Who funds them, what they fund and how to apply.
grantmaking.ai, in partnership with Manifund, opened a launch round distributing $5k-$50k grants per applicant from a $1M total round for projects reducing x-risk from AI. One short application creates a public project/funding ask reviewed by experienced AI safety grantmakers. Deadline is July 13, 2026.
Open call for artists using AI in creative projects, run with compute partner Modal: $2,000 honorarium, up to $5,000 production funding, and up to $20,000 in Modal compute credits.
Meta's second Llama Impact Grants call awarded more than $1.5 million to 10 companies, startups, and universities using open-source Llama models for social and economic impact. Applications for that round closed in November 2024, and recipients were announced in April 2025.
$10M fund jointly run by Google DeepMind, Schmidt Sciences, the Cooperative AI Foundation, ARIA, and Google.org, kick-starting independent research on multi-agent AI safety. The 2026 call closed 8 August 2026.
Schmidt Sciences funded research studying the safety of large networks of interacting AI agents, offering up to $1M over 1-2 years. The 2026 SM Apply portal closed 8 August 2026.
A $10M fund co-backed by Schmidt Sciences, Google DeepMind, ARIA, and Google.org, supporting 1-2 year research grants ($300k-$1M, or up to $300k for smaller projects) on safety risks from large-scale multi-agent AI systems. The 2026 call for proposals closed 8 August 2026.
NLnet-run fund supporting service portability and personal freedom in hosted cloud/fediverse services (e.g. PeerTube, Mastodon, email, VPN, private cloud on NixOS). NLnet published the twelfth call as the fund's final intake; it closed 1 August 2026 and no further applications are accepted.
NLnet-run fund supporting free/open-source privacy-preserving digital payment infrastructure built on GNU Taler. NLnet published the fourteenth call as the fund's final intake; it closed 1 August 2026 and no further applications are accepted.
An NLnet-managed fund within the EU Next Generation Internet initiative that awarded small-to-medium R&D grants (EUR 5,000-50,000 for first proposals) to deliver, mature, and scale new internet commons across the full technology stack. NLnet published the thirteenth call as the fund's final intake; no further applications are sought.
Dated record of NLnet's August 2026 Open Call, which closed 1 August 2026. The standing vehicle for later odd-month calls is NLnet General Grants.
Inaugural OS4LS RFA of the Open Source for Science Fund. LOI due 2026-06-08; full proposals due 2026-07-21. Submissions are closed. Award notifications expected October 2026.
The Optimism Governance Fund funds Missions — scoped funding requests reviewed by the Developer Advisory Board and the Foundation Mission Team — for measurable, onchain contributions across the Superchain. Individual missions specify budgets in OP tokens; recent cycles include Season 7 and cross-chain infrastructure mission requests.
Intent 3: Grow Application Developers on the Superchain Objective : Establish a comprehensive repository of open-source, on-chain contracts for the Optimism ecosystem. This repository will serve as a critical resource for developers building on the Superchain, providing backend solutions for DeFi products and NFT marketplaces.
Optimism's Season 9 Grants Council mission funded incentives, vaults, routing, tooling, and integrations intended to increase DEX liquidity and trading efficiency for collateral-borrow pairs used by lending markets across the Superchain.
A recurring Optimism grants mission that funded Superchain growth through the Grants Council. Season 9 submissions closed May 20, 2026. The Grants Council was later dissolved; there is no public Season 10 window as of 2026-08-29.
A $50 million fund for 2026 from the OpenAI Foundation making unrestricted, one-time grants to US 501(c)(3) nonprofits with annual budgets between $500,000 and $10 million (priority $1-8 million; select regranters under $15 million), across community support services, community arts and cultural organizations, and community journalism and media. Grants run up to 10% of an organization's annual budget with light-touch reporting, and do not require use of OpenAI products.
A community-governed, milestone-based grants program funded by the Polygon Community Treasury. Season 2 Direct Track applications closed April 15, 2025. From Season 3 the treasury moved to an investment and program-director model. There is no public grant apply portal as of 2026-08-29.
Season 2 of the Polygon Community Grants Program made up to 35M POL available to fund builders on Polygon, split between a Grant Allocators Track (up to 15M POL, themed around AI, DePIN, and memecoins via independent allocators like Gitcoin, IoTeX, and Eliza Labs) and a Direct Track (up to 20M POL for any category). KYC was mandatory and funding was milestone-based. The program now shows as closed on Questbook.
Status describes whether a program is running. Application methods are recorded separately. Read the funder’s terms before applying.