Who funds them, what they fund and how to apply.
A former Sui Foundation liquidity-incentive program for DeFi builders. The moonshots URL now serves Sui marketing copy and the programs page no longer lists DeFi Moonshots as an open grant. Academic research awards and RFPs remain on the funding page as separate vehicles.
A collaborative research-grants initiative — Ford Foundation with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Mozilla's Open Source Support programme, Omidyar Network, and Open Society Foundations (fiscally hosted by Open Collective Foundation for the 2020 round) — funding research on the open-source code and digital infrastructure underpinning the internet, including how to sustain maintainer communities and address systemic inequities in the field. Ran across a 2018 wave (managed jointly by Ford and Sloan) and a larger 2020 collaborative wave.
Ethereum runs on trust and now, that trust has rewards. The @ENS_DAO’s Contract Naming Season is funding projects that turn unreadable contract addresses into clear, verifiable names with Enscribe. 🏆 10,000 $ENS in incentives 🛠️ For builders, DAOs, L2s, and DeFi protocols 📅 Runs Nov 2025 → Apr 20
The ENS Public Goods Working Group funded projects and builders in the Ethereum and Web3 ecosystems. Applications are closed. The Working Group is sunsetting.
Summary For the next allocation of the ENS Public Goods (PG) Working Group Strategic Grants programme, we are disbursing $50,000 USDC each to support two critical public goods efforts in 2025: Remix Labs and Fabric.
Filecoin ProPGF Batch 2 allocated $3,220,200 in milestone-based prospective funding to 16 projects spanning core infrastructure, developer tooling, ecosystem growth, coordination, and integrations. The round received 102 applications and funded 15.7% of them.
Filecoin RetroPGF Round 3 concluded after distributing 585,000 FIL to public-goods projects.
A completed Flow Grants DAO round delivered with DoraHacks for Flow ecosystem builders. The round advertised more than $100,000 in total funding, including 50,000 FLOW in prizes.
A 50,000 OP builder-bounty pool for projects integrating Gelato and Optimism. The program was funded from Gelato's 300,000 OP Phase 0 allocation, which also subsidized executor fees for applications operating on Optimism.
GG24 Deep Funding is Gitcoin's mechanism for allocating funding to open-source repositories valuable to Ethereum, using model-weighted submissions reviewed by round operators and an expert committee. The Web3 Tooling and Infra Round approved $350,000 for allocation under this mechanism.
The GG24 Public Goods Tooling Development Round ran from October 2025 through March 2026, allocating $123,800 in total funding. It distributed $83,800 in proactive funding across 12 projects via two conviction voting pools, awarded $40,000 in performance-based retro funding, and paid a $20,000 operation fee (16.1% of total). The round aimed to increase interoperability, create cross-project collaborations, improve UI/UX in public goods funding workflows, and advance tooling toward production readiness.
Season 3 of GoodDollar's GoodBuilders program offered a $50,000 streaming fund in G$ for projects building and growing on Celo. This season has ended; it is retained as a historical funding round.
Google.org's AI for Science fund supported scientific projects using AI and announced 12 recipients on January 26, 2026. The application and selection round is concluded.
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.
A postdoctoral fellowship from the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences and the National Centre for Biological Sciences in Bangalore focused on AI in biology. Applications closed on March 1, 2026.
A Knight Foundation challenge series that funded ideas at the intersection of journalism, technology, and civic information, with themed editions including Libraries, Data, and Open Gov. Each edition selected full-award winners alongside smaller Prototype Fund awards; software developed with News Challenge grant funds had to be released open source. Sources for its editions now live on the foundation's legacy site.
Knight Foundation's Prototype Fund supported early-stage media, information, and arts-technology ideas through small grants and structured prototyping support. The documented calls and award cohorts are legacy programs from the 2010s; no current Prototype Fund application window is published.
A one-time Mozilla Open Source Support (MOSS) track funding open-source projects responding to the COVID-19 pandemic (contact tracing/health data tools, mutual-aid logistics, medical hardware). Made at least 6 awards totaling roughly $214,964, including to OpenMRS, Careables, Open Food Network, and VentMon. Part of the broader MOSS program, now on indefinite hiatus.
Status describes whether a program is running. Application methods are recorded separately. Read the funder’s terms before applying.