Who funds them, what they fund and how to apply.
CEPI's Calls for Proposals invite vaccine and biosecurity innovators worldwide to apply to its scientific programs, funding R&D across a diverse portfolio of vaccine candidates against epidemic threats.
Copernicus Grants, administered through ECMWF, includes calls such as the C3S National Collaboration Programme, with proposals submitted via ECMWF's Call Package and submission portal.
The Future of Life Institute's grantmaking, which funds research and projects reducing large-scale risks from powerful technologies -- advanced AI safety and governance, biotechnology/bio-risk, and nuclear weapons -- via targeted Requests for Proposals and Contests published on a regular but irregular basis. FLI does not accept unsolicited requests; applicants must respond to an open RFP, Contest, or fellowship call.
Grants to civil society organizations working to reach zero-dose and under-immunised children, expand HPV vaccine rollout, and integrate COVID-19 vaccination into routine immunisation. Delivered via country-specific calls for proposals through the Grantelope grant management system, administered by MannionDaniels/Oxford Policy Management on Gavi's behalf.
Meta funds academic research through a requests-for-proposals (RFP) mechanism; the research.facebook.com site links research award opportunities and publishes lists of past research award recipients.
An active NSF Dear Colleague Letter encouraging PESOSE proposals on secure, open protocols for AI agent ecosystems. Proposals may address interoperability, scalability, security, open science, partnerships, education, and training, and must follow the underlying PESOSE solicitation.
https://vote.zknation.io/dao/proposal/19993014537746296636853362219247192671631735482612670856590540039176244970638 [TPP-8] ZKsync Community Activation Pilot Program (2025–2026 ) allocates a total of 13.6M ZK (approximately USD $680,000 at $0.05 per token) to an RFP Pool that aims to support in-p...
Sui Foundation Requests for Proposals targeting specific technical or ecosystem challenges the Foundation wants solved.
IFP's rolling request for proposals on high-impact projects in AI resilience, AI-for-science, and institutional adaptation. Pays a $10,000 honorarium to authors of published proposals, plus $1,000 bounties for successful referrals and for new ideas that get published. No fixed deadline; those without a specific idea can join IFP's talent database instead.
Two-track funding from the Walrus Foundation: RFPs (single-award, milestone-tied funding for a specific ask, open until a team is selected) and smaller milestone-driven Grants for well-scoped deliverables or MVP validation. Focused on AI, data markets, and DeFi applications built on Walrus's verifiable data platform.
An Optimism Delegate Mission Request for research into grant program structures, failure modes, success metrics, and recommendations for future governance funding. The completed call carried a fixed 20,000 OP grant.
BARDA's DRIVe division uses EZ-BAA to partner with early-stage companies on health-security innovations. The official EZ-BAA page currently reports no open Areas of Interest and directs applicants to other active DRIVe opportunities.
Compound DAO's completed 2025 RFP for a new security service provider. ChainSecurity and Certora were selected for audits, advisory, and formal verification, with zeroShadow selected for incident response and monitoring.
Deep Funding is an AI public-goods mechanism listed by Gitcoin. The 2025 challenge submission window ran February 10 to May 10, 2025. There is no current public apply form as of 2026-08-29.
Polygon's Community Treasury Board used this Season One call to select experienced grant distributors to manage funding for new and existing ecosystem projects. The application period has ended; this record documents the completed allocator selection process.
Optimism's experimental demand-led grants track for Season 4. Eight requests defined work the ecosystem needed across data tooling, contract interfaces, audits, RPC services, academic research, token-bound accounts, and interoperability; 72 proposals produced 17 funded finalists.
Protocol Labs Research funds goal-driven and open research advancing distributed systems, cryptography, networking, and web3/crypto-networks (the technologies behind IPFS, Filecoin, and related projects), via topic-specific RFPs, a wildcard RFP-X, open research awards, and fellowships (e.g. a $60k PL Research Doctoral Fellowship; Cryptonet network grants of ~$25k-$35k). Individual RFPs are reviewed on their own schedules. The general Open Research Grants program has been paused since early 2023.
Status describes whether a program is running. Application methods are recorded separately. Read the funder’s terms before applying.