People-First AI Fund 2025 for Non-profits (Up to $50M) – YOA

Deadline: October 8, 2025

Applications are open for the People-First AI Fund 2025 for Non-profits. The People-First AI Fund goals to help frontline and mission-centered nonprofits working on the intersection of innovation and public good. At OpenAI, making certain broad deployment of advantages and making use of an iterative strategy to innovation is core to who they’re. They consider AI ought to assist clear up humanity’s hardest issues, and that we must always pay attention to and study from organizations already main that work on the frontlines.

The People-First AI Fund will help organizations immediately working in three areas:

• AI literacy & public understanding: They search to help organizations that assist communities construct the data, abilities, and confidence to navigate the age of synthetic intelligence. This consists of teaching programs, media initiatives, and alternatives for individuals to have interaction with and higher perceive the expertise. They are significantly desirous about efforts that equip individuals with sensible abilities. This might contain coaching trusted native leaders—akin to educators, religion leaders, youth mentors, or artists—to make discussions about AI extra accessible and related.
• Community innovation: They search to help organizations that work in partnership with communities to information how AI is perhaps formed and used of their lives. The precedence is to again efforts the place communities lead participatory design and resolution-making to guarantee AI strengthens civic life and helps individuals keep wholesome, linked, and thriving. This consists of initiatives that use AI to develop entry to and enhance supply of important companies, in addition to group co-designed approaches in areas akin to well being, psychological properly-being, and constructing group belief. Priority consideration can be given to organizations working in place-based mostly settings akin to colleges, libraries, clinics, or group facilities; candidates that actively contain residents—together with youth—within the design of initiatives; and efforts serving populations historically neglected of digital innovation, akin to older adults, rural communities, or linguistically remoted teams.
• Economic OPPORTUNITY: They search to help organizations increasing entry to significant work in methods which can be honest, inclusive, and group-pushed by leveraging the promise of AI. This may embody applications that put together individuals—particularly younger individuals—for the roles of the longer term; instruments that help caregivers and native companies; and initiatives that assist employees construct financial safety. They are additionally desirous about fashions of shared worth—akin to cooperatives or group-based mostly platforms—that respect native tradition and heart employee wants. Across all efforts, they may prioritize approaches that improve, relatively than exchange, human work and guarantee the advantages of AI are broadly distributed as a substitute of concentrated among the many few.

grant

• Up to $50M to help nonprofits.

Eligibility

The People-First AI Fund is meant for U.S.-based nonprofits with legitimate 501(c)(3) standing. Organizations might solely apply as soon as to be thought of for the Fund. Specific necessities embody:

• Organizations should be a U.S.-based public charity with a legitimate 501(c)(3) standing, and in compliance with 501(c)(3) necessities.
• Organization should be positioned in, and primarily conducting work inside, the 50 U.S. states or District of Columbia. 
• They will primarily take into account organizations with an annual working finances higher than $500,000. All organizations should have an annual working finances of lower than $10 million. 
• Applicants don’t have to have earlier AI expertise they usually welcome purposes from organizations at each stage of AI adoption—from exploration to pilots and energetic deployment.
• They won’t take into account organizations that can use these sources for regranting functions.
• They won’t take into account fiscally sponsored tasks.

Application

Organizations might solely submit one application, however chances are you’ll embody a number of people as collaborators in your proposal.

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to People-First AI Fund.