Grants in the United States
Explore grants for companies in the United States. This directory includes national and regional funding from US innovation agencies, research funders and foundations, international programs open to applicants in the United States, and competitions any company can enter, with the deadline, award size and eligibility on every listing. Grants aimed at the United States come first.
Showing 1-24 of 2,519 grants
RSI Explorer Grant
🇺🇸RSI / Caltech · United States
Funds high-risk sustainability exploration by Caltech investigators to strengthen real-world implementation.
AFRL/RX Functional Materials Open BAA
🇺🇸Air Force · United States
Supports advanced functional materials research in the United States through Air Force opportunities.
BIG Idea Competition
🇺🇸BIG Idea SD · United States
Pays high school students in South Dakota, North Dakota and Minnesota cash prizes and scholarships for their best business idea.
NIOSH OSH Training Project Grants
🇺🇸NIOSH · United States
Supports training grants for academic and non academic programs building occupational safety and health workforce capacity.
Activate Fellowship
🇺🇸Activate · United States
Offers two-year fellowships for first-time hard-tech founders building climate, energy, and biotechnology ventures without equity.
GREGoRi Data Coordination and Outreach Center
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds the one centre that coordinates a rare-disease genomics programme and gets its protocols, data and tools out to everybody else.
GREGoRi Technology Integration Center
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds the centre that turns new molecular methods for rare-disease diagnosis into standards, best practices and a benchmarking dataset.
ONR FY27 NOFO for Young Investigator Program
🇺🇸ONR · United States
Funds early-career university faculty doing naval-relevant science, engineering or mathematics research.
ONR Young Investigator Program (YIP) — Between
🇺🇸ONR · United States
Supports early-career faculty with naval research grants fostering next-generation discoveries.
LIIP
🇺🇸SD GOED · United States
Funds infrastructure projects for South Dakota political subdivisions and tribal entities linked to local economic growth.
Schmidt Science Polymaths
🇺🇸Schmidt Sciences · United States
Supports recently tenured faculty with fellowships that enable bold cross-domain research pivots and sustained interdisciplinary leadership.
Building Resilient Communities Grant
🇺🇸WBC · United States
Backs Wyoming municipalities and tribal governments with infrastructure support for publicly owned water, transportation, and airport projects.
CHIPS Incentives Program - Facilities for Semiconductor Materials and Manufacturing Equipment
🇺🇸NIST · United States
Funds building or upgrading US facilities that make semiconductor materials or chip-making equipment.
CHIPS Incentives: Semiconductor Materials & Equipment NOFO
🇺🇸CHIPS for America · United States
Invests in semiconductor materials and equipment manufacturers expanding domestic supply chain capacity.
Clinical Observational (CO) Studies in Musculoskeletal, Rheumatic, and Skin Diseases
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds studies that watch patients rather than treat them, in bone, joint, rheumatic and skin disease. No intervention allowed.
Exploratory Clinical Trial Grants in Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (R61)
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds early-stage clinical trials in arthritis, musculoskeletal and skin disease. A trial is compulsory.
MIT Solve Global Challenges
🇺🇸MIT · United States
Supports teams tackling global challenges by selecting and backing scalable ideas through MIT Solve challenge pathways.
Y Combinator Accelerator Program
🇺🇸YC · United States
Runs Y Combinator Accelerator for early-stage startups with a three-month batch, investment, and mentoring support.
Geometric Analysis
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds differential geometry and its links to partial differential equations, mathematical physics, symplectic and geometric group theory — 60 awards.
Topology
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds algebraic and geometric topology — homotopy theory, K-theory, knots, manifolds, quantum field theories and topological data analysis.
NSF SBIR Phase I
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds United States deep-tech startups demonstrating scientific feasibility of novel science and engineering innovations.
NSF SBIR Phase II
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds United States deep-tech startups extending proven early projects into substantial technology development.
NSF STTR Phase I
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds United States deep-tech startups partnering with nonprofit research institutions for early-stage feasibility studies.
NSF STTR Phase II
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds United States deep-tech projects that continue with nonprofit research partners after successful initial feasibility work.