**Standouts for IdeaFlow + CollabLists / civic-tech work:**
- **NSF SBIR Phase I** ($275K rolling, resumed April 2026)
- **Google.org AI for Science** ($30M pool, May 1 deadline)
- **Schmidt Sciences Trustworthy AI** ($1M–$5M+, May 17 deadline)
Couldn't verify Code for America fellowships in 2026 — the original program wound down (Coding it Forward is the successor). Open Society Foundations are largely invitation-only with no current open tech-civic call I could verify.
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Non-dilutive R&D funding for deep-tech US small businesses commercializing innovative tech. Up to $275K for ~12 months.seedfund.nsf.gov
Department of Energy SBIR/STTR program. Phase I up to $200K (9 mo), Phase II up to $1.1M (2 yrs).science.osti.gov
DARPA's Information Innovation Office (I2O) FY2026 Office-Wide Broad Agency Announcement. Cybersecurity, AI, software, information science.www.darpa.mil
DARPA's small-business R&D program. Monthly topic releases. Phase I ~$250K (6 mo), Phase II up to $1.8M (24-36 mo).www.darpa.mil
7-week customer-discovery training program with up to $50K stipend. Teams must complete >=100 customer interviews.www.nsf.gov
NIH's non-dilutive small business R&D program for health/biomedical innovation. Reauthorized April 2026 after a brief lapse.seed.nih.gov
NASA's small-business R&D program for aerospace, space tech, climate sensing, AI. Topic-driven; annual cycle.www.nasa.gov
Two-stage NSF competition: $75K planning grants then up to $1M full awards for civic-engaged research-into-practice projects.nsfcivicinnovation.org
Humanities digital projects for public audiences: websites, apps, games, interactive kiosks. Three tiers: Discovery ($30K), Prototyping ($100K), Production ($400K).www.neh.gov
Grants for innovative digital projects in humanities research, including tools and infrastructure.www.neh.gov
Funds institutes that train humanities scholars/staff in advanced digital humanities methods.www.neh.gov
$5M open call from the Knight Foundation for projects in its 26 communities. Up to $200K per project.knightfoundation.org
Co-run with 8 80 Cities. $5K seed + $500 tech grant + virtual training for civic-leadership projects in Knight communities.emergingcitychampions.org
Annual open-source tech awards. Themes shift year to year (AI auditing, environmental justice, etc.).www.mozillafoundation.org
$1M total across 10 projects on AI and democratic participation. Mozilla Foundation Incubator program.www.mozillafoundation.org
Tier 1 ($1M, 1-3 yr) and Tier 2 ($1M-$5M+, 1-3 yr) grants for technical AI safety, interpretability, risk prediction.www.schmidtsciences.org
$11M previously awarded to 23 teams applying AI to humanities (archaeology, history, literature). Next round 2026 deadline.www.schmidtsciences.org
Funds research on hardware fundamentally different from CPUs/GPUs. Track I $50K-$150K, Track II $150K-$750K.www.schmidtsciences.org
Up to $125K + intensive technical support for nonprofits with complex datasets ready to deepen data practice.www.mcgovern.org
$200K prize for breakthrough AI solutions designed to benefit humanity. Administered through MIT Solve.solve.mit.edu
$30M global open call for AI-accelerated breakthroughs in health and climate science. $500K-$3M individual grants + GCP credits + Google mentorship.www.google.org
$1M-$3M grants for orgs partnering with governments to use generative/agentic AI for healthcare, crisis resilience, economic infrastructure.www.google.org
OpenAI's $10M+ API-credits program for defensive cybersecurity research. Microgrants of API credits for prototypes.openai.com
Free Claude API credits (up to $20K for 6 months) for academic + nonprofit researchers on high-priority scientific projects.support.claude.com
Free Claude API credits for researchers working on AI safety + alignment topics Anthropic prioritizes.support.claude.com
Cash grants ($10K-$50K) + $5K Claude credits for research on AI's economic transformation.www.anthropic.com
Ethereum's primary grants program for open-source public goods: protocol infrastructure, cryptography, developer tooling, research.esp.ethereum.foundation
Follow-on to NSF SBIR Phase I. Up to $1M+ over 24 months for R&D scale-up.seedfund.nsf.gov
Summer policy bootcamp + optional final project. $5K base stipend + $2.5K project + additional awards.aspenpolicyacademy.org
Cross-lab AI safety research fund supported by Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI + foundation partners. RFP-driven.www.frontiermodelforum.org