Grants in the United States

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Funds evidence-based study of research security itself — the threats, the risks, the policies and what they do to how people work.

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Supports Pittsburgh robotics startups through staged acceleration, prototype-to-production training, and investor-oriented growth tracks.

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Pays $250,000 over two years to young people who leave or skip college to build something new instead, plus mentorship and access to the Thiel Foundation's network of founders and investors.

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Supports clean energy projects in fossil, nuclear, and renewable tracks through federal financing pathways.

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Funds early-career research on tobacco product regulation and public health risk science.

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Connects Michigan and Israeli organizations through curated trade delegations and cross-border business matchmaking.

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Funds the physics of moving mass, momentum, energy and heat — fluids, interfaces, combustion, thermal transport and wildfire behaviour.

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Funds tribal colleges and Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian-serving institutions to build science and engineering capacity.

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Offers recurring fellowship support for Tennessee innovation leaders to strengthen commercialization expertise and startup execution.

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Funds Tennessee companies building commercialization partnerships through shared innovation mentorship and industry collaboration resources.

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Funds Tennessee ventures with technology maturation support so early concepts can advance toward investable products.

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Supports Tennessee innovators with travel assistance for networking, industry events, and commercialization partnerships.

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Funds leading a two-year regional exchange connecting fire scientists with the practitioners who use their work.

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Funds research on why fire regimes are changing and how prescribed-fire smoke affects air quality.

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Supports UCSF investigators with seed funding that starts healthcare innovation and accelerates patient-facing pilots.

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Supports innovators designing bladder and prostate cancer therapies and surgical tools through a J&J urologic oncology challenge.

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Supports United States small agricultural businesses with feasibility grants for new technologies in food systems and farm operations.

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Supports United States small businesses advancing agricultural inventions toward market-ready products after successful early projects.

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Funds Utah companies with tax credits for qualifying innovation to support innovation growth.

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Funds the kit that measures what else is happening to lab animals — light, noise, temperature — because those variables quietly wreck reproducibility.

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Offers a six-week AI founder cohort with mentorship, partner tool access, and a final demo day for scale-up visibility.

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Supports Vermont businesses with innovation tax credits that reduce innovation costs.

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Supports Vermont employers with workforce training reimbursements covering half of training costs after successful completion.

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Offers healthcare startups a live pitch stage at ViVE and a grand prize to help them scale.