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.
Showing 73-96 of 734 grants
Remediation Enforcement Support Fund
🇬🇧MHCLG · United Kingdom
Support for English regulators pursuing building remediation cases
Flexible Skills Programme — 2026/27 Tranche
🇬🇧Welsh Gov · United Kingdom
Funds Welsh employers to build workforce capability, including specialist training in artificial intelligence tools.
Flexible Skills Programme — FY2026/27
🇬🇧Welsh Gov · United Kingdom
Funds Welsh employers to build workforce capability, including specialist training in artificial intelligence tools.
Electric vehicle chargepoint grant for residential landlords
🇬🇧OZEV · United Kingdom
Support for residential landlords to install electric vehicle chargepoints.
Launch Platforms for New Ideas (Platformy startowe dla nowych pomysłów)
🇵🇱PARP · Poland
Supports idea-stage entrepreneurs establishing innovative companies in Eastern Poland regions.
Women TechEU 2 EIC
EIC · European Union
Gives women-led early-stage deep tech startups €75,000 in non-dilutive funding plus mentoring.
Female Founders Co-Investment Fund
🇦🇺QLD Government · Australia
Funds Queensland women-led innovation businesses raising early-stage equity through matched co-investment grants.
Cutting-Edge Basic Research Awards (CEBRA)
NIH · United States
Funds high-risk addiction research that is sparse or absent from the institute's current portfolio — a revolutionary method, or a hypothesis with no precedent.
Business Adaptation Grant
🇸🇬EnterpriseSG · Singapore
Supports Singapore companies through the Business Adaptation Grant while redesigning supply chains and compliance.
Innovative Screening Approaches and Therapies for Screenable Disorders in Newborns (R21)
NIH · United States
Funds the exploratory version of the same work on screening tests and treatments for serious newborn conditions.
Pilot Projects Investigating Understudied Proteins Associated with Rare Diseases
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds basic biochemical or biological work on a protein from a published list — druggable, linked to a rare disease, and barely studied.
Development of Animal Models and Related Biological Materials for Research
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds developing or improving animal models and related materials — but only where they serve several institutes and several body systems.
Innovative Pilot Mental Health Services Research Not Involving Clinical Trials
NIH · United States
Funds pilot mental health services research that is deliberately not a precursor to testing an intervention.
Limited Competition: Small Grant Program for NIDDK K01/K08/K23/K25 Recipients
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds one small self-contained project for a scientist holding a career development award from the diabetes, digestive and kidney institute.
NCMRR Early Career Research Award
NIH · United States
Funds a self-contained rehabilitation research project by a scientist establishing an independent career, including new technology development.
NEI Clinical Research Study Planning Grant Program
NIH · United States
Funds the planning work behind a large vision research study — the protocol and procedures manual, not the study itself.
NICHD Small Research Grant Program
NIH · United States
Funds a small, self-contained clinical trial anywhere inside the institute's mission in child health and human development.
NIH Small Research Grant Program
NIH · United States
Funds a small project that can be finished quickly with limited resources — a pilot, a reanalysis, a method, or a piece of new research technology.
Utilizing Invasive Recording and Stimulating Opportunities in Humans to Advance Neural Circuitry Understanding of Mental Health Disorders (R21)
NIH · United States
Funds the exploratory version of invasive human neural recording and stimulation work on mental health questions.
FACTEUR – Database Grants
EFCSN · Global / Multinational
Pays up to €70,000 to fact-checkers feeding a shared European fact-check database.
INCLUDE Project: Exploratory/Developmental Research Awards for Down syndrome
NIH · United States
Funds early, exploratory Down syndrome research — a novel idea or new use of an existing method, even where the answer is unproven.
Support for Research Excellence First Independent Research (SuRE-First) Award
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds a first independent research project for faculty who have never held any peer-reviewed external research grant.
Support for Research Excellence (SuRE) Award
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds a faculty member's own research project at a resource-limited college, for those with no current NIH project grant.
Using Archived Data and Specimen Collections to Advance Maternal and Pediatric HIV/AIDS Research (R21 CT Not Allowed)
NIH · United States
Funds secondary analysis of archived HIV/AIDS data and specimens from maternal, pediatric and adolescent populations, without collecting anything new.