Growing Impact Award Grant

Growing Impact Award Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR)
Amount: US $300,000 - US $2,000,000
Last Updated: October 14, 2025

Summary

The Growing Impact Award, offered by the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR), invites past recipients of Seeding Solutions and New Innovator awards to apply for funding ranging from $600k to $4M. This initiative aims to enhance existing research and foster impactful projects aligned with FFAR's strategic priorities in U.S. agriculture. Eligible applicants must secure matching funds and comply with research standards to advance innovative solutions in food and agriculture.

Overview

About FFAR Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR) advances food and agriculture science to develop tools, technologies and information that benefit farmers, consumers and the environment. We connect funders, researchers and farmers through public-private partnerships to support audacious research addressing the biggest food and agriculture challenges. Our unique public-private partnership model allows us to collaborate with diverse stakeholders to identify research opportunities that help farmers adapt to current challenges. Growing Impact Award The Growing Impact Award is a competitive program designed to build on the successful research from past Seeding Solutions and New Innovator in Food & Agriculture Research Award (NIA) recipients. This funding opportunity is available by invitation only to previous awardees who meet the selection criteria. The Growing Impact Award program was established to build on FFAR’s successful investments and provide opportunities for high-performing projects to translate research outputs into greater impacts aligned with FFAR’s Research Strategy, benefiting U.S. agriculture. Research funded through this program will accelerate innovation, expand impact, strengthen public-private partnerships and encourage more integrated research of previous FFAR-funded projects. Prospective projects must meet at least one of the following criteria: Extends the original FFAR-funded work in a new dimension; Expands the previous FFAR-funded approach to include new interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary research approaches; and/or Translates and applies the previous FFAR-funded research into a commercial application, product or service. Growing Impact Award projects must be aligned with FFAR’s Research Strategy and contribute to one of the three research Priority Areas: Cultivating Thriving Production Systems, Sustaining Vibrant Agroecosystems or Bolstering Healthy Food Systems. All research must be conducted in accordance with standard research compliance requirements, such as approval from the relevant Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) or similar. If human subjects are involved, the research team should be trained in culturally appropriate methods to reach the target population and must have Institutional Review Board (IRB), or similar approval for the project. Funding Availability & Award Individual proposal total budget requests may range from US $600k to $4M total ($300k to $2M requested from FFAR) for Projects ranging between 12-60 months. FFAR intends to award up to $10M in awards under this program. Applicants are required to identify and secure matching funds equal to or greater than the FFAR funding request. Matching funds must come from an entity other than the U.S. Federal Government.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. This opportunity is invite only. The Growing Impact Award is open to investigators on FFAR-funded Seeding Solutions and NIA projects that either:will complete 75% of the award period of performance by November 5, 2025 (including any no-cost extensions); orwere completed on or after November 5, 2023. If invited to submit a full application, all required annual and final reports must have been submitted and approved by FFAR by the Growing Impact Award full application deadline of November 5, 2025. Eligible matching funds must be identified with the Growing Impact Award proposal. If invited to submit a full application, matching funds must be confirmed by the deadline of November 5, 2025.Any investigator from the original FFAR-funded project is eligible to be the Principal Investigator (PI) on the Growing Impact Award proposal, but only one application can be submitted from each previously funded award.If the Growing Impact Award PI is not the PI in the previous FFAR project, a letter of recommendation from the original PI to support your Growing Impact Award submission is required.