North Dakota Grants

Top North Dakota grants right now

• MRI: Track 2 Acquisition of a GPU-Accelerated Computing Cluster for Computationally Intensive and AI Research in North Dakota

  Up to $3.8MDeadline: Sep 30, 2028open

  This Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) award funds the acquisition and deployment of Bison -- a GPU-accelerated high-performance computing system f...

• TEA Center Renewal: UTTC'S INTERTRIBAL FOOD, ENERGY, AND WATER RESEARCH AND RESOURCE CENTER

  Up to $2.5MDeadline: May 31, 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...

• NRT: Training Next Generation Resource Managers with Converging Technologies for Sustainable Uses of Water and Land

  Up to $2.0MDeadline: Aug 31, 2030open

  The ongoing challenge of environmental degradation of water and land has significant implications for the well-being of both current and future genera...

• Improving Outcomes for Talented Undergraduate STEM Students through Experiential Science Training

  Up to $2.0MDeadline: Mar 31, 2030open

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

• TEA Center: Research Into Land Base on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation

  Up to $1.7MDeadline: Aug 31, 2030open

  The TCU Enterprise Advancement Centers (TEA Centers) strand allows TCUP institutions to capitalize on their investments in STEM instruction and resear...

• Collaborative Research: CHIPS: TCUP Cyber Consortium Advancing Computer Science Education (TCACSE)

  Up to $1.3MDeadline: Apr 30, 2029open

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

• CAREER: Standardized Polytomous Assessment for Community Explorations in Green Chemistry Education

  Up to $868KDeadline: Dec 31, 2030open

  This project seeks to serve the national interest by improving green chemistry curricula in undergraduate organic chemistry courses so that students a...

• ExpandQISE: Track 1: Quantum Algorithms for Relativistic Quantum Chemistry

  Up to $800KDeadline: Sep 30, 2027open

  Quantum computers offer the opportunity to solve some of the long-standing challenges in science and engineering. A major question today is where and ...

• CAREER: Taphonomic Insights into Molecular Equilibration and Soft Tissue and Molecular Preservation

  Up to $653KDeadline: Jul 31, 2030open

  For over a century, the idea that biological molecules such as DNA or proteins could survive in ancient fossils was assumed impossible. However, the a...

• MRI: Track 1 Acquisition of PSV QTEC H 3D - Scanning Vibrometer

  Up to $625KDeadline: Mar 31, 2029open

  Strengthening the nation’s engineering research infrastructure depends on access to modern tools that help scientists and engineers do accurate, high-...

• Investigating 24-Hour Patterns of Sleep and Negative Affect among Individuals with Recurrent Binge Eating Behavior

  Up to $625KDeadline: Jan 31, 2030open

  /ABSTRACT Binge eating (i.e., the consumption of an unusually large amount of food in a discrete period of time accompanied by loss of control) is a t...

• Tuning of the Visual Perception of Meaning to Natural Image Statistics in Childhood

  Up to $608KDeadline: Jun 30, 2027open

  Seeing and recognizing faces is an important part of social interaction and most people are excellent at quickly finding faces in the world around the...

• Native American Small Business Support Program

  North Dakota Department of CommerceUp to $600Kopen

  Native American Small Business Support Program is sponsored by North Dakota Department of Commerce. Funding to support Native American small businesse...

  small_businesstribal_cultureeconomic_developmentnative americansmall business support

• CAREER: Electrically Encoded Innate Immune Sensing in Cardiomyocytes

  Up to $570KDeadline: Jun 30, 2031open

  The ability of cells to detect viral infection and cell damage is essential for the body’s first-line immune defense and for protecting human health. ...

• Sigma-regulator recognition and activation of regulated intramembrane proteolysis by a site-1 protease during iron import cell surface signaling in Gram-negative bacteria.

  Up to $544KDeadline: Sep 7, 2028open

  /ABSTRACT Gram-negative bacteria (GNB) play an important role in human health. GNB include species beneficial to humans as well as some of the most da...

• REU Site: Genes & the Environment

  Up to $465KDeadline: Oct 31, 2028open

  This REU Site award to the University of North Dakota, located in Grand Forks, ND, will support the training of 10 students for 10 weeks during the su...

• REU Site: Collaborations in Discipline-Based Education Research: An Interdisciplinary Research Experience in Undergraduate STEM Education

  Up to $464KDeadline: May 31, 2027open

  This REU Site award to North Dakota State University (NDSU), located in Fargo, North Dakota, will support the training of ten students for ten weeks d...

• IRES: International Research Experience on RFID Sensing System with Application of Machine Learning for Accurate Sensing

  Up to $450KDeadline: Jul 31, 2028open

  This project investigates the development of artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled radio frequency identification (RFID) sensing systems through an int...

• Identifying the Specific Reward Processes Underlying the Maintenance of Binge-Eating Disorder using EEG and EMA

  Up to $443KDeadline: Mar 4, 2028open

  Identifying the Specific Reward Processes Underlying the Maintenance of Binge-Eating Disorder using EEG and EMA ABSTRACT Binge-eating disorder (BED) i...

• High-Yield Core Luminescent Silicon-Carbide Nanocrystals from Mixed Liquid Precursors

  Up to $428KDeadline: Jul 31, 2027open

  This project focuses on research investigates manufacturing challenges associated with the synthesis and processing of state-of-the-art fluorescent si...

Where North Dakota grants come from

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

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Qualify North Dakota grants before you write

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