External Funding Opportunities
***Limited Submission***
NSF / Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering / Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure
Program: Advanced Computing Systems & Services: Adapting to the Rapid Evolution of Science and Engineering Research 2.0 – Category ll Submissions only
Solicitation #: 24-583
Synopsis: Supports organizations who are willing to serve as resource providers within the NSF Advanced Computing Systems and Services (ACSS) program. Resource providers would (1) provide advanced cyberinfrastructure resources in production operations to support the full range of computation, data-analysis, and AI research across all of science and engineering (S&E), and (2) enable democratized and equitable access to the proposed resources. The current solicitation is intended to complement previous NSF investments in advanced computational infrastructure by provisioning resources, broadly defined in this solicitation to include systems and services, in two categories. For this cycle, only Category ll submissions are eligible for review.
- Category I, Capacity Resources: production computational resources maximizing the capacity provided to support the broad range of computation, data analytics and AI needs in S&E research; and
- Category II, Innovative Prototypes / Testbeds: innovative forward-looking capabilities deploying novel technologies, architectures, usage modes, etc., and exploring new target applications, methods, and paradigms.
The ACSS 2.0 Program seeks broad representation of PIs across the full spectrum of diverse community talent (including the participation of groups that have traditional been underrepresented in the cyberinfrastructure community) and institutions (including those that have not historically provided nationally allocatable cyberinfrastructure) in both the community of resource recipients and resources users to continue growing the scale and diversity of the S&E community. Submission from or partnership with EPSCoR institutions and institutions that have not previously received ACSS awards is encouraged.
Award details: Category ll awards are up to $5M per year for 5-year project duration.
USC Internal announcement: https://rii.usc.edu/limited-submissions/nsf-24-583/
External announcement on website: https://nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/nsf24583.pdf?VersionId=HVosc.QadZXc.JN8NEB8N1WdRObxT3QJ
USC Internal due date: April 4, 2025.
External due date for Category ll submissions: June 24, 2025.
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Luce / American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
Program: Collaborative Grant in China Studies
Synopsis: Supports multi-institutional teams to undertake projects that, broadly,
- Enable productive engagement with China;
- Expand teaching and curricula resources;
- Expand open access resources;
- Expand access to language training; and
- Train China scholars in digital skills and research methods.
Award details: Up to $150K (approximately $25K per team member for a 6-member team)
Announcement on website: https://www.acls.org/competitions/luce-acls-collaborative-grant-in-china-studies/
Letter of Intent due date: April 1, 2025.
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Louisville Institute
Program: Pastoral Study Project
Synopsis: Supports individual or collaborative study projects on Christian life, religious practices and institutions, and possibilities and ideas for the church, Christian communities, and the wider world. Grants are awarded to skilled and innovative clergy, lay leaders, and staff working in diverse Christian contexts in the United States and Canada.
Award details: Up to $20K
Announcement on website: https://louisville-institute.org/programs-grants-and-fellowships/grants/pastoral-study-project/
Application due date: August 1, 2025. Application portal opens June 1, 2025.
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Schmidt Sciences
Program: Humanities and Artificial Intelligence Virtual Institute (HAVI)
Synopsis: Supports research at the intersection of AI and the humanities to (1) catalyze groundbreaking, domain-specific research outcomes from humanities scholars through the integral application of AI-inspired tools and techniques; and (2) produce insights and techniques from the humanities that will advance the development of AI generally.
Award details: Projects are supported at three funding levels to cover a spectrum of project maturity levels and scopes-of-work. Applicants must identify their appropriate budget category and specify a project timeline varying from one to three years:
Small Awards: Under $100K per year to support small-scale efforts at early, exploratory stages; Medium Awards: Between $100,001 to $500Kper year to support research and development that has completed initial phases of planning and is ready to initiate projects that will produce specific, novel outcomes
Large Awards: $500,001 to $1.5M per year to support interdisciplinary research efforts designed to produce groundbreaking humanities research, new AI tools, datasets, and models through deep interaction with AI theory, systems, and methods.
Announcement on website: https://schmidtsciences.smapply.io/prog/humanities_and_artificial_intelligence_virtual_institute_havi_/
Expression of Interest due date (3 pager): April 4, 2025. Selected projects will be invited to submit full proposals with detailed information.
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American Psychological Association
Program: Visionary Grants
Synopsis: Supports research, innovation, and intervention projects using psychology to solve social problems including preventing violence, understanding the connection between behavior and health (e.g. wellness, diabetes, obesity); advancing racial equity; and applying psychology to assist at-risk populations, e.g., veterans, economically disadvantaged and the incarcerated. Priority given to pilot projects.
Award details: Up to $20K.
Announcement on website: https://ampsychfdn.org/funding/visionary-grants/
Application due date: April 3, 2025.
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American Psychiatric Association
Program: The MOORE Equity in Mental Health Community Grants
Synopsis: Supports community organizations that have undertaken innovative awareness programs and / or have provided services to improve the mental health of young people of color. Grant recipients will be selected based on
- Delivering innovative programming that addresses mental health and substance use disorder inequities;
- Promoting awareness of mental health and substance use disorder inequities;
- Increasing equitable access to mental health and substance use disorder care; and
- Enhancing the quality of culturally and linguistically appropriate services in mental health and substance use disorder care.
Award details: $10K over 2-year period, contingent upon first year success.
Announcement on website: https://www.apaf.org/our-programs/grants-and-awards/grants/the-moore-equity-in-mental-health-community-grants-program/
Application submission window: August 21 to September 30, 2025. Award decisions made by mid-November and funds become available January 1, 2026.
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Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for Scholarly Exchange
Program: Scholar Grants
Synopsis: Supports faculty and postdoctoral fellows research projects in the humanities and social sciences that can shed new light on Chinese culture and society, as well as engage in international cooperation and exchange. Projects on Taiwan Studies, as well as collaborative projects involving Taiwanese institutions, are especially encouraged and prioritized.
Award details: Grants of $20K to $35K can be used to offset half of a scholar's sabbatical salary, or for time off for research and writing.
Announcement on website: http://www.cckf.org.tw/en/programs/american/scholar
Application submission window: August 1 to October 15, 2025 (and annually). Awards are announced in June of the following year.
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Smith Richardson Foundation
Program: Domestic Policy Program
Synopsis: Supports projects that will help the public and policy makers understand and address critical challenges facing the United States. To that end, the Foundation supports research on, and evaluation of existing public policies and programs, as well as projects that inject new ideas into public debates. Broadly, the program is concerned with these 3 areas
- Domestic fiscal policy
- Post-secondary education
- Criminal justice system
Award details: Recent domestic policy research grants have ranged from ~$38K to ~$300K.
Announcement on website: https://www.srf.org/programs/domestic-public-policy/
Application process: Submission of a concept paper using the provided template. Selected projects will be requested for a full proposal using provided instructions and a template.
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National Water Research Institute (NWRI)
Program: 2025-26 Fellowship (graduate student research)
Synopsis: Supports research related to water science and technology. The 2025-26 fellowships will support student research on: (1) The application of membrane technology to create safe water and to treat wastewater for beneficial reuse; and (2) The development of effective, economical technologies to remove salt from water supplies. For the NWRI-Southern California Salinity Coalition (SCSC) Graduate Fellowship the student must be enrolled at an accredited college or university in Southern California and research must address the critical need to remove or reduce salts from water supplies and to preserve water resources in Southern California. Research topics may include concentrate management, institutional and regulatory / policy issues, economic analysis, and innovative treatment technologies. NWRI-AMTA (American Membrane Technology Association) Graduate Fellowships for Membrane Technology research must be related to the advancement of membrane technology in the water, wastewater, or water reuse industries, and must be consistent with AMTA’s mission to solve water supply and quality issues using membrane technology.
Award details: Each fellowship is $10K
Announcement on website: https://www.nwri-usa.org/fellowship
Application due date: April 16, 2025.
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FamilieSCN2A
Program: Action Potential Grant
Synopsis: Supports early career investigators who propose innovative projects that will advance development of therapeutic treatments for SCN2A-related disorders (SRDs). The program is designed to facilitate future funding from government, industry, and other funding sources. Priority will be given to proposals that investigate the efficacy of candidate therapeutic treatments, or that develop outcome measures or biomarkers for use in clinical trials. Research that could potentially lead to therapeutic treatments by advancing understanding of cellular, molecular, genetic, and systems-level mechanisms of SCN2A-related disorders, are also of great interest. Eligible candidates are newly appointed faculty (within 1 to 3 years) to their first tenure-track position; postdoctoral fellows; and clinical residents specializing in SRDs.
Award details: Up to $75K.
Announcement on website: https://www.scn2a.org/pdf/RFA-ACTION-POTENTIAL-GRANT-REVISED-2-23-24.pdf
Letter of Intent due date: April 1, 2025.
Full application due date (invited): May 1, 2025.
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The United States Association for the Study of Pain (USASP)
Program: USASP-Mayday Clinical / Translational Award
Synopsis: Supports early career investigators within four years of their faculty appointment (except those who have received tenure at the time of the application) for clinical / translational research that address the management of pain. Applicants should describe the proposed research in pain and describe how it is innovative and cutting edge. In addition, the applicant should describe their vision for a career in pain research and provide information or any examples of leadership in pain-related activities. Eligible candidates must conduct their research in, and be appointed at an institution in the United States or Canada.
Award details: $50K for one year with the potential for a no-cost extension for a second year.
Announcement on website: https://www.usasp.org/usasp-mayday-award
Application due date: April 4, 2025.
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International Center for Responsible Gaming (ICRG)
Program: Research Grants
Synopsis: Supports research on gambling disorders. ICRG aims to help individuals and families affected by gambling disorders and prevent the onset of gambling problems through high-quality scientific research and evidence-based educational programming on gambling disorders and responsible gambling. Eligible applicants include domestic or international, public, or private, and nonprofit or for-profit organizations. The principal investigator must hold a Ph.D., MD, or other terminal degrees. Investigators who are not active PIs or Co-PIs on existing ICRG grants are strongly encouraged to apply.
Award details: Up to $75K per year for 2 years, plus 25% indirect costs.
Announcement on website: https://www.icrg.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/RFA-Large-Grants-2025.pdf
Letter of Intent due date: April 4, 2025.
Application due date (invited): July 18, 2025. Projects may begin on October 1, 2025, and conclude no later than December 31, 2027.
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Eppendorf Corporate
Program: 2025 Eppendorf and Science / AAAS Prize for Neurobiology
Synopsis: Supports and encourages the work of promising young neurobiologists who are 35 years or younger. It is awarded annually to one young scientist for the most outstanding neurobiological research based on methods of molecular, cellular, systems, or organismic biology conducted during the past three years, as described in a 1,000-word entrance essay.
Award details: $25K
Announcement on website: https://corporate.eppendorf.com/en/company/scientific-awards/global-award/?et_rid=1099806582&et_cid=5551276#c1995
Submissions due date: June 15, 2025.
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Program: Chemistries and monoLayers for Anti-aging Kinematics (CLOAK)
Disruption Opportunity (DO) #: DARPA-PA-24-04-08
Synopsis: Supports projects that aim to develop methods to extend the lifetime of inertial sensors by covering or eliminating sensor surface and structural defects that can get worse with time. Possible approaches include atomic layer deposition of materials such as, but not limited to, self assembled monolayers. The program is also not limited to coatings on sensing elements but can also include a vacuum- or inert gas-encapsulated structure on the inner or outer walls of the package.
Award details: The total award value for the combined Phase 1 base (Proof-of-concept) and Phase 2 option (Prototype) is limited to $1,200M, which includes agency funding plus PI cost share. Selected proposals that are successfully negotiated will result in the award of an Other Transaction (OT) for Prototype project. DARPA’s goal for this DO is to achieve an award within 98 calendar days from the posting date (March 7, 2025) of this announcement. To ensure that, DARPA reserves the right to cease negotiations when an award is not executed by both parties (DARPA and the selected organization) on or before June 13, 2025.
Announcement on website: CLOAK
Proposal due date: April 14, 2025.
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Department of Defense (DoD) / Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport (NUWCDIVNPT)
Program: Science and Technology Broad Agency Announcement
Synopsis: Supports new and innovative research and development solutions related to the 27 undersea technology subject areas listed in the announcement. The BAA is an expression of interest only and does not commit the Government to pay any costs for responses submitted. It is the policy of NUWCDIVNPT to treat all proposals as sensitive, competitive information and to disclose their content to Government personnel only, and only for the purposes of evaluation or potential sponsorship of the concept. All work awarded as a result of this BAA shall be unclassified. The Government does not commit to providing a response to any comments or questions.
Award details: The Government will consider the reasonableness and realism of the proposed costs and any fee. The Government will assess proposals for reasonableness in accordance with statutes of the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR). The Government will conduct a cost realism analysis in accordance with FAR statutes.
Announcement: NUWCDIVNPT Science and Technology BAA.pdf
White paper and Proposal due date: Electronic submissions for this BAA will be accepted for 5 years.
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Department of Defense / DEVCOM (Army)
Program: Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear and Explosive (CBRNE) Defense Efforts
NOFO #: W911SR-24R-00XX
Synopsis: Supports new and innovative concepts for basic and applied research, and for development efforts not related to the development of specific systems or hardware. Solicits pre-proposals for projects in DEVCOM’s mission areas (partial)
- Sensor and Technologies Biomaterials
- Aerosol Technology
- Biological Point Detection
- Chemical Point Detection
- Early Warning Detection
- Smoke Obscurants
- Decontamination
- Respiratory Protection
Award details: Awards will be cooperative agreements, other transactions and procurement contracts.
Announcement on website: DEVCOM BAA
Pre-Proposal due date: BAA duration is 5 years.
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The U.S. – Israeli Binational Science Foundation (BSF)
Program: BSF Climate Solutions in Memory of Professor Anton Post
Synopsis: Supports US-Israeli collaborative, cross-disciplinary (at least 2 major disciplines, i.e., physics, social sciences and engineering), transformative research projects that focus on how aspects of climate related processes can be offset by novel technologies, regulations, policy etc. Examples of such processes are
- Atmosphere (e.g. carbon dioxide capture, methane emissions, hurricane preparedness, climate change, extreme weather etc.)
- Earth (salt intrusion; rivers, estuaries and marshlands; coastal erosion; droughts; arid ecosystems; alternative energy sources (wind, solar); deforestation etc.)
- Ocean (alternative energy sources (tidal, wave); coral bleaching; biodiversity and biogeography; food web structures; ocean acidification etc.)
Award details: $600K per grant. Up to 2 grants per cycle.
Announcement on website: https://www.bsf.org.il/funding-opportunities/new-program/about/
Pre-proposal due date: April 2, 2025.
Full proposal due date: Invited proposals will be announced in 2025.
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NSF / Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences - Division of Astronomical Sciences
Program: Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Grant
Solicitation #: 22-624
Synopsis: Supports research in the astronomical sciences. The Program provides individual investigator and collaborative research grants for observational, theoretical, laboratory, and archival data studies in astronomy and astrophysics. The Program also considers proposals for projects and tools that enable or enhance astronomical research. Proposals may span multiple disciplines and/or areas of study and may utilize multiple techniques. Division programs also support the development of advanced technologies and instrumentation, mid-scale projects, the planning and design for future observational facilities and major collaborative projects in astronomy, and the management of the electromagnetic spectrum for scientific use.
In all cases, proposals must demonstrate the astronomical context of the work.
Award details: About 100 projects will be funded per year, pending availability of funds. Estimated program budget, number of awards, and average award size and duration are subject to the availability of funds.
Announcement on website: https://nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/nsf22624.pdf?VersionId=irtN05hEiL4CcTWdXoxdqppwZn302Wu_
Proposal submission window: October 1 to November 17, 2025.
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NIH / National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and National Institute on Aging
Program: Investigator-Initiated Research in Genomics and Health Equity (R21)
NOFO #: RFA-HG-23-018
Synopsis: Supports investigator-initiated small research projects in genomics and health equity, with the ultimate goal of developing approaches, generating and disseminating data, and implementing metrics or interventions that will advance the equitable use of genomics to improve health in U.S. populations. This NOFO supports different types of projects including pilot and feasibility studies; secondary analysis of existing data; small, self-contained research projects; development of research methodology; and development of new research technology. Applications supporting New or Early Stage Investigators are encouraged.
Award details: Application budgets cannot exceed $200K in direct costs per year for a project period of up to 2 years.
Announcement on website: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-HG-23-018.html
Application due date: July 8, 2025.
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NIH / National Library of Medicine (NLM) and Office of Research on Women’s Health
Program: NLM Grants for Scholarly Works in Biomedicine and Health (G13 - Health Sciences Publication Support Awards (NLM))
NOFO #: PAR-23-183
Synopsis: Supports the preparation of book-length manuscripts and other works of academic and / or public health value to U.S. health professionals, public health officials, biomedical researchers, historians of the health sciences, and scholars of all disciplines working at the intersection of the digital humanities/data science and the history of the health sciences. Grants are awarded for major critical reviews, state-of-the-art summaries, historical studies, and other useful organizations of knowledge in clinical medicine, public health, biomedical research, and informatics/information sciences. Regardless of topic, there should be clear evidence that the scholarly work proposed fills a void and has considerable usefulness to the intended audience.
Award details: request up to $75K direct costs per year for up to 2 years to support salary and fringe benefits for project personnel. Salaries requested must not exceed the levels commensurate with the institution’s policy for similar positions and may not exceed the legislatively mandated salary cap. Additionally, applicants may also request up to $5K direct costs per year for other costs needed to develop the final products (such as supplies, design / editing services, travel, etc.). These costs must be justified as specifically required to complete the scholarly work. Indirect costs (F&A) will be provided at the negotiated institutional rate.
Announcement on website: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-23-183.html
Application due date: February 26, 2026.
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