The GitLab Foundation is excited to announce the third round of the AI for Economic Opportunity Fund.
Donor Name: GitLab Foundation
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/31/2025
Size of the Grant: $50,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The AI for Economic Opportunity Demonstration and Scaling Fund is the third annual round of a groundbreaking philanthropic initiative to harnesses the power of artificial intelligence to improve economic mobility for millions.
This initiative, powered by a partnership between the GitLab Foundation and Open AI, reflects their shared commitment to advancing income growth and economic opportunity through innovative uses of AI.
Types of Projects
The foundation is seeking to build evidence for how AI can improve economic opportunity for low-income people. That might mean streamlining access to services and benefits, enhancing job market intelligence, personalized career guidance and job matching, intelligent tutoring and adaptive learning, improving efficiency of public expenditure, overcoming language and accessibility barriers, or a host of other use cases.
The foundation is particularly interested in projects that improve economic mobility for populations least likely to experience it, including those from low-income households, populations with low educational attainment, and low-wage workers.
The foundation wants to see the many, many transformative applications that haven’t even thought of yet — but a few high potential areas particularly interested in these days include projects that:
- Unlock and Harness Data for Impact
- Expand Interoperability of Agents
- Make Services More Effective and Affordable
- Empower Navigation Across Opportunity Pathways
- Advance Skills Validation and Mobility
- Personalize Learning and Support Persistence
- Strengthen Actionable Labor Market Intelligence
- Create other Breakthrough Innovation Opportunities.
Funding Information
$250,000 seed funding to prototype and demonstrate progress.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants should be US-based nonprofit organizations, though the programs can be operating in non-US markets. The Foundation encourages partnerships between nonprofits and for-profit startups, consultants, and other technology experts. For-profit social enterprises will be considered on a case-by-case basis for mission alignment, with the opportunity to use a fiscal sponsor or nonprofit partner as an intermediary.
For more information, visit GitLab Foundation.
