Grants under $50K
Explore grants with an award under $50,000. This directory lists small awards, innovation vouchers, travel and training support and prize money for early-stage companies, researchers and students, from public programs, foundations and corporate initiatives, with the deadline and eligibility on every listing.
Showing 601-624 of 698 grants
One NC SBP — SBIR/STTR Phase I Incentive Funds
🇺🇸NC BSTI · United States
Supports North Carolina small businesses through One NC SBP with help covering early proposal costs for government innovation awards.
Open Challenge Program (OCP) 1.0 at SmartAgri CoE, Bhilai
🇮🇳SmartAgri CoE · India
Gives AgriTech startups up to ₹35 lakh in seed funding plus a full incubation package — lab access, mentoring and IPR support — at STPI's SmartAgri CoE in Bhilai, Chhattisgarh.
Open Idea Competition
🇩🇪hessian.AI · Germany
Pays unincorporated AI founders up to €2,500 for their startup idea pitch.
Open Innovation Challenge for Talent – SIGNs Sprint
EIT RawMaterials · European Union
Pays student and graduate teams cash prizes for pitching green-metals ideas in Amsterdam.
Outstanding Female Scientist Prize
🇪🇺EDCTP3 · European Union
Awards EUR 20,000 to a woman scientist recognised for global-health research and mentorship in sub-Saharan Africa.
P2R 2026 – Incentives for Start-Up of Companies in Border Problem Areas
🇸🇮SEF · Slovenia
Pays new Slovenian companies in border regions a EUR 30,000 lump sum start-up grant.
PennCHOP Microbiome Pilot and Feasibility Grant
🇺🇸PennCHOP Microbiome · United States
Supports Penn faculty launching or expanding microbiome research through internal seed mechanisms at Penn Medicine.
Pitch & Pour: Start-Up Pitch Competition
🇺🇸Medmarc & MTEC · United States
Awards $7,500 cash to the winning military-health start-up pitching at The MedTech Conference.
Planning grant for international proposal 2026
🇸🇪Vinnova · Sweden
Funds Swedish teams preparing a stronger proposal for a published international call.
PM SVANidhi Startup Challenge
🇮🇳MoHUA · India
Funds DPIIT-recognized Indian startups up to Rs.20 lakh to build tech for street vendors.
Power At Sea Prize
🇺🇸DOE WPTO · United States
Pays teams up to $1.5 million combined to build early-stage marine energy systems that supply reliable power at sea.
Prakriti Incubation Launchpad Cohort 2
🇮🇳PRIF · India
Pays a fellowship grant, up to Rs 15 lakh for top performers, to North-East India startups.
Pre-doctoral Research Bursary
🇬🇧CRUK · United Kingdom
Pays up to £25k for clinicians to get short-term cancer research experience.
quantA Fellowship Call for Women
FWF · Austria
Funds two early-career female researchers with a two-year quantum-science postdoc in Austria.
Quantum Dice Use Case Challenge
🇬🇧Quantum Dice · United Kingdom
Pays up to £5,000 to teams solving real-world problems with probabilistic computing.
Queens Tech & Innovation Challenge
🇺🇸QEDC · United States
Awards up to $20,000 each to five early-stage entrepreneurs with strong Queens ties.
RABI Program 2025 - SAHAS (Pre-Seed Stage)
🇮🇳FIED · India
Funds Indian agri-business ideas with up to Rs. 5 lakh to build and validate a prototype.
Real-time detection of Structural Modifications in Scaffolding for Oil Refinery Safety
YPF · Argentina
Pays $20,000 to pilot a real-time sensor system that detects unsafe scaffolding changes at a refinery.
Resilient Societies
🇺🇸Mercatus Center · United States
Supports resilience-focused research in United States institutions through short thematic grants for adaptation work.
RKVY-RAFTAAR Startup Agribusiness Incubation Programme (SAIP) at ABIS-TBI, TNAU Coimbatore
🇮🇳MoA&FW · India
Pays incubated agribusiness startups a grant-in-aid of up to twenty-five lakh rupees to scale a working prototype into a market-ready venture.
Rock and Roll with NASA Challenge
NTL · United States
Pays up to $155,000 across three phases for a new lunar rover wheel design.
Rothberg Build Fund (3× / year)
🇺🇸Yale Ventures · United States
Supports Yale students building healthcare and medtech innovations into early validated prototypes.
Salata Summer Research Funding Program
🇺🇸Salata Institute · United States
Funds Harvard undergraduate and graduate students conducting original climate, sustainability, and environment research.
Samvardhan 2026 Design Accelerator
🇮🇳PIEDS · India
Funds Indian healthcare-hardware startups up to Rs. 10 lakh via a 6-month design accelerator.