Expert advice for every grant — from EPA to DARPA

The FY2027 budget proposes eliminating NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences directorate entirely. With only 613 grants funded this year, social scientists face an existential funding crisis.

The April 18 executive order, ARPA-H EVIDENT initiative, and FDA priority vouchers are reshaping mental health research funding. A guide for grant seekers.

The SSG Fox program has already funded 111 organizations across 46 states. FY2027 awards up to $750K are open now. Who qualifies and how to win.

After a yearlong legal battle, FEMA BRIC is accepting applications again with $1 billion in funding. Combined with $387 million in new flood and hazard mitigation awards, here is how to compete.

GitLab Foundation and OpenAI have backed 50 organizations with catalytic grants, API credits, and engineering support. Inside the AI for Economic Opportunity model reshaping how nonprofits get funded.

A working list of federal, foundation, and state grants K-12 teachers can actually pursue in 2026 — what is eligible, what teachers win, and how to apply.

The FY2027 budget proposes gutting NSF, NIH, DOE, EPA, and NASA. Congress rejected similar cuts last year. A realistic guide to what grant seekers should expect and how to prepare.

Seven research teams will run the first clinical trials aimed at extending human healthspan under ARPA-H PROSPR contracts worth up to $144M. The milestone-based contract model breaks every convention of federal biomedical funding.

GSA wants every federal grant recipient to certify they don't operate illegal DEI programs — with False Claims Act liability for getting it wrong. Legal analysis and compliance strategy for universities, nonprofits, and research institutions.

NIH awarded 66% fewer grants and 54% less money through February 2026, while nearly doubling average award size through lump-sum funding. The structural shift changes who gets funded and how researchers should plan.

A final rule effective May 14 rescinds the DOE grant programs that funded energy efficiency upgrades at 410 school facilities in 36 states. The Renew America Schools program and billions in clean energy awards are casualties of a systematic dismantling.

The Department of Labor just launched SAEF Round 4 with a performance-based formula that rewards states for growing their apprenticeship systems. Here is how the new model works and what it means for workforce organizations.

Under new president Heather Gerken, Ford Foundation is routing $60M through Republican and Democratic election lawyers, veteran poll workers, and nonpartisan civic groups. The strategy reveals a new model for democracy grantmaking.

The GitLab Foundation AI for Economic Opportunity Fund just selected 16 organizations from 800 applicants. With $250K grants, OpenAI engineering support, and projected $1.43B in lifetime earnings impact, this is what serious AI philanthropy looks like.

The Supreme Court ruled that grant termination challenges must go to the Court of Federal Claims — a venue most researchers have never heard of. The legal strategy for recovering terminated funding just got much harder.

A new executive order, a DOJ National Fraud Enforcement Division, and a multi-agency task force are creating the most powerful federal grant enforcement apparatus in decades. What every recipient needs to understand.

Impoundment, pocket rescissions, termination for convenience, forward funding mandates, and agency staffing collapse — the five mechanisms that can kill a federal grant after Congress appropriates the money. A practical guide to the new funding uncertainty.

Beyond the headline housing and science cuts, the FY2027 budget would eliminate DOJ state/local law enforcement grants, EPA clean water revolving funds, FEMA disaster preparedness, EDA economic development, NTIA digital equity, and more. The complete analysis for local government grant seekers.

CDBG, HOME, HOPWA, Choice Neighborhoods, and the Continuum of Care — all proposed for elimination. Work requirements for voucher holders. A 60-month time limit on assistance. The definitive analysis for housing organizations navigating the most aggressive HUD budget in history.

The Trump administration froze $10B in CCDF, TANF, and SSBG funding to five states over fraud allegations. The legal and policy fallout could redefine how Washington controls state grants.

A PNAS study reveals NIH grant terminations disproportionately hit women and junior researchers. The data exposes how blunt funding cuts deepen structural inequities in science.

As federal grant cuts devastate nonprofits, foundations are deploying emergency funds at unprecedented speed. The math does not add up — but the strategies emerging from the crisis might.

Q1 2026 saw $242 billion flow to AI startups — more than every VC dollar invested in 2019. Meanwhile, NSF faces a proposed 55% cut and NIH success rates hit a 30-year low. How the AI funding chasm is reshaping research strategy for academic scientists and small businesses.

ARPA-H PROSPR program funds seven research teams up to $144M to develop the first clinical trials targeting biological aging itself, testing rapamycin analogs, semaglutide, and retrotransposon inhibitors.

GSA proposed rule requiring DEI compliance certifications for federal grants drew 22,000 comments and opposition from every major higher education group. Legal experts warn of existential False Claims Act risk.

A Nature poll finds three-quarters of American scientists are considering working abroad. ERC applications from U.S. researchers have tripled. France and the EU pledged €500 million to recruit them. Inside the brain drain reshaping global science — and what it means for grant strategy.

Johns Hopkins is tapping its $13.2 billion endowment for $150K researcher grants. Yale allocated $4 million for displaced grad students. A growing wave of university bridge funding programs is reshaping how researchers survive federal cuts — and how PIs should position themselves.

The Genesis Mission is pouring $320 million into AI while nuclear physics grants fall 18% and a program merger threatens to subsume an entire discipline. What researchers outside AI need to know.

While science funding cuts dominate headlines, the FY2027 budget proposes a $15.8 billion cut to HHS, eliminates hospital preparedness and family planning programs, cuts CDC by $3 billion, and consolidates behavioral health grants into a $4.5 billion mega-block-grant. The definitive breakdown for public health grant seekers.

HUD tried to slash permanent supportive housing funding from 90% to 30% of Continuum of Care grants. Federal courts in Rhode Island and the First Circuit stopped it. What the ruling means for housing-first policy, communities across 21 states, and organizations that depend on CoC funding.

Awards slashed by half, life sciences applicants rejected at 95%, and the White House steering which fields get funded. How the GRFP went from funding the person to funding the priority.

The Community Services Block Grant serves 10.7 million Americans through nearly 1,000 local agencies at $72 per person. The President wants to eliminate it entirely. Here is what is at stake.

After 14 months of lawsuits, court rulings, and congressional action, the Trump administration dropped its fight to cap university research overhead at 15%. Here is what happened and what comes next.

Congress passed the most sweeping SBIR/STTR overhaul in a decade. With $30M awards, new security vetting, and proposal caps arriving by summer 2026, small businesses need to move now.

Nearly 30 percent of ARPA State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds remain unspent with an immovable December 2026 deadline. Here is the compliance playbook for avoiding clawbacks.

FEMA has delayed $11 billion in Public Assistance reimbursements to 45 states while its Disaster Relief Fund nears depletion. What local governments and nonprofits need to do right now.