Montana Grants

Top Montana grants right now

• EPSCoR CREST Phase I: Center for Energy Technologies

  Up to $7.5MDeadline: Aug 31, 2030open

  With support from the Centers of Research Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST), this project aims to begin a center at Montana Technological U...

• The Role of Neighborhood Social Exposome Dynamics in Risk and Resilience to Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias

  Up to $3.0MDeadline: Sep 14, 2029open

  Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) are a leading cause of death with considerable economic and human costs. Although there have been sub...

• US-UK Collab: A spatially-explicit model of bat evolution and pathogen transmission dynamics in complex changing landscapes

  Up to $2.7MDeadline: Aug 31, 2028open

  This project will study bats, a diverse group of organisms that play an important role in ecosystems, and how they are adapting to the disease, white-...

• TEA Center Renewal: Aaniiih Nakoda Water Center

  Up to $2.5MDeadline: Jun 30, 2029open

  A goal of the Tribal Colleges and Universities Program (TCUP) is to increase the intellectual leadership of TCUP institutions so that they can address...

• Center for Advanced Molecular Pathogenesis (CAMP)

  Up to $2.1MDeadline: Dec 31, 2030open

  Montana State University (MSU) is the alma mater of Maurice Hilleman, the most prolific vaccine scientist of the 20th century. The Hilleman legacy is ...

• ICE-TI: Launching the Baccalaureate Degree in Computer Information Systems at Aaniiih Nakoda College

  Up to $2.0MDeadline: Nov 30, 2029open

  A goal of the Tribal Colleges and Universities Program (TCUP) is to increase the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) instructional...

• EPSCoR Graduate Fellowship Program (EGFP): Big Sky Fellows: EGFP at Montana State University

  Up to $1.9MDeadline: Jun 30, 2028open

  The National Science Foundation (NSF) EPSCoR Graduate Fellowship Program (EGFP) supports EGFP designated institutions and programs in EPSCoR jurisdict...

• Identification of Novel Syk/Raf-1 Mediated CLR Ligands as Vaccine Adjuvants

  Up to $1.6MDeadline: Sep 29, 2026open

  The contractor proposes to screen libraries of synthetic putative CLR agonists that induce Th17 or Th17/Th1 immunity as adjuvants for bacterial and fu...

• Rural and American Indian School Educators as STEM Teacher Leaders

  Up to $1.5MDeadline: Jun 30, 2030open

  This project aims to address the national need of developing highly effective STEM teacher leaders in high-need districts. Like many areas, Montana ex...

• EDGE CMT: Genomic and functional basis of rapid touch-sensitive stigma movement, a novel plant reproductive trait

  Up to $1.4MDeadline: Aug 31, 2028open

  Plant pollination leads to fruits and seeds, so is central to global ecology and the human food supply. Yet the details of how plants interact with po...

• Center for Advanced Molecular Pathogenesis (CAMP)- Administrative Core

  Up to $1.3MDeadline: Dec 31, 2030open

  , ADMINISTRATIVE CORE The Administrative Core will provide financial, scientific, and technologic oversight of the COBRE Center for Advanced Microbial...

• Using high-valent dinuclear cobalt complexes to understand enzymatic bond activation and bond formation processes

  Up to $1.2MDeadline: Mar 31, 2030open

  Natural metalloenzymes have developed effective strategies to catalyze substrate transformations that invoke diverse bond breaking and bond forming (B...

• Mechanisms and Structures of Pseudomonas aeruginosa hibernating ribosomes

  Up to $1.2MDeadline: Aug 31, 2029open

  Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic pathogen that causes persistent biofilm infections. Biofilms are difficult to treat with antibiotics, in pa...

• Investigating drought recovery mechanisms using plant carbon dynamics and foliar spectroscopy

  Up to $1.0MDeadline: Nov 30, 2029open

  Protecting forests as carbon sinks under future climates requires the ability to predict tree species distributions early enough for management action...

• Blackfeet Community College Center for Community Medicine

  Up to $892KDeadline: Jul 31, 2030open

  for Career Enhancement 001- Student Career Enhancement Program We believe that Native communities are best suited to carry out the research necessary...

• Species interactions and ecological function under biodiversity loss and climate variability

  Up to $875KDeadline: Jul 31, 2028open

  Forests are vital to the health of our planet, providing clean air, fresh water, and a variety of other benefits to humans. They are also home to a va...

• Mechanisms of Change in Behavioral Cough Suppression Treatment for Refractory Chronic Cough

  Up to $723KDeadline: May 31, 2030open

  Refractory chronic cough (RCC) is a costly condition that is challenging to treat. While behavioral cough suppression (BCS) therapy has shown efficacy...

• CAREER: Osteocyte Regulation of Bone Tissue Fracture Resistance

  Up to $685KDeadline: Aug 31, 2029open

  This Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) project will support research that intends to improve our understanding of how osteocytes - strain-sens...

• Fort Belknap Community - Johns Hopkins University NARCH 2024

  Up to $680KDeadline: Jul 31, 2030open

  The Aaniiih and Nakoda Tribes of the Fort Belknap Indian Community have maintained a trusting research practice partnership (RPP) with the Johns Hopki...

• Will increasing environmental variability amplify fitness tradeoffs across complex life cycles?

  Up to $636KDeadline: Aug 31, 2030open

  In the last three years, the Northeast experienced devastating floods from rainfall and urban wildfires from drought. These extremes are emblematic of...

Where Montana grants come from

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

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Qualify Montana 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: