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"Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Accelerate Charitable Giving Grand Challenge" is currently closed and not accepting applications.
The Gates Foundation Philanthropic Partnerships Team has opened an Artificial Intelligence to Accelerate Charitable Giving round under its Grand Challenges programme, offering grants of up to 150,000 US dollars over one year for working prototypes and pilots that use AI to grow and improve charitable giving, with an emphasis on directing more resources toward global health and development in low- and middle-income countries.
Proposals must address at least one of three named areas. The first is helping donors connect with causes and understand where to give to achieve their giving goals, which covers discovery, matching and confidence-building tools. The second is turning interest and intent into donations, which targets the friction in the giving process itself including cross-border compliance and donation conversion.
The third is developing the foundational systems and infrastructure that enable AI-powered giving, which covers the data infrastructure that makes nonprofits visible and legible to AI systems that donors increasingly consult. The application deadline is 28 April 2026 at 11:30am PDT, with a guidance webinar held 23 March 2026 and decisions communicated by August 2026.
Proposals must incorporate responsible AI practices covering bias, privacy and data governance, which the foundation treats as a scored element rather than boilerplate. The call sits inside the foundation's broader September 2026 commitment of at least one billion dollars over two years to expand access to AI, but is a distinct, openly competed Grand Challenges round with its own portal and its own ceiling.
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Or search similar grants →According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Eligible applicants are nonprofit and civil society organisations, mission-driven for-profit entities with demonstrated public-benefit alignment, and consortia or collaborative teams where a lead organisation serves as the primary applicant. Individuals, government agencies and academic institutions applying independently are explicitly ineligible, which is a meaningful restriction: a university team wanting to compete must partner with and apply through an eligible nonprofit or mission-driven company rather than submitting on its own. All project activities and reporting must be conducted in English. Grantees must attend up to three learning convenings, held virtually or in person, and should treat this as a binding commitment when assessing staff capacity. Proposals must address at least one of the three named focus areas and must incorporate responsible AI practices including bias, privacy and data governance. Applications are submitted through the Gates Foundation Grand Challenges portal by 28 April 2026 at 11:30am PDT; a webinar on 23 March 2026 and a published FAQ provide guidance, and decisions are communicated by August 2026. Because the programme is aimed at increasing resources flowing to global health and development in low- and middle-income countries, proposals should make the link between the proposed tool and that end explicit rather than assumed. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
The current listing shows awards are up to 150,000 US dollars per project for a grant period of up to one year, so amount_min and amount_max are both 150,000 because the call publishes a single ceiling rather than a range. This is deliberately a prototype-and-pilot budget: the Gates Foundation asks for working prototypes and pilots that generate practical evidence, not for research programmes or for scaled deployment, and the one-year term reinforces that the deliverable is demonstrated evidence rather than a finished product. Applicants should budget for the required participation in up to three virtual or in-person learning convenings, which is an unusual cost line for a grant this size and is a condition of the award rather than an optional extra. Because the ceiling is firm and the term is short, the strongest budgets concentrate the money on building and testing a single well-specified tool with real donors or real nonprofit data rather than spreading it across multiple workstreams. Verify award ceilings, matching requirements, and allowable costs in the official notice.
The published deadline was April 28, 2026, which has passed. Check the official notice for any future application windows before investing time in a proposal.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Accelerate Charitable Giving Grand Challenge is funded by Gates Foundation (Philanthropic Partnerships Team), Grand Challenges. Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
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