NumFOCUS Small Development

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NumFOCUS Small Development Compute

fails: identityinstitutionno cardDwrite-gated

numfocus.org/programs/small-development-grants · GPU cloud · compute/numfocus-small-development · JSON · compare

Free tier	Quoted: '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
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	not applicable
Egress	not stated
Identity	institution not published
Limits	write-gated 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 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.
Binding	write-gated 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.
Interface	unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
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. The corpus already holds the scientific-computing primitives this would fund.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	Recorded as fails-identity because the ceiling is real and famous but the door is project affiliation, not an email. 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.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21

Evidence (2)

date	source	what it proved
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)

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  "free_tier_kind": "cash-grant",
  "shape": null
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (10)

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$.egress.terms not-stated
$.identity_cost.detail process
$.interface interface-unknown
$.per_object_cap.notes process
$.per_object_cap.stated not-applicable
$.reliability_note none-observed
$.retention.notes process
$.retention.stated not-applicable
$.tooling not-stated