Open Data Framework

The Open Data Framework program will build a framework needed to create a neutral and secure data repository and cooperative where producers, universities and nonprofit entities can store and share data in ways that will foster agricultural innovation and will support technological progress, production efficiencies, and environmental stewardship. 

Applications may only be submitted by entities such as State agricultural experiment stations; colleges and universities; university research foundations; other research institutions and organizations; Federal agencies; national laboratories; private organizations, foundations, or corporations; individuals; or any group consisting of two or more of the above entities.

NIFA's program page publishes this as a single-award opportunity:

• Estimated Total Program Funding: $923,325

• Range of Awards: $923,325 - $923,325 — the full pool goes to one award, so there is no competitive award band to plan around.

• Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: No Match Required.

No project period (in years), indirect-cost cap, or anticipated number of awards is published on the program page; those are in the NOFO (USDA-NIFA-OTHER-011816, Assistance Listing 10.233).

Worth knowing before you spend time on it: this is an institutional data-infrastructure grant. Eligible applicants are experiment stations, colleges and universities, research foundations and institutions, federal agencies, national laboratories, private organizations/foundations/corporations, individuals, or groups of these. It is not a producer payment, cost-share, or on-farm incentive.

Apply on grants.gov here

2025 RFA