Who funds them, what they fund and how to apply.
AISI's Challenge Fund supported UK and international academic institutions and non-profit organizations researching safeguards, control, alignment, and societal resilience to advanced AI risk, with awards up to £200,000 per project. Closed with no current open applications.
Animal Microgrants was a 2026 funding-circle call for individuals and very small organizations working on farm-animal advocacy. Typical grants were £500-£2,500, with exceptional requests up to £5,000; applicants were expected to hear back by the end of March.
A concluded $1,000,000 Arbitrum Foundation initiative funding AI-related projects on Arbitrum, marked "Program Complete" on the Foundation's grants page.
Who Let The Docs Out runs the Automation & Humanity Documentary Fund for independent nonfiction films examining AI safety, alignment, autonomous systems, and their social effects. Its 2026 research grants offer $8,000 for feature projects and $4,000 for short films, alongside monthly virtual sessions.
Amazon Research Awards' Spring 2026 call supported academic post-training research using AWS Trainium. The May 13 submission deadline has passed, with decisions scheduled for August 2026; selected teams may receive up to $50,000 or $250,000 and beyond in AWS promotional credits.
AWS Imagine Grant is an annual program for registered nonprofits using cloud technology to advance their missions. The 2026 U.S. cycle offers three award categories, including up to $200,000 in unrestricted support and $100,000 in AWS credits for the Pathfinder Award. Public applications closed June 5 and the selection process continues through December 2026.
The Chainlink Community Grant Program funded development teams and researchers building a more functional, accessible, and socially impactful smart contract economy. The documented application route now lives under Chainlink's archives path, so public intake is treated as paused until a current apply page is republished.
The Digital Brain Project funds a $5M Open Brain Modeling Initiative to support open, collaborative brain-modeling research.
Funds PI-led teams at accredited institutions up to $500,000 over 36 months to acquire and share neuroimaging data for foundational models of intelligent behavior.
A $200M Economic Futures Research Fund for empirical research/policy trials on AI labor-market impacts (prior structure: $10K-$50K awards to economists/data scientists), plus a $150M National Fellowship Program for early-career professionals distributing AI's economic benefits beyond coastal tech hubs. The current Economic Futures page is a research agenda and news index, not an application form.
$12M grantmaking program (funded by Coefficient Giving) for academics and independent researchers on deception, robustness, interpretability, red-teaming, and alignment. FAR.AI is nomination-only pending limited evaluation capacity and has not opened a public RFP.
The Global Innovation Fund is a nonprofit, impact-first investment fund for social innovations improving the lives of underserved and vulnerable people. Its latest published application window closed January 15, 2025; the fund says future calls will be posted after review.
Google.org's AI for Science fund supported scientific projects using AI and announced 12 recipients on January 26, 2026. The application and selection round is concluded.
A $30 million Google.org challenge for nonprofits, social enterprises, and academic institutions working with governments to improve public services using generative or agentic AI. Applications closed on April 3, 2026; selected organizations receive $1 million to $3 million and technical support through a multi-month Google.org Accelerator.
Google.org's $30 million AI for Science open call supports nonprofits, social enterprises, and academic institutions using AI to accelerate scientific work. Awards range from $500,000 to $3 million and may include accelerator support, Google technical assistance, and Cloud credits. Applications closed May 1, 2026 and are under review.
grantmaking.ai, in partnership with Manifund, opened a launch round distributing $5k-$50k grants per applicant from a $1M total round for projects reducing x-risk from AI. One short application creates a public project/funding ask reviewed by experienced AI safety grantmakers. Deadline is July 13, 2026.
Open call for artists using AI in creative projects, run with compute partner Modal: $2,000 honorarium, up to $5,000 production funding, and up to $20,000 in Modal compute credits.
Meta's second Llama Impact Grants call awarded more than $1.5 million to 10 companies, startups, and universities using open-source Llama models for social and economic impact. Applications for that round closed in November 2024, and recipients were announced in April 2025.
Status describes whether a program is running. Application methods are recorded separately. Read the funder’s terms before applying.