Chan Zuckerberg Initiative - Essential Open Source Software for Science

• We welcome applications from any country, provided the proposed work is compliant with the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) program. For additional information regarding OFAC sanctions, please refer to the US Treasury Department’s resources.
• Applications may be submitted by non-profit and for-profit organizations, public and private institutions, such as colleges, universities, hospitals, laboratories, units of state and local government, companies, and eligible agencies of the federal government. As part of the application process, for-profit organizations may need to provide additional information on the charitable purposes of the proposal. Grants are not permitted to individuals; only to organizations. Open source projects operating independently must be affiliated with an organization, as described below.
• If an application does not come from an organization eligible to receive and distribute funds (e.g., an academic institution), the applicant may designate a fiscal sponsor (e.g., NumFOCUS, Code for Science & Society, or others). We encourage projects that require fiscal sponsorship to contact the appropriate organizations early in the application process. If your application requires a fiscal sponsor and you are unable to secure one by the application deadline, you may still apply, but your application should explain the financial situation of the project and how you are planning to receive and use the funds if successfully awarded. We will prioritize applications already able to receive and use funds at the time of application.
• We will consider and potentially fund multiple applications from the same organization, multiple applications related to the same open source project(s), and multiple applications that include the same staff and/or project contributors. However, the proposed work in such applications must be distinct.
• We encourage proposals supporting multiple open source projects. In the case of applications for work spanning multiple projects, one individual must complete the application and a single organization or fiscal sponsor must coordinate the dispersal of funds to the members of the collaboration. Note that foreign institutions may not subcontract to US institutions, so please be mindful when selecting the applicant organization.
• We believe that the strongest teams incorporate a wide range of voices. Those underrepresented in science and technology are strongly encouraged to apply.
• Facebook employees, including employees of any subsidiary Facebook entities, are not permitted to apply for this grant.
• CZI reserves the sole right to decide if an applicant and applicant organization meet the eligibility requirements.

For questions about eligibility, please contact us in advance of the application deadline at sciencegrants@chanzuckerberg.com. Deadline extensions will not be granted.