Bulletin from the Grants Resource Center

Notices from September 1 to September 30, 2025

Funding Opportunities

 

🎭 Arts / Humanities / International

 

 

  • Funding Opportunity: Franklin Research Grants
    Agency: Foundation (American Philosophical Society)
    Item: Supports research costs such as travel to archives, fieldwork, and lab expenses for doctoral-level scholars.
    deadline: October 1, 2025; December 1, 2025

  • Funding Opportunity: 30-Day Notice for NEA Funding Application Guidelines and Requirements
    Agency: National Endowment for the Arts
    Item: Seeks public review/comments on NEA funding application guidelines and requirements.
    deadline: N/A

  • Funding Opportunity: FY2025 ABPP – Battlefield Restoration Grants
    Agency: Interior (NPS)
    Item: Funds restoration of eligible Revolutionary War, War of 1812, and Civil War battlefields to day-of-battle conditions (match required).
    deadline: October 10, 2025

  • Funding Opportunity: Luce ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art
    Agency: Foundation (ACLS)
    Item: Fellowships supporting any stage of PhD dissertation research/writing on U.S. art and visual culture.
    deadline: October 29, 2025

  • Funding Opportunity: Collaborative Research
    Agency: National Endowment for the Humanities
    Item: Supports teams of scholars producing a tangible interpretive humanities product.
    deadline: November 19, 2025

  • Funding Opportunity: Wenner-Gren Post-PhD Research Grants
    Agency: Foundation
    Item: Funds individual anthropology research projects advancing understanding of humanity.
    deadline: November 1, 2025; May 1 (annual)

  • Funding Opportunity: Kurt Weill Foundation’s Grants Program and Collaborative Initiatives
    Agency: Foundation
    Item: Supports performances, research, publications, and academic projects related to Kurt Weill.
    deadline: November 1, 2025

 

📚 Education / Economic & Community Development

 

 

  • Funding Opportunity: OVW FY 2025 Restorative Practices Pilot Sites Program
    Agency: Justice (OVW)
    Item: Strengthens and expands restorative practice programs addressing DV, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.
    deadline: October 14, 2025

  • Funding Opportunity: Common Instructions and Information for ED Discretionary Grants
    Agency: Education
    Item: Centralized, updated application instructions for ED discretionary grants.
    deadline: N/A

  • Funding Opportunity: Grassroots Organizing National Grant Program
    Agency: Foundation (Ben & Jerry’s Foundation)
    Item: Two-year unrestricted operating grants to small, constituent-led grassroots groups.
    deadline: N/A

  • Funding Opportunity: National Fish Passage Program FY25
    Agency: FWS
    Item: Funds barrier removals to restore aquatic connectivity, reduce flood risk, and support ecosystems.
    deadline: December 31, 2025

  • Funding Opportunity: Rural Cooperative Development Grants
    Agency: U.S. Department of Agriculture (NIFA)
    Item: Supports nonprofits that provide TA to start/expand/improve rural cooperatives.
    deadline: September 15, 2025

  • Funding Opportunity: National Academy of Education Dissertation Fellowships
    Agency: Foundation (NAEd)
    Item: Supports innovative dissertation research improving education.
    deadline: October 2, 2025

  • Funding Opportunity: Richard King Mellon Foundation – Innovative Wood Products and Value Chains
    Agency: Foundation
    Item: Funds innovation in wood products and related value chains.
    deadline: October 1, 2025

  • Funding Opportunity: Farm to School Grant Program
    Agency: U.S. Department of Agriculture (FNS)
    Item: Funds projects improving access to local foods in Child Nutrition Program sites.
    deadline: December 5, 2025

  • Funding Opportunity: Mark Schonwetter Holocaust Education Foundation Teacher Grants
    Agency: Foundation
    Item: Supports classroom Holocaust education materials, experiences, and speakers.
    deadline: October 17, 2025

  • Funding Opportunity: Final Priorities and Definitions—ED Supplemental Priorities
    Agency: Education
    Item: Announces final priorities on evidence-based literacy, education choice, and returning education to the states.
    deadline: N/A

  • Funding Opportunity: BJA FY25 Body-Worn Camera Policy & Implementation Program
    Agency: Justice (BJA)
    Item: Funds establishment/expansion of body-worn camera programs for law enforcement.
    deadline: October 27, 2025 (Grants.gov); November 3, 2025 (JustGrants)

  • Funding Opportunity: BJA FY25 Student, Teachers, and Officers Preventing (STOP) School Violence
    Agency: Justice (BJA)
    Item: Funds school violence prevention training, threat assessment, and safety tech/tools.
    deadline: October 27, 2025 (Grants.gov); November 3, 2025 (JustGrants)

  • Funding Opportunity: OJJDP FY25 Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force National Training Program
    Agency: Justice (OJJDP)
    Item: Provides training for ICAC task forces on investigations, forensics, prosecution, AI, and wellness.
    deadline: October 21, 2025 (Grants.gov); October 27, 2025 (JustGrants)

  • Funding Opportunity: OJJDP FY25 Strategies To Support Children Exposed to Violence; Multistate Mentoring; Post-Secondary Education for Child Protection Professionals
    Agency: Justice (OJJDP)
    Item: Three solicitations supporting child exposure to violence services, multistate mentoring, and training for child protection professionals.
    deadline: October 21, 2025 (Grants.gov); October 27, 2025 (JustGrants)

  • Funding Opportunity: OJJDP FY25 Enhancing Juvenile Indigent Defense
    Agency: Justice (OJJDP)
    Item: Supports strengthening local juvenile indigent defense services and practices.
    deadline: October 23, 2025 (Grants.gov); October 30, 2025 (JustGrants)

  • Funding Opportunity: OJJDP FY25 Mentoring for Youth Affected by Opioid and Other Substance Use
    Agency: Justice (OJJDP)
    Item: Funds high-quality mentoring for at-risk youth affected by substance use.
    deadline: October 23, 2025 (Grants.gov); October 30, 2025 (JustGrants)

  • Funding Opportunity: OJJDP FY25 Reducing Recidivism for Female Juvenile Delinquents
    Agency: Justice (OJJDP)
    Item: Develops/expands intervention programs tailored to female juvenile delinquents.
    deadline: October 27, 2025 (Grants.gov); November 3, 2025 (JustGrants)

  • Funding Opportunity: PD Soros Fellowships
    Agency: Foundation
    Item: Graduate fellowships for New Americans with leadership potential and impact.
    deadline: October 30, 2025

  • Funding Opportunity: Council on Foreign Relations – International Affairs Fellowship
    Agency: Foundation (CFR)
    Item: 12-month fellowship bridging scholarship and U.S. foreign policy practice.
    deadline: October 31, 2025

  • Funding Opportunity: Withdrawal of NIAs and Cancellation of Competitions (ANNH Part A, AANAPISI Part A, NASNTI Part A, DHSI)
    Agency: Education
    Item: Announces withdrawal/cancellation of specific HEA Title III/V competitions.
    deadline: N/A

  • Funding Opportunity: Feedback on Redesigning the Institute of Education Sciences (IES)
    Agency: Education (IES)
    Item: Seeks public input on improving IES data, grants, dissemination, and technical assistance.
    deadline: October 15, 2025

 

🏥 Health

 

 

  • Funding Opportunity: American Psychological Foundation – Steven O. Walfish & Other Grants
    Agency: Foundation (APF)
    Item: Supports student and early-career practitioner psychologists; other APF awards vary.
    deadline: October 2, 2025

  • Funding Opportunity: HRSA Nurse Corps Scholarship Program – Information Collection (OMB 0915-0301)
    Agency: Health Resources and Services Administration
    Item: Requests public comment on information collection for Nurse Corps SP eligibility and compliance.
    deadline: September 29, 2025

  • Funding Opportunity: NIA Artificial Intelligence & Technology Collaboratory (P30)
    Agency: National Institutes of Health
    Item: Funds AI/tech collaboratories advancing aging and AD/ADRD research and implementation.
    deadline: October 15, 2025

  • Funding Opportunity: Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Centers (P30)
    Agency: National Institutes of Health
    Item: Establishes geriatrics research centers to maintain/restore independence in older adults.
    deadline: October 20, 2025

  • Funding Opportunity: Dental Preventive and Clinical Support Program
    Agency: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (IHS)
    Item: Funds support centers (not direct care) to promote oral health for AI/AN patients.
    deadline: October 10, 2025

  • Funding Opportunity: Office of the Director, NIH—Meeting on Clinical Center Research Hospital Board
    Agency: National Institutes of Health
    Item: Public videocast meeting on CCRHB activities and priorities.
    deadline: N/A

  • Funding Opportunity: Influenza Transmission Research Consortium (P01)
    Agency: National Institutes of Health
    Item: Supports basic research centers on mechanisms of human-to-human transmission of seasonal influenza.
    deadline: November 7, 2025

  • Funding Opportunity: International Center for Responsible Gaming – College-Age Gambling Research
    Agency: Foundation (ICRG)
    Item: Funds research on gambling behaviors/problems among college-age students and athletes.
    deadline: October 13, 2025

  • Funding Opportunity: Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome Foundation – Cure LGS 365 Research Grants
    Agency: Foundation
    Item: Seeds new basic/translational/clinical research on LGS (LOIs accepted rolling).
    deadline: N/A

  • Funding Opportunity: NIA ERA Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program (R25)
    Agency: National Institutes of Health
    Item: Supports post-bacc research education to expand the AD/ADRD workforce.
    deadline: May 27, 2026

  • Funding Opportunity: NIA ERA Summer Research Education Program (R25)
    Agency: National Institutes of Health
    Item: Summer research education for high school/undergrad/teachers in AD/ADRD.
    deadline: May 27, 2026

  • Funding Opportunity: NIH Blueprint Coordination Center for Interoception Research (U24)
    Agency: National Institutes of Health
    Item: U24 center to coordinate multidisciplinary interoception research bridging brain and body.
    deadline: November 10, 2025

  • Funding Opportunity: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation – Exploring Equitable 皇家华人s
    Agency: Foundation (RWJF)
    Item: Seeds unconventional ideas to advance health equity for future generations.
    deadline: October 15, 2025

  • Funding Opportunity: Pfizer – Education for APPs on Actionable Biomarkers & Genetic Testing in Cancer
    Agency: Foundation (Pfizer Medical Education)
    Item: Funds IME for APPs on biomarker/genetics-informed oncology care.
    deadline: October 1, 2025

  • Funding Opportunity: Eunice Kennedy Shriver NICHD; Notice of Meeting
    Agency: National Institutes of Health
    Item: Partial open BSC NICHD meeting with director’s report.
    deadline: N/A

  • Funding Opportunity: Advancing Digital Health Tech for Type 2 Diabetes (R01)
    Agency: National Institutes of Health
    Item: Tests efficacy of digital health approaches for T2D management.
    deadline: November 7, 2025; October 6, 2026

  • Funding Opportunity: AACN Impact Research Grants
    Agency: Foundation (American Association of Critical-Care Nurses)
    Item: Funds research addressing gaps in high-acuity/critical care.
    deadline: October 24, 2025

  • Funding Opportunity: BRAIN Initiative—Theories, Models & Methods for Complex Brain Data (R01)
    Agency: National Institutes of Health
    Item: Develops computational/theoretical tools for understanding dynamic brain circuits.
    deadline: Oct 28, 2025; Oct 6, 2026; Oct 6, 2027

  • Funding Opportunity: Community-Partnered Nursing Research Centers (P20)
    Agency: National Institutes of Health (NINR)
    Item: Supports nursing-led community-partnered research centers.
    deadline: January 25 (annual)

  • Funding Opportunity: National Glaucoma Research Grants
    Agency: Foundation (BrightFocus)
    Item: Funds research on understanding, preventing, and treating glaucoma.
    deadline: October 30, 2025

  • Funding Opportunity: NIDCD Clinical Research Center Grant (P50)
    Agency: National Institutes of Health
    Item: Advances diagnosis/treatment of sensory and communication disorders.
    deadline: Nov 4, 2025; Feb 2, 2026; Jun 2, 2026

  • Funding Opportunity: Optimizing Treatment Strategies for Adult ADHD (R01)
    Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIMH)
    Item: Develops evidence-based non-stimulant/combination/device approaches for adult ADHD.
    deadline: November 25, 2025

  • Funding Opportunity: Rural Health Transformation Program
    Agency: CMS
    Item: Supports rural communities in transforming healthcare access, quality, and outcomes.
    deadline: November 5, 2025

  • Funding Opportunity: OREF Mentored Clinician Scientist Grant
    Agency: Foundation (Orthopaedic Research & Education Foundation)
    Item: Supports clinician-scientists with prior K-award-level funding to build research careers.
    deadline: October 14, 2025

  • Funding Opportunity: National Cancer Institute; Notice of Meeting
    Agency: National Institutes of Health
    Item: Virtual NCAB working group meeting on extramural research concepts/programs.
    deadline: N/A

  • Funding Opportunity: National Library of Medicine; Amended Notice of Meeting
    Agency: National Institutes of Health
    Item: BSC meeting format change to hybrid (dates unchanged).
    deadline: N/A

  • Funding Opportunity: Agency Information Collection—Nurse Faculty Loan Program Forms (OMB 0915-0314)
    Agency: Health Resources and Services Administration
    Item: Seeks comments to streamline NFLP application and reporting.
    deadline: November 12, 2025

  • Funding Opportunity: Dermatology Foundation Research Grants
    Agency: Foundation
    Item: Career development, fellowship, and research grants for early-career dermatology investigators.
    deadline: October 15, 2025

  • Funding Opportunity: Parkinson’s Foundation Impact Awards
    Agency: Foundation
    Item: Funds bold, novel PD biology/therapeutic ideas (LOI required).
    deadline: October 10, 2025

  • Funding Opportunity: National Toxicology Program—Public Meeting on 2-Hydroxy-4-methoxybenzophenone
    Agency: National Institutes of Health (NTP)
    Item: Virtual peer-review meeting; registration required for oral/written comments.
    deadline: N/A

  • Funding Opportunity: Genetic Medicines and Individualized Manufacturing for Everyone (GIVE)
    Agency: National Institutes of Health (ARPA-H)
    Item: Seeks solution summaries to accelerate genetic medicines and biomanufacturing adoption.
    deadline: December 19, 2025

  • Funding Opportunity: Mind & Body Interventions for Whole-Person Health via EWB Mechanisms (R61/R33)
    Agency: National Institutes of Health (NCCIH)
    Item: Funds trials on how mind/body practices affect emotional well-being mechanisms and health.
    deadline: November 7, 2025; standard dates thereafter

  • Funding Opportunity: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation—Health Policy Fellows
    Agency: Foundation (RWJF)
    Item: DC-based policy learning experience for mid-career health professionals.
    deadline: References due Oct 31, 2025; prelim apps Nov 3, 2025

  • Funding Opportunity: Treating Hereditary Rare Diseases with In Vivo Precision Genetic Medicines (THRIVE)
    Agency: National Institutes of Health (ARPA-H)
    Item: Seeks solutions capable of addressing multiple variants/diseases with common genetic pathways.
    deadline: October 31, 2025

  • Funding Opportunity: National Center for Complementary & Integrative Health; Notice of Meeting
    Agency: National Institutes of Health
    Item: Virtual NACCIH open session with program updates.
    deadline: N/A

 

🔬 STEM / Defense / Science

  • Funding Opportunity: Missile Defense Agency – Low Cost Interceptor
    Agency: Defense (MDA)
    Item: Seeks white papers for modular interceptors to counter ballistic/hypersonic threats at very low cost.
    deadline: September 29, 2025

  • Funding Opportunity: Renewable Natural Resources Foundation Grants Program
    Agency: Foundation (RNRF)
    Item: Funds projects engaging stakeholders across environmental/social/economic systems.
    deadline: September 30, 2025

  • Funding Opportunity: Simons Foundation – Targeted Grants to Institutes (MPS)
    Agency: Foundation (Simons)
    Item: Supports established institutes/centers in math and physical sciences.
    deadline: October 2, 2025

  • Funding Opportunity: Astronomy & Astrophysics Advisory Committee; Notice of Meeting
    Agency: National Science Foundation
    Item: Virtual A&AAC meeting with interagency presentations and cooperation discussions.
    deadline: N/A

  • Funding Opportunity: Morris Animal Foundation – Feline Health Research
    Agency: Foundation
    Item: Funds research improving health/welfare of domestic cats (established, first, and pilot awards).
    deadline: October 8, 2025

  • Funding Opportunity: Foundations for Operating NAIRR—Operations Center (NAIRR-OC)
    Agency: National Science Foundation
    Item: Proposals to establish and operate the national AI research resource operations center.
    deadline: LOIs due December 15, 2025

  • Funding Opportunity: USDA APHIS – National Clean Plant Network (Section 7721)
    Agency: U.S. Department of Agriculture
    Item: Establishes Clean Plant Centers for diagnostics/pathogen elimination and stock maintenance.
    deadline: September 15, 2025 (extended)

  • Funding Opportunity: USDA APHIS – Plant Pest & Disease Mgmt and Disaster Prevention Program
    Agency: U.S. Department of Agriculture
    Item: Funds projects to prevent/detect/mitigate invasive plant pests and diseases.
    deadline: September 15, 2025 (extended)

  • Funding Opportunity: Research Initiatives in Support of FHWA Bridges & Structures 3.0
    Agency: U.S. Department of Transportation (FHWA)
    Item: Supports R&D and deployment of bridge/tunnel safety and technology.
    deadline: November 3, 2025 (concept papers)

  • Funding Opportunity: Sigma Xi – Grants-in-Aid of Research
    Agency: Foundation (Sigma Xi)
    Item: Small research grants for undergrad/grad students; designated funds for astronomy/vision.
    deadline: October 1, 2025

  • Funding Opportunity: Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology—NIST (Meeting)
    Agency: NIST
    Item: In-person VCAT meeting on policy, programs, and budget.
    deadline: N/A

  • Funding Opportunity: Association of Reptile & Amphibian Veterinarians – Research & Conservation Grants
    Agency: Foundation (ARAV)
    Item: Prioritizes clinical and conservation proposals; ARAV member projects favored.
    deadline: October 1, 2025

  • Funding Opportunity: Constellation—E2 Energy to Educate Grants
    Agency: Foundation (Constellation)
    Item: Supports STEM energy projects for grades 6–college aligned to innovation themes.
    deadline: October 1 (annually)

  • Funding Opportunity: FY25-26 Naval Aviation North Stars BAA
    Agency: Navy
    Item: Enterprise-wide R&D for advancing Integrated Warfighting Capability in naval aviation.
    deadline: N/A (white papers anytime)

  • Funding Opportunity: Intent to Establish Isotope Metallomics QA Consortium
    Agency: NIST
    Item: Seeks letters of interest to form IMQAP consortium for measurement QA and standards.
    deadline: N/A

  • Funding Opportunity: FY25 Long Range BAA for Navy & Marine Corps S&T
    Agency: Navy
    Item: Seeks long-range S&T projects enhancing Navy/USMC capabilities.
    deadline: September 30, 2026 (extended)

  • Funding Opportunity: Biological Technologies (DARPA BTO)
    Agency: Defense (DARPA)
    Item: Broad agency call leveraging biology for defense (adaptation, resilience, complexity).
    deadline: October 9, 2025

  • Funding Opportunity: USGS—Request for Nominations: NVEWS Advisory Committee
    Agency: U.S. Geological Survey
    Item: Seeks expert nominees to advise on the National Volcano Early Warning System.
    deadline: October 9, 2025

  • Funding Opportunity: Automated Processes for Knowledge Discovery & Information Retrieval
    Agency: Defense (USAF/AFRL)
    Item: Develops tech to process multi-source data for battlespace awareness/decision automation.
    deadline: November 30, 2025 (white papers)

  • Funding Opportunity: Geospatial Intelligence Processing & Exploitation (GeoPEX)
    Agency: Defense (USAF/AFRL)
    Item: R&D for GEOINT acquisition/analysis solutions from imagery and geospatial sources.
    deadline: September 30, 2026 (white papers anytime)

  • Funding Opportunity: Pipeline Safety R&D – Research Announcement 11
    Agency: U.S. Department of Transportation (PHMSA)
    Item: Funds projects improving pipeline construction and development technologies.
    deadline: November 3, 2025

  • Funding Opportunity: NSF Comment Request—Breakthrough Innovations Initiative Application
    Agency: National Science Foundation
    Item: Seeks comments to streamline BII translational research application/selection process.
    deadline: N/A

  • Funding Opportunity: NSF Comment Request—I-Corps Teams Pre-Submission Executive Summary Form
    Agency: National Science Foundation
    Item: Requires PIs to submit brief executive summary before I-Corps Teams application.
    deadline: November 18, 2025

  • Funding Opportunity: FreeSol Broad Agency Announcement
    Agency: Defense (U.S. Space Force/AF)
    Item: Concept papers on space/cyber tech for resilience, SDA, counterspace, BMC3, and training.
    deadline: February 23, 2029 (rolling to close)

  • Funding Opportunity: High Mach Gas Turbine (HMGT) Engine Design Study
    Agency: Defense (DARPA)
    Item: Design/roadmap and component testing for high-Mach gas turbine engine concepts.
    deadline: October 15, 2025 (abstracts)

  • Funding Opportunity: Medics Autonomously Stopping Hemorrhage (MASH)
    Agency: Defense (DARPA)
    Item: Autonomous minimally invasive systems to stabilize torso hemorrhage for 48+ hours pre-hospital.
    deadline: October 15, 2025 (abstracts); November 25, 2025 (proposals)

  • Funding Opportunity: Quadratec “Energize the Environment” Grants
    Agency: Foundation
    Item: Small community environmental project grants for individuals/groups.
    deadline: October 30, 2025

  • Funding Opportunity: Accelerating Research Translation (ART)
    Agency: National Science Foundation
    Item: Builds capacity for robust translational research ecosystems at U.S. IHEs (one proposal per track).
    deadline: January 15, 2026

  • Funding Opportunity: CHIPS R&D Office (CRDO) BAA
    Agency: NIST
    Item: Supports research/prototyping/commercial solutions advancing U.S. microelectronics.
    deadline: September 30, 2029

  • Funding Opportunity: Mapping Machine Learning to Physics (ML2P)
    Agency: Defense (DARPA)
    Item: Improves ML power/performance by preserving energy semantics and optimizing energy objectives.
    deadline: October 6, 2025 (abstracts)

  • Funding Opportunity: NSF–CASIS Transport Phenomena Research at the ISS
    Agency: National Science Foundation
    Item: Funds ISS-enabled research in transport phenomena and related manufacturing/materials.
    deadline: March 4, 2026

  • Funding Opportunity: Public Meeting of the National Sea Grant Advisory Board
    Agency: NOAA
    Item: Advisory meeting on Sea Grant program evaluation, strategy, and science/tech matters.
    deadline: N/A

  • Funding Opportunity: DARPA Smart-RBC Proposers Day (Meeting)
    Agency: DARPA (BTO)
    Item: Virtual day introducing planned Smart-Red Blood Cells program to potential proposers.
    deadline: N/A

  • Funding Opportunity: Signals Intelligence Solutions for Evolving Scenarios (SESS)
    Agency: Defense (USAF/AFRL)
    Item: R&D for real-time cyber/SIGINT processing, geolocation, analysis, and reporting solutions.
    deadline: August 14, 2026 (white papers)