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U.S. National Science Foundation grants for nonprofits

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120 open opportunities

Science of Learning and Augmented Intelligence

U.S. National Science Foundation Closes today Up to $550#PD-19-127Y

EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program: EPSCoR Research Incubators for STEM Excellence

Nonprofit
U.S. National Science Foundation Closes in 6 days Up to $8M#25-522

Correctness for Scientific Computing Systems

Nonprofit
U.S. National Science Foundation Closes in 6 days#24-571

Research Training Groups in the Mathematical Sciences

U.S. National Science Foundation Closes in 6 days Up to $400K–$600K#24-570

ECosystem for Leading Innovation in Plasma Science and Engineering

U.S. National Science Foundation Closes in 6 days#PD-24-110Z

Physical Oceanography

U.S. National Science Foundation Closes in 12 days Up to $250K#PD-98-1610

Cultural Anthropology Program Senior Research Awards

Nonprofit
U.S. National Science Foundation Closes in 12 days#25-502

Cognitive Neuroscience

U.S. National Science Foundation Closes in 12 days#PD-24-1699

Biological Oceanography

U.S. National Science Foundation Closes in 12 days#PD-23-1650

Chemical Oceanography

U.S. National Science Foundation Closes in 12 days Up to $200K–$2M#PD-98-1670

Decision, Risk and Management Sciences - Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants

U.S. National Science Foundation Closes in 13 days#23-618

Decision, Risk and Management Sciences

U.S. National Science Foundation Closes in 13 days#PD-23-1321

Research Experiences for Undergraduates

U.S. National Science Foundation Closes in 14 days Up to $5K–$500K#23-601

Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program

Nonprofit
U.S. National Science Foundation Closes in 20 days Up to $100K–$3.3M#23-586

Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics

U.S. National Science Foundation Closes in 22 days#19-575

Pathways to Enable Secure Open-Source Ecosystems

Nonprofit
U.S. National Science Foundation Closes in 27 days#26-506

Tribal Colleges and Universities Program

U.S. National Science Foundation Closes in 27 days Up to $100K–$3.5M#21-595

U.S. National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) Program

U.S. National Science Foundation Closes in 34 days Up to $2M–$3M#24-597

IUSE/Professional Formation of Engineers: Revolutionizing Engineering Departments

U.S. National Science Foundation Closes in 34 days Up to $50K–$2M#24-564

A Science of Science Approach to Analyzing and Innovating the Biomedical Research Enterprise

U.S. National Science Foundation Closes in 35 days Up to $100K–$250K#23-569

Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE): Future Computing Research

Nonprofit
U.S. National Science Foundation Closes in 36 days Up to $600K–$12M#25-543

Probability

U.S. National Science Foundation Closes in 41 days#PD-18-1263

NSF Dynamic Language Infrastructure - NEH Documenting Endangered Languages

Nonprofit
U.S. National Science Foundation Closes in 41 days#22-615

Joint DMS/NIGMS Initiative to Support Research at the Interface of the Biological and Mathematical Sciences

U.S. National Science Foundation Closes in 44 days Up to $1–$1.2M#22-600

Foundations

U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 48 days#PD-18-1268

Combinatorics

U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 48 days#PD-18-7970

Security, Privacy, and Trust in Cyberspace

Nonprofit
U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 54 days Up to $50K–$1.2M#25-515

Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology

Nonprofit
U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 55 days Up to $220K#26-504

Division of Chemistry: Disciplinary Research Programs

Nonprofit
U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 56 days#22-605

Analysis

U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 56 days#PD-20-1281

EDU Core Research

U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 57 days Up to $500K–$2.5M#21-588

Advanced Technological Education

Nonprofit
U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 57 days Up to $475K–$7.5M#24-584

Engineering Research Initiation

U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 65 days Up to $200K#24-590

Mathematical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence

Nonprofit
U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 65 days Up to $500K–$1.5M#24-569

Algebra and Number Theory

U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 65 days#PD-20-1264

Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) in Engineering and Computer Science

U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 70 days Up to $600K#24-503

Mathematical Biology

U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 70 days#PD-22-7334

NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowships

Nonprofit
U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 71 days Up to $110K#22-621

Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Excellence in Research

U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 76 days#23-598

Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships

Nonprofit
U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 77 days Up to $190K#23-603

NSF's Eddie Bernice Johnson Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (INCLUDES) Initiative

Nonprofit
U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 83 days#22-622

Geometric Analysis

U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 90 days#PD-22-1265

Topology

U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 90 days#PD-22-1267

Unlocking Dataset Value for AI-Enabled Scientific Discovery

Nonprofit
U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 91 days#26-512

SBE Postdoctoral Research Fellowships

Nonprofit
U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 91 days Up to $160K–$170K#23-500

Applied Mathematics

U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 103 days#PD-16-1266

Plasma Physics

U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 103 days#PD-23-1242

Major Research Instrumentation Program

Nonprofit
U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 103 days Up to $100K–$4M#23-519

Advanced Technologies and Instrumentation for the Astronomical Sciences

U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 103 days#22-627

Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Grants

U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 103 days#22-624

National Science Foundation Translation to Practice

Nonprofit
U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 104 days Up to $600K–$2M#25-540

National Science Foundation Fostering Interdisciplinary Networks to Develop Emergent and Responsive Solutions Foundry

Nonprofit
U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 105 days#26-507

Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation

Nonprofit
U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 107 days Up to $125K–$5M#24-563

Archaeometry

U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 118 days#23-573

Computational Mathematics

U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 118 days Up to $1–$1.2M#PD-16-1271

Centers of Research Excellence in Science and Technology

U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 121 days#23-595

Arctic Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (Arctic DDRIG) Arctic Social Sciences, Arctic System Sciences, and Arctic Observing Network

U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 132 days#20-597

Statistics

U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 132 days#PD-18-1269

Oceanographic Facilities and Equipment Support

Nonprofit
U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 159 days Up to $5K–$47.5M#23-525

Antarctic Research Not Requiring U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP) Field Support

Nonprofit
U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 163 days#25-526

Research on the Science and Technology Enterprise: Indicators, Statistics, and Methods (NCSES S&T)

Nonprofit
U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 167 days#24-587

Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure

Nonprofit
U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 168 days Up to $1.2M#25-531

Training-based Workforce Development for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (CyberTraining)

U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 169 days Up to $1M#23-520

EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program: Focused EPSCoR Collaborations Program (FEC)

Nonprofit
U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 174 days Up to $1M–$1.5M#24-573

Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-1

Nonprofit
U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 187 days Up to $4M–$20.0M#24-598

GROWING CONVERGENCE RESEARCH

Nonprofit
U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 187 days Up to $1.2M–$3.6M#24-527

Ocean Technology and Interdisciplinary Coordination

U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 194 days#PD-98-1680

Mid-Career Advancement

Nonprofit
U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 208 days#22-603

NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Program

U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 209 days Up to $1M–$5M#25-514

Coupling, Energetics, and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions

Nonprofit
U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 210 days Up to $100K–$750K#25-510

Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) Program

Nonprofit
U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 232 days Up to $300K–$1M#24-529

Expeditions in Computing

Nonprofit
U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 238 days Up to $15M#20-544

NSF National Quantum Virtual Laboratory - Quantum Testbeds

U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 244 days#24-586

EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement (RII): EPSCoR Research Fellows

Nonprofit
U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 251 days#24-528

Findable Accessible Interoperable Reusable Open Science

Nonprofit
U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 252 days#25-533

Antarctic Research Requiring U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP) Support for Fieldwork

Nonprofit
U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 300 days#25-525

Mathematical Sciences Research Institutes

Nonprofit
U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 952 days Up to $1.5M–$6.5M#23-606

Transport Phenomena (TP)

U.S. National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#PD-26-366Y

Engineering Biological and Biomedical Systems (EBBS)

U.S. National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#PD-26-369Y

Chemical Process Systems (CPS)

U.S. National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#PD-26-367Y

Professional Formation of Engineers

U.S. National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#PD-26-1341

Collaboratory to Advance Mathematics Education and Learning (CAMEL) for K-12

Nonprofit
U.S. National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline Up to $1M–$1.5M#26-501

NSF National Innovation Corps Teams (NSF National I-Corps (TM) Teams) program

U.S. National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline Up to $50K#25-549

NSF STEM K-12

Nonprofit
U.S. National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#25-545

NSF-DFG Lead Agency Opportunity in Chemistry and Chemical Process and Transport Systems

Nonprofit
U.S. National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline Up to $200K–$700K#25-537

Science of Science: Discovery, Communication and Impact

U.S. National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#PD-19-126Y

The Research on Research Security Program

U.S. National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#PD-25-275Y

Mind, Machine and Motor Nexus

U.S. National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#PD-25-058Y

Facilitating Research at Predominantly Undergraduate Institutions:

U.S. National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#14-579

Infrastructure Systems and People

U.S. National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#PD-25-342Y

Water, Landscape, and Critical Zone Processes

Nonprofit
U.S. National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#25-519

Structure and Physics of the Solid Earth

Nonprofit
U.S. National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#25-518

Atmosphere Cluster

U.S. National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#PD-24-7790

Cyberinfrastructure for Public Access and Open Science

U.S. National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline Up to $50K–$600K#PD-24-7414

Plant Genome Research Program

Nonprofit
U.S. National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#24-547

Division of Integrative Organismal Systems Core Programs

Nonprofit
U.S. National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#24-546

Division of Environmental Biology

Nonprofit
U.S. National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline Up to $5K–$5M#24-543

Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR): Workshop Opportunities

Nonprofit
U.S. National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline Up to $200K#24-540

Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences Core Programs

Nonprofit
U.S. National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#24-539

Research Infrastructure in the Social and Behavioral Sciences

U.S. National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline Up to $400K–$2M#PD-23-277Y

Facility and Instrumentation Request Process

U.S. National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#23-602

Economics

U.S. National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#PD-23-1320

Infrastructure Innovation for Biological Research

Nonprofit
U.S. National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline Up to $300K–$800K#23-578

Infrastructure Capacity for Biological Research

Nonprofit
U.S. National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline Up to $25K–$1.2M#23-580

Growing Research Access for Nationally Transformative Economic Development

U.S. National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#PD-23-221Y

Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships

U.S. National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline Up to $202K#22-639

Education Programs in Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences

U.S. National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#PD-21-7700

Long Term Research in Environmental Biology

Nonprofit
U.S. National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline Up to $600K#21-544

Law & Science

U.S. National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#PD-21-128Y

Plant Biotic Interactions

Nonprofit
U.S. National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#20-576

Foundational Research in Robotics

U.S. National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#PD-20-144Y

Environmental Engineering

U.S. National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#PD-20-1440

Security and Preparedness

U.S. National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#PD-19-118Y

Accountable Institutions and Behavior

U.S. National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#PD-19-120Y

High-Risk Research in Biological Anthropology and Archaeology

U.S. National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline Up to $35K#19-570

Crosscutting Activities in Materials Research

U.S. National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#PD-18-7222

Marine Geology and Geophysics

U.S. National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#PD-17-1620

Ocean Drilling Program

U.S. National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline Up to $300K#PD-14-5720

Science of Organizations

U.S. National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#PD-11-8031

Sociology

U.S. National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#PD-98-1331

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