The Herman Frasch Foundation Grants is giving grants to applicants who have experiences in agricultural chemistry. Applicants must be tenured or tenure-track faculty within the first seven years of their first academic appointment.
“The Herman Frasch Fund for Chemical Research is a trust created under the will of Elizabeth Blee Frasch, administered by Bank of America, N.A. as Trustee. The American Chemical Society advises the Trustee on the Frasch program. The purpose of the Foundation is to award grants to nonprofit incorporated institutions to support research in the field of agricultural chemistry which will be of practical benefit to the agricultural development of the United States.”
ACS Committee defines agricultural chemistry as projects that are “primarily chemical or biochemical in nature…nutrition, agronomy, genetics, or entomology….” The proposal must create opportunities for training students at the graduate, undergraduate, and postdoctoral levels.
Applications will open on October 1, 2026, and will close on November 5, 2026. Successful applicants receives the amount of $50,000 grant per year for the next five years, which is expected to run from 2027 to 2032. Applicants can request to be paid $250,000 at once. However, applications are subject to annual review and approval on evidence of satisfactory progress.
“Annual reports of financial expenditures, progress of the research, and personnel are due on a date in August specified in the call for reports each year, and must be submitted in order for support to continue.”
Applicants must provide their details, including name, email address, institutional affiliation, and appointment information via the Scholarship Lifecycle Manager. Then they are to upload a PDF endorsement document signed and dated by an authorized officer of the grantee institution. The endorsement document must include:
- The name and title of the authorized organizational representative or official
- The representative’s signature
- The date of endorsement
- The name of the Principal Investigator
- The proposal title
- The following statement:
“This application for a grant is hereby endorsed and in the event a grant based on this application is made, this endorsement by the grantee institution will constitute acceptance of the said grant without overhead or administrative charges for the research outlined in this application and in accord with the attached terms and conditions under which the Herman Frasch Fund for Chemical Research Grants in Agricultural Chemistry.”
Click on the link below to learn more about the Grant
https://www.acs.org/funding/grants/herman-frasch-foundation-grant.html
