From $200,000 Launchpad Funds Grant

Coefficient Giving, the funder formerly known as Open Philanthropy, is inviting expressions of interest for Launchpad Funds: new or scalable funds that each tackle one important, underfunded problem in global health and wellbeing, such as lead exposure or malaria in a single country. Each fund is led by a general manager who is personally accountable for the outcome and regrants to the organisations doing the work. This is serious money for serious operators, aimed at people ready to run a fund full time.

What you get:

• Pre-seed track: $200,000 to $10 million over up to 24 months, to develop a fund's idea and strategy, build a team and, at the top of the range, make early exploratory grants
• Seed and scaling track: $10 million to $50 million or more over up to 36 months, mostly for regranting or direct implementation toward the fund's goal
• Thought partnership from the Coefficient Giving team, which grows with the size of the grant
• A path toward a fund that could deploy $100 million or more from other funders over the following years

What you'll do:

• Submit a short expression of interest, which Coefficient Giving expects to take one to two hours
• Write 1,000 words on the proposed fund: the outcome or topic it would own, how it scores on importance, tractability and neglectedness, and why it could become a $100 million idea
• Write 300 words on why you, or the head of your team, are well placed to lead it, and give a rough budget range
• If advanced, write a longer strategy proposal and iterate with the team, possibly including cost-effectiveness estimates

Key dates:

• Expressions of interest due October 2, 2026
• Pre-seed decisions made on a rolling basis, with final decisions targeted by December 15, 2026
• Seed and scaling decisions made on a rolling basis, with final decisions targeted by May 1, 2027

More information:

• Questions go to launchpad@coefficientgiving.org
• Coefficient Giving may share application materials with other interested funders unless you ask them to check with you first
• No individual feedback will be given
• Proposals that directly overlap one of Coefficient Giving's own internal funds, such as its Strep A Vaccine Fund, are unlikely to go forward

• Individuals well positioned to become a general manager for an issue area; successful individual applicants are expected to treat it as a full-time job, with part-time applicants considered only in exceptional circumstances
• Early-stage funds with established founding teams, and existing funds with significant potential to scale
• Philanthropic funders, regrantors or incubators with fund concepts they could host
• Implementing organisations willing to take on an entire problem, including by regranting to others
• The seed and scaling track requires an identified general manager; the pre-seed track also accepts idea generators who do not want to run the fund
• Proposals must be in global health and wellbeing; no age, nationality or location restriction is stated
• Required: a resume or LinkedIn link, a 1,000 word proposal, a 300 word statement on fit, and a rough budget with a sketch of how funding would be used