Major Research Instrumentation Program: (MRI)
- Award ceiling
- $100,000 – $4,000,000
- Closes
- Jan 29, 2027
- Last verified
- 2026-11-07
Awards $100,000 – $4,000,000 per recipient for others (see text field entitled "additional information on eligibility" for clarification), closing Jan 29, 2027.
In one sentence
Major Research Instrumentation Program: (MRI) awards $100,000 – $4,000,000 per recipient, open to others (see text field entitled "additional information on eligibility" for clarification), closing Jan 29, 2027.
- Program pool (total)
- $50,000,000Total across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
- Award ceiling (per project)
- $4,000,000
- Award floor
- $100,000
- Typical award
- Not confirmed
- Deadline
- Jan 29, 2027
- Deadline type
- Fixed date
- Opens
- Nov 6, 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
- Acquisition of a multi-user research instrument through direct purchase from a vendor · Personnel and components to develop an instrument with new capabilities
- 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 limit*Who May Submit Proposals: Proposals may only be submitted by the following: -Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs): Two- and four-year IHEs (including community colleges) accredited in, and having a campus located in the US, acting…
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What can the money be used for?
2 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
What comparable notices state
161 recordsStated ceilings on open records in the same industry.
Among open records stored under Science, Technology, Research & Development, 161 of 348 state an award ceiling. Those that do run:
- 25th percentile$300,000
- Median$750,000
- 75th percentile$3,600,000
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
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- How much can one applicant receive?
- $100,000 – $4,000,000 per recipient.
- How much funding is available in total?
- $50,000,000 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?
- Jan 29, 2027.
- Who is eligible to apply?
- Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification).
- What can the funding be used for?
- Acquisition of a multi-user research instrument through direct purchase from a vendor, Personnel and components to develop an instrument with new capabilities, as classified by the source.
- Is matching funding required?
- No. The source states that no matching funds are required.
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- Tribal Colleges and Universities Program (TCUP)Closes Jan 11, 2027Awards $100,000 – $3,500,000
- PFE: Research Initiation in Engineering Formation (PFE: RIEF)Closes Nov 10, 2026Awards from $200,000
- Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (MSPRF)Closes Oct 20, 2027Awards from $190,000
- Education Programs in Atmospheric and Geospace SciencesCloses Not statedAwards Not stated
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.
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GrantTrove. Major Research Instrumentation Program: (MRI). https://granttrove.com/grants/364243. Record last checked: 2026-11-07. Confirm the current application window and all requirements against the linked source notice.