Who funds them, what they fund and how to apply.
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/.
Status describes whether a program is running. Application methods are recorded separately. Read the funder’s terms before applying.