PreventSA Incubator Grant

The PreventSA Incubator aims to reduce sexual assault rates in the U.S. by 70% by 2050 through innovative solutions. This six-month program offers $50,000 in funding, mentorship, and community support for technology or social media ideas targeting high-school-aged youth (ages 14-18). It seeks projects that prevent peer-on-peer sexual assault and can launch by April 2026. Applicants must focus on direct engagement with high-risk youth and adapt successful interventions from other countries.

The Fund to Prevent Sexual Assault is the first philanthropic fund focused entirely on preventing sexual assault at scale. We fund creative solutions, support bold experimentation, and generate the research needed to identify and scale what works.
Have an idea for a technology or social media solution that could decrease teenage peer-on-peer rape?
Apply to our 6-month incubator, kicking off in January 2026. What you’ll get:
$50,000 to work on designing, piloting, and refining your conceptIntroductions to mentors, experts, and potential sources of follow-on-fundingThe opportunity to work alongside a community of innovators who all care about solving this problem

Eligibility

Your idea must:Use technology or social media to reach youth directlyBe designed to prevent high-school-aged youth (ages 14-18) from raping youth who are also that ageCan target first-time and/or repeat perpetrationReach youth who are at high risk of perpetration or who have already perpetratedTarget youth in the United StatesFunding can be used to adapt proven or promising interventions from other countries for use in the U.S.Reach youth when they are ages 11-18Does not need to include the entire age rangeBe able to launch by the end of April 2026, if it hasn’t launched already

Ineligibility

To help focus this round of funding, we are not looking for:Solutions targeted only at sexual abuse committed digitally or remotely; this open call is focused on contact sexual assault and rapeSexual violence survivor support services, unless targeted at changing the behavior of survivors who are also at high risk of perpetrationGeneral programs without a direct tie to sexual assault preventionResearch-only projects without a plan to expand beyond researchProjects solely based in K–5 education