The availability of COVID-19 grants and funding opportunities to support research is rapidly evolving. Many investigators also have questions about how to deal with grant program interruptions. Listed below are links to information/FAQs from several major federal agencies on how to deal with grant interruptions. Following that is a collection of COVID-19 funding opportunities to support research from a variety of federal agencies, foundations, and organizations. Check back often for updated lists.
Please contact Lori Uttech-Hanson to share relevant funding sources at uttechhanson@wisc.edu.
Dealing with Grant Interruptions, Delays or Flexibilities due to COVID
Many UW-Madison researchers and research administrative staff have questions about how to deal with grant interruptions, delays, or flexibilities due to the pandemic and temporary closure of facilities. The NIH has a very informative webpage dedicated to FAQs, which tend to direct you to your Program Officer in most cases (see link below). All federal agencies understand what is going on, but may have less thorough information than NIH. If you find your question is not addressed on the agency’s website, it is advisable to email the Program Officer, copying your RSP accountant. RSP also has different sponsors’ COVID-19 information posted on their website. Please click on the links below for guidance and FAQs related to grant delays and interruptions from several major funders and additional information posted on the RSP website:
Funding Opportunities Related to COVID-19
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Grant Database Lists (Free Access to Collections of Funding Announcements)
Ex Libris Research Professional: The Ex Libris Research Professional together with Pivot® funding services are providing free access to a list of select funding opportunities related to combatting the coronavirus and COVID-19. By raising awareness of these resources, which are offered from a wide range of global funders, they hope to help researchers expand their scholarly efforts to understand and contend with this global pandemic.
• Link is: https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/covid-19-funding-opportunities/
Grant Forward: GrantForward has provided a free list of grants related to addressing COVID-19 ranging from small foundation to large-scale federal research grants in an effort to help researchers and others find science-based solutions to address this global pandemic.
• Link is: https://www.grantforward.com/grant-covid
GrantStation: GrantStation’s list includes funding opportunities for nonprofits, small businesses, journalists, and artists.
• Link is: https://grantstation.com/covid-19-related-funding
InfoEd Global: InfoEd Global shares this library of COVID-19 funding opportunities and resources for researchers and the broader community at large. This site is updated daily.
• Link is: https://www.infoedglobal.com/COVID19/COVID-19
National Institutes of Health: Funding specific to COVID-19 (also in table below with more information).
Link is: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/COVID-Related.cfm#active
Pivot: Pivot has given free access to a list of COVID-19 related funding sources, and they are updating the list weekly.
• Link is: https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/covid-19-funding-opportunities/
WI Center for Technology Commercialization: The CTC has posted a list of federal agencies that are supporting research and development in response to the coronavirus. Many of these agencies are included in the panels below on this medRAMP website, with information on specific funding announcements.
• Link is: https://wisconsinctc.org/federal-funding-and-partnership-opportunities-in-the-fight-against-coronavirus/
Stermlyne Research Software: Streamlyne’s intelligent natural language processing tool enables researchers to locate articles on SARS-CoV-2 and related viruses quickly and efficiently within the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19) created by the Allen Institute for AI, in partnership with several tech companies and the OSTP. The dataset is linked to the World Health Organization (WHO) database of publications on coronavirus disease and other resources. The website also provides a sample list of some of the most promising COVID-19 research efforts at universities and independent research institutions.
• Link is: https://c19priority.ai/
SPIN infoED Funding Database: infoEd Global is proud to be able to share this library of COVID-19 funding opportunities and resources with colleagues in the research realm and the broader community at large.
• Link is: https://www.infoedglobal.com/COVID19/COVID-19.html
InnoCentive COVID-19 Challenges: This page is exclusively for Coronavirus related challenges. InnoCentive and Wazoku are initiating the first of these challenges and are already working with organizations to design and post others. Each challenge will have a specific problem area defined for either required Solutions or Ideas to be submitted. Clients from the public and private sectors will be named in the challenges as having provided support, funding and reviewing expertise for solutions submitted.
• Link is: https://innocentive.wazoku.com/#/community/927970fbe1cb43a38b33c636dfbc2b8d/home-page
National Institutes of Health
National Institutes of Health
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
wdt_ID | Sponsor | Program Name | Funding | Deadline | Notice |
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3 | AHRQ | Novel, High-Impact Studies Evaluating Health System and Healthcare Professional Responsiveness to COVID-19 (R01) | $1,000,000 | 6/15/2020 | RFA-HS-02-003 |
Sponsor | Program Name | Funding | Deadline | Notice |
Department of Defense
Department of Defense
wdt_ID | Sponser | Program | Funding | Deadline |
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1 | DoD | Request for Information for PPE in response to COVID-19 | N/A | 3/24/2020 (information accepted on a rolling basis) |
7 | DoD Department of Army | Prototype development of a COVID-19 Pandemic Therapeutic Rapid Advanced Research and Development (ARD) to Large Scale Manufacturing (W911QY-20-S-0019) | Contract | 2/28/2021 |
9 | ||||
10 | DoD - Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) | SenSARS (DARPA-PA-20-01-04) | $1,000,000 | 12/01/2020 |
11 | DOD Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Biological Technologies Office (BTO) |
Biological Technologies (HR001120S0044) | $250,000 | 4/22/2021 |
Health Resources and Services Administration
Health Resources and Services Administration
wdt_ID | Sponsor | Program Name | Funding | Deadline |
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11 | HRSA | Emerging Issues in Maternal and Child Health | $250,000 | 04/09/2021 |
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
wdt_ID | Sponsor | Program | Funding | Deadline |
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6 | PCORI | Phased Large Awards in Comparative Effectiveness Research (PLACER) | $22,000,000 | 9/29/2020 for Letter of Intent; 1/21/2021 for Full Application |
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8 | PCORI | Improving Methods for Conducting Patient-Centered Outcomes Research -- Cycle 3 2020 | $750,000 direct costs (total over 3 years) | 9/29/2020 for Letter of Intent; 1/12/2021 application deadline |
9 | PCORI | Implementation of Findings from PCORI's Major Research Investments -- Cycle 3 2020 | $2,500,000 total costs (over 3 years) | 9/22/2020 for Letter of Intent; 12/01/2020 application deadline |
10 | PCORI | Limited PCORI Funding Announcement: Implementation of PCORI-Funded Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Results – Cycle 3 2020 | $1,000,000 in total direct costs (over 3 years) | 9/22/2020 for Letter of Intent; 12/01/2020 application deadline |
11 | PCORI | Engagement Award: Capacity Building | $2,500,000 total (over 2 years) | 10/02/2020 for Letter of Intent; application due 40 days after LO invite |
12 | PCORI | Engagement Award: Dissemination Initiative | $250,000 total (over 2 years) | 10/01/2020 for Letter of Intent; proposal due 40 days after LOI invite |
13 | PCORI | Engagement Award: Stakeholder Convening Support | $100,000 total (1 year) | 10/01/2020 for Letter of Intent; proposal due 40 days after LOI invitation |
14 | PCORI | Broad PCORI Funding Announcements – Cycle 3 2020 (Health Disparities, Assessment of Options, Dissemination Research, Improving Healthcare Systems) | Addressing Disparities; Assessment of Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment Options; and Improving Healthcare Systems: up to $3 million (Small) - up to $5 million (Large) — Communication & Dissemination Research: up to $2 million | 9/29/2020 for Letter of Intent; 1/12/2021 application deadline |
15 | PCORI | Broad PCORI Funding Announcements -- Cycle 1 2021 | TBD - PFA available 1/05/2021 | 2.02/2021 for Letter of Intent; 5/04/2021 for Full Application |
CDC & Other Department of Health and Human Services Opportunities
- CDC Emerging Infections Network – Research for Preventing, Detecting, and Managing Travelers who Acquire Infectious Diseases Abroad (RFA-CK-21-002) – Deadline: 12/18/2020; Awards up to $1,500,000
- CDC Monitoring Cause-specific School Absenteeism for Estimating Community-wide Influenza and SARS-CoV-2 Transmission (U01) (RFA-CK-21-003) – Deadline: 12/18/2020; Award Ceiling: $1,000,000
- Annual Estimates of Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness for Preventing Medically Attended Laboratory-Confirmed Influenza in the United States (RFA-IP021-005) – Deadline Estimated: 1/08/2020; Award Ceiling $2,150,000
- CDC Enhancing Global Health Security: Strengthening Public Health Surveillance Systems and Preparedness Globally (CDC-RFA-GH21-2174). – Deadline Estimated: 1/29/2021; Award Ceiling $20,000,000
- CDC US Enhanced Surveillance Network to Assess Burden, Natural History, and Effectiveness of Vaccines to Prevent Enteric and Respiratory Viruses in Children (RFA-IP-21-002) – Deadline: 2/08/2021; Award Ceiling $1,950,000
- CDC Research to Inform Pandemic Response and Recovery of Emergency-Affected Populations by Determining Public Health Needs, Improving Methods, Integrating Services to Mitigate Morbidity, Mortality (RFA-GH-21-004) – Deadline: 2/18/2021; Award Ceiling $3,000,000
- CDC Strengthening Public Health Research and Implementation Science (Operations Research) to Control and Eliminate Infectious Diseases Globally (RFA-GH-21-006) – Deadline: 2/22/2021; Award Ceiling $2,000,000
- CDC Forecast: Global Healthcare Detection and Response (CDC-RFA-CK21-2104) – Anticipated Deadline: 5/26/2021; Award Ceiling: None stated
- Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) – 2019 Novel Coronavirus Medical Countermeasure Partnership Opportunities
National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation
wdt_ID | Sponsor | Program | Funding | Deadline |
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1 | NSF | RAPID: Dear Colleague Letter on the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) | $200,000 | Check with program officers |
2 | NSF | Dear Colleague Letter: Provisioning Advanced Cyberinfrastructure to Further Research on the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) | $200,000 (RAPID) & supplemental funding requests | Check with program officers |
4 | NSF | Civic Innovation Challenge (CIVIC) | $50,000 for Stage 1; $1,000,000 for Stage 2 | 8/03/2020 - Stage 1 (Planning); 3/31/2021 - Stage 2 |
5 | NSF | Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases* | $2,500,000 total | 11/17/2021 |
6 | NSF | Smart and Connected Communities (S&CC) (21-535) | • Integrative Research: Track 1 - $1,500,001-$2,500,000; Track 2 $1,500,000 • Planning: $150,000 • Virtual Organization: $250,000/year |
2/24/2021 |
7 | NSF | Research on Emerging Technologies for Teaching and Learning (RETTL) (20-612) | $850,000 | 1/25/2021; 10/18/2021; 10/17/2022 |
8 | NSF | Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) (21-500 ) | CORE & TPP: Small - $500,000; Medium -$500,000 to $1,200,000 CORE: Large - $1,200,001-$3,000,000 EDU: $400,000 to $500,000 |
Large: 1/21/2021-1/29/2021 Small/Medium/EDU: 10/01/2020-9/30/2021 |
11 | NSF | Dynamics of Integrated Socio-Environmental Systems (DISES) (20-579 ) | DISES Research Projects: $1,600,000 DISES-RCN Awards: $500,000 |
11/21/2021 & annually thereafter |
12 | NSF | Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) Program (20-595) | $1,000,000 | March 25, 2022; March 25, Annually Thereafter |
13 | NSF | Dear Colleague Letter: Sentinel Cells for Surveillance and Response to Emergent Infectious Diseases (Sentinels) (NSF 20-105) | Based on applicable program (NSF 21-509; PD 20-7909, NSF PD 20-1491) | Rolling deadlines |
Department of Agriculture
Department of Agriculture
wdt_ID | Sponsor | Program Name | Funding | Deadline |
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5 | National Institute of Food and Agriculture | Rural Health and Saftey Education Department of Agriculture | Unspecified | 4/29/2021 |
Other Sponsors & Funding Opportunities
Other Sponsors
wdt_ID | Sponsor | Program | Funding | Deadline |
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1 | Mozilla | COVID-19 Solutions Fund | $50,000 | Applications accepted on a rolling basis |
2 | Department of Energy | Invitation for COVID-19 scientific questions | DOE Resources | 3/18/2020 - Review starts 3/18 but applications accepted on a rolling basis |
11 | Wellcome Trust & UK Department for International Development | Epidemic Preparedness: COVID-19 funding call | Up to £2 million available | Currently closed |
12 | Merck KGaA (Germany) | Research Grant for Pandemic Preparedness | $1,500,000 ($500,000 €/yr for 3 yrs) | Applications accepted on a rolling basis |
25 | Autism Speaks | COVID19_Resource_Call.pdf | Not Applicable | Not specified |
27 | Biogen Foundation (review request guidelines) | COVID-19 Response | Not specified | Accepting applications - no due date specified |
29 | Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation | DRK Covid-19 Urgent Response Initiative (CURI) | $50,000-$100,000 (TBD - CURI invests 25% max of total) | Rolling deadline |
60 | U.S. International Development Finance Corporation | Global Health and Prosperity Initiative | $5,000,000 to $500,000,000 | No deadline; applications accepted on a rolling basis |
62 | Gates Foundation | COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator | Share ideas | Ongoing |
63 | COVID-19 Early Treatment Fund (CETF) | Funding for Outpatent Trials | Up to $1,000,000 | Currently accepting applications |
The Rheumatology Research Foundation
The Rheumatology Research Foundation
wdt_ID | Sponsor | Program | Funding | Deadline |
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3 | RWJF | The 2020 Systems for Action Supplemental COVID-19 Studies Call for Proposals | $200,000 for up to 2 years | Deadline has passed |
Sponsor | Program | Funding | Deadline |
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)
wdt_ID | Sponsor | Program | Funding | Deadline |
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4 | RWJF | RWJF Health Data for Action: (Data Access Award) | -Successful applicants granted access to the selected data set at no cost to the grantee. -$100,000 for First-Time External Funding Recipient Awards |
12/17/2020 for brief proposal; 4/15/2021 for invited full proposal |
6 | RWJF | Evidence for Action: Investigator-Initiated Research to Build a Culture of Health | Not specified | Rolling |
7 | RWJF | Pioneering Ideas: Exploring the Future to Build a Culture of Health | No specified | Rolling |
8 | RWJF | Policies for Action: Public Policy Research to Advance Racial Equity and Racial Justice | Not defined; however average award is $250,000 ($2M available) | 11/24/2020 for Letter of Intent; 4/07/2021 for Full Application |
Internal UW-Madison Funding Opportunities
UWCCC BioBank – COVID 19-Related Blood Samples for Research
Internal UW-Madison Opportunities
wdt_ID | Sponsor | Program | Funding | Deadline |
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1 | Wisconsin Partnership Program | COVID-19 Response Grant | $750,000 to support community-led projects and $750,000 to support projects led by UW-Madison researchers. Award amounts will range between $25,000 and $150,000, for a duration of up to 12 months | Deadline has passed |
4 | UWCCC Translational Science BioCore BioBank, UW SMPH & Wisconsin Partnership Program | (NEW) COVID-19 BioBank Initiative Request for Proposals | Access to UWCCC BioBank resources (samples, clinical or survey data) to further COVID-19 research efforts | Applications reviewed monthly, and approvals granted on a rolling basis |
6 | UW ICTR | Novel Methods Award | $50,000 | Deadline has passed |
7 | UW ICTR | Clinical & Community Outcomes Research | $75,000 | Deadline has passed |
8 | UW ICTR | Collaborative Health Equity Research | $50,000 | Deadline has passed |
9 | UW ICTR | Evidence to Implementation | $52,500 | Deadline has passed |
10 | UW ICTR | Marshfield Clinic/Marshfield Clinic-UW Award | $75,000 | Deadline has passed |
11 | UW ICTR | Stakeholder and Patient Engaged Research | $100,000 | Deadline has passed |
12 | UW ICTR | Translational Basic & Clinical Research Pilot Awards | $50,000 | 12/21/2020 for Letter of Intent; 2/22/2021 for Full Application |
13 | Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation | Research Forward | $500,000 | 12/21/2020 for Abstract; 2/01/2021 for Full Proposal |
Fast Grants Funding for COVID-19 Science
Note: Applications to Fast Grants is currently paused due to receipt of a very large number of qualified submissions. They may be reopened again in the future. Please go to the Fast Grants website to sign up if you’d like to be notified when they are reopened.
• Link is: https://fastgrants.org/
About Fast Grants:
Science funding mechanisms are too slow in normal times and may be much too slow during the COVID-19 pandemic. Fast Grants are an effort to correct this. If you are a scientist at an academic institution currently working on a COVID-19 related project and in need of funding, Fast Grants invites you to apply for frant. Fast Grants are $10k to $500k and decisions are made in under 48 hours. If approved, you’ll receive payment as quickly as the University can receive it. Below are brief instructions, followed by FAQs:
(A) Instructions:
(1) Fill out the application: The application form should take less than 30 minutes. The grants are currently supported by: John Collison, Patrick Collison, Paul Graham, Reid Hoffman, Fiona McKean and Tobias Lütke, Yuri and Julia Milner, and Chris and Crystal Sacca. These funders have committed over $10M to funding Fast Grant awardees.
If you are an interested funder, please reach out: fund@fastgrants.org.
(B) Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
(1) Who is eligible to apply for a Fast Grant?
You must be:
- A PI at an academic institution;
- Already working on a project that could help with the COVID-19 pandemic within the next six months;
- In need of additional funding to complete the project;
- Researchers outside the US are eligible for funding.
(2) Why the six month constraint?
Most existing funding bodies focus on supporting longer-term work. Given COVID-19’s human costs, speed is of paramount importance.
(4) Who will make grant decisions?
A panel of biomedical scientists will make funding recommendations to Emergent Ventures.
(5) What can a Fast Grant be used for?
Fast Grants must be used solely to expedite COVID-19-related science. Beyond that, the grant recipient has complete discretion over how it is spent.
(6) What criteria will panelists use?
Fast Grants prefers projects that are cheap (so that funding dollars go further) and that will yield results quickly (during COVID-19, days matter).
(7) Does the grant go to the PI or to the university?
This is at the discretion of the applicant.
(8) When can I apply?
Fast Grants opened at 12:00 Pacific Time on Tuesday, April 7, 2020. The first round of awards was announced starting on April 12.
(9) What conditions apply?
- You must use the grant to work on COVID-19-related science.
- You must send monthly updates, summarizing your progress, for 6 months (can be as simple as a single-paragraph email).
- You must upload all manuscripts reporting work supported by the grant to a preprint server such as bioRxiv or arXiv upon submission to a peer-reviewed journal.
- In line with Gates Foundation policy, will pay at most 10% in overhead costs to the university.
(10) How do IP rights work?
Apart from the open science publication requirement above, there are no IP restrictions associated with Fast Grants.
(11) Who administers Fast Grants?
Fast Grants is a part of Emergent Ventures, a project at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. For Canadian recipients, Fast Grants makes funding recommendations to the Thistledown Foundation.
(12) Will the identities of grant recipients be made public?
This shall be at the recipient’s discretion. Fast Grants will list those who agree to be named and provide regular updates on the total dollars that have been allocated.
(13) What inspired Fast Grants?
During World War II, the NDRC accomplished a lot of research very quickly. In his memoir, Vannevar Bush recounts: “Within a week NDRC could review the project. The next day the director could authorize, the business office could send out a letter of intent, and the actual work could start.” Fast Grants are an effort to unlock progress at a cadence similar to that which served us well then.
National Institutes of Health
COVID-19: Information for NIH Applicants and Recipients of NIH Funding. See list of FAQs for grant interruptions.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Coronavirus Disease 2019: Information for Applicants and Recipients of CDC Funding
UW-Madison Research & Sponsored Programs
Coronavirus Disease 2019 Updates Related to Sponsored Programs at UW-Madison