Who funds them, what they fund and how to apply.
DARPA and NSF developed AI Forge to fund and manage university-led research in AI interpretability, AI control, and adversarial robustness. Its initial university-capabilities request for information closed June 22, 2026 after receiving nearly 130 responses. No public funding call has opened since that RFI.
12-month paid fellowship placing early-career AI talent with US nonprofits; hosts receive a $10,000 implementation grant plus up to $2,500 in Claude licenses/API credits per fellow. The first cohort closed applications on 17 July 2026; Anthropic has not published a later cohort.
The Compound Grants Program was a community-run program for Compound ecosystem contributions administered through Questbook. Its latest completed application cycle closed May 30, 2024, and no newer public intake is on file.
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.
Inaugural OS4LS RFA of the Open Source for Science Fund. LOI due 2026-06-08; full proposals due 2026-07-21. Submissions are closed. Award notifications expected October 2026.
A recurring Optimism grants mission that funded Superchain growth through the Grants Council. Season 9 submissions closed May 20, 2026. The Grants Council was later dissolved; there is no public Season 10 window as of 2026-08-29.
Principles of Intelligence runs PIBBSS as a three-month interdisciplinary AI safety research fellowship for about 20 researchers. The Winter 2026-2027 Cape Town cohort closed applications on 20 July 2026. The program page is collecting expressions of interest for later cohorts.
A season-based Decentraland funding program for small open-source projects that can ship within 90 days. Season 1 offered up to $15,000 in MANA for mobile content and AI-assisted builder tooling; applications closed April 24, 2026. No later season has been announced.
EUR 10M Horizon Europe cascade-funding programme led by NLnet with FSFE and other partners, offering EUR 5,000-50,000 R&D grants with rolling calls every two months (2026-2030) plus a scale-up track, across open-tech sovereignty/privacy, internet resilience, environmental impact, and supply-chain transparency. NLnet currently describes the fund as being set up; the first recorded call is closed and the next window is not yet confirmed on the Restack page.
Retroactive funding for projects built on Avalanche C-Chain and Avalanche L1s, run in recurring tracked rounds; community leaderboard voting is advisory, the Avalanche Foundation makes final award decisions.
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).
Annual bounty-driven contribution event for open-source quantum software, open to developers worldwide. UnitaryHACK 2026 ran 3-17 June and has closed; the 2027 event is not yet announced.
Status describes whether a program is running. Application methods are recorded separately. Read the funder’s terms before applying.