Kansas Grants

Top Kansas grants right now

• FEMA Counter-Unmanned Aircraft Systems Grant Program for AI-Enabled Drone Detection

  Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) / Department of Homeland SecurityUp to $250Mopen

  The FEMA Counter-Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-UAS) Grant Program, established under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025, provides $500 million to e...

  counter_dronehomeland_securityai_detectionpublic_safetyuas_defense

• Data Coordinating and Operations Center for the ECHO IDeA States Pediatric Clinical Trials Network

  Up to $6.3MDeadline: May 31, 2030open

  Many children, particularly those in rural and underserved communities, lack vital access to pediatric clinical trials. This project addresses this di...

• Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program - Blueprint to Build

  Kansas Department of Commerce (via HUD)Up to $4.0MDeadline: Oct 16, 2026open

  Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program - Blueprint to Build is sponsored by Kansas Department of Commerce (via HUD). This program funds cons...

• The Interplay of Neuronal Activity and Synaptic Abnormalities and their Restoration through Mitochondria in Alzheimer's Disease

  Up to $3.2MDeadline: Aug 31, 2029open

  Summary Alzheimer's disease, a leading cause of dementia, is characterized by synaptic dysfunction and aberrant neural activity contributing to cognit...

• Leveraging Bio-Chemical and Greenhouse Gas Sensors for Sustainable Agriculture Innovations (BioSenseInnovations)

  Up to $2.0MDeadline: Dec 31, 2027open

  This award is funded by NSF Global Centers program, an innovative program that supports use-inspired research addressing global challenges through the...

• Living Learning Communities and Experiential Learning Activities for Enhancing Low-Income Academically Talented Undergraduate STEM Student Success

  Up to $2.0MDeadline: Dec 31, 2030open

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

• DNA Protein Cross-Links: Metabolic Sources and Repair

  National Institute of General Medical SciencesUp to $1.8MDeadline: Jul 31, 2029open

  DNA-protein cross-links (DPCs) form when cellular proteins become irreversibly trapped to DNA as a result of cellular processes such as histone demeth...

• FuSe2 Topic 3: Co-design of sub-2nm wide-bandgap semiconductor memristors for neuromorphic computing

  Up to $1.8MDeadline: Aug 31, 2027open

  Nontechnical description The need for ultrathin (thickness in sub-2 nm) oxide semiconductor films with tunable electronic structures and functiona...

• BIOMEDICAL DATA TRANSLATOR USER INTERFACE DEVELOPMENT

  Up to $1.5MDeadline: Sep 28, 2026open

  As a result of recent scientific advances, a tremendous amount of data is available from biomedical research and clinical interactions with patients, ...

• EPSCoR Graduate Fellowship Program (EGFP): EGFP for K-State Math

  Up to $1.4MDeadline: Jun 30, 2028open

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

• EDGE CMT: The genomic basis of male fitness variation in wild populations of Drosophila

  Up to $1.4MDeadline: Aug 31, 2028open

  Fitness refers to the ability of an organism to survive and reproduce in its natural habitat. It is one of the most important attributes of any specie...

• Collaborative Research: EDGE CMT: Linking genomic variation to complex floral trait adaptation across a species boundary

  Up to $1.3MDeadline: Aug 31, 2028open

  A fundamental challenge in biology is to understand how DNA differences between individuals determine trait differences, particularly those trait diff...

• INVESTIGATIONAL AGENT SINGLE ASCENDING DOSE SAFETY, TOLERABILITY, AND PK STUDY. POP: 5/2/2025 - 11/1/2026. N01DA-23-8935

  Up to $1.3MDeadline: Nov 1, 2026open

  The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) is the largest supporter of the world’s research on substance use and addiction. Part of the National Inst...

• SBIR Phase II: Single-Stream Reclamation Process for Complex Refrigerant Mixtures

  Up to $1.2MDeadline: Jun 30, 2027open

  The broader/commercial impact of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project is its ability to significantly reduce the atmospheri...

• Equipment: MRI: Track 1 Acquisition of a quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometer and accessories for the Kansas Lipidomics Research Center

  Up to $1.1MDeadline: Aug 31, 2028open

  An award is made to Kansas State University to acquire a Waters SYNAPT XS quadrupole time-of-flight (QTOF) mass spectrometer (MS) with multiple option...

• Determining how the evolution of the coronavirus macrodomain contributes to its biochemical and virological functions

  Up to $1.0MDeadline: Jul 31, 2028open

  This project explores how macrodomain proteins have evolved to balance their different multiple biochemical activities. Macrodomains are ancient enzym...

• Lipid Sensors Integrate Diurnal Phospholipid Metabolism with Gene Expression Networks in Plants

  National Science FoundationUp to $1.0MDeadline: May 31, 2029open

  Interactions between proteins and lipid metabolites are highly dynamic in all living cells, yet their full scope and biological significance remain po...

• Developing the Caregiver Report of Early Language Interactions (CRELI)

  Up to $991KDeadline: Aug 31, 2027open

  / Abstract Early caregiver-child language interactions strongly influence child language development and numerous short- and long-term child outcomes,...

• Regulation of Mammalian Meiotic Decision by Glutamine Transporter Slc38a2

  Up to $952KDeadline: Aug 31, 2027open

  Eukaryotes undergo two primary types of cell division: mitosis and meiosis. Somatic cells rely on mitosis to generate genetically identical daughter c...

• University of Kansas Medical Center (KUMC) Nutrition Obesity Research Centers Research Resource Center (NORC-RRC)

  Up to $885KDeadline: Jun 30, 2030open

  OVERALL SECTION The University of Kansas Medical Center (KUMC) seeks to establish a Nutrition Obesity Research Centers Research Resource Center (NORC-...

Where Kansas grants come from

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

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Qualify Kansas 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: