Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness Fund

Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness

Supports biosecurity research, policy work, and prevention planning for pandemic preparedness.

Eligibility · Global — open worldwide

⚠ This may reflect a past cycle — verify the current call on the funder's site.

Coefficient Giving's Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness Fund issued a 2026 Request for Proposals targeting work aimed at preventing engineered biological threats and improving pandemic response capacity. The fund has awarded hundreds of millions of dollars in biosecurity grants to date and directed over $100 million in 2026 alone. Past grantees include ProEquip (respiratory PPE stockpiling for critical infrastructure), Blueprint Biosecurity (far-UVC and glycol vapor transmission suppression), SecureBio (AI capability evaluation in biology research), and the Nuclear Threat Initiative (gene synthesis screening infrastructure). The RFP covered four categories: transmission suppression technologies (PPE stockpiling, air filters, far-UVC, disinfectant vapors); tech safeguards and governance (AI-biosecurity intersection, synthesis screening, misuse classifiers, mirror life governance); policy and advocacy (policymaker education, government preparedness); and field-building (fellowships, accelerators, media, events).

The RFP was open to any entity type — for-profit companies, nonprofits, universities, research organizations, and individuals — from any country. Award sizes ranged widely, from small independent project grants to multi-year organizational grants. Initial applications took the form of a short Expression of Interest capped at 500 words. The RFP closed on May 11, 2026; Coefficient Giving aimed to respond to all EOI submitters by end of June 2026, with selected applicants invited to provide additional details for a grant investigation expected to take one to two months.

The 2026 RFP is now closed. Coefficient Giving has not announced a firm timeline for the next round but indicated that an additional RFP is possible. Outside of RFP windows, the fund accepts proposals via biosecurity@coefficientgiving.org at a high bar and will not respond to every submission. Applicants aligned with the fund's four core categories — particularly those working at the AI-biosecurity interface or on scalable transmission suppression technologies — should monitor the fund's website for a future RFP announcement and use the 500-word EOI format as a template for preparing pre-submission materials.