Vermont Grants

Top Vermont grants right now

• Agricultural Clean Water Initiative Program

  Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food, and MarketsUp to $4.0Mopen

  Agricultural Clean Water Initiative Program is a grant from the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food, and Markets that funds local and regional partner...

  water_qualityagriculturecommunity_developmentenvironmental_educationwater quality

• Collaborative Research: E-CORE RII: The Science and Technology Research Initiative for the Vermont Economy

  Up to $2.8MDeadline: Feb 28, 2029open

  This project aims to build an inclusive research ecosystem to serve as a cornerstone of the Vermont economy. Project goals are to establish administra...

• Equipment: MRI: Track 2 Acquisition of a Transformational High-Performance Computing Cluster for AI Research, Innovation, and Capacity Building for Vermont

  Up to $2.2MDeadline: Aug 31, 2028open

  This project funds construction of IceCore, a graphics processing unit (GPU)-focused, high-performance computing (HPC), enhancing critically needed re...

• From Enrollment to Graduation: Strengthening Critical Pipelines in Engineering and Construction Management

  Up to $2.0MDeadline: Dec 31, 2031open

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

• CyberCorps Scholarship for Service (Renewal): Developing Cybersecurity Professionals with Artificial Intelligence Competencies

  Up to $1.8MDeadline: May 31, 2029open

  In the modern era of heightened connectivity, addressing cyber threats is paramount. Norwich University aligns with the national goal of cultivating t...

• MPOPHC: Integrating human risk perception and social processes into policy responses in an epidemiological model

  Up to $1.3MDeadline: Sep 30, 2027open

  Epidemics arise from interactions between pathogens and human hosts, where the pathogen influences human behavior and human behavior influences the sp...

• Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures Resilience: Strengthening coral reefs and food systems

  Up to $1.3MDeadline: Feb 28, 2029open

  Coral reefs are a critical nexus of many food systems, as a primary source of protein and micronutrients for ~1 billion people, and they are highly se...

• SBIR Phase II: A Multimodal Integrated System For Improved Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

  Up to $1.2MDeadline: Jun 30, 2027open

  The broader/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project is a novel integrated system to improve survival r...

• CAREER: Empirical tests of biogeographic theory: island mammals in the Gulf of Maine

  Up to $1.2MDeadline: Aug 31, 2031open

  Islands are cradles of biodiversity – home to many species found nowhere else on our planet. This project will document the biodiversity of islands lo...

• Explorations: Building Experiential Learning Pathways to Careers in Emerging Technology Fields for Rural Vermont Communities

  Up to $1.0MDeadline: Dec 31, 2028open

  This ExLENT Explorations Track project aims to serve the national interest by expanding workforce opportunities across critical sectors such as semico...

• Examining a Digital Perinatal Smoking-Cessation Intervention

  Up to $732KDeadline: Apr 30, 2028open

  Cigarette smoking is the leading preventable cause of poor pregnancy outcomes in the U.S., contributing to serious adverse events ranging from catastr...

• CAREER: Understanding the production of maple syrup and carbon cycling within trees

  Up to $719KDeadline: Jul 31, 2031open

  This project improves understanding of how trees store, move, and use carbon by focusing on sugar maple (Acer saccharum). Sugar maple is an important ...

• CAREER: Unraveling the evolutionary history of toothed whale acoustic communication

  Up to $714KDeadline: Mar 31, 2029open

  Toothed whales (dolphins, porpoises, and relatives) are not only among the most acoustically specialized groups of vertebrates, but their communicatio...

• The Impact of Myosin-Binding Protein C on Myosin Mobility and Proteostasis.

  National Heart Lung and Blood InstituteUp to $714KDeadline: May 31, 2029open

  Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is frequently caused by mutations in the MYBPC3 gene, which lead to reduced levels of myosin-binding protein C (MyBP...

• CAREER: Directly Visualizing the Conformational Dynamics and Non-covalent Interactions of Biological Macromolecules in Living Cells using Fast Raman Relaxation Imaging

  Up to $666KDeadline: Apr 30, 2030open

  With the support of the Chemistry of Life Processes (CLP) program in the Division of Chemistry, Professor David Punihaole of the University of Vermont...

• Longitudinal Impact of Clonal Hematopoiesis on Aging Outcomes and Risk Prediction in the REasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke Study

  Up to $665KDeadline: Nov 30, 2030open

  Clonal hematopoiesis (CH) refers to abnormal expansion of hematopoietic cell clones in the absence of hematologic abnormalities. Though CH was initial...

• CPS: Medium: RUI: Collaborative Research: Real-time Subsurface Sensing with Cognitive Networked Robotic System

  Up to $660KDeadline: Aug 31, 2027open

  This Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) project will fund research that investigates cognitive and cooperative sensing and imaging systems for rapid near re...

• CAREER: Advancing In Vivo Knowledge and Assessment of Cartilage Material Properties With Quantitative MRI

  Up to $625KDeadline: Aug 31, 2030open

  This Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award supports studying the relationship between microscopic structure (‘microstructure’) and macroscop...

• Human lncRNA mediated control of human osteogenesis

  National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin DiseasesUp to $624KDeadline: Apr 30, 2030open

  SUMMARY Epigenetic control is obligatory for human skeletal development and remodeling. Our program established multiple dimensions of epigenetic cont...

• SaTC: CORE: Small: A Novel Mechanism for Effective and Accountable Communication of Differential Privacy through Multi-Stakeholder Research

  Up to $600KDeadline: Sep 30, 2027open

  Differential privacy is a state-of-the-art computing technique to protect individual data privacy in a dataset while allowing meaningful statistical a...

Where Vermont grants come from

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

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Qualify Vermont 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: