Laude Institute Moonshot Program
Laude Institute's Moonshots is a research grant competition funding AI projects aimed at humanity's hardest problems across four tracks: accelerating science, advancing healthcare, workforce reskilling, and civic discourse. Its first competition, Moonshots // ONE, drew 125 proposals from 600+ researchers across 47 institutions and deployed $4.1M in seed grants across 25 teams, with seed winners competing for at least one $10M lab to be decided in October 2026; all winning projects commit to sharing their work as open source.
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Mozilla Foundation
Mozilla Foundation selected ten projects for its global Democracy x AI Cohort. The teams are spending 12 months in Mozilla's Incubator with coaching, expert advice, and peer mentorship while building and testing AI tools intended to strengthen democratic participation and accountability.
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NASA
NASA's phased grant program funding early-stage, high-risk aerospace and technology concepts.
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Open Philanthropy
Coefficient Giving's (formerly Open Philanthropy) fund supporting technical AI safety research, AI governance and policy, and capacity-building to grow the field. Published grants include general support for organizations, compute funds for AI safety research, and individual research projects such as studies on model organisms of reward-hacking, chain-of-thought faithfulness, latent adversarial training, and software formal verification.
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Nosana
A year-round program offering $5,000 to $50,000 in milestone-based funding, NOS, USDC, and GPU credits for teams building AI applications, infrastructure, and tooling on decentralized compute. Applications are reviewed throughout the year.
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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
Annual U.S. National Science Foundation competition awarding roughly 2,500 fellowships per year to outstanding STEM graduate students, providing three years of a $37k stipend plus a $16k education allowance, usable over five years. Applications, reviews, and awards are handled by a dedicated GRFP Operations Center; the 2026 awards were announced in April 2026 from around 14,000 applicants.
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National Science Foundation
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.
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NVIDIA
Free program guiding AI startups with training, developer tools, preferred hardware/software pricing, and investor introductions through a VC Alliance. No fees, deadlines, or cohorts — rolling applications.
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Omidyar Network
A dedicated Omidyar Network funding effort, launched with a $30M initial investment, to promote inclusive and responsible development of generative AI. Made at least 6 awards as part of the initial cohort.
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Sentient Foundation
$42M in non-dilutive grants and investments for open-source AGI development
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Pharos Network
The Pharos Incubator Program offers a $10M fund supporting visionary projects building on the Pharos Layer-1 network. The program targets three innovation paths: RWA/Payments, DeFi, and Innovative Infrastructure. Selected projects receive capital, direct technical mentorship from the core development team, go-to-market support, fundraising connections, and financial and legal expertise. Applications are currently open via an online submission form followed by an internal review process.
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Center for Civic Futures
A $20 million fund supporting real-world AI experimentation in public services and disseminating findings so other government jurisdictions can responsibly adopt the technology.
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Astralis Foundation
Astralis Foundation operates the Shared Horizons Fund, a multi-funder vehicle for AI safety grantmaking led by Senior Advisor Tim Shavers; sourced from a specialist longtermist tracking wiki rather than Astralis's own site, so should be verified before promotion.
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Shuttleworth Foundation
A fellowship funding individuals implementing an innovative idea for social change around openness, technology, knowledge, and learning. Fellows receive annual salary-equivalent funding, expense contributions, a travel allowance, and project funding matched at a 10:1 ratio. Applications are accepted throughout the year for March and September intakes.
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Survival and Flourishing Fund
The Survival and Flourishing Fund maintains a rolling application for Speculation Grants and consideration in future S-Process grant rounds; applicants can apply even when no main round is open, and applying at full-round deadlines improves round eligibility.
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Stripe Climate
Stripe Climate lets businesses of any size fund frontier carbon removal by directing a share of revenue to Stripe's portfolio of carbon-removal purchases.
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Tarbell Center
One-year fellowship combining AI training with nine-month newsroom placements for journalists covering AI; $60,000-$80,000 stipend for early-career fellows, $90,000-$110,000 for senior fellows.
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Tarbell Center
Residency program for senior journalists and experienced editors doing in-depth AI reporting; $80,000+ stipend plus an upskilling component.
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