The Genesis Mission: Transforming Science and Energy with AI
- Award ceiling
- $500,000 – $16,000,000
- Closes
- Dec 17, 2026
- Last verified
- 2026-10-23
Awards $500,000 – $16,000,000 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 Dec 17, 2026.
Open to any applicantScience, Technology, Research & Development
In one sentence
The Genesis Mission: Transforming Science and Energy with AI awards $500,000 – $16,000,000 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 Dec 17, 2026.
Record fields
- Program pool (total)
- $293,760,000Total across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
- Award ceiling (per project)
- $16,000,000
- Award floor
- $500,000
- Typical award
- Not confirmed
- Deadline
- Dec 17, 2026
- Deadline type
- Fixed date
- Opens
- Mar 17, 2026
- 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
- Yes
- Disbursement
- Not confirmed
- Application effort
- Not confirmed
- Use of funds
- artificial intelligence (AI) models and frameworks · scientific discovery and research and development (R&D) workflows
- 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
$293,760,000Award ceiling (per project)The most one applicant can receive
$16,000,000Who can apply?
level
Derived from the source that published this record
entity
Open to any applicant
Source field: entity typesindustry
Source field: industries
use
artificial intelligence (AI) models and frameworks, scientific discovery and research and development (R&D) workflows
Source field: use of fundssize limit
Not confirmed
Source field: applicant size limitclause 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?
Dec 17, 202655 daysDeadline type Fixed date
What can the money be used for?
2 categorysThe source’s own spending categories, and what is not parsed.
artificial intelligence (AI) models and frameworksscientific discovery and research and development (R&D) workflows
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 fieldEffort, match requirement and reimbursement, as the source stated them.
- Application effort
- Not confirmed
- Disbursement
- Not confirmed
- Matching funds
- Yes
Who has received this funding?
7471 awardsAwards on file for this programme, counted rather than modelled.
7471 prior awards on file for this programme, largest first. Every row comes from the funder's own award listing; nothing here is estimated.
| Recipient | State | Amount | Fiscal year |
|---|---|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE | Not stated | $9,010,000 | 2022 |
| FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $9,005,624 | 2016 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER | Not stated | $8,990,000 | 2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM | Not stated | $8,974,783 | 2008 |
| EMORY UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $8,924,988 | 2018 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | Not stated | $8,911,358 | 2022 |
| RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | Not stated | $8,899,000 | 2012 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT RIVERSIDE | Not stated | $8,889,000 | 2012 |
| WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $8,825,000 | 2010 |
| WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION | Not stated | $8,750,001 | 2019 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE | Not stated | $8,750,000 | 2022 |
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $8,650,000 | 2022 |
| AUBURN UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $8,628,107 | 2000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | Not stated | $8,607,063 | 2017 |
| THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $8,584,932 | 2014 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | Not stated | $8,556,000 | 2022 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | Not stated | $8,549,842 | 2025 |
| MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $8,542,000 | 2009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | Not stated | $8,508,000 | 1988 |
| NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL AND TECHNICAL STATE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $8,455,000 | 2022 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | Not stated | $8,455,000 | 2014 |
| YALE UNIV | Not stated | $8,400,000 | 2007 |
| RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | Not stated | $8,385,000 | 2001 |
| GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORP | Not stated | $8,364,140 | 2003 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS | Not stated | $8,300,000 | 2022 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | Not stated | $8,277,000 | 2012 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $8,265,226 | 2017 |
| TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $8,237,000 | 2005 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | Not stated | $8,231,125 | 2014 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $8,201,277 | 2005 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK | Not stated | $8,177,000 | 1993 |
| PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE | Not stated | $8,117,669 | 2010 |
| THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | Not stated | $8,065,000 | 2018 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA | Not stated | $8,036,000 | 2013 |
| THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO | Not stated | $8,032,000 | 2003 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | Not stated | $8,019,134 | 2018 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | Not stated | $8,004,246 | 2022 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | Not stated | $7,989,952 | 2018 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK | Not stated | $7,975,780 | 2004 |
| BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA | Not stated | $7,940,000 | 2019 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE | Not stated | $7,912,141 | 1996 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | Not stated | $7,812,998 | 2004 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | Not stated | $7,782,000 | 2022 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | Not stated | $7,752,999 | 2003 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $7,729,259 | 2018 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $7,711,000 | 2015 |
| THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO | Not stated | $7,690,530 | 2017 |
| WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $7,595,000 | 2013 |
| INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY - LOUIS BAMBERGER & MRS FELIX FULD FOUNDATION | Not stated | $7,549,000 | 2013 |
| MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $7,537,627 | 2020 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $7,500,000 | 2018 |
| RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $7,414,000 | 2013 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA | Not stated | $7,398,000 | 2014 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OREGON | Not stated | $7,395,000 | 2017 |
| TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $7,375,000 | 2015 |
| COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY | Not stated | $7,336,000 | 1996 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA | Not stated | $7,309,577 | 2017 |
| GENERAL ATOMICS | Not stated | $7,300,000 | 2023 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | Not stated | $7,300,000 | 2015 |
| TOKAMAK ENERGY LTD | Not stated | $7,252,990 | 2025 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, THE | Not stated | $7,219,845 | 2010 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | Not stated | $7,200,000 | 2025 |
| TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $7,195,000 | 2016 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, THE | Not stated | $7,168,325 | 1987 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT | Not stated | $7,164,000 | 2004 |
| FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $7,134,000 | 1992 |
| GENERAL ATOMICS | Not stated | $7,122,698 | 2017 |
| RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | Not stated | $7,119,352 | 2012 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $7,117,705 | 2015 |
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $7,104,053 | 2014 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER | Not stated | $7,093,888 | 2019 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $7,082,321 | 2005 |
| NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $7,079,000 | 1994 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, THE | Not stated | $7,050,000 | 2023 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA | Not stated | $7,000,000 | 2023 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | Not stated | $6,981,736 | 2017 |
| BOARD OF REGENTS OF NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION | Not stated | $6,981,004 | 2025 |
| OHIO UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $6,964,475 | 1988 |
| PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE | Not stated | $6,959,998 | 2009 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $6,937,620 | 2003 |
| YALE UNIV | Not stated | $6,876,000 | 2014 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS | Not stated | $6,867,659 | 1999 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | Not stated | $6,862,877 | 2008 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | Not stated | $6,835,653 | 1996 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $6,825,000 | 2015 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, THE | Not stated | $6,819,029 | 2005 |
| LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $6,722,722 | 2014 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | Not stated | $6,719,231 | 2014 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA | Not stated | $6,705,903 | 1994 |
| RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $6,656,000 | 2019 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK | Not stated | $6,610,621 | 2012 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE | Not stated | $6,574,494 | 2015 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | Not stated | $6,570,000 | 2020 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $6,453,831 | 2018 |
| COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $6,403,000 | 2017 |
| KENT STATE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $6,402,000 | 1989 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | Not stated | $6,400,000 | 2023 |
| THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO | Not stated | $6,395,000 | 1999 |
| TEXAS A&M ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION | Not stated | $6,382,000 | 2022 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | Not stated | $6,377,938 | 1997 |
Recipient names as published by the California Grants Portal.
What comparable notices state
135 recordsStated ceilings on open records in the same industry.
Among open records stored under Science, Technology, Research & Development, 135 of 331 state an award ceiling. Those that do run:
- 25th percentile$417,500
- Median$1,200,000
- 75th percentile$5,471,747
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.
Who has won this programme before?
7471 awardsAwards under the same assistance listing, not under this notice.
7471 federal awards on file under assistance listing 81.049, the programme this notice is published under. These are not awards made under this notice — a listing covers every year the programme runs, and awards under an open notice do not exist yet.
- $1,250,640,884GENERAL ATOMICSCA · FY2004
- $836,082,435MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITYMI · FY2009
- $396,718,000MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITYMI · FY2023
- $241,000,000UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEMWI · FY2018
- $237,065,653SOUTH DAKOTA SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY AUTHORITYSD · FY2019
Common questions
7 questionsEvery answer is a stored field from this record. Questions the source did not answer are not asked.
- How much can one applicant receive?
- $500,000 – $16,000,000 per recipient.
- How much funding is available in total?
- $293,760,000 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?
- Dec 17, 2026.
- 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?
- artificial intelligence (AI) models and frameworks, scientific discovery and research and development (R&D) workflows, as classified by the source.
- Is matching funding required?
- Yes. This programme requires matching funds.
- Has this programme funded anyone before?
- 7471 prior awards are on file for this programme, made by Office of Science. Recipients, amounts and fiscal years are listed on this page.
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Provenance
Source pagegrants.gov
Retrieved2026-10-23
MethodAutomated check
First seen2026-09-02
Assistance listing81.049
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.