1,000+ Opportunities
Find the right grant
Search federal, foundation, and corporate grants with AI — or browse by agency, topic, and state.
Early Career Research Program (ECRP) is sponsored by U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science. Supports the development of individual research programs of outstanding scientists early in their careers in areas supported by the Office of Science.
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.
Early Career Program | Department of Energy The DOE Office of Science Early Career Research Program provides an annual funding opportunity for researchers in universities and DOE national laboratories.
Established in 2010, this program supports the individual research programs of outstanding scientists early in their careers and stimulates research careers in the disciplines supported by the DOE Office of Science: Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR), Biological and Environmental Research (BER), Basic Energy Sciences (BES), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES), High Energy Physics (HEP), Isotope R&D and Production (IP), and Nuclear Physics (NP).
You can find more information on the Early Career Research Program page . Matthias Schindler: Then and Now / 2013 Early Career Award Winner With his Early Career award, Matthias Schindler developed theoretical tools to help us understand the processes inside of protons and neutrons.
Marian Jandel: Then and Now / 2013 Early Career Award Winner Marian Jandel at the University of Massachusetts Lowell is obtaining precise nuclear data measurements to advance our knowledge of neutron reactions. Yuan Ping: Then and Now / 2013 Early Career Award Winner Yuan Ping developed measurement methods that helped scientists properly control fusion energy losses at the National Ignition Facility.
Lijuan Ruan: Then and Now / 2013 Early Career Award Winner Lijuan Ruan studies the strong force interactions that occur in the quark-gluon plasma created at Brookhaven Lab’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. Sigrid Elschot: Then and Now / 2013 Early Career Award Winner Sigrid Elschot studies the effects of fast-moving meteoroids and small space debris that vaporize, ionize themselves, and produce plasma upon impact. Amy J.
Clarke: Then and Now / 2012 Early Career Award Winner In her work studying metals manufacturing at the Colorado School of Mines, Amy J. Clarke learns how to avoid defects and improve solidification. Silviu Covrig Dusa: Then and Now / 2012 Early Career Award Winner Silviu Covrig Dusa developed technologies to make precision measurements at subatomic scales possible in the search to answer fundamental questions.
Joshua Zide: Then and Now / 2012 Early Career Award Winner A new approach to materials by Joshua Zide and his team turns semiconductors into nanocomposites with different properties and new applications. Xiaodong Xu: Then and Now / 2012 Early Career Award Winner Xiaodong Xu studies the properties of single atomic layer semiconductors, looking for new materials and new ways to control electrical conductivity.
Junjie Zhu : Then and Now / 2012 Early Career Award Winner Developing new technologies to measure rare particle interactions is the work of physicist Junjie Zhu at the University of Michigan and CERN.
According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Private institutions of higher education, Public and state institutions of higher education. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
Early Career Research Program (ECRP) is funded by U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science. Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
Yes — this listing is flagged as national in scope, so applicants across the U.S. may apply, subject to the sponsor's other eligibility criteria.
Applications go through the funder's official portal — the Apply Now link on this page goes there directly.
Past winners and funding trends for this program
Violence Against Women Discretionary Grants for Indian Tribal Governments is sponsored by Department of Justice. To increase tribal capacity to respond to violent crimes against Indian women, and to develop and strengthen victim services in cases involving violent crimes against Indian women. This listing is currently active. Program number: 16.587. Last updated on 2024-11-26.
The NSF CISE Future Computing Research (Future CoRe) program supports research in computing and communication foundations, intelligent systems, and network systems. The program funds innovative research that advances the frontiers of computing including artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, and robotics. This is one of NSF's largest computing research programs with $280 million in total budget. Projects can address fundamental computing challenges, novel AI architectures, scalable intelligent systems, and next-generation network infrastructure.
The Trump administration committed $5B and 278 projects across 15+ agencies to the Genesis Mission. Here's the structure — and how to position for the next wave.
Read articleOn July 22, 2026, the White House announced more than $5 billion in federal commitments for the Genesis Mission — the Department of Energy-led national initiative to fuse AI, exascale computing, and the 17 national labs into a single scientific platform. Nearly 300 projects across all 50 states were selected from a historic Request for Applications, and 15-plus agencies are now attaching funding to a set of National Science and Technology Challenges. Here is what the Genesis Mission is, how the money is structured, and the concrete on-ramps for researchers, universities, and small businesses who were not in the first cohort.
Read articleDOE's FY2026 Office of Science open-call solicitation (DE-FOA-0003600) makes roughly $500 million available across about 500 awards of $50,000 to $5 million — across computing, physics, chemistry, biology, fusion, and isotopes — with a rolling window that stays open through September 30, 2026. Unlike a targeted NOFO, it lets investigators propose almost anything within the agency's mission. Here is how the open call actually works, why it is chronically underused, and how to write into it.
Read article