Who funds them, what they fund and how to apply.
Coefficient Giving's Alternative Protein R&D RFP funds pre-competitive research on taste, flavor, fat systems, egg replacement, and priority fish species. The call expanded to $30 million across two rounds. Round 1 ($100,000-$1 million) closed August 10, 2026. Round 2 ($1-5 million) closes September 15, 2026.
EuroHPC JU competitive Research and Innovation calls for HPC and quantum work in Europe. Four 2026 quantum calls are dated. Three close 30 September 2026. Quantum Machine Learning closes 28 January 2027.
NSF X-Labs is a planned $1.5 billion initiative for large, multiyear awards to independent, full-time research and development teams pursuing technical breakthroughs outside traditional university and industry-lab structures. The first two topic announcements closed in July 2026. Scientific Instrumentation for Sensing and Imaging proposals were due 13 July 2026. Quantum Systems interconnects and integrated photonics proposals were due 24 July 2026. NSF has said additional topics will be announced.
DOE Office of Science funding opportunity announcement DE-FOA-0003612 for interdisciplinary teams applying AI to energy, nuclear, environmental, and national-security science; phased Phase I/II review with a final Phase II application deadline of 2026-12-17. Phase I grants have been reported at $500K-$750K, with total program funding around $293.76M.
ARIA committed £100 million to recruit up to ten organizations for its second Activation Partners cohort. Applications are closed and ARIA says it will announce the selected partners later in 2026.
Coefficient Giving's Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness team sought expressions of interest for work preventing engineered biological threats and improving response capacity. The May 11, 2026 deadline has passed and proposals are under review.
Broad Agency Announcement soliciting proposals for the DICE program's research into theory, algorithms, and multi-agent systems for scalable, resilient decentralized AI collectives under human control. Contract-style awards rather than traditional grants.
Longview Philanthropy announced a request for proposals for research and applied work on digital minds, seeking applications for project grants, research fellowships, and career development fellowships on the potential consciousness, sentience, moral status, and legal position of AI systems.
A Coefficient Giving request for proposals supporting organizations that raise funds for effective charities. Applications for one- or two-year grants closed June 26, 2026, with decisions expected by the end of August.
Longview Philanthropy's RFP funds proposals to reduce risks of AI enabling extreme concentration of power, with grants of $100K-$2M/yr across 12 priority areas plus career transition funding. The listed deadline was July 2, 2026.
Blueprint Biosecurity's FIR Protocol RFP funded the development of clinical-trial protocols evaluating whether far-UVC can reduce respiratory infection transmission in congregate settings. Academic, industry, and public-health institutions could submit short expressions of interest.
Horizon Europe call topic (HORIZON-CL4-2026-04-HUMAN-02) funding work on a Web 4.0 architectural framework and an open internet stack, run through the EU Funding and Tenders portal. The call deadline was April 15, 2026.
A Longview Philanthropy request for proposals supporting research and applied work on digital minds. The 2026 round closed July 24, 2026.
Coefficient Giving (formerly Open Philanthropy) ran a 2026 RFP expecting to allocate $10-30 million to research, policy development, implementation, and field-building aimed at ensuring AI improves human health and wellbeing, with attention to the global poor. Applications closed August 21, 2026. Review continues on a rolling basis for submissions already received.
Schmidt Sciences' Science of Trustworthy AI program funds technical research to understand, predict, and control risks from advanced AI systems, across three aims: characterizing/forecasting misalignment in frontier models, developing generalizable measurement and intervention, and overseeing superhuman-capability and multi-agent systems. Awardees also receive compute, software engineering support, and frontier-model API credits. Funded in two tiers (up to $1M; $1M-$5M+ over 1-3 years) across sub-tracks including "Understanding Safety in AI Systems" (23 awards) and "Inference-Time Compute" (10 awards).
Schmidt Sciences AI Interpretability RFP offers up to $1M for projects developing new tools to detect and mitigate deceptive behaviors in large language models. Awards range from $300k to $1M, with a deadline of May 26, 2026. The program is open to researchers and teams seeking to advance interpretability methods for safer AI systems. Full details and application are available at https://schmidtsciences.smapply.io/prog/2026_interpretability_rfp/.
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