Small Business Grants
Grants and funding opportunities for small businesses, startups, and entrepreneurs.
Get Grants for Chemical Process Innovation & Sustainable Manufacturing
This program funds research to revolutionize chemical reactions, optimize processes, and develop sustainable manufacturing techniques, including green products and energy-efficient technologies. Businesses focused on chemical engineering, advanced materials, and sustainable practices can apply for support to advance their innovative solutions.
Unlock Funding for Process Innovation & Efficiency
This grant supports businesses focused on fundamental research to improve chemical and biochemical processes through advanced interfacial engineering. Funding is available for developing new approaches to separations, surface interactions, and nanoconfinement for greater efficiency and resource utilization.
Unlock Funding for Advanced Manufacturing & Energy Research
This grant supports foundational research into how tiny particles and multiple substances interact, aiming to drive innovation in areas like advanced manufacturing and energy. Businesses focused on developing new materials, improving energy systems, or creating biotech solutions can apply for funding to advance their scientific understanding and potential applications.
Unlock Math Research Funding for Your Business!
Are you an organization focused on advancing mathematical sciences research? This grant supports structured training groups involving undergraduates through postdocs to build a stronger pipeline of talent for academia, government, and industry.
Unlock Funds for Endangered Language Tech & Research
This joint NSF/NEH program offers grants to develop technology and infrastructure for documenting and preserving endangered languages. Businesses and researchers can receive funding for fieldwork, data archiving, and creating essential linguistic resources like lexicons and grammars.
Get NSF Funding for Learning Science Research
This NSF program supports groundbreaking research into how learning happens across humans, animals, and machines. Businesses can partner to drive innovation, develop new technologies, and advance educational solutions.
NIH Grant: Fund Oral Cancer Research & Innovation
Small businesses focused on oral cancer research can access funding to explore the cellular and molecular properties of oral Cancer Initiating Cells (CICs) and their environments. This grant supports the development of innovative translational research in this critical area.
Fund Your Earth Science Research & Innovation
If your business conducts cutting-edge research in Earth's formation, mineralogy, or volcanology, this grant can fund your innovative projects and analytical tool development. It's designed for businesses pushing the boundaries of petrology and geochemistry, fostering scientific advancement.
NSF Grants: Fund Your Socio-Environmental Research
This NSF program funds interdisciplinary research into the intricate links between human and natural systems. Businesses and researchers can receive support to analyze the dynamics of both natural and human components and their mutual impacts.
Grant: Boost Your Business with National Park Service Funding!
Are you a business owner looking to partner with the National Park Service on conservation projects? This opportunity offers funding for research and management initiatives to support vital ecosystems.
Get Funding for Sustainable Business Innovation
This program offers grants to businesses and researchers focused on developing innovative, environmentally friendly products and processes. Fund your next breakthrough in sustainable materials, energy, and manufacturing to drive economic growth and protect the planet.
Unlock Research Funding: Geography & Human-Environment Science
This program funds basic scientific research on human activity and environmental processes, supporting projects that advance geographical theory and methods with broad societal benefits. Businesses conducting theory-driven, generalizable research in geographical and spatial sciences are encouraged to apply.
Get Funding for Early-Career Tech Research
Early-career academics and researchers at non-R1 institutions can get startup funding to launch their computing research careers. This grant supports PI salary, postdocs, travel, and equipment to foster innovation.
Fund Your Smart City Infrastructure Projects!
This NSF program offers funding for innovative research in designing, operating, and managing smart, sustainable, and resilient civil infrastructure systems. Businesses focused on system integration, big data, and socio-technological connections can apply to transform communities.
Get NSF Funding: Boost STEM Research & Business Growth
Is your business located in an EPSCoR-eligible jurisdiction and focused on STEM innovation? This NSF program offers funding to build research infrastructure, develop a skilled workforce, and foster industry partnerships to drive R&D competitiveness and create sustainable growth.
Fund Your Tech Innovations: Grants for Energy & Networks
This grant supports researchers and businesses developing advanced cyber-physical systems for energy, power, control, and networks, driving innovation in areas like renewable energy integration and smart grids. Funding is available for cutting-edge research into stability, performance, robustness, and security of these critical systems.
NASA Grants for Aviation Innovation: Get Funding!
NASA is seeking groundbreaking research proposals to advance aviation safety, air traffic management, and flight technologies across all speed regimes and atmospheres. Businesses can receive funding to develop cutting-edge solutions that will shape the future of air transportation.
Unlock Funding for Disease Transmission Research
This grant from the National Science Foundation supports interdisciplinary research focused on understanding the ecological and evolutionary factors driving infectious disease transmission. Businesses and research institutions can receive funding to develop quantitative models and uncover principles for predicting and controlling the spread of diseases across various host species and environments.
Fund Your Solar Research & Innovation
Are you a researcher or business focused on solar energy and its impact on Earth? This grant from the NSF can fund your groundbreaking work in understanding solar processes and their effects, driving innovation in space weather and energy.
Grant for Infectious Disease Research Funding
This grant funds interdisciplinary research to understand and predict infectious disease transmission dynamics across all host species and environments. Businesses and researchers focused on quantitative or computational modeling of pathogen spread, particularly in Low- or Middle-Income Countries or agricultural systems, are encouraged to apply.