Education Grants in Massachusetts

Top education grants in Massachusetts right now

• Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Youth Program

  Massachusetts Executive Office of Labor and Workforce DevelopmentUp to $21Mopen

  Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Youth Program is sponsored by Massachusetts Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development. Provi...

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• Healey-Driscoll Administration's $14 Million Graduation Rate Enhancement

  Massachusetts Department of Higher EducationUp to $14Mopen

  Healey-Driscoll Administration's $14 Million Graduation Rate Enhancement is sponsored by Massachusetts Department of Higher Education. The Healey-Dris...

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• Supporting Students' Social Emotional Learning, Behavioral & Mental Health, and Wellness — (SEL & Mental Health) Competitive Grant

  Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary EducationUp to $5.2Mopen

  Supporting Students' Social Emotional Learning, Behavioral & Mental Health, and Wellness — (SEL & Mental Health) Competitive Grant is sponsored by Mas...

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• Healey-Driscoll Administration's $3.6 Million Support for Students with Disabilities

  Massachusetts Department of Higher EducationUp to $3.6Mopen

  Healey-Driscoll Administration's $3.6 Million Support for Students with Disabilities is sponsored by Massachusetts Department of Higher Education. Hea...

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• NRT: Strengthening Healthcare Innovation through Nurse-Engineer Education

  Up to $3.0MDeadline: Aug 31, 2030open

  Healthcare is a universal concern, yet many challenges persist in hospitals and clinics, such as preventing medical errors, designing efficient patien...

• Sustainable Engineering Education & Development (SEED): Growing Career-Ready Engineers Through Collaboration

  Up to $2.0MDeadline: Feb 29, 2032open

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

• Massachusetts YouthBuild Coalition Program

  Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary EducationUp to $1.8Mopen

  Massachusetts YouthBuild Coalition Program is sponsored by Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. Provides funding to members...

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• CAREER: How Many Intuitive Physics Systems are There, and What Do They Mean for Physics Education

  Up to $1.5MDeadline: Sep 30, 2028open

  Basic research into understanding how children learn physics concepts has been pursued relatively independently in several different disciplines (cogn...

• Cognitive Foundations of Environmental Science Education: Exploring Impacts of Human Exceptionalism on Marine Social-Ecological Systems Thinking

  Up to $1.5MDeadline: Apr 30, 2028open

  Investigators will explore how intuitive understandings about the natural world contribute to students’ thinking and learning about marine social-ecol...

• Advancing Computational Thinking and Microelectronics Education through Generative AI within an Engineering Design Framework

  Up to $1.5MDeadline: Aug 31, 2028open

  Computational thinking (CT) is a way of solving problems by breaking them down into smaller parts and creating step-by-step solutions or algorithms. T...

• GCR: Towards a Convergent Understanding of the Dynamics of Uncertainty In Individuals and Groups with a Focus on STEM Education

  Up to $1.2MDeadline: Aug 31, 2029open

  Ambiguity, uncertainty, and confusion (AU&C) are inherent in human experience, at small scales and large, in everyday social interactions and in profe...

• Early Education and Out-of-School Time Capital Grants

  Massachusetts Department of Early Education and CareUp to $1.0Mopen

  Early Education and Out-of-School Time Capital Grants is sponsored by Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care. Provides capital grants fo...

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• EEOST Large Capital Grants for Early Education and Out‑of‑School Time Programs

  Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care (EEC) via MassDevelopment and CEDAC/CIFUp to $1.0Mopen

  EEOST Large Capital Grants for Early Education and Out‑of‑School Time Programs is sponsored by Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care (E...

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• Promoting Investigators' Capacity in STEM Education Literature Synthesis

  Up to $1000KDeadline: Sep 30, 2027open

  This project, Promoting Investigators’ Capacity in STEM Education Literature Synthesis (PICSELS), will train investigators to use qualitative meta-syn...

• AI-CChaSE: AI-enabled Cancer CHatbots for Symptom Education

  Up to $820KDeadline: Apr 30, 2031open

  /ABSTRACT This proposal addresses an important, unmet need in cancer symptom management: cancer patients are routinely impacted by chronic symptoms ca...

• ExpandQISE: Track 1: Education and Research of System and Network Supports for Quantum Cloud

  Up to $800KDeadline: Sep 30, 2027open

  Non-technical Abstract: Quantum computing offers the promise of solving intractable problems across many scientific domains including chemistry and b...

• Development of Systems and Education for Cervical Cancer prevention (DOSE-CC)

  Up to $694KDeadline: Apr 30, 2030open

  / ABSTRACT Cervical cancer disproportionately affects Black, Hispanic, and low-income Americans. Universal screening has the potential to decrease the...

• Crossing the Finish Line: Intervening in a Critical Period for Educational Investment

  Up to $602KDeadline: Oct 31, 2026open

  Early fertility is common among low-income female university students resulting in high dropout rates among these students even though family planning...

• Mentorship Education to Advance Biomedical Research Career Development

  Up to $541KDeadline: Aug 31, 2030open

  Mentorship plays a critical role in the preparation of early career scientists navigating their careers, an essential step toward building a strong an...

• Local Acquisitions for Natural Diversity (LAND) Grant Program

  Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental AffairsUp to $500Kopen

  Local Acquisitions for Natural Diversity (LAND) Grant Program is sponsored by Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs. Help...

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What counts as a education grant in Massachusetts

We surface opportunities matching education-related keywords whose geography includes Massachusetts (statewide, regional, or county-level grants serving Massachusetts-based organizations). The keyword set:

Internal program language often differs from how funders tag their grants. AI mission-fit search (available after signup) catches the conceptual matches that exact-keyword filtering misses — useful in Massachusetts where program names vary by region.

Where Massachusetts education grants come from

• Federal sources — Grants.gov, NIH RePORTER, and SAM.gov opportunities open to Massachusetts-based organizations and thematically aligned with education.
• Massachusetts state portal — state-administered education programs, including pass-through federal dollars and state-only appropriations.
• Foundations — community foundations and private foundations giving in Massachusetts for education work, drawn from IRS Form 990 filings and curated directories.
• Corporate giving — corporate philanthropy programs that fund education work in Massachusetts.