Google.org Impact Grants (Impact Challenges)

What it is

Cash grants for nonprofits, academic institutions and for-profit social enterprises via Google.org's periodic themed Impact Challenge open calls — not a general business grant. The most recent global call (AI for Science, closed 1 May 2026) awarded $500K–$3M USD per organisation from a $30M fund, plus optional pro-bono Google technical support and Cloud credits.

Verified 2026-08-21 on google.org: Impact Challenge hub live and describes an ongoing programme ('46 Impact Challenges have provided $310M and 100,000 pro bono hours... helping more than 550 organisations'); the latest global call, AI for Science, states awards of '$500K and $3M USD' per organisation from a $30M fund and 'Applications are now closed' (deadline was 1 May 2026) — no currently-open call found, hence between_rounds with rolling:true/deadline:null per seed convention. valueMin/valueMax are indicative GBP conversions (~0.79) of the funder's USD band from that latest call — amounts vary substantially per challenge. Funder-stated eligibility the engine cannot fully express: nonprofits, social enterprises and academic/research institutions only (modelled here as social-enterprise sector); themed calls (often AI-for-good) with AI required as a central component and open-source/shared-output licensing conditions; global programme, not UK-specific.