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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Grant programs across
crypto, AI and open source.
Who funds them, what they fund and how to apply.
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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.
Effective Ventures
Effective Altruism Funds accepts rolling applications for people, projects, nonprofits, and institutions through its Animal Welfare, EA Infrastructure, and Long-Term Future funds. Requests can range from $1,000 to $500,000; the Global Health and Development Fund is currently closed.
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.
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.
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.
G-Research
Monthly research grants of up to £2,000 for early-career researchers, including trustworthy AI, causal inference, and related machine-learning topics.
Coefficient Giving
Coefficient Giving (formerly Open Philanthropy) runs a Global Catastrophic Risks Opportunities Fund with open routes for career development and transition support, plus programs and events related to catastrophic risks, biosecurity, and effective altruism.
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.
GOAT Network
Base grants plus up to $1M pool for teams building agent-native AI applications with real economic utility on GOAT Network.
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.
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.
KAUST (King Abdullah University)
KAUST's dedicated office administering research funding across its four academic divisions: Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering; Biomedical Sciences; Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Science and Engineering; and Physical Science and Engineering.
Manifund (AI safety regranting)
$10k rolling microgrants, hosted on Manifund
Long-Term Future Fund
Makes grants aimed at positively influencing the long-term trajectory of civilization, primarily by reducing global catastrophic risks -- especially from advanced AI and pandemics -- via technical research, policy, advocacy, infrastructure, and field-building. Grants range from $1,000 to over $500,000 (recent grants roughly $6k-$175k), through focused rounds plus an always-open application evaluated in the next round.
Laude Institute Moonshot Program
Laude Institute's Moonshots is a research grant competition funding AI projects aimed at humanity's hardest problems across four tracks: accelerating science, advancing healthcare, workforce reskilling, and civic discourse. Its first competition, Moonshots // ONE, drew 125 proposals from 600+ researchers across 47 institutions and deployed $4.1M in seed grants across 25 teams, with seed winners competing for at least one $10M lab to be decided in October 2026; all winning projects commit to sharing their work as open source.
NASA
NASA's phased grant program funding early-stage, high-risk aerospace and technology concepts.
Open Philanthropy
Coefficient Giving's (formerly Open Philanthropy) fund supporting technical AI safety research, AI governance and policy, and capacity-building to grow the field. Published grants include general support for organizations, compute funds for AI safety research, and individual research projects such as studies on model organisms of reward-hacking, chain-of-thought faithfulness, latent adversarial training, and software formal verification.
Status describes whether a program is running. Application methods are recorded separately. Read the funder’s terms before applying.