That is, I&#x27;ll admit, a much better success rate. Still not as high as I&#x27;d like, but I was honestly surprised by my ~7% figure - I didn&#x27;t figure it was actually that bad.<p>I can&#x27;t give you a specific figure, but off the cuff? I&#x27;d like to see decent numbers of projects regularly getting funded at the ~ 50K level. That would have a couple benefits:<p>- We&#x27;re now talking about a year&#x27;s funding for a postdoc&#x2F;grad student&#x2F;significant % effort for a prof. This is I think a fundamental hurdle. We can&#x27;t pretend that crowdsourcing is a viable funding stream if someone else has to keep the payroll going.<p>- 50K is also about the level, at least in my field, where we can talk about long-term investment purchases. Equipment, computers, larger datasets...the kinds of things that are hard to put on a single project.<p>- That&#x27;s also about the point where spending time on crowdfunding campaigns likely won&#x27;t irk chairs, tenure committees, etc. A couple years back I asked the folks in the fiscal office at my department about how a ~3-5K crowdsourcing project would work, and I got serious side eye.<p>- It&#x27;s also about where modest but decent pilot grants come in in my field generally.