Infrastructure Capacity for Biological Research

Awards $25,000 – $1,200,000 per recipient for institutions of higher education (two- and four-year ihes, including community colleges), non-profit, non-academic organizations (independent museums, observatories, research laboratories, professional societies), other legal entity, closing Not stated.

Institutions of Higher Education (two- and four-year IHEs, including community colleges)Non-profit, non-academic organizations (independent museums, observatories, research laboratories, professional societies)Other Legal EntityUnited StatesScience and Technology and other Research and Development

In one sentence

Infrastructure Capacity for Biological Research awards $25,000 – $1,200,000 per recipient, open to institutions of higher education (two- and four-year ihes, including community colleges), non-profit, non-academic organizations (independent museums, observatories, research laboratories,…

Record fields
Program pool (total)
$18,000,000
Total across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
Award ceiling (per project)
$1,200,000
Award floor: $25,000; Award ceiling: $1,200,000; Estimated total funding: $18,000,000 with expected ~60 awards
Award floor
$25,000
Typical award
Not confirmed
Deadline
Not stated
Deadline type
unknown
Opens
Apr 21, 2023
Status
Open
Eligible entities
Institutions of Higher Education (two- and four-year IHEs, including community colleges) · Non-profit, non-academic organizations (independent museums, observatories, research laboratories, professional societies) · 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
$18,000,000
Award ceiling (per project)The most one applicant can receive
$1,200,000

Source wording: “Award floor: $25,000; Award ceiling: $1,200,000; Estimated total funding: $18,000,000 with expected ~60 awards

Who can apply?

entity

Institutions of Higher Education (two- and four-year IHEs, including community colleges), Non-profit, non-academic organizations (independent museums, observatories, research laboratories, professional societies), Other Legal Entity

Source field: entity types
state

United States

Source field: states
use

Biological Collections, Biological Field Stations and Marine Laboratories, Cyberinfrastructure, Planning activities or workshops for coordination, Research tools, products, and services that advance contemporary biology

Source field: use of funds
size limit

Not stated

Source field: applicant size limit
clause text

IHEs must be accredited in and have campus located in US. Non-profit organizations must be located in US and directly associated with educational or research activities. Special rules apply for international branch campuses of US IHEs.

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

When does it close?

Not statedunknown deadline

Not stated on page

What can the money be used for?

Research tools, products, and services that advance contemporary biologyCyberinfrastructureBiological CollectionsBiological Field Stations and Marine LaboratoriesPlanning activities or workshops for coordination

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: 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?
$25,000 – $1,200,000 per recipient. The source states: “Award floor: $25,000; Award ceiling: $1,200,000; Estimated total funding: $18,000,000 with expected ~60 awards”.
How much funding is available in total?
$18,000,000 across the whole programme. This is the total the funder has allocated, not an amount any single applicant can receive.
Who is eligible to apply?
Institutions of Higher Education (two- and four-year IHEs, including community colleges), Non-profit, non-academic organizations (independent museums, observatories, research laboratories, professional societies), Other Legal Entity.
Which locations are eligible?
United States.
What can the funding be used for?
Research tools, products, and services that advance contemporary biology, Cyberinfrastructure, Biological Collections, Biological Field Stations and Marine Laboratories, Planning activities or workshops for coordination, as classified by the source.
Is matching funding required?
No. The source states that no matching funds are required. Cost sharing: false
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.