Alaska Grants

Top Alaska grants right now

• Reduce, Reuse, Recycling Education and Outreach Grants

  ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCYUp to $75Mopen

  Reduce, Reuse, Recycling Education and Outreach Grants is sponsored by ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY. The objective of the grant program is to impro...

  waste_managementenvironmental_educationpublic_healthrecyclingcomposting

• University of Alaska Fairbanks / Sikuliaq Ship Operations - CY2025-2028

  Up to $24MDeadline: Dec 31, 2028open

  This project provides funding for the Research Sikuliaq to conduct oceanographic research missions supported by the National Science Foundation. The o...

• RII Track-1: Interface of Change: Building Collaborations to Assess Harvested and Farmed Marine Species Prioritized by Gulf of Alaska Communities Facing Environmental Shifts

  Up to $8.0MDeadline: Jun 30, 2029open

  Environmental changes occurring in northern latitudes are having major effects on Alaska, including widespread glacial recession, thawing permafrost, ...

• CONTAMINATED ALASKA NATIVE CLAIMS SETTLEMENT ACT LANDS ASSISTANCE AGREEMENTS

  ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCYUp to $3.0Mopen

  CONTAMINATED ALASKA NATIVE CLAIMS SETTLEMENT ACT LANDS ASSISTANCE AGREEMENTS is sponsored by ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY.

  environmental_justiceland_conservationbrownfieldscontaminationland remediation

• Supporting Oceanographic Research Missions Aboard the Research Vessel Sikuliaq

  Up to $2.0MDeadline: Mar 31, 2030open

  This project provides funding for the Research Vessel Sikuliaq to conduct oceanographic research missions supported by the National Science Foundation...

• Leveraging a Geosciences Learning Community to Increase Degree Completion Rates and Build Alaska's Exploration Workforce

  Up to $2.0MDeadline: Sep 30, 2030open

  This project will contribute to the national need for well-educated scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and technicians by supporting the retention...

• EPSCoR Graduate Fellowship Program (EGFP): Enhancing Marine Ecosystem Research and Graduate Education in Alaska (EMERGE_Alaska)

  Up to $1.9MDeadline: Jun 30, 2028open

  The National Science Foundation (NSF) EPSCoR Graduate Fellowship Program (EGFP) supports EGFP designated institutions and programs in EPSCoR jurisdict...

• Knowledge Warding Against Toxin Levels

  Up to $1.6MDeadline: Aug 31, 2029open

  The tribally led Knowledge Warding Against Toxin Levels Center for Oceans and Human Health is a five-year effort aimed at addressing key unknowns surr...

• Partnership To Support Indigenous-driven Genomic Research

  National Human Genome Research InstituteUp to $1.6MDeadline: Jun 30, 2027open

  Southcentral Foundation’s (SCF) proposed Building Partnerships and Broadening Perspectives to Advance Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications (BBAER) ...

• Neqpiaput Iinruugut (Our Food is Medicine): Testing a tribally-driven intervention to prevent heart disease among Alaska Native communities

  Up to $1.4MDeadline: Jul 31, 2027open

  / Abstract There is an urgency to address disparities in coronary heart disease (CHD) among Yup’ik Alaska Native People living remote, frontier commun...

• RAISE: Urban Snow Modeling to Advance Resilience for Today and Tomorrow

  Up to $1.0MDeadline: Feb 29, 2028open

  This project will examine the many impacts of heavy snow loads in Anchorage, Alaska, explore how people perceive and mitigate risk, improve prediction...

• Tribal Partnership Program

  U.S. Army Corps of EngineersUp to $1.0Mopen

  Tribal Partnership Program is a grant from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that funds water resources planning and development projects on tribal lan...

  tribal_governance

• Treatment for Individuals Experiencing Homelessness (TIEH)

  SAMHSAUp to $1.0Mopen

  Treatment for Individuals Experiencing Homelessness (TIEH) is sponsored by SAMHSA. Expands access to mental and substance use disorder treatment for p...

  mental_healthsubstance_abusepublic_healthmental health treatmentsubstance use disorder

• RAISE: Confronting glacier outburst flood hazards to improve glacial flood forecasts across northwest North America

  Up to $990KDeadline: Dec 31, 2029open

  The Áak’w T’áak Glacier (Mendenhall Glacier) poses an annual flood hazard to Juneau, Alaska, due to glacier outburst floods. This research will develo...

• State Pilot Grant Program for Treatment for Pregnant and Postpartum Women (Short Title: PPW-PLT)

  SAMHSA, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT)Up to $900Kopen

  State Pilot Grant Program for Treatment for Pregnant and Postpartum Women (Short Title: PPW-PLT) is sponsored by SAMHSA, Center for Substance Abuse Tr...

  substance_abusematernal_healthpublic_healthmental_healthtribal_health

• MRI Track 1: Development of a Geospace and Middle Atmosphere Lidar

  Up to $821KDeadline: Aug 31, 2027open

  This Major Research Instrumentation proposal seeks funds to develop a laser radar or Lidar (Light Detection and Ranging) system, which will be install...

• Implementing Interdisciplinary Activities in Human Anatomy and Physiology to Support Student Success

  Up to $750KDeadline: Mar 31, 2028open

  This project aims to serve the national interest by implementing a relatively new, and innovative, pedagogical approach, "Drawing as an Interdisciplin...

• MRI Track 1: Acquisition of a Time-of-Flight Aerosol Chemical Speciation Monitor for Urban Air Pollution and Wildfire at Northern High Latitudes

  Up to $702KDeadline: Jul 31, 2027open

  This Major Research Instrumentation Project (MRI) supports the acquisition of a Time-of-Flight Aerosol Chemical Speciation Monitor with eXtra resoluti...

• Collaborative Research: Probing transcrustal magmatism at a transform fault: The Mt. Edgecumbe (Lux Shaa) Volcanic Field in the Context of Regional Tectonics

  Up to $559KDeadline: Jul 31, 2028open

  Volcanoes are dangerous for people living and working nearby because they create ash fall and ash clouds. Mt. Edgecumbe volcano is located in Southeas...

• Towards constraining the source and fate of volcanically sourced mercury along the Aleutian-Alaska Arc, with implications for a revised global volcanic mercury budget

  Up to $553KDeadline: Aug 31, 2027open

  Volcanoes are the largest primary natural source of mercury into our environment. Volcanoes are thought to release large amounts of mercury during eru...

Where Alaska grants come from

• Federal sources — Grants.gov, NIH RePORTER, and SAM.gov, filtered for opportunities that fund work in Alaska.
• Alaska state portal — state-administered grant programs, including pass-through federal dollars and state-only appropriations.
• Foundations — community foundations and private foundations active in Alaska, drawn from IRS Form 990 filings and curated foundation directories.
• Corporate giving — a curated set of corporate philanthropy programs that explicitly fund Alaska-based work.

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Qualify Alaska grants before you write

Most of the time it takes to win a grant isn't writing — it's research and qualifying. Before you commit a week to a full proposal, qualify the opportunity with a 1–2 page Letter of Inquiry. Our guide walks through the structure that gets a yes: