Deadline: Ongoing
The Ethereum Foundation is excited to announce its call for Small Grants.
Funding Information
- Funding request comes in under $30,000.
Eligible Projects
- A small grants application might be a good fit if any of the following apply to your project:
- In early stage: you’ve started work but are still testing assumptions or working toward a proof of concept.
- Experimental: you have an idea that’s a little “out there” but potentially impactful – and the only way to find out is to try it.
- Time sensitive: you need a decision within a few weeks.
- Community event related: sponsorship requests for events focused on Ethereum’s technology and community can also be submitted via the small grants pipeline.
Eligibility Criteria
- They are happy to hear from all kinds of contributors who are working within our scope:
- Individuals, teams or organizations.
- Newcomers to Ethereum, established projects, past grantees or applicants.
- Any area of expertise – they work with developers, researchers, academics, designers, educators, communicators, community organizers, and more.
- Projects at any point in the development process: just an idea, early stages, proof of concept, or with significant progress already made. However, they do not fund past work.
- Builders of any age, origin, identity or background.
Ineligibility Criteria
- Anything that is not legal within the jurisdiction where the work is taking place.
- Financial products (trading, investment products, lending, betting, etc).
- Projects with a planned token launch or public funding round.
- Art projects or charities that don’t fit within our scope.
- Token or investment focused events.
Application Requirements
- They’re flexible in many ways, but they do have some hard rules for the projects they fund:
- Work funded by ESP grants must benefit Ethereum in a way that aligns with ESP’s mission and scope.
- Any output must be open source or otherwise freely available; for-profit companies are welcome to apply but the specific grant funded work must be non-commercial.
For more information, visit Ethereum Foundation.
