Who funds them, what they fund and how to apply.
A rolling 1inch DAO incubator for teams building Aqua strategies and swapVM instructions. It offers milestone-based grants of up to $50,000 per team from a $436,000 pool, plus a negotiated revenue share. Applications remain open while funding is available.
Grants from the 1inch Foundation for developers, teams, or individuals working on tools, products, or content that benefit the 1inch ecosystem, including community engagement, protocol integrations, research and analytics, education, and events. Grants are non-dilutive, no intellectual property rights are claimed, contributions are expected to be open source, and payment is in 1INCH tokens or other agreed currencies, typically aligned with project milestones; the foundation directs interested parties to its governance forum rather than a direct application form.
Sui Foundation awards of roughly $25,000 for academic blockchain science and security research, applied for via an external form.
Acquia commits 2% of every closed eligible partner deal to the Drupal Association, credited in the partner's name, as an automatic structural funding commitment with no separate grant application process.
Aethir's $100 million Ecosystem Fund backs AI and gaming projects building on Aethir's decentralized cloud infrastructure, with applications submitted through an online form.
AFWERX's SBIR/STTR program funds dual-use technology for the U.S. Air Force through Open Topic, Specific Topic, and STRATFI/TACFI scale-up solicitation tracks, released as continuous numbered cycles (e.g. "26.BZ"). Specific Topic 26.BZ and 26.TZ Release 5 is open through 23 September 2026.
A three-month fellowship examining societal impacts of advanced AI, institutional responses, and policy development; application deadline historically March 24.
CIFAR program providing short-term, flexible funding to catalyze new interdisciplinary machine-learning research collaborations across domains including AI safety and alignment, misinformation/information integrity, trustworthy and interpretable LLMs, real-world deployed-system safety, AI auditing and fairness, and privacy-preserving techniques. Awards have run annually since at least 2020; a recent call funded the program's first AI-safety-specific Catalyst Grants under the national strategy. Apply by contacting CIFAR directly; no standing application URL found.
A $100 million Bezos Earth Fund initiative funding projects that apply AI to sustainable proteins, power grid optimization, and biodiversity conservation. It runs in two phases: Phase I seed grants of $50,000 to up to 30 grantees (submissions closed August 13, 2024), followed by Phase II implementation grants of up to $2 million to 15 grantees. Eligible applicants include US-based 501(c)(3) nonprofits and academic institutions globally.
Grants to activists, researchers, and open-source developers building privacy-preserving, freedom-enhancing AI tools and exposing authoritarian AI uses; also runs the AI Hack for Freedom hackathon series.
Renaissance Philanthropy fund applying AI and machine learning to mathematical research: new ML paradigms for mathematical discovery, tools and infrastructure for mathematicians, automated theorem proving and AI-assisted proof development, and open mathematical datasets/benchmarks. All funded code, datasets, and research outputs must be open-access with preprints in public repositories. Initial $9M round expanded by $13M announced March 2026; main grants of $100K-$1M for 12-24 months, plus $20K-$30K summer fellowships and up to $100K seed grants for early-stage work.
No-strings grants of $5,000-$50,000 (compute or cash) for open-source AI/ML projects, distinct from AI Grant's main $250k accelerator.
Grants across four focus areas -- bio-resilience, cyber-resilience, AI model safety, and impact on children/youth from AI tools -- led by co-founder Wojciech Zaremba, part of the Foundation's broader $1B+ annual deployment from its $25B commitment.
The Frontier Model Forum's AI Safety Fund awards grants to independent researchers at academic institutions, research institutions, NGOs, and mission-driven for-profits, for research addressing critical safety and security risks of frontier AI models and enabling standardized third-party evaluations. Proposed budgets are capped at $500,000 per grant, and rounds run as periodic competitive RFPs rather than rolling applications.
AI-BOOST's 2026 AI Challenge Competition runs four generative AI challenges in two application windows. Each challenge awards five EUR 28,500 Spark prizes, a EUR 100,000 final prize, and two EUR 12,500 special awards.
A co-branded grant program between Alchemy and the Arbitrum Foundation, combining a $10M grant pool with up to $500K in Alchemy infrastructure credits for builders on Arbitrum.
The Sloan Foundation's Digital Technology program funds the tools, norms, and institutions that sustain open-source software, hardware, and models in research. Its Open Source in Science line funds university Open Source Program Office (OSPO) grants (up to $750,000 over two years), publication/archiving infrastructure, and research-software career paths; prospective applicants submit a two-page letter of inquiry. Recorded sub-lines include "Better Software for Science" (13 grants) and "Exploratory Grantmaking in Technology" (8 grants).
The Algorand Foundation's Grants Program is a broad, multi-year, worldwide program funding projects that grow the Algorand ecosystem, launched with a 250-million ALGO commitment.
Status describes whether a program is running. Application methods are recorded separately. Read the funder’s terms before applying.