Grants of $250K to $1M
Explore grants with an award between $250,000 and $1 million. This directory lists funding for product development, applied research, feasibility and early commercialization, the range where most national innovation programs and second-phase awards sit, with the deadline and eligibility on every listing.
Showing 49-72 of 694 grants
Limited Competition: Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Centers 2027
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds the renewal of NICHD's IDD research centres — about 15 awards from an $18 million pool. Only existing centres may apply.
Logistics Center for Precision Medicine with AI: Integrating Imaging with Multimodal Data (PRIMED-AI)
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds the operational spine of NIH's AI-and-imaging programme — one award of up to $575,000.
Zero-Emission Agricultural Equipment Subsidy (SEL)
🇳🇱RVO · Netherlands
Pays Dutch farm SMEs part of the cost of a new electric tractor or farm machine.
NSERC Alliance Quantum Grants
🇨🇦NSERC · Canada
Funds Canadian academic and industrial consortia advancing quantum computing, communications, and sensing technologies.
Racial Diversity UK Fund
🇬🇧Nuffield · United Kingdom
Funds UK research into racial diversity, from £15,000 up to £500,000.
DFF-Research Project2
🇩🇰DFF · Denmark
Funds established researchers in Denmark for major multi-year projects through competitive peer-review grant pathways.
CETPartnership Joint Call 2026
🇵🇱NCBR · Poland
Co-funds Polish firms and research partners doing clean-energy-transition R&D with EU partners.
Development and Testing of a Multi-use Frameworks Playbook for Precision Medicine with AI: Integrating Imaging with Multimodal Data (PRIMED-AI)
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds the design and early validation of frameworks — guidelines, protocols and standard procedures — for building and deploying multimodal medical AI reliably.
Scale Post-Acceleration Programme
🇪🇺EIT Culture & Creativity · Germany
Pays EU creative-sector scaleups up to EUR500,000 to fund growth and investment readiness.
German-Swedish Call for joint R&D projects by Small and Medium-sized Enterprises spring 2026
🇸🇪Vinnova · Sweden
Funds joint R&D projects between Swedish and German SMEs in any technology area.
Assay Validation of High Quality Markers for Clinical Studies in Cancer (UH3)
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds the clinical validation of a cancer biomarker assay whose analytical performance has already been proven.
Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP): 2026 – 2027 Round 3
🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom
A university and a business share a graduate for a project neither could run alone.
Doctoral Clinical Fellowship
🇬🇧ARUK · United Kingdom
Supports doctoral fellowships focused on dementia research, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention in clinical settings.
Food and Agricultural Sciences National Needs Graduate and Postgraduate Fellowship (NNF) Grants Program
🇺🇸USDA NIFA · United States
Funds US colleges and universities with institutional grants to support new graduate students pursuing master's, DVM or doctoral degrees in the food and agricultural sciences.
Innobooster Grant
🇩🇰Innovationsfonden · Denmark
Funds Danish small businesses and entrepreneurs for knowledge based technology development with co investment support.
KMU-innovativ: Medizintechnik
🇩🇪BMFTR · Germany
Funds German SME-led medtech R&D projects with grants up to EUR 300,000.
R&D Tax Credit — QSB Payroll Offset (Section 41) — TY2025 / Filed
🇺🇸IRS · United States
Supports United States small businesses through payroll tax offsets when they fund qualifying innovation activity.
Annual Recurring University Training and Research
🇺🇸DOE · United States
Funds early-stage research and training for engineering and science students at U.S. colleges, awarded every year by DOE's national energy lab.
CCRP Initiative: NIH Countermeasures Against Chemical Threats (CounterACT) Basic Research on Chemical Threats that Affect the Nervous System
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds basic research on how nerve agents, industrial chemicals and pesticides injure the nervous system, and where a countermeasure could interrupt it.
SPRIND Recoding Medicine Challenge — Stage 1
🇩🇪SPRIND · Germany
Funds teams that curate a valuable health dataset and prove its worth with a working AI application.
Advanced Development of Informatics Technologies for Cancer Research and Management
NIH · United States
Funds the enhancement of a cancer informatics tool that has cleared prototyping, shows real promise, and has not yet been widely adopted.
Sustained Support for Informatics Technologies for Cancer Research and Management
NIH · United States
Funds the running costs and continued relevance of a cancer informatics tool that researchers already depend on.
Next generation artificial intelligence (AI): explainable AI
🇬🇧EPSRC · United Kingdom
Funding for speculative, high-risk fundamental research in explainable AI.
Nutrition Obesity Research Centers (NORCs)
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds shared research cores, pilot funding and a catalyst programme where a substantial nutrition or obesity research effort already exists.