FAA Aviation Research Grants Program
Awards $0 – $6,000,000 per recipient for nonprofit, nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the irs, other than institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, public agency, public and state controlled institutions of higher education, closing Sep 7, 2027.
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FAA Aviation Research Grants Program awards $0 – $6,000,000 per recipient, open to nonprofit, nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the irs, other than institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, public agency, public and state controlled institutions of higher…
- Program pool (total)
- Not confirmedTotal across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
- Award ceiling (per project)
- $6,000,000Award floor is $0; Award ceiling is $6,000,000
- Award floor
- $0
- Typical award
- Not confirmed
- Deadline
- Sep 7, 2027
- Deadline type
- unknown
- Opens
- Sep 8, 2020
- Status
- Open
- Eligible entities
- Nonprofit · Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education · Private institutions of higher education · Public Agency · Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Geography
- Not stated
- Matching funds
- No
- Disbursement
- Not confirmed
- Application effort
- Not confirmed
- Currency
- USD
How much money is available?
Two different figures govern a programme and they are not interchangeable. The programme pool is what the funder has allocated across every award it will make this cycle. The award ceiling is the most one applicant can be granted.
Source wording: “Award floor is $0; Award ceiling is $6,000,000”
Who can apply?
Aviation Research, Civil Aviation, Commercial Space Transportation, Transportation
Source field: industriesAircraft Safety Technology, Airports, Aviation Weather, Capacity and Air Traffic Control Technology, Communications, Navigation, and Surveillance, Human Factors and Aviation Medicine, Systems Science/Operations Research
Source field: use of fundsNot stated
Source field: applicant size limitDescription states colleges, universities, and other non-profit research institutions under Section 501(c)(3) are eligible
We store the structured fields above. Clause-by-clause text from the guidelines is not connected for this record.When does it close?
Response date listed as Sep 07, 2027; appears to be a continuing program with rolling submissions
What can the money be used for?
These categories come from the source's own classification. A line-item cost table, where the programme publishes one, lives in the guidelines and is not parsed for this record.
How hard is the application?
- Application effort
- Not confirmed
- Disbursement
- Not confirmed
- Matching funds
- NoLabelled field indicates: cost sharing = false
Who has received this funding?
No award records yet
We hold no prior awards for this programme. That is a gap in what we have connected, not a finding that the programme has never funded anyone — check the official page, which may list past recipients.
Common questions
Every answer below is a stored field from this record. Questions the source did not answer are not asked.
- How much can one applicant receive?
- $0 – $6,000,000 per recipient. The source states: “Award floor is $0; Award ceiling is $6,000,000”.
- When is the application deadline?
- Sep 7, 2027. Response date listed as Sep 07, 2027; appears to be a continuing program with rolling submissions
- Who is eligible to apply?
- Nonprofit, Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, Public Agency, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education.
- What can the funding be used for?
- Capacity and Air Traffic Control Technology, Communications, Navigation, and Surveillance, Aviation Weather, Airports, Aircraft Safety Technology, Human Factors and Aviation Medicine, Systems Science/Operations Research, as classified by the source.
- Is matching funding required?
- No. The source states that no matching funds are required. Labelled field indicates: cost sharing = false
The official page governs. If the source and this record disagree, the source is correct — programmes change their terms between our checks, so confirm every figure above before you apply.