Look Ahead Funding Calendar
The below is a list of funding opportunities that come out on a regular schedule (annual, bi-annual, etc.) or are otherwise predictive. This list, while not exhaustive, is provided to help visitors to this site plan well ahead of time for recurring opportunities of interest to them.
To find currently open internal or limited funding opportunities please visit our Current Funding Opportunities page.
| Opportunity Name | Opportunity Type | Description | Max Total Funding | Internal Deadline | Sponsor (1st) Deadline | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NSF Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI) | Limited | The MRI program, is designed to increase access to scientific and engineering equipment for research and research training. | $4,000,000 | 10 | October | 1 | January |
| Brain Research Foundation Fay/Frank Seed Grant Program | Limited | This program's goal is to provide start-up money for new and innovative research projects that have the potential to become competitive for an NIH grant or other external funding sources. | $80,000 | 11 | November | 1 | January |
| Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program | Limited | The Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program supports the research and teaching careers of talented young faculty in the chemical sciences | $75,000 | 10 | October | 2 | February |
| Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions | Limited | The HSI Program seeks to increase the retention and graduation rates of students at Hispanic serving institutions who are pursuing associate or baccalaureate degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). | $30,000,000 | 7 | July | 9 | September |
| Keck Foundation Research Grants Phase 1 (Spring/Summer) | Limited | The W. M. Keck Foundation supports groundbreaking fundamental research in the areas of biological and physical sciences. | $2,000,000 | 1 | January | 5 | May |
| Brain Research Foundation Scientific Innovations Award (SIA) | Limited | The BRF SIA provides funding for innovative science in both basic and clinical neurosciencem to a senior faculty member. | $150,000 | 4 | April | 6 | June |
| Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences | Limited | The award supports independent young investigators of outstanding promise in basic and clinical sciences relevant to the advancement of human health. It | $300, 000 | 5 | May | 7 | July |
| NIH Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA)(R25) | Limited | This program supports educational activities that complement and/or enhance the training of a workforce to meet the nation's biomedical, behavioral and clinical research needs. | $1,250,000 | 4 | April | 7 | July |
| American Diabetes Association Pathway to Stop Diabetes | Limited | Pathway accepts nominations for exceptional investigators with medical and scientific backgrounds who propose innovative basic, clinical, translational, behavioral, epidemiological and health services research relevant to any type of diabetes, diabetes-related disease state or complication. | $1,630,000 | 4 | April | 7 | July |
| William T. Grant Scholars Program | Limited | Supports career development for promising early-career researchers. | $350,000 | 6 | June | 7 | July |
| Edward Mallinckrodt Jr. Foundation Grants | Limited | EMJF supports early stage, highly promising investigators (in the first to fourth year of a tenure-track position) engaged in basic biomedical research that has the potential to advance the understanding, diagnosis or treatment of disease. | $180,000 | 6 | June | 8 | August |
| DOD Research and Education Program for Historically Black Colleges and Universities/Minority-Serving Institutions | Limited | Though annual, the award opportunity description changes each year. | $600,000 | 6 | June | 8 | August |
| NIH Director’s Early Independence Award | Limited | This program provides an opportunity for exceptional junior scientists to accelerate their entry into an independent research career by forgoing the traditional post-doctoral training | $1,250,000 | 7 | July | 8 | August |
| Searle Scholars Program | Limited | The Searle Scholars Program supports research of outstanding individuals who have recently begun their appointment at the assistant professor level in their first tenure-track position. | $300,000 | 6 | June | 9 | September |
| NSF Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) Program | Limited | Encourage the development and implementation of bold, new, and potentially transformative approaches to STEM graduate education training. | $150,000 | 7 | July | 9 | September |
| Johnson & Johnson WiSTEM2D Scholars Award Program | Limited | The WiSTEM2D Scholars Award supports women pursuing research in STEM2D (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, Manufacturing & Design) | $150,000 | 7 | July | 9 | September |
| Keck Foundation Research Grants Phase 1 (Fall/Winter) | Limited | The W. M. Keck Foundation supports groundbreaking fundamental research in the areas of biological and physical sciences. | $2,000,000 | 6 | June | 11 | November |
| Blavatnik Family Foundation Awards for Young Scientisits | Limited | This award recognizes and celebrates America’s most innovative and promising faculty-rank scientists and engineers in three disciplinary categories: Chemistry, Physical Sciences & Engineering, and Life Sciences. | $250,000 | 9 | September | 11 | November |
| NSF Partnerships for Innovation (PFI) | Limited | The PFI Program funds technology translation and development based on prior NSF-funded research projects from all science and engineering disciplines supported by NSF. | $550,000 | 9 | October | 1 | January |
| NSF Research Training Fellowship (NRT) | Limited | This program is designed to encourage the development and implementation of bold, new, and potentially transformative models for STEM graduate education training. | $3,000,000 | 9 | September | 12 | December |