Funding Focus Newsletter
Register for biweekly funding opportunitiesLimited Submission Funding Opportunities
Limited submission funding opportunities are those in which the number of applications that can be submitted by an institution is limited by the sponsor. Our office manages the limited submission program for both the CU Anschutz and CU Denver campuses and is responsible for institutional nominations with direction and guidance from the Limited Submission Review Committee.
If you are interested in a limited submission opportunity not listed below, please email the limited submissions team.
Note: To coordinate institutional nominations for opportunities not listed, our office requires at least two weeks’ notice prior to the sponsor deadline for non-federal opportunities and at least six weeks’ notice prior to the sponsor deadline for federal opportunities.
| Sponsor | Award | CU Internal Competition Deadline (11:59 pm MST) | Sponsor Deadline | Application Instructions |
| Ono Pharma Foundation | The Ono Initiative | 01/12/2026 | 02/13/2026 | https://cuanschutz.infoready4.com/#applicationGrid/2001679 |
| National Science Foundation | Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Program (S-STEM) | 01/27/2026 | 03/03/2026 | Contact Limited Submissions by 01/27/2026 if you are interested in this mechanism. |
| ASCENDR Research | Grant Program | 01/21/2026 | 02/27/2026 | Contact Limited Submissions by 01/21/2026 if you are interested in this mechanism. |
| Sponsor | Award | CU Internal Competition Deadline (11:59 pm MST) | Sponsor Deadline | Application Instructions |
| Sponsor | Mechanism | Internal Deadline |
| Blavatnik Family Foundation | Young Scientist Award |
Opportunity Opened: 11/18/2025 Opportunity Closed: 11/20/2025 |
| Buell Foundation | Grants Program |
Opportunity Opened: 10/21/2025 Opportunity Closed: 12/01/2025 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Redisocvering our Revolutionary Tradition |
Opportunity Opened: 10/21/2025 Opportunity Closed: 12/01/2025 |
| V Foundation | Breaking Barriers in Cancer Research Award: V Scholar |
Opportunity Opened: 11/04/2025 Opportunity Closed: 12/05/2025 |
| V Foundation | Breaking Barriers in Cancer Research Award: Translational |
Opportunity Opened: 11/04/2025 Opportunity Closed: 12/05/2025 |
| Mathers Foundation | Mathers Grant Cycle II |
Opportunity Opened: 11/04/2025 Opportunity Closed: 12/10/2025 |
| National Science Foundation | Safety, Security, and Privacy of Open-Source Ecosystems (Safe-OSE) |
Opportunity Opened: 10/21/2025 Opportunity Closed: 11/10/2025 |
| National Science Foundation | NIGMS Collaborative Program Grant for Multidisciplinary Teams (RM1 | Clinical Trial Optional) |
Opportunity Opened: 10/21/2025 Opportunity Closed: 11/10/2025 |
| Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation | Clinical Investigator Award |
Opportunity Opened: 10/10/2025 Opportunity Closed: 11/07/2025 |
| Sebastian Strong Foundation | Discovery Science Award |
Opportunity Opened: 10/21/2025 Opportunity Closed: 11/02/2025 |
| W.M. Keck Foundation | Research Program Grant |
Opportunity Opened: 09/02/2025 Opportunity Closed: 10/31/2025 |
| St. Baldricks Foundation |
School (Career Development) Award
Research Grant Award |
Opportunity Opened: 09/16/2025 Opportunity Closed: 10/30/2025 |
| National Science Foundation | Integrated Data Systems & Services (IDSS) |
Opportunity Opened: 09/16/2025 Opportunity Closed: 10/23/2025 |
| V Foundation |
All-Star Grant |
Opportunity Opened: 09/26/2025 Opportunity Closed: 10/10/2025 |
| Oak Ridge Associated Universities | Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award |
Opportunity Opened: 09/26/2025 Opportunity Closed: 10/15/2025 |
| National Science Foundation | Integrated Data Systems & Services (IDSS) |
Opportunity Opened: 09/16/2025 Opportunity Closed: 10/23/2025 |
| St. Baldrick’s Foundation |
School (Career Development) Award
Research Grant Award |
Opportunity Opened: 09/6/2025 Opportunity Closed: 10/30/2025 |
| Warren Alpert Foundation | Distinguished scholar award |
Opportunity Opened: 07/15/2025 Opportunity Closed: 09/12/2025 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities | Humanities Research Centers on Artificial Intelligence |
Opportunity Opened: 08/19/2025 Opportunity Closed: 09/08/2025 |
| National Academies | Frontiers Planet Prize to Accelerate Scientific Solutions for Healthy Lives on a Healthy Planet |
Opportunity Opened: 07/15/2025 Opportunity Closed: 09/09/2025 |
| Brain Research Foundation | Seed Grant |
Opportunity Opened: 09/02/2025 Opportunity Closed: 09/18/2025 |
| Andrew Carnegie | Fellows Program |
Opportunity Opened: 08/19/2025 Opportunity Closed: 09/19/2025 |
| Caring for Colorado Foundation | Youth Health and Well-Being |
Opportunity Opened: 09/16/2025 Opportunity Closed: 09/30/2025 |
| Bureau of Justice Assistance, Department of Justice | Student, Teachers, and Officers Preventing (STOP) School Violence Program |
Opportunity Opened: 09/29/2025 Opportunity Closed: 10/06/2025 |
| U.S. Department of Justice | Addressing Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking at HSIs, HBCUs, and TCUs Initiative |
Opportunity Opened: 08/05/2025
Opportunity Closed: 8/19/2025 |
| The Tang Prize | Biopharmaceutical Sciences |
Opportunity Opened: 08/05/2025 Opportunity Closed: 8/19/2025 |
|
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation |
Opportunity Opened: 07/15/2025 Opportunity Closed: 09/03/2025 |
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| Kaiser Permanente | Center for Gun Violence Research and Education |
Opportunity Opened: 06/03/2025 Opportunity Closed: 6/29/2025 |
| NSF |
Opportunity Opened: 06/17/2025 Opportunity Archived by Sponsor. Awaiting new RFP. |
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| NSF | NSF Research Trainee Program (NRT) |
Opportunity Closed: 6/17/2025 Opportunity Archived by Sponsor. Awaiting new RFP. |
| St. Baldricks Foundation | Fellowship Awards | Opportunity Closed: 6/06/2025 |
| Edward Mallinckrodt Jr Foundation | Research Grants |
Opportunity Opened: 04/15/2025 Opportunity Closed: 6/13/2025 |
| Macy Foundation | Macy Faculty Scholar |
Opportunity Opened: 03/04/2025 Opportunity Closed: 6/06/2025 |
| St. Baldricks Foundation | Opportunity Closed: 6/06/2025 | |
| St. Baldricks Foundation | Fellowship Awards | Opportunity Closed: 6/06/2025 |
| Caring for Denver | Alternatives to Jail |
Opportunity Opened: 04/01/2025 Opportunity Closed: 4/16/2025 |
| The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) Foundation | 2025 - 2026 Request for Grant Proposals |
Opportunity Opened: 04/01/2025 Opportunity Closed: 4/25/2025 |
| American Diabetes Association | Pathway to Stop Diabetes |
Opportunity Opened: 03/11/2025 Opportunity Closed: 5/01/2025 |
| William T. Grant Foundation | William T. Grant Scholars Program |
Opportunity Opened: 03/18/2025 Opportunity Closed: 4/30/2025 |
| Gabrielle’s Angel Foundation | Annual Request for Proposals |
Opportunity Opened: 03/28/2025 Opportunity Closed: 4/17/2025 |
| V Foundation | V Scholar |
Opportunity Opened: 03/21/2025 Opportunity Closed: 4/09/2025 |
| Brain Research Foundation | Brain Research Foundation Scientific Innovations Award |
Opportunity Opened: 03/04/2025 Opportunity Closed: 4/21/2025 |
| NCI K99/R00 | Pathway to Independence Award |
Opportunity Opened: Opportunity Closed: 4/18/2025 |
| The Pew Charitable Trusts | 2026 Pew Biomedical Scholars |
Opportunity Opened: 02/04/2025 Opportunity Closed: 04/01/2025 |
| The Pew Charitable Trusts | 2026 Pew-Stewart Scholars for Cancer Research | Opportunity Opened: 02/04/2025 Opportunity Closed: 04/01/2025 |
| Searle Scholars | Searle Scholars 2026 |
Opportunity Opened: 02/04/2025 Opportunity Closed: 04/01/2025 |
| Burroughs Wellcome Fund | Climate + Health Excellence (CHEX) Centers |
Opportunity Opened: 02/04/2025 Opportunity Closed: 04/01/2025 |
| NIH | Common Fund | Competing Revisions to Support Clinical Trials in Somatic Cell Genome Edited (U19 Clinical Trials Required) |
Opportunity Opened: 03/01/2025 Opportunity Closed: 03/19/2025 |
| Robert J. Kleberg Jr. and Helen C. Kleberg Foundation | Medical Research Grant | Opportunity Opened: 02/20/2025 Opportunity Closed: 03/04/2025 |
| National Endowment for the Arts | FY26 Research Labs |
Opportunity Opened: 03/12/2025 Opportunity Closed: 03/18/2025 |
| W.M. Keck Foundation (Cycle 1) | Research Program Grant (Concept Papers) |
Opportunity Opened - 01/01/2025 Opportunity Closed – 02/6/2025 |
| Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) | The Circular Supply Chains Accelerator |
Opportunity Opened - 1/16/2025 Opportunity Closed -02/14/2025 |
| Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Foundation | Mathers Grant |
Opportunity Opened - 11/25/2024 Opportunity Closed -01/24/2025 |
| Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Foundation | Mathers Grant |
Opportunity Opened - 11/25/2024
Opportunity Closed -01/24/2025 |
| Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) |
The Circular Supply Chains Accelerator |
Opportunity Opened - 1/16/2025 Opportunity Closed - 02/14/2025 |
| Cycle I - W.M. Keck Foundation | Research Program Grant (Concept Papers) |
Opportunity Opened - 09/01/2024 Opportunity Closed – 11/01/2024 |
| National Science Foundation | MRI | September annually |
| Warren Alpert Foundation | Distinguished Scholar Award | September, annually |
| NIH Director's Early Investigator | DP5 | August 2023 |
| Pew Charitable Trusts | Biomedical Scholars | March, annually |
| Department of Education | Postsecondary Student Success Grant Program | September 2023 |
| Searle | Searle Scholars | March, annually |
| NIH | NIEHS | Superfund Hazardous Substance Research and Training Program (P42 Clinical Trial Optional) | September 2023 |
| National Science Foundation | NRT | September 2023 |
| Parker B. Francis | PBF Fellowship | September 2023 |
| Vasculitis Foundation | Vasculitis Foundation Grant Award | September 2023 |
| National Science Foundation | PIPP Phase II Centers Program | September 2023 |
| ADA | Pathway to Stop Diabetes | June, annually |
| Edward Mallinckrodt | Mallinckrodt Grant | July, annually |
| Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation | Moore Inventors Fellow | October, annually |
| Breast Cancer Alliance | Young Investigator | March, annually |
| Gabrielle's Angels Foundation | July, annually | |
| Breast Cancer Alliance | Exceptional Research Award | March, annually |
| Brain Research Foundation | Seed Grant | October, annually |
| Brain Research Foundation | Scientific Innovations Award | February, annually |
| Greenwall Foundation | RFP | August, annually |
| NIH HEAL | N CREW | September 2023 |
| V Foundation | Scholar Cancer Research Grant | December, annually |
| Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation | Emerging Investigator Fellowship Grant | November, annually |
| G. Harold & Leila Y. Mathers Foundation | Mathers Grants | October, annually |
| NCI | Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Fellow Transition Award | October, annually |
| Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) | Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Awards | November, annually |