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grants.

Curated grants for dropouts, heretics & scientists working on hard problems.

Find a path to escape captivity & build with meaning.

$$$
€150k
Da Vinci Fellowship
by
Da Vinci Fellowship

"an equity-free grant of €150 000 per fellow to young, contrarian Europeans"

Individuals
Under 25
Young People
Zero-to-One Ideas
Moonshots
EU
$
$100
Cactus Capital
by
Cactus Capital

"$100 for your idea, no strings attached"

Individuals
Students
Young People
Zero-to-One Ideas
🌐
$
$500/quarter
Trelis AI Grants
by
Trelis

"individuals pursuing advances in the field of AI models"

Individuals
AI
Open Source
Zero-to-One Ideas
🌐
$
$50 - $500
Young Builder Society
by
null

"ambitious builders under the age of 23 [..] the financial boost they need"

Individuals
Under 23
Young People
Zero-to-One Ideas
🌐
$
$100 - $500
Bagel Fund
by
Bagel Fund

"a friend group in tech that wants to support young people working on important problems"

Individuals
Young People
Zero-to-One Ideas
🌐
$
$100 - $1k
Solo Grants
by
Ari Dutilh & Julian Weisser

"[Passion projects.] We want more of them in the world, so we fund the people building them."

Individuals
Young People
Hardware
Zero-to-One Ideas
🌐
$
$100 - $3k
CryoDAO Fellowship
by
CryoDAO

"need-based grants to become more deeply involved in the field of cryopreservation"

Individuals
Students
Scientists
BioTech
🌐
$
$20k
Blue Ridge Labs Founder Fellowship
by
Robin Hood

"You don't need to have started a company yet."

Individuals
Poverty Solutions
Social Entrepreneurs
Zero-to-One Ideas
US
$$
$50k
The Basis Fellowship
by
null

"Operators, engineers, scientists, anyone. No strings attached."

Individuals
Scientists
Builders
Zero-to-One Ideas
🌐
$$
$50k
&U
by
Andy Trattner

"We seek doers with exceptional grit and an extremely high rate of learning."

Individuals
Young People
Zero-to-One Ideas
🌐
$$
$10k
O'Shaughnessy Grants
by
O'Shaughnessy Ventures

"...one year program for researchers, builders [&] creatives advancing civilization"

Individuals
Creators
Builders
🌐
$$$
$200k
Rainer Arnhold Fellowship
by
Mulago Foundation

"[helps] leaders with promising, scalable solutions to poverty [with] the chops to deliver"

Non-Profits
Social Entrepreneurs
Poverty Solutions
🌐
$
$4k
Slavin Foundation
by
Slavin Family Foundation

"support to dedicated students [contributing] to humanity [via] entrepreneurial ideas"

Individuals
Students
US
$
$10k
Z Fellows
by
Cory Levy

"We'll give you $10,000 to go all in on your project or idea for one week."

Individuals
Builders
One-week sprint
🌐
$
$1k AUD
Protostars
by
Blackbird Foundation

"cash, community, belief, and accountability [for] young people with passion projects"

Individuals
18-25
🌐
AU / NZ
$$$
$110k+
Schmidt Science Fellows
by
Schmidt Sciences

"seeking brilliant minds in natural sciences, math, engineering, [&] computing"

Individuals
Scientists
PhD
Post-Doc
🌐
$$
$10k - $300k
Rise Program
by
Schmidt Futures & Rhodes Trust

"scholarships, mentorship, [&] funding as Global Winners [solve] humanity's most pressing problems"

Individuals
15-17
Students
🌐
$$$
≤$1M
SciFounder Fellowship
by
SciFounders

"funding [&] mentorship for [technical founders working on] challenging technologies"

Companies
Scientists
Technical Founders
US
🌐
$$$
$250k
Thiel Fellowship
by
Thiel Foundation

"Two years. $250,000. Some ideas can't wait."

Individuals
Dropouts
16-22
🌐
$
$1k
The Awesome Foundation
by
The Awesome Foundation

"distributes $1,000 grants, no strings attached, to projects and their creators"

Individuals
Companies
Non-Profits
Art
Creators
Social Entrepreneurs
🌐
$$$
$100k
O’Shaughnessy Fellowship
by
O’Shaughnessy Ventures

"[create] something that can stand the test of time."

Individuals
Creators
Zero-to-One Ideas
🌐
$
$1k - $8k
Nucleate Dojo
by
Intuitive Foundation

"institution-agnostic, year-round life sciences undergrad research funding program"

Individuals
Students
BioTech
US
$
$2k - $12k
Non-Trivial Fellowship
by
Non-Trivial Ventures

"enabling ambitious teenagers to start solving the world’s most pressing problems"

Individuals
14 to 20 y/os
Dropouts
Young People
Zero-to-One Ideas
🌐
$
$5k - $50k
Next Generation Internet 0
by
NLnet Foundation

"We support projects that contribute to an open, trustworthy [&] human-centered internet."

Individuals
Companies
Non-Profits
Open Source
Open Internet
🌐
$$$
$10k
Magnificent Grants
by
Hummingbird Ventures

"$10k [for] outliers taking down the walls of elitist hierarchies & impact on the world"

Individuals
Companies
Under 25
Zero-to-One Ideas
Moonshots
🌐
$$
$50k
Jane Street Fellowship
by
Jane Street Group

"supports exceptional doctoral students pursuing a PhD in Comp. Sci., math, physics or stats"

Individuals
Students
GPA Required
PhD
NA
EU
$$$
$100k
Henry Arnhold Fellowship
by
Mulago Foundation

"[helps] leaders with conservation & climate solutions [to] design & deliver at scale"

Non-Profits
Companies
Climate Change
Social Entrepreneurs
Conservation
🌐
🤝
Full ride
Edge City Fellowship
by
Long Journey VC

"empowers young innovators [..via] a full-ride to a month-long immersive co-living experience"

Individuals
Under 25
Aging
BioTech
🌐
$$$
$100k
776 Fellowship
by
776 Foundation

"two-year, full-time program for 18 - 24 year olds, across the world"

Individuals
Non-Profits
Companies
Zero-to-One Ideas
Young People
Climate Change
Moonshots
🌐
$
$1k
1517 Medici Project
by
1517 Fund

"pursue your passions and contribute to meaningful and novel work"

Individuals
Young People
Zero-to-One Ideas
Hardware
NA
EU
$
$2k
Inflection Grants
by
null

"learn new skills, research, build things, make art, do science, [&] improve yourself"

Individuals
Under 25
🌐
$$$
$275k
Activate Fellowship
by
Activate Global Inc.

"We empower scientists to reinvent the world"

Individuals
Companies
Technical Founders
Zero-to-One Ideas
Moonshots
Degree Required
US
$
≥$5k
Emergent Ventures
by
Mercatus Center

"entrepreneurs with highly scalable, 'zero to one' ideas for meaningfully improving society."

Individuals
Zero-to-One Ideas
Moonshots
🌐
$
$5k
Antikythera Studio
by
Berggruen Institute

"select 12-18 interdisciplinary Studio Researchers to develop speculative [technological futures]"

Individuals
AI
Zero-to-One Ideas
🌐
$
$5k
Eclipse Grants
by
Moth Fund

"increase the agency of exceptional individuals"

Individuals
Young People
Under 25
NA