AI for Humanity Prize

AI for Humanity Prize

Funds AI innovation projects in climate, health, learning, and opportunity through the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation.

Eligibility · Global — open worldwide

⚠ This may reflect a past cycle — verify the current call on the funder's site.

The AI for Humanity Prize is a $200,000 award funded by the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation and administered through the MIT Solve open-challenge platform. PJMF, which has distributed approximately $500 million in grants over the past decade and committed $75.8 million in 2025, designed the prize to recognise innovators and organisations using artificial intelligence to achieve measurable social impact at scale. MIT Solve manages the application, selection, and award process; PJMF provides the prize capital. The prize is one of only two open competitive funding channels PJMF operates, alongside the Data Practice Accelerator.

Eligibility is deliberately broad: for-profit companies, nonprofits, universities, research organisations, and individual innovators may all apply. There is no country restriction, and the 2025 cohort included awardees from Mexico, India, Honduras, the United Kingdom, and other countries. The four focus areas align with MIT Solve's challenge framework: climate, health, learning, and economic opportunity. The prize is fixed at $200,000 regardless of the winner's entity type.

The 2026 application cycle closed on May 21, 2026. The 2027 cycle has not yet been announced as of mid-2026. Applications are submitted through the MIT Solve platform at solve.mit.edu, which applies its own eligibility screening in addition to PJMF requirements. Organisations best positioned to win demonstrate a working AI-enabled solution with verifiable impact data, a clear pathway to scale, and a thesis aligned to one of the four named challenge areas. Monitoring MIT Solve and PJMF communications channels is recommended to catch the earliest announcement of the 2027 cycle.