Deadline: May 7, 2026
Award Amount: Unspecified
Match: None
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Businesses, Nonprofits, and Education
Description: This Trailblazer Award is an opportunity for NIH-defined New and Early Stage Investigators to pursue research programs that integrate engineering and the physical sciences with the life and/or biomedical sciences. A Trailblazer project may be exploratory, developmental, proof of concept, or high risk-high impact, and may be technology design-directed, discovery-driven, or hypothesis-driven.

Deadline: May 8, 2026
Award Amount: $1,000 to $25,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Higher Education, and Nonprofits
Description: The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990 authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to make grants to museums, Indian Tribes, and Native Hawaiian organizations for the purposes of assisting in consultation, documentation, and repatriation of Native American human remains, funerary objects, sacred objects, and objects of cultural patrimony (25 U.S.C. 3008). NAGPRA Repatriation grants assist museums, Indian Tribes, and NHOs to defray costs associated with the packaging, transportation, contamination removal, reburial, and/or storage of NAGPRA human remains or cultural items. Project activities may include, but are not limited to: Travel, Transportation, Testing or decontamination, Building containers for transport, Ceremonial materials, or Staff time. See Program Overview for more details on project activities.

Deadline: Open January 1-June 15, 2026
Award Amount: $5,000.00
Match: None
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County, or Tribal Governments, Nonprofits, and Arts/Creatives
Description: Applicants must have received an NM Arts Awards in FY25. This grant supports organizations in developing a local, arts-based planning process aimed at improving individual and community well-being through enhanced social connectedness and belonging. The process focuses on engaging underserved populations and preparing organizations for future implementation and funding opportunities.

Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: Unspecified
Match: None
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Higher, Nonprofits, and Small Businesses
Description: The NSF Division of Environmental Biology (DEB) funds research and training in ecological and evolutionary biology. It supports projects investigating processes at levels from populations and species up to ecosystems and biogeographic scales. Funded work may include field, laboratory, or modeling studies, and interdisciplinary proposals crossing levels of organization or temporal/spatial scales are encouraged.

Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: 65% discount on eligible broadband connectivity expenses for eligible rural health care providers (HCPs)
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Nonprofits, Higher Education, State, City, Township, County or Tribal Health Department/Agency
Description: The Healthcare Connect Fund (HCF) Program provides a 65% discount on eligible broadband connectivity expenses for eligible rural health care providers (HCPs). You can apply as an individual health care provider or as a consortium, i.e., a group of HCPs that can be both rural and non-rural.

Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $15,000 to $25,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Fire, and Public Safety
Description: Provides financial, equipment, and training assistance to firefighters, police officers, and EMTs to enhance their safety and effectiveness. It also supports the mental wellness of first responders, offers home modifications for severely wounded personnel, and provides aid to families of fallen heroes. The program’s goal is to ensure first responders and their families have the resources and support they need to serve their communities.

Deadline: Applications accepted as long as funds available.
Award Amount: Unspecified
Match: None
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments and Nonprofits
Description: The RHP supports individuals in recovery on their path to self-sufficiency by providing stable housing and recovery services. Specifically, it funds the development or maintenance of housing and related support for those impacted by substance use disorders.

Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: Unspecified
Match: None
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Higher Education, and Nonprofits
Description: Supports fundamental, applied, and translational research to advance STEM teaching and learning in both formal (pre-K–12) and informal settings, encouraging innovative, multidisciplinary projects that leverage emerging technologies like AI to develop tools, frameworks, and new insights in STEM education.

Deadline: December 31, 2026
Award Amount: $10,000 to $10,000,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Land Grant Institutions, Hispanic Serving Institutions, Nonprofits, and Businesses
Description: 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.

Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $100,000 to $30,000,000
Match: Yes
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Nonprofits, Businesses, and Higher Education
Description: Provides funding to support economic development initiatives in distressed communities. These programs aim to enhance infrastructure, promote resilience, and foster job creation through investments in public works and economic adjustment projects. Priority is given to projects that align with EDA’s investment priorities, including equity, workforce development, and environmentally sustainable development.

Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $50,000 to $600,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Higher Education, Nonprofits, and Business
Description: The Cyberinfrastructure for Public Access and Open Science, (CIPAOS) program within the Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) aims to catalyze new and transformative socio-technical partnerships supporting research data infrastructure ecosystems across domains through early-stage collaborative activities between cyberinfrastructure researchers, scientists, research computing experts, data management experts, research labs, university libraries, and other communities of practice. The CI PAOS program supports the NSF Public Access Initiative by encouraging innovation across the CI ecosystem to address accessibility, discoverability, reliability, reproducibility, sustainability, and utility of data products in alignment with NSF and national goals for public access and open science.

Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: Unspecified
Match: None
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Higher Education, Nonprofits, and Small Businesses
Description: The Life and Environments Through Time (LET) program supports research that advances knowledge about the patterns and processes relating to the origin and evolution of Earth’s climate, environments, life, and sedimentary record. This research takes place at the molecular, local, regional, and global scales from the Archean Eon through the Holocene epoch. LET-supported research can be useful for predicting and planning for future global change, and for the maintenance and security of ecosystem services and human societies

Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: Up to $3,000,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments, Higher Education Entities, Nonprofits, and Businesses
Description: The NSF STEM K-12 program in the Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings (DRL) in the Directorate for STEM Education (EDU) supports fundamental, applied, and translational research that advances STEM teaching and learning and improves understanding of education across the human lifespan and a range of formal and informal settings.

Deadline: Rolling Monthly
Award Amount: $3,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Tribal Governments, Arts/Creatives, and Nonprofits
Description: This opportunity seeks emerging Native American artists (visual, performing & literary artists welcomed). The selected artists must reside at the Amerind Museum for 1 month at a time. The selected artist(s) will receive housing, workspace, and a $3,000/month stipend. The artist will be asked to give a public talk about their work and/or hold some open studio hours. While in residence, the artist can sell their work directly to the public. Depending on the nature of the artist’s work, the Amerind Museum may consider an exhibition or similar event by the selected artist. The artist must have reliable transportation.

Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: Up to $1,000,000
Match: Not required, but encouraged.
Eligible Entities: City, Township, County or Tribal Governments with populations below 40,000 and Nonprofits
Description: This program helps eligible communities prepare, or recover from, an emergency that threatens the availability of safe, reliable drinking water. Applicants must show that a major decline in quantity or quality of water occurred within two years of the date of the application. Grants are also awarded when a significant decline in quality and quantity of water is imminent. A federal disaster declaration is not required in order to qualify.

Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: Unspecified
Match: None
Eligible Entities: City, Township, County or Tribal Governments and Nonprofits
Description: Those applying must serve an area with a population of 10,000 or less. This program provides technical assistance to rural water systems that are experiencing day-to-day operational, financial or managerial issues. Rural water system officials may request assistance from the National Rural Water Association State Association or the local Rural Utilities Service office. Rural Utilities Service staff may also request assistance on behalf of the system.

Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: Unspecified
Match: None
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments and Nonprofits
Description: This grant provides fully funded marker or plaque signage for public properties and historic districts that have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The program covers design, fabrication, shipping, and inscription costs, allowing communities to commemorate and publicize their historic designation.

Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: Dependent upon population and median household income.
Match: Dependent upon population and median household income.
Eligible Entities: City, Township, County or Tribal Governments and Nonprofits
Description: Those applying must be a rural area, classified as having no more than 20,000 residents. This program provides affordable funding to develop essential community facilities in rural areas. An essential community facility is defined as a facility that provides an essential service to the local community for the orderly development of the community in a primarily rural area, and does not include private, commercial or business undertakings.

Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: Up to $250,000
Match: 5% non-federal share.
Eligible Entities: Tribal
Description: This program provides funding to 1994 Land Grant Institutions (Tribal Colleges) to make capital improvements to their educational facilities and to purchase equipment. Funds may be used for infrastructure improvements, to purchase equipment, and to develop essential community facilities. These community facilities include: Schools, education equipment, libraries, dorms, vehicles and major equipment, education and cultural projects, and renovations and improvements.

Deadline: Monthly on the 10th
Award Amount: $100 and $5,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Tribal Governments, Film/Media, Arts/Creatives, and Nonprofits
Description: This opportunity supports the growing number of Native artists and culture bearers who need financial assistance with a professional development opportunity or a hardship hindering their creative practice. Applicants must be enrolled members of, or provide proof of lineal descendency from, a U.S. federally recognized or U.S. state-recognized tribe or be able to provide evidence of ancestry as an Alaska Native or Native Hawaiian. This program offers grants between $100 and $5,000.

Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: Dependent upon project.
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Nonprofits, Community Water Systems
Description: With the increase in demand and federal requirements for the DWSRF, The State of New Mexico will continue to choose the projects to fulfill the federal equivalency requirements. Additionally, the schedule by which the priority lists will be published will remain semi‐annual. Lists are produced in December and May with supplemental lists published in September and February if project interest and urgency exist. Criteria for project interest and urgency are included in this IUP to clarify when the supplemental lists will be produced. Project priority ranking criteria for emerging contaminants were updated to reflect increased value on providing water service to underserved communities or where wells are contaminated by emerging contaminants.

Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: Dependent upon project.
Match: Dependent upon project.
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments and Nonprofits.
Description:  A brownfield is a property whose redevelopment is complicated by the presence of contamination or perceived contamination. Examples include old gas stations, vacant motels, former industrial sites or abandoned dumps. Cleaning up and reinvesting in these properties can restore the environment, reduce health risks, eliminate blight, revitalize downtowns, create jobs, increase local tax bases, and create a sense of community pride.

NMED offers free environmental evaluations of brownfield properties. Services include: Phase I & II environmental site assessments; Environmental investigations (sampling and analysis); Asbestos and lead paint surveys: Clean-up planning: and Remediation cost estimates. NMED also offers the Brownfield Clean-Up Revolving Loan Fund.

Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $100,000 to $5,000,000
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Federally recognized tribes
Description: EDA supports bottom-up strategies that build on regional assets to spur economic growth and resiliency. EDA encourages its grantees throughout the country to develop initiatives that present new ideas and creative approaches to advance economic prosperity in distressed communities.

Deadline: Ongoing
Award Amount: Up to $50,000
Eligible Entities: Local Governments, including tribal entities and mutual domestic water consumers associations
Description: The Local Government Planning Fund funds critical planning documents for a variety of public infrastructure projects. Eligible plans include Preliminary Engineering Reports, Feasibility Studies, Environmental Information Documents, Comprehensive Plans, Asset Management Plans, Water Conservation Plans, Master Plans, Local Economic Development Act Plans and Metropolitan Redevelopment Act Plans. Applications are accepted monthly and grants are made on a reimbursement basis.

Deadline: Rolling
Award Amount: $75 million appropriation
Eligible Entities: State, City, Township, County or Tribal Governments
​Description: DFA offers three grant programs providing eligible entities with a reliable and nimble source of funding to increase competitiveness for hundreds of federal grant program opportunities that require local match.
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​Matching Grant – for eligible entities that require additional funding to meet the minimum match requirement for a federal grant (at least 40% of available funds are reserved for rural, frontier, and tribal governments).

Project Implementation Grant – for recipients of a Matching Grant that require capacity funding to fully implement the federally funded project associated with the Matching Grant.
(Only available if awarded a Matching Grant)

Apply for Federal Compliance Offset Grant – for eligible entities that demonstrate higher project costs due to compliance with federal funding requirements, such as requirements related to worker wages and sourcing American-made materials.