Who funds them, what they fund and how to apply.
Schmidt Sciences AI Interpretability RFP offers up to $1M for projects developing new tools to detect and mitigate deceptive behaviors in large language models. Awards range from $300k to $1M, with a deadline of May 26, 2026. The program is open to researchers and teams seeking to advance interpretability methods for safer AI systems. Full details and application are available at https://schmidtsciences.smapply.io/prog/2026_interpretability_rfp/.
Schmidt Sciences' 2026 AI at Work call offered up to $200,000 to early-career economists and other quantitative social scientists for field experiments on worker displacement, adjustment, and scientific productivity. Expressions of interest closed on April 10, 2026.
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.
The Singapore AI Safety Hub (SASH) runs a 3-month full-time residential research fellowship (Sept 21 - Dec 4, 2026) with an SGD 5,000/month stipend, housing and travel covered, and up to USD 30,000 in compute per project. Applications close July 10, 2026.
A donor circle supporting cost-effective animal welfare and protection nonprofits at stages where targeted funding can accelerate growth. SAFC runs two calls per year, typically allocating about $500,000 across selected applicants with grants around $50,000 each; the Spring 2026 call closed March 25.
Surplus is an incubator for software startups, organized by Manifund and Mox — to create massive public good in the age of transformative AI. It’s a 3 month program, starting late July in SF. We provide seed funding, advice, peers, intros, and space to focus. Apply here by June 24!
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.
Story grants of $1,000-$20,000 for original, forward-looking journalism on AI impacts, published in established outlets. Open to freelancers, staff reporters, and newsroom teams.
A first-round microgrant fund for animal advocates testing new recruitment, community-building, and campaign tactics. The $5,000 round offered grants of up to $1,000 and closed June 12, 2026.
Multiple $100,000 research grants, each paired with $25,000 in Tinker credits, for work advancing multimodal and real-time human-AI interactivity. Proposals could cover evaluations, safety, generative interfaces, agent steering, or other interactivity research and were due June 19, 2026.
A completed USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service challenge for detection, control, and eradication tools addressing New World screwworm. USDA selected 40 projects for about $105 million in total funding after the February 23, 2026 application deadline.
3-6 month paid fellowship for researchers/builders working on AI evaluation benchmarks: $1,000-$2,500/week stipend plus unlimited API credits, GPU budgets, and mentorship; remote or SF.
The second wAtt-boost call offered training and two EUR 10,000 awards to youth-led African startups working in renewable energy, AI, smart grids, and climate technology. Applications closed on June 29, 2026.
Who Let The Docs Out, a new non-profit documentary film fund and alliance, officially announced its public launch of two grant programs: the 2026 Coexistence Documentary Fund and the 2026 Automation & Humanity Documentary Fund.
Employer-led workforce training grant program from the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development, focused on advanced manufacturing and artificial intelligence. Grants of up to $330,000 per grantee or consortium fund employer-driven occupational training, open to employers of any size operating in Wisconsin; after the initial deadline, applications may be reviewed on a rolling basis until funds are awarded.
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