Wisconsin Grants

Top Wisconsin grants right now

• Category I: Fabric for AI-Driven Science (FabAID)

  Up to $9.0MDeadline: Apr 30, 2031open

  The national-scale Fabric for AI-Driven Science (FabAID) weaves services and technologies to support the life cycle of scientific datasets. Through Fa...

• The role of cryptic influenza virus proteins in replication and pathogenesis

  Up to $3.1MDeadline: Jun 30, 2029open

  Productive infections by RNA viruses require faithful replication of full-length genomes. Yet many RNA viruses also produce deletion-containing viral ...

• Anxiety and depression in a nonhuman primate model of synucleinopathy

  National Institute of Neurological Disorders and StrokeUp to $3.1MDeadline: Jul 31, 2029open

  Intraneuronal inclusions of aggregated Synuclein (Syn), termed Lewy bodies (LBs), are a pathological hallmark of Parkinson’s disease (PD), PD dementia...

• Virtual Research Laboratories to Bridge from Educational Games to Real-world Scientific Research in Polar Regions

  Up to $3.0MDeadline: Aug 31, 2028open

  Research has shown that educational games can increase student motivation, support critical thinking, problem-solving, and communication skills. This ...

• CP-CTNet Coordinating Center

  National Cancer InstituteUp to $2.5MDeadline: Jul 31, 2031open

  /Abstract Cancer is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the US and in the world. One approach to reducing the risk and burden of cancer is...

• actLocal - A Platform for Developing Localized Simulations to Support Interactive Learning about Climate Change

  Up to $2.2MDeadline: Aug 31, 2028open

  Despite the importance of addressing climate change, existing K-12 curricula struggle to make the urgency of the situation personally relevant to stud...

• Increasing Recruitment and Retention of Talented, Low-income Students in Science through Community Building, Holistic Advising, and Professional Development

  Up to $2.0MDeadline: Sep 30, 2030open

  This project will contribute to meeting the national need for well-educated scientists by supporting the retention and graduation of high-achieving, l...

• A continuous evolution platform for cyclic peptide discovery

  Up to $1.8MDeadline: Aug 31, 2029open

  Cyclic peptides have attracted enormous interest as research tools and therapeutics because they can inhibit historically difficult to drug targets su...

• Using Multimodal Data Science To Gain Actionable Insights For Substance Misuse Prevention

  Up to $1.8MDeadline: Aug 31, 2026open

  Substance misuse, encompassing opioid misuse, non-opioid illicit use, and alcohol misuse, constitutes a heterogeneous set of conditions associated wit...

• Understanding causes of autism, its heterogeneity, and rising prevalence with emerging methods in causal inference

  Up to $1.7MDeadline: Sep 28, 2027open

  Over the past five decades, autism prevalence in the United States has risen from fewer than 1 in 2,000 children to approximately 1 in 31. Over the sa...

• Human Immune System Humanized Modeling of Down Syndrome Immune Responses to Pluripotent Stem Cells

  Up to $1.5MDeadline: Aug 31, 2027open

  People with Down syndrome (DS) have increased susceptibility to immunological pathologies, certain cancers, congenital heart defects, and cognitive de...

• Technical Development and Validation of Synthetic Images in Multiphasic CT Examinations of the Kidneys

  Up to $1.5MDeadline: Jul 31, 2029open

  CT urography is a three-phase CT technique used clinically in the evaluation of blood in the urine, known as hematuria. Each of the three phases in CT...

• NSF Safe-OSE: Scalably Detecting Inconsistencies Between Git Commit Messages and Code in Open-source Projects

  Up to $1.5MDeadline: Sep 30, 2027open

  Computer systems research relies on software simulation to perform early-stage design-space exploration, quickly iterate on new hardware-software chan...

• NSF/BIO-UKRI/BBSRC: Synthetic induction of self-organized cell patterning and morphogenesis

  Up to $1.4MDeadline: Jul 31, 2029open

  Cell division is a fundamentally important process and when cell division goes awry, pathologies such as cancers, impaired healing, infertility, and a...

• Establishing an Alzheimer’s disease biomarker clock in Down syndrome using positron emission tomography and plasma analytes

  Up to $1.3MDeadline: Aug 31, 2029open

  /ABSTRACT Individuals with Down syndrome (DS) represent the largest population of genetically determined Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in the world. This g...

• Re-evaluating the Duration in Children of TB Treatment (REDUCE TB): A Phase 2 Duration Randomized Trial

  Up to $1.3MDeadline: Aug 31, 2030open

  /ABSTRACT Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major global public health problem in children. In 2022 there were approximately 1.3 million new cases of TB in ...

• Testing MOUD Scale-Up Strategies in Criminal Legal Settings

  Up to $1.3MDeadline: May 31, 2030open

  /ABSTRACT The translation gap between evidence and practice that leaves many evidence-based innovations (EBIs) underutilized is well recognized, promp...

• CFS (Track III): The WiscSIMS National Ion Microprobe

  Up to $1.3MDeadline: May 31, 2027open

  This grant provides three years of Community Facility Support for the Wisconsin Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometer National Facility (WiscSIMS Lab). The ...

• MINDBP - Mindfulness and Wearable Biosensors to Prevent Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy

  National Center for Complementary and Integrative HealthUp to $1.3MDeadline: Aug 31, 2028open

  /ABSTRACT Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) are the most common medical condition affecting pregnancy and a leading cause of maternal morbidit...

• SBIR Phase II: Ion Optics Optimized for Nanoscale Stigmatic Imaging

  Up to $1.2MDeadline: Jun 30, 2027open

  This Small Business Innovation Research Phase II project will pursue the development of enabling technology for a fundamentally new imaging mass spect...

Where Wisconsin grants come from

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

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Qualify Wisconsin 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: