Grants
See below for grants awarded in 2026. For past years, visit:
| Date | Grantee | Project | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | The Bloomsburg Children’s Museum | Signals from Earth: Hands-On Radio Science for the Next Generation | $136,000 |
| August 2026 | Linn County Amateur Radio Club | Emergency Communications Deployment | $2,000 |
| August 2026 | Lee ARES, Inc | Emergency Communications Modernization for Lee County FL and Adjacent Counties | $17,883 |
| August 2026 | Union Ham Club | Union Ham Club Repeater | $7,700 |
| August 2026 | Grand Canyon Council of Scouting America | Grand Canyon Council Radio Go-Box | $3,700 |
| August 2026 | USKA Union of Swiss Shortwave Amateurs | USKA Open Source Direction Finder (USKA Peiler) | TBD |
| August 2026 | Pasco County Auxiliary Communications Service Inc. | Strengthening Amateur Radio by Education and Support Results in Growth | $10,875 |
| August 2026 | Southern Amateur Radio Union | SARU MCP for School Projects, Community events and Emergency Communications | $15,723 |
| August 2026 | The University of Scranton | The 10th Annual HamSCI Workshop | $44,942 |
| August 2026 | Lakes Region Repeater Association | Regional Resiliency Initiative: State-Partnered Repeater Network Optimization | $53,044 |
| August 2026 | Audrain Emergency Communications, Inc. | Activation and Modernization of Regional 440 MHz Linked Repeater Network, Emergency Support Trailer Upgrades for Community Resilience, and Youth Engagement | $31,592 |
| August 2026 | The Innovation School | Signals Across the Sky: Student Explorations in Amateur Radio and Space Communications | $5,000 |
| August 2026 | Temple University | Modernization of TUARC for Digital Wireless Communication, Education, and Outreach | $32,894 |
| August 2026 | Fauquier County 4-H Ham Radio Club | Upgrades to 4-H Youth Station and Outreach Trailer | $39,171 |
| August 2026 | W.T. Loften Amateur Radio Club | Station Revitalization and Tower Replacement | $21,645 |
| August 2026 | The Japan Amateur Radio League, Inc. | JARL Y100 STEAM | TBD |
| August 2026 | WSJT Development Team | Streamlining the Open-Source Development and Multi-Platform Deployment of WSJT | $33,628 |
| May 2026 | Deep Space Exploration Society (DSES) | DSES-EVE-26 | $21,200 |
| May 2026 | Vanderbilt University | Enabling Real-Time Scheduling and Analysis Tools in GNU Radio 4 | TBD |
| May 2026 | Fondation Open Collective Europe (For PAREDN – Philippine Amateur Radio Emergency Data Network) | Winlink / BBS Project 2026 | $8,977 |
| May 2026 | Zespół Szkół Elektronicznych im. Bohaterów Westerplatte | School Radio Club | TBD |
| May 2026 | Massachusetts Maritime Academy, Radio Club KC1IKY | Cadet-Built QDX Digital HF Radio Lab: Hands-On Amateur Radio for STEM Learning and Emergency Communication | TBD |
| May 2026 | Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology | Advancing Amateur Radio Research, Education, and Open-Source Space Communication Through Hands-On Prototyping and Outreach for Enthusiasts | TBD |
| May 2026 | Navarro Amateur Radio Club, Inc. (bda NFLARC) | The Limestone County Resilient RF Backbone | $1,311 |
| May 2026 | Radio Amateur du-of Québec, Inc. | RAQI High School Amateur Radio Course v2 | $27,862 CAD |
| May 2026 | Lehigh University Wireless Communications Society, W3AEQ | W3AEQ On Campus Amateur Radio Station | $20,000 |
| May 2026 | Fondation Open Collective Europe (For JARL Kyoto Club) | Paving the Way for Young People to the World of Amateur Radio – Phase 2 | $76,714 |
| May 2026 | Austrian Amateur Radio Society | YOTA 2026 – Austria | TBD |
| May 2026 | The Sierra Foothills Amateur Radio Club of Auburn, California (W6EK) | Sacramento Valley LoRa Mesh Enhancement | $1,656 |
| May 2026 | Case Western Reserve University | Integrated Visualization of Amateur Radio Data in OpenSpace | TBD |
| May 2026 | FieldKit | Evaluation of RF Backhaul Options for Fielded Sensing Systems | TBD |
| May 2026 | Delta Amateur Radio Club | Kraken SDR Education Project | $1,285 |
| May 2026 | Fondation Open Collective Europe (for 39th Colombo Scout Troop of S. Thomas’ Preparatory School Colombo 3) | 4S6STP – Amateur Radio Station | $16,500 |
| May 2026 | Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology | Integrating Amateur Radio into Undergraduate RF Engineering Education AT Knust | $48,816 |
| May 2026 | West Central Indiana Amateur Radio Inc. | System-Wide Digital Backbone Modernization for Distributed Amateur Radio Infrastructure | $5,825 |
| May 2026 | Dutch Fork Amateur Radio Group (DFARG) | Emergency Backup Generator Project ‘26 | $19,000 |
| May 2026 | Radio Amateur du-of Québec, Inc. | Phase II RAQI RTQ Network v2 | TBD |
| May 2026 | Forsyth County AuxComm | Operations Trailer | TBD |
| May 2026 | Software Freedom Conservancy | Copyleft Advocacy, Compliance and Enforcement | TBD |
| March 2026 | Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Pakistan | IntelliWarn Grid: Resilient AREDN & IoT Mesh for GLOF Disaster Resilience in Chitral, Pakistan | $64,440 |
| March 2026 | Sunrise R-IX School District | Operation Hamulanche III | $2,923 |
| March 2026 | W0TRI, Inc dba Tri Lakes Amateur Radio Club | Promoting STEM through Amateur Radio in Home School Environment | $8,790 |
| March 2026 | Greater Bridgeport Amateur Radio Club | GBARC Meshtastic Network Expansion | $1,383 |
| March 2026 | W8UM Amateur Radio Club at the University of Michigan | UHF Analog Repeater Upgrade to UHF DMR | $2,000 |
| March 2026 | Electronic Applications Radio Service | Youth On The Air Camps | $105,000 |
| March 2026 | Harbor Creek School District | School-Based Scaled Deployment of HF Amateur Radio | $59,104 |
| March 2026 | GNU Radio | GNU Radio 4 for Everyone | $258,000 |
| March 2026 | Oakland Radio Communication Association | Establishing and Supporting Radio Communications to Strengthen Community Resilience | $35,000 |
| March 2026 | UMS High School Morse Code Classes | UMS High School Morse Code Classes | $15,825 CAD |
| March 2026 | QRP Sponsoring Organization | uBitxV6.100 | $5,000 |
| March 2026 | Teachers in Space, Inc. | Introduction to CubeSat Flight Experiments | $160,057 |
| March 2026 | QRP Sponsoring Organization | QRP Modular Rig for Experimentation | $3,900 |
| March 2026 | Tooele County School District | Empowering Youth Through Amateur Radio: A Hands-On Learning Initiative | $8,200 |
| March 2026 | Winchester Falcons Amateur Radio Club | Winchester Falcons Balloon Tracker | $1,390 |
| March 2026 | Boy Scouts of America, 49 San Diego-Imperial Council | Mataguay Scout Ranch HF Radio Tower/Optibeam Implementation | $15,048 |
| March 2026 | N0NWS, Inc. | N0NWS Skywarn Emergency Repeater Network Upgrade | $30,396 |
| March 2026 | Universidad Catolica Boliviana | Waskiri Ground Station Bolivia | $5,764 |
