Tennessee Grants

Top Tennessee grants right now

• Volunteer Firefighter Equipment and Training Grant Program

  Tennessee State Fire Marshal's Office (SFMO)Up to $20Mopen

  Volunteer Firefighter Equipment and Training Grant Program is sponsored by Tennessee State Fire Marshal's Office (SFMO). This grant program has two co...

  public_safetyemergency_managementcommunity_developmentfirefightingfire department

• Category II: Transitioning the National Science Data Fabric Pilot into a National Operational Cyberinfrastructure and Service for Democratized, AI-Driven Scientific Discovery

  Up to $9.0MDeadline: Aug 31, 2029open

  Scientific research today generates data at a scale and pace that far exceeds what most research institutions can manage on their own. Petabytes of me...

• Meharry Research Facilities for Advanced Genomics (MeRFAG)

  Up to $6.0MDeadline: Jan 29, 2027open

  The proposed application aims to establish the “Meharry Research Facilities for Advanced Genomics” (MeRFAG) at Meharry Medical College (MMC), an Insti...

• Vanderbilt Alzheimer's Disease Research Center

  Up to $5.0MDeadline: Mar 31, 2030open

  VANDERBILT ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE RESEARCH CENTER – OVERALL PROJECT SUMMARY We aim to establish the Vanderbilt Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (VADRC...

• Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Loan Program

  Pathway Lending (Tennessee)Up to $5.0Mopen

  Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Loan Program is a program from Pathway Lending in Tennessee that funds industrial, commercial, private nonprofi...

  clean_energyenergy_efficiencyenergy efficiencyrenewable energyenergy loans

• Leveraging Omics and Electronic Health Records Data to study Colorectal Adenoma genetics and Drug Repurposing

  Up to $4.2MDeadline: Aug 31, 2029open

  Colorectal cancer (CRC) arises mostly from pre-existing colorectal adenoma (CRA). Removal of these precancerous lesions significantly reduces CRC inci...

• Track 4 (Phase II): The Autism Self-advocacy Center for Equity and Neurodiversity in Engineering (The A-SCENE)

  Up to $4.0MDeadline: Jul 31, 2029open

  Neurodiversity is an emerging paradigm through which neurological differences, traditionally viewed only in terms of disability -- autism spectrum dis...

• Equipment: MRI: Track 2 - Development of a MALDI trapped ion mobility FT-ICR mass spectrometry platform for high-performance molecular imaging and training

  Up to $4.0MDeadline: Jun 30, 2030open

  This instrument development project will construct a next-generation molecular imaging instrument to visualize biological tissues and engineered mater...

• Vanderbilt-coordinated human Virome Collaborative Center (V2C2)

  Up to $4.0MDeadline: Jan 31, 2030open

  Viruses are responsible for significant morbidity/mortality at the heart of most of global pandemics of the 21st century. Recent developments in techn...

• Assessing the Role of Sex-Specific Genetic Drivers of Cerebrovascular Disease in the Alzheimer's Disease Brain

  Up to $3.5MDeadline: Aug 31, 2029open

  Alzheimer's disease (AD) disproportionately affects women, yet the underlying biological and genetic factors contributing to this sex disparity remain...

• Epigenetic Checkpoint Regulation of Naive T-cell Quiescence and Peripheral Tolerance

  Up to $3.4MDeadline: Jun 30, 2029open

  Epigenetic checkpoint regulation of naive T-cell quiescence and peripheral tolerance Maintaining the quiescence of autoreactive naïve T cells and pre...

• The uptake and real-world effectiveness of emerging respiratory syncytial virus maternal vaccines and monoclonal antibodies on short- and long-term respiratory morbidities

  National Institute of Allergy and Infectious DiseasesUp to $3.3MDeadline: Jul 31, 2029open

  / ABSTRACT Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is one of the most common respiratory viruses resulting in significant morbidity and mortality in infants...

• Cortical Mechanisms of Innate Frequency Discrimination

  National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication DisordersUp to $3.3MDeadline: Jul 31, 2029open

  Throughout evolution, the ability to distinguish acoustic frequencies from each other and from the surrounding auditory environment has been essential...

• Patient centered prediction of clinically important outcomes arising from pathogenic variants

  National Human Genome Research InstituteUp to $3.2MDeadline: Jul 31, 2027open

  / ABSTRACT As genetic testing becomes more common in medical care, an increasing number of individuals will discover that they carry a pathogenic vari...

• Mapping genetic vulnerability to oxidative stress in development and its consequences in age-associated cognitive decline using a novel reduced complexity rat model

  Up to $3.1MDeadline: Aug 31, 2029open

  In this proposal we test the novel hypothesis that intrinsic cellular vulnerability to oxidative stress (OS) contributes to premature cognitive declin...

• The intersection of immunity and cardiovascular diseases

  Up to $3.0MDeadline: Jul 31, 2030open

  The overall goal of the Intersection of Immunity and Cardiovascular Disease (IICD) Program Project Grant is to understand how immune cells are activat...

• Fusion oncoprotein condensates in pediatric cancers

  Up to $3.0MDeadline: Aug 31, 2030open

  - OVERALL Fusion oncoproteins (FOs), arising from gene translocations, give rise to ~17% of all cancers. Notably, FOs are commonly oncogenic drivers i...

• Mitoprotective therapies for kidney injury

  Up to $3.0MDeadline: Aug 31, 2029open

  Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common disease that is associated with adverse short and long-term sequelae. AKI usually occurs in hospitalized patient...

• TRAILBLAZER: Super-Planckian Far Field Radiation via Non-equilibrium Polaritons

  Up to $3.0MDeadline: Aug 31, 2027open

  Efficient heat dissipation is a bottleneck for a broad spectrum of technologies. Radiative heat transfer over large distances, or the so-called far fi...

• Cystoscopy-augmenting tools to improve the sensitivity and specificity of detection of urothelial carcinoma in situ

  Up to $3.0MDeadline: Aug 31, 2029open

  Up to 75% of patients diagnosed with high-grade, non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (BC) will develop recurrences. Left undetected or untreated, recur...

Where Tennessee grants come from

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

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Qualify Tennessee 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: