How much funding is available in total?

$250,000,000 across the whole programme. This is the total the funder has allocated, not an amount any single applicant can receive.

When is the application deadline?

Jul 28, 2027. Response date from labelled fields

What can the funding be used for?

Research, Education, as classified by the source.

Is matching funding required?

No. The source states that no matching funds are required. Cost sharing is false per labelled fields

OtherForecastedU.S. National Science Foundation

Faculty Early Career Development Program

Awards From $400,000 per recipient for institutions of higher education, non-profit, non-academic organizations, other legal entity, closing Jul 28, 2027.

Official page

Institutions of Higher Education Non-profit, non-academic organizations Other Legal Entity United States Science and Technology and other Research and Development

In one sentence

Faculty Early Career Development Program awards from $400,000 per recipient, open to institutions of higher education, non-profit, non-academic organizations, other legal entity in United States, closing Jul 28, 2027.

Record fields

Program pool (total): $250,000,000
Total across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
Award ceiling (per project): Not confirmed
Award floor of $400,000 is stated in labelled fields. Total estimated funding of $250,000,000 is stated in labelled fields.
Award floor: $400,000
Typical award: Not confirmed
Deadline: Jul 28, 2027
Deadline type: unknown
Opens: Apr 19, 2022
Status: Forecasted
Eligible entities: Institutions of Higher Education · Non-profit, non-academic organizations · Other Legal Entity
Geography: United States
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.

Program pool (total)Across all awards this cycle

$250,000,000

Award ceiling (per project)The most one applicant can receive

Not stated

Source wording: “Award floor of $400,000 is stated in labelled fields. Total estimated funding of $250,000,000 is stated in labelled fields.”

Who can apply?

entity

Institutions of Higher Education, Non-profit, non-academic organizations, Other Legal Entity

Source field: entity types

state

United States

Source field: states

industry

Science and Technology and other Research and Development

Source field: industries

demographic

Early-career faculty

Source field: demographics

use

Education, Research

Source field: use of funds

size limit

Not stated

Source field: applicant size limit

clause text

PI may submit only one CAREER proposal per annual competition and may not participate in more than three CAREER competitions. International branch campuses of US IHEs may be included if benefits are explained and justified.

We store the structured fields above. Clause-by-clause text from the guidelines is not connected for this record.

When does it close?

Jul 28, 2027330 daysunknown deadline

Response date from labelled fields

What can the money be used for?

ResearchEducation

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: No
Cost sharing is false per labelled fields

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?: From $400,000 per recipient. The source states: “Award floor of $400,000 is stated in labelled fields. Total estimated funding of $250,000,000 is stated in labelled fields.”.
How much funding is available in total?: $250,000,000 across the whole programme. This is the total the funder has allocated, not an amount any single applicant can receive.
When is the application deadline?: Jul 28, 2027. Response date from labelled fields
Who is eligible to apply?: Institutions of Higher Education, Non-profit, non-academic organizations, Other Legal Entity.
Which locations are eligible?: United States.
What can the funding be used for?: Research, Education, as classified by the source.
Is matching funding required?: No. The source states that no matching funds are required. Cost sharing is false per labelled fields

Provenance

Source pagegrants.gov

Retrieved2026-09-01

MethodAutomated check

First seen2026-09-01

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.