Clemson University — Federal Grants & Funding Profile

Clemson University has received 66 federal grant awards totaling $233.3M across 39 assistance programs and 10 federal agencies, based on USAspending.gov records aggregated by Grantoria.

66awards

$233.3Mtotal funding

$84.6Mlargest award

$3.5Mavg award

39programs

🏆 Top 10% by total funding · Top 3% by number of awards among U.S. federal grant recipients tracked by Grantoria.

Open grants Clemson University could apply for now

Live opportunities in the federal programs Clemson University has previously been funded under — sorted by upcoming deadline.

Department of Interior Wildland Fire Service BLM-National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP)Fire Leaders And Managers, Emerging Scientists (FLAMES)
Bureau of Land Management CFDA 15.232

up to $40K Deadline: Sep 17, 2026 Open
U.S. Wildland Fire Service BLM-National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) Primary Announcement
Bureau of Land Management CFDA 15.232

up to $500K Deadline: Sep 17, 2026 Open
U.S Wildland Fire Service BLM-National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) Regional Fire Science Exchange Announcement
Bureau of Land Management CFDA 15.232

up to $262K Deadline: Sep 17, 2026 Open
Plant Protection Act Section 7721 Plant Pest and Disease Management and Disaster Prevention Program (PPDMDPP)
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service CFDA 10.031

up to $400K Deadline: Sep 21, 2026 Open
Precision Inertial Navigation & Positioning On an Integrated Tesseract (PINPOINT)
DARPA - Defense Sciences Office CFDA 12.910

Deadline: Sep 25, 2026 Open
NLM Institutional Grants for Research Training in Biomedical Informatics, Data Science, and AI
National Institutes of Health CFDA 93.879

up to $775K Deadline: Sep 25, 2026 Open
FY2026 Water Resources Research Act Non-Competitive Coordination
Geological Survey CFDA 15.805

Deadline: Sep 30, 2026 Open
NRL Long Range Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for Basic and Applied Research
Naval Research Laboratory CFDA 12.300

Deadline: Sep 30, 2026 Open

Federal programs Clemson University has been funded under

Top programs ranked by total funding received (39 programs in total).

Research and Technology DevelopmentCFDA 12.910 $91.3M
Animal Disease and Animal CareCFDA 10.025 $32.3M
Integrative ActivitiesCFDA 47.083 $17M
Congressional DirectivesCFDA 93.493 $12M
Assistance to State Water Resources Research InstitutesCFDA 15.805 $8.8M
Basic and Applied Scientific ResearchCFDA 12.300 $7.5M
Technology, Innovation, and PartnershipsCFDA 47.084 $6.3M
School Safely National ActivitiesCFDA 84.184 $5.8M
Conservation Research and DevelopmentCFDA 81.086 $5.8M
Advanced Research Projects Agency – EnergyCFDA 81.135 $5.4M
Nurse Education, Practice Quality and Retention GrantsCFDA 93.359 $5.4M
Integrated ProgramsCFDA 10.303 $5.2M
Assisting Specialty Crop ExportsCFDA 10.621 $4.8M
Plant Pest and Disease Management (PPDM)CFDA 10.031 $4.3M
Specialty Crop Research InitiativeCFDA 10.309 $4.1M

Top awarding agencies

Department of Defense$101.2M
Department of Agriculture$58.2M
National Science Foundation$23.3M
Department of Health and Human Services$20.2M
Department of Energy$13.1M
Department of the Interior$9.3M
Department of Education$6.3M
Department of Justice$1.1M
Department of Transportation$497K
Department of Housing and Urban Development$151K

Where this funding went

Awards recorded across 2 states/territories: NC, SC.

Similar grant recipients

Organizations with a similar federal funding profile.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 132 awards · $1.8B South Carolina State University 17 awards · $48.3M University of South Carolina 65 awards · $237.6M Duke University 87 awards · $1.94B North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University 23 awards · $173.6M North Carolina State University 144 awards · $668.1M

Frequently asked questions

How much federal grant funding has Clemson University received?

Clemson University has received 66 federal grant awards totaling $233.3M, based on USAspending.gov assistance records aggregated by Grantoria.

Which federal agencies fund Clemson University?

Its largest federal funders are Department of Defense, Department of Agriculture, National Science Foundation and others.

Can Clemson University apply for grants that are open now?

Yes — there are federal grants open today in the same programs Clemson University has previously been funded under. See the open grants section above.

Source: USAspending.gov assistance awards, aggregated by Grantoria. Historical record of awards received; not an endorsement or a guarantee of future funding.