Crowdfunding for research projects
All-or-nothing crowdfunding for discrete research projects. Realistic for pilot data, participant payments or a small community study — and the campaign itself is public engagement.
- Indicative award
- $1k–$25k (total award)Typically enough for pilot data collection, not for salary.
- Timing
- Rolling / openNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Rolling — you launch when your campaign is ready.
- Who can apply
- Master's / undergraduate, Doctoral candidate, Postdoctoral, Early-career faculty, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- No institutional eligibility gate, but your university still needs to receive the funds and your IRB still needs to approve the study.
- SSWR clusters
- Special Interest Groups
- Topics
- crowdfunding · pilot data · public engagement · all-or-nothing
- Apply at
- https://experiment.com/
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. Funder link last confirmed to resolve on 2026-09-25.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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