Grants for developers
169 open grants, each checked against the organizer's official page. 12 close in the next 7 days and 53 take applications on a rolling basis.
A grant pays for work without buying a share of your company. The money comes from foundations, companies, public agencies and protocol treasuries, and most of it goes to a project, a research question or a piece of open source.
Humanity AI Open Call 2026: grants for community led AI work
Humanity AI offers grants of $75,000 to $1,000,000 to U.S. nonprofits for community led AI work. Apply by October 21, 2026.
VAF Innovatieatelier 2026 for storytellers moving into games and XR
The Flemish Audiovisual Fund gives up to six storytellers €7,500 and coaching to develop a first game or XR project. Apply by 22 October 2026 at noon.
Northern Ireland Screen London Games Festival 2027 cohort
Northern Ireland Screen will take up to 6 games companies to London Games Festival 2027 and cover flights and hotels. Expressions of interest close 22 October 2026.
GoBeyond 2026 call for startups
GoBeyond 2026 gives a €50,000 equity free grant to one startup incorporated in Italy. Apply by October 25, 2026.
OpenStreetMap Community Microgrants 2026
OpenStreetMap offers grants of up to €500 for local community activities. Apply by 25 October 2026.
AT Jam Dole 2026
AT Jam Dole pays $750 per team member for a two week AT Protocol game prototype. Proposals close on 25 October 2026.
eScience Center Lorentz Competition 2026: digital sovereignty in research
The eScience Center Lorentz Competition 2026 gives the winning team a 5 day workshop in Leiden and about 400 hours of research software engineering support. Expressions of interest are due 25 October 2026.
FFF Bayern games funding: October 27, 2026 deadline
FFF Bayern funds game concepts, prototypes and production for studios in Bavaria, with grants up to €200,000 and loans up to €500,000. Applications close October 27, 2026.
Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg games funding: October 27, 2026 deadline
Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg lends game studios up to €300,000 for prototypes and up to €600,000 for production. The next deadline is October 27, 2026.
HERIFORGE 2nd Open Call 2026
HERIFORGE offers up to €50,000 for immersive cultural heritage projects. Up to six projects. Apply by 27 October 2026 at 17:00 CET.
EIC Pathfinder Challenge 2026: DeepRAP trustworthy cognitive AI
EIC Pathfinder grants of €500,000 to €4 million for research on AI that can reason, abstract and plan. Proposals close 28 October 2026.
EIC Pathfinder Challenge 2026: Advanced Materials for Miniaturised Energy Harvesting Systems
EIC Pathfinder grants of €500,000 to €4 million to build tiny energy harvesting devices from new materials. Proposals close 28 October 2026.
CoSTAR Satellite Labs 2026
AHRC offers UK research organisations up to £2 million to host a CoSTAR Satellite Lab. Apply by 29 October 2026.
Spain's grants for the internationalisation of video games, podcasts and digital culture 2026
Spain's Ministry of Culture offers up to €100,000 per project to Spanish nonprofits that take the video game sector to international markets. Apply by 29 October 2026.
CoSTAR Showcase Labs 2026
AHRC offers up to £4 million to UK research organisations to build a CoSTAR Showcase Lab for film, TV, games and performance. Apply by 29 October 2026.
FLITE grants open until 30 October 2026
FLITE gives grants and live airport tests to companies building air travel technology. Applications close on 30 October 2026.
EuroHPC AI for Science and Collaborative EU Projects Access: 30 October 2026 cut off
EuroHPC gives researchers in Europe six months of supercomputer time for science projects that use AI. The next cut off is 30 October 2026, then 11 December.
NEURA Research Programme 2026/2027: Physical AI call for proposals
Up to €500k per project for universities, research institutes and startups in the EU, UK or Switzerland that bring Physical AI robot skills to a real pilot. Proposals close 30 October 2026.
Corrigibility Research Fund: round 2 with an October 31 deadline
The Corrigibility Research Fund pays $5,000 to $35,000 grants for research on AI systems that stay correctable. Round 2 closes October 31, 2026.
Foresight Institute AI for Science and Safety Nodes: request for proposals 2026
Foresight Institute offers grants of $30,000 to $100,000, compute and office space for open AI for science and safety projects. Proposals are due October 31, 2026.
Alpha-Omega open source security grants: October 2026 round
Alpha-Omega funds open source projects with typically $50,000 to $100,000 for security work. The next intake form is open from October 1 to October 31, 2026.
ARIA Scaling Trust grants
ARIA Scaling Trust offers grants from £100,000 to £3,000,000 for open source agent security tools. Proposals for this cycle are due 31 October 2026.
ARIA Safeguarded AI: Cybersecurity, 31 October 2026 batch
ARIA funds teams that use AI and formal proofs to build secure software, with £2.5 to 3.5 million per Blue Team. The next batch closes on 31 October 2026.
Pro Helvetia Game Design Emerging Talents: Nordic Game Conference 2027 delegation
Pro Helvetia gives emerging Swiss game studios a place in the SwissGames delegation at Nordic Game 2027 plus CHF 1,000 for travel. Apply by 1 November 2026.
Wikimedia Rapid Fund 2026, Cycle 3: grants for small tech projects
Wikimedia Rapid Fund gives 500 to 5,000 USD for short projects, including small software tools for Wikimedia. Cycle 3 deadline: 1 November 2026.
Creative BC Video Games Early Stage Growth 2026/27
Creative BC offers up to $50,000 to new British Columbia game studios with at most one shipped game. Apply by 2 November 2026.
NLnet Foundation: open call for proposals with a November 3 deadline
NLnet funds open source and open hardware projects with first grants between 5,000 and 50,000 euro. The current call closes on November 3, 2026 at noon CET.
Open Science NL Open Science Infrastructure programme: second round 2026
Open Science NL will fund up to 1.7 million euros per proposal to improve digital infrastructure for open science. Letters of intent are due November 3, 2026.
ACLS Digital Justice Development Grants: 2026 competition
Grants of $50,000 to $100,000 for open digital humanities projects run through US universities. Applications close November 3, 2026.
NSF State and Regional AI Infrastructure Hubs 2026
NSF funds State and Regional AI Infrastructure Hubs at $4,000,000 to $12,000,000 each. Full proposals are due November 4, 2026.
FORTIS Open Call #2 2026 for human robot interaction projects
FORTIS Open Call #2 funds European consortia with up to €250,000 per project to test and deploy human robot interaction tools. Apply by 4 November 2026.
Wallimage Gaming 2026: second call for video game projects
Wallimage Gaming invests up to €75,000 in preproduction and up to €400,000 in production of games with a footprint in Wallonia. Apply by November 4, 2026.
Amazon Security call for proposals: Fall 2026
Amazon funds AI security research with gifts of no more than $80,000 on average, plus AWS credits. Proposals close 4 November 2026.
AWS Agentic AI call for proposals: Fall 2026
AWS funds agentic AI research with gifts of no more than $70,000 on average, plus AWS credits. Proposals close 4 November 2026.
AWS Cryptography call for proposals: Fall 2026
AWS offers cryptography research gifts of up to $80,000, plus up to $40,000 in AWS credits. Proposals close 4 November 2026.
Automated Reasoning call for proposals: Fall 2026
Amazon funds automated reasoning research with gifts of no more than $80,000 on average, plus AWS credits. Proposals close 4 November 2026.
On-Device Multimodal Perception call for proposals: Fall 2026
Amazon funds on device perception research with gifts of no more than $80,000 on average, plus AWS credits. Proposals close 4 November 2026.
Build on Trainium call for proposals: Fall 2026
Amazon offers AWS credits of up to $250,000 and beyond for research on Trainium kernel agents. Proposals close 4 November 2026.
AI for Information Security call for proposals: Fall 2026
Amazon funds AI security research with gifts of no more than $80,000 on average, plus AWS credits. Proposals close 4 November 2026.
Multilingual and Contextual AI Evaluation call for proposals: Fall 2026
Amazon funds multilingual AI evaluation with gifts of no more than $50,000 on average, plus AWS credits. Proposals close 4 November 2026.
Synthetic Data Generation for Multimodal Perception call for proposals: Fall 2026
Amazon offers research gifts of no more than $80,000 on average, plus AWS credits, for synthetic perception data. Proposals close 4 November 2026.
Fediverse Multimedia Grants 2026 by the Social Web Foundation
Grants of up to US$20,000 for developer and creator teams that start new audio, video or image publications on the Fediverse. Apply by 4 November 2026.
UNICEF Femtech Ventures 2026: second call for open source startups
UNICEF Femtech Ventures gives open source startups up to US$100,000 equity free and 12 months of mentoring for women's health tech. Apply by 4 November 2026.
NSF AI Datasets 2026: grants up to $5 million to make science data ready for AI
NSF grants of up to $5 million to make existing science datasets usable by AI. Open to US universities, labs and companies. Deadline November 4, 2026.
Screen Australia Future Leaders Delegation to BitSummit 2027
Screen Australia gives up to eight Australian gamemakers $6,000 (AUD) each to travel to BitSummit 2027 in Kyoto. Applications close 5 November 2026.
UKOMAIN OMAIB Round 3 call for proposals
UKOMAIN funds up to £50,000 to build an open multimodal AI benchmark. Challenge proposals close 6 November 2026.
Rocket Pool Round 42 GMC grants
Rocket Pool is taking Round 42 grant applications until 7 November 2026 at 23:59 UTC. Applicants propose their own budget and scope.
Rocket Pool Round 42 GMC retrospective awards
Rocket Pool Round 42 pays retrospective awards for completed open source work. Apply by 7 November 2026 at 23:59 UTC.
Stellar Community Fund Build Award: round SCF #46
The Stellar Community Fund Build Award gives up to $150K in XLM to teams building on Stellar. Round SCF #46 closes on November 8, 2026.
UKRI Transformative Sustainable AI Technologies 2026
UKRI offers grants of up to £602,500 for high risk research on making AI systems more sustainable. Research software engineers can lead. Deadline 10 November 2026.
Frontier AI: SME Champions 2026, Phase 1 grants from Innovate UK
Innovate UK grants for UK SMEs to test new frontier AI and machine learning ideas. Projects cost £150,000 to £250,000. Apply by 11 November 2026.
Helmholtz AI Projects Call 2026
Helmholtz AI funds joint applied AI projects by researchers from at least two Helmholtz centers, with up to €250,000 from the central fund. Apply by 12 November 2026.
FreeCAD Grant Program 2026: Q4 round
Small grants from the FreeCAD Project Association for work on FreeCAD and its ecosystem. The last 2026 round closes on November 15, 2026, from a 40,000 EUR yearly budget.
Linux Australia Grants Program 2026
Linux Australia offers project and community grants from a $30k pool for open source work in Australia and New Zealand. Apply by 15 November 2026.
CHARTED Fund 2: Community Activities, 15 November 2026 deadline
CHARTED pays UK research software and data professionals up to £12.5k for community events, training and hackathons. Next deadline 15 November 2026.
Creative Saskatchewan Digital Game Development Grant 2026
Creative Saskatchewan grants up to CAD 50,000 a year for commercial digital games made by Saskatchewan owned teams. Apply by 18 November 2026.
Creative Saskatchewan Marketing Grant 2026/27: Digital Games Major Stream
Creative Saskatchewan pays up to CAD 25,000 toward marketing a Saskatchewan digital game. The major stream deadline for games is 18 November 2026.
Efficient, Structured and Controllable AI Systems 2026
UK SMEs can apply for a share of £1.66 million to test new reusable AI mechanisms. Closes 18 November 2026.
BBSRC Bioinformatics and Biological Resources Fund 2026 (26BBR)
BBSRC funds UK bioscience databases, software tools and biological collections with up to £1.6 million per project. Applications close November 19, 2026.
RAISE Doctoral Networks for AI in Science 2026
The RAISE pilot funds MSCA Doctoral Networks where PhD candidates build new AI tools for their science field. €30 million budget, deadline 24 November 2026.
UKRI NQS Mission 2 components, systems and architectures 2026
UKRI offers up to £2.56 million full economic cost for quantum networking research in the UK. Apply by 24 November 2026.
UKRI NQS Mission 2 Coordination Network 2026
UKRI offers up to £630,937 full economic cost for a UK quantum networking coordination network. Apply by 24 November 2026.
Xecs Quantum Call 2026: funding to bring quantum technology to market
The first Xecs Quantum Call funds international projects that move quantum sensing, metrology and communications towards market. Outlines due 26 November 2026.
Cities Deliver 2026: AI Solutions for Public Services grants
Cities Deliver gives grants of $500,000 to $2 million to groups building AI tools for city public services with a city partner. Round 1 is due 29 November 2026.
Prototype Fund class 03: applications open from October 2026
Prototype Fund class 03 funds open source prototypes with up to 95.000 € for teams. Applications run from 1 October to 30 November 2026.
Ontario Creates Futures Forward Program 2026
Ontario Creates gives new game and XR studios in Ontario up to CAD 20,000 for early project development. Apply by 30 November 2026.
OpenSats General Grant: Q4 2026 application window
OpenSats General Grants fund open source Bitcoin and nostr work for 3 to 12 months, paid in bitcoin. The Q4 window is open in October and November 2026.
Xsolla Scholarship Program at GDC 2027
Xsolla gives 75 game developers a GDC 2027 pass and four hotel nights in San Francisco. Open worldwide. Apply by 30 November 2026.
Decentraland Creator Success 2026: paid game development for indie creators
Up to $4,100 in staged funding for solo developers and small teams to build social games in Decentraland. Apply for V0 by 30 November 2026.
Simons Foundation Utilizing the Full Power of Empire AI Awards 2026
Simons Foundation grants from a $6 million pool for science and math research that uses Empire AI GPU clusters. Apply by December 1, 2026.
UKRI Enabling AI adoption across science and engineering 2026
UKRI offers up to £250,000 for UK teams pairing AI with a science or engineering field. Apply by 1 December 2026.
Cyberport Creative Micro Fund Hong Kong Programme: February 2027 intake
Cyberport's Creative Micro Fund gives up to HK$100,000 in cash and mentoring to early digital tech projects in Hong Kong. Apply by 1 December 2026.
Horizon Europe 2026: data sharing for AI foundation models in the energy sector
Horizon Europe grants of about €10 million each to build AI foundation models for the energy system on shared data. €30 million in total, deadline 1 December 2026.
UKRI doctoral focal award: chip design and verification
UKRI offers up to £6,000,000 for a doctoral award in chip design. The call opens 7 October 2026 and closes 2 December 2026.
NOSTRADAMUS Open Call #1 2026: open source farm data apps
Up to €50,000 for small companies to build open source decision tools for cereal farming on NOSTRADAMUS data. Five projects. Apply by 2 December 2026.
Open Science NL Mobility and Development Programme 2026
Open Science NL funds study visits abroad for Dutch open science professionals, up to €25,000. Apply in ISAAC until 3 December 2026.
NIH Research Software Engineer Award: December 2026 deadline
The NIH pays up to $300,000 over three years in salary support for research software engineers at US institutions. The next deadline is December 4, 2026.
BridgeAI Deployment Catalyst: AI for decision critical systems 2026
Innovate UK offers UK AI firms a share of up to £5 million to deploy tools for high stakes decisions. Closes 8 December 2026.
BridgeAI Deployment Catalyst 2026: AI for Assurance and Compliance
Innovate UK grants of £100,000 to £200,000 for UK AI SMEs to prepare compliance and assurance AI for real use. Apply 21 October to 8 December 2026.
BridgeAI Deployment Catalyst: AI for operational systems 2026
Innovate UK grants of £100,000 to £200,000 help UK AI firms run live operations. Apply from 21 October to 8 December 2026.
Open Science NL Open Science Meetings 2026
Open Science NL pays up to €15,000 for meetings run by open science communities in the Netherlands. The call closes on 10 December 2026.
IHS AI and the Workforce research grants 2026 for faculty
The Institute for Humane Studies offers faculty up to $20,000 for research on how AI changes work and jobs. Apply by 15 December 2026.
Ontario Creates Screen Marketing and Discoverability Program 2026/27
Ontario Creates pays up to CAD 50,000 toward marketing and launch work for Ontario games it already funded in production. Applications are taken continuously until 16 December 2026.
Prezenti Season 3 grants for Celo builders
Prezenti Season 3 funds Celo projects through Frontier grants of up to $15,000 for AI and agent infrastructure and Anchor grants for products with traction. Applications close 29 December 2026.
German Federal Games Funding 2026 (Games-Förderung des Bundes)
Germany's federal games fund gives studios grants of up to 8 million euro for game production and prototypes. Applications are open until 31 December 2026.
Stellar Development Foundation Academic Research Grants: December 31, 2026 deadline
Stellar Development Foundation grants up to $150,000 for academic blockchain research. Proposals for this round are due 31 December 2026.
NSW Digital Games Rebate 2025/26
Screen NSW pays a 10% rebate on NSW development spend for digital games with at least AU$350,000 of NSW costs. Apply by 31 December 2026.
Vinnova Innovative Startups 2026
Vinnova gives young Swedish companies up to SEK 500,000 to test customer needs and willingness to pay. The call opens 12 October 2026 and closes 12 January 2027.
Women TechEU 2 EIC: January 2027 deadline
Women TechEU gives €75,000 and business coaching to deep tech startups led by women in Europe. The next full proposal deadline is January 14, 2027.
Creative Europe MEDIA Innovative Tools and Business Models 2027
The EU Creative Europe MEDIA 2027 call funds new software tools and business models for film, TV and video games, including AI tools, at 80% of costs. Apply by 14 January 2027.
CNC Video Game Fund (FAJV): January 2027 deadline
The French CNC video game fund pays up to half the cost of writing, prototyping or producing a game. The next deadline is 18 January 2027.
NSF CyberTraining grants: January 2027 deadline
NSF CyberTraining funds US projects that train researchers to build and use advanced research computing tools, with awards up to $1,000,000. Deadline 21 January 2027.
Xecs Call 6 2026: Eureka funding for electronic components and systems projects
Xecs Call 6 backs international R&D projects on chips and electronic systems with national public funding. Project outlines are due 21 January 2027.
SMART Eureka Call 10 2026: funding for international advanced manufacturing projects
SMART Call 10 labels international R&D projects in advanced manufacturing for national grants or loans. Project outlines are due 26 January 2027.
Creative Europe MEDIA Video Games and Immersive Content Development 2027
The EU Creative Europe MEDIA 2027 call gives European game and XR studios up to EUR 200 000 to develop narrative games up to the first prototype. Apply by 2 February 2027.
Horizon Europe 2027: Human/AI collaboration for the workforce of the future
Horizon Europe grants of €4 million to €6 million for new AI approaches to human and machine collaboration in factories. €30 million in total, first stage deadline 2 February 2027.
RAISE Automated Scientific Discovery call 2027: AI for self driving labs
Horizon Europe grants of about €9 million per project to add AI decision making to automated science labs, in materials science and food. Apply by 2 February 2027.
Disruptive Technologies Innovation Fund Call 8
Enterprise Ireland offers a €40 million pool for Irish consortia developing disruptive technology. Apply by 3 February 2027.
Zürcher Filmstiftung Digitale Kultur games funding: 1 March 2027 deadline
Zurich studios can get up to CHF 150,000 per project for games, XR and interactive work, at prototype or production stage. Next deadline 1 March 2027.
NSF PESOSE March 2027 deadline
NSF PESOSE funds US teams to plan, grow, or secure open source ecosystems, with awards up to $1,500,000. The next deadline is March 2, 2027.
Screen Queensland Digital Games Incentive 2026/27
Screen Queensland pays 15% of eligible Queensland game development spend on projects spending at least AU$250,000. Apply by 30 June 2027.
Screenwest Professional Development Placements 2026/27
Screenwest pays up to AU$25,000 for a Western Australian games developer or screen worker to take a placement with a leading company. Open until 30 June 2027.
Screen NSW Screen and Digital Games Travel Fund 2026/27
NSW game developers and screen practitioners can get up to A$10,000 for travel to markets, festivals and industry events. Applications close 30 June 2027.
Arbitrum Stablecoin Growth Program: 2M ARB pool for USDG protocols
The Arbitrum Foundation offers incentives and a 2M ARB pool to stablecoin protocols that move to USDG. First 10 teams at $10M USDG get 200K ARB each.
Kodansha Game Lab Monthly Awards for indie game creators
Kodansha Game Lab gives indie game creators a ¥100,000 monthly award and an editor, with research funding of up to ¥1,000,000. First cutoff October 31, 2026.
RICH Hub Climate AI Innovation: support and scaling grants for African climate AI
African climate AI projects at pilot stage can ask the RICH Hub for coaching, pilots and scaling grants of up to USD 200,000. Expressions of interest are reviewed on a rolling basis.
Brink grant program for Bitcoin protocol developers
Brink awards year long grants to established Bitcoin protocol developers anywhere in the world to work full time on open source Bitcoin projects. Applications are open all year.
NAIRR Pilot resource requests: free AI compute and models for US researchers
The NAIRR Pilot gives US researchers and educators free access to AI computing, models and platforms for 12 month projects. Requests are reviewed monthly.
Pro Helvetia Game Design Emerging Talents: trade fair participation grant
Pro Helvetia gives emerging Swiss game designers up to CHF 4,000 to attend a trade fair or market event abroad. Open all year.
Swiss AI Initiative small compute grants
The Swiss AI Initiative gives Swiss research teams up to 32,000 GPU hours on the CSCS Alps system for six months. Rolling, reviewed monthly.
Claude for Open Source: free Claude Max for maintainers
Anthropic gives open source maintainers and active contributors six months of free Claude Max 20x. Applications are open on a rolling basis.
GGJ Micro-Missions Studio Microgrants from Global Game Jam
Global Game Jam gives indie studios up to $2,500 to pay emerging talent for small art, audio and QA tasks. Applications are reviewed monthly.
GTR AI Safety Fund
The GTR AI Safety Fund backs people and early stage groups working to reduce catastrophic AI risk from a €50 million pool. Rolling applications.
Coefficient Giving capacity building grants for transformative AI risks
Coefficient Giving funds training, events, groups and media that help people work on risks from advanced AI. Applications are open on a rolling basis.
Maelstrom Bitcoin Grant Program
Maelstrom pays Bitcoin developers 12 month grants of $50,000 to $150,000 in BTC, USDC or USDT. Applications are open at any time.
SAFC Digital Games Fund 2026: round two for South Australian developers
The SAFC Digital Games Fund gives South Australian game developers grants of up to A$150,000 from a A$1 million round. Applications open 21 October 2026.
Emergent Ventures grants from the Mercatus Center
Emergent Ventures gives grants to people aged 13 and up with bold ideas to improve society. Applications are open all year, worldwide.
SIDN fonds Pioneer grants 2026 for a stronger internet
SIDN fonds gives grants of up to €10,000 for early ideas that make the Dutch internet stronger. Applications are open all year.
Solana Mobile Security Grants
Solana Mobile pays grants in SKR for security research on the Solana Mobile ecosystem. Applications are open at any time through an online form.
EuroHPC AI Factories Large Scale Access for companies
EuroHPC gives European companies and startups free access to more than 50,000 GPU hours on its AI Factories. Closing dates run twice a month, next on 15 October 2026.
goose grant program
The goose grant program pays $100,000 for a 12 month open source project that builds on the goose AI agent. Proposals are reviewed on a rolling basis.
Team1 Mini Grants for Avalanche builders
Team1 Mini Grants give up to $10,000 to developers and community builders working on Avalanche. Applications are open on a rolling basis.
VicScreen Victorian Production Fund Games 2026/27
VicScreen's Victorian Production Fund Games gives Victorian studios up to A$300,000 per stage and A$500,000 per project. Applications are open year round.
Beldex Grants Program
Beldex offers a $1 million grant pool for developers and teams building privacy tools on its network. There is no fixed deadline.
Starknet Propulsion Program
The Starknet Propulsion Program covers up to $1 million in user fees for apps on Starknet. Applications are reviewed each month.
TheDAO Security Fund ETHSecurity Initiatives Round Two 2026
TheDAO Security Fund pays for Ethereum security work, with initiatives of $20,000 to $600,000. Round Two opened September 15, 2026 and ends in January 2027.
Open Technology Fund Internet Freedom Fund
The Open Technology Fund gives $10,000 to $900,000 for internet freedom tools and research. Concept notes are accepted on a rolling basis.
Btrust Developer Grants for Bitcoin open source
Btrust pays Bitcoin open source developers in BTC to work full time, with six month starter grants and yearly long term grants. Applications are open all year.
EA Funds Transformative AI Fund grants
The EA Funds Transformative AI Fund gives early stage grants, typically $10k to $150k, for AI safety and governance work. Applications are always open.
FLOSS/fund grants for free and open source projects
FLOSS/fund from Zerodha gives open source projects anywhere up to $100,000 a year. Applications are open all year and reviewed every quarter.
OpenSats RED token reimbursement for Bitcoin red teams
OpenSats RED grants pay back LLM token and compute costs for people red teaming Bitcoin open source software. Always open, with fast review.
CoW Grants Program (CoW DAO)
CoW DAO funds developer tools and new apps on CoW Protocol from a 500,000 xDAI budget. Proposals go on the forum at any time until January 2027.
XRPL Glow grants
XRPL Glow pays retroactive grants for open source work already shipped on the XRP Ledger. Wave 1 is open.
Snorkel AI Open Benchmarks Grants
Snorkel AI Open Benchmarks Grants give in kind data services, research time and credits to teams building open AI benchmarks. Rolling applications.
FOSS United grants for open source projects in India
FOSS United gives grants of up to ₹15 lakh to open source projects and maintainers in India. Applications are open all year.
Exponential Science call for project proposals: up to $15,000
Exponential Science funds research projects with up to $15,000 for six to twelve months. Proposals are taken all year on the topics of blockchain, AI and cryptography.
Project Tailwind: Coefficient Giving funding for AI safety founders
Coefficient Giving funds founders who start AI safety organisations, from $200k at pre seed up to $200m at scale. Expressions of interest are taken at any time.
BlueDot Impact Career Transition Grants
BlueDot Impact gives up to $200,000 to people moving full time into AI safety or biosecurity work. Applications are open on a rolling basis.
BlueDot Impact Rapid Grants
BlueDot Impact gives up to $20,000 for a next step in AI safety or biosecurity work, with most applicants hearing back within a week.
AWS Activate credits for startups
AWS gives startups up to $200,000 in cloud credits for infrastructure, data services and AI models. Applications are open all year and answers come in 5 to 10 business days.
OpenAI Codex for Open Source programme
OpenAI gives open source maintainers six months of ChatGPT Pro with Codex and up to $25,000 in API credits from a $1 million fund. Applications are reviewed all year.
Filecoin Foundation Open Grants
Filecoin Foundation Open Grants pay up to $50,000 for open source work that advances Filecoin. Proposals are reviewed as they arrive, with no fixed close date.
Google for Startups Cloud Program
Google Cloud gives startups from $2,000 up to $350,000 in cloud credits. Applications are open all year across three stages, from pre funded to Series B and later.
Hugging Face community GPU grants
Hugging Face covers the GPU hardware cost of selected Spaces. Maintainers apply from the hardware settings of their own Space and there is no deadline.
Mercor AI Safety Fund Grants
Mercor is putting $5 million into AI safety research grants for independent researchers and small teams. Apply with a short expression of interest.
BlueQubit Quantum Flywheel 2026: $150,000 in quantum and AI compute
BlueQubit is giving $150,000 of quantum, GPU and AI compute to research teams for three months. The open call runs for about five weeks.
Solana Mobile Builder Grants
Solana Mobile funds mobile apps, tooling, content and research built on the Solana Mobile Stack. Applications can be sent at any time.
Zcash Community Grants
Zcash Community Grants funds independent teams building public goods for the Zcash ecosystem. Applications are open all year and are filed as GitHub issues.
CHARTED Fund 4: Supporting Professional Development
CHARTED pays UK early career research technical professionals up to £5,000 for training and conferences. Deadlines fall on the 15th of every month.
Sentient Foundation Open Source AGI Grant Programme
Sentient Foundation has committed $42 million in rolling grants and investments for people building open AI. No deadline.
Starknet Seed Grants
The Starknet Foundation gives early stage teams up to $25,000 in STRK to build applications on Starknet. Applications are rolling, with answers in about a month.
Anthropic AI for Science program
Anthropic offers researchers up to $50,000 in API credits per project through its AI for Science program. Any researcher can apply, on a rolling basis.
Arbitrum Audit Program
The Arbitrum Foundation subsidises third party smart contract audits for early stage Arbitrum projects from a $10M ARB pool. Applications are rolling.
Circle Developer Grants
Rolling milestone based grants in USDC from Circle for teams building payments, FX, treasury, prediction market and lending products on Arc and Circle tools.
Sovereign Tech Fund
Rolling funding from the Sovereign Tech Agency for open source base technologies such as libraries, package managers and protocols. Projects start at €50,000.
UK Games Fund Content Fund
Grants of £100,000 to £250,000 for established UK games studios developing commercial entertainment games with a prototype in place. Expressions of interest are open.
GitHub Secure Open Source Fund
$10,000 and three weeks of security training for maintainers of widely used open source projects. Applications are open on a rolling basis for every program session.
Indie Fund
Indie Fund is a group of experienced game makers that funds independent game projects, most often with $10,000 to $50,000. Applications are open at any time and need a playable prototype.
Tether Developer Grants Program
Tether pays developers roughly $1,500 to $4,000 per completed task on its open stack for local first AI and payments. Applications for active grants are open with no deadline.
Canada Media Fund Prototyping Program 2026/27: fall intake
Canada Media Fund grants up to $250,000 CAD help Canadian companies build a first interactive prototype. Apply October 27 to November 10, 2026.
Canada Media Fund Iteration Program 2026/27
Up to $350,000 CAD for new content in successful CMF funded interactive projects. Opens October 28, 2026, first come, first served until December 8.
Zcash Coinholder Directed Retroactive Grants: Q4 2026 round
The Zcash Coinholder Directed Retroactive Grants program pays for completed work on Zcash. The Q4 2026 call for proposals runs from 30 October to 13 November 2026.
Canada Media Fund Business Development Program 2026
A new Canada Media Fund pilot gives Canadian screen and interactive media companies up to $300,000 CAD to grow. Apply November 10 to 26, 2026.
Gem Fellowship 2027 for Ruby open source maintainers
The Gem Fellowship 2027 gives Ruby open source maintainers grants of $2,500 to $25,000. Applications are taken during December 2026.
Screenwest Digital Games Business Accelerator Fund: January 2027 round
Screenwest grants up to AU$25,000 to Western Australian game businesses for growth and skills. The next round opens 3 December 2026 and closes 18 January 2027.
Screen Australia Emerging Gamemakers Fund: February 2027 round
Screen Australia grants up to AU$30,000 to emerging Australian gamemakers for prototypes or micro scale games. The next round opens December 14, 2026 and closes February 25, 2027.
Screen Australia Games Production Fund: February 2027 round
Screen Australia grants up to AU$100,000 to Australian studios producing original independent games. The next round opens December 14, 2026 and closes February 25, 2027.
Pro Helvetia Game Design Emerging Talents preproduction grant: 1 March 2027 deadline
Pro Helvetia gives young Swiss game designers up to CHF 20,000 to develop a game prototype. Applications open 1 January and close 1 March 2027.
Canberra Screen and Games Fund 2027, Round 2: Games Production and Development Program
Screen Canberra gives games grants of up to AU$30,000 for development and AU$100,000 for production. Round 2 opens 11 January and closes 19 March 2027.