Collaborative Research
- Award ceiling
- up to $250,000
- Closes
- Sep 16, 2026
- Last verified
- 2026-10-18
Awards up to $250,000 per recipient for city or township governments, county governments, native american tribal governments (federally recognized), nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the irs, other than institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, public and state controlled institutions of higher education, special district governments, state governments, closing Sep 16, 2026.
In one sentence
Collaborative Research awards up to $250,000 per recipient, open to city or township governments, county governments, native american tribal governments (federally recognized), nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the irs, other than institutions of higher education, private institutions of…
- Program pool (total)
- $2,500,000Total across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
- Award ceiling (per project)
- $250,000
- Award floor
- $1
- Typical award
- Not confirmed
- Deadline
- Sep 16, 2026
- Deadline type
- Fixed date
- Opens
- Jul 7, 2026
- Status
- Closed
- Eligible entities
- City or township governments · County governments · Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized) · Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education · Private institutions of higher education · Public and State controlled institutions of higher education · Special district governments · State governments
- Geography
- Not stated
- Matching funds
- No
- Disbursement
- Not confirmed
- Application effort
- Not confirmed
- Use of funds
- preparation of a manuscript for print publication · creation of a scholarly digital project · planning of an international collaboration
- 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?
groups of two or more scholars
Source field: applicant size limitNot confirmed
We store the structured fields above. Clause-by-clause text from the guidelines is not connected for this record.When does it close?
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?
10 awardsAwards on file for this programme, counted rather than modelled.
10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WINSTON-SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $283,189 | 2025 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $251,125 | 2024 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA | Not stated | $250,000 | 2024 |
| THE MONTPELIER FOUNDATION | Not stated | $249,820 | 2020 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, STANISLAUS | Not stated | $248,762 | 2022 |
| CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $247,131 | 2025 |
| NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $209,375 | 2025 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $199,737 | 2024 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $50,000 | 2025 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY | Not stated | $49,989 | 2025 |
Recipient names as published by the California Grants Portal.
What comparable notices state
26 recordsStated ceilings on open records in the same industry.
Among open records stored under Libraries & Arts, 26 of 32 state an award ceiling. Those that do run:
- 25th percentile$112,500
- Median$350,000
- 75th percentile$500,000
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.
Who has won this programme before?
10 awardsAwards under the same assistance listing, not under this notice.
10 federal awards on file under assistance listing 45.035, 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.
- $283,189WINSTON-SALEM STATE UNIVERSITYNC · FY2025
- $251,125DUKE UNIVERSITYNC · FY2024
- $250,000UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDAFL · FY2024
- $249,820THE MONTPELIER FOUNDATIONVA · FY2020
- $248,762CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, STANISLAUSCA · FY2022
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?
- Up to $250,000 per recipient.
- How much funding is available in total?
- $2,500,000 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?
- Sep 16, 2026.
- Who is eligible to apply?
- City or township governments, County governments, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Special district governments, State governments. Applicant size limit: groups of two or more scholars.
- What can the funding be used for?
- preparation of a manuscript for print publication, creation of a scholarly digital project, planning of an international collaboration, 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?
- 10 prior awards are on file for this programme, made by National Endowment for the Humanities. Recipients, amounts and fiscal years are listed on this page.
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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.