The following grants are active and available as of the publication of this newsletter.

Under the current administration, significant delays in grant award announcements and disbursements have been common.  Please include these factors in your planning.

Blueprint for Neuroscience: Coordination Center for Interoception Research

• Description: This program aims to promote a multidisciplinary approach to interoception research, bridge the gap between brain and body studies, and foster collaboration across the research community.  To achieve this, the center will support a multidisciplinary leadership team, digital communication platforms, annual scientific meetings, development of shared standards and terminology, and strategies to sustain and grow the interoception research community.
• Who can apply?
  • State, county, city, township, and special district governments; Independent school districts; Public and State controlled institutions of higher education; Private institutions of higher education; Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities; Nonprofits that do and do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education; Small businesses; For-profit organizations other than small businesses; Native American Tribal organizations governments (Federally recognized).
• Deadline: November 10, 2025

Fostering Collaboration Across Ryan White HIV/AIDS Programs (RWHAPs) to Engage People with HIV in Care

• Description: This program supports tailored actions to address the needs of out-of-care populations, enhance and build collaborations that maximize resources, and improve systems of care.  Its general goals include convening RWHAP stakeholders, mapping resources and partnerships, and developing state-specific action plans to better engage people with HIV in sustained care and ultimately reduce new HIV infections.
• Who can apply?
  • State, county, city, township, and special district governments; Public institutions of higher education; Private institutions of higher education; Nonprofits that do and do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education; Native American Tribal organizations and governments.
• Deadline: November 17, 2025

Integrated Data Systems & Services

• Description: This program aims to strengthen the nation’s research cyberinfrastructure by supporting national-scale, operational systems and services that enable data and AI-driven solutions.  Its objectives include fostering integration of diverse data sources with computing and scientific resources, supporting workflows across the entire data lifecycle, and ensuring projects contribute to a federated, accessible, and adaptable infrastructure.
• Who can apply?
  • Institutions of Higher Education; Nonprofit, non-academic organizations such as independent museums, observatories, research laboratories, professional societies and similar organizations located in the U.S. that are directly associated with educational or research activities; Other Federal Agencies and Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs).
• Deadline: December 4, 2025

The National Digital Newspaper Program

• Description: This program creates a national digital resource of historically significant newspapers published between 1690 and 1963 from all 56 states and U.S. jurisdictions.  The Library of Congress (LOC) maintains this freely accessible, searchable online database.  
• Who can apply?
  • State, county, city, township, and special district governments; Public and State controlled institutions of higher education; Private institutions of higher education; Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, and Native American Tribal governments (Federally recognized).
• Deadline: January 15, 2026

NEW Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA)

• Description: This program aims to equip first responders and communities with the training and tools necessary to effectively administer and distribute opioid overdose reversal medications.  The goal is to strengthen community prevention efforts and enhance the country's response to the opioid crisis by addressing workforce challenges, reducing overdose deaths, and improving access to recovery and support services.
• Who can apply?
  • County, city, township, and special district governments; Independent school districts; Public and State controlled institutions of higher education; Private institutions of higher education; Nonprofits that do and do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education; Native American Tribal organizations and governments (Federally recognized).
• Deadline: January 21, 2026

Foundations for Operating the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource: the Operations Center (NAIRR-OC)

• Description: This program seeks to establish an Operations Center (NAIRR-OC) to lead and implement the foundational day-to-day operations for the NAIRR, a public-private partnership to accelerate AI innovation and national competitiveness.  The goals are to establish a strong operational framework for NAIRR, build its capabilities and community through resource integration and outreach, and coordinate with pilot operations to ensure smooth transition and future execution.
• Who can apply?
  • Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs); Nonprofit, non-academic organizations such as independent museums, observatories, research laboratories, professional societies and similar organizations located in the U.S. that are directly associated with educational or research activities; Small businesses; For-profit organizations; Other Federal Agencies and Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs).
• Deadline: February 4, 2026

NEW Institutes for Higher Education Faculty and K-12 Educators

• Description: This program supports professional development programs that convene K-12 educators from across the country to deepen their understanding of significant topics in the humanities and enrich their capacity for effective scholarship and teaching. 
• Who can apply?
  • State, county, city, township, and special district governments; Public and State controlled institutions of higher education; Private institutions of higher education; Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education; Native American Tribal governments (Federally recognized).
• Deadline: February 12, 2025

Disaster Supplemental Grant Program

• Description: This funding opportunity encourages broad-based local engagement and emphasizes projects that involve private industry in disaster recovery and economic renewal to ensure the maximum impact for taxpayer funding to support these communities.  Applicants can choose from three funding pathways based on their recovery stage, capacity, and long-term development vision.
• Who can apply?
  • State, county, city, township, and special district governments; Institutions of higher education; Economic Development Districts and organizations; Public and private nonprofits working with local government; Public-private partnerships for public infrastructure.
• Deadline:
  • Readiness and Implementation Grants: Rolling Applications
  • Industry Transformation Grants: March 3, 2026

NEW Drug-Free Communities (DFC) Support Program

• Description: The purpose of this funding opportunity is to establish and strengthen collaboration to support the efforts of community coalitions working to prevent youth substance use.  This program's goals include developing local public and private collaboration to prevent and reduce substance abuse among youth, and, over time, reduce substance abuse among adults by addressing risk factors in the community.
• Who can apply?
  • County, city, township, and special district governments; Independent school districts; Public and State controlled institutions of higher education; Private institutions of higher education; Nonprofits that do and do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education; Native American Tribal organizations and governments (Federally recognized).
• Deadline: April 14, 2026

Small Surface Water and Groundwater Storage Projects

• Description: This grant supports the development of small surface and groundwater storage projects that enhance water supply reliability, improve water management flexibility, and reduce environmental impacts.  It aims to fund projects that provide long-term benefits such as improved water quality, ecosystem restoration, and groundwater management.  Priority is given to projects with multiple benefits and broad stakeholder involvement.
• Who can apply?
  • State, county, city, township, and special district governments; Nonprofits that have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education; Native American Tribal organizations and governments (Federally recognized).
• Deadline: April 17, 2026

Community-Partnered Nursing Research Centers

• Description: This grant supports the development of research centers to foster nursing-led programs that promote community-partnered research to address persistent health challenges.  The goal is to strengthen the research infrastructure by establishing or expanding centralized research resources in School or College of Nursing (SON/CON), developing and enhancing nurse-led interdisciplinary teams, and building expertise in community-partnered research through conducting pilot research that applies NINR's research lenses.
• Who can apply?
  • State, county, city, township, and special district governments; Public or private institutions of higher education; Nonprofits that do or do not have a 501(c)(3) other than institutions of higher education; Small businesses; For-profit organizations; Native American Tribal organizations and governments (Federally recognized).
• Deadline: May 07, 2028

Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP)

• Description: This program protects the agricultural viability and related conservation values of eligible land by limiting nonagricultural uses, which negatively affect agricultural uses and conservation values, protect grazing uses and related conservation values by restoring or conserving eligible grazing land, and protecting and restoring and enhancing wetlands on eligible land.  There are two components of this program.  First, Agricultural Land Easements (ALE) help private and tribal landowners, land trusts, and other entities such as state and local governments protect croplands and grasslands on working farms and ranches by limiting non-agricultural uses of the land through conservation easements.  Second, Wetland Reserve Easements (WRE) help private and tribal landowners protect, restore, and enhance wetlands which have been previously degraded due to agricultural uses.
• Who can apply?
  • Eligible partners include Native American Tribes; State and local governments; non-governmental organizations that have farmland, rangeland, or grassland protection programs.  Eligible landowners include owners of privately held land, including land that is held by Tribes and Tribal members.  All landowners, including required members of landowner-legal entities, must meet adjusted gross income (AGI) limitations and must be compliant with the HEL/WC provisions of the Food Security Act of 1985.
• Deadline: Rolling Applications

Education and Broadening Participation in Earth Sciences

• Description: This grant supports a range of programs aimed at engaging diverse audiences in Earth Sciences through education, research, and professional development opportunities.  It funds undergraduate and teacher research experiences, postdoctoral fellowships, and early-career faculty who integrate research with education, especially those focused on broadening participation in the geosciences.  
• Who can apply?
  • Unrestricted
• Deadline: Rolling Applications

The Research-on-Research Security Program

• Description: The program encourages interdisciplinary, evidence-based projects that foster collaboration among STEM researchers, research security experts, and practitioners, including potential international partners.  Projects may explore topics such as threat identification, policy impact, human behavior, and systemic or cultural factors affecting research security.
• Who can apply?
  • Unrestricted
• Deadline: Rolling Applications

STEM K-12 Program

• Description: This program supports innovative, multidisciplinary research that advances STEM teaching and learning, with a strong emphasis on generating new knowledge and informing educational practice. The program seeks to develop new tools, frameworks, and approaches, particularly those leveraging AI and emerging technologies, to enhance STEM education, prepare learners for a digital society, and strengthen the Nation’s global leadership in STEM innovation.
• Who can apply?
  • State, county, city, township, and special district governments; Public and State controlled institutions of higher education; Non-profit, non-academic organizations such as independent museums, observatories, and research laboratories; For-profit organizations; Native American Tribal governments (Federally recognized).
• Deadline: Rolling Applications

The following grants and funding opportunities are upcoming and are not yet accepting applications.  As more details become available for each of these programs, our team will be sure to include them in upcoming issues of this newsletter. 

Please note that these dates are target announcement dates, and therefore subject to change.  Under the current administration, significant delays in grant award announcements and disbursements have been common.  Please include these factors in your planning.

Autism Centers of Excellence

• The Autism Centers of Excellence (ACE) Network R01 and P50 programs support multisite collaborations to advance autism research through a specific research topic, building on over two decades of ACE progress and leveraging cutting-edge technologies and methods.  The National Institutes of Health anticipates posting these funding opportunities in Summer of 2026.

Centers of Excellence in Genomic Science (CEGS)

• This program aims to bring together interdisciplinary teams to build projects that address challenging biomedical questions from a genomics perspective.  CEGS are expected to develop highly innovative novel concepts, methods, approaches, tools, and technologies to address a critical issue in genomic science, genomic medicine, computational genomics, or an issue that cuts across more than one of these areas.  The National Institutes of Health anticipates posting this funding opportunity in Spring 2026.

Centers for Genomics Research Capacity Building

• This grant supports the establishment of Genomic Research Centers at under-resourced biomedical research institutions, fostering innovative, multi-investigator projects that advance critical areas of genomics.  The National Institutes of Health anticipates posting this funding opportunity in Winter 2025.

Comprehensive Suicide Prevention Program for States

• This funding opportunity expands the Injury Center's current Comprehensive Suicide Prevention program.  Its purpose is to implement and evaluate a comprehensive approach to suicide prevention, with a focus on one or more disproportionately affected populations, such as veterans, tribal populations, or the LGBTQ community.  The Health Resources and Services Administration anticipates posting this funding opportunity in Winter 2026.

 Consortia for Structure-Based Immunogen Design for HIV (CSID-HIV)

• This program aims to accelerate HIV therapeutics and vaccine development by supporting multidisciplinary research on structure-based immunogen design that induces broadly neutralizing antibody (bNAb) responses.  Its purpose is to overcome key design challenges, advance immunogens into clinical testing, and generate therapies and vaccines that can be used for both HIV treatment and prevention while informing broader vaccine design efforts.  The National Institutes of Health anticipates posting this funding opportunity in Winter 2026.

Data Sharing for Demographic Research Infrastructure Program

• The purpose of this program is to maintain and expand the Data Sharing for Demographic Research (DSDR) repository, which archives, curates, and disseminates unique datasets produced with Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) support.  By providing secure access, technical assistance, and resources on best practices for data sharing, the repository ensures researchers can effectively use sensitive and complex data to advance population dynamics research.  The National Institutes of Health anticipates posting this funding opportunity in Spring of 2026.

Enhancing Global Health Security: Strengthening Public Health Surveillance Systems for Disease Detection and Preparedness Globally

• This program aims to strengthen global public health by improving disease surveillance systems, workforce capacity, laboratory integration, and emergency preparedness to better detect, prevent, and respond to infectious diseases and emerging threats.  The Centers for Disease Control anticipates posting this funding opportunity in the Winter 2026.

Homeless Veterans’ Reintegration Program (HVRP)

• This program’s goal is to help veterans experiencing or at risk of homelessness achieve meaningful, long-term employment by proposing strategies that promote economic prosperity to help veterans find employment and overcome barriers to a successful transition into the workforce.  The Department of Labor anticipates posting this funding opportunity in Winter 2025.

Inflammatory Bowel Disease Genetics Consortium (IBDGC) Genomic Research Centers

• The IBDGC will leverage patient cohorts, biospecimens and advances in data science to characterize the interactions of genetic, clinical and environmental factors in disease development and progression, and to develop new predictors of disease outcomes, with the goal of improving medical management and advancing precision medicine for IBD patients.  The National Institutes of Health anticipates posting this funding opportunity in Summer 2026.

Interdisciplinary Research Networks to Advance Biomedical Research on Resilience and Health Optimization

• This program supports interdisciplinary research networks to grow the resilience research community and accomplish high-impact scientific activities that foster an innovative, rigorous, and reproducible body of resilience research.  Activities include meetings, conferences, interdisciplinary cross-training (e.g. workshops, visiting scholar programs), research collaborations, and other training opportunities.  The National Institutes of Health anticipates posting this funding opportunity in Winter 2026.

Maternal Medications and Human Milk Research Center

• This grant aims to strengthen global public health by enhancing disease surveillance systems, workforce capacity, laboratory integration, emergency preparedness, and data use to better detect, prevent, and respond to infectious diseases and emerging threats.  The National Institutes of Health anticipates posting this funding opportunity in Fall 2025.

Maternal and Pediatric Precision in Therapeutics (MPRINT) Knowledge and Research Coordination Center

• The purpose of this program is to establish a Knowledge and Research Coordination Center within the Maternal and Pediatric Precision in Therapeutics (MPRINT) Hub to advance safe and effective drug development for maternal and pediatric populations.  The Center will build a comprehensive pharmacology knowledgebase, leverage real-world data, support innovative clinical trials, and unite multidisciplinary expertise to drive research, collaboration, and workforce development in maternal and pediatric therapeutics.  The National Institutes of Health anticipates posting this funding opportunity in Fall 2025.

Mentoring Networks for Mental Health Research Education

• This program expands research education activities that complement and enhance the training of a workforce to meet the nation’s biomedical, behavioral and clinical research needs.  The goal of this initiative is to support innovative educational activities with a primary focus on national or regional mentoring networks that enhance professional development and foster career trajectories towards independent mental health research.  The National Institutes of Health anticipates posting this funding opportunity in Winter 2026.

National Centers for Cryo-electron Tomography (cryoET)

• This funding opportunity seeks to support service centers to provide nationwide access to advanced cryoET instrumentation and technical support, and to assist investigators in acquiring the skills needed to perform cryoET studies.  The National Institutes of Health anticipates posting the funding opportunity in Fall 2025.

National Center on Head Start Early Learning, Health and Family Engagement

• This funding opportunity looks to open and operate the Head Start National Center (NC) on Early Learning, Health, and Family Engagement (ELHFE).  This center will strengthen Head Start program practices and services leading to improved education, health, and family engagement services while also providing professional development and training.  The Department of Health and Human Services anticipates posting this funding opportunity in Fall 2025.

National Center on Head Start Program Management and Quality Assurance

• This funding opportunity looks to open and operate the Head Start National Center (NC) on Program Management and Quality Assurance (PMQA) to provide training and technical assistance (TTA) that promotes best practices.  The NC PMQA TTA will also lead to improved organizational leadership, governance, and administrative accountability.  The Department of Health and Human Services anticipates posting this funding opportunity in Fall 2025.

National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) Technology Development Networks

• This program supports centers designed to bring scientific and engineering communities together to solve translational problems by enhancing integration across technology development projects, disseminating program advances, as well as developing resources and outreach strategies.  The National Institutes of Health anticipates posting this funding opportunity in Spring 2026.

National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Short Courses for Mental Health Related Research

• This program builds innovative educational activities focused on proposed skill development courses for graduate/medical students, medical residents, postdoctoral scholars, and/or early-career investigators to advance its mission by continuing the NIMH Research Education Program.  The National Institutes of Health anticipates posting this funding opportunity in Winter 2026.

The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) Disorders of Gastrointestinal Interoception Consortium Clinical Centers (DGIC)

• This program seeks to advance NIDDK’s mission by expanding the work of the Gastroparesis Consortium into a Disorders of Gastrointestinal Interoception Consortium to investigate mechanisms linking GI function and symptoms, broaden understanding of adult and pediatric GI conditions with impaired interoceptive processing, and identify biomarkers and therapeutic targets through multidisciplinary, innovative approaches. The National Institutes of Health anticipates posting this funding opportunity in Summer 2026.

Silvio O. Conte Centers for Basic Neuroscience or Translational Mental Health Research

• This program supports research with objectives that include advancing basic brain and behavior science, integrating basic and clinical neuroscience on severe mental illnesses, and exploring developmental mechanisms of psychopathology beginning in youth.  The National Institutes of Health anticipates posting this funding opportunity in Winter 2026.

Toolkits for Dissemination of Genomic Technologies

• This program aims to bridge the gap between technology development in individual labs and widespread adoption by the broader scientific community.  This program supports developers in creating integrated toolkits, combining reagents, hardware, protocols, computational pipelines, and training resources, to facilitate implementation, validation, and refinement of innovative genomic technologies.  The National Institutes of Health anticipates posting this funding opportunity in Spring 2026.

Worker Training Program’s Small Business Innovation Research E-Learning for HAZMAT and Emergency Response

• This grant supports the development of technology-enhanced training products to improve the health and safety training of workers and supervisors involved in hazardous materials management and emergency response.  The National Institutes of Health anticipates posting this funding opportunity in Fall 2025.

Veterans Legacy Grants Program

• This program seeks to provide funding to educational institutions and other eligible entities to conduct cemetery research and produce educational tools for the public to utilize and learn about the histories of Veterans interred in VA national cemeteries and VA grant-funded State and Tribal Veterans’ cemeteries.  The Department of Veterans Affairs anticipates posting this funding opportunity in Spring 2026.

Sincerely,