Who funds privacy research?

We count 116 funded privacy projects, active between 2021 and 2032, from 6 funders. The most came from EU · ERC (24 projects), NSF · CISE (17 projects) and EU · Civil Security for Society (14 projects). The median award is $2.1M, across the 115 of 116 projects that list an amount.

Funded projects

116

Funders

6

Median award

$2.1M

Open calls now

4

Top funders of privacy research

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

Open privacy funding calls

4 open calls mention privacy today.

• Security, Privacy, and Trust in Cyberspace (NSF SaTC)
  U.S. National Science Foundation$50,000 – $1,200,000Deadline: January 25, 2027 ·
• Technologies for Trustworthy AI (safe, fair, transparent, privacy-preserving, explainable, and/or secure)
  National Science Foundation (SBIR/STTR)Not specifiedDeadline: July 7, 2027 ·
• Data Privacy and Integrity
  National Science Foundation (SBIR/STTR)Not specifiedDeadline: July 7, 2027 ·
• Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure (CICI)
  U.S. National Science FoundationUp to $1,200,000Deadline: January 20, 2027 ·

Funded privacy projects

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

• OpenSAFELY Phase Two
  Wellcome · £10,623,884 · ends 2032
• CAREER: Advancing Differentially Private Data Synthesis: A Holistic Approach
  NSF · CISE · $677,866 · ends 2031
• Category II: PARAPET: Prototype Architecture for Research Advances using Privacy Enhancing Technologies
  NSF · CISE · $4,999,963 · ends 2031
• NSF-BSF: SaTC 2.0: RES: Formal Privacy Models: New Horizons
  NSF · CISE · $550,000 · ends 2030
• Research Initiation Award: Leveraging Machine Learning for Secure and Privacy-Preserving Vehicular Cyber-Physical Systems (VCPS)
  NSF · EDU · $450,000 · ends 2029
• EDU EPSCoR DCL: Towards an assessment framework for engineering students' ethical AI literacy
  NSF · EDU · $499,958 · ends 2029
• International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore (IIITB) — Digital Public Infrastructure
  Gates Foundation · $24,000,000 · ends 2029
• Collaborative Research: CyberAI Innovation: Building AI Auditing Competency through Learning Theory-Guided Adoptable Module Design
  NSF · EDU · $225,428 · ends 2029
• Asian Institute of Technology — Digital Public Infrastructure
  Gates Foundation · $2,954,000 · ends 2029
• Georgetown University — Data Infrastructure
  Gates Foundation · $984,526 · ends 2028

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 “privacy”. 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.