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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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Humanity AI is a 500,000,000 dollar, five-year pooled fund launched in October 2025 by ten major U.S. foundations, co-led by the MacArthur Foundation, the Ford Foundation and Omidyar Network, to mobilise civil society in shaping how artificial intelligence develops. It is the largest coordinated philanthropic commitment on AI to date. Partner-aligned grantmaking began in autumn 2025 and grants from the pooled fund itself began in 2026, with Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors serving as fiscal sponsor. This record covers the fund's first open call for grants, which directs 10,000,000 dollars to community-led projects across three issue areas: education, shaping AI around student and educator interests while safeguarding against risks; labor and economy, ensuring AI enhances rather than replaces work and creates inclusive economic opportunity; and the humanities, arts and culture, enhancing creativity while protecting artists' work. The call is notable for two features that distinguish it from most AI philanthropy. First, it explicitly invites applicants who have not typically seen themselves as having a role in shaping AI, naming workers, students, scholars and artists as the constituencies it wants leading proposals, which signals a lower bar on prior AI technical credentials than most AI funds. Second, the fund gives priority consideration to projects using open-weight or open-source AI models over closed-weight models, which is a substantive technical constraint that should shape proposal design rather than a preference to be noted in passing.
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.
On 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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