Observed arrival · 2026-10-10
Macro Grants: Small Checks for Projects That Should Exist
Macro Grants offers small grants, usually $1,000–$25,000, for projects it finds useful, underfunded, or simply fun.
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- People with concrete, underfunded public-interest projects
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- Applicants send a few paragraphs by email; grants under $10,000 are paid upfront, and the page says completed work gets a short written update.
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The page gives applicants a compact submission brief: explain what they want to do, why, what it costs, and who they are, with links to past work preferred. It excludes startups and political campaigns, and says larger grants use milestones agreed with recipients. Listed work ranges from a Planet Nine challenge marked open to proposals still labeled as ideas or in planning.
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