faculty Capacity to Use Educational Technology in Special Education Personnel and Leadership Preparation Programs
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359809
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/25/2025

This opportunity seeks to fund a cooperative agreement to establish and operate a national center to improve faculty capacity to use educational technology in special education personnel and leadership preparation programs.

Conservation and the Environment

Department of Commerce

Broad Agency Announcement Type: Initial
https://apply07.grants.gov/apply/opportunities/instructions/PKG00287654-instructions.pdf
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/30/2026

This Broad Agency Announcement is a mechanism to encourage research, education and outreach, innovative projects, or sponsorships that are not addressed through National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s competitive discretionary programs.

Proposals are accepted at any time.

Department of the Interior

Bureau of Land Management Cultural and Paleontological Resource Management- Bureau wide
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359679
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/11/2025

This opportunity seeks to develop partnerships to improve access to, and use of, heritage resources, and promote their educational, scientific, cultural, and recreational values in a manner that meets U.S. Department of the Interior priorities and Cultural Heritage and Paleontology Program goals.

Department of the Interior

Bureau of Land Management National Conservation Lands- Management Studies Support Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359680
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/11/2025

This opportunity seeks to support studies and other activities aimed at increasing our understanding of the resources present on the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands, the values these areas protect, and the effectiveness of BLM’s management decisions.

National Forest Foundation

Collaborative Capacity Program – Mini Grant
https://www.nationalforests.org/grant-programs/collab-capacity
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/25/2025

These opportunities provide resources to support collaborative activities that increase wildfire resilience, recreation opportunities, forest health, and rural economies.

National Forest Foundation

Collaborative Capacity Program – Standard Grant
https://www.nationalforests.org/grant-programs/collab-capacity
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/01/2025

These opportunities provide resources to support collaborative activities that increase wildfire resilience, recreation opportunities, forest health, and rural economies.

National Science Foundation

Earth Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowships
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/ear-pf-earth-sciences-postdoctoral-fellowships/nsf25-500/solicitation
Sponsor Application Deadline: 10/29/2025

This 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.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Earth Venture Suborbital-4 Snow4Flow Science Team
https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary.do?solId={65B62BBE-4082-0E30-D642-353E3D70D98F}&path=&method=init
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 08/12/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/09/2025

This opportunity seeks to improve our understanding of the state and future of Northern Hemisphere glacier systems.

Department of the Interior

Joint Fire Science Program
https://www.firescience.gov/ords/prd/jf_jfsp/jf_jfsp/r/jfspublic/jfsp-funding-announcements1?session=2104517029397
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/18/2025

This opportunity seeks wildland fire science research to support effective land management decisions, complementing and extending the capabilities of other federal fire research programs.

National Science Foundation

Life and Environments Through Time
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/let-life-environments-through-time/nsf25-517/solicitation

This program supports research that advances knowledge about the patterns and processes relating to the origin and evolution of Earth’s climate, environments, life, and sedimentary record.

Proposals can be submitted at any time.

Department of the Interior

National Outreach and Communications Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359759
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/17/2025

This opportunity aims to increase participation in recreational fishing and boating and promote public understanding of the value of conserving the nation’s aquatic natural resources.

Department of the Interior

Partners for Fish and Wildlife
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358381
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/30/2025

This program helps private landowners restore and protect habitats for fish and wildlife. It offers both technical assistance and financial support, mainly through cooperative agreements.

Department of the Interior

Plant Conservation and Restoration Management
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359779
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/23/2025

This opportunity seeks to increase the quantity of native seed that is available to stabilize soils and protect human health and safety following wildfires, hurricanes, and other natural disasters, meet permitting requirements for energy development, and improve market availability of native seed through partnerships with farmers and small producers.

Department of the Interior

Regional Fire Science Exchange
https://www.firescience.gov/ords/prd/jf_jfsp/jf_jfsp/r/jfspublic/jfsp-funding-announcements1?session=5932872022003
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/18/2025

This opportunity seeks proposals to lead and execute a particular regional fire science exchange for a period of two years. The program brings fire, fuel, natural resource, and land managers, practitioners, and scientists together to address regional wildland fire management needs and challenges.

National Science Foundation

Structure and Physics of the Solid Earth
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/spse-structure-physics-solid-earth/nsf25-518/solicitation

This aims to advance fundamental knowledge about the ongoing dynamical processes over the age of the Earth that evolve the structure of planet Earth and underpin geohazards.

Proposals can be submitted at any time.

Department of the Interior

U.S. Standard Grants Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358607
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/10/2025

This opportunity seeks to promote partnerships between public agencies and groups interested in long-term protection, restoration, and/or enhancement of wetlands and associated uplands habitats for the benefit of all wetlands-associated migratory birds; maintaining and improving the current distributions of wetlands-associated migratory bird populations; and maintaining an abundance of waterfowl and other populations of wetlands-associated migratory birds consistent with the objectives of the North American Waterfowl Management Plan.

Department of Defense

Virtual Wildfire Modeling and Immersive Training Prize Challenge
https://www.challenge.gov/?challenge=strategic-environmental-research-and-development-program-serdp-virtual-wildfire-training-challenge&tab=overview&utm_campaign=35e4143c46-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_07_08_05_42&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Funding%20Supplement&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-35e4143c46-712519256
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/14/2025

This opportunity seeks innovative solutions that use virtual and augmented reality technologies to enhance wildfire response and prescribed fire training.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Water Quality Applications
https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary.do?solId={345E142D-1435-CDC0-E1BA-A5F7CC815049}&path=&method=init
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 08/19/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 10/21/2025

This opportunity seeks decision-support tools that enhance inland and nearshore coastal water quality management using National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Earth observation data in support of the goals of the NASA Earth Action Water Resources Program and the NASA Earth Science Division’s Earth Science to Action strategy.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Water Resources Applications
https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary.do?solId={50B720B3-CD96-3DB2-9591-E8A4668A6A4D}&path=&method=init
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 09/05/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 11/14/2025

This opportunity supports the integration of National Aeronautics and Space Administration Earth observations into decision-making for water management through co-developed, user-centered solutions.

National Science Foundation

Water, Landscape, and Critical Zone Processes
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/walcz-water-landscape-critical-zone-processes/nsf25-519/solicitation

This program supports research on the Earth’s near-surface environment and how that environment responds to change.

Proposals can be submitted at any time.

Department of the Interior

Wildlife Resource Management Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359788
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/23/2025

This opportunity seeks to maintain functioning wildlife habitats, develop and implement habitat restoration projects, and maintain inventory and monitoring of priority habitats and species by tracking trends and use on public lands.

Defense

Department of Defense

Air Dominance Broad Agency Announcement
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358674

This opportunity seeks advancements in research and technology aimed at improving the technology and weaponry in aircrafts.

White papers may be submitted at any time. Full applications may be submitted by invitation only.

Department of Defense

Air Force Young Investigator Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359762
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 07/25/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/19/2025

This opportunity supports individual scientists and engineers who have either received a Ph.D. or equivalent degrees post 01 April 2018. These scientists and engineers must have shown exceptional ability and promise for conducting basic research.

Department of Defense

CoasterChase
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359832
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 07/24/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/28/2025

This opportunity seeks to understand whether stimulating neurons in the enteric nervous system (specifically the small intestine) can modulate the warfighter stress response under extreme conditions, improving training recall and decision-making at the moment and mitigating the development of post-traumatic stress disorder in the long term.

Department of Defense

Communications and Networking Applied Research
https://grants.gov/search-results-detail/359194?utm_source=Funding+Supplement&utm_campaign=d428ad77ef-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_06_03_07_47&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-d428ad77ef-712519256
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 07/11/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/26/2025

This opportunity seeks to support the Navy’s Information Warfare vision by developing measurable advances in technology that can directly enable and enhance end-to-end connectivity and quality-of-service for mission-critical information exchange among widely dispersed naval, joint, and coalition forces.

Department of Defense

Engineer Research and Development Center Broad Agency Announcement
https://www.erdcwerx.org/u-s-army-engineer-research-and-development-center-broad-agency-announcement/

This broad agency announcement seeks research for various development topic areas, including 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.

Pre-applications are accepted at any time. Full applications may be submitted by invitation only.

Department of Defense

Impeding Military-Civil Fusion Through Trade Controls
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359914?utm_source=Funding+Supplement&utm_campaign=35e4143c46-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_07_08_05_42&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-35e4143c46-712519256
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/06/2025

This opportunity seeks to take effective measures to prevent the flow of advanced technologies to the Chinese Communist Party that would enable it to advance its military, technological, and economic dominance goals.

Department of Defense

Long Range Broad Agency Announcement for Navy and Marine Corps Science and Technology
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/356605
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/30/2025

This opportunity is interested in receiving proposals for long-range science and technology projects that offer potential for advancement and improvement of Navy and Marine Corps operations.

Proposals may be submitted at any time until September 30, 2025.

Department of Defense

Methodological Advancements for Generalizable Insights into Complex Systems
https://sam.gov/opp/093a0c0386e6416ea3f48a7aea5b0047/view?utm_source=Funding%20Supplement&utm_campaign=1b006a51f4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_04_15_07_08&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-1b006a51f4-712519256
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/10/2025

This opportunity seeks paradigm-shifting approaches for modeling complex, dynamic systems for predicting collective human behavior. Addressing this challenge will require the design of entirely new methodologies, metrics, tools and theoretical frameworks that can more accurately and reliably forecast human behavior by addressing the limitations and complexities that current methods struggle to capture.

Department of Defense

Naval Aviation North Stars Enterprise-Wide Broad Agency Announcement
https://sam.gov/opp/91c05c3653174cc5b8aae0069787ccbb/view?utm_source=Funding%20Supplement&utm_campaign=77015d3b56-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_06_10_07_38&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-77015d3b56-712519256
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 09/03/2025

This opportunity seeks research and development for rapid prototyping, demonstration, and experimentation projects that offer potential for advancements and improvements in Integrated Warfighting Capability across the Naval Aviation mission areas supporting Naval Operations and, as applicable, to Naval Air Systems Command and subordinate commands.

White papers may be submitted at any time.

Department of Defense

Quantum Characterization, Calibration, and Control
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359106
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/07/2025

This opportunity seeks to advance the state-of-the-art to 1) quantitatively assess the performance of qubit operations in multi-qubit circuits and to extract error-models, 2) bring up multi-qubit circuits for high-performance operations near or better than fault-tolerance thresholds, and 3) control techniques to operate multi-qubit circuits operating near or better than fault-tolerant thresholds, accounting for the specifics of error-models for the circuit.

Department of Defense

Rads to Watts
https://sam.gov/opp/bb29898410fa46a7ba52e930b44ebeea/view?utm_source=Funding%20Supplement&utm_campaign=6799779cd2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_06_24_08_21&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-6799779cd2-712519256
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 07/10/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/20/2025

This opportunity seeks innovative proposals for directly converting radiation energy into electricity, focusing on radiation voltaics (also known as radiovoltaics).

Department of Defense

Research Interests of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359050

This opportunity seeks to support broad-based scientific and engineering research with the potential to profoundly impact future U.S. Air Force and Space Force capabilities.

Application deadlines vary by program.

Department of Defense

Strategic Trends Division Broad Agency Announcement
https://sam.gov/opp/cb08167441a2486b8eccca530b4b5f76/view?utm_source=Funding%20Supplement&utm_campaign=732590c7ea-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_05_06_07_50&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-732590c7ea-712519256

This opportunity seeks outstanding public and private research institutions to deliver research products that generate operationally- relevant, timely, credible, actionable insights and recommendations into emerging threats within Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s mission space in order to enable and guide warfighter understanding of the range of military operations in the next five (5) to ten (10) years.

White papers and proposals are accepted on a rolling basis.

Department of Defense

Toxic Exposures Investigator-Initiated Research Award
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359255
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 07/29/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 10/16/2025

This opportunity seeks to support studies that will make an important contribution toward research and/or patient care for diseases or conditions associated with military-related toxic exposures.

Department of Defense

Young Investigator Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359763
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/01/2025

This opportunity seeks to identify and support academic scientists and engineers who are in their first or second full-time tenure-track or tenure-track-equivalent academic appointment, who have received their PhD or equivalent degree on or after January 1, 2018, and who show exceptional promise for doing creative research.

Education and Outreach

Department of Education

American History and Civics Education National Activities – Seminars for America’s Semiquincentennial
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359774
Sponsor Letter of Intent Deadline: 07/08/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/23/2025

This opportunity seeks to promote new and existing evidence-based strategies to encourage innovative American history, civics and government, and geography instruction.

Department of Education

Innovative Rehabilitation Training Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359822
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/28/2025

This opportunity seeks to develop new types of training programs for rehabilitation personnel and to demonstrate the effectiveness of these new types of training programs for rehabilitation personnel in providing rehabilitation services to individuals with disabilities.

Department of Education

National Technical Assistance Center To Improve State Capacity To Collect, Report, Analyze, and Use Accurate IDEA Part B and Part C Fiscal Data
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359815
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/25/2025

This opportunity seeks to improve the capacity of States to meet the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act data collection and reporting requirements.

Department of Education

National Vocational Rehabilitation Technical Assistance Center
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359716
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/25/2025

This opportunity seeks to expand and improve the provision of vocational rehabilitation and other services authorized under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Rehabilitation Act) or to further the purposes and policies in sections 2(b) and (c) of the Rehabilitation Act by supporting activities that increase the provision, extent, availability, scope, and quality of rehabilitation services under the Act.

Department of Commerce

Regional Alliances and Multistakeholder Partnerships to Stimulate Cybersecurity Education and Workforce Development
https://grants.gov/search-results-detail/358792?utm_source=Funding+Supplement&utm_campaign=732590c7ea-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_05_06_07_50&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-732590c7ea-712519256
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/01/2025

This opportunity is seeking to establish community-based partnerships to develop cybersecurity career pathways that address local workforce needs.

Department of Education

Rehabilitation Training: Rehabilitation Long-Term Training Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359717
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/17/2025

This program seeks to provide financial assistance for academic training areas of personnel shortages in vocational rehabilitation identified by the Secretary and published in a notice in the Federal Register.

Brady Education Foundation

Research Project and Existing Program Evaluation Proposals
https://bradyeducationfoundation.org/application-guidelines/
Sponsor Letter of Intent Deadline: 10/30/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 11/01/2025

These opportunities seek to improve educational outcomes for children, including those living in low-income communities, and promote collaboration among researchers, educators, and other stakeholders.

National Science Foundation

Science of Science: Discovery, Communication and Impact
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/sosdci-science-science-discovery-communication-impact
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/09/2025

This opportunity is designed to advance theory and knowledge about increasing the public value of scientific activity.

Department of Defense

Staff Research Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359236
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/31/2030

This opportunity seeks to enable the U.S. Army Research Office (ARO) scientific staff to maintain and expand professional competence in support of fulfilling the ARO mission through the conduct of hands-on, basic research.

Department of Education

Stepping-Up Technology Implementation
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359808
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/25/2025

This opportunity seeks to support the implementation of evidence-based, technology-based tools or approaches that improve reading outcomes for children with or at risk for disabilities in pre-kindergarten, elementary, middle, or high school instructional settings.

Department of Education

Technical Assistance and Dissemination to Improve Services and Results for Children with Disabilities Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359755
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/18/2025

This opportunity seeks to promote academic achievement and to improve results for children with disabilities by providing technical assistance, supporting model demonstration projects, disseminating useful information, and implementing activities that are supported by scientifically based research.

Engineering and Technology

National Science Foundation

Cyberinfrastructure for Sustained Scientific Innovation
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/cssi-cyberinfrastructure-sustained-scientific-innovation/nsf22-632/solicitation
Sponsor Application Deadline: 12/01/2025

This program seeks to enable funding opportunities that are flexible and responsive to the evolving and emerging needs in cyberinfrastructure.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Innovate
https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary.do?solId={9E3216E9-ADB7-B72A-A1D7-12EC8050DC3F}&path=&method=init
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/31/2026

This opportunity seeks to rapidly advance the use of satellite observations of the Earth to efficiently support the U.S. economy, national security, and any other applications topics relevant to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Earth Science to Action Strategy.

Proposals may be submitted at any time.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Innovative Advanced Concepts Phase I
https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary.do?solId={6602ED2F-370B-1666-79E9-795B71D6730D}&path=&method=init
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 07/15/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 10/07/2025

This opportunity seeks early-stage feasibility studies of visionary concepts that address national government and commercial aerospace goals. Concepts are solicited from any field of study that offers a radically different approach or disruptive innovation that may significantly enhance or enable new human or robotic science and exploration missions.

National Science Foundation

Mind, Machine and Motor Nexus
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/m3x-mind-machine-motor-nexus

This opportunity supports fundamental research that enables intelligent engineered systems and humans to engage in bidirectional interaction in a physics-based environment to enhance and ensure safety, productivity, and well-being.

Proposals may be submitted at any time.

National Science Foundation

Security, Privacy, and Trust in Cyberspace
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/satc-20-security-privacy-trust-cyberspace/nsf25-515/solicitation
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/29/2025

This opportunity aims to build trust in all aspects of global cyber ecosystems. Trust can assume different meanings according to the context but, for the purposes of this solicitation, is broadly defined to include concepts covering security, privacy, and resilience of cyberspace, particularly in the face of malicious intent and specific threats. This opportunity welcomes proposals that address trust in cyberspace that draw on expertise in one or more of these areas: computer and information science and engineering; education; mathematics; statistics; and social, behavioral, and economic sciences.

National Science Foundation

Track 1: Verticals-enabling Intelligent Network Systems
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/vines-verticals-enabling-intelligent-network-systems/nsf25-539/solicitation
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/25/2025

This opportunity seeks to support both fundamental research and vertical-driven technology development, demonstration, and translation activities that will lead to leaps in performance and capabilities of next-generation advanced intelligent network systems that span the user-edge-core-cloud continuum.

National Science Foundation

Track 2: Verticals-enabling Intelligent Network Systems
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/vines-verticals-enabling-intelligent-network-systems/nsf25-539/solicitation
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 08/25/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/25/2025

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

User-Centered Applications with Large Earth Foundation Models
https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary.do?solId={13B2AE21-8000-540F-C1E0-EFA2D7271A19}&path=&method=init
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 11/04/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 12/09/2025

This opportunity supports the development of decision-support tools based on Prithvi Earth Observation and Prithvi-Weather and Climate, large Earth foundation models developed jointly by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and IBM. Projects must advance the development of functional applications for a specific end user and decision-making need and incorporate end-user feedback throughout the project’s duration.

External Funding Opportunities

American Association for Cancer Research

AACR-Hope Scarves Metastatic Breast Cancer Innovation and Discovery Grant
https://www.aacr.org/grants/aacr-hope-scarves-metastatic-breast-cancer-innovation-and-discovery-grant/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/24/2025

This opportunity aims to foster innovation and advance the translation of promising ideas in metastatic breast cancer research, including the exploration of potential therapeutic targets and biomarkers.

National Institutes of Health

Advanced-Stage Development and Utilization of Research Infrastructure for Interdisciplinary Aging Studies (R33 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-219.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/02/2025

This opportunity seeks applications that propose to support advanced-stage development and utilization of novel research infrastructure to advance the science of aging in specific areas requiring interdisciplinary partnerships or collaborations.

Department of Housing and Urban Development

Advancing Building Technology Grant Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359825
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/24/2025

This opportunity seeks research proposals that prioritize research studies on emerging innovative building technologies such as offsite construction, 3-D printed homes, etc., as well as other mechanisms such as building code and zoning reforms to address the housing supply crisis.

Department of Defense

Air Dominance Broad Agency Announcement
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358674

This opportunity seeks advancements in research and technology aimed at improving the technology and weaponry in aircrafts.

White papers may be submitted at any time. Full applications may be submitted by invitation only.

Department of Defense

Air Force Young Investigator Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359762
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 07/25/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/19/2025

Department of Education

This opportunity seeks to promote new and existing evidence-based strategies to encourage innovative American history, civics and government, and geography instruction.

Milken Institute

Ann Theodore Foundation Learning Opportunities in Medicine and Sarcoidosis
https://uofnelincoln.sharepoint.com/:b:/s/UNL-ResearchDevelopmentGroup/EbcjwoUucVFPhFYpHciwIZ8BEf4dcKCoTmxhN8nhfaPnyA?e=FXxFiU
Sponsor Application Deadline: 10/27/2025

This opportunity seeks to provide funding support for early career researchers interested in sarcoidosis research.

National Science Foundation

Applied Mathematics
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/applied-mathematics
Sponsor Application Deadline: 11/17/2025

This opportunity supports mathematics research motivated by and contributing to the solution of problems arising in science and engineering.

National Archives and Records Administration

Archival Projects
https://www.archives.gov/nhprc/announcement/archival.html
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 08/15/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 11/05/2025

American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

This opportunity seeks high-quality research across a variety of disciplines and methods that has clear potential to benefit animals, either directly or through effecting systems-level change.

National Institutes of Health

Blueprint MedTech Translator (UG3/UH3 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-383.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Letter of Intent Deadline: 07/31/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/29/2025

This opportunity seeks to encourage applications from investigators to pursue translational activities and clinical studies to advance the development of medical devices to prevent, monitor, diagnose, and treat disorders within the missions of the participating National Institutes of Health (NIH) institutes and centers, as well as the NIH Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies and The Helping to End Addiction Long-term Initiatives.

Department of Commerce

Broad Agency Announcement Type: Initial
https://apply07.grants.gov/apply/opportunities/instructions/PKG00287654-instructions.pdf
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/30/2026

Proposals are accepted at any time.

Department of the Interior

Bureau of Land Management Cultural and Paleontological Resource Management- Bureau wide
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359679
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/11/2025

Department of the Interior

Bureau of Land Management National Conservation Lands- Management Studies Support Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359680
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/11/2025

Angelman Syndrome Foundation

Call for Proposals
https://www.angelman.org/as-research/call-for-proposals/?utm_source=Funding+Supplement&utm_campaign=cd09d6c4f4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_04_08_08_43&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-cd09d6c4f4-712519256
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/15/2025

This opportunity is accepting proposals for Angelman syndrome (AS)-related research projects. Priority will be given to the following topics: 1) projects studying or correcting the heterozygous effect of non-UBE3A genes in deletion, 2) projects studying the potential results of increasing UBE3A after therapies or for some subtypes of AS, 3) projects studying the delivery of therapies and potential for improvement, or 4) symptomatic therapies that impact the daily life of people with Angelman syndrome and their families.

National Institutes of Health

Chemical Countermeasures Research Program Initiative: Basic Research on The Deleterious Effects of Acute Exposure to Ultra-Potent Synthetic Opioids (R01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-DA-26-034.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 10/19/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 11/18/2025

This opportunity will support research towards understanding and mitigating the deleterious effects of acute exposure to Ultra-Potent Synthetic opioids (e.g., fentanyl, carfentanil, nitazenes) and their combinations (e.g., fentanyl and xylazine).

Rita Allen Foundation

Civic Science Collaboration
https://centerforcooperativemedia.org/civicscience/about/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/31/2025

This opportunity seeks to bridge the gap between scientists, media, and communities, with a focus on increasing public participation in science, expanding public deliberation about emerging science, and creating opportunities for science to be informed by diverse communities.

Burroughs Wellcome Fund

Climate Change and Human Health Seed Grants
https://www.bwfund.org/funding-opportunities/climate-change-and-human-health/climate-change-and-human-health-seed-grants/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/31/2026

This opportunity is 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.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

Department of Defense

CoasterChase
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359832
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 07/24/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/28/2025

National Forest Foundation

Collaborative Capacity Program – Mini Grant
https://www.nationalforests.org/grant-programs/collab-capacity
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/25/2025

These opportunities provide resources to support collaborative activities that increase wildfire resilience, recreation opportunities, forest health, and rural economies.

National Forest Foundation

Collaborative Capacity Program – Standard Grant
https://www.nationalforests.org/grant-programs/collab-capacity
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/01/2025

These opportunities provide resources to support collaborative activities that increase wildfire resilience, recreation opportunities, forest health, and rural economies.

Terra Foundation for American Art

Collections Grants
https://www.terraamericanart.org/grant-program/collections-grants/
Sponsor Letter of Intent Deadline: 08/04/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 10/06/2025

Department of Defense

National Institutes of Health

Cooperative Agreement Program to Strengthen Antibiotic Resistance Surveillance in Retail Food Specimens
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-014.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Letter of Intent Deadline: 07/23/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/11/2025

This opportunity seeks to enhance and strengthen antibiotic resistance surveillance in retail food specimens within the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS). This cooperative agreement with the NARMS retail food surveillance program will enable research and investigations for the collection of critical data to help inform public health stakeholders.

Research Corporation for Science Advancement

Cottrell Scholar Award
https://rescorp.org/cottrell-scholars/cottrell-scholar-award/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/01/2025

This opportunity seeks to develop outstanding teacher-scholars who are recognized by their scientific communities for the quality and innovation of their research programs and their academic leadership skills.

LGS Foundation

Cure LGS 365 Research Grants
https://www.lgsfoundation.org/365-research-grant/?utm_source=Funding+Supplement&utm_campaign=aa33a1f960-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_05_13_07_04&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-aa33a1f960-712519256

This opportunity seeks new basic, translational, and clinical research projects on Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

American Brain Foundation

Cure One, Cure Many Award in Lewy Body Dementia
https://www.americanbrainfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/ABF-LBD-Biomarker-Grants-RFP-2025_rev20250604_2.pdf
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 07/15/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/30/2025

This opportunity seeks applications aimed at the discovery, validation, and acceleration of Lewy Body Dementia-related biomarkers. Full applications may be submitted by invitation only.

National Science Foundation

This program seeks to enable funding opportunities that are flexible and responsive to the evolving and emerging needs in cyberinfrastructure.

National Institutes of Health

Director’s New Innovator Award Program (DP2 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RM-25-002.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/19/2025

This opportunity supports early-stage investigators of exceptional creativity who propose bold and highly innovative research projects with the potential to produce a major impact on broad, important areas relevant to the mission of the National Institutes of Health.

National Institutes of Health

Director’s Pioneer Award Program (DP1 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RM-25-001.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/09/2025

This opportunity supports individual scientists of exceptional creativity who propose bold and highly innovative research projects with the potential to produce a major impact on broad, important areas relevant to the mission of the National Institutes of Health.

National Institutes of Health

Director’s Transformative Research Awards (R01 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-RM-25-003.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/03/2025

This opportunity supports individual scientists or groups of scientists proposing bold, groundbreaking, exceptionally innovative, original, and/or unconventional research with the potential to create new scientific paradigms, establish entirely new and improved clinical approaches, or develop transformative technologies.

Department of Commerce

Disaster Supplemental
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359225
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/03/2026

This opportunity seeks to help communities and regions devise and implement long-term economic recovery strategies through a variety of non-construction and construction projects in areas where a Presidential declaration of a major disaster was issued under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

AccessLex Institute

Diversity Pathway Intervention Grant Program
https://www.accesslex.org/grants/diversity-pathway-intervention-grant-program
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/25/2025

This opportunity provides funding to programs and initiatives aimed at helping college students and/or college graduates from historically underrepresented groups successfully matriculate into law school and the legal profession.

Department of Defense

Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Research Program
https://cdmrp.health.mil/funding/dmdrp
Sponsor Letter of Intent Deadline: 07/25/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/08/2025

These opportunities support the development of innovative, high-impact ideas that advance the understanding of Duchenne muscular dystrophy and ultimately lead to improved outcomes.

National Science Foundation

Earth Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowships
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/ear-pf-earth-sciences-postdoctoral-fellowships/nsf25-500/solicitation
Sponsor Application Deadline: 10/29/2025

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

This opportunity seeks to improve our understanding of the state and future of Northern Hemisphere glacier systems.

National Eczema Association

Eczema Research
https://nationaleczema.org/research-we-fund/grant-details/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/15/2025

These opportunities seek to support investigations related to eczema.

National Science Foundation

Education and Broadening Participation in Earth Sciences
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/ear-ebp-education-broadening-participation-earth-sciences

This opportunity facilitates activities that engage a wide range of audiences in Earth Sciences research efforts, including research experiences for undergraduates and teachers, postdoctoral fellowships, faculty early career development, and recruitment and retention of individuals in Earth sciences.

Proposals may be submitted at any time.

National Institutes of Health

Efficient and Innovative Natural History Studies Addressing Unmet Needs in Rare Diseases (R01 – Clinical Trials Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-FD-25-017.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Letter of Intent Deadline: 01/09/2026
Sponsor Application Deadline: 02/10/2026

This opportunity seeks to support efficient and innovative natural history studies that advance medical product development in rare diseases/conditions with unmet needs.

Department of the Interior

Emergency Supplemental Historic Preservation Fund – Preservation
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358913
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/15/2025

National Geographic Society

This opportunity seeks projects focused on the archaeology of sustainable communities and landscapes in changing climates.

Department of Energy

Energy Critical Materials Assessment
https://eere-exchange.energy.gov/#FoaId20f54be6-7c3d-42ed-a986-21fbcdd0aa6f
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/25/2025

This opportunity seeks public comment on energy technologies of interest, materials of interest, supply chain information, market dynamics, challenges to domestic industry, methodology, the Department of Energy’s critical materials and the Department of the Interior critical minerals lists, and other stakeholder issues related to the Energy Critical Materials Assessment.

Department of Defense

Engineer Research and Development Center Broad Agency Announcement
https://www.erdcwerx.org/u-s-army-engineer-research-and-development-center-broad-agency-announcement/

Pre-applications are accepted at any time. Full applications may be submitted by invitation only.

Department of Health and Human Services

Ensuring Research Integrity – Conferences and Workshops Program
https://www.grantsolutions.gov/gs/preaward/previewPublicAnnouncement.do?id=117336
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/30/2025

This opportunity seeks projects to plan and implement conferences on research integrity and compliance with 42 C.F.R. Part 93. Focus areas include 1) fostering an environment that promotes research integrity and the responsible conduct of research, 2) prevention of research misconduct, 3) effective handling of research misconduct allegations, 4) training in the responsible conduct of research, and 5) other topics linked to research integrity and compliance with 42 C.F.R. Part 93.

Department of Health and Human Services

Ensuring Research Integrity – Program Development and Evaluation Program
https://www.grantsolutions.gov/gs/preaward/previewPublicAnnouncement.do?id=117335
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/30/2025

This opportunity seeks to support projects for the development and implementation of innovative approaches and tools to promote research integrity and prevent misconduct.

Department of Health and Human Services

Ensuring Research Integrity – Research on Research Integrity
https://www.grantsolutions.gov/gs/preaward/previewPublicAnnouncement.do?id=117337
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/30/2025

This opportunity seeks to promote the integrity and reliability of public health service-funded biomedical and behavioral research through the support of projects aimed at understanding the factors that affect research integrity.

National Institutes of Health

Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes Cohort Data and Biospecimen Access (X01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-437.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Letter of Intent Deadline: 06/22/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/22/2025

This opportunity offers access to limited identifiable data or biospecimens from the ECHO Cohort to study high-priority areas of maternal and child health.

National Institutes of Health

Expanding the Target Landscape by Drugging the Undruggable (R21 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-442.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Letter of Intent Deadline: 09/17/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 10/17/2025

This opportunity seeks exploratory and early-stage projects that focus on undruggable target classes (targets that cannot be engaged with high affinity through conventional means) within intractable human disease.

Department of Energy

Exploratory Research
https://www.emsl.pnnl.gov/proposals/call-exploratory-research-proposals-fy-2026
Sponsor Letter of Intent Deadline: 07/02/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/28/2025

This opportunity seeks to advance scientific understanding in the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory’s three Science Areas (Functional and Systems Biology, Environmental Transformations and Interactions, Computing, Analytics, and Modeling).

National Institutes of Health

Exploratory Studies to Investigate Mechanisms of HIV infection, Replication, Latency, and/or Pathogenesis in the Context of Substance Use Disorders (R01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-DA-25-073.html#_Section%20III.%20Eligibility%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 07/14/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/14/2025

This opportunity will support high-risk, high-impact studies that 1) develop or apply novel tools or technologies or 2) test novel hypotheses to investigate mechanistic questions in HIV infection, replication, latency, and/or pathogenesis (including neuroHIV) in the context of Substance Use Disorders (SUDs).

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Exploring Equitable Futures
https://www.rwjf.org/en/grants/active-funding-opportunities/2025/exploring-equitable-futures.html?utm_source=Funding+Supplement&utm_campaign=aa33a1f960-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_05_13_07_04&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-aa33a1f960-712519256
Sponsor Application Deadline: 10/15/2025

This opportunity seeks to support projects that seed new and unconventional ideas that could radically advance health equity for generations to come.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

Clif Family Foundation

Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation

Fellowship Award
https://www.damonrunyon.org/for-scientists/application-guidelines/fellowship/#Program%20Description
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/15/2025

This opportunity seeks theoretical and experimental research relevant to the study of cancer and the search for cancer causes, mechanisms, therapies, and prevention, including molecular approaches to cancer prevention for inherited cancers.

Department of Agriculture

Food for Progress Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359897
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/31/2025

John Templeton Foundation

Funding Areas
https://www.templeton.org/grants/grant-database
Sponsor Letter of Intent Deadline: 08/15/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 01/16/2026

These opportunities seek to support research in the areas of character virtue development, life sciences, mathematical and physical sciences, public engagement, individual freedom and free markets, as well as religion, science, and society.

J.M Kaplan Fund and Hawthornden Foundation

Furthermore Nonfiction Book Publishing
https://furthermore.org/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/01/2025

Simons Foundation

Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution
https://www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-graduate-fellowships-in-ecology-and-evolution/?tab=rfa
Sponsor Letter of Intent Deadline: 07/31/2025

This opportunity seeks to provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in ecology and evolution.

Full applications may be submitted by invitation only.

Department of the Interior

Graduate Research Innovation Award
https://www.firescience.gov/ords/prd/jf_jfsp/jf_jfsp/r/jfspublic/jfsp-funding-announcements1?session=5932872022003
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/18/2025

This opportunity invites current master’s and doctoral students enrolled at colleges or universities within the US in the field of wildland fire and related physical, biological, and social sciences to apply for a Graduate Research Innovation (GRIN) award. The purpose of a GRIN award is to enhance student exposure to the management and policy relevance of their research to achieve beneficial outcomes of funded work.

Kress Foundation

History of Art
https://www.kressfoundation.org/Programs/Grants/History-of-Art
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/01/2025

This opportunity supports scholarly projects that will enhance the appreciation and understanding of European works of art and architecture from antiquity to the early 19th century.

FamilieSCN2A Foundation

Hodgkin-Huxley Research Grant
https://www.scn2a.org/professionals.html?utm_source=Funding+Supplement&utm_campaign=0529b51c3a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_03_18_06_59&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-0529b51c3a-712519256

This opportunity seeks to address fundamental gaps in the basic and translational science of SCN2A related disorders and to accelerate therapy development in the SCN2A field to clinical trials.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

Department of Education

IDEA Data Management Center
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359811
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/25/2025

This opportunity seeks to fund a cooperative agreement to establish and operate an IDEA Data Management Center.

Queer Art

Illuminations Grant
https://www.queer-art.org/illuminations-grant
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/02/2025

This opportunity aims to shed light on the under-recognized contributions of Black trans women visual artists and provide critical support to their continuing work.

American Association for Cancer Research

Immuno-oncology Research Fellowship
https://www.aacr.org/grants/aacr-immuno-oncology-research-fellowship-2/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/29/2025

This opportunity seeks to encourage and support postdoctoral or clinical research fellows to conduct immuno-oncology research and to establish a successful career path in this field.

Department of Defense

National Science Foundation

Incorporating Human Behavior in Epidemiological Models
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/ihbem-incorporating-human-behavior-epidemiological-models/nsf25-538/solicitation
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/14/2025

This opportunity seeks to support interdisciplinary collaborations that integrate research on behavioral and/or social processes in mathematical epidemiological models.

National Science Foundation

Infrastructure Capacity for Biological Research
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/infrastructure-capacity-biological-research/nsf23-580/solicitation#pgm_desc_txt

The Infrastructure Capacity for Biology (Capacity) Program supports the 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 the National Science Foundation. 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.

Proposals are accepted at any time.

National Science Foundation

Infrastructure Innovation for Biological Research
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/infrastructure-innovation-biological-research/nsf23-578/solicitation#pgm_desc_txt

The Infrastructure Innovation for Biological Research (Innovation) Program supports research to design novel or greatly improved research tools and methods that advance contemporary biology in any research area supported by the Biological Sciences Directorate at the National Science Foundation. The Innovation Program focuses on research infrastructure that is broadly applicable to researchers in three programmatic areas: Bioinformatics, Instrumentation, and Research Methods.

Proposals are accepted at any time.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Innovate
https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary.do?solId={9E3216E9-ADB7-B72A-A1D7-12EC8050DC3F}&path=&method=init
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/31/2026

Proposals may be submitted at any time.

Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation

Innovation Award
https://www.damonrunyon.org/for-scientists/application-guidelines/innovation
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/01/2025

This opportunity seeks to provide support for the next generation of exceptionally creative thinkers with “high-risk/high-reward” ideas that have the potential to significantly impact our understanding of and/or approaches to the prevention, diagnosis, or treatment of cancer.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Department of Education

Innovative Rehabilitation Training Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359822
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/28/2025

National Institute for Health Care Management

Investigator-Initiated Research
https://nihcm.org/grants/research-grants?utm_source=Funding+Supplement&utm_campaign=77015d3b56-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_06_10_07_38&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-77015d3b56-712519256
Sponsor Letter of Intent Deadline: 07/18/2025

This opportunity seeks projects that inform managed care organizations, policymakers, and related stakeholders to improve the affordability and quality of U.S. health care.

Burroughs Wellcome Fund

Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease
https://www.bwfund.org/funding-opportunities/infectious-diseases/investigators-in-the-pathogenesis-of-infectious-disease/
Sponsor Letter of Intent Deadline: 07/17/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 11/13/2025

This opportunity aims to provide accomplished investigators at the assistant professor level with opportunities to study what happens at the points where the systems of humans and potentially infectious agents connect.

Department of the Interior

Joint Fire Science Program
https://www.firescience.gov/ords/prd/jf_jfsp/jf_jfsp/r/jfspublic/jfsp-funding-announcements1?session=2104517029397
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/18/2025

This opportunity seeks wildland fire science research to support effective land management decisions, complementing and extending the capabilities of other federal fire research programs.

Cure JM Foundation

Juvenile Myositis Research
https://www.curejm.org/grants/?utm_source=Funding+Supplement&utm_campaign=7c823c1e1a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_07_01_06_19&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-7c823c1e1a-712519256
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/31/2025

This opportunity seeks applications for research to improve medical treatment and work toward a cure for juvenile myositis.

National Science Foundation

Life and Environments Through Time
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/let-life-environments-through-time/nsf25-517/solicitation

This program supports research that advances knowledge about the patterns and processes relating to the origin and evolution of Earth’s climate, environments, life, and sedimentary record.

Proposals can be submitted at any time.

Department of Defense

Long Range Broad Agency Announcement for Navy and Marine Corps Science and Technology
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/356605
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/30/2025

This opportunity is interested in receiving proposals for long-range science and technology projects that offer potential for advancement and improvement of Navy and Marine Corps operations.

Proposals may be submitted at any time until September 30, 2025.

BrightFocus Foundation Program

Macular Degeneration Research
https://www.brightfocus.org/about/for-scientists/apply-for-a-research-grant/macular-degeneration-research-request-for-proposals/
Sponsor Letter of Intent Deadline: 07/17/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 12/04/2025

These opportunities provide research funds for U.S. domestic and international researchers pursuing pioneering research leading to greater understanding, prevention, and treatment of age-related macular degeneration.

American Psychological Foundation

Marian R. Stuart Grant
https://ampsychfdn.org/funding/stuart-grant/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/10/2025

This opportunity seeks to further the research, practice, or education of an early career psychologist on the connection between mental and physical health, particularly for work that contributes to public health.

Department of Commerce

Measurement Science and Engineering Research Grant Programs
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358955

This opportunity seeks to promote innovation and industrial competitiveness by advancing measurement science, standards, and technology.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

Department of Defense

Melanoma Academy Leadership Award
https://cdmrp.health.mil/funding/mrp
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 09/10/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 10/01/2025

This opportunity supports visionary individuals who are established melanoma investigators with a strong record of mentoring and a commitment to leadership.

Department of Defense

Melanoma Academy Scholar Award
https://cdmrp.health.mil/funding/mrp
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 09/10/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 10/01/2025

This opportunity supports the addition of new scholars to the unique, interactive virtual academy that provides intensive mentoring, national networking, collaborations, and a peer group for early-career melanoma investigators/faculty.

Department of Defense

National Institutes of Health

Microglial Pathophysiology in Comorbid Substance Use Disorder and HIV (R61/R33 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-DA-25-063.html#_Section%20III.%20Eligibility%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 07/14/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/14/2025

National Science Foundation

Mind, Machine and Motor Nexus
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/m3x-mind-machine-motor-nexus

Proposals may be submitted at any time.

Department of Education

National Endowment for the Humanities

National Garden of American Heroes: Statues
https://www.neh.gov/program/national-garden-american-heroes-statues
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/01/2025

This program supports the design and creation of statues of historical figures from America’s past who have contributed to our cultural, scientific, economic, and political heritage.

National Institutes of Health

National Institute of General Medical Sciences National and Regional Resources (R24 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-416.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/25/2025

This opportunity seeks to support resources that will provide access to state-of-the-art equipment, technologies, research tools, materials, organisms, software, and/or services to a substantial regional (multi-state) or national user base.

National Institutes of Health

National Institute on Drug Abuse Avant-Garde Program for HIV and Substance Use Disorder Research (DP1 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-261.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 07/16/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/15/2025

This opportunity seeks high-impact studies that open new areas of HIV research in the context of substance use and Substance Use Disorders (SUD) and/or lead to new avenues for prevention and treatment of HIV in people with SUD.

Department of the Interior

National Outreach and Communications Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359759
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/17/2025

This opportunity aims to increase participation in recreational fishing and boating and promote public understanding of the value of conserving the nation’s aquatic natural resources.

Department of Education

This opportunity seeks to improve the capacity of States to meet the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act data collection and reporting requirements.

Department of Education

National Vocational Rehabilitation Technical Assistance Center
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359716
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/25/2025

Department of Defense

White papers may be submitted at any time.

National Science Foundation

Non-Academic Research Internships for Graduate Students
https://www.nsf.gov/eng/eec/intern.jsp?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery

This opportunity provides graduate students with experiential learning opportunities through research internships in non-academic settings. The program enables graduate students to acquire core professional competencies and skills to support careers in any sector of the U.S. economy.

Deadline for applications varies by program.

Department of the Interior

Partners for Fish and Wildlife
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358381
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/30/2025

This program helps private landowners restore and protect habitats for fish and wildlife. It offers both technical assistance and financial support, mainly through cooperative agreements.

Binational Agricultural Research and Development Fund

Pioneer Funding Track
https://www.bard-isus.org/opportunities/pioneer-funding-track/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/15/2025

Department of the Interior

Plant Conservation and Restoration Management
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359779
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/23/2025

Department of State

Preventing Terrorist Recruitment of Youth Online
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359810
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/07/2025

This opportunity seeks projects that not only diminish the availability of terrorist content but also provide vulnerable communities with the resources to identify terrorist threats online.

Department of Defense

Prostate Cancer Research Program: Idea Development Award
https://cdmrp.health.mil/funding/prgdefault
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 08/08/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/29/2025

Supports new ideas that represent innovative approaches to prostate cancer research and have the potential to make an important contribution to one or more of the Prostate Cancer Research Program’s overarching challenges.

National Endowment for the Humanities

Department of Defense

Quantum Characterization, Calibration, and Control
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359106
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/07/2025

Department of Defense

This opportunity seeks innovative proposals for directly converting radiation energy into electricity, focusing on radiation voltaics (also known as radiovoltaics).

Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research

Rapid Outcomes from Agricultural Research
https://foundationfar.org/programs/rapid-outcomes-from-agricultural-research/

This opportunity seeks to support research and outreach in response to emerging or unanticipated threats to the nation’s food supply or agricultural systems.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

Department of Defense

Rare Cancers Research Program: Concept Award
https://cdmrp.health.mil/funding/rcrp
Sponsor Letter of Intent Deadline: 07/22/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/26/2025

This opportunity supports highly innovative, untested, potentially groundbreaking novel concepts in rare cancers. Proof-of-concept is the anticipated outcome.

Department of Defense

Rare Cancers Research Program: Idea Development Award
https://cdmrp.health.mil/funding/rcrp
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 07/01/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 10/06/2025

This opportunity supports new ideas that are still in the early stages of development and have the potential to yield impactful data and new avenues of investigation in the rare cancers field.

Department of Defense

Rare Cancers Research Program: Resource and Community Development Award
https://cdmrp.health.mil/funding/rcrp
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 07/01/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 10/06/2025

This opportunity supports the development of research resources and clinical or preclinical data sets that advance the field of rare cancer research and ultimately improve outcomes of individuals with rare cancers.

Department of Commerce

This opportunity is seeking to establish community-based partnerships to develop cybersecurity career pathways that address local workforce needs.

Department of the Interior

Regional Fire Science Exchange
https://www.firescience.gov/ords/prd/jf_jfsp/jf_jfsp/r/jfspublic/jfsp-funding-announcements1?session=5932872022003
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/18/2025

Department of Education

Rehabilitation Training: Rehabilitation Long-Term Training Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359717
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/17/2025

Polycystic Kidney Disease Foundation

Research Grant Request for Applications
https://pkdcure.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/PKDF_Research_Grant_Program-Guidelines_2026_Final.pdf
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 08/11/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 01/12/2026

This opportunity seeks to support basic, translational, and clinical research that will benefit patients with autosomal dominant and autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease.

TMCity

Research Grants
https://www.tmcity.org/foundation
Sponsor Letter of Intent Deadline: 07/08/2026

This opportunity seeks cutting-edge research opportunities and transformative technologies that can advance our understanding of the brain and create innovative, real-world solutions to neurocognitive healthcare problems.

Letters of intent may be submitted at any time.

Rhoads Research Foundation

Research Grants Application
https://nutritioncare.org/foundation/grants-awards/apply-for-grant/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/25/2025

This opportunity seeks to support both basic science-oriented investigations aimed at improving our understanding of the science of nutrient regulation in different disease states, as well as clinical and translational research to determine how the practice of nutrition support can continue to be refined and individualized to optimize clinical outcomes.

National Institutes of Health

Research Infrastructure Development for Interdisciplinary Aging Studies (R61/R33 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-218.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/02/2025

This opportunity seeks applications that propose to develop novel research infrastructure that will advance the science of aging in specific areas requiring interdisciplinary partnerships or collaborations.

Department of Defense

Research Interests of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359050

This opportunity seeks to support broad-based scientific and engineering research with the potential to profoundly impact future U.S. Air Force and Space Force capabilities.

Application deadlines vary by program.

International Center for Responsible Gaming

Research on Responsible Gaming
https://www.icrg.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/REQUEST-FOR-APPLICATIONS-FOR-RESEARCH-ON-Responsible-Gaming.pdf
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/15/2025

This opportunity seeks to establish a Center of Excellence dedicated to innovative research on Responsible Gaming.

Brady Education Foundation

Leakey Foundation

Research Related to Human Origins
https://leakeyfoundation.org/grant/research/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/15/2025

This opportunity supports both PhD dissertation research and post-PhD research across multiple disciplines related to human origins, evolution, and behavior.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

ROSES 2024: C.3 Solar System Workings
https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary.do?solId=%7b944C9FF1-979D-BA46-7AEA-78AB7891B012%7d&path=&method=init

This program solicits investigations that address compelling scientific questions into the evolution of our Solar System during the time that large planetary bodies were in or near their modern configuration up to the present day.

Applications are accepted at any time.

National Institutes of Health

Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship (Parent – F32)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-25-423.html
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/08/2025

This opportunity seeks to enable promising postdoctoral students to obtain individualized, mentored research training from appropriate faculty sponsors while conducting biomedical research in scientific health-related fields relevant to the missions of the participating National Institutes of Health Institutes and Centers.

National Institutes of Health

Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Individual Predoctoral Fellowship (Parent – F31)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-25-422.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/08/2025

This opportunity seeks to enable promising predoctoral students to obtain individualized, mentored research training from appropriate faculty sponsors while conducting biomedical research in scientific health-related fields relevant to the missions of the participating National Institutes of Health Institutes and Centers.

National Institutes of Health

Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Individual Senior Fellowship (Parent – F33)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-25-424.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/08/2025

This opportunity awards senior individual research training fellowships to experienced scientists who wish to make major changes in the direction of their research careers or who wish to broaden their scientific background by acquiring new research capabilities as independent investigators in research fields relevant to the missions of participating National Institutes of Health Institutes and Centers.

National Endowment for the Humanities

Heising-Simons Foundation

Science Events and Gatherings Open Call
https://heisingsimons.app.box.com/s/emafdy49al3v6evv48xhot8s5b1xer6k
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/15/2025

This opportunity seeks to support meetings, workshops, conferences, summer schools, research collaboration gatherings, and other events related to astronomy, cosmology, fundamental physics, and climate change science.

National Science Foundation

Science of Science: Discovery, Communication and Impact
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/sosdci-science-science-discovery-communication-impact
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/09/2025

This opportunity is designed to advance theory and knowledge about increasing the public value of scientific activity.

National Science Foundation

Science of Science: Discovery, Communication and Impact
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/sosdci-science-science-discovery-communication-impact
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/09/2025

This program is designed to advance theory and knowledge about increasing the public value of scientific activity. The opportunity welcomes proposals applying rigorous empirical research methods to advance theory and knowledge on 1) the social and structural mechanisms of scientific discovery, 2) theories, frameworks, models and data that improve our understanding of scientific communication and outcomes, and 3) the societal benefits of scientific activity and how science advances evidence-based policy making and the creation of public value.

National Science Foundation

Security, Privacy, and Trust in Cyberspace
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/satc-20-security-privacy-trust-cyberspace/nsf25-515/solicitation
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/29/2025

Hirshberg Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research

Seed Grant Program
https://pancreatic.org/research/seed-grant-program/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/15/2025

This opportunity seeks to provide start-up funding for basic scientists and clinicians who intend to test innovative ideas for improving diagnosis and to develop new treatment modalities for pancreatic cancer.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Solar System Science
https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary.do?solId={C92A28D2-9E30-4149-24B7-8A40ED4F564B}&path=&method=init
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/31/2026

This opportunity seeks research, data analysis, data preservation, and tools that support investigations to help ascertain the content, origin, and evolution of the Solar System and the search for life’s origin, evolution, distribution, and future in the universe.

Proposals may be submitted at any time.

Department of Defense

Staff Research Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359236
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/31/2030

Department of Education

Stepping-Up Technology Implementation
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359808
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/25/2025

Department of Defense

White papers and proposals are accepted on a rolling basis.

National Science Foundation

Structure and Physics of the Solid Earth
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/spse-structure-physics-solid-earth/nsf25-518/solicitation

This aims to advance fundamental knowledge about the ongoing dynamical processes over the age of the Earth that evolve the structure of planet Earth and underpin geohazards.

Proposals can be submitted at any time.

Department of Defense

Survivorship Research Award
https://cdmrp.health.mil/funding/mrp
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 09/10/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 10/01/2025

This opportunity supports a broad range of innovative and impactful survivorship research that has the intended outcome of improving the health and well-being of melanoma survivors (active- or post-treatment), their families, and/or their caregivers.

Department of Education

National Institutes of Health

The Chemical Countermeasures Research Program Initiative: National Institutes of Health Countermeasures Against Chemical Threats Basic Research on Chemical Threats that Affect the Nervous System (R01 – Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-25-077.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 09/17/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 10/17/2025

This opportunity invites applications for basic research to inform toxicology of chemical warfare agents and select toxic industrial chemicals and materials that have primary or secondary effects on the nervous system.

National Science Foundation

The Research on Research Security Program
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/rors-research-research-security-program

This opportunity seeks to foster a broad community that builds collaborations between the STEM research community, research security researchers, and research security practitioners.

Proposals may be submitted at any time.

National Institutes of Health

Tobacco Regulatory Science Small Grant Program for New Investigators (R03 – Clinical Trial Optional)
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-OD-25-008.html#_Part%201.%20Overview%20Information
Sponsor Letter of Intent Deadline: 09/19/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 11/18/2025

This opportunity aims to support new biomedical, behavioral, and social science investigators who are in the early stages of establishing independent careers in tobacco regulatory research.

Department of Defense

Toxic Exposures Investigator-Initiated Research Award
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359255
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 07/29/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 10/16/2025

This opportunity seeks to support studies that will make an important contribution toward research and/or patient care for diseases or conditions associated with military-related toxic exposures.

National Science Foundation

Department of the Interior

U.S. Standard Grants Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358607
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/10/2025

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Department of Defense

This opportunity seeks innovative solutions that use virtual and augmented reality technologies to enhance wildfire response and prescribed fire training.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

This opportunity supports the integration of National Aeronautics and Space Administration Earth observations into decision-making for water management through co-developed, user-centered solutions.

National Science Foundation

Water, Landscape, and Critical Zone Processes
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/walcz-water-landscape-critical-zone-processes/nsf25-519/solicitation

This program supports research on the Earth’s near-surface environment and how that environment responds to change.

Proposals can be submitted at any time.

Department of the Interior

Wildlife Resource Management Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359788
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/23/2025

PEN America

Writers Aid Initiative
https://pen.org/us-writers-aid-initiative/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/15/2025

This opportunity offers grants for writers in the United States facing acute financial need following an emergency situation.

Department of Defense

Young Investigator Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359763
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/01/2025

Fellowships, Awards, and Internships

Research Corporation for Science Advancement

Cottrell Scholar Award
https://rescorp.org/cottrell-scholars/cottrell-scholar-award/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/01/2025

National Institutes of Health

National Science Foundation

Education and Broadening Participation in Earth Sciences
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/ear-ebp-education-broadening-participation-earth-sciences

Proposals may be submitted at any time.

Simons Foundation

Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution
https://www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-graduate-fellowships-in-ecology-and-evolution/?tab=rfa
Sponsor Letter of Intent Deadline: 07/31/2025

This opportunity seeks to provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in ecology and evolution.

Full applications may be submitted by invitation only.

Department of the Interior

Graduate Research Innovation Award
https://www.firescience.gov/ords/prd/jf_jfsp/jf_jfsp/r/jfspublic/jfsp-funding-announcements1?session=5932872022003
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/18/2025

American Association for Cancer Research

Immuno-oncology Research Fellowship
https://www.aacr.org/grants/aacr-immuno-oncology-research-fellowship-2/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/29/2025

This opportunity seeks to encourage and support postdoctoral or clinical research fellows to conduct immuno-oncology research and to establish a successful career path in this field.

Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation

Innovation Award
https://www.damonrunyon.org/for-scientists/application-guidelines/innovation
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/01/2025

National Science Foundation

Non-Academic Research Internships for Graduate Students
https://www.nsf.gov/eng/eec/intern.jsp?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery

Deadline for applications varies by program.

National Institutes of Health

Internal Funding Opportunities

University of Nebraska Medical Center

Advancing Microbiome Research at the University of Nebraska
https://www.unmc.edu/vcr/_documents/newsletter/microbiome-rsch-group-pilot-rfa.pdf
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/07/2025

This opportunity seeks to support investigators to produce primary, preliminary, or feasibility data that can support larger, future proposals for groundbreaking research that leverages novel technologies, interdisciplinary approaches, and translational strategies to address key questions in microbiome science, impacting human health.

Office of Research & Innovation

Biomedical Research Seed Grants
https://research.unl.edu/internal-funding-opportunities/

These seed funds are intended to enhance the competitiveness of faculty submitting grant proposals requesting R21- or R01-level support from the National Institutes of Health. Investigators are expected to leverage seed funding to accumulate evidence in support of a working hypothesis; demonstrate the feasibility of a new approach; or build reviewers’ confidence in a project team’s ability to handle cutting-edge technologies, understand methods, and interpret results.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

Richard P. Kimmel and Laurine Kimmel Charitable Foundation

Catalyst Grants
https://uofnelincoln.sharepoint.com/:b:/s/UNL-ResearchDevelopmentGroup/EV44jQVZIgtLnGRI1fjtXngBAgbDHupT22VngGIRSpBFnw?e=mHafqM

This opportunity seeks to support and expand Kimmel Orchard and Vineyard’s mission of education and provide funding for faculty- and staff-led innovations that strengthen UNL’s partnership with the orchard and vineyard.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, until all data grants have been made. If you have trouble viewing the opportunity, contact Jackson Hardin (jhardin11@unl.edu) for assistance.

Office of Research & Innovation

Revision Awards
https://research.unl.edu/internal-funding-opportunities/

Revision Awards enhance the competitiveness of faculty revising and resubmitting grant proposals by providing developmental and/or financial support to help improve highly meritorious, but previously unfunded, federal funding proposals that are eligible for resubmission.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

Kinship Foundation

Searle Scholars Program
https://nuramp.nebraska.edu/competitions/start-application?PreselectCompetitionID=1189
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/01/2025

The University of Nebraska (across all four campuses) has been invited to select one candidate to apply for the 2026 Searle Scholars Program Competition. Applicants for the 2026 competition (awards which will be activated on July 1, 2026) are expected to pursue independent research careers in biochemistry, cell biology, genetics, immunology, neuroscience, pharmacology, and related areas in chemistry, medicine, and the biological sciences. Eligible applicants include recently appointed assistant professors on a tenure-track appointment (on or after May 1, 2024).

Interested candidates should submit their CV and statement of future research via NuRamp by August 1, 2025. The Provost and Vice Provost will review the applications and identify NU’s nominee no later than August 30.

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Secondary Analysis to Publication Awards & Building on Our Strengths Award
https://rdar.unl.edu/rdar-funding-opportunities

These unique opportunities are aimed at substance use research.

These solicitations are on a rolling deadline. Applications may be submitted at any time.

Social and traditional Media And Research Tools Lab

Seed Data Grants
https://journalism.unl.edu/news/call-proposals-smart-lab-seed-data-grants/

This opportunity seeks to provide University of Nebraska researchers access to data from social and traditional media sources, including X, Reddit, Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram, news, blogs, forums, and more.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until all data grants have been made.

Journalism and Media

Rita Allen Foundation

Civic Science Collaboration
https://centerforcooperativemedia.org/civicscience/about/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/31/2025

Department of State

Preventing Terrorist Recruitment of Youth Online
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359810
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/07/2025

This opportunity seeks projects that not only diminish the availability of terrorist content but also provide vulnerable communities with the resources to identify terrorist threats online.

Law, Justice, and Human Rights

AccessLex Institute

Diversity Pathway Intervention Grant Program
https://www.accesslex.org/grants/diversity-pathway-intervention-grant-program
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/25/2025

Life Sciences

American Association for Cancer Research

National Institutes of Health

Milken Institute

This opportunity seeks to provide funding support for early career researchers interested in sarcoidosis research.

National Institutes of Health

Angelman Syndrome Foundation

National Institutes of Health

Burroughs Wellcome Fund

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

National Institutes of Health

LGS Foundation

This opportunity seeks new basic, translational, and clinical research projects on Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

Department of Defense

Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Research Program
https://cdmrp.health.mil/funding/dmdrp
Sponsor Letter of Intent Deadline: 07/25/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/08/2025

These opportunities support the development of innovative, high-impact ideas that advance the understanding of Duchenne muscular dystrophy and ultimately lead to improved outcomes.

National Eczema Association

Eczema Research
https://nationaleczema.org/research-we-fund/grant-details/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/15/2025

These opportunities seek to support investigations related to eczema.

National Institutes of Health

This opportunity seeks to support efficient and innovative natural history studies that advance medical product development in rare diseases/conditions with unmet needs.

Department of Health and Human Services

Ensuring Research Integrity – Conferences and Workshops Program
https://www.grantsolutions.gov/gs/preaward/previewPublicAnnouncement.do?id=117336
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/30/2025

Department of Health and Human Services

This opportunity seeks to support projects for the development and implementation of innovative approaches and tools to promote research integrity and prevent misconduct.

Department of Health and Human Services

Ensuring Research Integrity – Research on Research Integrity
https://www.grantsolutions.gov/gs/preaward/previewPublicAnnouncement.do?id=117337
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/30/2025

National Institutes of Health

This opportunity offers access to limited identifiable data or biospecimens from the ECHO Cohort to study high-priority areas of maternal and child health.

National Institutes of Health

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

This opportunity seeks to support projects that seed new and unconventional ideas that could radically advance health equity for generations to come.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation

Fellowship Award
https://www.damonrunyon.org/for-scientists/application-guidelines/fellowship/#Program%20Description
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/15/2025

FamilieSCN2A Foundation

This opportunity seeks to address fundamental gaps in the basic and translational science of SCN2A related disorders and to accelerate therapy development in the SCN2A field to clinical trials.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

National Science Foundation

Infrastructure Capacity for Biological Research
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/infrastructure-capacity-biological-research/nsf23-580/solicitation#pgm_desc_txt

Proposals are accepted at any time.

National Science Foundation

Infrastructure Innovation for Biological Research
https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/infrastructure-innovation-biological-research/nsf23-578/solicitation#pgm_desc_txt

Proposals are accepted at any time.

National Institute for Health Care Management

This opportunity seeks projects that inform managed care organizations, policymakers, and related stakeholders to improve the affordability and quality of U.S. health care.

Burroughs Wellcome Fund

Cure JM Foundation

This opportunity seeks applications for research to improve medical treatment and work toward a cure for juvenile myositis.

BrightFocus Foundation Program

Department of Defense

Melanoma Academy Leadership Award
https://cdmrp.health.mil/funding/mrp
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 09/10/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 10/01/2025

This opportunity supports visionary individuals who are established melanoma investigators with a strong record of mentoring and a commitment to leadership.

Department of Defense

Melanoma Academy Scholar Award
https://cdmrp.health.mil/funding/mrp
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 09/10/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 10/01/2025

National Institutes of Health

Department of Defense

Prostate Cancer Research Program: Idea Development Award
https://cdmrp.health.mil/funding/prgdefault
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 08/08/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/29/2025

Department of Defense

Rare Cancers Research Program: Concept Award
https://cdmrp.health.mil/funding/rcrp
Sponsor Letter of Intent Deadline: 07/22/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/26/2025

This opportunity supports highly innovative, untested, potentially groundbreaking novel concepts in rare cancers. Proof-of-concept is the anticipated outcome.

Department of Defense

Rare Cancers Research Program: Idea Development Award
https://cdmrp.health.mil/funding/rcrp
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 07/01/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 10/06/2025

This opportunity supports new ideas that are still in the early stages of development and have the potential to yield impactful data and new avenues of investigation in the rare cancers field.

Department of Defense

Polycystic Kidney Disease Foundation

This opportunity seeks to support basic, translational, and clinical research that will benefit patients with autosomal dominant and autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease.

TMCity

Research Grants
https://www.tmcity.org/foundation
Sponsor Letter of Intent Deadline: 07/08/2026

Letters of intent may be submitted at any time.

Rhoads Research Foundation

Research Grants Application
https://nutritioncare.org/foundation/grants-awards/apply-for-grant/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/25/2025

National Institutes of Health

Leakey Foundation

Research Related to Human Origins
https://leakeyfoundation.org/grant/research/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/15/2025

This opportunity supports both PhD dissertation research and post-PhD research across multiple disciplines related to human origins, evolution, and behavior.

Hirshberg Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research

Seed Grant Program
https://pancreatic.org/research/seed-grant-program/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/15/2025

Department of Defense

Survivorship Research Award
https://cdmrp.health.mil/funding/mrp
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 09/10/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 10/01/2025

National Institutes of Health

This opportunity aims to support new biomedical, behavioral, and social science investigators who are in the early stages of establishing independent careers in tobacco regulatory research.

Limited Submission Competitions

Department of Housing and Urban Development

Addressing the Housing Affordability Crisis Research Grant Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359817
Internal Notice of Intent Deadline: 07/07/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/24/2025

This opportunity seeks to support research projects that will build knowledge and advance policy solutions related to government-induced demand and housing affordability, immigration and housing affordability, the financialization of housing and housing affordability, economic opportunity cost and housing affordability, and opportunity zones.

If you are interested in developing a proposal in response to this funding opportunity, please complete a notification of intent to submit by . For more information regarding the internal selection process, visit https://research.unl.edu/fundingopps/active-limited-submission-competitions/.

Burroughs Wellcome Fund

Climate + Health Excellence Centers
https://www.bwfund.org/funding-opportunities/climate-change-and-human-health/burroughs-wellcome-fund-climate-health-excellence-chex-centers/?utm_source=Funding+Supplement&utm_campaign=7c823c1e1a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_07_01_06_19&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-7c823c1e1a-712519256
Internal Notice of Intent Deadline: 07/07/2025
Sponsor Pre-Application Deadline: 08/07/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 12/04/2025

This opportunity seeks to 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.

Institutions may only submit one proposal that reflects the institution’s strategic goals in basic, applied, and implementation research.

If you are interested in developing a proposal in response to this funding opportunity, please complete a notification of intent to submit by 07/07/2025. For more information regarding the internal selection process, visit https://research.unl.edu/fundingopps/active-limited-submission-competitions/.

Department of State

Effectively Strengthening Safety and Security of Biological Research Globally
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/360002
Internal Notice of Intent Deadline: 07/14/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/11/2025

This opportunity seeks to support activities related to national implementation of the Biological Weapons Convention, which promotes the implementation of safeguards and nonproliferation measures to prevent biological accidents and the acquisition, development, and use of biological weapons.

Institutions may submit one application in response to this opportunity.

If you are interested in developing a proposal in response to this funding opportunity, please complete a notification of intent to submit by 07/14/2025. For more information regarding the internal selection process, visit https://research.unl.edu/fundingopps/active-limited-submission-competitions/.

National Science Foundation

EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement-Focused EPSCoR Collaborations Program
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/epscor-research-infrastructure-improvement-focused-epscor/nsf24-573/solicitation
Internal Notice of Intent Deadline: 04/21/2025
Sponsor Letter of Intent Deadline: 12/16/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 01/27/2026

This program, formerly known as “EPSCoR Track-2 program,” builds interjurisdictional collaborative teams of EPSCoR investigators in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics focus areas consistent with the current National Science Foundation Strategic Plan. Projects must include researchers from at least two EPSCoR eligible jurisdictions with complementary expertise and resources necessary to address challenges that neither party could address as well or as rapidly independently.

For this year’s competition, proposals will be accepted in the following focus area: “Building capacity towards use-inspired research.”

An organization may submit only one proposal to the competition as lead.

If you are interested in developing a proposal in response to this funding opportunity, please complete a notification of intent to submit by 04/21/2025. For more information regarding the internal selection process, visit https://research.unl.edu/fundingopps/active-limited-submission-competitions/.

National Endowment for the Humanities

Humanities Research Centers on Artificial Intelligence
https://www.neh.gov/program/humanities-research-centers-artificial-intelligence
Internal Notice of Intent Deadline: 07/21/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 10/01/2025

This program seeks to create new centers of scholarly discourse and learning, each one a nexus for collaborative efforts that reach across disciplinary lines to gain a more holistic understanding of AI in the modern world and especially its implications for the United States.

Each institution may submit only one application under this notice.

If you are interested in developing a proposal in response to this funding opportunity, please complete a notification of intent to submit by 07/21/2025. For more information regarding the internal selection process, visit https://research.unl.edu/fundingopps/active-limited-submission-competitions/.

Mathematics and Physical Sciences

National Science Foundation

Applied Mathematics
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/applied-mathematics
Sponsor Application Deadline: 11/17/2025

This opportunity supports mathematics research motivated by and contributing to the solution of problems arising in science and engineering.

Department of Energy

Exploratory Research
https://www.emsl.pnnl.gov/proposals/call-exploratory-research-proposals-fy-2026
Sponsor Letter of Intent Deadline: 07/02/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/28/2025

Department of Commerce

Measurement Science and Engineering Research Grant Programs
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/358955

This opportunity seeks to promote innovation and industrial competitiveness by advancing measurement science, standards, and technology.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

ROSES 2024: C.3 Solar System Workings
https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary.do?solId=%7b944C9FF1-979D-BA46-7AEA-78AB7891B012%7d&path=&method=init

Applications are accepted at any time.

Heising-Simons Foundation

Science Events and Gatherings Open Call
https://heisingsimons.app.box.com/s/emafdy49al3v6evv48xhot8s5b1xer6k
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/15/2025

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Solar System Science
https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/solicitations/summary.do?solId={C92A28D2-9E30-4149-24B7-8A40ED4F564B}&path=&method=init
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/31/2026

Proposals may be submitted at any time.

National Science Foundation

The Research on Research Security Program
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/rors-research-research-security-program

This opportunity seeks to foster a broad community that builds collaborations between the STEM research community, research security researchers, and research security practitioners.

Proposals may be submitted at any time.

Miscellaneous

Department of Housing and Urban Development

Advancing Building Technology Grant Program
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359825
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/24/2025

Department of Commerce

Disaster Supplemental
https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/359225
Sponsor Application Deadline: 03/03/2026

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

John Templeton Foundation

Funding Areas
https://www.templeton.org/grants/grant-database
Sponsor Letter of Intent Deadline: 08/15/2025
Sponsor Application Deadline: 01/16/2026

NU-wide

University of Nebraska Medical Center

Advancing Microbiome Research at the University of Nebraska
https://www.unmc.edu/vcr/_documents/newsletter/microbiome-rsch-group-pilot-rfa.pdf
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/07/2025

Kinship Foundation

Searle Scholars Program
https://nuramp.nebraska.edu/competitions/start-application?PreselectCompetitionID=1189
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/01/2025

Social and traditional Media And Research Tools Lab

Seed Data Grants
https://journalism.unl.edu/news/call-proposals-smart-lab-seed-data-grants/

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until all data grants have been made.

Requests for Information

Department of Energy

Energy Critical Materials Assessment
https://eere-exchange.energy.gov/#FoaId20f54be6-7c3d-42ed-a986-21fbcdd0aa6f
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/25/2025

Social Sciences

American Brain Foundation

This opportunity seeks applications aimed at the discovery, validation, and acceleration of Lewy Body Dementia-related biomarkers. Full applications may be submitted by invitation only.

National Science Foundation

This opportunity seeks to support interdisciplinary collaborations that integrate research on behavioral and/or social processes in mathematical epidemiological models.

American Psychological Foundation

Marian R. Stuart Grant
https://ampsychfdn.org/funding/stuart-grant/
Sponsor Application Deadline: 07/10/2025

National Institutes of Health

International Center for Responsible Gaming

Research on Responsible Gaming
https://www.icrg.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/REQUEST-FOR-APPLICATIONS-FOR-RESEARCH-ON-Responsible-Gaming.pdf
Sponsor Application Deadline: 08/15/2025

This opportunity seeks to establish a Center of Excellence dedicated to innovative research on Responsible Gaming.

National Science Foundation

Science of Science: Discovery, Communication and Impact
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/sosdci-science-science-discovery-communication-impact
Sponsor Application Deadline: 09/09/2025

Uncategorized

Department of Defense

Hybridizing Biology and Robotics through Integration for Deployable Systems
https://sam.gov/opp/580b34f2b653452badd8ec37590e27ec/view?utm_source=Funding%20Supplement&utm_campaign=e0d1f55d74-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_01_15_05_53&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d6cbefc3d-e0d1f55d74-712519256

This opportunity aims to address significant engineering and design obstacles that prevent the development of deployable biohybrid robotic systems by understanding and controlling the integration of synthetic and biological components to achieve desired emergent system properties.

Pre-applications are accepted on a rolling basis. Full applications may be submitted by invitation only.

UNL

Office of Research & Innovation

Biomedical Research Seed Grants
https://research.unl.edu/internal-funding-opportunities/

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

Richard P. Kimmel and Laurine Kimmel Charitable Foundation

Catalyst Grants
https://uofnelincoln.sharepoint.com/:b:/s/UNL-ResearchDevelopmentGroup/EV44jQVZIgtLnGRI1fjtXngBAgbDHupT22VngGIRSpBFnw?e=mHafqM

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, until all data grants have been made. If you have trouble viewing the opportunity, contact Jackson Hardin (jhardin11@unl.edu) for assistance.

Office of Research & Innovation

Revision Awards
https://research.unl.edu/internal-funding-opportunities/

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Secondary Analysis to Publication Awards & Building on Our Strengths Award
https://rdar.unl.edu/rdar-funding-opportunities

These unique opportunities are aimed at substance use research.

These solicitations are on a rolling deadline. Applications may be submitted at any time.