Equipment Grants Program (EGP)

Overview

This program seeks to provide eligible institutions with the opportunity to acquire a shared-use piece of equipment/instrument that supports their research, research training, and extension goals. The program emphasizes shared-use instrumentation that will enhance the capabilities of researchers, educators, and extension specialists both within and outside the proposing organization. 

EGP provides funding for the purchase of equipment used in research or produces data used in research, but: 

1. does not fund research, education, or extension project costs or personnel salaries or wages, including research or personnel that use equipment acquired with support from the program; 
2. does not fund common, general-purpose ancillary equipment that would normally be found in a laboratory or is relatively easily procured by other funding sources (for the purposes of this program, “General purpose equipment” is defined in 2 CFR 200.48); 
3. does not support the operation, consumable supplies for, or maintenance of facilities, equipment, or research laboratories; or building, modifying, or renovating facilities that house the acquired equipment; and 
4. does not support the acquisition of a suite of instruments to outfit research laboratories/facilities., an eligible institution may not submit more than two applications, regardless of type, to this program as a lead institution and no more than one award will be made per lead institution. 

Notices of Funding Opportunity (NOFOs)

The EGP program has one NOFO open. Access the link to grants.gov below for the full NOFO. EGP is part of NIFA's Grants Modernization Initiative (GMI). Visit our webpage and resource center to learn more about GMI and get started in the new eRA grants management system. 

Eligibility

Eligibility is limited to the following institutions: 

1. College or University 
   1. In general: The terms “college” and “university” mean an educational institution in any State, the District of Columbia, and any insular area which: (i) admits as regular students only persons having a certificate of graduation from a school providing secondary education, or the recognized equivalent of such a certificate; (ii) is legally authorized within such State to provide a program of education beyond secondary education; (iii) provides an educational program for which a bachelor's degree or any other higher degree is awarded; (iv) is a public or other nonprofit institution; and (v) is accredited by a nationally recognized accrediting agency or association. 
   2. Inclusions: The terms “college” and “university” include a research foundation maintained by a college or university. 
2. State Cooperative Institutions, including: 
   1. 1862 and 1890 Land-grant institutions 
   2. State-certified schools of forestry  
   3. State Agricultural Experiment Stations located in the 50 States, the District of Columbia and the Insular Areas  
   4. “Cooperative extension services” meaning the organizations established at the Land-grant Colleges and Universities under the Smith-Lever Act  
   5. Accredited schools or colleges of veterinary medicine or State Agricultural Experiment Stations that conduct animal health and disease research 
   6. Hispanic-serving Institutions 
   7. Eligible institutions in insular areas including, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Republic of Palau, and the Virgin Islands of the United States 

Previously Funded Projects

See EGP Projects