Who funds them, what they fund and how to apply.
The Internet Society Foundation's Common Good Cyber Fund supports nonprofits that maintain public-interest cybersecurity infrastructure and protect vulnerable or high-risk communities. The 2026 call will award at least $3.5 million through two-year operating grants.
Community-run microgrants of $3,000-$5,000 for individual builders, creators, educators, and contributors delivering practical projects for the Stacks ecosystem, with Stacks Endowment funding and Community Stewards making award decisions.
The FreeBSD Foundation accepts rolling grant requests to improve the FreeBSD Project, including equipment for developers, conference and event sponsorship, and other efforts benefiting the FreeBSD community.
International collaborative-research call for real-world AI robotics applications, part of the CONCERT-Japan framework.
Grants with a current PayFi track priority
The COTI Builders Program is COTI Foundation's grants program funding developers building COTI-based solutions, run through a public GitHub repo of RFPs, alongside a separate $500K Gitcoin-partnered grants round for privacy projects.
Decentraland's DAO Grants let users submit and vote on funding proposals across defined grant categories, tracked publicly, with enacted proposals including the Decentraland Ambassador's Program.
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.
The eBPF Foundation's Academic Research Grant Program funds academic research benefiting the eBPF community. It awarded five $50,000 grants in 2024, and its 2026 cycle accepted applications from June 15 through July 15 for awards up to $50,000; submissions are now under review.
ECMWF Grants, adopted in 2025, is a funding instrument providing financial support to organizations whose activities contribute to ECMWF's objectives.
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 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.
A recurring internal-nomination fund supporting open-source projects that ElevenLabs engineers use in their work. Every six months, engineers nominate projects and the company distributes direct monthly support across maintainers and projects in audio, web infrastructure, testing, rendering, developer tooling, and language ecosystems.
Mercatus Center's low-overhead fellowship and grant program funding 'zero to one' ideas for social improvement, administered by Tyler Cowen since 2018. Runs dedicated geography tracks for India, Africa, the Caribbean, and Ukraine, and previously spun off Fast Grants for COVID-19 science funding. Rolling applications; minimum applicant age 13.
ETC Grants DAO funds projects that contribute to the Ethereum Classic ecosystem. Its current site reports more than 25 funded projects and over $850,000 deployed, and says the program remains committed to future ecosystem funding backed by BITMAIN and ANTPOOL.
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.
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.
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.
Status describes whether a program is running. Application methods are recorded separately. Read the funder’s terms before applying.