Notices of Funding Opportunities and Awards
Featured Funding Opportunity
Washington, D.C. | August 1 2025 | Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program Foundational and Applied Science Program (USDA-NIFA-AFRI-011134) | The AFRI Foundational and Applied Science Program supports grants in six AFRI priority areas to advance knowledge in both fundamental and applied sciences important to agriculture. The six priority areas are: Plant Health and Production and Plant Products; Animal Health and Production and Animal Products; Food Safety, Nutrition, and Health; Bioenergy, Natural Resources, and Environment; Agriculture Systems and Technology; and Agriculture Economics and Rural Communities. Research-only, extension-only, and integrated research, education and/or extension projects are solicited in this Request for Applications (RFA).
The purpose of AFRI (listed in the Assistance Listings under number 10.310) is to support research, education, and extension projects that will help farmers, ranchers, foresters, and other agricultural producers address key problems of local, regional, and national importance in sustaining food and agricultural systems…In addition, the economic sustainability of food systems is an overarching priority for the projects funded in response to this RFA; therefore, projects focusing on plant or animal species or commodities that are important to small- or medium-sized farms or ranches are also welcome.
Estimated Awards: Unspecified. Total Funding: $300,000,000. Award Ceiling: $10,000,000. Closing Date: December 31 2026.
Funding Opportunities
Washington, D.C. | August 29 2025 | OVW Fiscal Year 2025 Restorative Practices Pilot Sites Program (O-OVW-2025-172290) | The Restorative Practices Pilot Sites Program is a 48-month funding opportunity seeking to support, strengthen, enhance, and expand existing restorative practice programs that prevent or address domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking, in accordance with the “restorative practices” definition at 34 U.S.C. § 12514(a)(3). Applications that fare well in merit review and substantively address one or more of the priorities listed below, to the extent consistent with the program’s authorizing statute, may receive priority consideration for funding: 1. Measures to combat human trafficking and transnational crime, particularly crimes linked to illegal immigration and cartel operations, that support safety and justice for trafficking victims who have also suffered domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and/or stalking. 2. Projects to provide victim services, especially housing, and improve law enforcement response in rural and remote areas, Tribal nations, and small towns that often lack resources to effectively combat domestic violence and sexual assault. Estimated Awards: 23. Total Funding: $23,000,000. Award Ceiling: $1,000,000. Closing Date: October 14 , 2025.
Washington, D.C. | August 27 2025 | Integrated Data Systems & Services (25-544) | The Integrated Data Systems and Services (IDSS) program 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. Through this solicitation, the IDSS program is accepting proposals for three categories of projects: Category I. Development, deployment, and operation of novel national-scale integrated data systems and services, which may include interfacing with or leveraging other existing capabilities, systems and services, as appropriate to the project; Category II. Transition of established smaller scale, regional, pilot, or prototype data-focused systems and services to national-scale production/operational quality/level. This may also include enhancement and expansion of existing national-scale data-focused operational systems and services; and Category III. Planning grants for future potential development/deployment or transition/enhancement IDSS projects. Estimated Awards: 9. Total Funding: $60,000,000. Award Ceiling: $30,000,000. Closing Date: December 4, 2025.
Washington, D.C. | August 22 2025 | NSF STEM K-12 (25-545) | The NSF STEM K-12 program encourages innovative, multidisciplinary, and potentially transformative projects that build theory, generate new knowledge, and inform education practices in a rapidly evolving technological landscape with advances in emerging technologies including artificial intelligence (AI). It supports fundamental, applied, and translational research that enhances STEM teaching and learning and across the human lifespan and in a range of formal and informal learning settings. In addition to building theory and informing practice, the program seeks projects that produce new tools and frameworks; harness exemplary formal and informal learning; and unlock new avenues of scientific inquiry and discovery in STEM education to strengthen the Nation’s standing as a global leader in STEM innovation. Estimated Awards: 40. Total Funding: $30,000,000. Award Ceiling: $750,000. Closing Date: Open Proposals Excepted Anytime.
Washington, D.C. | August 20 2025 | OVW Fiscal Year 2025 Research and Evaluation Initiative (O-OVW-2025-172399) | The purpose of the Research and Evaluation (R&E) Initiative is to study approaches to preventing and addressing domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. By studying the efficacy of strategies for serving victims and holding offenders accountable, the R&E Initiative helps communities assess their current programs and adopt proven strategies. The initiative is designed to support researcher-practitioner partnerships and a broad range of research and evaluation methods, including qualitative, mixed-method, quasi-experimental, and experimental designs. Because OVW has limited funds to support research and evaluation, this initiative prioritizes topics for which a stronger evidence base would help OVW recipients use federal funds most effectively. Estimated Awards: 7. Total Funding: $8,000,000. Award Ceiling: $5,000,000. Closing Date: September 23 2025.
Washington, D.C. | August 12 2025 | Jobs Plus NOFO for Fiscal Year 2025 (FR-6900-N-14) | The Jobs Plus program has three core components: employment related services, financial rent incentive, and community support for work (see Section III. A., Program Description). You will be expected to work with local partners to improve the program participants’ access to employment training/ skill building, financial literacy training, and direct hire job placements. Additionally, Jobs Plus is a place-based program that promotes economic self-reliance for working participants. PHA’s are expected to contact 100 percent (%) of all adults (ages 18 – 64) within the first year, to inform them about the Jobs Plus program. The Jobs Plus program should include community-wide interventions that improve the program participants’ ability to maximize the employment-related services that are available. You are expected to increase the program participants’ confidence in engaging in the local labor market to sustain positive employment outcomes beyond the grant term. Estimated Awards: 15. Total Funding: $21,600,000. Award Ceiling: $3,700,000. Closing Date: October 27 2025.
Washington, D.C. | August 12 2025 | Innovative Finance and Asset Concession (IFAC) Grant Program (DOT-OST-2025-0033) | The purpose of this notice is to solicit applications for the Innovative Finance and Asset Concession (IFAC) Grant Program (the Program). Up to $45.98 million will be awarded on a competitive basis to assist eligible public entities in facilitating and evaluating public-private partnerships and exploring opportunities for innovative financing and delivery for eligible transportation infrastructure projects, including highway, transit, passenger rail, certain freight facilities, certain port projects, rural infrastructure projects, airports, and transit-oriented development projects. This notice will award funding from Fiscal Years 2024, 2025, and 2026. Estimated Awards: Unspecified. Total Funding: $45,980,000. Award Ceiling: $2,000,000. Closing Date: October 1 2025.
Springfield, Ill. | August 5 2025 | Green Infrastructure Grant Opportunities (532-60-2388) | This Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to advise potential applicants of the availability of grant funds through the Green Infrastructure Grant Opportunities (GIGO). The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (Illinois EPA) is seeking proposals for projects to construct green infrastructure best management practices (BMPs) that prevent, eliminate, or reduce stormwater runoff, reducing localized or riverine flooding in Illinois’ rivers, streams, and lakes. Projects that implement treatment trains (multiple BMPs in series) and/or multiple BMPs within the same watershed are encouraged as they may be more effective and efficient than a single large green infrastructure BMP. BMPs may be located on public or private land. For the purposes of GIGO, Green Infrastructure means any stormwater management technique or practice employed with the primary goal to preserve, restore, mimic, or enhance natural hydrology. Green Infrastructure includes, but is not limited to, methods of using soil and vegetation to promote soil percolation, evapotranspiration, and filtering or the harvesting and reuse of precipitation. Estimated Awards: Unspecified. Total Funding: $5,000,000. Award Ceiling: $2,500,000. Closing Date: November 5 2025.
Washington, D.C. | August 5 2025 | Test Bed: Toward a Network of Programmable Cloud Laboratories (25-541) | Autonomous experimentation is poised to accelerate research and unlock critical scientific advances that bolster U.S. competitiveness and address pressing societal needs. Programmable Cloud Laboratories are able to execute automated workstreams, including self-driving lab workflows, to efficiently move research goals through artificial intelligence (AI) enabled experiment design, laboratory preparations, data collection, data analysis and interpretation. While limited-scale efforts have shown promise, versatile programmable and self-driving labs capable of addressing complex research questions with trustworthy results will require coordinated technological advances and an engaged research community. Additional challenges include the availability of automated laboratory infrastructure, standardized approaches to data collection for interoperability, advances in AI for data interpretation and experimental design, and more. This solicitation aims to address such gaps and realize the potential of autonomous experimentation. The Test Bed: Toward a Network of Programmable Cloud Laboratories (PCL Test Bed) program seeks to establish and facilitate the operation of distributed autonomous laboratory facilities. These laboratories will combine technological and human capacity to enable integration, testing, evaluation, validation, and translation of cutting-edge technology solutions in automated science and engineering. Estimated Awards: 6. Total Funding: $100,000,000. Award Ceiling: $20,000,000. Closing Date: November 20 2025.
Washington, D.C. | August 5 2025 | Midsize and Large Drinking Water System Infrastructure Resilience and Sustainability Program (EPA-OW-OGWDW-25-01) | The Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) section 1459F authorizes the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish the Midsize and Large Drinking Water System Infrastructure Resilience and Sustainability Program. This grant program assists medium and large size public water systems with protecting drinking water sources from natural hazards, extreme weather events, and cybersecurity threats. Eligible applicants for this grant program include public water systems that serve a population of 10,000 people or more. Projects or programs that may be funded through this opportunity are those which aim to increase the resilience of a water system to natural hazards, extreme weather events, or reduce cybersecurity threats. Estimated Awards: 6. Total Funding: $9,500,000. Award Ceiling: $2,375,000. Closing Date: October 6 2025.
Springfield, Ill. | August 1 2025 | Safe Routes to School Program (494-00-1002) | Safe Routes to School (SRTS) was originally established as a stand-alone Federal-Aid program in August 2005 through the passage of SAFETEA-LU, the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users. The Illinois Safe Routes to School Program is administered by the Illinois Department of Transportation. SRTS uses a multidisciplinary approach to improve conditions for students who walk or bike to school. The program has three main goals: 1) to enable and encourage children, including those with disabilities, to walk and bicycle to school, 2) to make bicycling and walking to school a safer and more appealing transportation alternative, thereby encouraging a healthy and active lifestyle from an early age, and 3) to facilitate the planning, development, and implementation of projects and activities that will improve safety and reduce traffic, fuel consumption, and air pollution in the vicinity (within 2 miles) of both public and private primary, middle schools, and high schools (grades K-12). These goals are achieved through providing 100% reimbursable funding for Infrastructure and Non-infrastructure projects. Estimated Awards: Unspecified. Total Funding: $250,000. Award Ceiling: $12,000,000. Closing Date: October 15 2025.
Grant Awards
Springfield, Ill. | August 26 2025 | Blue States That Sued Kept Most CDC Grants, While Red States Feel Brunt of Trump Clawbacks | The Trump administration’s cuts to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention funding for state and local health departments had vastly uneven effects depending on the political leanings of a state, according to a KFF Health News analysis. Democratic-led states and select blue-leaning cities fought back in court and saw money for public health efforts restored — while GOP-led states sustained big losses. The Department of Health and Human Services in late March canceled nearly 700 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention grants nationwide — together worth about $11 billion. Awarded during the covid-19 pandemic, they supported efforts to vaccinate people, reduce health disparities among demographic groups, upgrade antiquated systems for detecting infectious disease outbreaks, and hire community health workers. Initially, grant cancellations hit blue and red states roughly evenly. Four of the five jurisdictions with the largest number of terminated grants were led by Democrats: California, the District of Columbia, Illinois, and Massachusetts. But after attorneys general and governors from about two dozen blue states sued in federal court and won an injunction, the balance flipped. Of the five states with the most canceled grants, four are led by Republicans: Texas, Georgia, Oklahoma, and Ohio.
Evanston, Ill. | August 30 2025 |City [of Evanston] wins $10 million federal grant for Chicago Avenue overhaul | Plans to overhaul Chicago Avenue with a protected bike lane and other upgrades are getting a big federal boost, as the city has secured $10.06 million for the project from the U.S. Department of Transportation. A map of proposed upgrades to the Chicago Avenue business corridor. The Chicago Avenue Multimodal Corridor Improvements Project has been in the works since 2020, and consultant A. Epstein & Sons is currently completing the second of three phases of pre-construction engineering. The project will extend the street’s existing two-way bike lane that ends at Davis by 1.9 miles to the city’s border with Chicago, as well as upgrade the roadway itself and surrounding infrastructure like traffic signals, bus stops, sidewalks and crosswalks.
Peoria, Ill. | August 29 2025 | New federal funding is flying to Peoria International Airport | New federal funding for Illinois airports was just announced, but it’s not headed to O’Hare or Midway. A total of $8,293,999 from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration is going to Central Illinois, and a huge piece of that pie is for Peoria International Airport. PIA will get $7,640,698 to update taxiways where planes prepare to take off. The funding will go towards the taxiway near Dirksen Parkway and Smithville Road, but it’s not to patch up potholes like you might see on regular streets. Airport taxiways require high standards, because bumps in the road can be devastating.
Springfield, Ill. | August 26 2025 | Governor Pritzker Announces Record-Breaking Tourism Achievements in 2024 | Today, Governor JB Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity’s (DCEO) Office of Tourism announced that Illinois welcomed 113 million domestic and international visitors who spent a record $48.5 billion in 2024 – an increase of 500,000 visitors and $1.3 billion in spending from 2023, according to data provided by Tourism Economics. This tourism surge also led to a new all-time high in hotel tax revenue figures in FY25, totaling $367 million – a 14% increase over the previous record set in FY24. Illinois made significant investments in the travel and tourism industry in FY25, including $7.3 million in grants to 47 entities across the state through Route 66 grants to support projects along Route 66 ahead of the Route 66 centennial in 2026, Tourism Private Sector grants to support new, expanded, or enhanced events and festivals, International Tourism grants to boost international travel, and Tourism Attractions grants to develop or improve tourism attractions in Illinois. DCEO also funded a new $15 million tourism incentive grant program in FY24 to attract new events to the state, including the IRONMAN 70.3 triathlon moving to Rockford for the first time in Illinois history, the 2026 American Hockey League All-Star Classic being hosted by the Rockford IceHogs, and thousands of key international travel buyers and media coming to Chicago for U.S. Travel Association’s IPW 2025 – the largest inbound travel show in the nation.
Springfield, Ill. | n.d. | Illinois halts food programs after Trump administration cuts funding | The Illinois Department of Agriculture announced that two programs were being discontinued after the Trump administration cut funding for the programs. According to the IDOA, the Local Food Purchase Assistance Program (LFPA) and the Resilient Food Systems Infrastructure Program (RFSI) would be shut down. Funded through the American Rescue Plan, the LFPA reimbursed local governments for buying food from farmers and distributing it, via food pantries, at no cost. More than 170 farmers have supplied food to 883 locations through the supported Illinois-EATS program. The USDA approved $43 million for Illinois to fund the program for several years, starting in 2022, but the state is still missing $17.8 million, according to the IDOA.
Chicago, Ill. | August 20 2025 | Midway International Airport to receive nearly $35 million for modernization, safety upgrades | Midway International Airport will receive nearly $35 million in federal grant money to modernize and improve safety. U.S. Rep. Jesús Chuy García (D-Illinois) announced the $34,989,773 grant on Wednesday. It was awarded by the Federal Aviation Administration. Specifically, the money will go toward repairing and maintaining runways and taxiways to ensure the airport operates safely, efficiently, and reliably.
Springfield, Ill. | August 20 20205 | ICJIA Release 2025-2029 Statewide Violence Prevention Plan | The Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority (ICJIA) today announced the release of the 2025-2029 Statewide Violence Prevention Plan. The 2025-2029 Statewide Violence Prevention Plan serves as a framework for grantmaking that can create more resilient, safe, and thriving communities. The plan supports the Governor’s goals of breaking the cycles of violence caused by years of failed criminal justice policies, overincarceration, and economic disinvestment in minority communities.
Chicago, Ill. | August 19 2025 | 14 Chicago Small Businesses Named NOF Grant Finalists | Fourteen small businesses and organizations across Chicago have been named finalists for the latest round of Neighborhood Opportunity Fund (NOF) grants, with nearly $1.9 million set to be awarded. The announcement came from Mayor Brandon Johnson, who emphasized the critical role of local entrepreneurs in strengthening city neighborhoods…Individual grants range from $47,540 to $250,000 and will fund projects worth an estimated $2.8 million in total. Among the recipients are Wagner’s Bakery Inc., a Lower West Side establishment operating for over a century; the GCYC Food Sovereignty Hub in Greater Grand Crossing; and DLV Printing Service in Austin. Other recipients include restaurants, retailers, service providers, and cultural organizations throughout the West, Southwest, and South Side commercial corridors.
Chicago, Ill. | August 18 2025 | University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering hopes grant will help foster domestic chip manufacturing | The University of Chicago announced Monday that it has received a $3 million grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation to help facilitate the growth of American semiconductor and chip design and manufacturing. The NSF Advanced Chip Enablement (ACE-3D) Chip Design Hub will be based at the University of Chicago as part of the NSF Chip Design Hub Program — which awards grants for education, training, and infrastructure for semiconductor and chip design. Farah Fahim, a senior scientist at the UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering and the microelectronics division director at Fermilab, explained in a news release that the U.S. has a robust domestic chip design innovation program, but falls behind in manufacturing.
Springfield, Ill. | August 18 2025 | Illinois Sues Trump Administration for Access to Crime Victim Funding | Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced Monday that he has joined a multistate lawsuit seeking to block the Trump administration from withholding federal funding to support crime victims in Illinois due to the state’s policy on immigration. The lawsuit is one of 35 such suits challenging Trump administration policies that Raoul has joined as part of a coalition of Democratic state attorneys general. That’s an average of more than one suit per week since Trump resumed office on Jan. 20.
Cook County, Ill. | August 15 2025 | County announces $8.27M in grant funding for nearly three dozen transportation projects | Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle and the county Department of Transportation and Highways on Thursday announced $8.27 million in grant funding would be awarded to multiple organizations through the Invest in Cook program to fund myriad transportation projects. The funding will be used toward 32 projects — including four transit, eight pedestrian, six bicycle, one freight and 13 road projects, according to the county. Funding is going to 26 municipalities, three transit agencies, two park districts and one township, the county also said.
Chicago, Ill. | August 14 2025 | Mayor Brandon Johnson Announces 14 Neighborhood Opportunity Fund Grant Awards | A century-old Lower West Side bakery, a Greater Grand Crossing urban farm, and an Austin print shop are among 14 finalists for Neighborhood Opportunity Fund (NOF) grants totaling nearly $1.9 million, Mayor Brandon Johnson announced today. “On behalf of my administration, I am proud to support the local businesses and entrepreneurs who are driving the revitalization of our communities,” said Mayor Johnson. “The NOF grant program is a down-payment on a safer, more affordable, and thriving future for all of Chicago. I applaud the grant recipients on taking this step and look forward to seeing them grow, create jobs, and inspire the next generation of community leaders.” Ranging from $47,540 to $250,000, the grants are supporting neighborhood improvement projects totaling approximately $2.8 million.
Springfield, Ill. | August 14 2025 | Hastings announces $1 million Rebuild Illinois Grant to support Road Home Program at Rush Hospital | State Senator Michael E. Hastings joined fellow Senators Patrick Joyce, Paul Faraci, Meg Loughran Cappel, Michael Porfirio and Michael Halpin for a visit to Rush University Medical Center’s acclaimed Road Home Program, announcing a $1 million investment through the Rebuild Illinois Program administered by the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity. The grant will be used to expand services that provide critical mental health and transitional support to returning veterans and their families. The Road Home Program—nationally recognized for its innovative approach to treating post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury, and other challenges veterans face—offers specialized, no-cost care to military members and their loved ones.
Washington, D.C. | August 8 2025 | Trump executive order gives politicians control over all federal grants, alarming researchers | An executive order signed by President Donald Trump late Thursday aims to give political appointees power over the billions of dollars in grants awarded by federal agencies. Scientists say it threatens to undermine the process that has helped make the U.S. the world leader in research and development. The order requires all federal agencies, including FEMA, the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, to appoint officials responsible for reviewing federal funding opportunities and grants, so that they “are consistent with agency priorities and the national interest.” It also requires agencies to make it so that current and future federal grants can be terminated at any time — including during the grant period itself.
Chicago, Ill. | August 6 2025 | City of Chicago Announces Record Expansion of Individual Artists Program Grants | The City of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) announced a record expansion of its Individual Artists Program (IAP), underscoring the City’s deepening commitment to creative equity and artist support across all neighborhoods. This year’s awards represent a significant increase in support from grantees funded in 2024 with nearly 250 grantees for 2025, reflecting the City’s ongoing investment in its creative community and its belief that artists are essential to civic life, community well-being and economic vitality.
Springfield, Ill. | August 5 2025 | East St. Louis Included: Illinois EPA Awards Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Program Funding | Today, the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (Illinois EPA) announced $983,750 in grant funding has been awarded to four grantees through the Illinois Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) Program. The Illinois EECBG Program supports municipalities and counties with the development of strategic energy or climate action plans, as well as energy efficiency audits and publicly owned building upgrades. Illinois’ EECBG program was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA).
Springfield, Ill. | August 4 2025 | Illinois State Police awards $1M in firearm enforcement grants to 21 agencies | The Illinois State Police (ISP) has announced the allocation of $1 million in firearm enforcement grants to 21 law enforcement agencies throughout the state. This initiative marks the fourth round of funding aimed at bolstering enforcement efforts against individuals legally prohibited from possessing firearms.
Springfield, Ill. | August 2 2025 | Pritzker Administration Announces Economic Development Grant
to Local Community | Today, Governor Pritzker and the Department of Commerce & Economic Opportunity (DCEO) announced that the City of Mattoon will receive an Economic Development grant for $480,000 from the Community Development Block Grant Program (CDBG). The grant will be used to construct a road that will serve employees at Health Care Services Corporation (HCSC). Headquartered in Chicago, Health Care Service Corporation (“HCSC”) is a Mutual Legal reserve Company and is the largest customer-owned health insurer in the nation. The company currently employs 194 in Mattoon, and is building a new two-story, 50,000 square foot call center.
Post will be updated until the end of the month | Final update: August 31, 2025.
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