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The Administration and the De Logi Approval Committee (DLAC) are announcing the third round of grantmaking for the De Logi Science and Technology Grants, with the expectation to award a grant of about USD 1 million ‒ or several grants totaling about USD 1 million ‒ by the beginning of the 2026-2027 academic year.

Funds for these grants comes from the De Logi Trust, decisions about how to spend these funds are made jointly by the Caltech Administration and a self-perpetuating De Logi Approval Committee (DLAC), which consists of Caltech professors. DLAC members are ineligible to apply for grants.

Submission Deadline: February 1, 2026, 5PM PST (pre-proposal)

Total Award: Up to $1,000,000

Indirect Costs: If invited to submit a full proposal, awards will be subject to Caltech's minimum overhead rate based on the award's annual gross funding.

Discipline(s): All Divisions

Eligibility: Research Faculty, Tenure-Track Faculty, Tenured Faculty

Research Areas of Interest: Any activity (including instrumentation) that is likely to have a large, long-term impact on science or technology. This includes but is not limited to high-payoff, high-risk projects that are hard to fund in other ways (as stipulated in the De Logi bequest). These funds can be combined with other funds to reach some goal, but that is not at all necessary. If you are uncertain as to whether a proposed activity qualifies for consideration, it very likely does.

Application: As a first step in the decision process, the DLAC seeks brief pre-proposals, from which (if any are sufficiently compelling) several will be selected to be evaluated in greater depth via requests for detailed full proposals and interviews.

• Maximum length: 500 words (about one page) of text, plus figures if any.
• Budget: state the total amount sought and explain very briefly how the funds are likely to be spent.
  

Submission: To submit an application visit our application site here.

Note: If you do not already have an account with our application site you will be required to create one using your Caltech email address before you can submit your application. Instructions are available via the link above and the button below.