Maine Grants

Top Maine grants right now

• Maine Child Care Infrastructure Grant Program

  Maine Department of Health and Human ServicesUp to $15Mopen

  Maine Child Care Infrastructure Grant Program is a grant from the Maine Department of Health and Human Services offering up to ,000 per site to help s...

  education_researchcommunity_developmentchildcarechild careearly childhood

• National STEM Teacher Corps Pilot Program: Rural Advancement of Students in STEM via Excellent Teacher Support: A Statewide Maine Alliance

  Up to $5.0MDeadline: Sep 30, 2030open

  The National STEM Teacher Corps Pilot Program Regional Alliance project aims to recognize outstanding STEM educators in high-need schools that advance...

• E-RISE RII: Maine Algal Research Infrastructure and Accelerator

  Up to $4.2MDeadline: Aug 31, 2028open

  Materials from macroalgae one can see and microalgae that one cannot see are found in consumer products as diverse as foods, personal care products, a...

• Equipment: Equipment: MRI: Track 2, Acquisition of a high-throughput workflow for environmental single cell genomics

  Up to $2.7MDeadline: Jun 30, 2028open

  A single cell is the most fundamental unit of biological organization. Identifying connections between its genomic blueprint and functional characteri...

• Gastric Endocrine Functions in Skeletal Homeostasis

  Up to $2.6MDeadline: Aug 31, 2029open

  Bariatric surgery-associated skeletal complications have been observed since the early 1990s, and are associated with increased fracture risk. The mos...

• Improving Recruitment, Retention, and Success of Marine Science Undergraduate Students to Enter the Blue Economy Workforce

  Up to $2.5MDeadline: Apr 30, 2029open

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

• NSF Convergence Accelerator Real-World Chemical Sensing Applications: Innovative approach to monitor methane emissions from livestock using an advanced gravimetric microsensor

  Up to $2.0MDeadline: Apr 30, 2028open

  The U.S. dairy industry makes a substantial contribution to the country’s economy. Yet, the industry faces the challenge of balancing the increasing d...

• Rural Energy Futures: Facilitating community understanding of energy transition opportunities through middle-school math skills development

  Up to $1.3MDeadline: Jun 30, 2027open

  As climate change pressures increasingly weigh on communities across the United States, national policy and investment have signaled a priority in dev...

• Teaching and Inclusion for Disability Equity in STEM: Postdoctoral Mentoring and Professional Development for Diverse Learning Environments

  Up to $1.2MDeadline: Sep 30, 2027open

  Existing graduate training models in STEM, STEM education, education, and related disciplines often artificially separate the study of inclusive educa...

• NPETE's Community College Consortium for Health & Safety

  Up to $1.1MDeadline: May 31, 2030open

  The National Partnership for Environmental Technology Education, ME submits this proposal on behalf of the Community College Consortium for Health and...

• SBIR Phase II: Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Enabled African Language Database

  Up to $1.0MDeadline: Feb 28, 2027open

  The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project aims to develop a multilingual translation ...

• Beginnings: Experiential Learning in Digital Twin Technologies for the Blue Economy

  Up to $999KDeadline: Sep 30, 2028open

  The Blue Economy, which includes sectors like fisheries and marine production, offshore transport and engineering, and offshore energy, contributed ab...

• NSF-DBT: PlantSynBio: Plant Minichromosome Engineering

  Up to $993KDeadline: Oct 31, 2028open

  An essential component for plant synthetic biology applications is the availability of robust and reliable chromosome platforms that can be manipulate...

• A Novel Wild-derived Diversity Mouse Population for Precision Mapping and Systems Genetics

  Up to $898KDeadline: Mar 31, 2029open

  Inbred mouse strains are integral tools for both preclinical and basic research. While the absence of genetic diversity is a widely perceived strength...

• Recruiting and Retaining STEM Teachers through Authentic Partnerships between a Four-Year Institution and Community Colleges

  Up to $891KDeadline: May 31, 2029open

  This Noyce Track 1 project aims to serve the national need to recruit, prepare, and support high-quality STEM teachers by fostering partnerships betwe...

• Developmental Systems Genomics of morphogenetic timing and facial shape variation

  National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial ResearchUp to $796KDeadline: Feb 28, 2031open

  The objective of this proposal is to elucidate the complex genetic, transcriptional, and histological landscape underpinning palate morphogenesis by l...

• Defining the Roles of Bone Marrow Adipocytes and FABP4/5 Signaling in Multiple Myeloma Drug Resistance

  Up to $787KDeadline: Jun 30, 2027open

  – MERIT EXTENSION The overall goal of this MERIT Extension research project is to support the original goals of our parent grant and build logically o...

• Virulence mechanisms regulating Candida-driven vaginal epithelial exfoliation

  Up to $778KDeadline: Mar 31, 2031open

  Vulvovaginal candidiasis (VVC), the only type of candidiasis regularly affecting individuals without co- morbidities, will afflict about half of all w...

• PurSUiT: Life-history patterns, systematics, and biogeography of widespread but cryptic Patescibacteria

  Up to $747KDeadline: Aug 31, 2028open

  An astounding revolution in our understanding of life on Earth has taken place since the turn of the 21st century, shaking the tree of life and our vi...

• CAREER: Old plants show their true colors: Advancing herbarium-based spectral phenotyping to understand the evolution and distribution of plant function across scales

  Up to $741KDeadline: Jul 31, 2030open

  The tropics are home to immense plant diversity in varied habitats, from evergreen rainforests to savannas, deserts, and seasonally dry forests. Diffe...

Where Maine grants come from

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

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Qualify Maine 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: