Who funds them, what they fund and how to apply.
IFP's rolling request for proposals on high-impact projects in AI resilience, AI-for-science, and institutional adaptation. Pays a $10,000 honorarium to authors of published proposals, plus $1,000 bounties for successful referrals and for new ideas that get published. No fixed deadline; those without a specific idea can join IFP's talent database instead.
FLI's recurring PhD fellowship supporting doctoral students working on AI existential safety, with fellowship classes announced for 2022, 2023, and 2025.
$119 million incentive prize competition for breakthrough water scarcity solutions.
$11 million incentive prize competition for breakthrough wildfire detection/suppression solutions.
Y Combinator's core accelerator funds startups in batches with a $500k investment per company, Demo Days, and extensive post-funding support through the alumni network. Batches run continuously, with Requests for Startups signaling priority areas (heavily AI in 2026); applications are taken through the YC apply page.
0G Labs and Blockchain Builders Fund ran the 2026 Apollo accelerator for ten decentralized AI teams. Applications are closed; the ten-week program ran from April 28 through June 25, 2026, with a graduation event scheduled for July 29.
Previously offered grants up to $100,000 over 12 months for people building on the open-source Goose AI agent. The former grants URL now serves general Goose documentation and no current apply path is published. A February 2026 winner post remains on the blog.
Funds AI-first projects that use artificial intelligence as the primary engine for progress in science and safety, combining grant funding with office space and compute at hubs in San Francisco and Berlin. Foresight has paused general rolling applications while it moves to focused RFPs. Until those RFPs are published it is not accepting further submissions.
Batch-based accelerator for seed-stage AI startups investing $250,000 on an uncapped SAFE plus large compute and tooling credit packages. Four batches totaling 85 funded companies to date; applications for Batch 4 are closed and no later batch is announced.
AISI's Alignment Project funded research to prevent advanced AI systems from behaving dangerously, intentionally or accidentally, with awards up to £1 million per project. Part of over £15M AISI has committed across three grant programs; closed with no current open applications.
AISI's Challenge Fund supported UK and international academic institutions and non-profit organizations researching safeguards, control, alignment, and societal resilience to advanced AI risk, with awards up to £200,000 per project. Closed with no current open applications.
A concluded $1,000,000 Arbitrum Foundation initiative funding AI-related projects on Arbitrum, marked "Program Complete" on the Foundation's grants page.
BARDA's DRIVe division uses EZ-BAA to partner with early-stage companies on health-security innovations. The official EZ-BAA page currently reports no open Areas of Interest and directs applicants to other active DRIVe opportunities.
ChainGPT Builder’s Program Season 3 was announced as a Web3 builder intake offering API credits, technical support, and access to the ChainGPT AI stack. The only sourced evidence is a social announcement with no verified standing application route or later season, so the named season is recorded as concluded.
The Chainlink Community Grant Program funded development teams and researchers building a more functional, accessible, and socially impactful smart contract economy. The documented application route now lives under Chainlink's archives path, so public intake is treated as paused until a current apply page is republished.
Deep Funding is an AI public-goods mechanism listed by Gitcoin. The 2025 challenge submission window ran February 10 to May 10, 2025. There is no current public apply form as of 2026-08-29.
The Digital Brain Project funds a $5M Open Brain Modeling Initiative to support open, collaborative brain-modeling research.
A $200M Economic Futures Research Fund for empirical research/policy trials on AI labor-market impacts (prior structure: $10K-$50K awards to economists/data scientists), plus a $150M National Fellowship Program for early-career professionals distributing AI's economic benefits beyond coastal tech hubs. The current Economic Futures page is a research agenda and news index, not an application form.
Status describes whether a program is running. Application methods are recorded separately. Read the funder’s terms before applying.