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.
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NASA STTR Phase I
🇺🇸NASA STMD · United States
Funds U.S. small businesses and their research institution partners conducting early-stage space technology R&D through NASA's Small Business Technology Transfer program.
NASA TechLeap Prize: Robotically Manipulated Payload Challenge
🇺🇸NASA Flight Opportunities · United States
Funds developers of payloads that can be manipulated by a robotic arm in low Earth orbit with cash prizes and a hosted orbital flight test.
Navy SBIR Phase I
🇺🇸Navy · United States
Funds United States naval small-business ideas for ship, aviation, undersea, and autonomy-related feasibility studies.
Navy SBIR Phase II
🇺🇸Navy · United States
Supports United States naval innovation teams transitioning validated concepts into stronger prototypes and mission-ready solutions.
Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs
🇺🇸OCED · United States
Funds U.S. clean hydrogen hubs that demonstrate production, processing, delivery, storage, and end-use networks.
Stanford Medicine Catalyst
🇺🇸Stanford Med Catalyst · United States
Funds Stanford teams piloting and advancing validated health innovations through capital and hands-on operating support.
2025 "$100,000 Start an SUD Startup" Challenge
🇺🇸NIDA · United States
Pays teams up to $10,000 each, plus six months of biotech mentoring, for drug-use research ideas.
2025 NIA Start-Up Challenge and Accelerator
🇺🇸NIA · United States
Awards up to $75,000 and a 5-month accelerator to entrepreneurs building aging-research startups.
3D Solar Visibility Prize
🇺🇸DOE · United States
Awards up to $250,000 to teams building tools that make distributed solar generation visible.
Adam Smith Fellowship
🇺🇸Mercatus Center · United States
Offers full-time fellowship support for scholars exploring foundational questions in economics and policy.
Addressing Methodological Challenges with Clinical Trials of Rapid-Acting Psychotropic Interventional Drugs (RAPIDs)
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds work on the methodological problems that make trials of rapid-acting psychotropic drugs hard to interpret, and on sustaining the treatment afterwards.
Advanced Cybersecurity Technology (ACT) 1 Prize
🇺🇸DOE · United States
Pays cash prizes and technical assistance to utilities that harden their cybersecurity.
Advancing Discovery to Market
🇺🇸Texas A&M Innovation · United States
Funds Texas A&M teams translating early discoveries through commercialization support and enterprise readiness.
Advancing Oil and Natural Gas Production and Delivery
🇺🇸DOE · United States
Funds technology that makes U.S. oil and gas production, infrastructure and digital operations more efficient, reliable and resilient — no cost share required.
Africa Deep Tech Challenge 2026
ADTF · United States
Pays cash prizes for on-device AI models that run on everyday budget laptops in Africa.
AFWERX SpaceWERX STRATFI Space
🇺🇸AFWERX · United States
Supports Space Force technology graduates with matching investment for private sector scale-up.
Ag Innovation Challenge
🇺🇸AFBF · United States
Awards US agriculture startups up to $100,000 in a national pitch competition for rural innovation, backed by $145,000 in total prize funds.
Agriculture Risk Management Education Partnerships Competitive Grants Program
🇺🇸USDA NIFA · United States
Funds public and private organisations that educate farmers and ranchers about the full range of agricultural risk management strategies.
AI for Climate and Nature Grand Challenge — Phase I (Seed Concepts)
🇺🇸Bezos Earth Fund · United States
Supports AI teams tackling climate and nature problems, including biodiversity and grid efficiency, through Bezos-backed concept grants.
AI for Climate and Nature Grand Challenge — Phase II (Implementation)
🇺🇸Bezos Earth Fund · United States
Supports AI implementation teams addressing biodiversity loss, climate change, and food insecurity globally.
AI for Good Lab Open Call — Washington State
🇺🇸AI for Good Lab · United States
Offers Washington State nonprofits and researchers Azure credits to apply artificial intelligence to sustainability, health, and human rights.
AI Interpretability RFP
🇺🇸Schmidt Sciences · United States
Funds mechanistic interpretability research on detecting and steering deceptive behaviors in artificial intelligence systems.
AI Startup Challenge 2026
🇺🇸CBS · United States
Awards $40K+ in prizes to grad students at Columbia, Cornell Tech, NYU or Yale pitching AI-driven startups.
AI Startup Challenge 2026: Applied AI and the Future of Business
🇺🇸CBS · United States
Awards $40K+ in prizes to graduate-student teams building AI-driven startups.