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Grants

Gates Foundation Grand Challenges

Status

Open continuously

No deadline — apply whenever you are ready.

Always open
Amount
$100,000

Grand Challenges Explorations-style awards commonly US$100,000 for phase 1, with follow-on funding up to around US$1m for successful projects

Funder

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

private · national

Deadline: Fixed cut-off dates — Multiple themed calls open through the year, each with its own deadline

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

Open to for-profit companies, nonprofits and research institutions worldwide. Global health and development focus.

Related reading: How grant deadlines actually work · UEI and SAM.gov registration, explained

Apply on the funder's site

Source. https://gcgh.grandchallenges.org/challenges · not human-checked

Verified on 14 August 2026

Source: funder's homepage — the programme page was not found

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