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
From the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research
| Amount | Limited | Due | Length | Sponsor | Program Title | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 900,000 | No | 05/18/2028 | 09/10/2029 | 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). |
| 200,000 | No | 04/01/2027 | 09/10/2027 | 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. |
| 2,400,000 | No | 09/30/2026 | 09/10/2031 | Department of Energy (DOE) | FY 2026 Continuation of Solicitation for the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program | BER research priorities include that of the microbiome, atmospheric process, environmental systems processes, and earth-energy systems modeling. |
| 600,000 | No | 10/14/2026 | 09/10/2029 | National Science Foundation (NSF) | Research Experiences for Teachers in Engineering and Computer Science | Supports summer research experiences for K-14 educators that foster long-term collaborations between universities, community colleges, school districts and industry partners. |
| 750,000 | No | 10/26/2026 | 09/10/2031 | National Science Foundation (NSF) | International Research Experiences for Students (IRES) | Supports international research and research-related activities for U.S. science and engineering students. |
| 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. | |
| 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). | |
| 1,000,000 | No | 10/16/2026 | Simons Foundation | Simons Collaborations in Ecology and Evolution (LOI) | Cross-disciplinary collaborations that integrate levels of scale, from genes to species to communities, from local to global processes, or across ecological and evolutionary time scales. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 175,000 | No | 10/02/2026 | State of Wisconsin | Groundwater Research and Monitoring Program FY28 Request for Proposals | Funding is available for (1) UW Groundwater Research and (2) DNR Groundwater Montoring and Research. | |
| 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. | |
| 3,500,000 | 10/19/2026 | USDA-APHIS | National Clean Plant Network Request for Proposals | To support National Clean Plant Network projects that provide plant propagative material free of harmful pathogens. | ||
| 1 | 09/21/2026 | USDA-APHIS | Plant Pest and Disease Management and Disaster Prevention Program Funding Opportunity FY 2027 | To protect U.S. specialty crops, nursery systems, forestry, and other agricultural production and natural resources by improving early plant pest detection, threat identification, and mitigation capabilities. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 200,000 | 09/30/2026 | USDA-FS | International Programs & Trade, Invasive Species Program Funding Opportunity | Build upon and directly link invasive species scientific knowledge to improve regulatory frameworks, policies, and actions to decrease new arrivals and establishment of invasive pests. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 500,000 | 09/23/2026 | National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) | Electronic Monitoring and Reporting 2027 Request for Proposals | Catalyze the voluntary implementation of electronic technologies (ET) for fisheries catch, effort, and/or compliance monitoring, and improvements to fishery information systems in U.S. fisheries. | ||
| 800,000 | 09/29/2026 | Bureau of Reclamation (DOI-USBR) | Desalination and Water Purification Research Program: Research Projects | Increase water supplies by reducing the costs, energy requirements, and other barriers to adoption of treating impaired water for beneficial uses. | ||
| 750,000 | 10/15/2026 | USDA-NIFA | Higher Education Challenge Grants Program | Developing and improving graduate-level food and agricultural sciences education and first professional degree-level education in veterinary medicine. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 500,000 | 10/12/2026 | USDA-FS | 2026 National Urban and Community Forestry Challenge Cost Share Grant Program | Intended for communities and their partners seeking to improve the management and use of their urban and community forests.; 1:1 cost share match required. | ||
| 30,000 | 09/25/2026 | CALS (via WARF) | Annual Call for Proposals to Develop Cultivars or Other Plant Technologies | Funding requests should be limited to specific products that are in the late stages before licensing to a commercial entity. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 705,000 | 10/15/2026 | USDA-NIFA | National Needs Graduate and Postgraduate Fellowship | Funding for eligible full-time students pursuing graduate studies at the master’s, DVM, or doctoral levels within the food and agricultural sciences. | ||
| 800,000 | 09/29/2026 | Gates Foundation | Innovations in Low-Cost and Simplified Pathogen Sequencing Workflows | Seeking ideas that substantially lower the cost and complexity of pathogen sequencing for at least one priority pathogen. | ||
| 4,000,000 | No | 10/02/2026 | 09/10/2031 | Schmidt Sciences | Decarbonization Modeling of Urban Mobility and the Built Environment | Key gaps in understanding and representing complex interdependencies in decarbonization of urban mobility and built environment. |
| 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. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 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. | ||
| 400,000 | 10/08/2026 | The Vallee Foundation | Vallee Scholars in Biomedical Research 2027 (Limited Submission) | A one-time, career development grant to exceptional, independent, early-career investigators conducting basic biomedical research. | ||
| Amount | Limited | Due | Length | Sponsor | Program Title | Description |