Closed · 08-559 · CFDA 47.074 · Discretionary

Opportunities for Promoting Understanding through Synthesis

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

$125K-$150K
Award range
Closed
Status
-
Close date
8
Expected awards

The verdict

Opportunities for Promoting Understanding through Synthesis is a closed discretionary listing from U.S. National Science Foundation that offered $125,000 -- $150,000 across 8 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.

$125K-$150K
award range
Closed
application status
8
expected awards
47.074
CFDA program

Archived opportunity record

Opportunities for Promoting Understanding thr… 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

Application window closed

This listing is no longer accepting applications

Posted Apr 17 Closed

Est. Total Funding

$1,200,000

Expected Awards

8

Instrument

Grant

Description

Three clusters within the Division of Environmental Biology (the Ecological Biology, Ecosystem Science, and the Population and Evolutionary Processes clusters) encourage the submission of proposals aimed at synthesizing a body of related research projects conducted by a single individual or group of investigators over an extended period. OPUS proposals will often be appropriately submitted in mid-to-late career, but will also be appropriate early enough in a career to produce unique, integrated insight useful both to the scientific community and to the development of the investigator's future work. In cases where multiple scientists have worked collaboratively, an OPUS award will provide support for collaboration on a synthesis. OPUS awards will facilitate critical synthesis, and do so in a way that will acknowledge the prestige of this important component of scientific scholarship.

Catch-all / unrestricted eligibility mark · 08-559

Grants.gov marks Opportunities for Promoting Understanding thr… with a catch-all / unrestricted eligibility code (Unrestricted / see official listing). 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 (614 peers, 46% of 1,339).

Code 99
Unrestricted / see official listing

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

Opportunities for Promoting Understanding thr… 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

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