1,000+ Opportunities
Find the right grant
Search federal, foundation, and corporate grants with AI — or browse by agency, topic, and state.
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's Better Software for Science is sponsored by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
This program focuses on tooling, institutions, economic models, and incentives surrounding the production, maintenance, and adoption of research software, hardware, models, and other related research outputs, rather than funding individual open source development projects.
It also seeks opportunities to elevate software as a first-order research product and improve code review and the linkages between software and other research outputs.
Get a weekly digest of new grants like this
A free weekly digest of new foundation and federal funding opportunities as they're added to Granted. Unsubscribe anytime.
Or search similar grants →Extracted from the official opportunity page/RFP to help you evaluate fit faster.
Better Software for Science PLEASE NOTE: New grant proposals are no longer being accepted in this program. "Dependency" by XKCD (which if you aren't following regularly, you should!) https://xkcd.
com/2347/ (CC BY-NC 2. 5) Software is increasingly central to scientific research, but academia often fails to leverage best practices for software engineering from industry or elsewhere.
To realize the full potential of software in advancing discovery—whether in data science, computational modeling, or machine learning—this program aims to adapt and extend approaches from other contexts into academic software development while recognizing the unique workflows and incentives of the research enterprise.
Rather than funding individual scientific software development projects, grants in this area focus mainly on tooling, institutions, economic models, and incentives around the production, maintenance, and adoption of research software.
Open source is much more than a licensing strategy, it is a set of community practices that enable the distributed production and maintenance of software that are not widely adopted in the research enterprise.
The Better Software for Science program seeks opportunities to better understand and align best practices in open source with academic research, with a particular eye toward the health and maintenance of digital infrastructural dependencies upon which computational research relies.
Software Publication & Archiving Software is not well-integrated into the scholarly communication system; scientific software is often not cited or well-archived, and can require substantial work to reuse.
The Better Software for Science program seeks opportunities to elevate software as a first-order research product as well as efforts that aim to improve the linkages between software and other research outputs such as articles, preprints or data. Career Paths and Incentives The work of building and maintaining research software is often undervalued and marginalized in the research enterprise.
The Better Software for Science program seeks opportunities to foreground and institutionalize the individuals and communities who are essential to the utility and durability of software in science, with particular attention to the roles of research software engineer, data scientist, and software curator. Interested grantseekers should send a two-page letter of inquiry to [email protected] .
Better Software for Science /programs/digital-technology/better-software-for-science "Dependency" by XKCD (which if you aren't following regularly, you should!) https://xkcd. com/2347/ (CC BY-NC 2.
5) To develop practices, norms and institutions that can better promote the development and adoption of discovery-enhancing software. Software is increasingly central to scienti…
According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Organizations and projects focused on the institutional support for open source, improving software as a research product, and improving code review and linkages between software and other research outputs. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's Better Software for Science is funded by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
Start from the official opportunity page linked in this listing — it carries the sponsor's submission instructions.
Past winners and funding trends for this program
MGPV Travel Grant is sponsored by Geological Society of America (GSA), Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Petrology, Volcanology Division. MGPV Travel grants support student travel to the annual GSA meeting. Applications are restricted to active graduate or undergraduate students who are the presenting authors of an accepted abstract at the annual GSA meeting.
Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Science (ROSES) - 2025: A.4 Rapid Response and Novel Research in Earth Science is sponsored by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Science Mission Directorate (SMD). This omnibus research funding opportunity includes various program elements, with rolling submissions for Earth Science research through August 2026. Proposers to Earth Science using the NASA Center for Climate Simulation high-end computing facility must include specific budget details.