Schmidt Sciences
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).
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Schmidt Sciences
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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Schmidt Sciences
Schmidt Sciences' 2026 AI at Work call offered up to $200,000 to early-career economists and other quantitative social scientists for field experiments on worker displacement, adjustment, and scientific productivity. Expressions of interest closed on April 10, 2026.
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Singapore AI Safety Hub
The Singapore AI Safety Hub (SASH) runs a 3-month full-time residential research fellowship (Sept 21 - Dec 4, 2026) with an SGD 5,000/month stipend, housing and travel covered, and up to USD 30,000 in compute per project. Applications close July 10, 2026.
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Strategic Animal Funding Circle
A donor circle supporting cost-effective animal welfare and protection nonprofits at stages where targeted funding can accelerate growth. SAFC runs two calls per year, typically allocating about $500,000 across selected applicants with grants around $50,000 each; the Spring 2026 call closed March 25.
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Manifund (AI safety regranting)
Surplus is an incubator for software startups, organized by Manifund and Mox — to create massive public good in the age of transformative AI. It’s a 3 month program, starting late July in SF. We provide seed funding, advice, peers, intros, and space to focus. Apply here by June 24!
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Tarbell Center
Story grants of $1,000-$20,000 for original, forward-looking journalism on AI impacts, published in established outlets. Open to freelancers, staff reporters, and newsroom teams.
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The Chicken Coup
A first-round microgrant fund for animal advocates testing new recruitment, community-building, and campaign tactics. The $5,000 round offered grants of up to $1,000 and closed June 12, 2026.
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Thinking Machines Lab
Multiple $100,000 research grants, each paired with $25,000 in Tinker credits, for work advancing multimodal and real-time human-AI interactivity. Proposals could cover evaluations, safety, generative interfaces, agent steering, or other interactivity research and were due June 19, 2026.
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United States Department of Agriculture
A completed USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service challenge for detection, control, and eradication tools addressing New World screwworm. USDA selected 40 projects for about $105 million in total funding after the February 23, 2026 application deadline.
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Vals AI
3-6 month paid fellowship for researchers/builders working on AI evaluation benchmarks: $1,000-$2,500/week stipend plus unlimited API credits, GPU budgets, and mentorship; remote or SF.
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Enel Foundation
The second wAtt-boost call offered training and two EUR 10,000 awards to youth-led African startups working in renewable energy, AI, smart grids, and climate technology. Applications closed on June 29, 2026.
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Who Let The Docs Out
Who Let The Docs Out, a new non-profit documentary film fund and alliance, officially announced its public launch of two grant programs: the 2026 Coexistence Documentary Fund and the 2026 Automation & Humanity Documentary Fund.
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Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development
Employer-led workforce training grant program from the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development, focused on advanced manufacturing and artificial intelligence. Grants of up to $330,000 per grantee or consortium fund employer-driven occupational training, open to employers of any size operating in Wisconsin; after the initial deadline, applications may be reviewed on a rolling basis until funds are awarded.
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