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AI3 Action Institute - Artificial Intelligence for American Indians

🇺🇸 United States·Administration for Children and Families - ANA(Government)
Funding
$2.5M ~ $3.5M
≈ ₩4.8B (FX as of 2026-07-01)
Deadline
2026.08.27
29d overdue
Official noticeApplyOverseas applicants not eligible Export

Overview

What you need to judge this in 30 seconds

The Administration for Native Americans (ANA) anticipates announcing the availability of funds and requesting applications for the AI3 Action Institute – Artificial Intelligence for American Indians. The successful applicant will establish the AI3 Action Institute, which will monitor the pace of AI change, identify responsible and practical opportunities to apply this technology to socioeconomic d

Category
R&D
Industry
AI & Data
Technology
AI / ML
Target stage
Needs verification
Project duration
Needs verification
Estimated preparation
Needs verification

Funding

Award size and how it is paid

Award range
$2.5M ~ $3.5M
Currency
USD
Total programme budget
$3.5M
Support type
Cash
Co-funding
Needs verification

Cost sharing/matching 요구가 있습니다 — 비율은 공고 원문 확인 필요.

Matching fund
Required
Disbursement
Needs verification
Note
-

Eligibility

Can we actually apply?

Check whether we can applyEnter where you are incorporated, how old you are and how big — we compare it against this announcement and tell you what would unlock it. No sign-in needed.

These types of organizations may apply based on 42 U.S.C. 2991b:Federally recognized Indian tribes, as recognized by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA).Incorporated non-federally recognized tribes.Incorporated state-recognized Indian tribes.Consortia of Indian tribes.Incorporated, nonprofit multipurpose, community-based Indian organizations (including Urban Indian Organizations as defined by 25 U.S.C. 1603(29)).Urban Indian Centers.Native Community Development Financial Institutions (Native CDFIs).Alaska Native villages as defined in the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) and/or nonprofit village consortia.Nonprofit Native organizations in Alaska with village-specific projects.Incorporated nonprofit Alaska Native multipurpose, community-based organizations.Nonprofit Alaska Native Regional Corporations/Associations in Alaska with village-specific projects.Nonprofit Alaska Native community entities or tribal governing bodies (Indian Reorganization Act or Traditional Councils) as recognized by the BIA.Public and nonprofit private agencies serving Native Hawaiians.National or regional incorporated nonprofit Native American organizations with Native American community-specific objectives.Public and nonprofit private agencies serving Native peoples from Guam, American Samoa, or the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.Tribal Colleges and Universities, and colleges and universities located in Hawaii, Guam, American Samoa, or the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands that serve Native American Pacific Islanders. Applications from individuals (including sole proprietorships) and foreign entities are not eligible and will be disqualified from the merit review and funding under this funding opportunity. Faith-based and community organizations that meet the eligibility requirements are eligible for awards under this funding opportunity.

Company age
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Employees
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Revenue limits
Needs verification
Consortium
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Location Requirements

Geography and legal-entity conditions

Primary country
🇺🇸 United States
Also eligible
None
Foreign companies
No
Local entity
Needs verification
Location condition
A US federal programme: the applicant must be an eligible entity based in the United States.

Required Documents

Required/optional · issuer · difficulty · validity · cautions

Document requirements were not captured (needs verification). Check the official announcement.

Application Process

How you apply

Application process not captured.

Evaluation

Review process and criteria

Evaluation process not captured.

Timeline

Announcement → intake → review → agreement → execution

Process steps were not captured.

Equity & Financial Terms

Equity, loans and contract conditions

Equity required
Needs verification
Loan
Non-dilutive grant
Duplicate funding
Needs verification
IP ownership
Needs verification
Deliverable ownership
Needs verification
Exclusivity
Needs verification
Right of first refusal
Needs verification
Audit & settlement
Needs verification
  • Bayh-Dole government licence

    US federal R&D funding commonly carries a government licence clause.

    Source: Standard across grants.gov federal programmes — check the individual announcement.

Risk Intelligence

Should we apply at all? — five dimensions plus an overall score (lower is safer)

Overall: Not assessable (insufficient data)
Eligibility risk42

Chance of failing eligibility, location or legal-entity rules

Financial risk35

Co-funding, matching funds, reimbursement and loan exposure

Execution risk22

Paperwork load, timeline pressure, reporting and audit duties

Contract risk32

Exclusivity, right of first refusal, duplicate-funding limits

IP & idea exposure riskNeeds verification

How much technical detail you must hand over, and who owns it

Key risk factors
  • 16
    Overseas applicants not eligible

    Only domestically registered companies may apply.

  • 15
    Matching fund required

    Funding of the same size has to be raised independently.

  • 10
    Required documents not collected· evidence needs verification

    The list of required documents was not collected.

  • 8
    Local-entity requirement not stated· evidence needs verification

    The announcement does not say whether a local entity is required.

  • 8
    Payment timing not stated· evidence needs verification

    Advance versus reimbursement makes a large difference to cash flow.

  • 7
    Exclusivity not stated· evidence needs verification

    Any exclusivity clause has to be checked.

  • 6
    Right of first refusal not stated· evidence needs verification

    Any right-of-first-refusal clause has to be checked.

  • 6
    Duplicate-support rule not stated· evidence needs verification

    Whether parallel support is allowed has to be confirmed.

12 item(s) need verification
  • · The list of required documents was not collected — check the announcement for what technical material must be submitted.
  • · Whether an NDA can be signed is not stated (needs verification).
  • · IP ownership terms are not stated (needs verification).
  • · Ownership of the deliverables is not stated (needs verification).
  • · Data-rights terms are not stated (needs verification).
  • · How submitted material may be reused is not stated (needs verification).
  • · Whether an exclusivity clause applies is not stated (needs verification).
  • · Whether a right of first refusal applies is not stated (needs verification).
  • · Whether a local entity is required is not stated (needs verification).
  • · Whether payment is in advance or in arrears is not stated (needs verification).
  • · The level of settlement and audit obligation is not stated (needs verification).
  • · The duplicate-support rule is not stated (needs verification).

Generated by local:rules-v1 · 4d ago

IP / Idea Protection

How much of your technology and idea you must disclose

Required documents unknown

The announcement does not say what has to be submitted, so the disclosure exposure cannot be judged. the scope of the material requested is not stated. The awarding body is Administration for Children and Families - ANA. 8 fields could not be read and must be checked in the announcement and the grant agreement.

NDA
Needs verification
IP ownership
Needs verification
Deliverable ownership
Needs verification
Data rights
Needs verification
Disclosure depth
Needs verification
File patent first?
Not applicable
Reuse of submissions
Needs verification
Publicity obligation
Needs verification
Exposure score
Needs verification
Safe to disclose
  • · The problem your product solves, and the market definition
  • · Your value proposition and quantified results (improvement rates, throughput)
  • · Anything already public: granted patents, papers, press coverage
  • · Team composition, capabilities and a summary of past delivery
  • · Architecture-level diagrams at module granularity, without internal implementation
Keep to a minimum
  • · Core algorithms: formulae, hyper-parameters and pre-processing rules
  • · Raw training data and the details of your collection pipeline
  • · Full source code and build or deployment scripts
  • · Cost structure and unit-price formulae
  • · Named customers, contract terms and pricing
  • · How an unfiled invention is actually implemented
Recommended actions
  • MEDIUMRequest an NDA

    Ask in writing for a mutual NDA before submitting detailed technical material; if it is refused, keep what you submit at summary level.

5 evidence item(s) from the source
  • UNKNOWN

    No document list was collected, so the exposure of technical material cannot be judged.

    Source link
  • UNKNOWN

    No NDA clause could be found.

    Source link
  • UNKNOWN

    IP ownership terms could not be found.

    Source link
  • UNKNOWN

    Ownership of the deliverables terms could not be found.

    Source link
  • HIGH

    Bayh-Dole 정부 실시권: 미국 연방 R&D 자금 특성상 정부 실시권 조항이 적용될 수 있습니다.

    Quote: “grants.gov 연방 지원사업 공통 조항 — 개별 공고 확인 필요”

    Source link
Needs verification (8)
  • · The list of required documents was not collected — check the announcement for what technical material must be submitted.
  • · Whether an NDA can be signed is not stated (needs verification).
  • · IP ownership terms are not stated (needs verification).
  • · Ownership of the deliverables is not stated (needs verification).
  • · Data-rights terms are not stated (needs verification).
  • · How submitted material may be reused is not stated (needs verification).
  • · Whether an exclusivity clause applies is not stated (needs verification).
  • · Whether a right of first refusal applies is not stated (needs verification).

This assessment is derived from the stored announcement, document and contract fields. Anything the source does not state is marked "needs verification" — it never asserts that your idea will be taken. Generated by local:rules-v1 · 4d ago

AI Analysis

Pros · cons · difficulty · competition · attractiveness

Preparation difficultyNeeds verification

From paperwork and review stages

Competition (estimate)61

Heuristic from award size and type

Attractiveness72

Amount, terms and IP combined

Overall riskNeeds verification

Weighted average of five dimensions

Pros
  • Needs verification
Cons
  • − 현지 법인 설립이 필요합니다.
  • − 해외 기업은 지원할 수 없습니다.
Cautions
  • ! IP 귀속 조항이 확인되지 않았습니다 (확인 필요).
  • ! 중복 수혜 제한 규정을 사전에 확인하십시오.
  • ! Matching Fund 확보 계획이 신청 요건에 포함됩니다.

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Source & Provenance

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Last fetched
2026.08.28
Human review
Not reviewed — check the official announcement
First seen
2026.08.20
Data status
Auto-collected, not reviewed
AI enrichment
local:rules-v1 · 2026.08.20
Sources (2)
Snapshot history
  • · 29d ago — 변경 감지되어 갱신 (baa5d233)
  • · 2026.08.20 — 최초 수집 (0c670b2a)