Announcing the first Graze Grant round!

We're incredibly lucky to have been given the opportunity to build Graze, and we don’t take that for granted. That privilege comes with responsibility, especially to the community that’s been dreaming, building, and experimenting right alongside us.

From the beginning, Graze has been about more than just building tools. It’s about shaping a future where individuals and communities reclaim control of their digital lives. A future where power is decentralized and access is open. Today, we’re putting that belief into action with our first foray in helping others build, too.

Introducing the first-ever Graze Grant

Some ideas get blocked because its just too expensive to fool around and find out. We’re kicking this off five unrestricted $1,000 grants for exactly that reason, to help unblock folks building tools and infrastructure or ideas that push the ATProto and Bluesky ecosystem forward.

We don’t have all the answers, and we’re not pretending to. This is an experiment! Our first step toward what we hope becomes a much larger grant project. We didn’t want to wait until everything was perfect. We wanted to start now, test the waters, and begin learning how we can best support the community.

Why are we doing this?

Because we believe in investing directly in the people shaping what’s next. If something’s not being built due to a lack of time, energy, or money, we want to help unblock you. Graze exists to empower the developers, community leaders, and institutions coming on board and making the ecosystem stronger.

What would we love to see?

Over the past few months, as we’ve matured into a real live company, we’ve identified three points of focus where we think Graze can have an outsized impact on the ecosystem. Specifically, our core mission goals are:

1. Accelerate the ATProto/Bluesky ecosystem with best-in-class developer tooling,
2. Empower communities with the tools to cultivate and sustain themselves,
3. Give organizations direct, unmediated access to their audiences

To that end, we’re particularly excited about projects that directly align with our vision: developer tools, moderation infrastructure, new feed experiments, or totally new ideas or directions we haven’t thought of yet. That said, we want to hear about things we haven’t thought of, things outside of our mission, or even things directly counter to our mission! This community is amazing, brilliant, and hardworking, so we want to hear about and elevate the work going on outside our four walls, no matter where it falls alongside our own goals.

To apply:

Fill out our short application! Tell us a little about who you are, what you’re working on, and how the grant could help. We’ll take care of the rest.

Applications are open now and reviewed on a rolling basis. The deadline to apply is Saturday, May 31st, 10pm PST, with the first batch of grantees announced in mid-May.

This is just the beginning! We hope this early beta round of grant funding helps unlock the time, energy, and creativity needed to move your ideas forward. We can’t wait to see what you’re working on, and we’re honored to play even a tiny role in helping you bring your ideas to life.