25 Banachek of grants each year totaling approximately $ 100,00 per year . We will NOT accept suggestions , applications , or proposals for these grants . We hope they will come as a pleasant surprise to the recipients , just as Randi ’ s MacArthur Foundation grant was a pleasant surprise to him .
We plan on continuing the Million Dollar Challenge as a means for educating the public about paranormal claims , but the process for consideration of claims has been changed effective September 1 , 2015 . No application submitted under the previous procedures or relying in whole or in part on the previously published terms of the Challenge will be considered .
Over the years , we have spent a great deal of time dealing with claims ranging from yet another dowsing claim to some VERY eccentric and untestable claims . The overwhelming majority refused to fill out the application or even state a claim that can be tested . Some of them show up in person