AI grants in the United States
Explore AI grants for companies in the United States. This list brings together funding for machine learning, foundation models, AI infrastructure and applied AI 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 AI in the United States come first.
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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.
DIHI Annual Request for Applications (Innovation Projects)
🇺🇸DIHI · United States
Funds Duke faculty, staff, students and trainees $25,000 to $60,000 a year to pilot practical healthcare innovation projects inside Duke's clinical enterprise.
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.
MTRAC Life Sciences — Mid-Stage Award
🇺🇸U-M Innovation Partnerships · United States
Supports MTRAC life sciences teams with mid-stage funding that advances prototypes toward clinical and industry use.
Schmidt Science Polymaths
🇺🇸Schmidt Sciences · United States
Supports recently tenured faculty with fellowships that enable bold cross-domain research pivots and sustained interdisciplinary leadership.
NSF Small Business Innovation Research / Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I, Phase II, Fast-Track Programs: A Pilot Emphasis on Scientific Instrumentation
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds startups building next-generation scientific instruments — up to $2 million per company, no equity taken.
U.S. National Science Foundation State and Regional Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Hubs
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds the coordination of state and regional AI compute consortia — but the consortium pays for the computers, not NSF.
Unlocking Dataset Value for AI-Enabled Scientific Discovery (AI Datasets)
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds making existing scientific datasets usable by AI — $100 million across 50 awards, and companies can apply.
Cancer Research KI-Mayo Clinic CCC Synergy Grants
🇺🇸MCCCC & CRKI · Global / Multinational
Funds Mayo Clinic and Karolinska Institutet teams researching early cancer detection.
Childhood, Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) Cancer Data Innovation Challenge — Track 1
🇺🇸NCI · United States
Pays entities up to $566,665 across three milestones to add shovel-ready cancer data or tools to NCI's CCDI ecosystem.
Draper TIF
🇺🇸UW Entrepreneurship Hub + WiSys · United States
Funds WARF-disclosed UW Madison inventions through patent and licensing preparation for market-ready transfer.
Applied Mathematics
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds mathematics driven by real problems in science and engineering — from one investigator to an interdisciplinary team.
Verizon Smart Campus Competition
🇺🇸Verizon · United States
Pays Northeastern student teams up to $3,000 each for 5G network innovation ideas.
BIRD General Program
🇺🇸BIRD Foundation · United States
Supports United States and Israel partners to jointly commercialize hi-tech innovation, including cybersecurity, life sciences, and manufacturing.
Computational Mathematics
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds mathematics where computation is the centre — algorithms that are provably justified and actually efficient.
Damon Runyon Quantitative Biology Fellowship
🇺🇸Damon Runyon · United States
Provides students and early career scholars with mentoring support for Damon Runyon Quantitative Biology Fellowship in biotechnology, artificial intelligence, and medical technology.
NIH Research Software Engineer (RSE) Award
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds the salary of a research software engineer building and sharing biomedical, behavioural or health software, tools and algorithms.
Statistics
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds statistical theory and methods, and their application to any part of science and engineering.
Genesis Mission AI FOA — Phase I and Phase II (FES)
🇺🇸DOE FES · United States
Supports AI-enabled fusion and plasma research with continuation pathways for strong performers.
The Genesis Mission: AI for Science and Energy
🇺🇸DOE SC · United States
Provides research teams and institutions for The Genesis Mission: AI for Science and Energy in artificial intelligence, energy systems, and quantum systems.
The Genesis Mission: Transforming Science and Energy with AI
🇺🇸DOE SC · United States
Supports AI for science progress from early concept stages toward national-scale implementation.
AFRI Foundational and Applied Science
🇺🇸USDA NIFA · United States
Supports agriculture innovation across plant health, bioenergy, food safety, and rural systems through USDA research grants and extension.
Tribal Colleges Research Grants Program
🇺🇸USDA NIFA · United States
Funds agriculture, natural-resource and human-science research capacity at 35 named Tribal Colleges and Universities.