Experiment Foundation

The Experiment Foundation is a 501(c)(3) public charity supporting new ideas, people, and fields of science.

[Experiment Foundation @exp_foundation]

Field Builders make the fields that make the future. More people should consider the role.

We’re backing at least 50 Field Builders to launch grant programs in emerging scientific fields. Each Field Builder will award $70,000 to researchers they recruit and receive a $5,000 honorarium for leading the work.

Applications for the Field Building Accelerator are open now through December 15, 2026: https://t.co/ffUvFYCop5

[Experiment Foundation @exp_foundation]

Plus Future Science for ideas that don't fit other categories!

[Experiment Foundation @exp_foundation]

We’re funding Field Builders across five areas: Oceans, Toxicity, Climate, Conservation Technology, and Future Science. Within these categories you’ll create your own grant program, evaluating eligible projects for scientific merit that fit with your grant program's goals, and identifying a fundable set of projects you’d be thrilled to see awarded.

Apply now for the Field Building Accelerator through December 15: https://t.co/J9E0DkSOAD

[Experiment Foundation @exp_foundation]

Join us on Wednesday, November 18, at 12pm ET / 9am PT for a virtual info session on the Field Building Accelerator. We’ll walk through the vision behind the program, how to apply, and what it takes to launch a grant program on Experiment. Bring your questions and come say hello! Register here: https://t.co/FNaRoX1vO1

[Eric Gilliam @eric_is_weird]

A great opportunity accompanied by a stirring piece. IMO, scientific field-creation is not only one of the most heroic acts in science, but an act that most great minds are too risk-averse to dedicate their lives to. This is an exciting opportunity for great minds with courage.

[Experiment Foundation @exp_foundation]

You don’t need to be an academic or have formal research credentials to be a field builder. We’re looking to back connectors who are doing the work to find, build, and nurture the people exploring different questions and building different tools. A field builder is someone with genuine curiosity and passionate belief in what might be possible just outside the edge of current research paradigms.

Read the Art of Field Building:

[David Lang @davidtlang]

I wrote up my best ideas on *who* makes a good field builder, *how* they do it, and why more people should consider the job.

The Art of Field Building

https://t.co/9CntplzRn5

[Christina Agapakis @thisischristina]

Love the energy of "Become the science funder you want to see in the world"! Cool program by an awesome team backing people with money to give out as fast grants

[Niko McCarty. @NikoMcCarty]

Up to 50 people will receive $70k to give away, as microgrants, to create new scientific fields. Good opportunity!

[David Lang @davidtlang]

BIG NEWS!

For the past few years, we've given scientists budgets so they can fund their peers with small, fast grants. Today, we're going bigger.

We're opening up a call to find and fund emerging "field builders"—people with the ambition and curiosity to kickstart a new field of science and technology. You'll get a budget of $70,000 to regrant (up to $10,000) out to projects and ideas and join a community of explorers.

Do you have an idea for a new field of science that *should* exist? Please apply!