Grants for Private institutions of higher education - Federal
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Application Deadline
Nov 22, 2024
Date Added
Aug 7, 2024
This funding opportunity provides financial support for projects that monitor and improve water quality in the Gulf Coast region, targeting state agencies, local governments, educational institutions, nonprofit organizations, and federally recognized Tribes.
Application Deadline
Not specified
Date Added
Sep 3, 2025
This funding opportunity provides financial support to a wide range of healthcare institutions and public health partners to enhance patient and worker safety by improving the detection and response to healthcare-associated risks.
Application Deadline
Mar 4, 2025
Date Added
Feb 12, 2025
This funding opportunity provides financial support for U.S.-owned nuclear industry entities to develop advanced technologies for recycling used nuclear fuel and improving waste management, while ensuring compliance with national security policies.
Application Deadline
Feb 6, 2025
Date Added
Dec 13, 2024
This grant provides funding to nonprofit organizations and local governments to create arts programs that reach underserved communities, helping to expand access to the arts for those with limited opportunities.
Application Deadline
Jul 29, 2024
Date Added
Jun 13, 2024
The U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs (OES) announces an open competition (see eligibility information in Funding Announcement), under the Toxic Chemicals earmark to measurably and sustainably, reduce and mitigate environmental and human exposures to lead arising from occupational sources in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in Central America, South America, South Asia, Central Asia, and East Asia. Programming under this competition is intended to reduce lead pollution as well as promote and advance environmentally sustainable consumption and production at international, national, and subnational levels.
Application Deadline
Jan 15, 2026
Date Added
Jun 17, 2025
This grant provides funding to U.S.-based nonprofit organizations, educational institutions, and government agencies to preserve and improve access to primary source materials related to America's independence and the establishment of its government.
Application Deadline
May 14, 2026
Date Added
Mar 17, 2026
This funding opportunity is designed to support a U.S. institution in providing training for Uzbek private sector professionals to enhance their understanding of U.S. soy production and promote its use in Uzbekistan's growing agricultural sectors.
Application Deadline
Jul 17, 2024
Date Added
May 21, 2024
The Office of Nuclear Energys (NE) mission is to advance nuclear energy science and technology to meet U.S. energy, environmental, and economic needs. NE has identified the following goals to address challenges in the nuclear energy sector, help realize the potential of advanced technology, and leverage the unique role of the government in spurring innovation: Keep existing U.S. nuclear reactors operating. Deploy new nuclear reactors. Secure and sustain our nuclear fuel cycle. Expand international nuclear energy cooperation. Collectively, all NE-sponsored activities support the Departments priorities to combat the climate crisis, create clean energy jobs with the free and fair chance to join a union and bargain collectively, and promote equity and environmental justice by delivering innovative clean energy technologies for nuclear energy systems. The development of nuclear energy-related infrastructure and basic capabilities in the research community is necessary to promote Research and Development (R) that supports nuclear science and engineering (NS), NEs mission, and the nations nuclear energy challenges. Accordingly, the Department of Energy (DOE) intends to facilitate the education and training of nuclear scientists, engineers, and policymakers through graduate and undergraduate study, two-year programs, and R that is relevant to the Department and the U.S. nuclear energy industry in general.
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 25, 2026
Date Added
Nov 20, 2025
This funding opportunity supports U.S.-based organizations in developing innovative solutions to protect deployed military personnel from diseases transmitted by insects and other arthropods.
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
Mar 13, 2026
Date Added
Jan 14, 2026
This funding opportunity supports museums and related organizations in the U.S. to develop innovative projects that enhance community engagement, improve collections care, and promote lifelong learning.
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.

