West Virginia Grants

Top West Virginia grants right now

• The NANOGrav Physics Frontiers Center

  National Science FoundationUp to $6.0MDeadline: Nov 30, 2027open

  This award to the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) supports their goal of characterizing the low-frequency grav...

• EPSCoR Graduate Fellowship Program (EGFP): Training the next generation of scientific and workforce leaders to enhance interdisciplinary research

  Up to $2.1MDeadline: Jun 30, 2028open

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

• DISES: Enhancing ecological and community resiliency through sustainable forestry and forest-based climate solutions

  Up to $1.7MDeadline: Aug 31, 2028open

  Interest in Forest-based Climate Solutions (FbCS) has rapidly increased in recent years, due to the rising desire of corporations to assist in mitigat...

• Therapies for defective photoreceptor outer segment development in blinding diseases

  Up to $1.4MDeadline: Aug 31, 2028open

  /ABSTRACT The long-term goal of our research is to identify and develop therapies for defects in protein networks that are essential for the morphogen...

• Excellence in Research: Collaborative Research: Dissection of the Molecular Mechanisms Controlling Lipid Droplet Abundance in Plants

  Up to $1.3MDeadline: Jun 30, 2027open

  This project will use genomic tools to better understand the molecular mechanisms that govern the biosynthesis of plant oils in the oilseed and bioene...

• SBIR Phase II: An advanced web portal for artificial intelligence (AI)-based comprehensive discovery of repositioning drugs

  Up to $1.2MDeadline: Jun 30, 2027open

  The broader impact of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project lies in advancing the development of CATOS-AI (Cancer Treatment ...

• Shifting the Landscape in Primary Substance Use Prevention for Rural America: The Integrated Community Engagement (ICE) Collaborative Cluster Trial

  Up to $1.2MDeadline: Jul 31, 2030open

  Summary Abstract Rural vs urban adolescents have higher rates of substance use, driven by social, economic, and geographic risk factors. Adolescent us...

• SBIR Phase II: Computational Fluid Dynamics Software for Quantum Computers

  Up to $1.2MDeadline: Aug 31, 2027open

  The broader impact of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will result from the creation of one of the first industrial app...

• West Virginia University Stroke COBRE

  Up to $1.1MDeadline: Jul 31, 2030open

  . Stroke is a leading cause of death and disability in the US and the world, and a significant health burden in West Virginia (WV). Furthermore, strok...

• Clinical validation of NS-0200, a fixed combination drug product for the treatment of hypertension

  Up to $1.1MDeadline: Jun 30, 2027open

  Hypertension is a major cause of premature death globally, responsible for 10.4 million deaths annually. Around 1.28 billion adults aged between 30-79...

• Science Engagement and Active Mentoring to Build Science Identity among Students in Computer Science, Chemistry, and Geosciences

  Up to $1.0MDeadline: Sep 30, 2030open

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

• CAREER: Untangling the effects of multiple environmental drivers on dryland plant communities to inform land management decisions

  Up to $794KDeadline: Mar 31, 2030open

  This project will test how fire, invasive species, and environmental change affect biodiversity in rangelands. Much of the western U.S. is home to big...

• Building Resilient Food Safety Infrastructure in West Virginia: Enhancing Laboratory Capabilities and Capacity under the Laboratory Flexible Funding Model

  Up to $785KDeadline: Jun 30, 2030open

  Building Resilient Food Safety Infrastructure in West Virginia: Enhancing Laboratory Capabilities and Capacity under the Laboratory Flexible Funding ...

• Investigation of Particle-Energization in Plasmas Through Wave-Particle Correlation Measurements

  Up to $750KDeadline: May 31, 2028open

  This award supports an experimental study of space-like plasmas in a laboratory setting. Space plasma phenomena impact human infrastructure in space, ...

• CAREER: Impact of MRI contrast agent design on nanoscale interactions with neutrophils and platelets

  Up to $698KDeadline: Mar 31, 2029open

  Understanding how nanoparticle characteristics mediate their interactions with blood cells in the body is crucial to promoting their safety and effect...

• Non-Perturbative Mapping of Inverted Sheaths in Low-Temperature Plasmas

  Up to $634KDeadline: Apr 30, 2029open

  This award supports development of a novel quantum sensing diagnostic for studying plasma properties near solid surfaces. Plasmas are used in technolo...

• AF:Small: Quantified Polyhedral Programming

  Up to $600KDeadline: Dec 31, 2028open

  Any system that is required to respond to stimuli from its environment is called a reactive system. The system’s response is possibly to change its st...

• NANOGrav Student Teams of Astrophysics Researchers Undergraduate Pathways (STARS-UP): Infrastructure for the Two to Four-Year College Transition

  Up to $594KDeadline: Sep 30, 2027open

  The proposed STARS-UP (Students Teams of Astrophysics Researchers - Undergraduate Pathways) program will create research partnerships between five two...

• Expanding the reach of GREENBURST --- searching for the brightest pulses in the Universe and the slowest rotating neutron stars in the Galaxy

  Up to $581KDeadline: Aug 31, 2027open

  A research program called GREENBURST led by scientists at West Virginia University (WVU) will use radio observations at the Green Bank Telescope (GBT)...

• CAREER: An integrated approach to understanding the interplay between telomere biology, flowering time regulation, and plant reproductive fitness

  Up to $572KDeadline: Feb 28, 2030open

  Telomeres are important structures at the ends of chromosomes that protect DNA from degradation and in humans contribute to preventing cancer and prem...

Where West Virginia grants come from

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

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Qualify West Virginia grants before you write

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