2026 Education Grant Deadlines

Upcoming education grant application deadlines for school districts, charter schools, and education nonprofits — from the U.S. Department of Education, state education agencies, and foundations — refreshed weekly. Free to use and link to.

Deadline	Grant	Award
Aug 30, 2026	Annual Program Statement for Public Diplomacy Section Fiscal Year 2026U.S. Mission to Cambodia	$5K–$25K	View →
Aug 31, 2026	Fiscal Year 2026 National Urban Search and Rescue Response SystemDepartment of Homeland Security - FEMA	$1.9M–$2.4M	View →
Sep 1, 2026	Medical Student Education Program (MSE)Health Resources and Services Administration	$1M–$1.6M	View →
Sep 1, 2026	Pathways to Enable Secure Open-Source EcosystemsU.S. National Science Foundation	Up to Varies	View →
Sep 14, 2026	FY 2026-27 Bullying and Violence in School Advocacy (XB) Program SupplementalGovernor's Office of Emergency Services	$0K–$128K	View →
Sep 15, 2026	Texas STEM Learning Network GrantsTexas Education Agency	$15K–$200K	View →
Sep 28, 2026	BRAIN Initiative: Clinical Studies to Advance Next-Generation Devices for Recording and Modulation in the Human Central Nervous System (UH3 Clinical Trial Optional)National Institutes of Health	Up to Varies	View →
Sep 28, 2026	National Cancer Institute Youth Enjoy Science Research Education Program (R25 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)National Institutes of Health	Up to $400K	View →
Sep 29, 2026	NIDCD's Mentored Research Education Pathway for Otolaryngology Residents and Medical Students (R25 - Clinical Trial Not Allowed)National Institutes of Health	Up to $500K	View →
Oct 1, 2026	IVMF at Syracuse University — Research & ProgramsInstitute for Veterans and Military Families	$50K–$300K	View →
Oct 1, 2026	Minnesota SciMathMN STEM GrantsMinnesota Department of Education / SciMathMN	$10K–$200K	View →
Oct 1, 2026	Limited Competition: Growing Great Ideas: Research Education Course in Entrepreneurship and Product Development for Researchers Studying Drug Use, Drug Misuse, and Drug Addiction (UE5 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)National Institutes of Health	Up to Varies	View →
Oct 2, 2026	Novel Experiential Technologies Assisting Individual Learning (NExT AI) Hubs (P20 Clinical Trial Optional)National Institutes of Health	Up to Varies	View →
Oct 14, 2026	Assay Validation of High Quality Markers for Clinical Studies in Cancer (UH2/UH3 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)National Institutes of Health	Up to Varies	View →
Oct 14, 2026	Assay Validation of High Quality Markers for Clinical Studies in Cancer (UH3 Clinical Trials Not Allowed)National Institutes of Health	Up to $250K	View →
Oct 15, 2026	Wisconsin STEM Education GrantsWisconsin Department of Public Instruction	$10K–$175K	View →
Oct 16, 2026	CCRP Initiative: NIH Countermeasures Against Chemical Threats (CounterACT) Basic Research on Chemical Threats that Affect the Nervous System (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)National Institutes of Health	Up to $300K	View →
Nov 6, 2026	Secondary Analysis and Integration of Existing Data to Elucidate Cancer Risk and Related Outcomes (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)National Institutes of Health	Up to $350K	View →
Nov 18, 2026	Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) Research (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)National Institutes of Health	Up to Varies	View →
Dec 31, 2026	Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program Education and Workforce DevelopmentNational Institute of Food and Agriculture	$10K–$650K	View →
Jan 7, 2027	Interventions to expand cancer screening and preventive services to ADVANCE health in populations that experience health disparities (R01, Clinical Trial Required)National Institutes of Health	Up to Varies	View →
Jan 7, 2027	Mechanisms that Impact Cancer Risk with Use of Incretin Mimetics (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)National Institutes of Health	Up to Varies	View →
Jan 7, 2027	Developing novel theory and methods for understanding the genetic architecture of complex human traits (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)National Institutes of Health	Up to Varies	View →
Jan 7, 2027	Cancer Prevention and Control Clinical Trials Grant Program (R01 Clinical Trial Required)National Institutes of Health	Up to Varies	View →
Jan 7, 2027	National Cancer Institute's Investigator-Initiated Early Phase Clinical Trials for Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis (R01 Clinical Trial Required)National Institutes of Health	Up to $500K	View →
Jan 7, 2027	Population Approaches to Reducing Alcohol-related Cancer Risk (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)National Institutes of Health	Up to Varies	View →
Jan 7, 2027	Intervention Research to Improve Native American Health (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)National Institutes of Health	Up to Varies	View →
Jan 7, 2027	Intervention Research to Improve Native American Health (R34 Clinical Trial Optional)National Institutes of Health	Up to Varies	View →
Jan 15, 2027	NOI: PROSPECT Program: Providing Opportunities for Specialized Education in Critical TechnologiesGolden Field Office	$0K–$0K	View →
Jan 15, 2027	HEAL Initiative: Studies to Enable Analgesic Discovery (R61/R33 - Clinical Trial Not Allowed)National Institutes of Health	Up to $350K	View →
Jan 15, 2027	HEAL Initiative: Studies to Enable Analgesic Discovery (R61/R33 - Clinical Trial Not Allowed)National Institutes of Health	Up to $350K	View →
Jan 27, 2027	Biomedical Research Environment and Sponsored Programs Administration Development (BRE-SPAD) Program (UC2- Clinical Trial Not Allowed)National Institutes of Health	Up to $500K	View →
Feb 8, 2027	BRAIN Initiative: Development and Validation of Novel Tools to Probe Cell-Specific and Circuit-Specific Processes in the Brain (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)National Institutes of Health	Up to Varies	View →
Feb 11, 2027	NIDA Animal Genomics Program (U01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)National Institutes of Health	Up to Varies	View →
Mar 5, 2027	Discovery of in vivo Chemical Probes for the Nervous System (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)National Institutes of Health	Up to Varies	View →
Mar 5, 2027	High Priority HIV and Substance Use Research (RM1 Clinical Trial Optional)National Institutes of Health	Up to $1.5M	View →
Apr 9, 2027	Short Courses on Innovative Methodologies and Approaches in the Behavioral and Social Sciences (R25 Clinical Trials Not Allowed)National Institutes of Health	Up to $200K	View →
May 7, 2027	Pilot Health Services and Economic Research on the Treatment of Drug, Alcohol, and Tobacco Use Disorders (R34 Clinical Trial Optional)National Institutes of Health	Up to Varies	View →
May 7, 2027	New Approaches for Measuring Brain Changes Across Longer Timespans (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)National Institutes of Health	Up to Varies	View →
May 7, 2027	New Approaches for Measuring Brain Changes Across Longer Timespans (R21 Clinical Trial Optional)National Institutes of Health	Up to Varies	View →
May 26, 2027	NIA Expanding Research in AD/ADRD (ERA) Summer Research Education Program (R25 Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed)National Institutes of Health	Up to $200K	View →
May 26, 2027	NIA Expanding Research in AD/ADRD (ERA) Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program (R25 Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed)National Institutes of Health	Up to $400K	View →
Aug 18, 2027	Blueprint Neurotherapeutics Network (BPN): Biologic-based Drug Discovery and Development for Disorders of the Nervous System (UG3/UH3 Clinical Trial Optional)National Institutes of Health	Up to Varies	View →
Sep 7, 2027	Investigator Initiated Innovation in Computational Genomics and Data Science (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)National Institutes of Health	Up to Varies	View →
Sep 7, 2027	Investigator Initiated Innovation in Computational Genomics and Data Science (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)National Institutes of Health	Up to Varies	View →
Sep 10, 2027	Integrating Biospecimen Science Approaches into Clinical Assay Development (U01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)National Institutes of Health	Up to Varies	View →
Sep 29, 2027	Research Experiences and/or Mentoring Networks through Research Education to Enhance Clinician-Scientists' Participation in NIDCDs Research (R25 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)National Institutes of Health	Up to $250K	View →
Oct 20, 2027	Innovation Grants to Nurture Initial Translational Efforts (IGNITE): Development and Validation of Model Systems to Facilitate Neurotherapeutic Discovery (R61/R33 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)National Institutes of Health	Up to Varies	View →
Oct 20, 2027	Innovation Grants to Nurture Initial Translational Efforts (IGNITE): Development and Validation of Model Systems to Facilitate Neurotherapeutic Discovery (R61/R33 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)National Institutes of Health	Up to $750K	View →
Oct 25, 2027	Cancer Prevention and Control Clinical Trials Planning Grant Program (U34 Clinical Trials Optional)National Institutes of Health	Up to Varies	View →
Nov 8, 2027	BRAIN Initiative: Theories, Models and Methods for Analysis of Complex Data from the Brain (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)National Institutes of Health	Up to Varies	View →
Nov 12, 2027	NIDA Research Education Program for Clinical Researchers and Clinicians (R25 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)National Institutes of Health	Up to $350K	View →
Nov 18, 2027	Chemical Countermeasures Research Program (CCRP) Initiative: Basic Research on The Deleterious Effects of Acute Exposure to Ultra-Potent Synthetic (UPS) Opioids (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)National Institutes of Health	Up to $300K	View →
Dec 3, 2027	Accelerating the Pace of Substance Use Research Using Existing Data (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)National Institutes of Health	Up to Varies	View →
Dec 3, 2027	Accelerating the Pace of Substance Use Research Using Existing Data (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)National Institutes of Health	Up to Varies	View →
Jan 7, 2028	Academic-Industrial Partnerships for Translation of Technologies for Diagnosis and Treatment (R01 - Clinical Trial Optional)National Institutes of Health	Up to $499K	View →
Jan 7, 2028	NIH Research Project Grant (Parent R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)National Institutes of Health	Up to Varies	View →
Jan 7, 2028	Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (R03 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)National Institutes of Health	Up to Varies	View →
Jan 7, 2028	Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (R21 Clinical Trial Optional)National Institutes of Health	Up to Varies	View →
Jan 7, 2028	Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health (R03 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)National Institutes of Health	Up to Varies	View →

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