Who funds explainable AI research?

We count 50 funded explainable AI projects, active between 2022 and 2030, from 5 funders. The most came from EU · MSCA (11 projects), EU · Digital, Industry and Space (9 projects) and EU · Health (5 projects). The median award is $3M, across the 48 of 50 projects that list an amount.

Funded projects

50

Funders

5

Median award

$3M

Open calls now

1

Top funders of explainable AI research

Projects whose title or summary mentions explainable AI. Median award: of the projects that list an amount, in US dollars; “—” when fewer than 3 do.

Open explainable AI funding calls

1 open call mentions explainable AI today.

• Technologies for Trustworthy AI (safe, fair, transparent, privacy-preserving, explainable, and/or secure)
  National Science Foundation (SBIR/STTR)Not specifiedDeadline: July 7, 2027 ·

Funded explainable AI projects

A sample, latest start first, at most three per program.

• Research Initiation Award: Bridging the Gap between Sequence and Function with Ethical and Explainable AI for Protein Function Prediction
  NSF · EDU · $445,686 · ends 2029
• NSF REU SITE: ASSET: Advanced Secured Sensor Enabling Technologies
  NSF · CISE · $464,999 · ends 2029
• Excellence in Research: Trustworthy AI for Healthcare: Evidence-Grounded, Compliant, Human-in-the-Loop
  NSF · CISE · $699,999 · ends 2029
• CICI: IPAAI: VERITAS - VERified Infrastructure for Trustworthy AI in Science
  NSF · CISE · $896,601 · ends 2029
• Collaborative Research: An Explainable AI Environment for Adaptive Learning and Practice of Quantum Computing
  NSF · EDU · $535,000 · ends 2029
• Design and Optimization of Imprinted Superabsorbent Polymers for Selective Pathogen Binding and Release: Integrating Materials Science, Fluid Dynamics, and Explainable AI
  NSF · MPS · $450,000 · ends 2029
• Catalyst DataWISE: Data Science Workforce Initiative for Skills and Education
  NSF · EDU · $200,000 · ends 2028
• PRECISE-AI: Probabilistic reasoning with circuits for safe and explainable artificial intelligence
  UKRI · EPSRC · £335,280 · ends 2028
• Shortening the diagnostic odyssey: multimodal patient similarity networks and explainable artificial intelligence for rare disease diagnosis
  Wellcome · ends 2027
• PeptimAIze: Revolutionazing Peptide Design through Multi-Property Optimization and Explainable AI
  EU · MSCA · €260,348 · 2027–2029 · IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE

How we count

Funded projects come from public award records (NIH RePORTER, NSF, EU CORDIS, UKRI Gateway to Research, Wellcome, the Gates Foundation, DOE, NASA and USDA NIFA) whose title or summary matches “explainable ai or explainable artificial intelligence or interpretable machine learning or trustworthy ai”. NIH lists each budget year separately; one project counts once. Amounts are as the funder lists them; medians use only projects that list one, in US dollars. Open calls and forecasts are from our listings of October 28, 2026. A project can mention a topic without being mainly about it, so treat the counts as a guide to who funds the area.