Who funds them, what they fund and how to apply.
Cybersecurity call within ARIA's GBP 59M Safeguarded AI programme, allocating GBP 20M across Blue Team awards (3-6, production-grade security-critical software with machine-checked proofs) and one Red Team for adversarial evaluation.
Schmidt Sciences' 2026 AI at Work call offered up to $200,000 to early-career economists and other quantitative social scientists for field experiments on worker displacement, adjustment, and scientific productivity. Expressions of interest closed on April 10, 2026.
A three-month Scroll Community Council pilot funding events, meetups, hackathons, and flexible community requests worldwide. Individual awards ranged from $200 to $10,000 within an approved SCR 312,500 program budget.
A Sia Foundation funding program for open-source tools and applications supporting user-owned data. Intake for new proposals was paused on June 25, 2026 through the end of Q3 while the Foundation completes a long-term program strategy; approved projects continue during the pause.
A donor circle supporting cost-effective animal welfare and protection nonprofits at stages where targeted funding can accelerate growth. SAFC runs two calls per year, typically allocating about $500,000 across selected applicants with grants around $50,000 each; the Spring 2026 call closed March 25.
A completed Tarbell Center grant round offering up to $20,000 for original reporting in established outlets on artificial intelligence and its impacts. The call was open to freelance and staff journalists and closed on March 8, 2026.
Story grants of $1,000-$20,000 for original, forward-looking journalism on AI impacts, published in established outlets. Open to freelancers, staff reporters, and newsroom teams.
Tenfold Polybrain Season 2 used an AI grant allocator to select Polygon ecosystem projects, with five teams advancing to milestone-gated awards of up to 40,000 POL each. The final February 2026 update records four completed projects and one incomplete project, with payouts tied to delivered milestones.
A first-round microgrant fund for animal advocates testing new recruitment, community-building, and campaign tactics. The $5,000 round offered grants of up to $1,000 and closed June 12, 2026.
Multiple $100,000 research grants, each paired with $25,000 in Tinker credits, for work advancing multimodal and real-time human-AI interactivity. Proposals could cover evaluations, safety, generative interfaces, agent steering, or other interactivity research and were due June 19, 2026.
Polygon Community Treasury grants administered by Thrive Protocol for consumer crypto builders across eight categories. Season 1 offered $800,000 in MATIC, received 255 applications, and selected 25 projects.
TON Blockchain announces results of its AI Agent Tooling Fast Grants. The program received 40 submissions and selected 14 winners, distributing $14k in total. Winners developed tools, SDKs, infrastructure primitives, and A2A building blocks to accelerate AI agent development on TON. Results were announced on March 5, 2026.
UNICEF Venture Fund is inviting startups in emerging markets to apply for mentorship and equity-free funding of up to US$100,000 in ETH, BTC, or USDC for onchain solutions focused on social good. The call targets ready-to-deploy projects that leverage crypto technology. Applications are open until the deadline of March 10, 2026. More details on eligibility and requirements are available via the provided link.
Uniswap Foundation Security Fund is offering audit subsidies of up to 100% coverage for teams building with Uniswap v4 hooks or Trading APIs. The program also provides pre-audit scans and security guidance. Eligible projects can receive full audit cost coverage through the fund.
A concluded co-branded grant program between Uniswap and the Arbitrum Foundation, awarding $50,000-$250,000 in ARB tokens to protocols, marked "Program Complete" on the Foundation's grants page.
Web3 Foundation's open grants program, which funded open-source software development and research around Polkadot, Kusama, Substrate, and ink! in quarterly waves. Historical levels ran from Level 1 (up to $10,000) to Level 3 (unlimited), with at least 50% typically paid in vested DOT. The program has been discontinued and no longer accepts applications, in favor of Targeted Strategic Funding and the Decentralized Futures program.
Who Let The Docs Out, a new non-profit documentary film fund and alliance, officially announced its public launch of two grant programs: the 2026 Coexistence Documentary Fund and the 2026 Automation & Humanity Documentary Fund.
Employer-led workforce training grant program from the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development, focused on advanced manufacturing and artificial intelligence. Grants of up to $330,000 per grantee or consortium fund employer-driven occupational training, open to employers of any size operating in Wisconsin; after the initial deadline, applications may be reviewed on a rolling basis until funds are awarded.
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