Colorado Grants

Top Colorado grants right now

• State Revolving Fund (SRF) Loan Program

  Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE)Up to $30Mopen

  The State Revolving Fund (SRF) Loan Program is administered by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) and provides low-inter...

  public_health

• Research Infrastructure: Mid-scale RI-1 (M1:IP): The National Quantum Nanofab

  Up to $20MDeadline: Jun 30, 2029open

  New quantum technologies are poised to transform fields of broad societal impact in computing, sensing, and communications. However, there is a signif...

• SUPPLEMENTAL LOWER GUNNISON WATERSHED PROJECT

  USDA NRCSUp to $10Mopen

  SUPPLEMENTAL LOWER GUNNISON WATERSHED PROJECT is sponsored by USDA NRCS. A project to enhance irrigation efficiency and reduce salt and selenium contr...

  water_qualityenvironmental_justiceclimate_changeirrigationwater conservation

• Advancing the Science of Palliative Care Research Across the Lifespan (ASCENT) Consortium

  Up to $9.5MDeadline: Jul 31, 2030open

  ASCENT: OVERALL PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Across the lifespan, people living with serious illness suffer physically, psychosocially and financially. Th...

• AI Institute for Student AI Teaming

  Up to $8.0MDeadline: Aug 31, 2030open

  The renewal of the Institute for Student-AI Teaming will continue to directly address the urgent national need to develop a world-leading, next-genera...

• A Shallow Drilling Campaign to Assess the Pleistocene Hydrogeology, Geomicrobiology, Nutrient Fluxes, and Fresh Water Resources of the Atlantic Continental Shelf, New England

  Up to $5.0MDeadline: Mar 31, 2027open

  Fresh groundwater within New England Atlantic continental shelf sediments extends 100 km offshore. However, this onshore-offshore freshwater system ha...

• Peer Support Professionals Grant

  Colorado Behavioral Health Administration (BHA)Up to $5.0Mopen

  Peer Support Professionals Grant is a grant from the Colorado Behavioral Health Administration (BHA) that funds organizations providing peer support s...

  health_disparitiesmental_healthpublic_healthpeer supportmental health

• Collaborative Research: Frameworks: TURBO: Towards Ultra-high Resolution Community Earth System Model (CESM) with MOM6 and Ocean Biogeochemistry

  Up to $4.5MDeadline: Jun 30, 2030open

  Weather events, such as heat waves, winter storms, droughts, floods, and hurricanes, severely impact human well-being. Such events also cause severe d...

• TeachEngineering: Expanding the democratization of engineering education through increased partnerships and professional development

  Up to $4.2MDeadline: Sep 30, 2027open

  This three-year initiative, Teach Engineering: Expanding the democratization of engineering education through increased partnerships and professional ...

• Psychedelics for Older Adults with Chronic Pain

  National Institute on AgingUp to $3.4MDeadline: Jul 31, 2027open

  Summary Abstract Chronic pain is highly prevalent (38%) condition in older adults and impacts quality of life with increased depression, anxiety, exis...

• Effects of full-spectrum cannabidiol on alcohol consumption and alcohol use disorder phenotypes: implications for precision medicine

  National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and AlcoholismUp to $3.2MDeadline: Aug 31, 2029open

  Alcohol use disorders (AUD) are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the US, but existing treatments show only modest efficacy, and some have...

• Leadership and Administrative Core

  National Institute on AgingUp to $3.0MDeadline: Jul 31, 2030open

  ASCENT: LEADERSHIP AND ADMINISTRATIVE CORE (LAC) PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT The mission of the Advancing the Science of Palliative Care Research Across...

• Phage/Salmonella interactions during oxidative stress

  Up to $2.7MDeadline: Aug 31, 2029open

  Nontyphoidal Salmonella are responsible for about 180 million cases of diarrhea and 300,000 deaths a year globally. Very young and very old people, ca...

• Structure-function relationships in alpha-synuclein strain biology

  National Institute of Neurological Disorders and StrokeUp to $2.7MDeadline: Jul 31, 2029open

  Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) studies have shown that protein fibrils isolated from patient samples adopt distinct misfolded conformations, which...

• The role of synaptopodin during bacterial infection

  National Institute of Allergy and Infectious DiseasesUp to $2.6MDeadline: Jul 31, 2029open

  Shigella flexneri is a gram-negative bacterial pathogen that causes diarrhea in humans. Essential for the disease process is the ability of the bacter...

• Collaborative Research: Frameworks: SCI-SWIM: Sustainable Community Infrastructure for Stable Water Isotope Modeling Enabling Earth System Research

  Up to $2.6MDeadline: Aug 31, 2030open

  Water is essential for life and connects many parts of Earth’s complex system. Yet scientists still struggle to predict how the water cycle will chang...

• FIRE-NET: Fast Fire Risk Across the US West: Cross-Sector Synthesis to Advance Discovery and Solutions

  Up to $2.5MDeadline: Dec 31, 2030open

  Fires are growing faster across the West—with a 250% increase in just the past two decades. While fast fires only represent 3% of all wildfires, they ...

• Research Education Core

  National Institute on AgingUp to $2.3MDeadline: Jul 31, 2030open

  ASCENT: RESEARCH EDUCATION CORE (REC) PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT A lack of trained palliative care scientists is cited as a major impediment to the con...

• DISSECTING MECHANISMS OF INFLAMMATORY SIGNALING ACROSS THE MATERNAL FETAL INTERFACE

  Up to $2.3MDeadline: May 31, 2028open

  /ABSTRACT Infants exposed in utero to maternal inflammatory disorders are at risk of long-lasting health impacts, such as altered neurodevelopmental o...

• Quantifying How Rain on Snow Events Change Snowpack Properties Using Caribou and Muskoxen as Test Cases

  Up to $2.2MDeadline: Mar 31, 2030open

  Rain-on-snow (ROS) events - when rain falls on a cold snowpack, freezes, and creates a hard ice layer - are increasing in frequency across the Arctic....

Where Colorado grants come from

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

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Qualify Colorado 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: