FederalOpenFixed dateNational Science Foundation

Topology

Award ceiling
up to $50,000
Closes
Nov 3, 2026
Last verified
2026-09-07

Awards up to $50,000 per recipient for unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "additional information on eligibility", closing Nov 3, 2026.

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Topology awards up to $50,000 per recipient, open to unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "additional information on eligibility", closing Nov 3, 2026.

Record fields
Program pool (total)
Not confirmed
Total across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
Award ceiling (per project)
$50,000
Proposals with budgets not exceeding $50,000 should be submitted during a submission window that occurs at least six months prior to the event.
Award floor
Not confirmed
Typical award
Not confirmed
Deadline
Nov 3, 2026
Deadline type
Fixed date
Opens
May 20, 2022
Status
Open
Eligible entities
Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility"
Geography
Not stated
Matching funds
No
Disbursement
Not confirmed
Application effort
Not confirmed
Use of funds
conferences · workshops · summer/winter schools · travel
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
Not stated
Award ceiling (per project)The most one applicant can receive
$50,000

Source wording: “Proposals with budgets not exceeding $50,000 should be submitted during a submission window that occurs at least six months prior to the event.

Who can apply?

level
Derived from the source that published this record
entity
Open to any applicant
Source field: entity types
industry
use
conferences, summer/winter schools, travel, workshops
Source field: use of funds
size limit

Not confirmed

Source field: applicant size limit
clause text

Not confirmed

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

When does it close?

Nov 3, 202657 daysDeadline type Fixed date

Submission windows for conference/travel proposals are September 1-30 and April 1-30.

What can the money be used for?

4 categorys
The source’s own spending categories, and what is not parsed.
conferencesworkshopssummer/winter schoolstravel

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?

1 field
Effort, match requirement and reimbursement, as the source stated them.
Application effort
Not confirmed
Disbursement
Not confirmed
Matching funds
No

What comparable notices state

113 records
Stated ceilings on open records in the same industry.

Among open records stored under Science, Technology, Research & Development, 113 of 353 state an award ceiling. Those that do run:

  • 25th percentile$500,000
  • Median$1,500,000
  • 75th percentile$5,000,000

A statistical estimate, not a prediction. It describes what a set of notices has published in this catalogue on the day you read it, and says nothing about what this programme will award. Records stating no ceiling are excluded rather than counted as zero, and the programme pool — what a funder has across every applicant — is a different column and is never mixed in.

Common questions

5 questions
Every answer is a stored field from this record. Questions the source did not answer are not asked.
How much can one applicant receive?
Up to $50,000 per recipient. The source states: “Proposals with budgets not exceeding $50,000 should be submitted during a submission window that occurs at least six months prior to the event.”.
When is the application deadline?
Nov 3, 2026. Submission windows for conference/travel proposals are September 1-30 and April 1-30.
Who is eligible to apply?
Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility".
What can the funding be used for?
conferences, workshops, summer/winter schools, travel, as classified by the source.
Is matching funding required?
No. The source states that no matching funds are required.

AI summary of the source text

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AI summary of the source text

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Provenance
Source pagegrants.gov
Retrieved2026-09-07
MethodAutomated check
First seen2026-09-02

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.