Minnesota Grants

Top Minnesota grants right now

• Rural Health Transformation Program

  Minnesota Department of HealthUp to $200Mopen

  Rural Health Transformation Program is sponsored by Minnesota Department of Health. A five-year initiative aiming to stabilize and strengthen rural he...

  health_disparitiesworkforce_developmentpublic_healthrural_developmentrural health

• NSF and Computer Science Teachers Association AI Professional Development Weeks Computer Science Foundations for Creating with AI

  U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded to Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA)Up to $11Mopen

  Artificial Intelligence Professional Development Weeks: CS Foundations for Creating with AI is an $11 million two-year NSF initiative awarded to the C...

  ai_educationai_literacyk12_ai_teacher_pdcomputer_science_educationai_curriculum

• International Integrated Microdata Series

  Up to $5.2MDeadline: Aug 31, 2029open

  This research project will enrich and expand the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS). IPUMS is the world's largest population database, wit...

• Minnesota Forward Fund

  Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED)Up to $5.0Mopen

  The Minnesota Forward Fund is a state economic development program administered by the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DE...

  economic_developmentsmall_businesscommunity_developmentbusiness attractionbusiness retention

• Grid Resilience State and Tribal Formula Grant Program

  Minnesota Department of CommerceUp to $4.9Mopen

  Grid Resilience State and Tribal Formula Grant Program is sponsored by Minnesota Department of Commerce. Offers grants to enhance the resilience of Mi...

  climate_changeenergy_efficiencypublic_safetyresiliencegrid resilience

• Reaching Rural Veterans: Applying Mind-Body Skills for Pain Using a Whole Health Telehealth Intervention (RAMP-WH)

  Up to $3.6MDeadline: Jul 31, 2028open

  1 This project addresses the significant challenge of implementing effective, non-opioid interventions for chronic pain 2 management in rural and rem...

• Advancing women’s care in Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias through EHR

  Up to $3.4MDeadline: Sep 14, 2029open

  The aging population has led to an increase in cognitive impairment (CI) such as mild cognitive impairment or dementia. As the aging population grows,...

• Maternal microbial exposure fundamentally shapes the CD8 T cell population at the maternal fetal interface

  Up to $3.0MDeadline: Jun 30, 2029open

  CD8 T cells are potent killers of cells presenting foreign antigens, making them powerful to fight microbial infections. The fetal host immune defense...

• Dietary fat-activated colonocyte-macrophage ketone shuttle drives intestinal inflammation

  Up to $2.9MDeadline: Jun 30, 2029open

  An estimated 3 million US adults suffer from inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), a group of conditions primarily including ulcerative colitis (UC) and C...

• Mechanisms of CD4 T cell help to myeloid cells in tuberculosis

  Up to $2.9MDeadline: Jul 31, 2029open

  CD4 T cells govern host control of M. tuberculosis (Mtb) infection. The diverse phagocytic myeloid cells that harbor intracellular Mtb in the lungs re...

• Genetic regulation of epithlial injury in ulcerative colitis

  Up to $2.8MDeadline: Sep 21, 2029open

  Ulcerative colitis (UC) affects nearly one million US adults. Refractory disease is still common, and the current trial-and-error treatment approach c...

• Collaborative Research: Ideas Lab: Breaking Low: DRIVE-SAFE: Remote and Cooperative Autonomous Driving in Dynamic Environments using 5G/NextG Technology

  Up to $2.5MDeadline: Jul 31, 2027open

  This project aims to break the low latency performance barrier in today’s fifth generation (5G) networks that hinders progress and adoption of remote ...

• Housing policy, neighborhood context, and pathways to midlife mortality in a social experiment

  Up to $2.5MDeadline: Sep 14, 2029open

  Life expectancy is a key metric of population health. Yet Black and low-income Americans exhibit much shorter life expectancy than their White, Hispan...

• Mitigating Diabetic Ketoacidosis in People with T1D and Chronic Kidney Disease on an SGLT1&2 Inhibitor: Ketosis Risk Factor Determination and Incorporation into an Enhanced Glucose Ketone Report

  Up to $2.4MDeadline: Aug 31, 2028open

  It is estimated that 1.8 million people in the U.S. have type 1 diabetes (T1D) and of these, at least 20% have chronic kidney disease (CKD). Sodium-gl...

• Role of Extracellular Vesicle: Autophagy Pathway Crosstalk in Type 2 Diabetes Pathogenesis

  Up to $2.3MDeadline: Aug 31, 2029open

  /ABSTRACT The prevalence of Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is an expanding global issue that continues to impact several developing nations. The onset of pancr...

• Engineering Tregs for autoimmune diabetes therapy

  Up to $2.2MDeadline: Aug 31, 2028open

  SUMMARY Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is an autoimmune disease caused by the immune mediated destruction of insulin-producing beta cells, significantly impac...

• Enhancing multidisciplinary research at Mayo with a state-of-the-art 7T preclinical MRI

  Up to $2.0MDeadline: Mar 31, 2027open

  /ABSTRACT The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN seeks funding to acquire the Bruker BioSpec 70/20 magnetic resonance (MR) imaging scanner, featuring a 7.0 ...

• NSF R2I2: National Research Office

  Up to $2.0MDeadline: Aug 31, 2027open

  Communities across the United States are increasingly experiencing the severe consequences of shifting weather patterns, increased impacts from drough...

• Polar Geospatial Center: Community and Facility Support for Enabling the Next Decade of Scientific Discovery and Logistics Operations in Earth's Polar Regions

  Up to $2.0MDeadline: Jun 30, 2030open

  The Polar Geospatial Center (PGC) at the University of Minnesota supports scientific research in the polar regions. PGC distributes high-resolution op...

• DMREF: NSF-NSERC: Engineering Novel Quantum Material Platform at Twisted Multilayer Interfaces

  Up to $2.0MDeadline: May 31, 2030open

  Two-dimensional (2D) materials with the thickness of a single atom exhibit unconventional electronic, optical, and magnetic properties. This project b...

Where Minnesota grants come from

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

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Qualify Minnesota 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: