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U.S. National Science Foundation grants for nonprofits
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86 open opportunities
EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program: EPSCoR Research Incubators for STEM Excellence
Nonprofit U.S. National Science Foundation Closed Up to $8M#25-522
Pathways to Enable Secure Open-Source Ecosystems
Nonprofit U.S. National Science Foundation Closed#26-506
IUSE/Professional Formation of Engineers: Revolutionizing Engineering Departments
U.S. National Science Foundation Closed Up to $50K–$2M#24-564
Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE): Future Computing Research
Nonprofit U.S. National Science Foundation Closed Up to $600K–$12M#25-543
Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology
Nonprofit U.S. National Science Foundation Closed Up to $220K#26-504
NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowships
Nonprofit U.S. National Science Foundation Closed Up to $110K#22-621
Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Excellence in Research
U.S. National Science Foundation Closed#23-598
U.S. National Science Foundation State and Regional Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Hubs:
Nonprofit U.S. National Science Foundation Closes today#26-513
Unlocking Dataset Value for AI-Enabled Scientific Discovery
Nonprofit U.S. National Science Foundation Closes today#26-512
SBE Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
Nonprofit U.S. National Science Foundation Closes today Up to $160K–$170K#23-500
PFE: Research Initiation in Engineering Formation (PFE: RIEF)
U.S. National Science Foundation Closes in 6 days Up to $200K#20-558
MPS Astronomical Sciences Research Programs (MPS Astro)
U.S. National Science Foundation Closes in 12 days#26-522
Applied Mathematics
U.S. National Science Foundation Closes in 12 days#PD-16-1266
Plasma Physics
U.S. National Science Foundation Closes in 12 days#PD-23-1242
Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Grants
U.S. National Science Foundation Closes in 12 days#22-624
National Science Foundation Translation to Practice
Nonprofit U.S. National Science Foundation Closes in 13 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 Closes in 14 days#26-507
Archaeometry
U.S. National Science Foundation Closes in 27 days#23-573
Computational Mathematics
U.S. National Science Foundation Closes in 27 days Up to $1–$1.2M#PD-16-1271
Centers of Research Excellence in Science and Technology
U.S. National Science Foundation Closes in 30 days#23-595
IUSE: Innovation in Two-Year College STEM Education (ITYC)
U.S. National Science Foundation Closes in 35 days#23-584
Arctic Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (Arctic DDRIG) Arctic Social Sciences, Arctic System Sciences, and Arctic Observing Network
U.S. National Science Foundation Closes in 41 days#20-597
Statistics
U.S. National Science Foundation Closes in 41 days#PD-18-1269
Oceanographic Facilities and Equipment Support
Nonprofit U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 68 days Up to $5K–$47.5M#23-525
Human Networks and Data Science (HNDS)
U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 71 days Up to $10K–$1.2M#23-568
Antarctic Research Not Requiring U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP) Field Support
Nonprofit U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 72 days#25-526
Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program (HEGS)
Nonprofit U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 72 days#25-507
Research on the Science and Technology Enterprise: Indicators, Statistics, and Methods (NCSES S&T)
Nonprofit U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 76 days#24-587
Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure
Nonprofit U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 77 days Up to $1.2M#25-531
Training-based Workforce Development for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (CyberTraining)
U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 78 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 83 days Up to $1M–$1.5M#24-573
Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-1
Nonprofit U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 96 days Up to $4M–$20.0M#24-598
GROWING CONVERGENCE RESEARCH
Nonprofit U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 96 days Up to $1.2M–$3.6M#24-527
EMERGING FRONTIERS IN RESEARCH AND INNOVATION (EFRI-2026/27): Wave-Based Computing ( EFRI-WBC)
Nonprofit U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 99 days#26-524
Mid-Career Advancement
Nonprofit U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 117 days#22-603
NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Program
U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 118 days Up to $1M–$5M#25-514
Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) Program
Nonprofit U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 141 days Up to $300K–$1M#24-529
Expeditions in Computing
Nonprofit U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 147 days Up to $15M#20-544
NSF National Quantum Virtual Laboratory - Quantum Testbeds
U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 153 days#24-586
EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement (RII): EPSCoR Research Fellows
Nonprofit U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 160 days#24-528
Findable Accessible Interoperable Reusable Open Science
Nonprofit U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 161 days#25-533
Antarctic Research Requiring U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP) Support for Fieldwork
Nonprofit U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 209 days#25-525
EPSCoR Graduate Fellowship Program (EGFP)
U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 209 days Up to $477K–$3.2M#24-588
Expeditions in Computing (Expeditions)
U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 265 days Up to $15M#26-525
Community Infrastructure for Research in Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CIRC)
Nonprofit U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 310 days Up to $50K–$5M#23-589
Mathematical Sciences Research Institutes
Nonprofit U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 861 days Up to $1.5M–$6.5M#23-606
Engineering (ENG): Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI)
U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 18184 days#26-515
MPS Chemistry Research Programs (MPS Chem)
Nonprofit U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 18184 days#26-519
MPS Materials Research Programs (MPS Materials)
Nonprofit U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 18184 days#26-521
Engineering (ENG): Electrical, Communications, and Computing Systems (ECCS)
U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 18184 days#26-514
MPS Mathematical Sciences Research Programs (MPS MathSci)
Nonprofit U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 18184 days Up to $300K#26-520
Engineering (ENG): Chemical, Bioengineering, Energy, and Transport Systems (CBET)
U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 18184 days Up to $500K#26-518
Core Research in Biological Sciences (BIO Core)
Nonprofit U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 18184 days Up to $500K#26-517
MPS Physics Research Programs (MPS Physics)
U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 18184 days#26-523
Geosciences Core Research: Atmospheric, Geospace, Earth and Ocean Sciences (GEO Core)
U.S. National Science Foundation Open — closes in 18188 days#26-516
Transport Phenomena (TP)
U.S. National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#PD-26-366Y
Chemical Process Systems (CPS)
U.S. National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#PD-26-367Y
Engineering Biological and Biomedical Systems (EBBS)
U.S. National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#PD-26-369Y
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
Facilitating Research at Predominantly Undergraduate Institutions:
U.S. National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#14-579
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
Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR): Workshop Opportunities
Nonprofit U.S. National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline Up to $200K#24-540
Research Infrastructure in the Social and Behavioral Sciences
U.S. National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline Up to $400K–$2M#PD-23-277Y
Economics
U.S. National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline#PD-23-1320
Infrastructure Capacity for Biological Research
Nonprofit U.S. National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline Up to $25K–$1.2M#23-580
Infrastructure Innovation for Biological Research
Nonprofit U.S. National Science Foundation Rolling / no fixed deadline Up to $300K–$800K#23-578
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
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
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
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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