Science & Research Grants in Rhode Island

Open science & research funding for nonprofits, schools, and municipalities serving Rhode Island.

100 open science & research grants in Rhode Island, drawn from federal sources, the state portal, foundation 990 filings, and corporate giving programs. Refreshed daily.

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Top science & research grants in Rhode Island right now

  • Bradley Hospital Integrative Research Laboratories

    Up to $7.9MDeadline: May 31, 2030open

    /ABSTRACT The proposed research facility will provide biomedical research facilities and opportunities for exceptional state-of-the-art pediatric psyc...

  • Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics

    Up to $7.8MDeadline: Aug 31, 2030open

    The Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM) is a national institute whose mission is to catalyze fundamental rese...

  • ExpandQISE: Track 2: URI-PQI Collaboration - Application Of Quantum Fundamentals To Advance Research and Workforce Development

    Up to $5.0MDeadline: Jul 31, 2030open

    Non-technical Abstract: Quantum computing is making rapid progress toward the goal of a fault tolerant computer. This advance can be attributed to the...

  • AI Research Institute on Interaction for AI Assistants (ARIA)

    Up to $4.0MDeadline: Sep 30, 2030open

    This project establishes the AI Research Institute on Interaction for AI Assistants (ARIA). ARIA will accelerate the development of next-generation AI...

  • Expanding Biomedical Research Capacity at Bryant University

    Up to $2.1MDeadline: May 31, 2029open

    Bryant University requests NIH funding to build three shared research spaces that will significantly expand the institution’s biomedical research capa...

  • Collaborative Research: DESC: Type II: REFRESH: Revisiting Expanding FPGA Real-estate for Environmentally Sustainability Heterogeneous-Systems

    Up to $1.3MDeadline: Sep 30, 2027open

    Computing systems can exert substantial environmental impacts across their entire life cycles, encompassing manufacturing, usage, and end-of-life disp...

  • Collaborative Research: NSF-BSF: State-dependent properties of co-transmitting neurons

    Up to $980KDeadline: Sep 30, 2028open

    Nervous systems are biological communication networks that use signaling molecules called neurotransmitters to transfer information critical to every ...

  • Collaborative Research: RII FEC: Risks, Impacts, & Strategies for Coastal Communities: Advancing Convergent Science to Support Climate Change Adaptation & Resilience

    Up to $814KDeadline: Jul 31, 2028open

    Coastal communities face growing and compounding risks that are exacerbated by the effects of climate change and sea-level rise. With nearly twice the...

  • Collaborative Research: Rhythm and Blooms: Deciphering metabolic, functional and taxonomic interactions over the life cycle of a phytoplankton bloom

    Up to $735KDeadline: Aug 31, 2028open

    Floating, single-celled algae, or phytoplankton, form the base of marine food webs. When phytoplankton have sufficient nutrients to grow quickly and g...

  • Collaborative Research: CRCNS Research Proposal: Uncovering the mechanisms and meaning of brain rhythm frequency shifts during decision making

    Up to $722KDeadline: Feb 28, 2030open

    Categorization is a fundamental, but complex, cognitive ability. Depending on the context, the same feature could place an object or event in differen...

  • Collaborative Research: Revisioning Research Administration in Rhode Island for Emerging Research Institutions (ERIs)

    Up to $566KDeadline: Aug 31, 2027open

    This collaboration of five Emerging Research Institutions (ERIs) in the National Science Foundation’s EPSCoR (Established Program to Stimulate Competi...

  • Collaborative Research: Tracking Reactivity in Porous Materials with Terahertz Spectroscopies

    Up to $503KDeadline: Aug 31, 2028open

    With support from the Chemical Structure and Dynamics (CSD) program in the Division of Chemistry, Professor Daniel Mittleman of Brown University and P...

  • Collaborative Research: Bridging geoscience and engineering to interrogate seismic cycle processes in the earthquake critical zone

    Up to $459KDeadline: Aug 31, 2029open

    Large earthquakes have the potential to have catastrophic impacts on humans and infrastructure when risks are not mitigated. Earthquakes nucleate at d...

  • Collaborative Research: FMitF: Track I: Reasoning About Shell Scripts and Their Effects in Context

    Up to $455KDeadline: Feb 28, 2029open

    Shell programming, the glue that holds modern computer systems together, is as prevalent as ever—steadily in the top 10 most popular programming langu...

  • Collaborative Research: Multi-User Access to Sub-THz Spectrum

    Up to $400KDeadline: Nov 30, 2027open

    To scale data rates in the face of rapidly growing application performance demands, next-generation wireless networks must provide efficient and low-l...

  • Collaborative Research: EPIIC: Supporting Partnerships for Advancement, Research, and Knowledge (SPARK)

    Up to $400KDeadline: Sep 30, 2028open

    Supporting Partnership for Advancement, Research, and Knowledge (SPARK) is a joint effort of four geographically diverse and primarily undergraduate i...

  • Collaborative Research: SaTC 2.0: RES: AIGIS: Securing the Deep Learning Model Supply Chain

    Up to $400KDeadline: Sep 30, 2030open

    Pre-trained AI models shared through open online repositories are becoming essential infrastructure for research, industry, and government. But this g...

  • Collaborative Research: RUI: Beyond Colloblasts: Fast-acting predation for trophic success in ctenophores

    Up to $354KDeadline: Apr 30, 2028open

    Ctenophores, commonly called comb jellies, are gelatinous animals that are significant predators in the world’s oceans. Because of their key predatory...

  • Collaborative Research: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Constraining the Geodynamical Landscape of the Deep Mantle

    Up to $315KDeadline: Jul 31, 2028open

    Approximately 3000 km beneath Earth’s surface lies the boundary between the liquid iron core and the rocky mantle above. The nature of this region, th...

  • Collaborative Research: Mechanics of Elastomers Tailored by Cation-Pi Interactions

    Up to $312KDeadline: Aug 31, 2027open

    Soft materials underpin important technologies such as adhesives, coatings, drug delivery, and energy storage. One key challenge with such materials i...

What counts as a science & research grant in Rhode Island

We surface opportunities matching science & research-related keywords whose geography includes Rhode Island (statewide, regional, or county-level grants serving Rhode Island-based organizations). The keyword set:

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Where Rhode Island science & research grants come from

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

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