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From the Grant Wire
Grant programs across
crypto, AI and open source.
Who funds them, what they fund and how to apply.
480 programs on file258 active programsCrypto · AI · Open source
Rootstock Collective
Grants for measurable-impact projects driving TVL, users, and adoption on the Rootstock (RSK) Bitcoin sidechain, prioritizing DeFi, infra, tooling, and payments.
Rust Foundation
Provides stable, long-term funding and a Maintainer in Residence program for key Rust maintainers, funded through donations and contributions.
Rust Foundation
Rust Foundation's Outreachy internship and grants/fellowship program supports people underrepresented in tech, offering paid internships and up to 12 months of financial support.
Stellar Community Fund
The Stellar Community Fund's primary award, funding teams building on the Stellar network with up to $150,000 in XLM per project across three tracks: Open (brand-new projects), Integration (existing Stellar building blocks or teams with significant traction), and RFP (tooling/services matching an open SCF RFP). Runs in numbered rounds; new applicants start with an interest form reviewed on a rolling basis, and selected teams complete KYC/KYB.
Survival and Flourishing Fund
The Survival and Flourishing Fund's recurring grant rounds, run once or twice per year via the S-Process algorithm and meeting procedure, recommend donations to organizations working on the long-term survival and flourishing of sentient life, including existential and global catastrophic risk reduction. A rolling Speculation Grant application runs year-round; a Speculation Grant guarantees eligibility for consideration in an S-Process round.
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.
Linux Foundation
Annual Linux Foundation Education scholarship that awards free training courses and a certification exam to increase diversity in open source. The 2026 round selected more than 500 recipients from 123 countries across 16 categories after more than 5,900 applications; more than 4,250 scholarships have been awarded since 2010. The 2027 cycle opens in April 2027.
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.
Japan Science and Technology Agency
Joint Japan-Canada research call under JST's SICORP program, focused on AI and automation solutions for agricultural productivity and resilience. Japanese proposals go through e-Rad. Canadian teams register with NRC first.
Silicon Catalyst
Silicon Catalyst bills itself as the semiconductor industry's first incubator, providing in-kind partner resources, mentorship, and investor access; its portfolio companies have received over $100M in grants.
Solana Foundation
The Solana Foundation Grants program funds projects that generate public goods for the Solana ecosystem via milestone-based traditional grants, convertible grants (which convert to investment on hitting milestones), and RFPs, across DeFi, DePIN, games, NFTs, and core open-source infrastructure. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis (review ~1 week, decision ~3 weeks).
Solana Foundation
Solana Foundation funding for teams building fully onchain perpetuals, derivatives, and related trading infrastructure on Solana. The Foundation prioritizes Solana-first teams, real onchain price discovery, open-source work, and applications whose revenue is structurally routed back to the network; standard grant applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.
Solana Foundation
Solana Mobile Builder Grants offers rolling funding for developers building apps, tools, and Saga Seeker-integrated products on the Solana Mobile ecosystem. The program provides grants, technical guidance, and marketing support to help selected teams launch on the dApp Store. It operates through two tracks: open Builder Grants and targeted RFPs. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis with no fixed deadline.
Sovereign Tech Agency
Flexible direct support (freelance or employment contracts) for maintainers, community managers, and technical writers doing critical open-source work.
Sovereign Tech Agency
The Sovereign Tech Agency's core investment program for open digital base technologies that are widely used and benefit society or critical sectors: libraries, package managers, communication protocols, developer tooling, and encryption. Applicants must demonstrate the knowledge and technical skills to do the proposed work; prototype development and user-facing applications are not funded. Applications go through a multistep review of up to ~10 weeks, with published investments ranging from ~EUR 99,060 (coreutils) to ~EUR 1,436,729 (Prossimo/Rustls).
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.
Spotify
Annual fund (established at €100,000 in 2022) paying maintainers of critical independent open-source projects Spotify depends on. No external application: Spotify's internal engineers nominate projects, informed by internal dependency data, and a fund committee selects recipients.
Status describes whether a program is running. Application methods are recorded separately. Read the funder’s terms before applying.