Pilot Innovation Grants
Pilot Innovation Grants support investigators developing early-stage suicide research and feasibility studies to explore new directions in suicide prevention and lay the groundwork for larger investigations.
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Funder: American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
Due Dates: November 15, 2026 (Application)
Funding Amounts: Up to $50,000, expended over one or two years
Summary: Seed funding for early-stage suicide research and feasibility studies with potential to lead to larger investigations.
Key Information: Every project must include at least one suicide outcome measure.
Description
The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) provides Pilot Innovation Grants to investigators at any career level developing new directions in suicide research. The program typically supports feasibility studies rather than hypothesis-driven research, including manual development, new biomarker development, and treatment-feasibility studies. Projects should have potential to lead to larger investigations.
AFSP supports basic and applied research that increases understanding of suicide, its causes, and factors related to suicide risk, or tests treatments and other interventions designed to prevent suicide. Supplemental projects may add a suicide-related population or treatment component to an existing funded study. All suicide-prevention research is welcome, with priority consideration for strong proposals addressing diversity and inequities, understudied populations with elevated suicide rates, or survivors of suicide loss.
