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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INNOSTART - Call 2
🇵🇱NCBR · Poland
Grants first-time Innovation Coach graduates up to PLN 320,000 for their first R&D project.
Lithuania–Japan Joint Research Projects
🇱🇹LMT · Lithuania
Backs bilateral research grants with JSPS Japan Lithuanian side through the Lithuania Japan Joint Research Projects.
Trade Relations Programme (TRP) 2026
🇳🇱RVO · Netherlands
Pays Trade and Innovate NL network members to run export-support activities for Dutch firms.
TRUNSPORT Open Call 1
🇪🇺TRUNSPORT · European Union
Funds testing and validation of transport cybersecurity solutions with grants up to €60,000.
Building capacity to deploy the EEHRxF and digital health services and systems to support the rights of citizens and reuse of health data under EHDS
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one consortium EUR 24.4 million to run a programme that re-grants up to EUR 120,000 each to hospitals, public authorities and health-data holders across the EU.
Digital Skills and Jobs Platform: The National Coalitions for Digital Skills and Jobs
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays one consortium EUR 12.5 million to connect national digital-skills coalitions to the EU's Core Platform, re-granting up to EUR 150,000 per country coalition.
EdTech Accelerator
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays one consortium EUR 12.5 million to run a yearly accelerator that re-grants up to EUR 150,000 each to at least 20 European EdTech start-ups and SMEs.
Pet Care Innovation Prize
🇺🇸Purina · United States
Awards up to $50,000 in cash and a Purina bootcamp to early-stage pet-care startups' Grand Prize winner.
Tribal Colleges Education Equity Grants Program (TCEG)
🇺🇸USDA NIFA · United States
Funds Tribal Colleges to build education capacity in food and agricultural sciences for Native Alaskan and American Indian students.
America’s Startup
🇺🇸America250 · United States
Awards $25,000-$50,000 in non-dilutive grants to U.S. undergraduate student founders.
SpinLab Accelerator 2027
SpinLab · Germany
Awards up to €50,000 in equity-free funding and mentoring to energy, smart-city and eHealth startups.
Storage Design Strategies to Ease Production (STEP) Prize
🇺🇸DOE OE · United States
Pays up to $500,000 across two phases to energy-storage designs with early manufacturability.
FARA Clinician Scientist Development Award
FARA · United States
Supports early-career clinician scientists with protected salary time to launch Friedreich's ataxia translational research careers.
FARA General Research Grant
FARA · United States
Funds Friedreich ataxia research on disease mechanisms and translational targets.
FARA Postdoctoral & Graduate Training Awards
FARA · United States
Supports postdoctoral and graduate researchers entering new Friedreich ataxia studies.
DIHI Annual Request for Applications (Innovation Projects)
🇺🇸DIHI · United States
Funds Duke faculty, staff, students and trainees $25,000 to $60,000 a year to pilot practical healthcare innovation projects inside Duke's clinical enterprise.
Limited Competition: Small Grant Program for the NCATS Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) Program (R03)
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds one small self-contained project for a scholar already inside the Clinical and Translational Science Award network, on the way to a first full award.
GRAPPA Innovation Open Call - Cut-off 2
🇪🇺GRAPPA · European Union
Pays European SMEs lump-sum grants to develop and commercialise upcycled agri-food biomass products, processes and technologies.
Princeton Intellectual Property Accelerator Fund
🇺🇸Princeton Innovation / Schmidt DataX · United States
Funds Princeton investigators moving university inventions toward licensing through proof-of-concept and prototype grants.
HERIFORGE Open Call 2
🇨🇾HERIFORGE · European Union
Funds XR projects that tackle cultural-heritage challenges in Cyprus, Poland and Turkiye.
Pilot Projects
🇬🇧ARUK · United Kingdom
Funds early dementia science concepts in the United Kingdom with exploratory research support.
DFF-International Postdoctoral Grant
🇩🇰DFF · Denmark
Supports Danish postdoctoral talent with grants for international placements and cross-border scientific collaboration.
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.