CIFAR - Pan-Canadian AI Strategy
CIFAR program providing short-term, flexible funding to catalyze new interdisciplinary machine-learning research collaborations across domains including AI safety and alignment, misinformation/information integrity, trustworthy and interpretable LLMs, real-world deployed-system safety, AI auditing and fairness, and privacy-preserving techniques. Awards have run annually since at least 2020; a recent call funded the program's first AI-safety-specific Catalyst Grants under the national strategy. Apply by contacting CIFAR directly; no standing application URL found.
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HRF AI for Individual Rights Fund
Grants to activists, researchers, and open-source developers building privacy-preserving, freedom-enhancing AI tools and exposing authoritarian AI uses; also runs the AI Hack for Freedom hackathon series.
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AI Grant
No-strings grants of $5,000-$50,000 (compute or cash) for open-source AI/ML projects, distinct from AI Grant's main $250k accelerator.
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OpenAI Foundation
Grants across four focus areas -- bio-resilience, cyber-resilience, AI model safety, and impact on children/youth from AI tools -- led by co-founder Wojciech Zaremba, part of the Foundation's broader $1B+ annual deployment from its $25B commitment.
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GiveWell
GiveWell's All Grants Fund lets donors support the full range of GiveWell's grantmaking in global health and well-being, including incubating newer programs alongside its top charities.
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Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Awards AWS Promotional Credit to researchers building cloud-hosted tools, running proof-of-concept tests, or training communities on cloud research workloads. Open to full-time faculty and enrolled graduate or PhD students at accredited research institutions; applications are reviewed on a rolling 90-120 day cycle, with student awards capped at $5,000 and faculty/staff awards uncapped.
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BARDA (Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority)
The BARDA Accelerator Network offers proof-of-concept funding opportunities year-round with rolling application submissions and priority deadlines, part of BARDA's DRIVe partnering approach for health-security innovation.
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Cooperative AI Foundation
The Cooperative AI Foundation's research grants fund work that improves the cooperative intelligence of advanced AI, addressing multi-agent and cooperation problems among AI systems and between AI and humans. Grants run GBP 10,000-385,000 (median ~GBP 150,000, Early-Career Track up to GBP 100,000) in periodic rounds via a two-stage pre-proposal and full-proposal process; projects run up to 2 years with indirect costs capped at 10%.
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BlueDot Impact
BlueDot Impact's Career Transition Grants provide 6-12 months of runway for people transitioning into AI safety work, including introductions, check-ins, and a community of grantees. Applications are rolling.
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Cohere For AI
Free Cohere API access (not cash) for academic partners, civic institutions, and impact-focused organizations working on education, healthcare, climate, sustainability, LM safety, and values alignment; rolling applications.
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ChainGPT
ChainGPT offers up to $1 million in tiered Web3-AI Grants, including research grants up to $5K in API credit, to accelerate AI-powered blockchain projects.
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Digital Freedom Fund
The Digital Freedom Fund funds three types of activity — litigation, pre-litigation, and post-litigation — advancing digital rights through strategic litigation in Europe, with open calls reviewed by community peers.
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OpenAI Foundation
Initial $250M commitment to grants, partnerships, and direct work spanning independent measurement and forecasting of AI's economic impact, resourcing workers and communities through near-term disruption, and new approaches to sharing economic gains. First initiatives were still pending as of the May 27, 2026 announcement. This page is a source, not an application form.
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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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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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