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NumFOCUS Small Development
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- Free allowance
- 'Up to $10,000 can be awarded for each proposal'.
- Verdict
- fails: identitythe identity required is not reachable without it
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- institutionno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- write-gatedThe applicant must be an existing NumFOCUS fiscally sponsored or affiliated project before the grant exists, which is the whole gate; a person with a useful repository and no affiliation cannot submit.
- Evidence
- documented2 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-22checked 2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-22
| Free tier | 'Up to $10,000 can be awarded for each proposal'. Eligibility: 'Any NumFOCUS Fiscally Sponsored or Affiliated project is eligible to submit 1 proposal per grant cycle. Each project may receive a maximum of 2 grants per calendar year', and 'Proposals may be submitted by residents of any country'. unit none; metered on wall-clock; cash-grant |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - write-gated (binding) The applicant must be an existing NumFOCUS fiscally sponsored or affiliated project before the grant exists, which is the whole gate; a person with a useful repository and no affiliation cannot submit. source
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| Identity | institution not published |
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| Egress | not stated |
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| Interface | unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed |
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| Tooling | not stated |
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| Composes with | This is the natural home for a scientific-computing tool, so the route is: get the project affiliated, then take USD 10,000 three times a year. |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | The honest alternative is the same money via NLnet, MOSS or the Google patch tiers, none of which need an affiliation. The October 17 2026 deadline has passed two cycles into the year, so even an affiliated applicant is looking at 2027. |
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Evidence 2
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-22 | numfocus.org/programs/small-development-grants | quoted the USD 10,000 ceiling, the affiliation eligibility sentence, the any-country sentence, the three cycles per year, and the 2026 deadlines of June 6 and October 17 |
| 2026-10-22 | numfocus.org/projects-overview | quoted 'Eligibility is limited to our fiscally sponsored and affiliated projects, and calls for proposals are run 3 times per year' |
More fields 1
| facets | {"class": "grant-project-affiliated","free_tier_kind": "cash-grant","shape": null} |
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Unknown values 7
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- egress terms: a source was read and is silent on this field
- interface: the access interface was not established
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
- retention stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- tooling: a source was read and is silent on this field