Emergent Ventures

Mercatus Center, George Mason University

Small fast grants to individuals with an unusual idea, decided in weeks with a short application and no institutional overhead. Useful precisely where a conventional grant cycle is too slow to matter.

Indicative award

$1k–$100k (total award)Small individual grants and fellowships; the application is deliberately short.

Timing

Rolling / openNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Rolling, with decisions in weeks rather than months.

Who can apply

Master's / undergraduate, Doctoral candidate, Postdoctoral, Early-career faculty, Practitioner

Eligibility

Applications come from individuals, not institutions. Funds may reach you personally, which has tax and university disclosure consequences worth checking first.

SSWR clusters

Special Interest Groups

Topics

fast grants · individual applicant · no overhead · unconventional

Apply at

https://www.mercatus.org/emergent-ventures

This entry

Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.

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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