Pipeline Grants Application Requirements

Proposal
We do not require or accept letters of inquiry for the Pipeline Grants Competition. Proposals should be submitted through RSF’s online application portal. Proposals are limited to seven single-spaced pages (with standard 11 or 12-point font, and 1-inch margins), and should include a very brief literature review (no more than one page), and detailed information on the research question, hypotheses, research methods and data, analytic plan, and project timeline. References do not count towards the page limit. Also required are an abbreviated CV (5 pages max). If your proposal is positively reviewed, we will ask for a detailed budget, budget justification (1-2 pages), and a letter from your institution stating that it will act as the fiscal agent for the project should a grant be made, but these are not required at the time of application. Investigators from the selected projects will be invited to an onboarding webinar after the funding decisions have been made, to inform about RSF grantee reporting and best practices, as well as budget guidelines and other due diligence requirements.

Not required at submission, but required prior to funds being disbursed—see budget guidelines:

A budget narrative (1-2 pages);
A detailed Excel budget using the Foundation’s budget template;