The Department of Energy has nearly $1 billion in active funding for critical mineral processing, rare earth extraction, and battery material recycling. A strategic guide for applicants.
Harvard owes $368 million. Yale is cutting doctoral admissions by 13%. And every Ivy League school just hit record lobbying spending. The endowment tax is reshaping the research pipeline in real time.
The OMAI project — led by AI2, funded by NSF and NVIDIA — will create fully open multimodal AI models for scientific research. For researchers priced out of commercial AI, this changes the equation.
February 2026 saw $195B+ in private AI investment. The gap between corporate AI spending and public research funding has never been wider — and it is reshaping who gets to do science.
The Department of Government Efficiency has canceled $49 billion in federal grants across every major agency. An analysis of which programs were hit, why, and what nonprofits and research institutions must do now to survive the disruption.
DAF assets grew 27.5% to $326 billion in 2024 while federal grants collapsed. Here is how nonprofits can build a deliberate strategy to tap the largest and fastest-growing pool of philanthropic capital in America.
The FTA All Stations Accessibility Program has $686M for elevator retrofits, platform rebuilds, and ADA compliance at legacy transit stations. Applications close May 1.
The NSF NQNI program will fund up to 16 open-access quantum and nanotechnology research sites at $2M/year each. Letters of intent are due March 16.
SBIR/STTR reauthorized through 2031 — agencies are racing to release solicitations. Step-by-step guide to positioning your company for the first post-restart funding cycle.
The REAP program that funded 19,000+ clean energy projects for farmers and rural businesses has been frozen and its solar policy rewritten. A full analysis of what still works, what changed, and how to position for the next window.
Congress rejected proposed 40-50% cuts across NIH, NSF, NASA, DOE, and NOAA. Here is the full agency-by-agency breakdown and what it means for your next grant application.
The executive branch tried to cap university research overhead at 15%. Courts blocked it. Congress blocked it. The DOE implemented it anyway. Here is the full story and what it means for every institution that depends on federal grants.
The most bipartisan space bill in years creates new commercial research programs, codifies lunar outpost goals, and opens pathways for researchers who have never worked with NASA.
NSF is offering $10-50M annually to independent research teams outside academia and industry. This radical new funding model changes who can compete for federal science dollars.
SBIR/STTR reauthorized through 2031 with $30M Strategic Breakthrough Awards, proposal caps, and mandatory foreign risk screening. Full breakdown of every change affecting applicants.
Stephen Schwarzman plans to channel his $48B fortune into a mega-foundation focused on AI and education. Here is what grant seekers should know about the coming shift in philanthropic capital.
New data reveals AI-drafted grant proposals have higher NIH success rates but lower novelty scores. Combined with the six-application annual cap and AI ban, the landscape for researchers is shifting fast.
The BIOSECURE Act restricts federal grants and contracts involving Chinese biotech firms. For university labs, pharma companies, and federally funded researchers, the compliance clock is ticking.
The Department of Energy Office of Science FY2026 solicitation covers everything from fusion energy to biological research. A strategic guide to the largest open-ended federal science funding opportunity of the year.
After losing 18% of its workforce and abolishing all 37 divisions, NSF plans to halve its 200+ grant solicitations. A strategic guide for researchers navigating the restructured agency.
CBO projects a ten-year Pell Grant shortfall exceeding $100 billion just as the new Workforce Pell program launches in July 2026. What students, institutions, and grant seekers need to know.
Secretary Rollins' December memorandum establishes five new USDA research priorities that will shape $4 billion in agricultural funding. Here is what changed and what it means for grant seekers.
The Google.org Impact Challenge: AI for Science offers $500K–$3M grants with April 17 deadline. Eligibility breakdown, strategy tips, and what reviewers want.
The Mozilla Foundation Democracy x AI Cohort offers $50,000 grants for 10 projects building AI tools that protect civic life. Top performers can earn up to $300,000. Deadline: March 16, 2026.
Despite bipartisan congressional support, OMB directed NASA to pause science mission spending. What grant-funded researchers and contractors should know.
NIH R01 success rates dropped from 29.8% to 18.5%. Here are 5 tactics to write a proposal that still wins in 2026 when the payline has fallen.
NIH now limits PIs to six grant submissions annually and bans AI-generated proposals. What researchers need to know about the biggest NIH policy shift in a decade.
After a five-month lapse, Senators Ernst and Markey struck a bipartisan deal reauthorizing SBIR/STTR for five years. What the Small Business Innovation and Economic Security Act means for your pipeline.
Most AI researchers are leaving free compute on the table. This guide covers every active GPU credit and compute allocation program in 2026 — NAIRR, NSF ACCESS, DOE exascale, NVIDIA, and cloud provider grants — with current deadlines and eligibility.
A practical framework for writing responsible AI sections in grant proposals, covering fairness metrics, bias testing, data governance, and what NIH, NSF, and DARPA expect.
NIH and NSF data show persistent disparities in AI grant funding by gender. Women receive smaller first awards and hold fewer than 20% of AI faculty positions.
Real-world costs for GPU compute, cloud instances, data labeling, and ML talent to build defensible AI grant budgets that reviewers will approve.
A comprehensive calendar of recurring AI grant deadlines from NSF, NIH, DARPA, DOE, SBIR, and Horizon Europe — with dollar amounts, cycles, and links.
Your AI proposal was rejected. Here is how to decode reviewer comments, fix the criticisms that sink machine learning grants, and resubmit strategically.
NSF funds 22% of CISE proposals but just 15% in AI-heavy IIS. NIH rates are falling. DARPA stays opaque. A data-driven look at where AI researchers should aim.
Major funders are channeling billions into AI projects across developing countries. Here are the programs, deadlines, and dollar amounts researchers need to know.
Research Studies
Original studies built from the same federal award data that powers Granted. Free to cite and embed.
Data Study · FY2024
Alaska led all 50 states at $9,304 per resident in fiscal year 2024 — about 2.7× the national average of $3,437 — in a state-by-state analysis of $1.2 trillion in federal grants.
Data Study · FY2024 → FY2025
Grants to non-hospital, non-university 501(c)(3)s fell 16.5% ex-GGRF — and 41% in the months after the January 2025 transition.
Data Study · FY2024
Only about 6% of federal grant dollars go directly to 501(c)(3) charities. 84% flows through governments, chiefly Medicaid; hospitals and co-ops are much of the rest.