Project grants

Do you have a project that might help grow the Open Humans ecosystem?

You may qualify for $5000 USD to support your work!

Projects can work with members in a variety of exciting ways – help members add new data sources, or share new ways to explore existing data!

For example...

Check out previous awardees on our project grant awards page!

Data interpretations

Data sources

Data sources

No application deadline: This opportunity remains open while funds last.

Who can apply: This is open to both US-based and international individuals. No institutional or organizational affiliation is required.

Individuals and teams are invited to apply for a project grant of up to $5000 if they plan to do one or more of the following:

provide valuable new/novel data sources
raise significant awareness of the project
attract new members (e.g. by providing an analysis or visualization of data) who will continue to contribute to the ecosystem in the future after your project rolls out

We strongly encourage applicants to learn more about projects on Open Humans, so you understand the technical format we expect.

Unless otherwise agreed upon, funded projects are expected to meet the following guidelines:

The project should be deployed on Open Humans within 6 months of funding – "approved" and available to Open Humans members.
The project is expected to remain available for at least 6 months after deployment, and be responsive to bug reports and other issues.
The project should enable others to replicate it and create derivatives, through documentation and open source licensing (e.g. BSD, MIT, Apache, or GPL).
Grants will be distributed in three parts: one third upon grant award, one third upon deployment, and one third after the 6 month period is complete.

You should expect to receive a response from the Open Humans Team within four weeks of receipt of application.

Feel free to join by our Slack chatroom to get advice!