Missouri Grants

Top Missouri 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...

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• North St. Louis Commercial Corridor Grant Program

  Up to $37Mopen

  The North St. Louis Small Business & Non-Profit Grant Program, administered by the St.

• DHS Counter-Unmanned Aircraft Systems (Counter-UAS) Grant Program FY2026 for AI-Enabled Drone Defense at FIFA World Cup and National Capital Region

  U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)Up to $30Mopen

  The DHS Counter-Unmanned Aircraft Systems (Counter-UAS) Grant Program was established to support state and local law enforcement, critical infrastruct...

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• NSF Engineering Research Center for Carbon Utilization Redesign for Biomanufacturing (CURB)

  Up to $14MDeadline: Aug 31, 2029open

  The CURB Engineering Research Center will transform U.S. manufacturing by valorizing waste CO2, empowering circular carbon economy, and creating quali...

• Center: Advancing Research Impacts in Society

  Up to $7.6MDeadline: May 31, 2029open

  The Center for Advancing Research Impact in Society (ARIS) will build capacity for research impact at the national, institutional, and individual leve...

• Equipment: MRI Consortium: Track 2: Development of an array of compact cameras for TeV gamma-ray astronomy with the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory

  Up to $3.9MDeadline: Aug 31, 2028open

  Cosmic particle accelerators are studied through the detection of photons coming from very-high-energy gamma rays. Examples of such accelerators inclu...

• Center: NSF Center for Synthetic Organic Electrochemistry

  Up to $3.8MDeadline: Aug 31, 2030open

  The ability to use electrons as chemical reagents in oxidation reactions (removing electrons) or reduction reactions (adding electrons) has long held ...

• MANUFACTURE OF CLINICAL GRADE EPSTEIN-BARR VIRUS VACCINE

  Up to $3.5MDeadline: Sep 21, 2027open

  Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), also known as human herpesvirus 4, is an oncogenic gamma-herpesvirus etiologically linked to post-transplant lymphoprolifera...

• Mapping amyloid, tau, and neurodegeneration markers with neuropsychiatric phenotypes and genotypes in Alzheimer's disease continuum using machine learning

  Up to $3.2MDeadline: Aug 31, 2029open

  / Summary Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the leading cause of dementia and has significant medical and public health concerns. Despite extensive efforts,...

• Natural killer cells subvert immune checkpoint therapy of tumors

  Up to $3.2MDeadline: Aug 31, 2029open

  Since natural killer (NK) cells can kill tumor cells that also stimulate NK cell production of cytokines, there is intense current interest on how to ...

• CONGAS: "Caribbean Omics 'N' Genomics for Alzheimer Study"

  Up to $3.1MDeadline: Feb 28, 2031open

  Genetic studies in the context of Alzheimer Disease (AD) are significantly biased by information coming from the same homogeneous population: Non-Hisp...

• Bridge2AI:Salutogenesis Data Generation Project

  Up to $2.8MDeadline: Nov 30, 2026open

  Text The Artificial Intelligence Ready and Exploratory Atlas for Diabetes Insights (AI-READI) project is one of the data generation projects in the NI...

• High-throughput interrogation of long-range enhancers

  National Human Genome Research InstituteUp to $2.8MDeadline: Aug 31, 2029open

  /Abstract A majority of heritable disease-causing variation resides in the non-coding portions of the genome. The leading hypothesis is that these var...

• The role of the ribosome and translation factors in mediating stress signaling

  Up to $2.8MDeadline: Aug 31, 2029open

  A key feature of all living organisms is their ability to respond and adapt to an everchanging environment to ensure cellular homeostasis. In response...

• Development of negative allosteric modulators at the mu opioid receptor

  Up to $2.7MDeadline: Aug 31, 2027open

  Pain is a pervasive problem throughout society. It is estimated that about 105 million American adults are affected by moderate to severe pain. Opiate...

• Age-related deficits in episodic memory for the content and structure of naturalistic events

  Up to $2.6MDeadline: Aug 31, 2029open

  /ABSTRACT The exact process of episodic memory loss in aging and Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is not understood. The long- term goal is to refine our unde...

• National Research Service Award-Medical Scientist

  Up to $2.6MDeadline: Jun 30, 2030open

  Washington University in St. Louis has had a funded Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) for more than fifty years that has evolved into a nation...

• Targeting Myeloid Metabolism to Reprogram the Tumor Microenvironment of Glioblastoma

  National Cancer InstituteUp to $2.5MDeadline: Jul 31, 2029open

  IDH1R132H mutation is recognized as the most common initiating event for low-grade glioma and IDH1- mutant grade IV astrocytoma. Our recent study (Ste...

• RESEARCH-PGR: Enhancing grain yield under a changing climate.

  Up to $2.5MDeadline: Aug 31, 2028open

  Heat waves, especially when occurring during periods of drought, can have a devastating impact on agricultural production in the US. Such combinations...

• Rhythms of Resistance: Unraveling the impact of natural circadian variation on immunity

  Up to $2.1MDeadline: Aug 31, 2029open

  The research program in our laboratory is centered on understanding how immunity and defense are optimized. Using plants as model systems, we focus on...

Where Missouri grants come from

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

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Qualify Missouri 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: