Climate Tech grants in the United States
Explore Climate Tech grants for companies in the United States. This list brings together funding for decarbonization, carbon removal, clean industry, adaptation and climate data 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 Climate Tech in the United States come first.
Showing 1-24 of 506 grants
RSI Explorer Grant
🇺🇸RSI / Caltech · United States
Funds high-risk sustainability exploration by Caltech investigators to strengthen real-world implementation.
Activate Fellowship
🇺🇸Activate · United States
Offers two-year fellowships for first-time hard-tech founders building climate, energy, and biotechnology ventures without equity.
MIT Solve Global Challenges
🇺🇸MIT · United States
Supports teams tackling global challenges by selecting and backing scalable ideas through MIT Solve challenge pathways.
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.
NSF SBIR/STTR Fast-Track Pilot
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Supports United States deep-tech startups through a combined early and continuation development route.
NASA ROSES — Science Mission Directorate Omnibus
🇺🇸NASA · United States
Funds a broad United States NASA Science Mission Directorate package across multiple science and mission areas.
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.
Texas Enterprise Zone Program
🇺🇸Texas Comptroller · United States
Funds businesses in Texas Enterprise Zones with tax-advantaged support tied to growth-oriented capital deployment.
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.
Antarctic Research Not Requiring U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP) Field Support
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds Antarctic science that needs no field logistics — existing data and samples, modelling, and work at analogue sites elsewhere.
Arctic Research Opportunities
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds research on the fast-changing Arctic — its environment, its social and cultural systems, and how the region connects to lower latitudes.
Salata Institute Seed Grant
🇺🇸Salata Institute · United States
Offers seed support across Harvard for climate and sustainability teams building early climate solutions with practical pilots.
Ocean Technology and Interdisciplinary Coordination
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds instrument development for ocean science — with a standing open door for unsolicited proposals that widen what the field can measure.
Biological Oceanography (BioOce)
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds marine and Great Lakes ecology — from estuaries and coasts through the open ocean to the deep sea.
Physical Oceanography
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds research on how the ocean is structured and how it moves — and how it interacts with the atmosphere, the sea floor and ice.
Coupling, Energetics, and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds research on the upper atmosphere — from the middle atmosphere through the thermosphere and ionosphere into the exosphere.
NSF EPSCoR — Active Tracks (Seed)
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds United States states through EPSCoR tracks to strengthen institutional research readiness and innovation systems.
Antarctic Research Requiring U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP) Support for Fieldwork
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds Antarctic science that needs field logistics from the US Antarctic Program — ships, stations, aircraft and the people behind them.
NSF CAREER
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Supports early-career faculty in the United States to build independent research careers in science and engineering.
Chemical Oceanography
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds ocean chemistry and the ocean's part in global geochemical cycles — twenty awards from a $26 million pool.