How to Find Funding
Internal Funding Opportunities
Programs Not Administered by ORSP
Open Access Agreements & APC Waivers
OhioLINK has open-access (OA) publishing agreements with a number of publishers. This allows UToledo-affiliated authors to publish open access articles without paying Article Processing Charges (APCs).
Faculty Professional Development Fund
This program provides financial support for conference travel and professional engagement when departmental resources are limited—helping faculty grow, connect, and lead in their fields.
External Funding Opportunities
InfoEd Global's SPINPlus
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USA.gov
An A-Z index of U.S. government departments and agencies.
Grants.gov
Search for federal announcements, retrieve guidelines and instructions, and obtain application packages. Then sign up for automated notification of postings.
Instructions for setting up a Grants.gov account and using the Workspace tool.
Research.gov
The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) centralized online platform for managing research grants and related activities. It provides a secure, user-friendly environment for researchers, institutions, and the public.
Ohio Humanities
Funding available through Ohio Humanities with guidelines and sample applications.
The Ohio Grants Partnership
State of Ohio's funding opportunities.
UToledo Lib Guides
UToledo librarians have created a number of library guides (Lib Guides) to share information. The linked Lib Guide focuses on finding funding resources.
Limited Submissions
A limited submission refers to a funding opportunity that places a limitation on the number of proposal or other applications a single eligible entity can submit each cycle. The University of Toledo has an internal selection process in place to determine which application(s) will be submitted to sponsors for consideration. The Office of Research oversees this process for the institution.
Contact LimitedSubmits@UToledo.Edu with questions.
Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI) | NSF - U.S. National Science Foundation
Internal Application Due: Second Wednesday of August
Current Funding Opportunities
Renewable Resource Extension Act National Focus Fund Projects
To enhance the longevity of U.S. forest and rangeland resources and enable landowners
and managers to achieve their desired goals and objectives by making relevant scientific
results available.
Due Date: June 8, 2026
National Institute for Health Care Management (NIHCM) Foundation - Policy Research
Grants
Supports innovative, solutions-oriented, investigator-initiated policy research that
builds the evidence base and has the potential to inform strategies that improve the
affordability, accessibility, and quality of health care in the US.
LOI Due Date: June 8, 2026
ADDF-Harrington Scholar Award
Supports of the administration of the High School Equivalency Program (HEP). The purpose
of HEP is to assist migratory or seasonal farmworkers (or immediate family members
of such workers) to obtain the equivalent of a secondary school diploma and subsequently
to gain improved employment, enter military service, or be placed in an institution
of higher education (IHE) or other postsecondary education or training, which includes
Registered Apprenticeships.
Due: June 12, 2026
Specialty Crop Research Initiative
Manufacturing in America E2G Grant Initiative
Provides $5 million each to organizations that deliver hands-on manufacturing training
and technical assistance to small manufacturing businesses across the United States.
Due Date: June 15, 2026
SAMHSA - Community Programs for Outreach and Intervention with Youth and Young Adults
at Clinical High Risk for Psychosis
Supports community-based programs that identify youth and young adults (up to age
25) who are at clinical high risk for psychosis and provide evidence-based interventions
to prevent onset or reduce severity of psychotic disorders. It prioritizes early identification
and targeted mental health services to improve outcomes and reduce progression to
more serious illness.
Due: June 15, 2026
TechAccess: AI Ready America
Supports a coordinated national network of state and territorial hubs, partnerships
and pilot initiatives that expand AI literacy, workforce skills and real-world adoption
— helping communities, businesses and governments effectively use and benefit from
AI.
LOI Due: June 16, 2026
Harrington Scholar-Innovator Award for Physician-Scientists
Supports physician-scientists developing breakthrough discoveries with the potential
to advance new treatments and improve the standard of care. Specifically seeks innovative,
clinically impactful therapeutic projects - such as small molecules, biologics, or
related modalities - that address unmet medical needs and can be translated toward
commercialization and clinical application.
Due Date: June 22, 2026
This opportunity funds non‑incremental, solutions‑oriented Alzheimer’s disease research that addresses key barriers to diagnosis, disease monitoring, and prognosis (e.g., improved diagnostic approaches or meaningful biomarkers), with an emphasis on transformative impact rather than incremental advances.
LOI Due: June 22, 2026
Due: September 24, 2026
DOEd - Promise Neighborhoods (PN) Program
Supports of the administration of the Promise Neighborhoods (PN). The purpose of the
PN program is to significantly improve the academic and developmental outcomes of
children and youth living in the most distressed communities of the United States,
including ensuring school readiness, high school graduation, and access to a community-based
continuum of high-quality services.
Due: June 22, 2026
Department of Labor TQP program is explicitly designed for institutions of higher education (IHEs) working in partnership with high‑need school districts and educational agencies.
Due Date: June 23, 2026
Rural Postsecondary and Economic Development Grant Program
Virtual-Integrated Twin for Autonomous Lifesaving (VITAL)
Soliciting innovative approaches to address challenges in developing continuously
updating digital twin models of the cardiovascular system that combine patient data
with biological physics to simulate in real time possible interventions and to predict
their outcomes before actual intervention on a patient.
Due Date: June 25, 2026
NAWCA 2026 US Small Grants
Promotea partnerships between public agencies and groups interested in:Protecting,
improving, restoring, and managing an appropriate distribution and a variety of wetland
ecosystems and other habitats for wetland-associated migratory birds and other fish
and wildlife in the U.S.;Maintaining and improving the current distribution of wetlands-associated
migratory bird populations; andMaintaining an abundance of waterfowl (ducks, geese,
and swans) and other populations of wetlands-associated migratory birds consistent
with the objectives of the North American Waterfowl Management Plan, U.S. Shorebird
Conservation Plan, Partners in Flight Bird Conservation Plan, and state related plans.
Due Date: June 25, 2026
NEH - Landmarks of American History and Culture
Supports a series of one-week residential, virtual, and combined format workshops
across the nation to enhance how K-12 educators and higher education faculty and humanities
professionals incorporate place-based approaches to humanities teaching and scholarship.
Due Date: June 25, 2026
NEH - Media Projects
Supports the development, production, and distribution of radio programs, podcasts,
documentary films, and documentary film series that engage general audiences with
humanities ideas in creative and appealing ways.
Due Date: June 25, 2026
USDA & NIFA - Rural Health and Safety Education Competitive Grants Program
Seeks proposals that address the needs of rural Americans by providing individual and family health education
programs.
Due Date: June 28, 2026
Postsecondary Student Success Grant
Due: June 29, 2026
Great Lakes Biology Monitoring Program: Phytoplankton and Chlorophyll-a Components
Seeking entities capable of analyzing phytoplankton community abundance and composition and chlorophyll-a
concentrations in water samples.
Due Date: June 30, 2026
Funds advanced telecommunications technologies to improve education and healthcare
access in rural communities.
Due Date: June 30, 2026
USDA- Distance Learning and Telemedicine Grant Program
Provides funding to help rural communities expand access to education and healthcare
by using advanced telecommunications technologies. Funds support the purchase and use of equipment, software, and related technologies—such
as video conferencing, network infrastructure, and instructional programming—that
enable distance learning and telemedicine services for students, educators, healthcare
providers, and rural residents.
Due: June 30, 2026
NSF - Professional Formation of Engineers (PFE)
Supports projects in the ENGINEER program relating to future and current engineers’ training and education in many contexts, including formal classrooms, informal maker spaces, clubs and co-curricular activities, and workplaces.
NIH - Early-Stage Development of Informatics Technologies for Cancer Research and Management
Supports the early-stage development of innovative informatics technologies that improve
how cancer research data are collected, managed, analyzed, and shared across the research
continuum. It focuses on creating or significantly enhancing tools - from prototyping
through initial dissemination - have have strong potential to advance discovery, clinical,
and population-based cancer research.
Due: July 1, 2026
NIH - Limited Competition: Instrumentation Grant Program for Resource-Limited Institutions
Support the purchase of modern, high-end scientific instrumentation to strengthen
biomedical research capacity and education at resource-limited institutions.
Due: July 2, 2026
NSF - X-Labs Initiative
American History and Civics National Activities
Promotes new and existing evidence-based strategies to encourage innovative American
history, civics and government, and geography instruction, learning strategies, and
professional development activities and programs for teachers, principals, or other
school leaders
Due: July 13, 2026Due: July 13, 2026
ROSES25: F.5 Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology
Solicits proposals for graduate student-designed and performed research projects that contribute to the Science Mission Directorate's (SMD) science, technology, and exploration goals. The Future Investigator (FI), i.e., the student, shall have the primary initiative to define the proposed FINESST research project and must be the primary author, with input or supervision from the proposal's Principal Investigator (PI), as appropriate.
NSF - TechAccess: AI-Ready America
A national-scale initiative to accelerate Artificial Intelligence (AI) readiness and
adoption across the U.S. by strengthening coordination, leveraging partnerships and
resources, filling gaps, and scaling what works—so local and state priorities can
lead in shaping an AI-driven economy that benefits all Americans.
Due Date: Jul 16, 2026
Critical Minerals and Materials (CMM) Accelerator Notice of Funding Opportunity
Aims to support collaborative industry partnerships to prototype and pilot innovative
processing technologies that are currently only proven at the bench scale to address
CMM challenges in high impact areas.
Due Date: July 20, 2026
DOE - Robotics and Automation Testbeds for Autonomous Scientific Discovery
Invest in single-faceted, computer-science-driven thrusts that integrate embodied
robotics with advanced computing, such as, edge and high-performance computing (HPC),
artificial intelligence (AI), and scientific instruments, to enable reusable, interoperable
platforms for training, evaluation, and deployment of autonomous experimental workflows.
Due: July 24, 2026
Autism Career Development Award
Supports early-career investigators in establishing independent research programs
focused on autism-related science. It provides structured mentorship and funding to
help researchers advance their training, generate preliminary data, and build a trajectory
toward sustained research in the autism field
Due: July 27, 2026
Autism Clinical Trial Award
Funding clinical trials that rapidly test promising interventions for autism, including
new therapies, technologies, or approaches to improve treatment or management of the
condition. It supports projects ranging from early feasibility studies to larger trials
evaluating effectiveness in real-world patient populations, with an emphasis on strong
community collaboration.
Due: July 27, 2026
Integrated Data Systems & Services
Supports operations-level national-scale cyberinfrastructure systems and services
that broadly advance and facilitate open, data-intensive and artificial intelligence-driven
science and engineering research, innovation, and education.
Due Date: July 28, 2026
NASA - Research Initiation Awards
Funding early-stage research prjoects in space and Earth sciences that help investigators
launch new research programs aligned with NASA Science Mission Directorate priorities.
It specifically aims to expand participation by supporting researchers with limited
recent federal funding and engaging undergraduate students in cutting-edge, NASA-relevant
research activities.
Due: August 18, 2026
NIH Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase IIB Strategic Breakthrough Award
Due: September 5, 2026
Computer and Information Science and Engineering : Future Computing Research (Future CoRe)
Supports foundational and interdisciplinary research across all aspects of computing,
communication and information science and engineering to advance the future of technology,
systems and human-centered innovation.
Due: September 10, 2026
Cyber-Physical System Foundations and Connected Communities (CPS)
Supports foundational and community-driven research that integrates computation, physical
systems and human interaction to create reliable, resilient cyber-physical systems
that enhance quality of life and community well-being.
Due: Second Thursday in September or First Thursday in February
NIH - Limited Competition: Superfund Hazardous Substance Research and Training Program
Funds interdisciplinary research centers integrating biomedical, environmental science,
and engineering projects to study hazardous substances. It emphasizes solution-oriented
research and training to better detect, assess, and reduce humand and environmental
risks associated with toxic exposures.
Due: September 25, 2026
NIH Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) (R25 - Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
This opportunity funds projects that support biomedical research education for pre‑K–12
audiences to increase understanding of biomedical science and stimulate interest in
STEM careers.
Due Date: September 25, 2026
FWS - Coastal Program FY26
Supporots projects that protect, restore, and enhance coastal habitats and ecosystems,
with a focus on conserving natural resources and improving ecological resilience.
It priorities collaborative, on-the-ground conservation efforts that benefit fish
and wildlife habitats while supporting coastal communities and partners.
Due: September 30, 2026
Partners for Fish and Wildlife FY26
Helps private landowners restore and protect habitats for fish and wildlife. It offers
both technical assistance and financial support, mainly through cooperative agreements.The
PFW Program has approximately 220 staff working in all 50 states and territories.
They work together with project partners and stakeholders to find key areas for conservation
and set habitat goals.
Due Date: September 30, 2026
NIH - Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA) for Early Stage Investigators
(ESI) (R35 - Clinical Trial Optional)
Supports research in an early stage investigator's laboratory that falls within the mission of NIGMS.
Due: October 2, 2026
Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Program (PRCRP) Idea Award
Funds innovative, untested, high‑risk/high‑reward cancer research projects (including
basic research) that demonstrate strong scientific rationale and creative thinking.
Due Date: October 5, 2026
Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Program (PRCRP) Impact Award
Funds mature cancer research projects with strong preliminary data that are expected
to have a near‑term impact on clinical cancer care, including clinical trials, within
designated DoD cancer topic areas.
Due: October 5, 2026
Mathematical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence (MFAI)
Supports research collaborations between mathematicians, statisticians, computer scientists,
engineers and social behavior scientists to establish innovative and principled design
and analysis approaches for AI technology.
Due: October 9, 2026
Advancing Research on Empirically-Supported Interventions for Older Adults Living
with Serious Mental Illness (SMI)
Funding research that improves how evidence-based mental health interventions are
adapted, delivered, and sustained for older adults living with serious mental illness
(SMI). It supports studies that enhance treatment effectiveness, access to care, and
coordination across health systems to improve outcomes for aging populations.
Due: October 15, 2026