In short
The John Templeton Foundation has published no rule on whether applicants may use AI to write proposals. Its privacy policy says it may process applicants' personal information with automated technologies, including AI, for several purposes. These include reviewing and evaluating funding applications. The policy also says it may use that information to train those tools. It states that the foundation does not make significant decisions based solely on automated processing.
Reviewer rules only. The funder has rules for reviewers and has published none for applicants.
For applicants
John Templeton Foundation has published no rules for applicants.
For reviewers
- JTF may use automated technologies, including AI, to process personal information. The purposes include reviewing and evaluating funding applications and deciding whether to approve them. [1]
- JTF may use the personal information it collects to train the automated technologies it uses for those purposes. [1]
- JTF states that it does not base decisions with legal or similarly significant effects solely on automated processing of personal information. [1]
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Privacy Policy (effective April 27, 2026) (opens in a new tab)
To review, evaluate, and decide whether to approve funding applications, including grant and donation proposals
Please note that we may also use and process the personally identifiable information we collect via use of automated technologies, including artificial intelligence, for the purposes listed above.
To the extent permitted by applicable law, we may also use personal information we collect to train automated technologies we use for the above purposes.
However, we do not engage in automated processing of personally identifiable information to make decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects solely based on automated processing.
See John Templeton Foundation's 1 open program
This page summarizes what the funder has published and is not legal advice. Policies change, and one solicitation can add its own rules. Confirm against the funding announcement before you apply.