Grants

See below for grants awarded in 2025. For past years, visit:

Date Grantee Project Amount
October 2025 Central Kansas Amateur Radio Club Inc. FieldLab WØCY $35,640
October 2025 American Indian Science and Engineering Society ARDC Scholarship Program $72,000
October 2025 Utah Tech University Amateur Radio S-band Ground Station Utah Tech University Amateur Radio S-band Ground Station $13,176
October 2025 Vintage Radio and Communications Museum of Connecticut New Class Opportunities $7,051
October 2025 Half Moon Bay Amateur Radio Club Coastside Emergency Communications Trailer $25,000
October 2025 Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT) Youth Initiative Online Courses – Authoring Licenses & Artwork Enhancement $14,556
October 2025 Offworld Lab Legal Framework for Open-Source Passive Radar Networks $19,632
October 2025 Trilogy Amateur Radio Club New VHF Repeater $9,143
October 2025 The Leffell School The Leffell School Space Program Ground Station $31,200
October 2025 STEM Harvest Inc. Ellis County Amateur Radio Emergency Service Group Ellis County ARES Digital Radio Expansion Project $13,950
October 2025 Club radio amateur de Matane Matane, Quebec Club HF Station III $8,704
October 2025 Raleigh Amateur Radio Society (RARS) Space Communications Outreach Portable Ground Station $14,065
October 2025 West Central Louisiana Amateur Radio Club West Central Louisiana Repair and Small Buildout $6,723
October 2025 Case Amateur Radio Club of Case Western Reserve University W8EDU Engineering Undergraduate Senior Project Support $3,500
October 2025 NWNM EMCOMM Group Enhancing Community Communications: Winlink VARA FM and Starlink Integrated Digipeater/RMS Solution $7,100
October 2025 Hot Springs Amateur Radio Club Hot Springs Amateur Radio Club Education & Repeater Expansion $11,730
October 2025 Dimension Parabole F4KLO Promote Hamradio, EME and radioastronomy via French sciences museum and schools $22,000
October 2025 Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT) How Satellites in Space Help Us Improve Our Lives on Earth Coloring Book $4,500
October 2025 OMIK Scholarship Fund FY July 2025 – June 2026 Scholarship Funding $15,000
October 2025 South Mountain Repeater Association, Inc. AKA South Mountain Radio Amateurs (SMRA) Amateur Radio Educational Program Focused on Getting the Technician Class License and Building Community Communications Resiliency $19,186
October 2025 Society of Women Engineers SWE 2025 Programs $146,200
October 2025 OpenMesh Voice Network OpenMesh Voice Network $33,000
October 2025 Seagull Solar LTD Seagull Solar Racing Team $7,509
August 2025 Hämeenlinnan Radioamatöörit ry Hamlib stability enhancements and SDR transceiver support $94,724
August 2025 WildfireMesh Meshtastic for Wildfire fighters in Argentina $57,068
August 2025 The Innovation School Waves of Innovation: A Digital Communications Makerspace for Middle School $5,000
August 2025 Thanet Radio Infrastructure Group & Hilderstone Radio Society Remote HF Station for Education and Youth Engagement $34,169
August 2025 Illinois Space Society Student Development of High-Altitude Tracking Systems for Space-Bound Vehicles $5,766
August 2025 STEM Amateur Radio Club Youth Hobby for the 21st Century $18,075
August 2025 St. Croix County ARES RACES Roberts Repeater Relocation $11,040
August 2025 Western Lake Supreior Amateur Responders Funding for Emergency Communications and for Funding other Amateur Radio Organizations $28,282
August 2025 New England Sci-Tech Attracting More Youth to Amateur Radio through high-tech digital applications $42,565
August 2025 Boundary Amateur Radio Club New Radios for Volunteer Fire Departments in Boundary County, Upgrades for the Boundary Community Hospital, and Other Improvements $9,394
August 2025 Jay County Amateur Radio Club Inc. JCARC Building Renovation & Outfitting $39,334
August 2025 Valencia County Amateur Radio Association, Inc. Support of Valencia Middle School’s Amateur Radio Program $24,570
August 2025 Black Girls Do Engineer Corporation Radio Reimagined: Empowering Brooklyn Youth Through Amateur Radio & Digital Communications $25,000
August 2025 PIMA Community College PIMA Community College Radio Shack $11,910
August 2025 Lake Monroe Amateur Radio Society, Inc. LMARS 146.805 MHz repeater upgrade and relocation to new state of the art regional hospital $9,179
August 2025 The Radio Society of Sri Lanka Emergency Communication Resilience Project $3,850
August 2025 Ege University Energy-Aware Link Monitoring in Wireless IoT Networks Using Vertex Cover-Based Algorithms TBD
August 2025 Butler County Amateur Fm Association BCAFMA Duplexer $7,000
August 2025 La Fédération des clubs radioamateurs du Québec 2025 Trans-Quebec RF Network $74,787
August 2025 Milford Amateur Radio Club Digital Coverage Expansion Project $16,181
August 2025 Vallée du Richelieu Club Vallee du Richelieu Modernization $32,468
August 2025 Okaw Valley Amateur Radio Club (OVARC) OVARC VHF Repeater Revitalization Project $24,750
May 2025 Porter County Amateur Radio Club Northwest Indiana Radio Outreach and Revitalization Project $27,462
May 2025 Radiokomunikacja Kryzysowa (Rescue Radio Communication) Hamnet Expansion in Lublin district area $8,693
May 2025 Ontario Tech Amateur Radio Club Ontario Tech Amateur Radio Dual Band (VHF & UHF) Mobile Repeater + Ground Station $19,053
May 2025 Pleasant Valley Telecommunications Advisory Council (PVTAC) 10 GHz Microwave interconnect plus a new VHF/UHF Simulcast Repeater $170,356
May 2025 Penn State Amateur Radio Club Skyhawk Antenna Reinstall $2,628
May 2025 Grace Lutheran School Airwaves & Outdoors: Engaging Youth in Amateur Radio Through POTA & SOTA $12,839
May 2025 LibreCube Open Source VHF/UHF CubeSat Communication System $76,602
May 2025 Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) Copyleft Advocacy, Compliance and Enforcement $175,000
May 2025 Alberta Digital Radio Communications Society IP400 Network Project $60,000
May 2025 Club Radio Amateur du Sud-Ouest Inc. (CRASOI) CRASOI Satellite Earth Station $14,063
May 2025 Erie Christian Amateur Radio and Technology Club Club Development Project $6,145
May 2025 Topanga Coalition for Emergency Preparedness (TCEP) 69Bravo Communications Hub Upgrade $20,891
May 2025 Computer Deconstruction Laboratory (CDL) Digital Communications Enhancement $88,678
May 2025 Cal Poly Amateur Radio Club (CPARC) San Luis Obispo County AREDN Backbone Build-out $77,000
May 2025 Teachers in Space (TIS) Pathways to Space $110,107
April 2025 Southeast Community Development Corporation SCDC Youth Electronics Academy $46,272
April 2025 Internet Archive Expanding the Digital Library of Amateur Radio & Communications $319,110
April 2025 Rhizomatica Communications Finalizing an Open Source Digital HF Network Stack and Modem $235,045
March 2025 A.R.E.S. Association Radio Expérimentale du Sud de Quebec A.R.E.S. New repeater site $30,945
March 2025 UFB New England UFB New England System Upgrades $35,725
March 2025 Electronic Applications Radio Service YOTA Junior USA Camp 2025 $20,181
March 2025 Hazel Park Amateur Radio Club DART Repeater Upgrade $26,743
March 2025 Parents of 1776 Organization Enhancing STEM Education on the High Seas: Upgrading ICOM 735 for Scout Programs $7,000
March 2025 Portal Middle High School Amateur Radio in the Classroom $1,370
March 2025 39th Colombo Scout Troop of S. Thomas’ Preparatory School Colombo 3 4S6STP – Amateur Radio Station $2,420
March 2025 World Genesis Foundation Youth Radio Science Club $20,000
March 2025 Lehi Amateur Radio Club Cedar Valley Project $5,174
March 2025 Panthers Amateur Radio Club Making air waves in the Classroom $3,303
March 2025 Apex Friendship Middle School What’s the Frequency? $1,783
March 2025 Ham Radio Village, Inc. Amateur Radio Evangelist $18,060
March 2025 PAREDN – Philippine Amateur Radio Emergency Data Network Winlink / BBS Gateway Project $5,000
March 2025 La Fédération des clubs radioamateurs du Québec Parts for Motorola Quantar Repeaters $19,106