No. 23-580 · U.S. National Science Foundation
Infrastructure Capacity for Biological Research
- Award range
- $25,000 – $1,200,000
- Expected awards
- ~60
- Application deadline
- No deadline listed
- Posted
- Apr 21, 2023
- Last verified
- Today
At a glance
AI summaryThis program funds tools, products, services, and major improvements that expand research infrastructure for biology, including cyberinfrastructure, biological collections, and biological field stations and marine laboratories. It also accepts planning proposals and workshops to help coordinate infrastructure needs, but it does not fund instrumentation or infrastructure for a single project, lab, or institution. Eligible applicants are U.S.-based two- and four-year colleges and universities, including community colleges, and certain U.S.-based nonprofit non-academic organizations such as museums, observatories, research labs, and professional societies. No cost-share requirement is stated, and there are no limits on who may serve as PI or on the number of proposals per organization or per PI/co-PI. Award counts, sizes, and durations are not specified and depend on available funds and proposal quality.
AI-generated summary — verify against the announcement
What it funds
Official description from grants.gov
The Infrastructure Capacity for Biological Research (Capacity) Program supports the implementation of, scaling of, or major improvements to research tools, products, and services that advance contemporary biology in any research area supported by the Directorate forBiological Sciences at NSF. The Capacity Program focuses on building capacity in research infrastructure that is broadly applicable to a wide range of researchers in three programmatic areas: Cyberinfrastructure, Biological Collections, and Biological Field Stations and Marine Laboratories. This program will also accept proposals for planning activities or workshops to facilitate coordination that may be necessary in building capacity in infrastructure that meets the needs of a research community. Areas not included in this program are instrumentation (PIs should submit to the MRI program) and, projects that develop infrastructure for a specific research project, laboratory, or institution (PIs should submitted to the relevant BIO programs that would normally support that research). Projects are expected to produce quality products, result in important science outcomes that will be achieved by the users of the resource, be openly accessible to a broad scientific and education community, and serve a community of researchers beyond a single research team.
Who can apply
- Others
Program history
USASpending.govAssistance listing 47.074 · Biological Sciences
Real awards this federal program has made — the whole assistance listing (47.074), not just this notice.
| Fiscal year | Awards | Median award | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY 2026 (so far) | 458 | $570,595 | $339,784 – $897,764 |
| FY 2025 | 826 | $501,517 | $345,101 – $859,237 |
| FY 2024 | 1,075 | — | — |
| FY 2023 | 1,137 | — | — |
| FY 2022 | 1,240 | — | — |
| FY 2021 | 1,243 | — | — |
For comparison, this notice advertises $25,000 – $1,200,000.
Dollar figures are based on the 1,000 most recent awards we store, not all 5,979 — award counts are complete.
- RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE $2,999,999 · FY 2025
- UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. $2,514,000 · FY 2025
- UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK $2,432,713 · FY 2025
- CLEMSON UNIVERSITY $2,400,000 · FY 2025
- THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY $2,200,000 · FY 2025
Source: USASpending.gov · refreshed Aug 5, 2026
Change history
Since we first indexed it- Jul 25, 2026 Grant announcement document replaced