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Prizes

Skoll Award for Social Innovation

Status

Usually opens in April

Projected from the months this call usually opens — not a date the funder has confirmed.

Closed

Projected from the pattern of past calls — confirm on the funder's page before planning around it.

Amount
$2,000,000

US$2m unrestricted, paid over three years, to each awardee organisation

Funder

Skoll Foundation

private · supranational

Deadline: One call a year — By invitation and internal sourcing rather than open application. Awards are announced each year around the Skoll World Forum in April.

Your odds
Not published

This funder does not publish a success rate. We rank it using the rate observed across similar programmes and label it as an estimate rather than implying we know.

Effort
quick

Quick — mostly identity and bank details.

Who can apply

Organisations already at proven scale with a track record of systems change. For-profit and hybrid models are eligible but nonprofits dominate the awardee list.

Related reading: How grant deadlines actually work

Apply on the funder's site

Source. https://skoll.org/awards/skoll-award/ · not human-checked

Verified on 14 August 2026

Source: skoll.org

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