Innovation Grants
Funding Amount
Not stated
Deadline
Deadline not published
Grant Type
Foundation
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Eligible organizations
- Scientists, students, and researchers across the globe
- Academia, private industry, and non-profit organizations
Other requirements
- Researchers working on innovative technologies including
- Devices lasting for years
- On-demand contraceptives
- Daily pills
Overview
Focus Areas:
- Early stage research in previously unexplored areas
- Promising development programs advancing towards first-in-man studies
- Non-hormonal, reversible male contraceptive research and development
- Discovery-stage and pre-clinical studies across drug and device realms
- Support for young researchers and early career investigators
- Development of tools that promote the field
- Social science research illustrating demand and need for male contraceptives
Geographic Scope: Global
Eligible Applicants:
- Scientists, students, and researchers across the globe
- Academia, private industry, and non-profit organizations
- Researchers working on innovative technologies including:
- Devices lasting for years
- On-demand contraceptives
- Daily pills
- Market research on demand and preferences
- High-risk, high-reward research initiatives
Support Provided:
- Long-term and short-term investments
- Broad range of male contraceptive research funding
- To date, MCI has provided over $10 million in support of non-hormonal, reversible male contraceptive research and development (as of the date provided)
What Male Contraceptive Initiative actually gave
Source: IRS Form 990, 2024
- Grants in 2024
- 5
- Total given
- $694K
- Median grant
- $100K
- Range
- $10K–$400K
- By dollars: Connecticut 58%, Minnesota 23%, New York 14%. Top recipient cities: Old Greenwich, CT; Minneapolis, MN; Ithaca, NY.
- 0% of grants with a stated purpose were for general or operating support.
Example grants
Sacyl Pharmaceuticals · Old Greenwich, CT
Nonclinical research
$400K
University of Minnesota · Minneapolis, MN
Nonclinical research
$160K
Cornell University · Ithaca, NY
Nonclinical research
$100K
Anther · Bozeman, MT
Technology expansion
$24K
Chicago University · Chicago, IL
Nonclinical research
$10K
Focus Areas & Funding Uses
Fields of Work
- Science research
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