Ethereum Foundation
The Ethereum Foundation's primary direct grants program, supporting free and open-source projects, builder tools, infrastructure, and research that strengthen Ethereum's technical, social, and research foundations. After pausing unsolicited open grants in August 2025, ESP relaunched in November 2025 as a Wishlist and Requests-for-Proposals program. Applicants apply against posted items; time-limited open rounds are a separate, currently empty track. Quarterly allocation reports break awards into community and education, cryptography and zero-knowledge proofs, developer tooling, consensus and execution layers, and application infrastructure.
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Ethereum Foundation
A $1 million Ethereum Foundation-backed program administered through Areta Market that subsidizes professional security reviews for Ethereum mainnet builders. Applications are organized into recurring cohorts, with eligible projects receiving support toward audit costs.
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Filecoin Foundation
Filecoin Foundation's open developer grants programme, run in numbered waves, with an Open Grants track (up to $50,000) and a smaller Microgrants track. Funded work must be open-sourced under a dual MIT/ Apache 2.0 license.
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Arbitrum Foundation
Rolling Arbitrum OpCo grants for feasibility research and groundwork that can lead to larger DAO initiatives. The $50,000 fund offers up to $10,000 per grant across revenue, non-DeFi builder support, ecosystem unification, and open-track work.
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FLOSS/fund
FLOSS/fund provides roughly $1M per year to free and open source projects; applicants create a funding.json manifest in their repo and apply through its public directory.
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Flow
Top-down grant track for growth-stage teams building on Flow; milestone-based proposals (roadmap, funding request per milestone, budget justification, success metrics) reviewed internally by the Flow Foundation. Size and round schedule not published.
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FOSS United
FOSS United Foundation runs a grants program (a 25-lakh INR budget as of 2025) for FOSS projects and developers in India, covering both event grants and project grants via an online application.
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Co-Impact
Co-Impact's Foundational Fund supports efforts to deliver lasting change to health, education, and economic systems across Africa, Asia, and Latin America, and to advance gender equality.
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Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)
CSET's Foundational Research Grants program funds external research on emerging-technology questions with national-security relevance. Its AI work includes model deception, release strategies, uncertainty, frontier-model auditing, post-deployment monitoring, and internal deployment risks.
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Longview Philanthropy
Longview's Frontier AI Fund supports work to mitigate risks from advanced AI systems, open to researchers, nonprofits, and builders working on frontier AI safety and governance, with a rolling deadline.
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G-Research
Monthly research grants of up to £2,000 for early-career researchers, including trustworthy AI, causal inference, and related machine-learning topics.
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Gitcoin
Gitcoin deploys treasury assets into Octant v2 yield-donating vaults and routes the generated yield into future domain-specific grant matching pools while preserving the principal. Gitcoin reports that the governance-approved model was implemented in 2026.
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Gitcoin
Gitcoin's Flows directory connects applicants to continuous, community-curated funding streams. Applicants select an active flow aligned with their project and apply through that flow.
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GitHub
A GitHub program investing in the security of critical open source projects: each accepted project receives $10,000 ($6,000 during the program, $2,000 at the 6-month check-in, $2,000 at the 12-month check-in) paired with a 3-week security education program and expert support. Open to current maintainers (individual or teams of up to 3) of projects with a valid open source license, community adoption, and established governance; applications are rolling and considered for upcoming sessions.
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Cisco Foundation
Cisco's Global Impact Cash Grant Program funds community partners worldwide via an online grants management portal, with Cisco also connecting recipients to pro-bono strategic and technical advisory services.
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GOAT Network
Base grants plus up to $1M pool for teams building agent-native AI applications with real economic utility on GOAT Network.
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Google Academic Research Awards
Google Academic Research Awards fund academic researchers advising students and conducting technology and computing research, through periodic nomination-based calls for proposals.
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NCCU
Up to $10,000 per award for NCCU faculty, postdocs, and students to jumpstart early-stage AI pilot projects, administered via Graduate Studies' Faculty Research Award Program.
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