Internet Society Foundation Common Good Cyber Fund Grant Program 2026 (up to $300,000) – YOA

Deadline: August 4, 2026

Applications are open for the Internet Society Foundation Common Good Cyber Fund Grant Program 2026. The Common Good Cyber Fund (CGCF), launched in 2025 in shut collaboration with the Common Good Cyber Ecosystem Committee and a Strategic Advisory Committee, goals to maintain nonprofit organizations whose work strengthens the general public-curiosity cybersecurity ecosystem. 

CGCF consists of pooled donations from a mixture of donors, together with the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Craig Newmark Philanthropies, the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office of the United Kingdom, the German Federal Foreign Office, Global Affairs Canada, the Internet Society, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Program Overview

Digital and cyber threats are rising in frequency and class, with disproportionate impacts on susceptible communities and underserved areas the place digital defenses are weakest. High-risk actors, together with NGOs, journalists, human rights defenders, and dissidents, face focused exercise that may attain throughout borders within the on-line info atmosphere.

The nonprofit cybersecurity ecosystem performs an important but below-acknowledged position in countering these threats, mitigating hurt, and defending on-line civic area. However, this ecosystem stays severely underfunded and overstretched, leaving neighborhood actors and susceptible populations uncovered to escalating digital cyber threats. 

The Common Good Cyber Fund is designed to strengthen this ecosystem by supporting the nonprofits who present these crucial providers. An preliminary pilot program was initiated in late 2025, which supplied a proof of idea for an open name for functions launching in June 2026.

Funding

• In 2026, the Internet Society Foundation is predicted to award a minimum of USD $3.5 million by multi-yr working grants funded by the Common Good Cyber Fund. Grants awarded by this open name are anticipated to be two-yr awards, usually within the vary of USD $100,000 to $300,000, with a most whole grant quantity of $300,000 over the total grant interval.

Eligibility

• CGCF helps nonprofit organizations whose work aligns with the Fund’s goals and who present cybersecurity infrastructure and/or direct providers for top-threat digital actors.
• In 2026, CGCF expects to prioritize organizations able to ecosystem constructing, particularly these based mostly within the world majority, or these with the capability to regrant to smaller organizations working within the world majority.
• Organizations who show a historical past of addressing problems with gender fairness, together with know-how-facilitated gender-based mostly violence (TFGBV), will likely be moreover prioritized when making use of for grants aligned with Objectives 2 and three.

Selection Criteria

Applications are assessed based mostly on:

• Confirmation that the applicant is a qualifying nonprofit group (U.S. 501(c)(3) or equal) targeted on cybersecurity.
• Confirmation that the applicant group has an official checking account of their title that may obtain funds from a basis based mostly within the United States
• Alignment with CGCF’s objective and program goals.
• Evidence that the group delivers cybersecurity infrastructure and/or providers that defend excessive-threat communities and strengthen broader resilience.
• Demonstrated organizational capability, together with credible implementation and governance.
• Potential to contribute to ecosystem constructing, together with attain throughout geographies and, the place related, the power to help smaller organizations.

Application

Required application paperwork embrace:

• A present operational funds
• Tax Identification Document
• Organization governing doc (comparable to articles of incorporation, group constitution, or bylaws)
• An inventory of present institutional funders and the quantities they supply
• National tax returns from the 2 most up-to-date out there fiscal years 
• Audited financials from the 2 most up-to-date out there fiscal years 
• (Optional) 501(c)(3) Equivalency Determination (if relevant and if out there).

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For extra info, go to Common Good Cyber Fund Grant Program.