International Development & Global Health Grants

Top opportunities

• Humanity AI Fund

  Ford Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Mellon Foundation, Packard Foundation, Omidyar Network (pooled fund)Up to $500Mopen

  Humanity AI Fund is a grant from the Humanity AI Fund that funds research and projects at the intersection of artificial intelligence and human welfar...

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• Advancing Global Health (AGH) Program

  U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy (GHSD)Up to $250MDeadline: May 31, 2026open

  Advancing Global Health (AGH) Program is a grant from the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy that funds organizat...

  global_healthpublic_healthinfectious_diseasehealth_disparitiesglobal health

• UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE MCGOVERN-DOLE INTERNATIONAL FOOD FOR EDUCATION AND CHILD NUTRITION PROGRAM

  Foreign Agricultural ServiceUp to $35MDeadline: Jun 22, 2026open

  Award range: $10,000,000 - $35,000,000 Eligibility: In accordance with the McGovern-Dole authorizing legislation, 7 U.S.C. 1736o-1, the following ent...

• UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE MCGOVERN-DOLE INTERNATIONAL FOOD FOR EDUCATION AND CHILD NUTRITION PROGRAM

  Foreign Agricultural ServiceUp to $35MDeadline: Jun 22, 2026open

  Per the McGovern-Dole program’s authorizing legislation, this funding opportunity is intended to improve food security, reduce the incidence of hunger...

• Biodiversity Fund (Volkswagen Group)

  Volkswagen GroupUp to $25Mopen

  Biodiversity Fund (Volkswagen Group) is a grant from Volkswagen Group that funds external biodiversity projects aligned with the company's environment...

  biodiversityenvironmental_educationclimate_changebiodiversity conservationecosystem protection

• New Interventions for Global Health

  Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationUp to $10Mopen

  New Interventions for Global Health is sponsored by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. This Grand Challenges initiative focuses on innovative concepts f...

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• the International Eye Research Center

  Up to $7.2MDeadline: Dec 31, 2028open

  The aim of the research agenda is to develop new tools for safer and more effective surgical interventions and the treatment of eye diseases and diagn...

• International Research Network Connections (IRNC)

  U.S. National Science FoundationUp to $7.0Mopen

  International Research Network Connections (IRNC) is a grant program from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) that funds high-performance inter...

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• ERC Plus Grant

  European Research Council (ERC)Up to $7.0Mopen

  ERC Plus Grant is sponsored by European Research Council (ERC). The ERC Plus Grant supports outstanding principal investigators who address major scie...

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• ARIA Safeguarded AI Programme for Verifiable Machine Learning Safety

  Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA)Up to $6.3Mopen

  The ARIA Safeguarded AI programme is a flagship research initiative from the UK's Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA) focused on developing ma...

  ai_safetyformal_verificationmachine_learning_safetyverifiable_aiai_governance

• EU AGILE Defence Innovation Programme for AI Drones and Autonomous Systems

  European CommissionUp to $6.3Mopen

  AGILE (Agile and Rapid Defence Innovation) is a new fast-track funding programme proposed by the European Commission in March 2026 to accelerate the d...

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• Schmidt Sciences 2026 Science of Trustworthy AI RFP

  Schmidt SciencesUp to $5.0MDeadline: May 17, 2026open

  Schmidt Sciences invites proposals for its 2026 Science of Trustworthy AI program, supporting technical research that improves our ability to understa...

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• ADDF Drug Development RFP for AI-Enabled Alzheimer's and Neurodegeneration Drug Discovery

  Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF)Up to $5.0MDeadline: Sep 14, 2026open

  The Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation Drug Development RFP provides substantial funding of up to $5 million for IND-enabling studies and early-pha...

  ai_drug_discoveryalzheimers_researchneurodegenerationclinical_trialscomputational_drug_design

• Prevention RFP

  Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF)Up to $5.0MDeadline: Sep 14, 2026open

  Prevention RFP is sponsored by Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF). This program supports research in the prevention of Alzheimer's disease a...

  biomedical_researchagingprecision_medicineclinical_researchalzheimer's disease

• EIC Pathfinder Challenge: Generative-AI based Agents to Revolutionize Medical Diagnosis and Treatment of Cancer (HORIZON-EIC-2025-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01-02)

  European Commission (Horizon Europe)Up to $4.0Mopen

  EIC Pathfinder Challenge: Generative-AI based Agents to Revolutionize Medical Diagnosis and Treatment of Cancer is a grant from the European Commissio...

  artificial_intelligenceai_healthcarecancer_researchbiomedical_researchprecision_medicine

• Eco-evolutionary dynamics of Escherichia coli in an island system: Environmental drivers of waterborne urinary tract infections

  John E. Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study in the Health SciencesUp to $3.0MDeadline: Aug 31, 2030open

  Water may be an underrecognized but important route of uropathogen transmission causing urinary tract infections (UTls). This realization is supporte...

• Simons Foundation Targeted Grants in Mathematics and Physical Sciences for AI and Deep Learning Theory

  Simons FoundationUp to $2.5MDeadline: Jul 1, 2026open

  The Simons Foundation Targeted Grants in Mathematics and Physical Sciences (MPS) support high-risk projects of exceptional promise and scientific impo...

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• Babuschkin Ventures AI Safety Startup Investment Fund

  Babuschkin Ventures (Igor Babuschkin)Up to $2.0Mopen

  Babuschkin Ventures is an AI safety-focused early-stage investment fund founded by Igor Babuschkin, a former researcher at DeepMind and xAI. The fund ...

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• Google AI Futures Fund for Early-Stage AI Startups with DeepMind Model Access

  Google LabsUp to $2.0Mopen

  The Google AI Futures Fund is a strategic initiative from Google Labs that invests in and collaborates with early-to-mid-stage startups building ambit...

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• Google.org Digital Futures Fund for AI Policy and Economic Impact Research

  Google.orgUp to $2.0Mopen

  The Google.org Digital Futures Fund is a major philanthropic initiative supporting think tanks and academic institutions conducting research on the so...

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What's included in international development grants

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How GrantMind sources these grants

• Federal sources — Grants.gov, NIH RePORTER, and SAM.gov, filtered for opportunities tagged or thematically aligned with international development.
• State portals — state-administered programs across all 50 states and D.C.
• Foundations — community and private foundations active in this category, drawn from IRS Form 990 filings and curated foundation directories.
• Corporate giving — a curated set of corporate philanthropy programs.

Make these grants count

The leverage point isn't writing more proposals — it's qualifying funders before you write. A 1–2 page Letter of Inquiry tells you in days whether a foundation is going to fund you, instead of forty hours from now. Our guide walks through the structure that gets a yes: