Grants for Private institutions of higher education - Federal
Explore 2,935 grant opportunities
Application Deadline
Mar 31, 2025
Date Added
Mar 30, 2024
This grant provides funding opportunities for a wide range of organizations, including universities and businesses, to advance manufacturing technologies, with a particular encouragement for participation from historically black colleges and universities and minority institutions.
Application Deadline
Sep 16, 2025
Date Added
Aug 2, 2025
This program provides competitive funding to state and territorial water research institutes to support applied research and outreach that addresses local and national water resource challenges.
Application Deadline
Jun 21, 2024
Date Added
Apr 17, 2024
To implement a project aimed at advancing U.S. foreign policy and national security priorities by supporting initiatives that ensure partner states strategic trade control systems meet international standards and by engaging on bilateral, regional and multilateral levels with foreign governments to aid in the establishment of independent capabilities to regulate transfers of weapons of mass destruction, WMD-related items, conventional arms, and related dual-use items, and to detect, interdict, investigate, and prosecute illicit transfers of such items.
Application Deadline
Jul 9, 2024
Date Added
Jun 26, 2024
The PMGP was started in 1970 to support research in the field of fundamental measurement or the determination of fundamental constants, enabling the faculties at universities and colleges and laboratory researchers to conduct significant research in this area. By funding the research projects of eligible applicants through this program, NIST supports advances in fundamental measurement, the determination of fundamental constants, and fosters extramural collaboration with NIST scientists.
Application Deadline
Mar 14, 2025
Date Added
Dec 6, 2024
This funding opportunity provides financial support for wildlife habitat restoration and conservation projects in Oregon and Washington, targeting state and local governments, tribal entities, non-profits, and educational institutions.
Application Deadline
Mar 7, 2025
Date Added
Nov 26, 2024
This funding opportunity supports the development of innovative non-invasive optical imaging technologies for biological systems, aimed at enhancing research and healthcare applications, and is open to a wide range of eligible applicants including universities, nonprofits, and small businesses.
Application Deadline
Jul 17, 2024
Date Added
May 6, 2024
The Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs of the U.S. Department of State announces an open competition for organizations to submit applications to carry out a project to increase judicial transparency, independence, and efficiency in Mongolia.
Application Deadline
Sep 10, 2025
Date Added
Sep 7, 2023
This program provides funding for collaborative research teams in the mathematical sciences to tackle significant challenges with the potential for major impact across mathematics, statistics, and related fields.
Application Deadline
Oct 30, 2024
Date Added
Sep 18, 2024
This program provides financial support to U.S.-based developers of hydropower technologies, enabling them to access testing facilities that will help improve their innovations and accelerate commercialization.
Application Deadline
Jul 15, 2024
Date Added
May 20, 2024
The Department of States Office of the Nonproliferation and Disarmament Fund (ISN/NDF) is pleased to announce an open competition for assistance awards through this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO). ISN/NDF invites non-profit/non-governmental organizations, international organizations, and educational institutions to submit proposals for projects that will advance the NDFs nonproliferation mission by mapping proliferation and sanctions evasion networks and related illicit actors as well as their business, financial, and logistics networks based in or operating from South or East Africa that are or may be facilitating Russias aggression in Ukraine or the Peoples Republic of Chinas (PRC) Military-Civilian Fusion (MCF) industrial base. This analysis will assist partner countries, bilaterally or regionally, advance their counter-proliferation and counter-sanctions evasion activities by helping partners identify and disrupt these networks. Proposals may not exceed the total availability of funds under this NOFO. ISN/NDF prefers proposals that address multiple objectives of at least one line of effort, which are further described in section II.
Application Deadline
Mar 17, 2025
Date Added
Dec 18, 2024
This funding opportunity supports collaborative projects between academic institutions and conservation organizations in the U.S. to advance biodiversity conservation through research and practical implementation.
Application Deadline
Nov 22, 2024
Date Added
Aug 7, 2024
This funding opportunity provides financial support for high schools and organizations in the Gulf states to engage students in creating art and slogans that promote awareness and reduce plastic pollution in freshwater and marine environments.
Application Deadline
Jun 6, 2024
Date Added
Mar 10, 2022
The overall goal of this initiative is to support the mentored training of a sustainable critical mass of bioethics scholars in low and middle-income country (LMIC) research intensive institutions with the capabilities to conduct original empirical or conceptual ethics research that addresses challenging issues in health research and research policy in these countries as well as provide research ethics leadership to their institutions, governments and international research organizations. FIC will support LMIC-U.S. collaborative institutional bioethics doctoral and postdoctoral research training programs that incorporate mentored research, advanced theoretical didactic courses and ethics career skills training components to prepare multiple individuals for positions of ethics scholarship and leadership in health research institutions in LMICs. This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) allows appointment of Trainees (D43) proposing to serve as the lead investigator of an independent clinical trial; or proposing a separate ancillary clinical trial; or proposing to gain research experience in a clinical trial led by another investigator, as part of their research and career development.
Application Deadline
Jul 17, 2024
Date Added
May 28, 2024
With this solicitation, BJA seeks a training and technical assistance (TTA) provider to help jurisdictions prevent and reduce overdose deaths as part of the Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use Program (COSSUP). COSSUP provides funding and TTA to state, local, and tribal governments to develop, implement, or expand comprehensive programs in response to the overdose crisis and impacts of illicit opioids, stimulants, or other substances. This COSSUP Overdose Fatality Review (OFR) TTA Program provides training and supports collaborations that prevent and reduce overdose deaths. This program helps jurisdictions build and enhance multidisciplinary collaborations, collect and use multisector data, and conduct confidential individual death reviews in order to identify trends, incidents, and gaps in prevention efforts and services to inform innovative, community-specific overdose prevention and intervention strategies.
Application Deadline
Jul 5, 2024
Date Added
May 24, 2024
The Global Engagement Center (GEC) at the Department of State, announces "Enabling Advanced IUU Fishing Exposure." This project will enable advanced exposure work on IUU fishing by civil society, academics, and journalists, to counter PRC unsustainable fishing practices and the PRC disinformation/information manipulation that makes these practices possible, hard to spot, and hard to counter.
Application Deadline
Mar 13, 2026
Date Added
Feb 24, 2025
This funding opportunity supports U.S.-based institutions conducting innovative astrophysics research and technology development aligned with NASA's science goals.
Application Deadline
Not specified
Date Added
Mar 15, 2021
NOTICE: Application Process as of April 6th EDA is excited to announce the launch of its new grants management platform: the Economic Development Grants Experience (EDGE). EDGE was developed to streamline the application and grants management process by implementing a single platform with increased transparency, improved user experience, higher data quality, and more efficiency throughout the entire grant lifecycle. As of April 6th, 2023, applications can no longer be submitted on Grants.gov, and will ONLY be accepted through EDGE. To apply in EDGE, please go to: sfgrants.eda.gov. More information on how to apply is provided in the full NOFO. PARTNERSHIP PLANNING program instructions: Please note that applicants will be invited to submit applications through EDGE for the Partnership Planning program. For more information, please reach out to your EDA point of contact. Program Description: EDA makes planning and local technical assistance investments to support economic development, foster job creation, and attract private investment in economically distressed areas of the United States. Under the Planning program, EDA makes Partnership Planning, Short-Term Planning, and State Planning awards to eligible recipients to create and implement regional economic development plans designed to build capacity and guide the economic prosperity and resiliency of an area or region. More specifically, EDA makes Partnership Planning investments to designated planning organizations (i.e., District Organizations) serving EDA-designated Economic Development Districts and to Indian Tribes to facilitate the development, implementation, revision, or replacement of Comprehensive Economic Development Strategies (CEDS), which articulate and prioritize the strategic economic goals of recipients respective regions. EDA also makes Short-Term and State Planning awards for economic development planning activities that guide the eventual creation and retention of high-quality jobs, particularly for the unemployed and underemployed in the Nations most economically distressed regions. Under the Local Technical Assistance program, EDA makes awards to strengthen the capacity of local or State organizations, institutions of higher education, and other eligible entities to undertake and promote effective economic development programs through projects such as feasibility studies, impact analyses, disaster resiliency plans, and project planning. *Please note: While the published Notice of Funding Opportunity (available under "Related Documents") states that the ED900A form and the SF424B form are both required for a complete application, these forms are no longer required and have therefore been removed from the package template.
Application Deadline
Aug 15, 2025
Date Added
Jul 11, 2025
This funding opportunity provides financial support for projects that strengthen ties between the U.S. and Namibia, targeting organizations and individuals engaged in community, education, and cultural initiatives.
Application Deadline
May 14, 2024
Date Added
May 15, 2024
The Bureau of Counterterrorism (CT) of the U.S. Department of State announces a Request for Statements of Interest and Capacity (RSOIC) from organizations interested in implementing a project to facilitate a joint exercise with West African civilian security agencies to promote cross-border coordination, information sharing, and collaboration on counterterrorism threats.
Application Deadline
Mar 4, 2025
Date Added
Jan 13, 2025
This grant provides funding to organizations that will assist correctional facilities in reforming restrictive housing practices, focusing on reducing solitary confinement while ensuring safety and compliance with federal standards.

