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"OpenAI Foundation People-First AI Fund 2026 for U.S. Nonprofits Advancing Education Community Innovation and Economic Opportunity" is currently closed and not accepting applications.
The OpenAI Foundation's People-First AI Fund is a $50 million 2026 initiative providing unrestricted, one-time grants to U.S. 501(c)(3) public charities engaging with AI to advance public good. The fund prioritizes three areas: Community Support Services (food, housing, workforce, family wellbeing), Community Arts and Cultural Organizations, and Community Journalism and Local Media.
Priority goes to organizations rooted in place-based settings (schools, libraries, clinics, community centers), those that actively involve residents in program design, and those serving populations traditionally excluded from digital innovation (older adults, rural communities, linguistically isolated groups). Grants are unrestricted and may be used as best serves the grantee's mission. Notifications expected by October 2026.
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Or search similar grants →According to the current listing, eligibility includes: U.S.-based 501(c)(3) public charities with annual operating budgets between $500,000 and $10,000,000. Programs, centers, or departments housed within larger institutions (universities, hospital systems, government) are not eligible even if their operating budget sits inside the range. Applicants should demonstrate active community engagement and place-based service delivery. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
The current listing shows total fund of $50,000,000 USD committed by the OpenAI Foundation in 2026. Individual grants up to 10 percent of an applicant organization's annual operating budget; effective range of approximately $50,000 to $1,000,000 USD per organization. First wave in December 2025 distributed $40.5 million across 208 community-based organizations. Verify award ceilings, matching requirements, and allowable costs in the official notice.
The published deadline was July 16, 2026, which has passed. Check the official notice for any future application windows before investing time in a proposal.
OpenAI Foundation People-First AI Fund 2026 for U.S. Nonprofits Advancing Education Community Innovation and Economic Opportunity is funded by OpenAI Foundation. Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
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The Foresight Institute's AI for Science and Safety Nodes request for proposals funds work at the intersection of accelerating science with AI and making AI systems safe, and it is structured less like a conventional grant than like admission to a research hub. Successful applicants receive a cash grant, typically 30,000 to 100,000 US dollars, together with access to a private compute cluster and office space at Foresight's San Francisco or Berlin nodes. Three focus areas are named: Local Compute, concerning decentralised and locally-run AI capability; Coordination and Accountability, covering mechanisms such as AI insurance and open governance; and AI-First Science across biology, neuroscience and nanotechnology. The programme is deliberately open to individuals, teams and organisations, both non-profit and for-profit, which makes it one of the few credible funding routes for unaffiliated researchers and very small teams working on AI safety and AI-for-science questions that fall outside university and large-foundation structures. Two conditions shape what the award is good for: overhead is capped at 10 per cent of direct research costs, which effectively rules out hosting the work inside a high-indirect-rate university, and all work products including code, data and outputs must be open source. Selection prioritises applicants who will be active in-person contributors at the physical nodes. The application deadline is 31 October 2026 at 23:59 Pacific time, which makes this one of the few AI safety opportunities currently open.
Path to a Cure Research Grant is a grant from Cystic Fibrosis Foundation that funds basic science research aimed at restoring CFTR protein function or developing gene-based approaches to treat cystic fibrosis. The program specifically targets projects proposing restoration of CFTR protein function or approaches to fix or replace the defective CFTR gene. Awards provide up to $150,000 per year (plus 12% indirect costs) for up to two years, with grants competitively renewable for additional funding. Eligible applicants are independent investigators at for-profit and nonprofit institutions. Proposals must be hypothesis-driven with sufficient preliminary data. The fall cycle deadline is November 15, 2026.
On October 15, 2026, the Simons Foundation announced a $15 million initiative with Anthropic and OpenAI — $5 million from each company — nine days after OpenAI dropped 722 AI-generated manuscripts on the math community. The money funds workshops, conferences, special programs and an open call. None of those words mean research grant.
Read articleRockefeller and the OpenAI Foundation opened a $50 million global call on October 14, 2026. Round 1 closes November 29. Seed grants run $500,000 to under $1M, scale grants $1M to $2M, all 24 months at 50/50 disbursement — and no proposal is eligible without a city government partner that cannot itself apply.
Read articleOn October 1, 2026 the OpenAI Foundation announced the 2026 People-First AI Fund results: $50 million to 163 nonprofits from 1,669 applications, a 9.8% selection rate, across 35 states and DC. The average grant jumped from roughly $195,000 to roughly $307,000 — which means the fund climbed the budget band. Here is what the named grantees reveal about what won, and what the 15 missing states should do next cycle.
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