Funding for AI researchers with no affiliation.

Grants, compute and API credits, fellowships, prizes and fiscal sponsors, each with the funder's own eligibility sentence and a plain answer: can someone with no university, lab or company apply?

Or browse: Grants, API credits, Compute, Fellowships, Closing soon, Programs that say no

Find funding

Every kind of support an independent researcher can use, filtered by kind, status and deadline.

See the evidence

Each program shows the funder's sentence, its link, and when it was read. Every page is re-read by a second check.

Skip the dead ends

Programs that require an institution say so here, quoted, so you don't waste an application.

Closing soon

All programs

Programs

How it's checked

  1. One agent reads the funder's official page, never an aggregator, and copies the eligibility sentence word for word, the deadline as written, and the amount.
  2. A second agent re-reads the same page cold and confirms or corrects every field.
  3. "Yes" only when the page says a person without an affiliation can apply; "No" only when it says they cannot. Otherwise "Page doesn't say".
  4. Every week every page is fetched again; changed pages are re-read, new programs found on other public lists are read twice before they appear, and a random sample is audited cold. Sites that block automated checks are never worked around; their rows show when they were last verified.