Helping great scientists prototype their most ambitious ideas for good
Fifty Years Manifest Grants is a fast grants program that awards $25K - $100K to scientists to accelerate their most ambitious ideas to solve the world’s biggest problems.
The application is max 2 pages
You get a decision within 21 days
No IP is taken
Are you an academic scientist working on a translational research idea for solving a big problem? Check our active grant programs below.
Active Grants:
Manifest Climate (bio x climate solutions). Applications are open from August 1st, ‘23! Learn more here.
Manifest Repro (female reproductive science). Round 1 closed in January ‘23. We’re getting ready for Round 2 in Q4 ’23!
Fifty Years Manifest Repro received 465 applications from nearly every top research university in the world, and funded 12 amazing projects.
Why Manifest Grants?
Right now, researchers are developing innovative solutions to disease, aging, the climate crisis, and other big world problems. But a few of these solutions will manage to leave the lab. Often, after the basic science is done, there’s just a little more work – prototyping, techno economic-modeling, real-world testing – to show the science has commercial potential. But almost no one funds such work!
We cannot afford potential solutions to sit idle. The world urgently needs new funding vehicles that empower scientists to quickly test if their most ambitious ideas are commercially viable. That’s why we started Manifest Grants – to bring breakthrough science from the lab to the benefit of all.
We’ll be expanding Manifest to many critical areas of science. Stay tuned for updates.