Funding Opportunities
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DOE Funding Alert!
Apply now: DOE Office of Science offers funding for foundational research across six programs, with awards ranging from $5k–$5M.
Allen Philanthropies
Funding call seeking innovative, scalable climate solutions. LOI due Jan 15, 2026; full proposal due Mar 10.
USDA AFRI-NIFA
Supports transdisciplinary research, education, and extension to strengthen U.S. agricultural systems. Awards $1M–$10M. Due 3/26!
Wellcome Foundation
Funding for projects on climate change and health that drive evidence-based policy action. Awards up to £2.5M, 3 years. Due 4/8/26
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From the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research
| Added (m/d/y) | Amount | Limited | Due | Length | Sponsor | Program Title | Description | Global |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05/20/2025 | 900,000 | No | 05/18/2028 | 10/11/2029 | Department of Defense (DOD) | Research Interests of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research | Research areas that offer significant benefits to our national security, including: Engineering and Information Science (RTA), Physical and Biological Sciences (RTB), & international offices (EAORD, SOARD, and AOARD). | |
| 07/18/2025 | 200,000 | No | 04/01/2027 | 10/11/2027 | Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) | NARMS Cooperative Agreement Program to Strengthen Antibiotic Resistance Surveillance in Retail Food Specimens | To maintain and improve the detection of antibiotics resistance among bacteria in food commodities by funding new and existing sites to conduct routine sampling and testing of retail food commodities. | |
| 11/10/2025 | 750,000 | No | 10/26/2026 | 10/11/2031 | National Science Foundation (NSF) | International Research Experiences for Students (IRES) | Supports international research and research-related activities for U.S. science and engineering students. | |
| 12/01/2025 | 1 | No | 11/01/2026 | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Applied Mathematics | Supports mathematics research motivated by or having an effect on problems arising in science and engineering. | ||
| 12/01/2025 | 1 | No | 11/01/2026 | Department of Defense (DOD-DARPA) | Information Innovation Office (I2O) Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) | Creates groundbreaking science and delivers future capabilities in the information and computational domains to surprise adversaries and maintain enduring advantage for national security (e.g., Transformative AI). | ||
| 05/04/2026 | 1 | No | 12/31/2026 | National Science Foundation (NSF) | NSF Open Calls (accepted anytime) | Search for full proposals to NSF that are accepted at anytime. | ||
| 05/11/2026 | 1 | No | 12/31/2026 | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Engineering Environmental Resiliencey | Supports fundamental research to advance resource and energy conservation and recovery, and to safeguard the natural environment and human health. | ||
| 05/26/2026 | 3,600,000 | No | 02/08/2027 | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Growing Convergence Research (GCR) | Supports transitioning teams from research that is multidisciplinary to research that transcends disciplinary boundaries with novel conceptual frameworks, theories and methods. | ||
| 05/26/2026 | 1 | No | 05/14/2028 | NSF-TIP-OTASO | U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) X-Labs Initiative | To maintain global leadership in science and technology by enabling new pathways for R&D activities, NSF X-Labs initiative has been designed to: (1) Build Sector-Defining Platforms; (2) Develop New Organizational Research Structures. | ||
| 05/29/2026 | 500,000 | No | 12/01/2026 | Environmental Research & Education Foundation (EREF) | EREF Research Grants | EREF has established three key research priorities. Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Emerging Contaminants, and Advancing Materials Circularity & Recycling. | ||
| 06/26/2026 | 500,000 | No | 12/31/2026 | National Environmental Research Council (NERC) and NSF | Work with US-based researchers on environmental science: NERC-NSF lead agency | Collaborative research applications may be submitted in any disciplinary or interdisciplinary subject, but must fall within the remit of NERC and NSF GEO or NSF BIO. | ||
| 08/04/2026 | 1,500,000 | 03/02/2027 | NSF | NSF 26-506: Pathways to Enable Secure Open-Source Ecosystems (PESOSE) | Planning, building and securing sustainable open-source ecosystems that translate research tools into widely used, resilient technologies. | |||
| 08/04/2026 | 2,000,000 | 11/04/2026 | NSF | Unlocking Dataset Value for AI-Enabled Scientific Discovery (AI Datasets) | Supports unlocking the value of existing scientific datasets by making them more accessible, easier to integrate and ready for automated AI-driven analysis. | |||
| 08/04/2026 | 6,000,000 | 11/05/2026 | CDC | Emerging Infections Network - Research for Preventing, Detecting, and Managing Travel-associated Infectious Diseases | To produce insights into disease detection and prevention strategies, burden, severity, diagnostics, treatment, and outcomes of infectious diseases in international travelers. | |||
| 08/17/2026 | 1,000,000 | 12/04/2026 | USDA-AMS | Specialty Crop Multi-State Program (SCMP) - Farm Bill | Enhance the competitiveness of specialty crops through collaborative, multi-state projects that address food safety; plant pests/disease; marketing and promotion. | |||
| 08/19/2026 | 1,000,000 | 11/09/2026 | Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA) | Team Science Accelerator (LOI) | A two-year pilot program to help faculty adopt team science structures with the goal of amplifying impact, accelerating science, and solving big challenges. | |||
| 08/24/2026 | 750,000 | 10/30/2026 | DOD-ONR | ONR FY27 NOFO for Young Investigator Program | Attract outstanding faculty members to the Department of the Navy's Science and Technology research program, support their research and teaching careers. | |||
| 09/01/2026 | 200,000 | 12/09/2026 | American Heart Association (AHA) | 2027 Innovative Project Award (Pre-proposal) | Critical discoveries or major advancements that will accelerate the field of cardiovascular and/or cerebrovascular research. | |||
| 09/01/2026 | 2,000,000 | 10/26/2026 | USDA-FAS | Assisting Specialty Crop Exports: Low Oxygen Storage and Packaging Systems for U.S. Tree Nuts with Phytosanitary Traceability | Develop the processes and technologies for phytosanitary validation and traceability of low-oxygen storage and packaging systems for specialty crop tree nuts. | |||
| 09/02/2026 | 200,000 | 03/31/2027 | King Faisal Prize | King Faisal Prize in Science in the field of "Biology" for the Year 2028 | Nominated works must be published, likely to benefit mankind and enrich human knowledge. | |||
| 09/03/2026 | 60,000 | 11/03/2026 | State of Wisconsin (DOA) | Wisconsin Coastal Management Program | Coastal Wetland Protection and Habitat Restoration; Nonpoint Source Pollution Control; Coastal Resources and Community Planning; Great Lakes Education; Public Access and Historic Preservation. | |||
| 09/03/2026 | 15,000,000 | 11/02/2026 | USDA-NIFA | Emergency Citrus Disease Research and Extension Program Pre-Applications | Effective tactics and strategies to control HLB and its disease complex for financially sustainable citrus production in the United States. | |||
| 09/16/2026 | 2,460,000 | 11/16/2026 | BioInnovation Institute (BII) | Cardiometabolic Disease Challenge (CMD) | Therapeutic projects on (1) Novel mechanisms addressing upstream disease biology (e.g., insulin resistance) and (2) Approaches addressing downstream organ complications (e.g., fibrosis, direct cardiac biology in heart failure). | Yes | ||
| 09/28/2026 | 1,500,000 | 11/20/2026 | Department of War (DoW) | Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Department of War Multidisciplinary Research Program of the University Research Initiative (MURI) | Supports U.S. university teams investigating complex, DoW-relevant problem sets at the intersection of multiple scientific disciplines. | |||
| 09/28/2026 | 1,300,000 | Yes | 10/21/2026 | W.M. Keck Foundation | Keck Foundation Research Program 2027 (Limited Submission) | High-impact research in basic physical, life, and biomedical sciences, including instrumentation development and engineering approaches in service of answering basic scientific questions. | ||
| 09/30/2026 | 10,000,000 | 10/26/2026 | NOAA-OAR | Climate Program Office (CPO) FY2026 Earth System Science and Services Partnership | Supports activities related to NOAA’s mission through understanding and predicting changes in the Earth’s atmosphere, oceans, coasts, land, and ice and their interrelated effects on ecosystems, weather and hazards, and communities and infrastructure. | |||
| 10/05/2026 | 200,000 | 11/11/2026 | Greater Milwaukee Foundation (GMF) | Shaw Early Career Research Award 2027 (Limited Submission) | Fosters advancements in the fields of Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, and Cancer research; candidates must be full-time faculty members actively engaged in research within three years of their appointment as assistant professor. | |||
| 10/05/2026 | 9,000,000 | 12/22/2026 | DOE-BER | FY 2027 Continuation of Solicitation for the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program | Annual open solicitation; Biological and Environmental Research: (a) Microbial Biosystems Design, (b) Classical and Quantum-Enabled Bioimaging and Sensing, (c) Low Dose Radiation Research | |||
| 10/07/2026 | 250,000 | 12/03/2026 | USDA-NIFA-SARE | Research and Education Grant Program | Funds to collaborative teams of scientists, farmers/ranchers, institutions, organizations, and educators for innovative and practical agricultural practices through research or education. | |||
| 10/07/2026 | 50,000 | 02/18/2027 | human animal bond research institute (habri) | Addressing Evidence-based Health Benefits of Human-Animal Interaction | Studies focused on the human-animal bond with a particular interest in research that centers on pets and pet owners. | |||
| Added (m/d/y) | Amount | Limited | Due | Length | Sponsor | Program Title | Description | Global |