Closed · 21-501 · CFDA 47.074 · Discretionary

Infrastructure Capacity for Biological Research

Federal grant opportunity posted by U.S. National Science Foundation, cataloged on Grants.gov.

$25K-$1.2M
Award range
Closed
Status
-
Close date
75
Expected awards

The verdict

Infrastructure Capacity for Biological Research is a closed discretionary listing from U.S. National Science Foundation that offered $25,000 -- $1,200,000 across 75 expected awards. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 1,338 other opportunities from U.S. National Science Foundation.

$25K-$1.2M
award range
Closed
application status
75
expected awards
47.074
CFDA program

Archived opportunity record

Infrastructure Capacity for Biological Resear… is closed. The parent program page for CFDA 47.074 is the reliable place to catch re-announcements. U.S. National Science Foundation still indexes 1,338 other opportunities here.

According to Grants.gov (extract vintage 2026-08-10), this record reflects the officially published listing. See methodology.

Deadline tracker

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Posted Jun 6 Closed

Est. Total Funding

$20,000,000

Expected Awards

75

Instrument

Grant

Description

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.

Catch-all / unrestricted eligibility mark · 21-501

Grants.gov marks Infrastructure Capacity for Biological Resear… with a catch-all / unrestricted eligibility code (Others (see official listing text)). Read the official announcement text for the real applicant filter — the code alone is not a door list. The extract does not mark applicant cost-sharing as required. Instrument: Grant. Funding-activity code maps to Science and Technology / R&D (ST). This eligibility-code string dominates the U.S. National Science Foundation book (722 peers, 54% of 1,339).

Code 25
Others (see official listing text)

Codes are Grants.gov eligibility category values from the extract vintage 2026-08-10. Confirm the full eligibility statement on the official listing or the Grants.gov eligibility reference.

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Parent Grant Program

CFDA 47.074

Biological Sciences

National Science Foundation

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Agency Contact

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What to do next

Infrastructure Capacity for Biological Resear… is closed; use the parent program and agency catalog for the next funding cycle.

  • Parent CFDA 47.074 may publish future NOFOs under the same assistance listing. Open program
  • Biological Sciences indexes 164 Grants.gov listings in this extract. Program profile
  • U.S. National Science Foundation lists 1,338 other indexed opportunities on PlainGrants. Agency catalog

Opportunity deadlines and eligibility change on Grants.gov; PlainGrants mirrors the extract and is not the submission system.

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