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Coefficient Giving (Open Philanthropy until November 2025) researches and recommends grants, mainly funded by Good Ventures and a growing set of other donors. It is the largest funder of AI safety, notably through its Navigating Transformative AI Fund.

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Grants across many cause areas (AI risk, catastrophic risks, global health, animal welfare, growth) through themed funds. Some funds run RFPs with deadlines, some take open or rolling applications, and others mostly approach grantees themselves; unsolicited proposals are rarely funded.

Says it has given about $7B in total since 2014

Typical grant $484k ($70k–$5.2M)

On applying “we rarely fund unsolicited proposals, and we may not respond to all inquiries.” coefficientgiving.org

Itemised here $1.1B in 472 grants

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Led by Alexander Berger (CEO), Cari Tuna (President/director (Coefficient Giving Research filing)), Dustin Moskovitz (Director)Its grants page ↗Checked 29 Oct 2026

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2026 85 grants · $537M
DateRecipientAmountPurpose
Oct 2026Cornell University (Lionel Levine)$1.5M18-month grant for AI safety research: mathematical tools for evaluating the model 'constitution' that shapes a frontier LLM's values (scoring constitution adherence, verifying which constitution a model was trained on, value change under recursive self-improvement); announced 5 source
2 Sep 2026Kairos$50MTwo years of funding for AI safety talent infrastructure: SPAR, Pathfinder, the Generator Residency, Global Challenges Project, and new Kairos Labs, Talent Operations and Special Projects teams source
Sep 2026Redwood Research~$70M"More than $70 million over the next two years to enable them to scale up their work" (recommended by Individual #8144 and Individual #6297); amount is a lower bound; named in CG's 9 Sep 2026 scaling post source
Sep 2026Institute led by Jacob Tsimerman$10MInitial grant to help Fields Medalist Jacob Tsimerman set up an institute encouraging top mathematicians to work on AI safety; approved 12 days after first conversation; named in CG's 9 Sep 2026 scaling post source
Aug 2026Epoch AI$69MGeneral Support source
Aug 2026Sage$13MGeneral Support source
7 Jul 2026Resolution$160MAlignment research, including semiautomated alignment theory and empirics; structured as a $108m base plus $52m conditional on hiring success and compute needs. Coefficient Giving is Resolution’s sole funder to start. source
Jul 2026Simon Institute for Longterm Governance$5.2MStaffing Support source
Jul 2026ChinaTalk$3MPodcast, Newsletter, and Related Content source
Jun 2026P-Zero Research$5.6MAI Safety Research source
Jun 2026Augur$1.4MAI Supply Chain Research source
Jun 2026Various Individuals$720kCareer Transition Accelerator Program source
Jun 2026AI Standards Lab$470kAI Policy Standards Development source
May 2026Institute for AI Policy and Strategy$19MGeneral Support source
May 2026Geodesic Research$14MPretraining Techniques for Al Alignment source
May 2026Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative$8.7MOxford AI Governance Initiative source
May 2026Albion East$5.3MAI Diplomatic Engagement Network General Support source
May 2026CSLib$3.9MInfrastructure for Formal Software Verification in Lean source
May 2026Foundations of Cooperative AI Lab$2MFoundations of Cooperative AI Research Center (Vincent Conitzer) source
May 2026Heron AI Security$1.9MAI Security Research Pilot source
May 2026Tara Research$1.8MAssessing Techniques for Detecting AI Dishonesty source
May 2026Observatorio de Riesgos Catastróficos Globales$1.5MAI Risk Explorer (AIRE) source
May 2026Apollo Research$696kStaff Support source
May 2026American Enterprise Institute$347kAI Policy Conversations source
May 2026Koddermann Public Affairs$327kAI Summit Alliance source
May 2026Jakob Foerster$279kReducing Encoded Reasoning in Chains of Thought (Jakob Foerster) source
May 2026Ofir Press$190kVideoGameBench source
May 2026Individual #8242$180kResearch on AI Persona Behavior
May 2026MATS Research$100kCompute for AI Safety Research source
May 2026Individual #4202$50kEvaluating Claude's Adherence to its Constitution
Apr 2026Center for Security and Emerging Technology$2.5MAI Frontiers Initiative source
Apr 2026Arcadia Impact$1.9MArcadia Impact Alignment Project source
Apr 2026SeedAI$1.9MGeneral Support source
Apr 2026Rethink Priorities$928kDevelopment of the Holistic Agent Leaderboard source
Apr 2026EconTAI Lab$897kOperating Support for EconTAI Lab (Anton Korinek) source
Apr 2026Cloud Security Alliance$717kGlobal Catastrophic Risk-Focused Security Standards source
Apr 2026James Mickens$666kTechniques For Containing Misaligned AI (James Mickens) source
Apr 2026Individual #8739$451kCybersecurity Benchmark Design (Individual #8739)
Apr 2026CORAL Research$420kAgent Foundations Research source
Apr 2026Individual #7254$226kDefenses Against LLM Backdoors (Individual #7254)
Apr 2026MATS Research$200kResearch on Exploration Hacking (Eyon Jang and Joschka Braun) source
Apr 2026University of California, Los Angeles$135kFoundations of Interpretability Workshop source
Apr 2026Glen Chou$120kControl Theory Research (Glen Chou) source
Apr 2026AI X-risk Research Podcast$51kProduction Support source
Apr 2026Kairos$50kResearch on Scalable Oversight (Individual #6197) source
Mar 2026Timaeus$11MGeneral Support source
Mar 2026Centre for the Governance of AI, Inc.$11MGeneral Support source
Mar 2026Epoch AI$2.7MPublic Data Center Tracker source
Mar 2026Andrew Ilyas$1.1MStudy on Covert Malicious Fine-Tuning (Andrew Ilyas) source
Mar 2026Cambridge in America$628kChain-of-Thought Faithfulness source
Mar 2026Positive AI Labs$500kTechnical and Community-Building Work source
Mar 2026Inversion Research$409kSecurity Research Space source
Mar 2026Individual #7484$371kImproved Latent Adversarial Training (Individual #7484)
Mar 2026Zurich AI Safety$195kGeneral Support source
Mar 2026Individual #6306$182kAI Evals Platform Development
Mar 2026Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity$64kAI Standards and Risk Management source
Feb 2026Centre for the Governance of AI, Inc.$8.3MGeneral Support source
Feb 2026Institute for Law & AI$6.4MGeneral Support source
Feb 2026Convergent Research$5MWork on Software Formal Verification source
Feb 2026The Vista Institute for AI Policy$2.1MGeneral Support source
Feb 2026Individual #6844$1.5MAI Control Evaluations
Feb 2026Alignment of Complex Systems Research Group$1MGeneral Support source
Feb 2026Principles of Intelligence$916kAI Safety Summer Fellowship source
Feb 2026Meridian$859kTech Labs Program source
Feb 2026Aether$757kAI Control & Monitoring Projects source
Feb 2026Alec Radford$601kGradient Routing and Other AI Safety Research source
Feb 2026Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity$524kOperations Support source
Feb 2026Sarah Wiegreffe$268kStudy on Chain-of-Thought Necessity and Task Complexity (Sarah Wiegreffe) source
Feb 2026Iliad$263kAI Alignment Research Program source
Feb 2026P-Zero Research$250kGeneral Support source
Feb 2026TransformerLens$133kLibrary for MechInterp Research source
Feb 2026Jacob Steinhardt$130kCompute Funds for AI Safety Research source
Feb 2026Individual #1823$100kExternalizing LLM Reasoning (Individual #1823)
Jan 2026Carnegie Endowment for International Peace$6MResearch and Programming Support source
Jan 2026Talos Network$5.2MGeneral Support source
Jan 2026Pivotal Research$2.5MAI Safety Fellowships source
Jan 2026London Initiative for Safe AI$1.3MGeneral Support source
Jan 2026Fewshot Corp$875kReward-Hacking Research source
Jan 2026Uri Maoz$733kAlignment Faking Research (Uri Maoz) source
Jan 2026John Hawthorne$732kMiscellaneous Research Projects (John Hawthorne) source
Jan 2026CEGIA$680kAI Governance Work source
Jan 2026Individual #7144$355kLLM Evals Projects (Individual #7144)
Jan 2026Good Judgment Inc.$350kAI Question-Generation Tool source
Jan 2026Meenakshi Khosla$231kStudy on The Universality of Embedding Spaces (Meenakshi Khosla) source
Jan 2026Thilo Hagendorff$187kResearch into Deceptive Behaviors in LLMs (Thilo Hagendorf) source
2025 204 grants · $380M
DateRecipientAmountPurpose
Dec 2025Various Individuals$9.9MRCT to Assess Impact of Technical AI Safety Research Grantmaking source
Dec 2025Shi Feng$3.1MStudy on Model Organisms of Reward-Hacking (Shi Feng and Kianté Brantley) source
Dec 2025ELLIS Institute Tübingen$1MResearch Group Support (Maksym Andriushchenko) source
Dec 2025Impact Academy$775kAI Safety Headhunting and Career Support source
Dec 2025Kianté Brantley$748kModel Organisms of Reward Hacking (Kianté Brantley and Shi Feng) source
Dec 2025Shi Feng$748kStudy on Model Organisms of Reward-Hacking (Shi Feng and Kianté Brantley) source
Dec 2025Lijie Chen$527kTheoretical AI Safety Projects (Lijie Chen) source
Dec 2025Ryan Cotterell$480kImproving Attribution in Circuit Discovery (Ryan Cotterell) source
Dec 2025University of Waterloo (Pascal Poupart and Sriram Ganapathi)$413kTwo-year grant to make agentic systems safer and more reliable through constraint learning, focused on multi-agent orchestrators (announced 17 Dec 2025) source
Dec 2025Chao Chen$331kRobust Detection of Unsafe LLM Behaviors (Chao Chen and Jiawei Zhou) source
Dec 2025Anna Ivanova$318kTraining Probes from Misaligned Models (Anna Ivanova) source
Dec 2025Swift Centre for Applied Forecasting$302kForecasting Workshops source
Dec 2025Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative$275kSurvey-Based Research source
Dec 2025Philip Torr$225kResearch on LLM Steering Vectors (Philip Torr) source
Dec 2025Koddermann Public Affairs$149kRecruiting Support for AI Safety Organizations source
Dec 2025Albion East$103kAI Safety Strategy source
Dec 2025HartreeWorks$40kEducational Blog on AI Use source
Dec 2025Bin Yu$12kAI Safety Retreat (Bin Yu) source
Nov 2025Redwood Research$37MGeneral Support source
Nov 2025RAND Corporation$6MAI Security Research source
Nov 2025Timaeus$1.5MGeneral Support source
Nov 2025Nada Amin$653kLLM Techniques for Generating and Verifying Code (Nada Amin) source
Nov 2025The AI & Cyber Security Institute$612kPhishing Benchmark (Individual #4402) source
Nov 2025Sanmi Koyejo$504kResearch on Predicting AI Capabilities (Sanmi Koyejo) source
Nov 2025Hongseok Namkoong$451kNew Methods for Estimating Rare Event Probabilities (Hongseok Namkoong) source
Nov 2025Aaron Mueller$373kNon-Human-Like Features In LLMs (Aaron Mueller) source
Nov 2025Individual #5877$310kData Filtering for AI Alignment (Individual #5877)
Nov 2025Gautam Reddy$303kResearch on In-Context Learning (Gautam Reddy) source
Nov 2025ILINA Program$234kAI Governance Fellowships source
Nov 2025Centre for International Governance Innovation$136kGlobal AI Risks Initiative source
Nov 2025Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative$105kMachine Learning and AI Safety Bootcamp source
Nov 2025Arcadia Impact$32kResearch on Diffuse Threat Models in AI Systems source
Oct 2025Arcadia Impact$7.2MAI Safety Community Building source
Oct 2025Simplex$2MGeneral Support source
Oct 2025Sage$1.6MGeneral Support source
Oct 2025Zhijing Jin$926kAI Safety Research Projects (Zhijing Jin) source
Oct 2025Iliad$836kAI Alignment Theory source
Oct 2025Rethink Priorities$585kEvaluation of AI Agent Risk Attitudes source
Oct 2025Eric Darve$485kHierarchical Atlas for LLM Interpretability (Eric Darve) source
Oct 2025Walter Scheirer$471kRobust Unlearning Research (Walter Scheirer) source
Oct 2025Melanie Weber$437kNonlinear Structure in Language Models (Melanie Weber) source
Oct 2025Sanmi Koyejo$420kNovel Method for Concept Unlearning (Sanmi Koyejo) source
Oct 2025The Alan Turing Institute$384kAI Cybersecurity Evals for Critical National Infrastructure source
Oct 2025Yonatan Belinkov$365kCovert Communication in LLMs (Yonatan Belinkov) source
Oct 2025Yonatan Belinkov$329kWeight Pruning to Remove Harmful Mechanisms (Yonatan Belinkov) source
Oct 2025Jonathan May$258kResearch on Steganographic Encoding (Jonathan May) source
Oct 2025AI Safety Australia & New Zealand$240kAI Safety Community Building source
Oct 2025Liu Leqi$215kResearch on Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in LLMs (Liu Leqi) source
Oct 2025Individual #3051$201kResearch on Jailbreaking in LLMs (Individual #3051)
Oct 2025Andrew Perrault$188kStudy on Measuring LLM Values (Andrew Perrault) source
Oct 2025Individual #6994$124kRobust Unlearning Evaluations (Individual #6994)
Oct 2025Athena$64kAI Safety Mentorship for Women and Gender Minorities source
Oct 2025Arb Research$15kShallow Review of AI Safety Research source
Sep 2025FAR AI$29MAI Safety Research and Field-building source
Sep 2025RAND Corporation$10MAI Evaluation and Testing source
Sep 2025Weiyan Shi$708kSabotage Benchmark (Weiyan Shi) source
Sep 2025Decode Research$707kInfrastructure for Interpretability Research source
Sep 2025Poseidon Research$640kEncoded Reasoning Project source
Sep 2025Gagandeep Singh$532kLatent Certified Training Network (Gagandeep Singh) source
Sep 2025Aviral Kumar and Aditi Raghunathan$466kAdversarial Reasoning Training (Aviral Kumar and Aditi Raghunathan) source
Sep 2025ERA$406kAIxBiosecurity Research Fellowship source
Sep 2025Institute for Law & AI$379kAI Safety Community Building source
Sep 2025Christian Schroeder de Witt$352kMitigating Collusion in LLMs for Multi-Agent Security (Christian Schroeder de Witt) source
Sep 2025Individual #7470$335kAnalysis of Moral Preferences of AIs
Sep 2025Various Individuals$334kMid-Career Transition Grants source
Sep 2025Weiyan Shi$333kTechniques to Mitigate Emergent Misalignment (Weiyan Shi) source
Sep 2025Individual #2217$326kResearch on Unlearning Methods (Individual #2217)
Sep 2025Individual #4647$310kSteering Vectors for Externalizing LLM Reasoning (Individual #5877)
Sep 2025Flavio Calmon$304kLLM Discretion in Deliberative Alignment (Flavio Calmon) source
Sep 2025Meng Jiang$282kProbe-Based Interventions for Training (Meng Jiang) source
Sep 2025Meridian$273kImproved Sleeper-Agent Techniques source
Sep 2025Xinya Du$219kControl Evaluations for AI Debate (Xinya Du) source
Sep 2025Hanjie Chen$218kResearch on Alignment Faking (Hanjie Chen) source
Sep 2025zkBricks$209kDefenses Against LLM Backdoor Attacks (Mingyuan Wang and Sanjam Garg) source
Sep 2025Dawn Song$200kAI Cybersecurity Research and Workshop (Dawn Song) source
Sep 2025Mila$196kOff-target Effects of Fine-tuning in LLMs (Aly Kassem and Golnoosh Farnadi) source
Sep 2025Varun Chandrasekaran$119kLow-Perplexity Jailbreak Testing (Varun Chandrasekaran) source
Sep 2025Simon Institute for Longterm Governance$94kInternational AI Governance source
Sep 2025Effective Altruism Switzerland$31kZurich AI Safety Day (Conference) source
Sep 2025AI Safety Hungary$21kAI Safety Community Building source
Aug 2025MATS Research$15MAI Safety Fellowship Extensions source
Aug 2025Centre for the Governance of AI, Inc.$11MGeneral Support source
Aug 2025Rethink Priorities$6.1M"Truthful AI" Research Group source
Aug 2025AI Verification and Evaluation Research Institute (AVERI)$5MThird-Party AI Auditing & Advocacy source
Aug 2025Kairos$1.4MPathfinder Fellowship and Group Support source
Aug 2025Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative$648kAI Governance source
Aug 2025Lu Wang$638kAlignment Faking Experiments (Lu Wang) source
Aug 2025Meridian$561kResearch on Realistic Alignment Faking source
Aug 2025Diyi Yang$531kRisks in Multi-Agent LLM Systems (Diyi Yang) source
Aug 2025Yu Meng$482kLatent Adversarial Training Method (Yu Meng) source
Aug 2025Nicola Paoletti and Osvaldo Simeone$440kVerifiably Robust Conformal Probes (Nicola Paoletti and Osvaldo Simeone) source
Aug 2025Scott Niekum$426kResearch on Emergent Misalignment (Scott Niekum) source
Aug 2025ETH Zürich$357kResearch on Malware and Surveillance Capabilities of LLMs source
Aug 2025Huan Sun and Yu Su$354kEliciting Unintended Behaviors in Computer-Use Agents (Huan Sun and Yu Su) source
Aug 2025Alane Suhr$310kModularized Reasoning Language Models (Alane Suhr) source
Aug 2025Huan Sun and Yu Su$296kStudy on the Circuits Underlying the "Reversal Curse" (Huan Sun and Yu Su) source
Aug 2025Adam Oberman$295kResearch on Latent Adversarial Training (Adam Oberman) source
Aug 2025Scott Niekum$293kResearch on LLM Rare Event Estimation (Scott Niekum) source
Aug 2025Kaiqing Zhang$281kEmergent Collusion Project (Kaiqing Zhang) source
Aug 2025Yiqiao Zhong$200kReasoning in LLMs (Yiqiao Zhong) source
Aug 2025Rui Zhang$166kWork to Mitigate AI Agent Sandbagging (Rui Zhang) source
Aug 2025Individual #4360$165kDevelopment of White-Box Jailbreak Technique (Individual #4360)
Aug 2025Stephen Bach$125kResearch into AI "Self-Jailbreaking" (Stephen Bach) source
Aug 2025Anudeep Das, Gurjot Singh, and Pract Chantasantitam$58kStudy on Backdoors in AI Agents (Anudeep Das, Gurjot Singh, Pract Chantasantitam) source
Aug 2025Mark Crovella$53kMechanistic Interpretability Research (Mark Crovella) source
Aug 2025Steve Petersen$48kAgent Foundations Research (Steve Petersen) source
Jul 2025Metaculus$3.3MForecasting Platform source
Jul 2025Byron Wallace$800kMechanistic Interpretability in Clinical Settings (Byron Wallace) source
Jul 2025George Pappas and Hamed Hassani$474kReachability Analysis for Jailbreak Detection (George Pappas and Hamed Hassani) source
Jul 2025Cadenza Labs$441kBenchmark for Detectors of LLM Dishonesty source
Jul 2025Valencia Polytechnic University$351kAI Evaluation Course source
Jul 2025AI Security Forum$322kInternational AI Security Conferences source
Jul 2025Mila$310kMechanistic Interpretability Research (Danilo Bzdok) source
Jul 2025Somil Bansal$305kReachability Analysis for Jailbreak Detection (Somil Bansal) source
Jul 2025Individual #6550$298kResearch on AI Productivity Impacts
Jul 2025Sharon Li$294kStudy on Inductive Biases of LLMs (Sharon Li) source
Jul 2025George Pappas and Hamed Hassani$268kReasoning-Based Jailbreak Red Teaming (George Pappas and Hamed Hassani) source
Jul 2025Sharon Li$253kNon-Linear Probes for Feature Discovery & Steering (Sharon Li) source
Jul 2025Meridian$210kResearch on Chain-of-Thought Obfuscation source
Jul 2025University of Southern California$207kDetecting Hidden Knowledge in Language Models source
Jul 2025Carnegie Endowment for International Peace$160kFrontier AI and Geopolitics Research source
Jul 2025Individual #5361$91kRed-Teaming LLM Backdoor Attacks (Individual #5361)
Jul 2025Zohar Ringel$82kNeural Network Context Learning and Generalization (Zohar Ringel) source
Jul 2025Yue Xing$77kResearch on Latent Adversarial Training (Yue Xing) source
Jun 2025BlueDot Impact$26MGeneral Support source
Jun 2025OpenMined$11MSecure Enclaves for LLM Evaluation source
Jun 2025Epoch AI$8.5MAI Development Tracking and Analysis source
Jun 2025Center for a New American Security$8.3MAI Security and Stability Program source
Jun 2025Longview Philanthropy$4MRFP on Hardware-Enabled Mechanisms for AI Compliance source
Jun 2025Dawn Song$3.4MCyberoffense Benchmark (Dawn Song) source
Jun 2025Centre for the Governance of AI, Inc.$2.8MGeneral Support source
Jun 2025Noam Kolt$2.7MGovernance of AI Lab (Noam Kolt) source
Jun 2025Tatsunori Hashimoto$1.9MRobust AI Benchmarks (Tatsunori Hashimoto) source
Jun 2025Mila$1.9MAI Safety Projects source
Jun 2025Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society$700kAI Safety and Alignment Initiatives (Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society) source
Jun 2025Arcadia Impact$540kAI Governance Research Fellowship source
Jun 2025Emma Pierson$500kStudy on Frontier Model Behavior (Emma Pierson) source
Jun 2025Tom Coates$430kStructure-Preserving Maps Between LLMs (Tom Coates) source
Jun 2025Meridian$396kResearch on Emergent Misalignment source
Jun 2025Mila$320kAI Safety and Governance Fellowship source
Jun 2025Soothcheck Project$248kRed-teaming Probed Trusted Monitoring source
Jun 2025Meridian$245kResearch on Avoiding Encoded Reasoning in LLMs source
Jun 2025Successif$227kAI Safety Management Consulting source
Jun 2025Conjecture Ltd$223kCybersecurity Bootcamp source
Jun 2025Individual #5877$218kStudy on Encoded Reasoning in LLMs (Individual #5877, Individual #5877)
Jun 2025Kairos$195kGeneral Support source
Jun 2025Atlas Computing$100kResearch Exploration source
Jun 2025Individual #1779$20kResearch on Prompt Injection Attacks (Individual #1779, Individual #1779)
Jun 2025International Conference on Machine Learning$13kAI Governance Workshop source
May 2025MATS Research$27MAI Safety Fellowships source
May 2025SL5 Task Force$8.4MFrontier AI Security Task Force source
May 2025Institute for Law & AI$5.3MGeneral Support and Field-Building source
May 2025Jacob Steinhardt$2.6MCompute Resources for AI Safety Research (Jacob Steinhardt) source
May 2025RAND Corporation$2.5MEmerging Technology Initiatives source
May 2025Palisade Research$2.1MGeneral Support source
May 2025RAND Corporation$2MTechnology and Security Policy Center source
May 2025Principles of Intelligence$1.7MAI Safety Summer Fellowship source
May 2025Scott Aaronson$1.6MResearch on AI Safety and Computational Complexity Theory (Scott Aaronson) source
May 2025Redwood Research$1.1MAI Safety Research Collaborations source
May 2025Theorem Labs$1MAI for Formal Software Verification (Contract) source
May 2025Centre for the Governance of AI, Inc.$1MGeneral Support source
May 2025Virginia Smith and Steven Wu$584kRobust AI Unlearning Techniques (Virginia Smith, Steven Wu) source
May 2025Sijia Liu, Shiyu Chang, and Mingyi Hong$484kRobust AI Unlearning Techniques (Sijia Liu, Shiyu Chang, Mingyi Hong) source
May 2025FutureSearch$356kForecasting Question Automation source
May 2025Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative$350k2025 Summer Fellowship source
May 2025Existential Risk Laboratory~$122kExistential Risk Laboratory Fellowship Program [AI-safety share est. 50% of $244,728 (range 35–65%): XLab's fellowship 'focuses on AI strategy, security, and governance, and nuclear weapon security', with AI and nuclear its two primary risk areas; about 36 of the 57 fellows liste source
May 2025AI Safety South Africa$120kGeneral Support source
May 2025Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative$32kAI Governance Workshop source
Apr 2025Institute for AI Policy and Strategy$12MGeneral Support source
Apr 2025FAR AI$6.7MAI Field Building source
Apr 2025FAR AI$2.4MAI Communications and Outreach source
Apr 2025Talos Network$1.5MAI Governance Field-Building source
Apr 2025Christopher Potts$744kAI Interpretability Research (Christopher Potts) source
Apr 2025Carnegie Endowment for International Peace$444kAI Governance Research source
Apr 2025Daniel Kang$265kLLM Hacking Benchmarks source
Apr 2025Anqi Liu$95kCourse Buyouts (Anqi Liu) source
Apr 2025Arb Research$70kAI Governance Retreat source
Mar 2025MATS Research$6.9MAI Safety Research Expenses source
Mar 2025Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative$5.4MOxford AI Governance Initiative source
Mar 2025Tarbell Center for AI Journalism$2.9MOperating Costs source
Mar 2025London Initiative for Safe AI$1.6MGeneral Support source
Mar 2025SeedAI$1.6MGeneral Support source
Mar 2025Colin Kahl$388kAI Standards Report (Colin Kahl) source
Mar 2025Institute for Security and Technology$284kSemiconductor Policy source
Mar 2025Philip Trammell$165kTransformative AI Summer Program (Philip Trammell) source
Mar 2025AI Safety Argentina$77kResearch Scholarships source
Mar 2025Epoch AI$70kFrontierMath Benchmark Improvements source
Mar 2025SecureBio$37kAI Benchmark Improvements source
Mar 2025Sincxpress Education$30kMechanistic Interpretability Course Development source
Feb 2025Epoch AI$4.1MGeneral Support source
Feb 2025Centre for the Governance of AI, Inc.$3MGeneral Support source
Feb 2025InterACT Lab$775kInterACT Lab (Anca Dragan) source
Feb 2025Daniel Kang$615kZero-knowledge Proofs for Secure AI Audits (Daniel Kang) source
Feb 2025Centre for the Governance of AI, Inc.$442kAI Governance Field-building source
Feb 2025Center for Responsible, Decentralized Intelligence$20kAI Safety Competition Prizes source
Jan 2025Neil Thompson$3.6MAI Trends and Impacts Research (Neil Thompson) source
Jan 2025ERA$2.5MAI Fellowships source
Jan 2025Timaeus$2MOperating Expenses source
Jan 2025Alignment Research Engineer Accelerator$1MAI Safety Technical Program source
Jan 2025Training for Good$461kOperating Costs and EU Tech Policy Fellowship source
Jan 2025Apart Research$161kAI Alignment Hackathons source
Jan 2025Andrew Reddie$100kAI Red-teaming Bootcamp (Andrew Reddie) source
Jan 2025Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative$59kInterACT Lab (Anca Dragan) source
Jan 2025Oxford AI Safety Initiative$18kOffice Access source
2024 128 grants · $144M
DateRecipientAmountPurpose
Dec 2024Christian Tarsney and Brad Knox$785kAI Safety Research (Christian Tarsney, Brad Knox) source
Dec 2024Daniel Kang$725kResearch on AI Benchmarks source
Dec 2024MATS Research$660kAI Safety Research Expenses source
Dec 2024Trajectory Labs$250kAI Safety Coworking Space source
Dec 2024Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative$43kCybersecurity Bootcamp source
Nov 2024RAND Corporation$6MAI Security Research source
Nov 2024Tarbell Center for AI Journalism$816kGeneral Support source
Nov 2024Tony Blair Institute for Global Change$636kAI Governance Initiatives source
Nov 2024Centre for the Governance of AI, Inc.$600kGeneral Support source
Nov 2024AI Safety Hub Ltd$590kOperating Costs source
Nov 2024Centre for the Governance of AI, Inc.$400kGeneral Support source
Nov 2024Brianna Rosen and Ciaran Martin$265kAI Cybersecurity Project (Brianna Rosen, Ciaran Martin) source
Nov 2024AI Safety Hungary$22kAI Safety Capacity Building source
Nov 2024Sage$7kAI 2025 Forecasting Questions (Contract) source
Nov 2024Arb Research$5kShallow Review of AI Safety Research source
Oct 2024Centre for the Governance of AI, Inc.$2.5MGeneral Support source
Oct 2024Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative$1.2MStudent AI Safety Groups source
Oct 2024Forecasting Research Institute$1.1MAI Progress Forecasting Panel source
Oct 2024Kairos$886kAI Safety University Group Support source
Oct 2024The Vista Institute for AI Policy$846kAI Law Field Building source
Oct 2024Kevin Jablonka$829kAnalytical Chemistry Benchmark (Kevin Jablonka) source
Oct 2024MATS Research$710kMATS Program Extension source
Oct 2024Langsikt$660kAI Safety Advocacy source
Oct 2024Forecasting Research Institute$359kTripwire Capability Evaluations source
Oct 2024Observatorio de Riesgos Catastróficos Globales$213kAI Risk Explorer source
Oct 2024Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative$35kOxford Martin AI Governance Initiative source
Oct 2024Virtue AI$30kNeurIPS Prizes source
Oct 2024Cameron Domenico Kirk-Giannini$27kAI Takeoff Speeds Paper (Cameron Domenico Kirk-Giannini) source
Oct 2024Gradient Institute$20kAustralian AI Safety Forum source
Sep 2024Yizheng Chen$1.7MLLM Cybersecurity Benchmark (Yizheng Chen) source
Sep 2024Arvind Narayanan$863kAI R&D Benchmark (Arvind Narayanan) source
Sep 2024Practical AI Alignment and Interpretability Research Group$737kInterpretability Work source
Sep 2024Jakob Foerster$622kLLM Research Replication (Jakob Foerster) source
Sep 2024Mantic$610kAI Forecasting Research source
Sep 2024Effective Institutions Project$400kAI Governance Work source
Sep 2024Wavefront Security$206kCybersecurity Services source
Sep 2024Florian Tramèr$130kLLM Adversarial Attacks Benchmark (Florian Tramér) source
Sep 2024Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative$30kAlgorithmic Alignment Group source
Aug 2024RAND Corporation$6MTechnology and Security Policy Center source
Aug 2024Centre for Long-Term Resilience$5.1MGeneral Support source
Aug 2024RAND Corporation$3.4MForecasting Platform source
Aug 2024Center for Responsible Innovation$3MGeneral Support source
Aug 2024Americans for Responsible Innovation$3MGeneral Support source
Aug 2024Algorithmic Research Group$1.1MLanguage Model Capabilities Benchmarking source
Aug 2024Koushik Sen$740kSoftware Engineering Benchmark (Koushik Sen) source
Aug 2024Supervised Program for Alignment Research$189kResearch Mentorship Program source
Jul 2024RAND Corporation$5MEmerging Technology Initiatives source
Jul 2024Percy Liang$2.9MLLM Cybersecurity Benchmark (Percy Liang) source
Jul 2024Individual #3270$2.1MLLM Cybersecurity Benchmark (Individual #3270, Individual #3270, Individual #3270)
Jul 2024Center for Open Science$1.7MLLM Research Benchmark source
Jul 2024Najoung Kim and Sebastian Schuster$756kLLM Research Benchmark (Najoung Kim, Sebastian Schuster) source
Jul 2024London Initiative for Safe AI$739kGeneral Support source
Jul 2024FAR AI$676kAI Alignment Research Projects source
Jul 2024Talos Network$662kGeneral Support source
Jul 2024Cambridge in America$518kData Science Benchmark  (Lorenzo Pacchiardi, José Hernández-Orallo, Lucy Cheke) source
Jul 2024Foundation for American Innovation$424kAI Safety Policy Research and Advocacy (Exit Grant) source
Jul 2024Alignment Research Engineer Accelerator$318kAI Safety Technical Program source
Jul 2024Centre for International Governance Innovation$300kGlobal AI Risks Initiative source
Jul 2024Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative$78kAI Research and Governance Workshop source
Jul 2024Individual #5447$70kLLM Model-Based Planning Report
Jul 2024Individual #6550$55kEconomics Research on AI Model Scaling Effects
Jun 2024Constellation$17MProgrammatic Activities and Operating Expenses source
Jun 2024FAR AI$12MAI Safety Regranting source
Jun 2024MATS Research$3.4MMATS Program 6.0 + 7.0 source
Jun 2024Palisade Research$1.7MGeneral Support source
Jun 2024Josh Kalla$596kLLM Persuasiveness Evaluation (Josh Kalla) source
Jun 2024William Wang$133kLLM Use Case Database (William Wang) source
Jun 2024Dongyeop Kang$74kLegal Automation Benchmark (Dongyeop Kang) source
Jun 2024Harmony Intelligence$54kLLM Moneymaking Benchmark source
May 2024MATS Research$2.4MMATS Program 6.0 + 7.0 source
May 2024Apollo Research$2.2MGeneral Support source
May 2024Mila$2MAI Safety Research source
May 2024David Bau$1.1MLarge Language Model Interpretability Research (David Bau) source
May 2024Karthik Narasimhan$1MSoftware Engineering LLM Benchmark (Karthik Narasimhan) source
May 2024Tatsunori Hashimoto$880kLLM-Generated Research Ideation Benchmark (Tatsunori Hashimoto) source
May 2024Sage$550kAI Explainers source
May 2024Sage$550kSoftware Tools for Forecasting source
May 2024Metaculus$532kForecasting Tournaments source
May 2024Hong Shen and Fei Fang$267kLLM Use Case Database (Hong Shen, Fei Fang) source
May 2024AI Standards Lab$200kAI Standards and Risk Management Frameworks source
May 2024Effective Altruism Israel$139kInformation Security Talent Development source
May 2024Faculty AI$93kWargame for AI Documentary source
May 2024International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad$7kAI Systems Course (Ponnurangam Kumaraguru) source
Apr 2024Constellation$3.2MGeneral Support source
Apr 2024Metaculus$2.8MPlatform Development source
Apr 2024RAND Corporation$2.5MEmerging Technology Fellowships and Research source
Apr 2024FAR AI$2.2MGeneral Support source
Apr 2024FAR AI$1.8MAI Field Building source
Apr 2024FAR AI$1.7MFAR Labs Office Space source
Apr 2024SeedAI$1.5MAI Policy Development and Related Events source
Apr 2024Simon Institute for Longterm Governance$1.5MGeneral Support source
Apr 2024Institute for AI Policy and Strategy$828kGeneral Support source
Apr 2024Benjamin Bergen$471kAI Persuasiveness Evaluation (Benjamin Bergen) source
Apr 2024LASR Labs$289kFellowship Program source
Apr 2024Forecasting Research Institute$125kRed-line Evaluations source
Apr 2024Rethink Priorities$116kResearch on LLM Use source
Apr 2024Dimitris Papailiopoulos$100kScalable Oversight Research (Dimitris Papailiopoulos) source
Apr 2024Jason Lee$100kScalable Oversight Research (Jason Lee) source
Apr 2024Forecasting Research Institute$100kForecasting Benchmark source
Apr 2024EA Netherlands$25kAI Safety Retreat source
Apr 2024Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative$21kAI for Epistemics Workshop source
Mar 2024London Initiative for Safe AI$821kLondon Coworking Space source
Mar 2024FutureSearch$607kBenchmark for Language Model Forecasting source
Mar 2024Graham Neubig$547kBenchmark for Web-Based Tasks (Graham Neubig) source
Mar 2024LawAI$300kGeneral Support source
Mar 2024Observatorio de Riesgos Catastróficos Globales$110kAI Policy Work source
Mar 2024Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative$45kLatent Adversarial Training Project source
Feb 2024Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative$713kAI Risk Management Frameworks source
Feb 2024Straumli$400kLLM Cyberoffense Benchmark source
Feb 2024FABRIC~$287kGeneral Support [AI-safety share est. 20% of $1,436,000 (range 10–35%): of FABRIC's camps (ESPR, PAIR, ASPR, WARP) only PAIR is about AI, 'a ten-day workshop on how minds work, both human and artificial', which covers 'some of the ethical and safety aspects' of AI; ESPR and the o source
Feb 2024Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity$200kAI Risk Management Frameworks source
Feb 2024Institute for Replication$174kLarge Language Model Replication Games source
Feb 2024Samet Oymak$100kScalable Oversight Research (Samet Oymak) source
Feb 2024Gabriel Weil$20kAI Governance Legal Research (Gabriel Weil) source
Jan 2024Institute for AI Policy and Strategy$3MGeneral Support source
Jan 2024Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative$1.1MCHAI Internships source
Jan 2024Martin Wattenberg$1MAI Interpretability, Controllability, and Safety Research (Martin Wattenberg, Fernanda Viégas) source
Jan 2024Daniel Kang$800kLLM Hacking Benchmarks (Daniel Kang) source
Jan 2024ERA$768kCambridge AI Fellowship source
Jan 2024FAR AI$646kAI Alignment Research Projects source
Jan 2024AI Safety Support$617kAstra Fellowship source
Jan 2024Individual #1953$223kLLM Misuse Database
Jan 2024Nice Light$127kAI Documentary source
Jan 2024OPTIC Forecasting$39kForecasting Competitions source
2024Stiftung Neue Verantwortung~$237kinterface (formerly Stiftung Neue Verantwortung): about €219,000 unrestricted in 2024 for its Data Science Unit, Global Chips Dynamics and core work, per interface's financial transparency page (converted at about $1.082/€, 2024 average) source
2024Players Philanthropy Fund$110kPolicy research on AI in the EU and Latin America (fiscally sponsored project) — paid by Open Philanthropy Action Fund (501(c)(4), now Coefficient Giving Action Fund), tax year Jan–Dec 2024 (Form 990 Schedule I Part II; payment in that year, not the grant total) source
2024Future Tech Insights$100kImproving public understanding of AI safety — paid by Open Philanthropy Action Fund (501(c)(4), now Coefficient Giving Action Fund), tax year Jan–Dec 2024 (Form 990 Schedule I Part II; payment in that year, not the grant total) source
2024Ashgro$31kAI safety community-building work (fiscally sponsored project) — paid by Open Philanthropy Action Fund (501(c)(4), now Coefficient Giving Action Fund), tax year Jan–Dec 2024 (Form 990 Schedule I Part II; payment in that year, not the grant total) source
2023 37 grants · $24M
DateRecipientAmountPurpose
Nov 2023ETH Zürich$25kMachine Learning Research Support source
30 Sep 2023Forecasting Research Institute$75kAI Worldviews Contest: Forecasting Research Institute Prize for the Existential Risk Persuasion Tournament (XPT) (Open Philanthropy prize, announced 30 Sep 2023) source
30 Sep 2023Basil Halperin, Individual #2053 and Individual #7312$50kAI Worldviews Contest first prize: 'AGI and the EMH: markets are not expecting aligned or unaligned AI in the next 30 years' (Open Philanthropy prize, announced 30 Sep 2023) source
30 Sep 2023Individual #6438$50kAI Worldviews Contest first prize: 'Evolution provides no evidence for the sharp left turn' (Open Philanthropy prize, announced 30 Sep 2023)
30 Sep 2023Individual #2769$38kAI Worldviews Contest second prize: 'Deceptive Alignment is <1% Likely by Default' (Open Philanthropy prize, announced 30 Sep 2023)
30 Sep 2023Individual #2324$38kAI Worldviews Contest second prize: 'AGI Catastrophe and Takeover: Some Reference Class-Based Priors' (Open Philanthropy prize, announced 30 Sep 2023)
30 Sep 2023Individual #6849$25kAI Worldviews Contest third prize: 'Imitation Learning is Probably Existentially Safe' (Open Philanthropy prize, announced 30 Sep 2023)
30 Sep 2023Individual #7590$25kAI Worldviews Contest third prize: "'Dissolving' AI Risk – Parameter Uncertainty in AI Future Forecasting" (Open Philanthropy prize, announced 30 Sep 2023)
Aug 2023Institute for Law & AI$75kLaw & AI Summer Research Fellowship source
Jun 2023Horizon Institute for Public Service$12MGeneral support (emerging-tech policy fellowships, AI-heavy) — paid by Good Ventures Foundation on Open Philanthropy's advice, fiscal year Jul 2022–Jun 2023 (990-PF Part XIV 3a; payment in that year, not the grant total) source
Jun 2023Redwood Research$3MOperations of a coworking space for professionals working on the long-run future of humanity — paid by Good Ventures Foundation on Open Philanthropy's advice, fiscal year Jul 2022–Jun 2023 (990-PF Part XIV 3a; payment in that year, not the grant total) source
Jun 2023New York University$1MProject on language model alignment research — paid by Good Ventures Foundation on Open Philanthropy's advice, fiscal year Jul 2022–Jun 2023 (990-PF Part XIV 3a; payment in that year, not the grant total) source
Jun 2023New York University$966kProject testing the truthfulness of AI systems — paid by Good Ventures Foundation on Open Philanthropy's advice, fiscal year Jul 2022–Jun 2023 (990-PF Part XIV 3a; payment in that year, not the grant total) source
Jun 2023Effective Ventures Foundation USA$770kLongview Philanthropy's collaborative AI policy work — paid by Good Ventures Foundation on Open Philanthropy's advice, fiscal year Jul 2022–Jun 2023 (990-PF Part XIV 3a; payment in that year, not the grant total) source
Jun 2023University of Toronto$762kProjects related to AI alignment — paid by Good Ventures Foundation on Open Philanthropy's advice, fiscal year Jul 2022–Jun 2023 (990-PF Part XIV 3a; payment in that year, not the grant total) source
Jun 2023Stanford University$700kHonesty in language models — paid by Good Ventures Foundation on Open Philanthropy's advice, fiscal year Jul 2022–Jun 2023 (990-PF Part XIV 3a; payment in that year, not the grant total) source
Jun 2023Center for Applied Rationality$500kLightcone project and team — paid by Good Ventures Foundation on Open Philanthropy's advice, fiscal year Jul 2022–Jun 2023 (990-PF Part XIV 3a; payment in that year, not the grant total) source
Jun 2023Stanford University$500kAI alignment research pipeline for young researchers — paid by Good Ventures Foundation on Open Philanthropy's advice, fiscal year Jul 2022–Jun 2023 (990-PF Part XIV 3a; payment in that year, not the grant total) source
Jun 2023Cornell University$395kProject on improving AI systems' responses — paid by Good Ventures Foundation on Open Philanthropy's advice, fiscal year Jul 2022–Jun 2023 (990-PF Part XIV 3a; payment in that year, not the grant total) source
Jun 2023University of Illinois Foundation$375kBenchmarks for language tasks — paid by Good Ventures Foundation on Open Philanthropy's advice, fiscal year Jul 2022–Jun 2023 (990-PF Part XIV 3a; payment in that year, not the grant total) source
Jun 2023Northeastern University$356kInitiative for the interpretable control of AI — paid by Good Ventures Foundation on Open Philanthropy's advice, fiscal year Jul 2022–Jun 2023 (990-PF Part XIV 3a; payment in that year, not the grant total) source
Jun 2023Stanford University$300kGenerative models of neural network representations — paid by Good Ventures Foundation on Open Philanthropy's advice, fiscal year Jul 2022–Jun 2023 (990-PF Part XIV 3a; payment in that year, not the grant total) source
Jun 2023Technion Israel Institute of Technology$260kInterpretability of large transformer language models — paid by Good Ventures Foundation on Open Philanthropy's advice, fiscal year Jul 2022–Jun 2023 (990-PF Part XIV 3a; payment in that year, not the grant total) source
Jun 2023Modulo Research$257kSharing research findings and advancing safe and beneficial AI — paid by Good Ventures Foundation on Open Philanthropy's advice, fiscal year Jul 2022–Jun 2023 (990-PF Part XIV 3a; payment in that year, not the grant total) source
Jun 2023Federation of American Scientists$204kFellowship aligned with long-term societal impacts of AI and biosecurity — paid by Good Ventures Foundation on Open Philanthropy's advice, fiscal year Jul 2022–Jun 2023 (990-PF Part XIV 3a; payment in that year, not the grant total) source
Jun 2023Federation of American Scientists$204kFellowship aligned with long-term societal impacts of AI and biosecurity (second line of the same amount on the filing) — paid by Good Ventures Foundation on Open Philanthropy's advice, fiscal year Jul 2022–Jun 2023 (990-PF Part XIV 3a; payment in that year, not the grant total) source
Jun 2023Forecasting Research Institute$150kProject on forecasts related to AI — paid by Good Ventures Foundation on Open Philanthropy's advice, fiscal year Jul 2022–Jun 2023 (990-PF Part XIV 3a; payment in that year, not the grant total) source
Jun 2023Concordia University$102kAdversarial attacks on interpretability in deep learning — paid by Good Ventures Foundation on Open Philanthropy's advice, fiscal year Jul 2022–Jun 2023 (990-PF Part XIV 3a; payment in that year, not the grant total) source
Jun 2023Players Philanthropy Fund$100kDevelopment of a database on AI incidents (fiscally sponsored project) — paid by Good Ventures Foundation on Open Philanthropy's advice, fiscal year Jul 2022–Jun 2023 (990-PF Part XIV 3a; payment in that year, not the grant total) source
Jun 2023Brookings Institution$92kFellowships for artificial intelligence experts — paid by Good Ventures Foundation on Open Philanthropy's advice, fiscal year Jul 2022–Jun 2023 (990-PF Part XIV 3a; payment in that year, not the grant total) source
Jun 2023Rethink Charity$45kAlignment theory research — paid by Good Ventures Foundation on Open Philanthropy's advice, fiscal year Jul 2022–Jun 2023 (990-PF Part XIV 3a; payment in that year, not the grant total) source
Jun 2023Center for Democracy and Technology$27kFellowship related to AI risks — paid by Good Ventures Foundation on Open Philanthropy's advice, fiscal year Jul 2022–Jun 2023 (990-PF Part XIV 3a; payment in that year, not the grant total) source
Jun 2023Carnegie Endowment for International Peace$26kTech policy fellowships related to AI policy — paid by Good Ventures Foundation on Open Philanthropy's advice, fiscal year Jul 2022–Jun 2023 (990-PF Part XIV 3a; payment in that year, not the grant total) source
Jun 2023Center for Applied Rationality$11kFellowship program on AI safety — paid by Good Ventures Foundation on Open Philanthropy's advice, fiscal year Jul 2022–Jun 2023 (990-PF Part XIV 3a; payment in that year, not the grant total) source
2023Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative$405kAI safety community-building work — paid by Open Philanthropy Action Fund (501(c)(4), now Coefficient Giving Action Fund), tax year Jan–Dec 2023 (Form 990 Schedule I, as reproduced on Kindora's funder page, listed there under 2024; payment in that year, not the grant total) [amou source
2023Federation of American Scientists$400kPolicy change addressing challenges with AI advancements — paid by Open Philanthropy Action Fund (501(c)(4), now Coefficient Giving Action Fund), tax year Jan–Dec 2023 (Form 990 Schedule I, as reproduced on Kindora's funder page, listed there under 2024; payment in that year, not source
2023IFP Action$342kAI policy — paid by Open Philanthropy Action Fund (501(c)(4), now Coefficient Giving Action Fund), tax year Jan–Dec 2023 (Form 990 Schedule I, as reproduced on Kindora's funder page, listed there under 2024; payment in that year, not the grant total) source
2022 14 grants · $10M
DateRecipientAmountPurpose
Jun 2022Massachusetts Institute of Technology$1MDeception and truthfulness in language models — paid by Good Ventures Foundation on Open Philanthropy's advice, fiscal year Jul 2021–Jun 2022 (990-PF Part XIV 3a; payment in that year, not the grant total) source
Jun 2022University of Massachusetts Amherst$822kImproving AI translation of novels — paid by Good Ventures Foundation on Open Philanthropy's advice, fiscal year Jul 2021–Jun 2022 (990-PF Part XIV 3a; payment in that year, not the grant total) source
Jun 2022UC Berkeley$800kTruthfulness problems in language models — paid by Good Ventures Foundation on Open Philanthropy's advice, fiscal year Jul 2021–Jun 2022 (990-PF Part XIV 3a; payment in that year, not the grant total) source
Jun 2022University of Chicago$749kCounterfactual feedback for AI systems — paid by Good Ventures Foundation on Open Philanthropy's advice, fiscal year Jul 2021–Jun 2022 (990-PF Part XIV 3a; payment in that year, not the grant total) source
Jun 2022University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill$650kAI language generation project — paid by Good Ventures Foundation on Open Philanthropy's advice, fiscal year Jul 2021–Jun 2022 (990-PF Part XIV 3a; payment in that year, not the grant total) source
Jun 2022Columbia University$603kAI language generation project — paid by Good Ventures Foundation on Open Philanthropy's advice, fiscal year Jul 2021–Jun 2022 (990-PF Part XIV 3a; payment in that year, not the grant total) source
Jun 2022Cornell University$603kProject on improving AI systems' responses — paid by Good Ventures Foundation on Open Philanthropy's advice, fiscal year Jul 2021–Jun 2022 (990-PF Part XIV 3a; payment in that year, not the grant total) source
Jun 2022AI Squared$500kBelief and reasoning dataset testing language-model consistency — paid by Good Ventures Foundation on Open Philanthropy's advice, fiscal year Jul 2021–Jun 2022 (990-PF Part XIV 3a; payment in that year, not the grant total) source
Jun 2022Stanford University$500kAI alignment research pipeline for young researchers — paid by Good Ventures Foundation on Open Philanthropy's advice, fiscal year Jul 2021–Jun 2022 (990-PF Part XIV 3a; payment in that year, not the grant total) source
Jun 2022Georgia Tech Research Corporation$458kDemocratizing reinforcement learning via non-expert feedback — paid by Good Ventures Foundation on Open Philanthropy's advice, fiscal year Jul 2021–Jun 2022 (990-PF Part XIV 3a; payment in that year, not the grant total) source
Jun 2022University of Texas at Austin$433kFeedback to question-answering models — paid by Good Ventures Foundation on Open Philanthropy's advice, fiscal year Jul 2021–Jun 2022 (990-PF Part XIV 3a; payment in that year, not the grant total) source
Jun 2022Princeton University$258kState-of-the-art computer vision models — paid by Good Ventures Foundation on Open Philanthropy's advice, fiscal year Jul 2021–Jun 2022 (990-PF Part XIV 3a; payment in that year, not the grant total) source
Jun 2022Center for Democracy and Technology$55kFellowship on AI risks — paid by Good Ventures Foundation on Open Philanthropy's advice, fiscal year Jul 2021–Jun 2022 (990-PF Part XIV 3a; payment in that year, not the grant total) source
Jan 2022Open Philanthropy Technology Policy Fellowship$2.9M2022 Cohort source
2021 3 grants · $769k
DateRecipientAmountPurpose
Aug 2021Shibani Santurkar$162kAdversarial Robustness Research (Shibani Santurkar) source
Jun 2021Center for Applied Rationality$460kLessWrong project and team — paid by Good Ventures Foundation on Open Philanthropy's advice, fiscal year Jul 2020–Jun 2021 (990-PF Part XV 3a; payment in that year, not the grant total) source
Mar 2021Hypermind$147kAI Forecasting (Contract) source
2017 1 grant · $65k
DateRecipientAmountPurpose
Nov 2017Individual #4707$65kGrant to perform a research and analysis project, "Eliciting Evaluations of Existential Risk from Infectious Disease."