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Smithsonian Institution Astrophysical Observatory: 20 NSF awards ($10M), fiscal years 2021 to 2026
Smithsonian Institution Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, MA is funded under 20 NSF awards ($10M) in the NIH and NSF award files, read 2026-11-03. NIH fiscal years 2021 to 2025; NSF fiscal years 2022 to 2026.
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Awards
20 awards in the window.
| Award | Agency | Institute or division | Fiscal year | Amount in window | Start | End | Principal investigator | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WoU-MMA: Operations of VERITAS in the Epoch 2022 to 2025 | NSF | Physics Section | 2022 | $2,370,000 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2026 | Wystan R Benbow | nsf.gov |
| Research Infrastructure: MRI: Development of a Small Aperture Telescope Pathfinder to Advance Studies of the Polarized Cosmic Microwave Background | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2022 | $962,693 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2027 | Scott N Paine | nsf.gov |
| WoU-MMA: VERITAS Operations & Decommissioning in the Epoch 2026 to 2029 | NSF | Physics Section | 2026 | $764,000 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2027 | Wystan R Benbow | nsf.gov |
| WoU-MMA: Operations of VERITAS in the Epoch 2025 to 2028 | NSF | Physics Section | 2025 | $670,000 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2027 | Wystan R Benbow | nsf.gov |
| REU Site: Solar Physics Research | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2026 | $612,492 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2029 | Chad A Madsen | nsf.gov |
| REU Site: Solar Physics at the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $599,498 | August 1, 2023 | July 31, 2026 | Chad A Madsen | nsf.gov |
| MRI: Track 1: Acquisition of Commercial Compact Rack Mount Iodine Optical Clock | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2026 | $579,171 | April 15, 2026 | March 31, 2028 | Jonathan Weintroub | nsf.gov |
| Advancing Interstellar Aromatic and Carbon-Based Chemistry: An Integrated Experimental, Theoretical, and Astronomical Approach | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2023 | $507,210 | July 15, 2023 | June 30, 2027 | Michael C McCarthy | nsf.gov |
| CAREER: Charting the Formation, Transformation, and Destinies of Gas and Young Stars in the Solar Neighborhood | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2025 | $447,644 | May 1, 2025 | April 30, 2030 | Catherine Zucker | nsf.gov |
| A Statistical Study of Coronal Holes and Active Regions Producing Intense Geomagnetic Storms over Four Solar Cycles | NSF | Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences | 2022 | $437,798 | April 1, 2022 | March 31, 2026 | Nishu Karna | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: New and Improved Microwave Continuum Measurements of Protoplanetary Disk Solids | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2025 | $427,364 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Sean M Andrews | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: The Role of Supra-arcade Downflows on Energy Transfer in Solar Flares | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2024 | $335,621 | August 15, 2024 | July 31, 2027 | Katharine K Reeves | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: A gravitational inventory of the solar system using high precision minor planet astrometry | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2022 | $293,281 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2027 | Matthew J Holman | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Experimental General Relativity using Radio Interferometry of a Black Hole Photon Ring | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2023 | $268,212 | September 1, 2023 | August 31, 2026 | Michael Johnson | nsf.gov |
| AGS-FIRP Track 3: Solar Eclipse Observations with the Airborne Coronal Emission Surveyor (ACES) | NSF | GEO - Core Programs | 2023 | $219,980 | January 15, 2023 | December 31, 2027 | Jenna Samra | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: ACES Galactic Center Mass Flow | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2022 | $190,606 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2026 | Qizhou Zhang | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Constraining galaxy cluster merger dynamics with hydrodynamical simulations and novel multi-probe observations of 10 objects | NSF | Division Of Astronomical Sciences | 2022 | $130,077 | September 1, 2022 | August 31, 2025 | John A ZuHone | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: GCR: Center on Solar Wind-Milky Way Impacts on Complex Earth Systems (COSMIC) | NSF | Office of Integrative Activities | 2026 | $109,992 | September 1, 2026 | August 31, 2031 | Catherine Zucker | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: NSF-BSF: A Multiwavelength View of Extreme Accretion onto Supermassive Black Holes | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2025 | $46,826 | September 1, 2025 | August 31, 2028 | Danielle Frostig | nsf.gov |
| Collaborative Research: Massive Black Hole Binaries as Multimessenger Sources: The X-ray Counterparts to Gravitational Wave Emission | NSF | Astronomical Science Section | 2023 | $33,000 | July 1, 2023 | June 30, 2026 | Laura Brenneman | nsf.gov |
Funding by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | NIH awards | NIH amount | NSF awards | NSF amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 | $0 | 4 | $2,065,655 |
| 2025 | 0 | $0 | 4 | $1,591,834 |
| 2024 | 0 | $0 | 2 | $491,230 |
| 2023 | 0 | $0 | 7 | $2,623,007 |
| 2022 | 0 | $0 | 6 | $3,233,739 |
Open federal funding opportunities
From Grants.gov: notices that funded awards in this table, and open notices on the same agency and assistance listing.
| Open opportunity | Number | Agency | Listing | Closes | Award ceiling | Why it matches |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Geometric Analysis | PD-22-1265 | NSF | 47.049 | November 3, 2026 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 15 awards here |
| Topology | PD-22-1267 | NSF | 47.049 | November 3, 2026 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 15 awards here |
| Unlocking Dataset Value for AI-Enabled Scientific Discovery (AI Datasets) | 26-512 | NSF | 47.049 | November 4, 2026 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 15 awards here |
| Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Grants | 22-624 | NSF | 47.049 | November 16, 2026 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 15 awards here |
| Applied Mathematics | PD-16-1266 | NSF | 47.049 | November 16, 2026 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 15 awards here |
| Plasma Physics | PD-23-1242 | NSF | 47.049 | November 16, 2026 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 15 awards here |
| National Science Foundation Translation to Practice (NSF TTP) | 25-540 | NSF | 47.049 | November 17, 2026 | $2 million | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 15 awards here |
| Computational Mathematics | PD-16-1271 | NSF | 47.049 | December 1, 2026 | $1.2 million | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 15 awards here |
| Statistics | PD-18-1269 | NSF | 47.049 | December 15, 2026 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 15 awards here |
| Training-based Workforce Development for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure | 23-520 | NSF | 47.049 | January 21, 2027 | $1 million | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 15 awards here |
| Security, Privacy, and Trust in Cyberspace (NSF SaTC) | 25-515 | NSF | 47.049 | January 25, 2027 | $1.2 million | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 15 awards here |
| EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program: Focused EPSCoR Collaborations (FEC) | 24-573 | NSF | 47.049 | January 26, 2027 | $1.5 million | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 15 awards here |
| Mathematical Sciences Infrastructure Program | PD-20-1260 | NSF | 47.049 | February 2, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 15 awards here |
| GROWING CONVERGENCE RESEARCH (GCR) | 24-527 | NSF | 47.049 | February 8, 2027 | $3.6 million | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 15 awards here |
| Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-1 | 24-598 | NSF | 47.049 | February 8, 2027 | $20 million | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 15 awards here |
| EMERGING FRONTIERS IN RESEARCH AND INNOVATION (EFRI-2026/27): Wave-Based Computing ( EFRI-WBC) | 26-524 | NSF | 47.049 | February 11, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 15 awards here |
| Pathways to Enable Secure Open-Source Ecosystems (PESOSE) | 26-506 | NSF | 47.049 | March 2, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 15 awards here |
| NSF National Quantum Virtual Laboratory (NQVL) | 24-586 | NSF | 47.049 | April 6, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 15 awards here |
| EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement (RII): EPSCoR Research Fellows | 24-528 | NSF | 47.049 | April 13, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 15 awards here |
| Findable Accessible Interoperable Reusable Open Science (FAIROS) | 25-533 | NSF | 47.049 | April 14, 2027 | Not listed | Same assistance listing 47.049 as 15 awards here |
Updated November 3, 2026. Read from NIH RePORTER ExPORTER and NSF Award Search. Published by NIH and NSF as U.S. government data. NIH awards are fiscal years 2021 to 2025 (NIH files published to 2026-07-09); NSF awards are fiscal years 2022 to 2026 (NSF files published to 2026-11-02). NIH amounts are the total cost of each fiscal year in the window; NSF amounts are the funds obligated in the window. Organizations are matched on the UEI. Open opportunities come from Grants.gov and match on agency and assistance listing number, and on the notice number NIH prints on an award. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.