Kentucky Grants

Top Kentucky grants right now

• Kentucky Grid Resilience Grant Program

  Kentucky Energy and Environment CabinetUp to $27Mopen

  Kentucky Grid Resilience Grant Program is sponsored by Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet. This program provides grants for public power utilitie...

  energy_efficiencyclean_energyresiliencegrid resilienceelectric grid

• RII Track-1: Climate Resilience through Multidisciplinary Big Data Learning, Prediction & Building Response Systems (CLIMBS)

  Up to $13MDeadline: Jun 30, 2029open

  The Commonwealth of Kentucky faces mounting threats from global environmental change and natural hazards, including extreme weather events, floods, dr...

• Research Infrastructure: The KCV EDGE Research Ecosystem

  Up to $8.3MDeadline: Apr 30, 2029open

  KCV EDGE builds on the Kentucky Science & Technology Corporation’s centralized technology transfer mechanism for Kentucky’s public colleges and univer...

• PIPP Phase II: Environmental Surveillance for Assessing Pathogen Emergence (ESCAPE)

  Up to $5.6MDeadline: Aug 31, 2031open

  The goal of the Pandemic Environmental Surveillance Center for Assessing Pathogen Emergence (Pandemic ESCAPE) is the timely detection of emergent path...

• E-RISE RII: Driving AgTech Research and Education in Kentucky through Inclusive Network Building, Impactful Research, and Workforce Development for Soilless Food Systems

  Up to $3.8MDeadline: Jul 31, 2028open

  Agriculture Technology (AgTech) is a broad term describing intensive farming systems that incorporate high-tech applications that aim to improve agric...

• Rural Community Hubs for Chronic Care Innovation Grant Program

  Up to $3.5Mopen

  The Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky is seeking applications from organizations to serve as Rural Community Hub Lead Organizations for the Rural Comm...

• RNA modifications in apolipoprotein regulation by environmental exposures

  Up to $3.1MDeadline: Aug 31, 2029open

  Exposure to persistent environmental contaminants including polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) contributes to metabolic diseases including metabolic dys...

• Geospatial Technology Consortium of Community Colleges (GTC3)

  Up to $3.0MDeadline: Jun 30, 2028open

  A Geographic Information System (GIS) is a computer system that analyzes and displays geographically referenced information. It uses data that is atta...

• Comprehensively Defining the Novel Alphaviral Capsid Protein / IRAK1 Interaction

  Up to $2.7MDeadline: Aug 31, 2029open

  / ABSTRACT Alphaviruses are mosquito-borne pathogens that are capable of causing significant outbreaks of severe clinical disease. Currently, for man...

• Deciphering the Mechanisms by which Long Chain Fatty Acid Oxidation Influences Spatial Microvesicular Steatosis

  Up to $2.7MDeadline: Sep 4, 2029open

  Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) is associated with a 4-year decrease in lifespan and is expected to become the leadin...

• Microglial IFN-y production is a key defense system to coordinate both innate and T cell-mediated protective immunity in the brain for preventing reactivation of cerebral Toxoplasma infection

  Up to $2.4MDeadline: Jul 31, 2029open

  Toxoplasmic encephalitis (TE) caused by reactivation of chronic infection with Toxoplasma gondii is a life- threatening opportunistic infectious disea...

• Scholarships for STEM Success: Building Community and Advancing Transfer from a Two-Year College

  Up to $1.9MDeadline: Dec 31, 2031open

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

• Kentucky Women's Justice Community Overdose Innovation Network - Phase II

  Up to $1.4MDeadline: May 31, 2030open

  Overdose deaths among women rose nearly 500% in the past two decades, a rate considerably higher than men. Yet, overdose prevention approaches that ta...

• Mechanisms promoting speciation with gene flow in host-specialized haplodiploids

  Up to $1.3MDeadline: Mar 31, 2028open

  One of the longest running debates in evolutionary biology is whether new species can form while exchanging genes with one another. Gene exchange is t...

• BPE-Track 4: Phase I: The Engineering Wellness Center: Redefining success for engineering students

  Up to $1.2MDeadline: Aug 31, 2027open

  This project will stand up the Engineering Wellness Center (EWC) at the UK Pigman College of Engineering (COE). The EWC seeks to improve engineering s...

• CPS: Medium: An Autonomous Robotic System for Precision and High-Throughput Tomato Phenotyping in Large-Scale Greenhouses

  Up to $1.2MDeadline: Jun 30, 2028open

  The goal of this project is to develop an autonomous robotic system for precision and high-throughput tomato phenotyping in large-scale greenhouses. T...

• NSF Engines Development Award: Advancing manufacturing and building construction technologies (KY, WV, OH)

  Up to $1000KDeadline: Aug 31, 2026open

  This Regional Innovation Engines Development Award is focused on advancing additive manufacturing (AM) in a region that is experiencing transformation...

• Collaborative Research: EducateAI: CUE-T: Designing Artificial Intelligence Curricula for All Undergrads

  Up to $948KDeadline: Sep 30, 2029open

  Artificial Intelligence (AI) is drastically changing how we approach problems and the ways we craft solutions. AI awareness and competency are critica...

• RCN: Research Evaluation and Analytics Capacity Hub (REACH)

  Up to $914KDeadline: Jun 30, 2029open

  The Research Evaluation and Analytics Capacity Hub (REACH) will provide a new national forum for the advancement of research analytics, the use of dat...

• CAREER: Influence of soil phosphorus on soil organic matter dynamics

  Up to $765KDeadline: Jul 31, 2030open

  Phosphorus is finite rock-derived nutrient required by all life on Earth. In natural soils, the breakdown of bedrock controls the amount of phosphorus...

Where Kentucky grants come from

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

Listings are refreshed daily and stale data is flagged. Local funders missing from your area? You can request ZIP-level coverage after creating a free account.

Qualify Kentucky 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: