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Natural Resources · $1K–$30K

Government agencies, educational institutions, and nonprofit organizations can apply for this Illinois Natural Resources grant, which funds work to combat white-nose syndrome in bats and conserve affected species. Awards range from $1,000 to $30,000.

Council on the Arts · Amount varies

Creative Catalyst is a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts program funding new initiatives that support creative workers and industries around asset development, workforce, community development, visibility, or policy. It's open to nonprofits, municipalities, school districts, and other non-arts nonprofits that provide arts programming or services, provided the project has statewide or broad regional reach. Awards go up to $25,000.

Natural Resources · $20K–$6M

Government agencies, educational institutions, nonprofit organizations, and for-profit businesses can apply for this Illinois Natural Resources grant funding invasive carp management and control in Illinois waterways, supporting Great Lakes restoration priorities. Awards range from $20,000 to $6,000,000.

U.S. Mission to Italy · $10K–$100K

Open to U.S. and Italian registered not-for-profits, individuals, non-profit or governmental educational institutions, and governmental institutions; for-profit businesses are not listed as eligible. The U.S. Mission to Italy funds cultural and exchange programs (roughly $10,000 to $100,000) that strengthen U.S.-Italy ties, and every program must include a significant American cultural element or connection with U.S. experts/organizations. Priority areas include countering disinformation, STEM and entrepreneurship, American Studies, English language study, and media literacy.

Natural Resources · $50K–$500K

This Illinois Department of Natural Resources program funds government agencies, educational institutions, nonprofits, and for-profit organizations to protect and restore habitat and species within the Great Lakes Basin, with awards from $50,000 to $500,000. Eligibility is broad, covering most organization types with a Great Lakes conservation project. No application deadline is listed.

Department of Fish and Wildlife · Amount varies

Open to nonprofits, public agencies, and tribal governments in California for projects that improve climate resilience, protect coastal/rural economies and wildlife habitat, or expand outdoor recreation, with top priority given to projects removing barriers to steelhead trout migration. Funded under Proposition 68; no specific award amount or deadline is listed in this posting.

U.S. National Science Foundation · Amount varies

Eligibility is unrestricted (open to any entity type, subject to NSF clarifications) for this National Science Foundation Dynamics, Control and Systems Diagnostics program. It supports fundamental theoretical, computational, and experimental research on modeling, analysis, diagnostics, and control of dynamic systems. No fixed award amount or deadline is listed; PIs are encouraged to email a one-page project summary for feedback, and standard NSF limits on foreign organizations apply, so awards generally go to U.S. institutions.

Idaho Field Office · Amount varies

This is a Request for Information (not a funded opportunity) from the DOE Idaho Field Office, seeking input from universities, national labs, industry, nonprofits (with or without 501(c)(3) status), and small businesses on future nuclear energy research priorities, submitted via NEUP.gov. There is no monetary award tied to this notice. For-profit organizations other than small businesses are not eligible to respond as such.

U.S. National Science Foundation · Amount varies

Eligibility is unrestricted (open to any entity type, subject to NSF clarifications) for this National Science Foundation Communications, Circuits, and Sensing-Systems program. It funds innovative research in circuit and system hardware, signal processing, communications, and sensing systems across applications such as healthcare, communications, transportation, energy, and security. No fixed award amount or deadline is stated, and standard NSF limits on foreign organizations apply, so awards typically go to U.S. institutions.

Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development · $600K–$3M

Local health departments and community-based nonprofit organizations in California can apply, with at least 50% of each year's funding reserved for qualified nonprofits. California's GO-Biz awards $600,000 to $3,000,000 to support job placement, mental health and substance use disorder treatment, reentry legal services, and related services for communities disproportionately affected by the War on Drugs. Funding is drawn from cannabis tax revenue and program priorities can shift each fiscal year, so this is a fairly narrow, population-specific opportunity rather than a general-purpose grant.

Natural Resources · $25K–$500K

Open to Illinois units of local government, universities, and nonprofit organizations for coastal planning, coastal hazards, habitat protection, and education/outreach projects. Private individuals and for-profit organizations are not eligible, and applicants must be pre-qualified through the State of Illinois GATA grantee portal. This is a reimbursement grant, with awards from $25,000 up to $500,000.

Council on the Arts · Amount varies

Pennsylvania nonprofits, municipalities, schools, colleges/universities, school districts, government units, and non-arts nonprofits providing arts programming or services can apply to the Council on the Arts' Creative Innovation & Impact Grant. No award amount, deadline, or further program description is available in this listing, so applicants should check the Council's website for current details.

San Gabriel and Lower Los Angeles Rivers and Mountains Conservancy · $50K–$2M

Open to nonprofits, public agencies, and tribal governments for wildfire prevention planning, fuel load reduction, invasive species management, and forest health projects in the San Gabriel Mountains, Foothills, and nearby urban wildland areas of California. Awards range from $50,000 to $2,000,000, with a two-phase Concept Proposal then Full Application process. Limited to projects within the Conservancy's designated Southern California service area.

State Treasurer's Office · $1–$135M

Like its predecessor program, this California funding is restricted by statute to the same 13 named Children's Hospitals (eight private nonprofit, five University of California) for capital improvement projects. Awards can be very large — up to $135 million per private nonprofit hospital and $54 million per UC hospital — with applications accepted monthly through June 2033. Not open to any hospital or nonprofit outside this named list.

San Diego River Conservancy · Amount varies

Nonprofits, public agencies, and tribal governments can apply to this San Diego River Conservancy program (Proposition 4) for hazardous fuels reduction, wildfire prevention planning, and wildfire prevention education. No specific award amounts or deadlines are provided, so applicants should confirm current funding availability directly with the Conservancy.

Baldwin Hills & Urban Watersheds Conservancy · Amount varies

This $48 million California Proposition 4 climate resilience program, administered by the Baldwin Hills & Urban Watersheds Conservancy, funds projects that reduce climate risks to communities, fish, wildlife, and natural resources, with priority for disadvantaged and severely disadvantaged communities, tribes, and vulnerable populations; nonprofits, public agencies, and tribal governments may apply. Projects are evaluated against the Conservancy's Community and Climate Resilience framework and must demonstrate measurable benefits and community engagement; funding is limited to the Conservancy's California service area. No specific per-award amount or deadline is listed in this posting.

Aging · $15K–$75K

This program funds Adult Protective Services provider agencies and Regional Administrative Agencies to build a mentoring and internship program for college students, aiming to address staffing shortages and support elder-abuse prevention efforts. Eligible applicants under the Older Americans Act include state and local governments, tribal organizations, nonprofits, faith- and community-based organizations, hospitals, and higher-education institutions; a separate funding stream under the Affordable Care Act is limited to state government entities only. Awards range from $15,000 to $75,000, and no application deadline is listed in this record.

U.S. National Science Foundation · Amount varies

Eligibility is unrestricted (open to any entity type, subject to NSF clarifications), but this National Science Foundation program funds crosscutting materials-research activities such as diversity and inclusion efforts, international cooperation, education, workshops, summer schools, and conferences rather than traditional research projects. Award amounts and deadlines are not specified, and program directors recommend contacting them before submitting any full proposal exceeding $50,000. Foreign organizations face the usual NSF limitations, so most awards go to U.S. institutions.

U.S. National Science Foundation · $300K–$800K

This NSF program is open to U.S. institutions of higher education and U.S. non-profit, non-academic research organizations (such as independent museums, observatories, and research labs); for-profit businesses and individuals cannot apply directly. It funds the design of novel or greatly improved research tools and methods (in bioinformatics, instrumentation, and research methods) that advance biological research broadly. Awards typically range from about $300,000 to $800,000, and the infrastructure produced must be useful to a community of researchers beyond a single team.

U.S. National Science Foundation · Amount varies

Open to U.S. nonprofit research organizations (museums, observatories, labs, professional societies) and accredited two- and four-year higher-education institutions submitting on behalf of faculty; individual researchers cannot apply directly. Funds fundamental materials science research spanning nanoscale to macroscale phenomena, materials discovery, and characterization. International branch campuses face extra justification requirements, and no award amount or deadline is listed in this posting.