Grants Radar is a free weekly digest of the SBIR, STTR, and federal grants that pay you to build — no equity taken, nothing to pay back. They open and close fast across 24 federal agencies (the DoD alone has 160 open right now), and a window you miss is gone for a year. We scan every one and send the best each Tuesday, free. Members get more: same-day alerts, personalized to your organization, the day a match opens.
Hundreds of federal programs open and close every month across a dozen agencies. Grants Radar does the watching so you do the building.
We pull newly posted opportunities straight from the government's own live Grants.gov data — the moment they open.
Each one gets a plain-English summary and an honest read on who it's for — so you read only what's worth your time, including what to skip.
The full roundup lands once a week — deadlines, award sizes, eligibility, and direct links. And when a brand-new match opens, you get a same-day alert, because some windows stay open only days. Switch instant alerts off whenever weekly is enough.
Pulled from live government data — including the one we told this reader to skip. Real summaries, real scoring, real links. The awards below reach into the millions — every one non-dilutive.
The Department of Energy splits the bill for getting advanced reactor designs through NRC licensing — the single most expensive gate in nuclear. A $50M pool, roughly 25 awards this cycle, up to $8M each. Cost sharing is required, so bring matching funds — but if you're building nuclear, this halves the licensing problem.
Broad NIST research funding tailor-made for deep-tech and hardware teams — metrology, nanotechnology, advanced manufacturing, AI, and advanced communications all qualify. With roughly 300 awards expected, the odds here are unusually friendly for a federal program.
The flagship non-dilutive R&D grant for startups commercializing biomedical or health technology. R43 funds Phase I feasibility; R44 funds Phase II development. No equity taken, nothing to pay back — and it's open on a rolling basis through 2027.
Heads-up — the name is a trap, and we'll say so. ATE funds two-year colleges to train technicians for high-tech fields — applicants must be academic institutions, and projects are faculty-led and credit-bearing. It isn't R&D money for companies. Skip unless you're a college or workforce program; if you're a startup chasing non-dilutive R&D, the SBIR/STTR programs above are your lane.
Federal SBIR and STTR programs hand out free R&D money — no equity, nothing to repay. The hard part isn't the money; it's knowing what's open before the window shuts.
Paid out as grants and cooperative agreements (NIH, NSF, DOE, DoD) — every one non-dilutive. Now look at what this costs. ↓
Non-dilutive awards run from tens of thousands to millions. The math isn't close.
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