Grants of $50K to $250K
Explore grants with an award between $50,000 and $250,000. This directory lists seed-stage funding for feasibility studies, prototypes, first pilots and early research, from innovation agencies, research councils, foundations and corporate programs, with the deadline and eligibility on every listing.
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HERIFORGE Open Call 2
🇨🇾HERIFORGE · European Union
Funds XR projects that tackle cultural-heritage challenges in Cyprus, Poland and Turkiye.
RSI Explorer Grant
🇺🇸RSI / Caltech · United States
Funds high-risk sustainability exploration by Caltech investigators to strengthen real-world implementation.
Pilot Award
🇬🇧ARUK · United Kingdom
Funds early dementia science concepts in the United Kingdom with exploratory research support.
BASS Kick-start
🇧🇪ESA · Global / Multinational
Funds feasibility studies for space-enabled applications in agriculture, climate monitoring, and transport innovation.
Defence Industry Development Grants — Exports
🇦🇺DISR · Australia
Supports Australian defence small businesses in strengthening commercial positioning for exports through capability building and market readiness assistance.
Defence Industry Development Grants — Security
🇦🇺DISR · Australia
Funds Australian defence small businesses to improve security operations and infrastructure practices across critical manufacturing and cyber related capabilities.
MIT Solve Global Challenges
🇺🇸MIT · United States
Supports teams tackling global challenges by selecting and backing scalable ideas through MIT Solve challenge pathways.
FY26 Reconstructive Transplant Research Program Concept Award
CDMRP · United States
Funds small, high-risk exploratory research into reconstructive transplantation and vascularized composite allotransplantation for wounded Service Members and Veterans.
DFF-International Postdoctoral Grant
🇩🇰DFF · Denmark
Supports Danish postdoctoral talent with grants for international placements and cross-border scientific collaboration.
MRA Pilot Award
🇺🇸MRA · United States
Funds high-risk melanoma proof-of-concept efforts through grants for high-impact experimental ideas.
Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 Funding Opportunity for Indian Tribes and Intertribal Consortia for Nonpoint Source Management Grants Under Clean Water Act Section 319
🇺🇸EPA · United States
Funds federally recognized Tribes carrying out their own approved plan against nonpoint-source water pollution.
Early-Stage Innovative Technology Development for Basic and Clinical Cancer Research
NIH · United States
Funds proof-of-concept work on a genuinely new tool, assay, platform or instrument for characterising cancer cells or handling biospecimens.
Grant for Recruiting International Visiting Researchers
🇸🇪VR · Sweden
Funds Swedish higher education institutions to host international researchers and strengthen global collaboration.
Strengthening the Canadian Supply Chain Program
🇨🇦PIC · Canada
Funds Canadian food manufacturers and processors through Protein Industries Canada co-investment to reformulate or scale up products using domestic plant-protein ingredients.
TÜBİTAK 1507 — SME R&D Start-up Support Grant
🇹🇷TÜBİTAK · Türkiye
Supports first-time Turkish technology firms through TÜBİTAK to build startup-ready innovation and commercialization skills.
SME Collectives Sustainable Travel Behaviour (COVER)
🇳🇱RVO · Netherlands
Pays Dutch SME representative bodies to make their members' employee commuting greener.
Draper TIF
🇺🇸UW Entrepreneurship Hub + WiSys · United States
Funds WARF-disclosed UW Madison inventions through patent and licensing preparation for market-ready transfer.
Secondary Analysis and Integration of Existing Data to Elucidate Cancer Risk and Related Outcomes (R21)
NIH · United States
Funds the same reanalysis of already-collected cancer data on a smaller, exploratory footing, for teams that do not need a full research project award.
FAPESP / M-ERA.NET — Materials & Engineering
🇧🇷FAPESP · Brazil
Funds transnational materials and engineering collaborations between Brazilian and international partners.
2026 NIA Mentorship Prize Competition
🇺🇸NIA · United States
Pays $100,000 to each of up to six faculty mentors recognized for outstanding aging-research mentorship.
CFF/NIH R01 Unfunded Award
🇺🇸CFF · United States
Invests research teams and institutions for CFF NIH Unfunded Award in biotechnology and medical technology.
Proof-of-Concept Co-Financing — Cutoff 2 (30 November 2026)
🇪🇺EIT Food · European Union
Funds proof-of-concept and pilot projects for agrifood startups collaborating with corporate partners.
Zero-Emission Coach Subsidy (STour)
🇳🇱RVO · Netherlands
Pays Dutch coach operators part of the extra cost of a new battery-electric touring coach.
5th Innowwide Call for Market Feasibility Projects — Autumn 2026
🇪🇺EUREKA · Global / Multinational
Pays SMEs a fixed EUR60,000 grant to run a six-month market feasibility project testing whether their innovation can be commercialised in a target country in Africa, the Americas, Asia or Oceania.