Who funds them, what they fund and how to apply.
$12M grantmaking program (funded by Coefficient Giving) for academics and independent researchers on deception, robustness, interpretability, red-teaming, and alignment. FAR.AI is nomination-only pending limited evaluation capacity and has not opened a public RFP.
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.
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.
The Mozilla Technology Fund (MTF) gave awards of up to $50,000 plus a 12-month mentorship cohort to open-source projects tackling a themed public-interest technology challenge each round. The latest sourced cohort is the 2024 AI and Environmental Justice round; no later public call is on file.
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NSF FINDERS FOUNDRY announces planning grants for K-12 educators, technologists, researchers, and parents/guardians to develop and scale evidence-based tools for an AI-driven future. Eligible teams may apply for planning grants to prepare for larger implementation projects. The deadline is May 27, 2026.
Small grants to help NumFOCUS's fiscally sponsored and affiliated open-source scientific computing projects improve usability, grow their communities, and speed release cycles. Calls for proposals normally run 3x/year; applications are currently closed while NumFOCUS updates its financial and administrative systems.
Cloud/hardware/software research grants (e.g. up to 30,000 H100 80GB GPU-hours, RTX PRO 6000, or DGX Spark units) for full-time faculty at accredited PhD-granting institutions, across simulation & modeling, AI training, and AI inference/agents/systems software. Currently not accepting new applications.
The OpenAI Foundation's AI Resilience program funds work in bio-resilience, cyber-resilience, AI model safety, and research on AI's effects on young people. As of June 1, 2026, the Foundation said it was finalizing more than $130 million in grants and had not announced a public application route.
A ten-week 2026 summer fellowship at the University of Chicago focused on reproducing AI safety research. The fellowship runs from June 15 through August 22 and includes a stipend and work with external advisors.
A completed Tarbell Center grant round offering up to $20,000 for original reporting in established outlets on artificial intelligence and its impacts. The call was open to freelance and staff journalists and closed on March 8, 2026.
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