NASA
NASA's phased grant program funding early-stage, high-risk aerospace and technology concepts.
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
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.
NEAR Foundation
Community-run grants program funding infrastructure and developer tooling on NEAR, run through NEAR's DevHub.
NEAR Foundation
NEAR's current funding page routes builders to active ecosystem programs including Protocol Rewards, DevHub Grants, Potlock rounds, and Meta Pool Grants. This record represents that live funding directory rather than the foundation's discontinued historical grant tiers.
NEAR Foundation
Metrics-based rewards system for NEAR projects that ties funding directly to on-chain development activity and user adoption metrics, rather than a discretionary grants review.
New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO)
Japanese government fund established by NEDO to support carbon-neutrality and decarbonization R&D projects. Grant sizes, cadence, and a direct application URL were not confirmed from NEDO's English-language pages.
NLnet Foundation
NLnet provides grants of €5,000 to €50,000 for free and open-source software, hardware, data, and standards. Open calls are paused through the Open Internet Stack transition. New calls open 3 September 2026 and close 3 November 2026 at 12:00 CEST. Later deadlines fall on the third day of every odd month.
Nominet
Nominet's DNS Fund funds open-source DNS projects and maintainers to improve security, sustainability, and resilience of critical internet infrastructure. The 2026 call closed on August 17, 2026. Nominet is taking alerts for the next invitation.
Foresight Institute
$10,000 Secure AI / usable-security prize for work that helps users make wise security decisions.
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.
National Research Foundation (NRF) Singapore
NRF Singapore's flagship award giving early-career researchers independent research funding in Singapore over five years, up to SGD 3.25 million. The 19th call (Class of 2027) opened 12 February 2026 and closed 13 May 2026. NRF invites applications once a year.
National Science Foundation
NSF CISE's Future Computing Research solicitation supports foundational and interdisciplinary work across algorithms, communications, computing education, systems, human-centered computing, information systems, networking, robust intelligence, software, and hardware. Proposals are accepted at any time, with recurring target dates for the corresponding review cycles.
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.
National Science Foundation
NSF PESOSE invites proposals to translate open-source research into sustainable, secure ecosystems that address national and societal needs — scoping, establishing, and improving the safety, security, and privacy of open-source projects. Full proposals are due the first Tuesday in September and the first Tuesday in March, annually. Total program funding is approximately $40 million.
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.
NSF SBIR / STTR
NSF's SBIR/STTR program funds small businesses developing distributed ledger technologies — blockchain, DAGs, and smart contracts.
National Science Foundation
NSF's active SBIR/STTR solicitation funds U.S. startups and small businesses developing next-generation scientific instrumentation and enabling technologies, including infrastructure for AI-driven discovery. Phase I proposals may request up to $305,000; applicants must first submit a Project Pitch and receive an invitation to submit a full proposal.
NSF SBIR / STTR
Non-dilutive R&D funding for U.S. deep-tech startups: Phase I awards up to $305k, Phase II up to $1.25M, with Fast-Track options, reaching roughly 400 companies and $200M+ deployed per year. A Distributed Ledger topic explicitly covers blockchain, DAGs, cryptography, and smart contracts; applications begin with a Project Pitch, followed by invitation to a full proposal and merit review by program directors.
Status describes whether a program is running. Application methods are recorded separately. Read the funder’s terms before applying.