1,000+ Opportunities
Find the right grant
Search federal, foundation, and corporate grants with AI — or browse by agency, topic, and state.
Technical Assistance Fund is sponsored by Lumina Foundation For Education Inc.. Provides quick-turnaround microgrants to support capacity-building activities such as convenings, travel, stakeholder engagement, state data analysis, marketing campaigns, and strategic consulting. The fund is divided into Level 2 grants ($5,001-$15,000) and Level 3 grants ($15,001-$25,000).
Geographic focus: United States (State-level entities)
Focus areas: Postsecondary Education, State Policy, Data Analysis, Capacity Building
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 funder's official program page to help you evaluate fit faster.
Lumina Foundation grant and corporate sponsorship information Today's Students at a Glance Financially Stressed Students First-Generation Students Minority-Serving Institutions Quality in Higher Learning Expanding the share of Americans with education and training after high school Education Attainment Levels Higher Education Redesigned An index of news stories, blog posts from Lumina staff, events, speeches, grantee and partner news, as well as daily higher ed headlines.
Tools and takeaways from our efforts to create a better-educated nation.
Equity in Education → Disparities in Higher Learning Talking about Education and Race History of Federal Student Aid A Stronger Nation data tool → Local Talent Handbook → The next chapter of A Stronger Nation: From progress to payoff From Campus to Career: We’re looking to fund ideas that connect experiences to career preparation We envision a system that is easy to navigate, delivers fair results, and meets the nation’s need for talent through a broad range of credentials.
How Our Philanthropy Works Your Experience with Lumina’s Grant Process Today's Students at a Glance Financially Stressed Students First-Generation Students Today’s Institutions → Minority-Serving Institutions Today’s Credentials → Quality in Higher Learning Expanding the share of Americans with education and training after high school Education Attainment Levels → Higher Education Redesigned → Education for Impact → An index of news stories, blog posts from Lumina staff, events, speeches, grantee and partner news, as well as daily higher ed headlines.
Lumina News & Blog → Tools and takeaways from our efforts to create a better-educated nation. Equity in Education → Disparities in Higher Learning Talking about Education and Race History of Federal Student Aid A Stronger Nation data tool → Local Talent Handbook → We envision a system that is easy to navigate, delivers fair results, and meets the nation’s need for talent through a broad range of credentials.
How Our Philanthropy Works Your Experience with Lumina’s Grant Process Expand your reach with support from Lumina. L umina Foundation believes that education provides the basis for individual opportunity, economic vitality, and social stability. With its partners, Lumina works toward a goal of 75 percent of Americans with a college degree, workforce certificate, or another high-quality credential beyond high school by 2040.
Lumina’s outcomes-based approach focuses on helping to design and build an equitable, accessible, responsive, and accountable post-high school education system for all. While we recognize there are many worthy ideas and organizations, Lumina does not accept or respond to unsolicited requests/letters of inquiry .
Our grantmaking is primarily proactive in nature, where we solicit ideas directly from partners based on their unique capacities to leverage large-scale systemic change. Periodically, we hold open Request for Proposals (RFPs) or calls for work around specific topics which are announced on our website. For more information, see the Lumina Grantee FAQ.
We also offer investment capital for strategic social initiatives through Lumina Impact Ventures . Current grantees should review the Grantee Resources page for details on Lumina’s grant management process and to access Grantee Reporting Forms. To comment on Lumina’s grant process, please use the Grantee Feedback form .
Additional Grant Programs To request a civic sponsorship, please submit your request using the sponsorship form. Please use Google Chrome to complete this form. Read about Lumina grants to our local Central Indiana community.
Create Commons Permissions Lumina Foundation is an independent, private foundation in Indianapolis committed to making opportunities for learning beyond high school available to all. We envision higher learning that is easy to navigate, delivers fair results, and meets the nation’s talent needs through a broad range of credentials. We work toward a system that prepares people for informed citizenship and success in a global economy.
What are you looking for?
According to the current listing, eligibility includes: State governmental agencies and state-focused nonprofit organizations. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
The current listing shows up to $25,000. Verify award ceilings, matching requirements, and allowable costs in the official notice.
Technical Assistance Fund is funded by Lumina Foundation For Education Inc.. Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
Applications go through the funder's official portal — the Apply Now link on this page goes there directly.
The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking launched its AI Gigafactories call on 30 July 2026 as a joint procurement, not a conventional research grant, and that distinction shapes who should respond. It seeks consortia or Special Purpose Vehicles bringing together companies, public entities, investors and other partners to establish up to seven AI Gigafactories across Europe - facilities that combine massive computing power and state-of-the-art AI processors with the software and cloud technology stacks, high-bandwidth connectivity and energy-efficient data centres needed to deliver frontier AI training, fine-tuning and inference at scale. This is the tier above the 19 AI Factories and 13 AI Factory Antennas EuroHPC already oversees, which serve SMEs and startups with free customised support; the Gigafactories are aimed at frontier-scale sovereign capacity. The financing model is blended: EuroHPC expects total private investment of more than EUR 20,000,000,000 across the EU, with successful projects receiving varying levels of EU and national co-funding calibrated to the size and range of sovereign services offered. Per-facility EU contributions have deliberately not been published, so applicants must build their own capital stack and negotiate co-funding rather than apply against a fixed grant envelope. Facilities may be established in a single Member State or span several, and cross-border developments are explicitly welcomed. The reference is EUROHPC-2026-CEI-AIGF-01 and the deadline is 12 November 2026 at 16:00 CET. Realistically this is a call for infrastructure-grade consortia with credible access to billions in capital, energy siting and hyperscale operations experience - not for individual research groups or early-stage startups, who should instead route through the existing AI Factories network.
HMGCC Co-Creation and Dstl are seeking an edge device that processes video and audio from off-the-shelf smart glasses and stitches frames into high-fidelity 3D maps for reconnaissance. The minimum deliverable is a TRL 4 proof of concept. AI, computer vision and machine learning are listed technology themes, for example algorithms that compensate for head movement while stitching frames. Essential requirements are a report on where smart-glasses data flows and who can access it, good daytime urban imagery, and a camera-based 3D map. Desirable features include low-light imaging, audio fusion, testing across several manufacturers and a three-year manufacturer roadmap, and the stretch goal is fusing audio and visual data to handle reflections and solid walls. Redesigning or physically modifying the glasses is out of scope, and data handling must comply with GDPR and manufacturer terms. The total budget is up to £60,000, about US$80,000, excluding VAT, with on average two providers funded for a 12-week project. Questions are due 29 October, pitch day is 25 November, and kick-off is targeted for January 2027. Applications close on 12 November 2026 at 17:00 UK time.
HMGCC Co-Creation and Dstl are seeking proof-of-concept small robots that can move through confined built environments across at least two of water, land and air, at TRL 4 or above. Essential requirements are a payload of at least 100 g, a demonstration in a representative built-environment scenario, and a final report with a development roadmap. Desirable features include operation in all three domains, up to one hour of operation, autonomous navigation, operation with intermittent GNSS, travel through ducts or pipes, a volume under 0.01 cubic metres and a mass under 1 kg. Humans must keep responsibility for operational decisions, and the system must not depend on continuous public cloud access. Funding is up to £60,000, about US$80,000, excluding VAT, and on average two providers are funded per challenge. The call opened on 12 October 2026. Applicants are notified on 23 November, pitch day is 7 December, and kick-off is targeted for January 2027 for a project of about 10-12 weeks. Applications close on 12 November 2026 at 17:00 UK time.
The Innovative Postsecondary Models Fund — Gates, Lumina, Strada, Ascendium, ECMC, College Futures, Haas Jr., and Raikes, administered by Panorama Global — will make 7 to 10 grants of $750,000 to $1,000,000. Eligibility is unusually wide and the gates are unusually specific. One of them eliminates most applicants outright, and it has nothing to do with the quality of the idea.
Read articleSince Nov. 1, 2026, every ED grantee must justify each payment request in 255 characters. What the memo requires, who it reaches, and how to avoid flagged drawdowns.
Read articleIES opened From Seedlings to Scale (84.305J) and Transformative Research in Special Education (84.324T) on October 16, 2026. Letters of intent are due October 29 and applications December 11. Here are the award limits, cost-share rules, and phase gates.
Read article