Tribal Colleges Research Grants Program
- Award ceiling
- $150,000 – $2,500,000
- Closes
- Dec 31, 2026
- Last verified
- 2026-09-07
Awards $150,000 – $2,500,000 per recipient for others (see text field entitled "additional information on eligibility" for clarification), closing Dec 31, 2026.
In one sentence
Tribal Colleges Research Grants Program awards $150,000 – $2,500,000 per recipient, open to others (see text field entitled "additional information on eligibility" for clarification), closing Dec 31, 2026.
- Program pool (total)
- $11,574,000Total across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
- Award ceiling (per project)
- $2,500,000
- Award floor
- $150,000
- Typical award
- Not confirmed
- Deadline
- Dec 31, 2026
- Deadline type
- Fixed date
- Opens
- Apr 22, 2026
- Status
- Open
- Eligible entities
- Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
- Geography
- Not stated
- Matching funds
- No
- Disbursement
- Not confirmed
- Application effort
- Not confirmed
- Use of funds
- development of research capacity at Tribal colleges, specifically in agriculture, natural resources, and human sciences · innovative agricultural technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), data science, robotics, and other cutting edge digital tools · training undergraduate students in these areas
- 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.
Who can apply?
Not confirmed
Source field: applicant size limitApplicants for the TCRGP must meet all the requirements discussed in this NOFO. Failure to meet the eligibility criteria by the application deadline may result in exclusion from consideration or preclude NIFA from making an award. For…
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What can the money be used for?
3 categorysThe source’s own spending categories, and what is not parsed.
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
- No
Who has received this funding?
62 awardsAwards on file for this programme, counted rather than modelled.
62 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| COLLEGE OF THE MENOMINEE NATION | Not stated | $650,000 | 2024 |
| DINE COLLEGE | Not stated | $650,000 | 2025 |
| KEWEENAW BAY OJIBWA COMMUNITY COLLEGE | Not stated | $650,000 | 2024 |
| LAC COURTE OREILLES OJIBWE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $650,000 | 2024 |
| NAVAJO TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $650,000 | 2024 |
| NAVAJO TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $650,000 | 2024 |
| COLLEGE OF THE MENOMINEE NATION | Not stated | $646,304 | 2025 |
| FOND DU LAC TRIBAL AND COMMUNITY COLLEGE | Not stated | $530,612 | 2021 |
| BOARD OF REGENTS OF NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION | Not stated | $500,000 | 2024 |
| NORTHWEST INDIAN COLLEGE | Not stated | $500,000 | 2023 |
| NORTHWEST INDIAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION | Not stated | $500,000 | 2021 |
| SOUTHWESTERN INDIAN POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE | Not stated | $500,000 | 2023 |
| SALISH KOOTENAI COLLEGE, INC. | Not stated | $499,995 | 2021 |
| NAVAJO TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $498,272 | 2023 |
| DINE COLLEGE | Not stated | $496,209 | 2021 |
| FORT PECK COMMUNITY COLLEGE | Not stated | $493,094 | 2021 |
| COLLEGE OF THE MENOMINEE NATION | Not stated | $462,955 | 2021 |
| NAVAJO TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $461,445 | 2019 |
| UNITED TRIBES TECHNICAL COLLEGE | Not stated | $454,740 | 2021 |
| BAY MILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE | Not stated | $444,392 | 2020 |
| NAVAJO TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $421,994 | 2021 |
| NAVAJO TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $396,269 | 2020 |
| DINE COLLEGE | Not stated | $387,137 | 2021 |
| INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN INDIAN ARTS | Not stated | $350,000 | 2024 |
| NUETA HIDATSA SAHNISH COLLEGE | Not stated | $350,000 | 2024 |
| OGLALA LAKOTA COLLEGE | Not stated | $350,000 | 2024 |
| NUETA HIDATSA SAHNISH COLLEGE | Not stated | $344,528 | 2025 |
| UNITED TRIBES TECHNICAL COLLEGE | Not stated | $343,960 | 2025 |
| SALISH KOOTENAI COLLEGE, INC. | Not stated | $323,011 | 2025 |
| COLLEGE OF THE MENOMINEE NATION | Not stated | $220,000 | 2021 |
| NORTHWEST INDIAN COLLEGE | Not stated | $220,000 | 2023 |
| NUETA HIDATSA SAHNISH COLLEGE | Not stated | $220,000 | 2020 |
| RED LAKE NATION COLLEGE | Not stated | $220,000 | 2023 |
| NORTHWEST INDIAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION | Not stated | $219,997 | 2021 |
| COLLEGE OF THE MENOMINEE NATION | Not stated | $219,962 | 2020 |
| DINE COLLEGE | Not stated | $219,100 | 2017 |
| NORTHWEST INDIAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION | Not stated | $216,137 | 2021 |
| FORT PECK COMMUNITY COLLEGE | Not stated | $215,627 | 2021 |
| LAC COURTE OREILLES OJIBWE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $213,293 | 2021 |
| LITTLE BIG HORN COMMUNITY COLLEGE | Not stated | $208,208 | 2017 |
| FOND DU LAC TRIBAL AND COMMUNITY COLLEGE | Not stated | $202,700 | 2021 |
| FOND DU LAC TRIBAL AND COMMUNITY COLLEGE | Not stated | $199,400 | 2020 |
| SOUTHWESTERN INDIAN POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE | Not stated | $192,789 | 2020 |
| COLLEGE OF THE MENOMINEE NATION | Not stated | $188,542 | 2018 |
| SOUTHWESTERN INDIAN POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE | Not stated | $158,636 | 2019 |
| LAC COURTE OREILLES OJIBWE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $151,154 | 2018 |
| NUETA HIDATSA SAHNISH COLLEGE | Not stated | $150,800 | 2021 |
| STONE CHILD COLLEGE CORP | Not stated | $150,000 | 2024 |
| FOND DU LAC TRIBAL AND COMMUNITY COLLEGE | Not stated | $108,051 | 2023 |
| COLLEGE OF MUSCOGEE NATION | Not stated | $95,000 | 2023 |
| COLLEGE OF THE MENOMINEE NATION | Not stated | $95,000 | 2020 |
| FORT PECK COMMUNITY COLLEGE | Not stated | $90,613 | 2018 |
| NAVAJO TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $78,895 | 2021 |
| NEBRASKA INDIAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE | Not stated | $70,176 | 2021 |
| COLLEGE OF THE MENOMINEE NATION | Not stated | $59,911 | 2020 |
| WINNEBAGO TRIBE OF NEBRASKA | Not stated | $59,164 | 2017 |
| HASKELL INDIAN NATIONS UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $49,499 | 2018 |
| STONE CHILD COLLEGE CORP | Not stated | $46,300 | 2021 |
| DINE COLLEGE | Not stated | -$1,718 | 2012 |
| DINE COLLEGE | Not stated | -$1,814 | 2011 |
| UNITED TRIBES TECHNICAL COLLEGE | Not stated | -$39,004 | 2016 |
| SALISH KOOTENAI COLLEGE, INC. | Not stated | -$100,089 | 2016 |
Recipient names as published by the California Grants Portal.
What comparable notices state
70 recordsStated ceilings on open records in the same industry.
Among open records stored under Agriculture, 70 of 86 state an award ceiling. Those that do run:
- 25th percentile$308,125
- Median$950,000
- 75th percentile$2,091,313
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?
62 awardsAwards under the same assistance listing, not under this notice.
62 federal awards on file under assistance listing 10.227, 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.
- $650,000COLLEGE OF THE MENOMINEE NATIONWI · FY2024
- $650,000KEWEENAW BAY OJIBWA COMMUNITY COLLEGEMI · FY2024
- $650,000NAVAJO TECHNICAL UNIVERSITYNM · FY2024
- $650,000LAC COURTE OREILLES OJIBWE UNIVERSITYWI · FY2024
- $650,000NAVAJO TECHNICAL UNIVERSITYNM · FY2024
Common questions
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- How much can one applicant receive?
- $150,000 – $2,500,000 per recipient.
- How much funding is available in total?
- $11,574,000 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 31, 2026.
- Who is eligible to apply?
- Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification).
- What can the funding be used for?
- development of research capacity at Tribal colleges, specifically in agriculture, natural resources, and human sciences, innovative agricultural technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), data science, robotics, and other cutting edge digital tools, training undergraduate students in these areas, as classified by the source.
- Is matching funding required?
- No. The source states that no matching funds are required.
- Has this programme funded anyone before?
- 62 prior awards are on file for this programme, made by National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Recipients, amounts and fiscal years are listed on this page.
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