AI for Humanity Prize is a $200,000 prize competition from the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, administered through MIT Solve, that recognizes and funds breakthrough AI solutions designed to benefit humanity. The prize is structured within the MIT Solve challenge framework, which sources technology-driven innovations across focus areas including climate, health, learning, and economic opportunity.

Innovators and organizations developing AI applications with measurable social impact are eligible to apply. The 2026 prize deadline is May 21, 2026. Winners receive funding alongside access to MIT Solve's global network of partners, mentors, and scale-up resources.

Philanthropic Foundations | MIT Solve Find What Works. Fund What Matters. Philanthropic foundations drive bold visions, MIT Solve delivers the solutions to match.

With a global pipeline of vetted, tech-powered innovations built for impact—work with us to discover what's working, and what's next. Whether you co-design a challenge tailored to your mission, sponsor a prize to accelerate breakthrough ideas, or tap into our data and insights to strengthen your grantmaking, we're here to turn big goals into measurable progress.

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We handle everything—from design to grantee selection—plus wraparound support to help winning solutions scale their impact. Explore how foundations are already driving change through custom challenges . Team up with Solve and a community of mission-aligned funders to back the bold ideas sourced each year across our areas of impact: Climate, Health, Learning, Economic Prosperity, and Indigenous Communities.

By sponsoring a prize for our Global Challenges, your foundation supports high-potential, vetted solutions and joins a powerful network of philanthropic leaders. We connect the dots, so you can fund what works. Monitoring & Evaluation Advisory Tap into Solve’s expertise to build a monitoring and evaluation (M&E) approach that tracks progress, uncovers insights, and tells a compelling story of impact for your foundation.

Strengthen how you learn from your work — and how the world learns from you. Grantee Support Programming Solve’s world-class innovator support program equips grantees with the leadership skills, technical expertise, and network they need to scale their solutions effectively.

Whether backing new innovators sourced through a custom challenge or your foundation’s current grantees, we give them the wraparound support to go further, together. We are looking for leaders, innovators, activists, and risk-takers who are impacting their community every day! Does your work have the potential to elevate humanity and inspire others to act as engines for social good?

We are looking for leaders, innovators, activists, and risk-takers who are impacting their community every day. Does your work have the potential to elevate humanity and inspire others to act as engines for social good?

2021 Jacobs Foundation Conference | April 21-23 Education solutions for a post-COVID world Octava Social Innovation Challenge How can edtech solutions improve learning outcomes for underserved learners in Southeast Asia while being affordable and accessible?

Novel Measurement for Performance Improvement Challenge How might we use unconventional methods to measure the improvement of primary health care performance in low- and middle-income countries? 2022 LEAP Challenge: Projects Interested in applying to host a LEAP project that will accelerate your organization’s education solution? 2022 LEAP Challenge: Fellows Interested in applying to be a LEAP Fellow to accelerate education solutions?

How can education solutions become more evidence-based? Learner//Meets//Future: AI-Enabled Assessments Challenge How can we use AI to make assessments more personalized, engaging, and predictive for Pre-K to Grade 8 learners in the United States? Eager to demonstrate that your education solution has a positive impact on learners?

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