Connecticut Grants
Open funding for nonprofits, schools, and municipalities serving Connecticut.
100 open Connecticut grants, drawn from federal sources, the state portal, foundation 990 filings, and corporate giving programs. Refreshed daily.
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CTN New England Consortium Node
National Institute on Drug AbuseUp to $9.8MDeadline: Feb 29, 2032openIn this Administrative Supplement, the New England Consortium Node (NECN), led by Gail D’Onofrio MD, of Yale University, and Roger Weiss, MD, of McLea...
Facility Renovation and Modernization to Support A National Program on Psychiatric Biotyping Research
Up to $8.0MDeadline: Feb 29, 2028openThis is a proposal to renovate a currently-disused building to create a modern, multi-modal and inter-disciplinary clinical neuroscience research faci...
Modernization of the Yale PET Core
Up to $7.7MDeadline: May 31, 2030openPositron Emission Tomography (PET) is a powerful imaging modality that enables visualization and quantification of biological functions using radiopha...
NHTSA Section 402 State and Community Highway Safety Grants
Connecticut Department of TransportationUp to $6.8MopenNHTSA Section 402 State and Community Highway Safety Grants is sponsored by Connecticut Department of Transportation. Funds law enforcement initiative...
public_safetytransportationcommunity_developmenthighway safetylaw enforcementMicrobial Programming of T-cell Migration from Gut to Brain
Up to $4.9MDeadline: Jun 30, 2029openThe gut-brain axis is emerging as a central mediator of health and disease. Multiple studies have associated gut microbiota composition with neuroinfl...
Toward comprehensive models of naturalistic cooperation and competition in primates
Up to $4.9MDeadline: Jun 30, 2030openThe flexible ability to work together for mutual benefits while competing against others for limited resources is a hallmark of advanced social cognit...
Yale Alzheimer Disease Research Center
Up to $4.8MDeadline: Apr 30, 2030openOVERALL YALE ADRC The Yale Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC) seeks to advance our understanding of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) at a cell biologi...
MEB-1170: A New Chemical Entity for the Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder
Up to $4.7MDeadline: Jun 30, 2027open/ Abstract Mebias Discovery, Inc. is developing a new chemical entity, MEB-1170, to treat Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) as a maintenance medication.
SmartStim, a novel implantable neuromodulation system to cure chronic pain.
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and BioengineeringUp to $3.5MDeadline: Jul 31, 2028open/Abstract Chronic pain without apparent tissue damage is characterized by central sensitization at the level of spinal cord and brain, which often res...
Neural Repair for Chronic Incomplete Cervical Spinal Cord Injury with Nogo Receptor Blockade plus Rehabilitative Training
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and StrokeUp to $3.3MDeadline: Nov 30, 2030openSUMMARY Traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) affects approximately 300,000 individuals in the United States, leading to persistent neurological deficits...
Prefrontal mechanisms of social interaction strategy
Up to $3.3MDeadline: Sep 18, 2029openAdvanced social cognition enables individuals to apply complex strategies when interacting with others. However, studying the neural bases of strategi...
Informing Drug Synergy: Investigating Mycobacterial Membrane Protein Structure and Function
Up to $3.3MDeadline: Jul 31, 2029openThe multi-layered cell envelope of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is a critical barrier to antibiotics and an important target for drug development....
Role of Neutrophils in the Pathogenesis of Cholangiopathies
Up to $3.2MDeadline: Aug 31, 2029openCholangiopathies are responsible for significant morbidity and mortality but remain the least understood diseases in hepatology. Cholangiocytes are th...
Lymphoid-specific high-efficiency beta-catenin protein degradation
Up to $3.1MDeadline: Jun 30, 2029openAs part of canonical WNT signaling, beta-catenin forms activating transcriptional complexes with TCF7 factors to promote MYC-expression and proliferat...
Supervised Weighted Distances: Patient Similarity to Explain Clinical AI Models
National Library of MedicineUp to $2.7MDeadline: Aug 31, 2029openSummary Explaining complex, multivariate predictive models to clinicians and life scientists is difficult, but it is necessary to increase their trust...
Regulation of neutrophil plasticity, heterogenicity, and functional ambivalency by WNT5 in colitis
Up to $2.7MDeadline: Jun 30, 2029open/ Abstract: Neutrophils are the most abundant leukocytes in the circulation. They are the first to be recruited to the sites of inflammation and abund...
Implantable, Degradable Drug Delivery Devices for Non-Opioid Post-Surgical Pain Management
Up to $2.7MDeadline: Aug 31, 2028openOne out of every nine Americans has surgery each year and 30-80% experience uncontrolled postoperative pain. There is a clear need to 1) localize trea...
Novel Mechanisms of Protein Homeostasis by the Molecular Chaperone DnaK
Up to $2.5MDeadline: Aug 31, 2029openProteins carry out almost all functions in all living cells. At the same time, cells must coordinate protein synthesis with folding capacity to avoid ...
Immunologic and Imaging studies with TNF Therapy in Prodromal Synucleinopathies
Up to $2.4MDeadline: Aug 31, 2030openImmunologic and Imaging studies with TNF Therapy in Prodromal Synucleinopathies is a pioneering, prospective, randomized, double-blind parallel group ...
Yale SPORE in Lung Cancer (YSILC): The Biology and Personalized Treatment of Lung Cancer
Up to $2.3MDeadline: Jul 31, 2030openThe Biology and Personalized Treatment of Primary and Metastatic Lung Cancer: The Yale SPORE in Lung Cancer (YSILC) unites translational scientists sp...
Where Connecticut grants come from
- Federal sources — Grants.gov, NIH RePORTER, and SAM.gov, filtered for opportunities that fund work in Connecticut.
- Connecticut state portal — state-administered grant programs, including pass-through federal dollars and state-only appropriations.
- Foundations — community foundations and private foundations active in Connecticut, drawn from IRS Form 990 filings and curated foundation directories.
- Corporate giving — a curated set of corporate philanthropy programs that explicitly fund Connecticut-based work.
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