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Rural Priority
Programs that give priority or preference to rural applicants, or that have a significant track record of funding rural areas.
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Rural Eligible
Programs where rural communities are eligible to apply but that do not specifically target or prioritize rural areas.
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Suggested USASpending.gov
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Title Agency Close Date Rural Tier Posted ▼
NIGMS Institutional Biomedical Undergraduate Research Training (BURT) Program (T34) National Institutes of Health Sep 25, 2028 Rural Eligible Dec 29, 2025
YouthBuild 2025 Employment and Training Administration Mar 2, 2026 Rural Priority Dec 23, 2025
Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 National Technical Assistance Programs (NTAP) Cooperative Agreements Health Resources and Services Administration Mar 31, 2026 Rural Eligible Dec 23, 2025
FY 2025 Continuum of Care Competition and Youth Homeless Demonstration Program Grants NOFO Department of Housing and Urban Development Feb 25, 2026 Rural Priority Dec 20, 2025
Informatics, Coordination and Service Center for the Mutant Mouse Resource and Research Centers (U42 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) National Institutes of Health May 1, 2026 Rural Eligible Dec 5, 2025
Resource-Related Research Projects for Development of Models and Related Materials for Studying Human Health and Diseases (R24 Clinical Trials Not Allowed) National Institutes of Health Sep 28, 2028 Rural Eligible Dec 5, 2025
Animal and Biological Material Resource Centers (P40 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) National Institutes of Health Jan 9, 2029 Rural Eligible Dec 5, 2025
Cancer Center Support Grants (CCSGs) for NCI-designated Cancer Centers (P30 Clinical Trial Optional) National Institutes of Health Sep 25, 2028 Rural Eligible Nov 26, 2025
Community-Partnered Nursing Research Centers (P20 Clinical Trial Optional) National Institutes of Health May 7, 2028 Rural Eligible Sep 17, 2025
BRAIN Initiative: Theories, Models and Methods for Analysis of Complex Data from the Brain (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) National Institutes of Health Nov 8, 2027 Rural Eligible Sep 16, 2025
Integrated Data Systems & Services U.S. National Science Foundation Jul 28, 2026 Rural Eligible Aug 27, 2025
Native American Research Centers for Health (NARCH) Planning Grants (R34 - Clinical Trial Not Allowed) National Institutes of Health Jul 7, 2028 Rural Priority Aug 26, 2025
Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program Foundational and Applied Science Program National Institute of Food and Agriculture Dec 31, 2026 Rural Priority Aug 1, 2025
Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE): Future Computing Research U.S. National Science Foundation Sep 10, 2026 Rural Eligible Jul 25, 2025
Small Surface Water and Groundwater Storage Projects (Small Storage Program) Bureau of Reclamation Apr 17, 2026 Rural Priority Jul 17, 2025
Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation U.S. National Science Foundation Nov 20, 2026 Rural Eligible May 23, 2025
NSF's Eddie Bernice Johnson Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (INCLUDES) Initiative U.S. National Science Foundation May 12, 2026 Rural Eligible May 23, 2025
Application Instructions for the Indian Community Development Block Grant (ICDBG) Imminent Threat (IT) Program Department of Housing and Urban Development Sep 30, 2026 Rural Eligible Apr 18, 2025
Fire Science Innovations through Research and Education U.S. National Science Foundation Apr 7, 2026 Rural Priority Mar 16, 2025
Intervention Research to Improve Native American Health (R34 Clinical Trial Optional) National Institutes of Health Jan 7, 2027 Rural Eligible Jan 22, 2025
Joint NINDS/NIMH Exploratory Neuroscience Research Grant (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) National Institutes of Health Jan 7, 2028 Rural Eligible Jan 8, 2025
Findable Accessible Interoperable Reusable Open Science U.S. National Science Foundation Apr 8, 2026 Rural Eligible Jan 7, 2025
Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure U.S. National Science Foundation Jan 20, 2027 Rural Eligible Jan 4, 2025
Leveraging Network Infrastructure to Conduct Innovative Research for Women, Children, Pregnant and Lactating Women, and Persons with Disabilities (UG3/UH3 - Clinical Trial Optional) National Institutes of Health Nov 15, 2027 Rural Eligible Dec 16, 2024
EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program: EPSCoR Collaborations for Optimizing Research Ecosystems U.S. National Science Foundation Jul 21, 2026 Rural Eligible Dec 14, 2024

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