Who funds pollinator research?

We count 86 funded pollinator projects, active between 2021 and 2031, from 5 funders. The most came from USDA (20 projects), EU · ERC (17 projects) and EU · MSCA (16 projects). The median award is $890K, across the 83 of 86 projects that list an amount.

Funded projects

86

Funders

5

Median award

$890K

Open calls now

0

Top funders of pollinator research

Projects whose title or summary mentions pollinator. Median award: of the projects that list an amount, in US dollars; “—” when fewer than 3 do.

Open pollinator funding calls

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Funded pollinator projects

A sample, latest start first, at most three per program.

• CAREER: Bridging Data, AI, Theory, and Education to Advance Global Urban Biodiversity Research
  NSF · BIO · $890,451 · ends 2031
• Honey bees (apis mellifera) experience significant annual mortality due to many factors including parasites and diseases, erratic weather…
  USDA · $1,000,000 · ends 2030
• Collaborative Research: Using AI-powered Non-lethal Sampling to Inform Evidence-based Forest Management Practices and Enhance Pollinator Conservation
  NSF · BIO · $249,947 · ends 2030
• Honey bees are essential for producing many of the fruits, vegetables, and nuts that people eat every day
  USDA · $750,000 · ends 2030
• LTREB Renewal: Phenological responsiveness of plants and bees: consequences for species, interactions, community composition and biomass
  NSF · BIO · $730,615 · ends 2030
• Pesticide risk assessments are used to evaluate the potential for harm that pesticides (insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, etc.) pose to…
  USDA · $749,984 · ends 2030
• CAREER: Enhancing Honey Bee Health and Productivity through Vibroacoustic and Electric Field Diagnostics
  NSF · ENG · $650,000 · ends 2030
• Making Invisible Ecological Processes Visible Through Technology-Enhanced Place-Based Science Learning
  NSF · EDU · $900,000 · ends 2029
• New Mathematics for Pollinator Decline: From Colony Dynamics to Sustainable Agroecosystems
  NSF · MPS · $468,704 · ends 2029
• Insect-inspired pattern recognition with low computing power
  UKRI · BBSRC · ends 2028

How we count

Funded projects come from public award records (NIH RePORTER, NSF, EU CORDIS, UKRI Gateway to Research, Wellcome, the Gates Foundation, DOE, NASA and USDA NIFA) whose title or summary matches “pollinator or pollinators or bees”. NIH lists each budget year separately; one project counts once. Amounts are as the funder lists them; medians use only projects that list one, in US dollars. Open calls and forecasts are from our listings of October 28, 2026. A project can mention a topic without being mainly about it, so treat the counts as a guide to who funds the area.