Is matching funding required?

No. The source states that no matching funds are required. The labelled field indicates cost sharing is false. Community partnerships are allowed and encouraged, and private donations may be accepted, but no matching requirement is stated.

Is the money paid up front or reimbursed?

Reimbursement. Recipients spend first and claim the cost back, so the money has to be found before it is repaid.

OtherForecastedAir Force Research Lab (AFRL), Department of Defense

STARBASE Wright Patt

Per-recipient award not stated for educational institutions, independent school districts, public agency, closing Not stated.

Official page

Educational institutionsIndependent school districts Public AgencyOhioScience and Technology and other Research and Development

In one sentence

STARBASE Wright Patt does not state a per-recipient award amount, open to educational institutions, independent school districts, public agency in Ohio.

Record fields

Program pool (total): Not confirmed
Total across all awards in this programme. Not an amount any single applicant can receive.
Award ceiling (per project): Not confirmed
No funding amounts are stated in the RFI. The description indicates funds will be provided for salary (including benefits, FICA, Workman's Comp, etc.) and reimbursement for staff pay periods, but specific amounts are not disclosed.
Award floor: Not confirmed
Typical award: Not confirmed
Deadline: Not stated
Deadline type: unknown
Opens: Not stated
Status: Forecasted
Eligible entities: Educational institutions · Independent school districts · Public Agency
Geography: Ohio
Matching funds: No
Disbursement: Reimbursement
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

Not stated

Award ceiling (per project)The most one applicant can receive

Not stated

Source wording: “No funding amounts are stated in the RFI. The description indicates funds will be provided for salary (including benefits, FICA, Workman's Comp, etc.) and reimbursement for staff pay periods, but specific amounts are not disclosed.”

Who can apply?

entity

Educational institutions, Independent school districts, Public Agency

Source field: entity types

state

Ohio

Source field: states

industry

Science and Technology and other Research and Development

Source field: industries

demographic

5th grade students, At-risk youth

Source field: demographics

use

Employee benefits including FICA, Workman's Compensation, STEM education program operations, Staff salaries and benefits, Withholdings for retirement, federal and state taxes, health insurance

Source field: use of funds

size limit

Not stated

Source field: applicant size limit

clause text

School districts within a 10 mile radius of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base are eligible to submit proposals. The STARBASE program targets at-risk youth, typically 5th grade students from area schools.

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

Responses received after the 30-day deadline will still be considered but may not be included in initial reporting or assessments. Posting date was Nov 13, 2020.

What can the money be used for?

Staff salaries and benefitsEmployee benefits including FICA, Workman's CompensationWithholdings for retirement, federal and state taxes, health insuranceSTEM education program operations

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: Reimbursement
Recipients spend first and are reimbursed. Plan cash flow accordingly.
Matching funds: No
The labelled field indicates cost sharing is false. Community partnerships are allowed and encouraged, and private donations may be accepted, but no matching requirement is stated.

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.

Who is eligible to apply?: Educational institutions, Independent school districts, Public Agency.
Which locations are eligible?: Ohio.
What can the funding be used for?: Staff salaries and benefits, Employee benefits including FICA, Workman's Compensation, Withholdings for retirement, federal and state taxes, health insurance, STEM education program operations, as classified by the source.
Is matching funding required?: No. The source states that no matching funds are required. The labelled field indicates cost sharing is false. Community partnerships are allowed and encouraged, and private donations may be accepted, but no matching requirement is stated.
Is the money paid up front or reimbursed?: Reimbursement. Recipients spend first and claim the cost back, so the money has to be found before it is repaid.

Provenance

Source pagegrants.gov

Retrieved2026-08-31

MethodAutomated check

First seen2026-08-31

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.