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Its Manifund page does not describe an application or decision process.","strategyQuote":"the fund is structured to be fast and capture emerging opportunities in the rapidly changing landscape, including in governance, technical alignment, and evaluations / audit","summary":"Pooled multi-donor AI safety fund managed by JueYan Zhang, set up in September 2023 to make fast grants on emerging opportunities; it grants via Manifund and has backed the UK Alignment Project.","uncertain":"Quote exceeds 15 words (18); trim if needed. Manager name from input description; profile is JueYan's. Launch year unknown (activity from 2+ years ago). Fundraising figures differ: Schmidt Sciences bio says raised >$10M, disbursed >$7M; Manifund profile says raised >$30mm and >150 grants (newer)."},"rated":true,"referral":"Post the project on Manifund: AISTOF funds projects there through its own Manifund account. 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It is 70% that and 30% how many recipients the money effectively reaches (1 = 0, 1,000 = 10). Money passed to a regrantor counts at the regrantor’s own grant sizes. Counted grants since 2022; inputs are in the Grant data tab.\n\nCalculated (Oct 2026): a typical dollar goes out in a $750k grant (5.3/10); it reaches about 19 recipients effectively (4.3/10). 28 counted grants since 2022, $17.0M in all; Trace. 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Named recipients 100%, per-grant write-ups 100%, open process 0. Reporting to its own donors: no outside donors (0), Schmidt Sciences programme funded by Eric and Wendy Schmidt; no outside donors. Every fellow is named, but award amounts are Trace’s estimates. 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Trace weights senior fellows ~3.5x early-career, giving ~$1.3M per senior and ~$370k per early-career fellow (6×1.3M + 22×370k ≈ $15.9M). Since $16M is a cap ('up to'), the cohort may receive less in total, and any one fellow may get more or less than this share.","url":"https://www.schmidtsciences.org/ai2050-fellows-2026-announcement/","total":16000000,"count":28},"founded":"2022","giving":{"amount":18000000,"basis":"Announcement of $18M to researchers (Nov 5, 2025); a separate $10M for AI safety research was announced Feb 2025","url":"https://ai2050.schmidtsciences.org/","year":"2025"},"grantSize":{"basis":"10th percentile, median and 90th percentile of 27 counted grants dated 2024–26, our data (aisafety.fund grant rows, 29 Oct)","high":1200000,"kind":"grant","low":290000,"method":"computed","typical":370000},"homepage":"https://ai2050.schmidtsciences.org/","legalForm":"Initiative of Schmidt Sciences, LLC (501(c)(3) nonprofit LLC, subsidiary of The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fund for Strategic Innovation)","legalName":"Schmidt Sciences, LLC","location":"New York, United States","parentOrg":"Schmidt Sciences","people":[{"name":"Eric Schmidt","role":"Co-chair"},{"name":"James Manyika","role":"Co-chair"}],"quote":"Exceptional people working on the key opportunities and hardest problems that are critical to get right for society to benefit from AI.","quoteUrl":"https://ai2050.schmidtsciences.org/","registration":{"id":"46-3460261","register":"IRS EIN of parent, The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fund for Strategic Innovation (stated on Schmidt Sciences FAQ)","url":"https://www.schmidtsciences.org/faq"},"socials":{"linkedin":"https://www.linkedin.com/company/schmidt-sciences/"},"sources":{"aiSafetyShare":"https://ai2050.schmidtsciences.org/","applications":"https://ai2050.schmidtsciences.org/about/","founded":"https://www.schmidtsciences.org/ai2050-fellows-2026-announcement/","giving":"https://ai2050.schmidtsciences.org/","homepage":"https://ai2050.schmidtsciences.org/","legalForm":"https://www.schmidtsciences.org/faq","legalName":"https://www.schmidtsciences.org/faq","location":"https://www.schmidtsciences.org/2025-ai2050-fellows-announcement/","parentOrg":"https://ai2050.schmidtsciences.org/","people":"https://ai2050.schmidtsciences.org/","quote":"https://ai2050.schmidtsciences.org/","registration":"https://www.schmidtsciences.org/faq","socials":"https://ai2050.schmidtsciences.org/","strategy":"https://ai2050.schmidtsciences.org/about/","strategyQuote":"https://ai2050.schmidtsciences.org/about/","summary":"https://ai2050.schmidtsciences.org/ https://ai2050.schmidtsciences.org/hard-problems/"},"status":"active","strategy":"Schmidt Sciences' initiative funding senior and early-career fellows working on hard problems in making AI benefit society. 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Splitting it with senior fellows at 3.5x gives {each} per early-career fellow (7×1.4M + 21×400k = $18.2M).","url":"https://www.schmidtsciences.org/2025-ai2050-fellows-announcement/","count":21},"r2":{"why":"Schmidt Sciences [says the 2025 cohort of 28](https://www.schmidtsciences.org/2025-ai2050-fellows-announcement/) (7 senior, 21 early-career) is eligible for more than $18M. Splitting it with senior fellows at 3.5x gives {each} per senior fellow (7×1.4M + 21×400k = $18.2M).","url":"https://www.schmidtsciences.org/2025-ai2050-fellows-announcement/","count":7},"r3":{"why":"Schmidt Sciences [announced up to $12M for the 2024 cohort](https://www.schmidtsciences.org/schmidt-sciences-to-award-12-million-to-advance-research-on-beneficial-ai-2/) of 25 (5 senior, 20 early-career). Splitting it with senior fellows at 4x gives {each} per senior fellow (5×1.2M + 20×300k = $12M). 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Applicant organisations need an annual budget of at least $2M.","edit":"toggle","focus":["technical"],"fundUrl":"","grantsUrl":"https://metr.org/blog/2024-10-09-new-support-through-the-audacious-project","history":[{"at":"2026-10-30","by":"auto","from":6.5,"k":"Transparency","to":9,"why":"Recalculated from grant data"},{"at":"2026-10-30","by":"auto","from":9,"k":"Transparency","to":6.5,"why":"Recalculated from grant data"},{"at":"2026-10-30","by":"auto","from":6.5,"k":"Transparency","to":9,"why":"Recalculated from grant data"},{"at":"2026-10-31","by":"auto","from":9,"k":"Transparency","to":10,"why":"Recalculated from grant data"},{"at":"2026-11-03","by":"auto","from":5,"k":"Efficiency","to":0.8,"why":"Recalculated from grant data"},{"at":"2026-11-03","by":"auto","from":5,"k":"Taste","to":3,"why":"Recalculated from grant data"}],"logo":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/45d96402095e303aff6805dcb2196de1.png","nextRound":"Ideas reviewed on a rolling basis; cohorts announced yearly","odds":"low","order":110,"profile":{"applications":{"nextRound":"Ideas survey reviewed on a rolling basis; no submission deadline since June 15, 2025; 2025 cohort already selected","status":"invitation-only","url":"https://audaciousproject.org/apply"},"checked":"2026-10-29","estBasisRows":{"d0e40ed1":"r1"},"founded":"2018","homepage":"https://www.audaciousproject.org/","howToApply":"Share an idea through the open ideas survey at https://www.audaciousproject.org/apply (reviewed on a rolling basis; no deadline since 15 June 2025; not every submission gets a reply). 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The page's FAQ says late proposals would be considered into Aug/Sep 2025.","strategy":"Open Philanthropy's 2025 RFP for technical AI safety research across 21 areas, aimed at work on LLMs or insights that transfer to them. Applicants sent a 300-word expression of interest, which was reviewed on a rolling basis; those invited submitted full proposals, with small grants sometimes decided after a short call and larger ones discussed further.","strategyQuote":"We want the bar to be low for submitting expressions of interest: even if you're unsure whether your project fits perfectly, we encourage you to submit an EOI.","summary":"Open Philanthropy (now Coefficient Giving) request for proposals that planned to spend about $40M on technical AI safety research across 21 research areas. Applications closed on 15 April 2025.","uncertain":"Founded year is inferred from the 2025 deadline; the page gives no exact launch date. The page also contradicts itself on the July 15 revise-and-resubmit deadline. founded: announcement posted 6 Feb 2025. 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Without the negative weight on T4 it would be 0.35; T4 money: OpenAI $30.0M, Epoch AI $16.8M, Kairos $2.6M and others.","unit":"","xr":{"Adjacent":312780466,"T1":275733125,"T2":285398102,"T3":324693005,"T4":72626178,"score":0.296,"total":1278983634,"untiered":7752759}},{"high":7.1,"label":"Speed","low":2.7,"median":5,"note":"","unit":""},{"high":8.5,"label":"Reliability","low":3.8,"median":5.4,"note":"","unit":""},{"high":7.7,"label":"Communication","low":3.5,"median":5.5,"note":"","unit":""},{"high":3,"label":"Efficiency","low":2,"median":2.5,"note":"Efficiency is mostly the size of grant a typical dollar goes out in: smaller grants score higher, on a log scale from $30k (10) to $30M (0). Large funders score low by design, because this is per dollar, not per grant. It is 70% that and 30% how many recipients the money effectively reaches (1 = 0, 1,000 = 10). Money passed to a regrantor counts at the regrantor’s own grant sizes. 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It covers technical AI safety, AI governance and policy, capacity building in the field, and projects for short AI timelines.","uncertain":"The quote is a verbatim fragment, not a full sentence. status: fund page lists funding opportunities and '440+ grants made' but is undated. founded: not stated; the page only says its AI strategy has evolved since 2015.","unverified":[{"field":"status","note":"not stated on the cited page at the 29 Oct second check"}]},"rated":true,"role":"source","shortName":"NTAI","size":{"max":5156281,"min":70000,"note":"Coefficient Giving's 2024–26 grants (most AI safety grants run through this fund): 10th percentile $70k, median $484k, 90th percentile $5.2M, from 415 counted grants in our data."},"slider":{"high":3,"label":"Risk tolerance","left":"Cautious / Intrusive","low":0,"median":1.4,"note":"","right":"Risk tolerant / Empowering"},"slug":"coefficient-giving-navigating-transformative-ai","theme":"auto","title":"Navigating Transformative AI","url":"https://coefficientgiving.org/funds/navigating-transformative-ai/"},"china-government":{"applications":"","applyUrl":"","axes":[{"high":10,"label":"Taste","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Speed","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Reliability","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Communication","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Volume","low":1,"median":5,"note":"Unknown: no public figure for Chinese government spending on AI safety (Oct 2026).","unit":"usd-log"},{"high":10,"label":"Efficiency","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Transparency","low":1,"median":5,"unit":""}],"checked":"2026-10-28","color":"#4f8a5b","deadline":"","description":"Chinese state support for AI safety, which runs through government or government-backed bodies such as Shanghai AI Lab, BAAI and CAICT, where safety is one function inside a broader mission, competing for resources.","edit":"toggle","fundUrl":"","grantsUrl":"","inactive":false,"logo":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/bd0595c61c0505ace70fe7eff4bf1da4.svg","order":1792950000011,"profile":{"checked":"2026-10-29","legalForm":"government (no single agency or budget line)","location":"China","notes":"Not yet checked: NSFC major research plans on next-generation AI (the site refuses automated reading), MOST 'New Generation AI' 2030 projects, and Shanghai and Beijing municipal budgets. 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Renamed from Open Philanthropy to Coefficient Giving on 18 November 2025. It began as GiveWell Labs (2011), was renamed Open Philanthropy Project in 2014, and became independent of GiveWell as an LLC on 1 June 2017.","strategy":"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.","strategyQuote":"we rarely fund unsolicited proposals, and we may not respond to all inquiries.","summary":"Coefficient Giving (Open Philanthropy until November 2025) researches and recommends grants, mainly funded by Good Ventures and a growing set of other donors. 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He helped found and fund FLI and CSER, gives mainly through the Survival and Flourishing Fund, and also makes direct AI-risk grants by his own selection.","uncertain":"homepage kept as given; not checked because robots.txt blocks it."},"rated":false,"referral":"No public application route; introductions usually come through people who already work with his giving or with SFF.","role":"source","slider":{"high":10,"left":"Cautious / Intrusive","low":0,"median":5,"right":"Risk tolerant / Empowering"},"slug":"jaan-tallinn","theme":"auto","title":"Jaan Tallinn","url":"https://jaan.info/philanthropy/"},"jaisi-procurement":{"applicants":["forprofit","org"],"applications":"closed","applyUrl":"https://www.ipa.go.jp/choutatsu/nyusatsu/","axes":[{"high":10,"label":"Taste","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Speed","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Reliability","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Communication","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Volume","low":1,"median":5,"unit":"usd-log"},{"high":10,"label":"Efficiency","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Transparency","low":1,"median":5,"unit":""}],"checked":"2026-10-28","color":"#4f8a5b","description":"IPA hosts the J-AISI secretariat and runs general competitive tenders for AI safety work, e.g. AI safety evaluation technique studies (Jul 2025), AI agent evaluation research (Oct 2025), an AI safety evaluation environment project (Mar 2026) and compute services for building AI safety benchmarks (Jun 2026). The first three are scored on a combined quality-price basis; the compute tender is awarded on lowest price.","edit":"toggle","focus":["technical","governance"],"fundUrl":"","grantsUrl":"","inactive":false,"infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["founded"]},"loc":{"exclude":[],"note":"Requires Japanese unified government bidding qualification (Kanto/Koshinetsu region) and Japanese-language bid documents; effectively Japan-based firms.","only":["other"],"prefer":[]},"logo":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/4cf1a4046edb202a46045a01b75c808b.png","nextRound":"IPA posts new AISI-related tenders irregularly (several per year); watch its procurement page","order":999,"parent":"japan-government","profile":{"checked":"2026-10-29","homepage":"https://www.ipa.go.jp/choutatsu/nyusatsu/2026/index.html","howToApply":"Open competitive tenders listed on the IPA procurement page for the current fiscal year (FY2026: https://www.ipa.go.jp/choutatsu/nyusatsu/2026/index.html); the e-bidding system requires advance registration.","location":"Tokyo, Japan","notes":"This is a procurement channel, not a grant programme; the 'programme' class is acceptable. The 7 Oct 2025 tender 「AIエージェントシステムに関する状況および評価方法の調査研究」 is AI-related but has no 'AIセーフティ' in its title. The homepage URL is FY-specific, so later years will need the FY2026 index. Launch year and programme lead not found.","parentOrg":"Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan (IPA)","people":[{"name":"齊藤 裕 (Yutaka Saito)","role":"Chairman, IPA"}],"quote":"ＡＩセーフティ・インスティテュート （ＡＩＳＩ）は、安全・安心で信頼できるＡＩの実現に向けて、ＡＩの安全性に関する評価手法や基準の検討・推進を行うための機関です。","quoteUrl":"https://aisi.go.jp/","sources":{"homepage":"https://www.ipa.go.jp/choutatsu/nyusatsu/2026/index.html","howToApply":"https://www.ipa.go.jp/choutatsu/nyusatsu/2026/index.html","location":"https://www.ipa.go.jp/about/index.html","people":"https://www.ipa.go.jp/about/greeting.html","quote":"https://aisi.go.jp/","summary":"https://www.ipa.go.jp/choutatsu/nyusatsu/2025/index.html"},"status":"active","summary":"General competitive tenders run by Japan's IPA, which hosts the J-AISI secretariat, buying AI safety evaluation research and services from contractors.","uncertain":"The FY2025 tender list never mentions AISI. The AISI link comes from IPA hosting the AISI secretariat (IPA press release of 14 Feb 2024)."},"rated":false,"role":"source","slider":{"high":10,"left":"Cautious / Intrusive","low":0,"median":5,"right":"Risk tolerant / Empowering"},"tags":"Funding","theme":"auto","title":"Japan AISI (IPA) procurement tenders","url":"https://www.ipa.go.jp/choutatsu/nyusatsu/2026/index.html","slug":"japan-aisi-tenders"},"japan-government":{"applications":"","applyUrl":"","axes":[{"high":10,"label":"Taste","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Speed","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Reliability","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Communication","low":1,"median":5},{"high":7.74,"label":"Volume","low":7.18,"median":7.54,"note":"Estimate (Oct 2026): ¥8.8B over 15 months, slow to spend and part passed on; Cabinet Office AISI paper (Apr 2026).","unit":"usd-log"},{"high":10,"label":"Efficiency","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Transparency","low":1,"median":5,"unit":""}],"checked":"2026-10-25","color":"#4f8a5b","deadline":"","description":"Japanese government funding of J-AISI, hosted by IPA under METI: ¥380M in FY2024, then a ¥8.8B FY2025 supplementary budget for Jan 2026–Mar 2027, part passed to AIST for robotics safety R&D. Buys outside work by procurement; no grant programme.","edit":"toggle","fundUrl":"","grantsUrl":"","inactive":false,"logo":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/7d3aafcf1c5e6ba5493d3a8cb2c0c927.svg","order":1792950000001,"profile":{"checked":"2026-10-27","founded":"2024","homepage":"https://aisi.go.jp/","location":"Japan","notes":"Agency: AIセーフティ・インスティテュート (AISI), with its secretariat at IPA. The 14 Feb 2024 IPA press release names Akiko Murakami (村上明子) as director; she is left out of people because this class takes no people. The budget figures in the input (¥380M for FY2024, ¥8.8B FY2025 supplementary, part passed to AIST) were NOT verified, since no budget page was fetched. Lead to check: the METI budget documents. The METI and Cabinet Office relationship is not stated on aisi.go.jp, which lists them only as related ministries.","parentOrg":"Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan (IPA)","people":[{"name":"村上 明子 (Akiko Murakami)","role":"Executive Director, Japan AISI"}],"quote":"安全・安心で信頼できるＡＩの実現に向けて","quoteUrl":"https://aisi.go.jp/","sources":{"founded":"https://www.ipa.go.jp/archive/press/2023/press20240214.html","homepage":"https://aisi.go.jp/","parentOrg":"https://www.ipa.go.jp/archive/press/2023/press20240214.html","people":"https://aisi.go.jp/about/","quote":"https://aisi.go.jp/","summary":"https://www.ipa.go.jp/archive/press/2023/press20240214.html"},"status":"active","summary":"Japanese government funding for the AI Safety Institute (AISI), set up on 14 Feb 2024 with its secretariat inside IPA. AISI studies and promotes AI safety evaluation methods and standards, and buys outside work through IPA tenders rather than giving grants."},"rated":false,"role":"source","shortName":"Japanese government","slider":{"high":10,"left":"Cautious / Intrusive","low":0,"median":5,"right":"Risk tolerant / Empowering"},"theme":"auto","title":"Japanese government","url":"https://aisi.go.jp/"},"juniper-ventures":{"applicants":["forprofit"],"applications":"pitch","axes":[{"high":10,"label":"Taste","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Speed","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Reliability","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Communication","low":1,"median":5},{"high":7.5,"label":"Volume","low":6,"median":6.5,"note":"Estimate (Oct 2026): VC firm investing in AI safety startups; no public annual figure. 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Run by exited founders and backed by Reid Hoffman, Eric Ries, and Geoff Ralston.","edit":"toggle","focus":["compute","technical"],"logo":"https://vfnmdozpctvdobh7.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/airtable/attYuIUOmijHTIUZH.webp","logoAsset":"/_blob/9dacab2dc5e18b9ccbad0964f377f14b.webp","notes":"","order":36,"profile":{"checked":"2026-10-29","homepage":"https://juniper.xyz/","howToApply":"Pitch by email via the site's contact address; no formal call.","moneyFrom":[{"name":"DNV Ventures","note":"$2.5M commitment to Juniper Ventures Fund II (2026)"}],"people":[{"name":"Griff Bohm","role":"Co-founder"}],"quote":"Juniper supports founders making AI secure and beneficial for humanity.","quoteUrl":"https://juniper.xyz/","sources":{"aiSafetyShare":"https://juniper.xyz/","applications":"https://juniper.xyz/","founded":"https://www.dnv.com/news/2026/juniper-fund2/","grantSize":"https://juniper.xyz/","homepage":"https://juniper.xyz/","howToApply":"https://juniper.xyz/","legalForm":"https://www.dnv.com/news/2026/juniper-fund2/","location":"https://www.dnv.com/news/2026/juniper-fund2/","moneyFrom":"https://www.dnv.com/news/2026/juniper-fund2/","people":"https://www.dnv.com/news/2026/juniper-fund2/","quote":"https://juniper.xyz/","status":"https://www.dnv.com/news/2026/juniper-fund2/","strategy":"https://juniper.xyz/","strategyQuote":"https://juniper.xyz/ventures/faq/","summary":"https://juniper.xyz/"},"summary":"San Francisco early-stage VC firm that invests only in AI security and assurance startups, writing $1M–$100M checks; DNV committed $2.5M to its Fund II in 2026.","uncertain":"The site does not give these people's roles, the firm's legal entity or its location. founded=2024 is when its first fund launched (DNV), not a stated founding year.","aiSafetyShare":{"basis":"Homepage states it backs founders making AI secure and beneficial; all listed areas are AI Read from an AI-focused homepage; not a published split.","high":1,"low":1,"method":"published","url":"https://juniper.xyz/","value":1},"applications":{"status":"none","url":"https://juniper.xyz/"},"founded":"2024","grantSize":{"basis":"Equity investment check size, not grants: 'We write checks of $1M to $100M'","high":100000000,"kind":"investment","low":1000000,"method":"published","url":"https://juniper.xyz/"},"legalForm":"Venture capital firm","location":"San Francisco, US","status":"active","strategy":"Venture firm run by exited founders that invests from pre-seed to Series B in startups making AI secure and beneficial (evals, interpretability, guardrails, security, compliance, insurance, policy, hardware, compute); founders reach it by email, no formal application.","strategyQuote":"Founders who make AI secure and beneficial for humanity, building in the assurance layers above.","unverified":[{"field":"founded","note":"not stated on the cited page at the 29 Oct second check"}]},"rated":false,"role":"investor","shortName":"Juniper","size":{"max":100000000,"min":1000000,"note":"Site lists checks of $1M–$100M"},"slider":{"high":10,"left":"Cautious / Intrusive","low":0,"median":5,"right":"Risk tolerant / Empowering"},"subtitle":"","tags":"Funding, Career support","theme":"auto","title":"Juniper Ventures","url":"https://juniper.xyz/","history":[{"at":"2026-10-31","k":"Efficiency","from":6.5,"to":5,"by":"auto","why":"Recalculated from grant data"},{"at":"2026-10-31","k":"Volume","from":5,"to":6.5,"by":"auto","why":"Recalculated from grant data"}]},"korea-government":{"applications":"","applyUrl":"","axes":[{"high":10,"label":"Taste","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Speed","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Reliability","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Communication","low":1,"median":5},{"high":7.08,"label":"Volume","low":6.7,"median":6.85,"note":"Estimate (Oct 2026): 2026 institute line not published; the category grew 65% from 2025.","unit":"usd-log"},{"high":10,"label":"Efficiency","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Transparency","low":1,"median":5,"unit":""}],"checked":"2026-10-25","color":"#4f8a5b","deadline":"","description":"Korean government funding of the Korea AI Safety Institute at ETRI (MSIT): ₩7.21B operating budget in 2025, inside an AI safety and trust budget category of ₩20.1B in 2026 (₩27.4B proposed for 2027). External AI safety R&D runs separately through IITP.","edit":"toggle","fundUrl":"","grantsUrl":"","inactive":false,"logo":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/ab37421fb91a5faa3a0b7d6e1a97ce34.png","order":1792950000005,"profile":{"checked":"2026-10-27","founded":"2024","homepage":"https://www.aisi.re.kr/eng/","location":"Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea","notes":"Agency: Korea AI Safety Institute (AISI). The budget figures in the input (₩7.21B for 2025, ₩20.1B AI safety/trust category in 2026, ₩27.4B proposed for 2027) were NOT verified. Leads for the ETRI hosting and the launch: Korea Times 27 Nov 2024, Daum 23 May 2024 ('Korea to establish AI safety institute at ETRI'), and aisi.re.kr/eng/contents/25 (not fetched).","quote":"Creating a Better Future with Safe and Trustworthy AI","quoteUrl":"https://www.aisi.re.kr/eng/contents/22","sources":{"founded":"https://www.aisi.re.kr/eng/contents/22","homepage":"https://www.aisi.re.kr/eng/","location":"https://www.aisi.re.kr/eng/","quote":"https://www.aisi.re.kr/eng/contents/22","summary":"https://www.aisi.re.kr/eng/contents/22"},"status":"active","summary":"Korean government funding for the Korea AI Safety Institute, established in November 2024, which evaluates and researches AI safety. Its site carries Ministry of Science and ICT and ETRI branding. External AI safety R&D is funded separately through MSIT/IITP calls.","uncertain":"The parent (ETRI under MSIT) appears only as footer logos on the pages I fetched, so parentOrg is left empty."},"rated":false,"role":"source","shortName":"Korean government","slider":{"high":10,"left":"Cautious / Intrusive","low":0,"median":5,"right":"Risk tolerant / Empowering"},"theme":"auto","title":"Korean government","url":"https://www.aisi.re.kr/eng/"},"korea-iitp-ai-safety":{"applicants":["academic","forprofit","org"],"applications":"closed","applyUrl":"https://www.iitp.kr","axes":[{"high":10,"label":"Taste","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Speed","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Reliability","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Communication","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Volume","low":1,"median":5,"unit":"usd-log"},{"high":10,"label":"Efficiency","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Transparency","low":1,"median":5,"unit":""}],"checked":"2026-10-26","color":"#4f8a5b","description":"Korea's science ministry, via IITP, funded a new 2025 project on core AI safety technology addressing risks from highly capable autonomous AI, within its 2025 ICT R&D new-project call.","edit":"toggle","focus":["technical"],"fundUrl":"","grantsUrl":"","inactive":false,"loc":{"exclude":[],"note":"Korean national R&D: lead institutions must be Korea-based; foreign partners usually only as subcontractors.","only":["other"],"prefer":[]},"logo":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/8a823ff29dcb624154ff73c323f604e2.svg","nextRound":"Large 8-year 'AI Safety and Trust Technology Development' programme (~300bn KRW) in planning, starting 2027/28","order":999,"parent":"korea-government","profile":{"applications":{"nextRound":"Annual ICT R&D calls (2025 first call announced January)","status":"closed","url":"https://research.uos.ac.kr/node/7208"},"checked":"2026-10-29","founded":"2025","homepage":"https://research.uos.ac.kr/node/7208","location":"South Korea","notes":"A better homepage would be an IITP or MSIT page; none was fetched. howToApply eligibility comes from the input loc note, not from a fetched page. Not verified: the ~₩300B national AI safety/trust R&D programme in pre-planning, and the Korea AISI MoUs with OpenAI and Anthropic. The '99억' figure is ₩9.9B; the fetch tool mistranslated it as 99 billion. Programme lead not found.","parentOrg":"Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) via IITP","people":[{"name":"송상훈 (Song Sang-hoon)","role":"MSIT Director-General for ICT Policy (quoted in release)"}],"sources":{"applications":"https://research.uos.ac.kr/node/7208","founded":"https://research.uos.ac.kr/node/7208","homepage":"https://research.uos.ac.kr/node/7208","parentOrg":"https://research.uos.ac.kr/node/7208","people":"https://research.uos.ac.kr/node/7208","strategy":"https://research.uos.ac.kr/node/7208","strategyQuote":"https://research.uos.ac.kr/node/7208","summary":"https://research.uos.ac.kr/node/7208"},"strategy":"MSIT funds ICT R&D through annual calls that IITP runs and evaluates (2025 first call announced January, review February–April); the 2025 batch included a new project on core AI safety technology to mitigate existential and latent risks from highly capable autonomous AI.","summary":"R&D funding from Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT through IITP, including a new 2025 project on AI safety technology for trustworthy AI (budget 7.95bn KRW).","uncertain":"The homepage is a university repost of MSIT's 28 Apr 2025 press release on the first batch of 2025 ICT R&D new projects (₩164.35B batch; ₩1.3156T total 2025 ICT R&D). 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Large funders score low by design, because this is per dollar, not per grant. It is 70% that and 30% how many recipients the money effectively reaches (1 = 0, 1,000 = 10). Money passed to a regrantor counts at the regrantor’s own grant sizes. Counted grants since 2022; inputs are in the Grant data tab.\n\nCalculated (Oct 2026): a typical dollar goes out in a $113k grant (8.1/10); it reaches about 28 recipients effectively (4.8/10). 101 counted grants since 2022, $6.0M in all; Trace (Jaan Tallinn's donation records); SFF 2023 H2 recommendations table. Includes $70k passed to EA Funds · Long-Term Future Fund, counted at their grant sizes. Program ran 2023–24 only, so these grants fall mostly before the 2024–26 window other funders use. Rows marked estimate are SFF-listed recommendations with no payment found; they are not counted.","unit":""},{"high":10,"label":"Volume","low":1,"median":5,"note":"","unit":"usd-log"},{"high":10,"label":"Transparency","low":7,"median":7,"note":"Scale: 1 + 6 × dollar coverage (share of 2024–26 giving itemised publicly with recipient and amount) + named recipients (0–1) + per-grant write-ups (0–1) + open applications/evaluations (0–1) + reporting to its own donors (0–3; up to 3 more on the range’s top end when that isn’t confirmed), capped at 10. Inputs are in the Transparency tab.\n\nCalculated (Nov 2026): $7.2M of an estimated $9.6M ($6.7M–$9.6M) given in 2024–26 is itemised publicly (75% dollar coverage; 134 grants in the Grant data tab; estimated amounts count a quarter and anonymised ones half; total from SFF 2023 H2 recommendations ($9.62M recommended by Lightspeed); Trace/jaan.online ($6.72M paid by Jaan Tallinn)). Named recipients 100%, per-grant write-ups 0%, open process 0.5. Reporting to its own donors: none found (0), One-off 2023 round, mostly funded by Jaan Tallinn; its recommendations appear only in SFF's public 2023 table. No donor-specific reporting described (counts only beyond the public record since 7 Nov 2026, Q64); the top of the range allows +3 for reporting the public can’t see. Lightspeed never published its own grantee list or write-ups. All 95 recommendations ($9.62M, named, with amounts) appear in SFF's 2023 H2 table, and Jaan Tallinn's $6.72M of payments are itemised on his donations page (via Trace). Covers the whole program (2023–24), not 2024–26.","unit":""}],"color":"#4f8a5b","description":"Lightcone Infrastructure's one-off 2023 grant round for reducing existential risk, including from AI, with Jaan Tallinn as primary funder. Offered a 14-day venture-grant fast track. Advertised as $5M; about $10M was distributed. 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All of it was Tranche 2, listed as 'recommended, remaining to be distributed', so payment is unconfirmed. Lightspeed published no list of its own."},"estBasisRows":{"2d91e242":"r2","7a42d8ab":"r4","87f784f4":"r5","8c2e0ada":"r3","a8ea801f":"r1"},"estReasons":{"r1":{"url":"https://survivalandflourishing.fund/2023/h2/recommendations","why":"[SFF's table](https://survivalandflourishing.fund/2023/h2/recommendations) marks this ¶: a $275,000 SFF Speculation Grant replaced the Lightspeed Tranche 2 amount. Tranche 1 was $0, so none of the $76,000 was meant to be paid via Lightspeed."},"r2":{"url":"https://survivalandflourishing.fund/2023/h2/recommendations","why":"[SFF's table](https://survivalandflourishing.fund/2023/h2/recommendations) marks this ¶: an $885,000 SFF Speculation Grant replaced the Lightspeed Tranche 2 amount. Tranche 1 was $0, so none of the $297,818 was meant to be paid via Lightspeed."},"r3":{"url":"https://survivalandflourishing.fund/2023/h2/recommendations","why":"[SFF's table](https://survivalandflourishing.fund/2023/h2/recommendations) marks this ¶: a $600,000 Speculation Grant (via SFC) replaced the Lightspeed Tranche 2 amount. 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Registration step not applicable.","parentOrg":"Lightcone Infrastructure","people":[{"name":"Oliver Habryka","role":"Launched the round (launch post author); CEO of Lightcone Infrastructure"}],"quote":"We are looking for projects that have a chance of substantially changing humanity's future trajectory for the better.","quoteUrl":"https://lightspeedgrants.org/","registration":{"id":"EIN 92-0861538 (Lightcone Infrastructure Inc.)","register":"IRS 501(c)(3) (via Charity Navigator)","url":"https://charitynavigator.org/ein/920861538"},"sources":{"aiSafetyShare":"https://lightspeedgrants.org/","applications":"https://lightspeedgrants.org/","founded":"https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xQ4ajnzavSgbYiko2/launching-lightspeed-grants-apply-by-july-6th","giving":"https://lightspeedgrants.org/","homepage":"https://lightspeedgrants.org/","legalName":"https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xQ4ajnzavSgbYiko2/launching-lightspeed-grants-apply-by-july-6th","location":"https://charitynavigator.org/ein/920861538","moneyFrom":"https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xQ4ajnzavSgbYiko2/launching-lightspeed-grants-apply-by-july-6th","moneyFrom_note":"https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9iDw6ugMPk7pmXuyW","parentOrg":"https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xQ4ajnzavSgbYiko2/launching-lightspeed-grants-apply-by-july-6th","people":"https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xQ4ajnzavSgbYiko2/launching-lightspeed-grants-apply-by-july-6th","quote":"https://lightspeedgrants.org/","registration":"https://www.lightconeinfrastructure.com/","status":"https://lightspeedgrants.org/","strategy":"https://lightspeedgrants.org/","strategyQuote":"https://lightspeedgrants.org/","summary":"https://lightspeedgrants.org/ https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xQ4ajnzavSgbYiko2/launching-lightspeed-grants-apply-by-july-6th https://ea.greaterwrong.com/posts/z2jQtK3dzbRFajCDy/jj-hepburn-s-shortform/comment/kGJuPsAicMLe3nkGS"},"status":"closed","statusNote":"One-off 2023 round; applications closed 6 July 2023.","strategy":"A one-off 2023 grant round for projects that could improve humanity's long-term trajectory, with AI existential risk listed first among its priority areas (also biorisk, decision-maker reasoning and crucial considerations). Evaluators estimated each project's value at different funding levels, and funders reviewed that reasoning and set their own allocations.","strategyQuote":"Funders can adjust how much money they want to distribute after seeing everyone's evaluations","summary":"Lightcone Infrastructure's one-off 2023 grant round for projects reducing existential risk, including from AI, open to individuals, nonprofits and projects without a charitable sponsor, with Jaan Tallinn as primary funder. Applications closed in July 2023.","uncertain":"The site's figure of $9.62M actually recommended was not confirmed by any fetched page. 'Inactive' is inferred: the round closed and no later round was found."},"rated":false,"role":"pool","shortName":"Lightspeed","slider":{"high":10,"left":"Cautious / Intrusive","low":0,"median":5,"right":"Risk tolerant / Empowering"},"subtitle":"","tags":"Funding","theme":"auto","title":"Lightspeed Grants","url":"https://lightspeedgrants.org/, https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xQ4ajnzavSgbYiko2/launching-lightspeed-grants-apply-by-july-6th"},"lionheart-ventures":{"applicants":["forprofit"],"applications":"pitch","axes":[{"high":10,"label":"Taste","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Speed","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Reliability","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Communication","low":1,"median":5},{"high":7.7,"label":"Volume","low":6.2,"median":7,"note":"Estimate (Oct 2026): VC firm; no public annual deployment figure. 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Leads: Crunchbase, SEC Form D filings.","people":[{"name":"David Langer","role":"Founder & Managing Partner"}],"quote":"a venture capital firm focused on the wise development of transformative technologies","quoteUrl":"https://www.lionheart.vc/","registration":{"id":"SEC CIK 0001888021 (Fund I); CIK 0002061656 (Fund II-A)","register":"SEC EDGAR (Form D)","url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1888021/000188802123000001/0001888021-23-000001-index.html"},"socials":{"linkedin":"https://www.linkedin.com/company/lionheartvc/"},"sources":{"homepage":"https://www.lionheart.vc/","legalForm":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1888021/000188802123000001/primary_doc.xml","legalName":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1888021/000188802123000001/primary_doc.xml","location":"https://www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk/life-here/internships/lionheart-ventures","people":"https://www.lionheart.vc/team/","quote":"https://www.lionheart.vc/","registration":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1888021/000188802123000001/0001888021-23-000001-index.html","socials":"https://www.lionheart.vc/","status":"https://www.lionheart.vc/","strategy":"https://www.lionheart.vc/methodology","strategyQuote":"https://www.lionheart.vc/","summary":"https://www.lionheart.vc/"},"status":"active","strategy":"A venture firm investing in AI and frontier mental-health technology companies, with smaller strategic bets such as institutional decision-making and climate risk. Its thesis came from a cause-prioritisation exercise, and it screens for large markets, defensibility, measurable impact at scale, ethical alignment and founder-market fit.","strategyQuote":"We invest in the development of AI technologies which defend and enhance human flourishing, agency, and resilience, to help ensure this transition goes well.","summary":"Venture capital firm investing in AI and frontier mental-health companies (portfolio includes Anthropic and Gray Swan).","uncertain":"Location comes from a third-party page (St Anne's College, Oxford internship page) that calls the firm 'Silicon Valley-based'; the firm's own site doesn't state a city. Fund I raised $21.4M from 61 investors by Apr 2023 (SEC Form D): capital raised, not grants."},"rated":false,"role":"investor","shortName":"Lionheart","slider":{"high":10,"left":"Cautious / Intrusive","low":0,"median":5,"right":"Risk tolerant / Empowering"},"subtitle":"","tags":"Funding","theme":"auto","title":"Lionheart Ventures","url":"https://www.lionheart.vc/","history":[{"at":"2026-10-31","k":"Efficiency","from":7,"to":5,"by":"auto","why":"Recalculated from grant data"},{"at":"2026-10-31","k":"Volume","from":5,"to":7,"by":"auto","why":"Recalculated from grant data"}]},"long-term-future-fund":{"applications":"closed","applyUrl":"","axes":[{"high":5.1,"label":"Taste","low":2.9,"median":3.9,"note":"Scale: 10 × the dollar-weighted tier weight of the funder’s counted grants (all years, programmes included): T1 1, T2 0.5, T3 0.1, Adjacent 0, T4 −1; clamped to 0–10. Untiered money counts as Adjacent. Range: ±1 for judgement in the tiers; the top end also counts untiered money as T2. This is the view of people most concerned about takeover by unaligned superintelligence; see About the ratings.\n\nCalculated (Nov 2026): of $24.7M counted in 513 grants: T1 25% · T2 22% · T3 37% · Adjacent 12% · T4 <1% · untiered 4%. Average weight 0.39. Without the negative weight on T4 it would be 0.40; T4 money: Individual #1522 $42k, Individual #9486 $22k, Dioptra (informal research group working on evals) $12k and others.","unit":"","xr":{"Adjacent":2845699,"T1":6167918,"T2":5504402,"T3":9144641,"T4":133767,"score":0.393,"total":24675892,"untiered":879465}},{"high":10,"label":"Speed","low":1,"median":5,"note":"","unit":""},{"high":8.1,"label":"Reliability","low":1.8,"median":4.8,"note":"","unit":""},{"high":7.9,"label":"Communication","low":3.2,"median":5.6,"note":"","unit":""},{"high":8.4,"label":"Efficiency","low":7.8,"median":8.1,"note":"Efficiency is mostly the size of grant a typical dollar goes out in: smaller grants score higher, on a log scale from $30k (10) to $30M (0). Large funders score low by design, because this is per dollar, not per grant. It is 70% that and 30% how many recipients the money effectively reaches (1 = 0, 1,000 = 10). Money passed to a regrantor counts at the regrantor’s own grant sizes. Counted grants since 2022; inputs are in the Grant data tab.\n\nCalculated (Nov 2026): a typical dollar goes out in a $79k grant (8.6/10); it reaches about 120 recipients effectively (6.9/10). 404 counted grants since 2022, $18.6M in all; Trace. Your previous rating was 6.","unit":""},{"high":7,"label":"Volume","low":5.5,"median":6.5,"note":"Estimate (Oct 2026): ~$31.5M over 715 grants, 2017–26 (Trace). Roughly $5–6M/yr through 2024, falling to ~$1–1.5M/yr in 2025–26 before closing.","unit":"usd-log"},{"high":10,"label":"Transparency","low":9.5,"median":9.5,"note":"Scale: 1 + 6 × dollar coverage (share of 2024–26 giving itemised publicly with recipient and amount) + named recipients (0–1) + per-grant write-ups (0–1) + open applications/evaluations (0–1) + reporting to its own donors (0–3; up to 3 more on the range’s top end when that isn’t confirmed), capped at 10. Inputs are in the Transparency tab.\n\nCalculated (Nov 2026): $39.1M given in 2024–26 is itemised publicly, more than the estimated $8.1M ($7.0M–$11.5M) total we use for it, so dollar coverage counts as 100% (the total is likely an underestimate; 925 grants in the Grant data tab; estimated amounts count a quarter and anonymised ones half; total from EA Funds payout data: ~$5.4M in 2024 (McAleese; ~$4M AI-specific), $1.16M across 20 grants in 2025, $1.52M across 18 grants in 2026 before closing in Aug 2026. 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OpenBook's $21.9K was a rounded figure."},"r2":{"url":"https://funds.effectivealtruism.org/grants?fund=Long-Term%2520Future%2520Fund","why":"EA Funds' grants database gives this 2022 Q1 LTFF grant as $348,773. OpenBook's $349K was a rounded figure."}},"giving":{"amount":5363105,"basis":"USD 5,363,105 paid out across 141 grants, May 2023 to March 2024 payout report (about 11 months; $6,290,550 recommended)","url":"https://funds.effectivealtruism.org/payouts/may-2023-to-march-2024-long-term-future-fund-grant-recommendations","year":2024},"grantSize":{"basis":"10th percentile, median and 90th percentile of 131 counted grants dated 2024–26, our data (aisafety.fund grant rows, 29 Oct)","high":90000,"kind":"grant","low":6000,"method":"computed","typical":36000},"homepage":"https://funds.effectivealtruism.org/funds/far-future","howToApply":"No longer takes applications or donations; the page points to the Transformative AI Fund (https://funds.effectivealtruism.org/funds/transformative-ai).","location":"Remote","notes":"Leads, not verified: launched in 2017 (the site footer says 'EA Funds 2017-2026', but that refers to EA Funds, not this fund) and closed in 2026 per the existing description. The legacy page names no fund managers. On the successor Transformative AI Fund page, Lowe Lundin is Head of Fund, with Caleb Parikh and Catherine Low as advisors; those names belong in the successor's infobox, not this one. That page also links a Forum post explaining the closure, which was not fetched.","parentOrg":"EA Funds","people":[{"name":"Asya Bergal","role":"Chair, Feb 2021 - Aug 2023 (former)"}],"quote":"EA Funds has chosen to close down the Long-Term Future Fund and launch the Transformative AI Fund in its stead.","quoteUrl":"https://funds.effectivealtruism.org/funds/far-future","sources":{"applications":"https://funds.effectivealtruism.org/funds/far-future","homepage":"https://funds.effectivealtruism.org/funds/far-future","howToApply":"https://funds.effectivealtruism.org/funds/far-future","location":"https://funds.effectivealtruism.org/funds/far-future","people":"https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/9vazTE4nTCEivYSC6/reflections-on-my-time-on-the-long-term-future-fund","quote":"https://funds.effectivealtruism.org/funds/far-future","status":"https://funds.effectivealtruism.org/funds/far-future","statusNote":"https://funds.effectivealtruism.org/funds/transformative-ai","strategy":"https://funds.effectivealtruism.org/payouts/may-2023-to-march-2024-long-term-future-fund-grant-recommendations","strategyQuote":"https://funds.effectivealtruism.org/payouts/may-2023-to-march-2024-long-term-future-fund-grant-recommendations","summary":"https://funds.effectivealtruism.org/funds/far-future https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/aBkALPSXBRjnjWLnP/announcing-the-q1-2025-long-term-future-fund-grant-round"},"status":"closed","statusNote":"Closed by EA Funds, which launched the Transformative AI Fund in its place (https://funds.effectivealtruism.org/funds/transformative-ai).","strategy":"EA Funds' fund for reducing existential risk, mostly from AI. A team of fund managers voted on applications from individuals and small projects. It has now closed and been replaced by the Transformative AI Fund.","summary":"A former EA Funds fund that made grants to reduce existential risk, especially from AI. EA Funds has closed it and launched the Transformative AI Fund in its place.","uncertain":"Neither fetched page gives the launch year or the closing date."},"rated":true,"role":"pool","shortName":"LTFF","slider":{"high":9.5,"label":"Risk tolerance","left":"Cautious / Intrusive","low":5.7,"median":7.8,"note":"","right":"Risk tolerant / Empowering"},"tags":"Funding","theme":"auto","title":"Long-Term Future Fund","url":"https://funds.effectivealtruism.org/funds/far-future"},"longview-digital-minds-fund":{"applicants":["academic","individual","newOrg","org"],"applications":"closed","applyUrl":"","axes":[{"high":10,"label":"Taste","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Speed","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Reliability","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Communication","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Volume","low":1,"median":5,"unit":"usd-log"},{"high":10,"label":"Efficiency","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Transparency","low":1,"median":5,"unit":""}],"checked":"2026-10-28","color":"#4f8a5b","description":"Longview fund for work on the welfare and moral status of digital minds.","edit":"toggle","focus":["digitalminds","fieldbuilding"],"fundUrl":"","grantsUrl":"","inactive":false,"logo":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/95bfbd23bfe40b05e7c678b831907322.svg","order":131,"parent":"longview-philanthropy","profile":{"checked":"2026-10-29","howToApply":"Periodic open requests for proposals; the 2026 round closed 24 July 2026 and no new round is announced. The RFP page on longview.org now returns 404; the round was announced at https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/ToC8jpgdwFJGtfw7C/new-round-of-digital-minds-funding-opportunities-at-longview","notes":"The given website (longview.org root) is too generic, so homepage is left empty. The best candidate is the RFP page https://www.longview.org/request-for-proposals-research-and-applied-work-on-digital-minds/, but fetching it failed (client_error). that is unverified, so people is left empty. The post mentions a previous year's round, which suggests the programme started around 2025 (unverified). A search result (mediarightsagenda.org) mentions a 'Consortium for Digital Minds' in connection with the RFP; this is a lead only.","parentOrg":"Longview Philanthropy","sources":{"applications":"https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/ToC8jpgdwFJGtfw7C/new-round-of-digital-minds-funding-opportunities-at-longview","howToApply":"https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/ToC8jpgdwFJGtfw7C/new-round-of-digital-minds-funding-opportunities-at-longview","parentOrg":"https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/ToC8jpgdwFJGtfw7C/new-round-of-digital-minds-funding-opportunities-at-longview","strategy":"https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/ToC8jpgdwFJGtfw7C/new-round-of-digital-minds-funding-opportunities-at-longview","summary":"https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/ToC8jpgdwFJGtfw7C/new-round-of-digital-minds-funding-opportunities-at-longview"},"status":"active","summary":"Longview Philanthropy's grantmaking on the welfare and moral status of digital minds, run through requests for proposals for research and applied work. 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Not fetched: the Forum post on ECF absorbing funding (forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/ZuRmENHzmivjxNafG).","parentOrg":"Longview Philanthropy","people":[{"name":"Simran Dhaliwal","role":"Fund manager (Longview CEO)"},{"name":"Carl Robichaud","role":"Fund manager (Nuclear Weapons Policy Programme Director)"}],"quote":"The Emerging Challenges Fund supports organizations that address global catastrophic risks from emerging technologies.","quoteUrl":"https://www.longview.org/fund/emerging-challenges-fund/","sources":{"applications":"https://www.longview.org/fund/emerging-challenges-fund/","founded":"https://www.longview.org/fund/emerging-challenges-fund/","homepage":"https://www.longview.org/fund/emerging-challenges-fund/","howToApply":"https://www.longview.org/fund/emerging-challenges-fund/","moneyFrom":"https://www.longview.org/fund/emerging-challenges-fund/","people":"https://www.longview.org/fund/emerging-challenges-fund/","quote":"https://www.longview.org/fund/emerging-challenges-fund/","status":"https://www.longview.org/fund/emerging-challenges-fund/","strategy":"https://www.longview.org/fund/emerging-challenges-fund/","strategyQuote":"https://www.longview.org/fund/emerging-challenges-fund/","summary":"https://www.longview.org/fund/emerging-challenges-fund/"},"status":"inactive","statusNote":"Closing: no new donations; gifts reaching Giving What We Can by 30 Sep 2026 go into a final grant round, with a final report planned for later in 2026.","summary":"A public Longview Philanthropy fund, launched in August 2022, for organisations working on global catastrophic risks from emerging technologies, including AI. 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The US entity's registered address is Claymont, DE (registered agent); its operating offices are DC, SF and London. The UK company was incorporated on 26 Oct 2022, but the organisation says it was founded in 2018."},"rated":true,"referral":"It accepts no unsolicited requests. Watch for its periodic RFPs (e.g. those co-run with Macroscopic). Otherwise get on its radar through grantees, co-funders or its donors' networks. info@longview.org is for donors and collaborators only.","role":"advisor","shortName":"Longview","size":{"max":2000000,"min":100000,"note":"The 2026 power-concentration RFP expected typical grants of $100K-$2M/yr over 6-18 months; career funding was a stipend for about 3 months, sometimes 6-12."},"slider":{"high":2,"label":"Risk tolerance","left":"Cautious / Intrusive","low":0,"median":1,"note":"","right":"Risk tolerant / Empowering"},"subtitle":"","tags":"Funding","theme":"auto","title":"Longview Philanthropy","url":"https://www.longview.org/"},"macarthur-foundation":{"applicants":["org"],"applications":"invite","applyUrl":"","axes":[{"high":10,"label":"Taste","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Speed","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Reliability","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Communication","low":1,"median":5},{"label":"Volume","note":"","unit":"usd-log","low":1,"median":5,"high":10},{"label":"Efficiency","note":"","unit":"","low":1,"median":5,"high":10},{"label":"Transparency","note":"","unit":"","low":1,"median":5,"high":10}],"checked":"2026-10-26","color":"#4f8a5b","description":"Chicago foundation (climate, criminal justice, local news) with some AI governance and accountability grantmaking; minimal AI safety.","edit":"toggle","focus":["governance"],"fundUrl":"","grantsUrl":"","inactive":false,"logo":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/ae7dd0b5c1a203b53dce791a881aa9d3.jpg","odds":"low","order":153,"profile":{"applications":{"status":"invitation-only","url":"https://www.macfound.org/about/frequently-asked-questions"},"assets":{"amount":9311570852,"basis":"Total assets, Form 990-PF for FY ending Dec 2024","url":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/237093598","year":2024},"checked":"2026-10-29","founded":"1978 (the Foundation's documents were completed 18 October 1970; grantmaking began after John D. MacArthur's death in 1978, and the FAQ says 'since our founding in 1978')","giving":{"amount":561600000,"basis":"Grants and impact investments paid in 2025, excluding mission-related investments, per foundation financials page ($360.4M in 2024)","url":"https://www.macfound.org/about/financials/","year":2025},"homepage":"https://www.macfound.org/","howToApply":"Many MacArthur grantmaking areas do not accept unsolicited proposals; read the grantmaking guidelines (https://www.macfound.org/grants/info-for-grantseekers) to check eligibility before applying. It also has an idea-submission portal (https://macfound.fluxx.io/user_sessions/new).","legalForm":"US 501(c)(3) private foundation","legalName":"John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation","location":"Chicago, USA","notes":"Founded year not stated on the fetched pages: the financials page says '47-year history' and its table starts in 1978; the IRS ruling year is 1971. Lead: confirm the founding year from the history page. The funding-FAQ page refused access via robots.txt, and /about/people returned 404. No AI-specific grants page was fetched; 'minimal AI safety' rests on the site's existing description. No WebSearch used.","people":[{"name":"John G. Palfrey","role":"President"},{"name":"Martha L. Minow","role":"Board Chair"}],"quote":"AI Opportunity will focus on the intersection of AI, the economy, and the workforce—with a focus on young people in Chicago; community-centered AI development and use; and nonprofit AI applications.","quoteUrl":"https://www.macfound.org/programs/bigbets/ai-opportunity/","registration":{"id":"EIN 23-7093598","register":"IRS (via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer)","url":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/237093598"},"socials":{"linkedin":"https://www.linkedin.com/company/macarthur-foundation/","x":"https://x.com/macfound"},"sources":{"applications":"https://www.macfound.org/about/frequently-asked-questions","assets":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/237093598","founded":"https://www.macfound.org/about/frequently-asked-questions","giving":"https://www.macfound.org/about/financials/","homepage":"https://www.macfound.org/about","howToApply":"https://www.macfound.org/about/frequently-asked-questions","legalForm":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/237093598","legalName":"https://www.macfound.org/about","location":"https://www.macfound.org/about","people":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/237093598","quote":"https://www.macfound.org/programs/bigbets/ai-opportunity/","registration":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/237093598","socials":"https://www.macfound.org/about","strategy":"https://www.macfound.org/about/frequently-asked-questions","strategyQuote":"https://www.macfound.org/about/frequently-asked-questions","summary":"https://www.macfound.org/programs/field-support/technology-public-interest/ https://www.macfound.org/about"},"strategy":"A large private foundation that grants mainly through staff-designed programme strategies, built with outside experts and reviewed over time. Many programme areas do not accept unsolicited proposals. Its AI work is the 'AI Opportunity' Big Bet.","strategyQuote":"Many areas of MacArthur grantmaking do not accept unsolicited proposals.","summary":"Chicago-based foundation that funds climate, criminal justice, local news and other areas. Its AI grantmaking includes an AI Opportunity big bet and the Technology in the Public Interest programme, which supports AI governance, evaluation, auditing and accountability work.","uncertain":"People come from the FY2024 Form 990-PF officer list and may have changed since. The 990-PF figure for charitable disbursements in 2024 is $423.8M, which differs from the $360.4M on the financials page because the two count different things.","status":"active"},"rated":false,"referral":"AI Opportunity is not taking unsolicited proposals; the foundation sources grantees itself and through the Humanity AI coalition.","role":"source","shortName":"MacArthur","slider":{"high":10,"left":"Cautious / Intrusive","low":0,"median":5,"right":"Risk tolerant / Empowering"},"subtitle":"","tags":"Advocacy, Governance, Funding","theme":"auto","title":"MacArthur Foundation","url":"https://www.macfound.org/"},"macroscopic-ventures":{"applicants":["org","newOrg","academic","individual"],"applications":"invite","axes":[{"high":10,"label":"Taste","low":8,"median":9,"note":"Scale: 10 × the dollar-weighted tier weight of the funder’s counted grants (all years, programmes included): T1 1, T2 0.5, T3 0.1, Adjacent 0, T4 −1; clamped to 0–10. Untiered money counts as Adjacent. Range: ±1 for judgement in the tiers; the top end also counts untiered money as T2. This is the view of people most concerned about takeover by unaligned superintelligence; see About the ratings.\n\nCalculated (Nov 2026): of $10.0M counted in 6 grants: T1 90% · Adjacent 10%. Average weight 0.90.","unit":"","xr":{"Adjacent":1000000,"T1":9000000,"T2":0,"T3":0,"T4":0,"score":0.9,"total":10000000,"untiered":0}},{"high":10,"label":"Speed","low":1,"median":5,"note":"","unit":""},{"high":10,"label":"Reliability","low":1,"median":5,"note":"","unit":""},{"high":10,"label":"Communication","low":1,"median":5,"note":"","unit":""},{"high":5.5,"label":"Efficiency","low":4.9,"median":5.2,"note":"Efficiency is mostly the size of grant a typical dollar goes out in: smaller grants score higher, on a log scale from $30k (10) to $30M (0). Large funders score low by design, because this is per dollar, not per grant. It is 70% that and 30% how many recipients the money effectively reaches (1 = 0, 1,000 = 10). Money passed to a regrantor counts at the regrantor’s own grant sizes. Counted grants since 2022; inputs are in the Grant data tab.\n\nCalculated (Nov 2026): a typical dollar goes out in a $446k grant (6.1/10); it reaches about 8 recipients effectively (3.0/10). 6 counted grants since 2022, $10.0M in all. Includes $6.0M passed to Cooperative AI Foundation, counted at their grant sizes.","unit":""},{"high":8.5,"label":"Volume","low":7.7,"median":8.3,"note":"Estimate (Oct 2026): ~$30M in 2025; plans up to $100M in 2026.","unit":"usd-log"},{"high":6.9,"label":"Transparency","low":3,"median":3.3,"note":"Scale: 1 + 6 × dollar coverage (share of 2024–26 giving itemised publicly with recipient and amount) + named recipients (0–1) + per-grant write-ups (0–1) + open applications/evaluations (0–1) + reporting to its own donors (0–3; up to 3 more on the range’s top end when that isn’t confirmed), capped at 10. Inputs are in the Transparency tab.\n\nCalculated (Nov 2026): $12.3M of an estimated $80.0M ($50.0M–$130.0M) given in 2024–26 is itemised publicly (15% dollar coverage; 9 grants in the Grant data tab; estimated amounts count a quarter and anonymised ones half; total from ~$10M (2024) and ~$30M (2025) in grants (EA Forum topic page); 'up to $100m' planned for 2026 (macroscopic.org/grants). All focus areas, not only AI; excludes investments. Its $15M CAIF commitment is also counted under the Cooperative AI Foundation.). Named recipients 40%, per-grant write-ups 100%, open process 0. Reporting to its own donors: none found (0), Lists past grants and investments, but no information found on its funders or any reporting to them; the top of the range allows +3 for reporting the public can’t see. Names ~19 grantees, amounts for two. Previous estimate: 4 (3.5–5).","unit":""}],"checked":"2026-10-28","color":"#4f8a5b","description":"Swiss nonprofit making grants and impact investments, including in AI governance and cooperative AI.","edit":"toggle","focus":["cooperation","digitalminds","governance","technical"],"fundUrl":"mailto:info@macroscopic.org","grantsUrl":"https://macroscopic.org/grants, https://trace.manifund.org/orgs/macroscopic","history":[{"at":"2026-10-30","by":"auto","from":8.3,"k":"Efficiency","to":5,"why":"Recalculated from grant data"},{"at":"2026-10-30","by":"auto","from":5,"k":"Volume","to":8.3,"why":"Recalculated from grant data"},{"at":"2026-10-30","by":"auto","from":2.6,"k":"Transparency","to":3.4,"why":"Recalculated from grant data"},{"at":"2026-11-03","by":"auto","from":5,"k":"Efficiency","to":5.6,"why":"Recalculated from grant data"},{"at":"2026-11-03","by":"auto","from":5,"k":"Taste","to":8.8,"why":"Recalculated from grant data"},{"at":"2026-11-04","by":"auto","from":5.6,"k":"Efficiency","to":5.2,"why":"Recalculated from grant data"},{"at":"2026-11-04","by":"auto","from":8.8,"k":"Taste","to":9,"why":"Recalculated from grant data"},{"at":"2026-11-07","by":"auto","from":3.4,"k":"Transparency","to":3.3,"why":"Recalculated from grant data"}],"logo":"https://vfnmdozpctvdobh7.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/airtable/att8ErzSbLdpCwYi5.png","logoAsset":"/_blob/e09768d8b18f17901e27f00b98bb3fca.png","notes":"","order":25,"profile":{"checked":"2026-10-29","estBasis":"Two kinds of estimate: commitments Macroscopic reported only as a total, such as [$15M to set up the Cooperative AI Foundation](https://www.cooperativeai.com/foundation), spread evenly over their years; and yearly 'Unknown Recipients' rows from [Trace](https://trace.manifund.org/orgs/macroscopic) that count 70% of its giving as AI safety (Trace's footnote: 'Split 70% AI safety / 15% animal welfare / 15% other'). Macroscopic publishes no AI share, so those yearly rows are left out of totals.","estBasisRows":{"072f0917":"r5","174efa06":"r5","1c651090":"r5","47b56ea2":"r1","5f24229d":"r4","75e035a7":"r4","7b85bad1":"r2","8cfbc948":"r4","b18df33c":"r4","df021d25":"r4","f12aed9d":"r3"},"estReasons":{"r1":{"url":"https://trace.manifund.org/orgs/macroscopic","why":"Not sourced, so left out of totals. Macroscopic [says only that it plans to give 'up to $100m' this year](https://macroscopic.org/grants) (undated page, read as 2026) across all its focus areas (AI, reason & democracy, animal welfare, new directions) and publishes no AI share. The 70% AI share behind this {total} row is [Trace's assumption ('Split 70% AI safety / 15% animal welfare / 15% other')](https://trace.manifund.org/orgs/macroscopic); Trace states no yearly total, and its 2026 rows only add up to about $70M."},"r2":{"url":"https://manifund.org/ais-funder-bulletin","why":"Not sourced, so left out of totals. Macroscopic gave about $30M in 2025 across all focus areas (EA Forum wiki, [cited by the AI Safety Funder Bulletin](https://manifund.org/ais-funder-bulletin)), but no public source says how much went to AI. Counting 70% as AI safety is Trace's assumption."},"r3":{"url":"https://macroscopic.org/focus-areas","why":"Not sourced, so left out of totals. Macroscopic publishes no split of its roughly $10M 2024 giving between AI and its other focus areas; counting 70% as AI safety is Trace's assumption."},"r4":{"count":5,"total":15000000,"url":"https://www.cooperativeai.com/foundation","why":"Macroscopic (then CERR) [committed $15M to seed the Cooperative AI Foundation](https://www.cooperativeai.com/foundation), announced May 2021. No payment schedule is published, so it is spread evenly over 2021–2025: {each} a year. The 2021–23 shares are counted at the Cooperative AI Foundation, as its own grants."},"r5":{"count":3,"total":3000000,"url":"https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2022/february/expert-in-ethics-and-ai-joins-cmu-faculty-this-fall","why":"[CMU announced FOCAL in February 2022](https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2022/february/expert-in-ethics-and-ai-joins-cmu-faculty-this-fall), 'supported through a $3 million gift from the Center for Emerging Risk Research' (now Macroscopic). No schedule is published; CAIF's companion $500k FOCAL grant runs 2021–2025, so the $3M is spread evenly over 2022–2024: {each} a year."}},"founded":"2019","grantSize":{"basis":"10th percentile, median and 90th percentile of 4 counted grants dated 2024–26, our data (aisafety.fund grant rows, 29 Oct)","high":3000000,"kind":"grant","low":1000000,"method":"computed","typical":2000000},"homepage":"https://macroscopic.org/","howToApply":"Takes unsolicited grant and investment proposals but may not reply to them by default (see About page).","legalForm":"Swiss association (Verein), non-profit","legalName":"Macroscopic Ventures","location":"Basel, Switzerland","notes":"The site does not state where the money comes from, so moneyFrom is empty. It says it is not seeking donations except gifts over $100k. No grant totals are published. Two fetches failed (business-monitor.ch, plus a Zefix-style lookup that was never run). Lead: the official Zefix page for CHE-455.562.321.","people":[{"name":"Ruairí Donnelly","role":"Co-founder, President"},{"name":"Jonas Vollmer","role":"Co-founder, Director"},{"name":"Oscar Delaney","role":"Grants Director, AI Governance"}],"quote":"We support projects and people aiming to build a future guided by reason and compassion for all.","quoteUrl":"https://macroscopic.org/","registration":{"id":"CHE-455.562.321 (register no. 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Most of its funding comes from its own proactive research; it accepts unsolicited proposals but says it may not reply to them by default.","strategyQuote":"We receive far more requests than we have capacity to evaluate, so by default we may not respond to unsolicited proposals.","summary":"Basel-based Swiss nonprofit association, founded in 2019 and formerly called Polaris Ventures, that makes grants and investments. In AI it funds governance work to stop advanced AI being misused, plus research on AI welfare and cooperative AI.","uncertain":"The quote is 15 words; it was cut from a longer heading ('...compassion for all'). Moneyhouse is a third-party mirror of the Swiss commercial register (Zefix), not the official page. the site calls him Strategic Advisor, so he is left out."},"rated":false,"referral":"Grants are mostly sourced proactively. Email info@macroscopic.org with a concise proposal (most get no reply), or get introduced through its grantees or co-funders such as Astralis and Longview. Watch for joint RFPs like middlepowers.ai.","role":"source","shortName":"Macroscopic","size":{"max":15000000,"min":100000,"note":"The bulletin reports grant sizes of $100k to $15m. Its grants page names a $15M commitment to Cooperative AI Foundation and $3M to CMU's Foundations of Cooperative AI Lab."},"slider":{"high":10,"left":"Cautious / Intrusive","low":0,"median":5,"right":"Risk tolerant / Empowering"},"subtitle":"","tags":"Funding","theme":"auto","title":"Macroscopic Ventures","url":"https://macroscopic.org/"},"manifund-falcon-fund":{"applications":"invite","applyUrl":"","axes":[{"high":10,"label":"Taste","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Speed","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Reliability","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Communication","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Volume","low":1,"median":5,"unit":"usd-log"},{"high":10,"label":"Efficiency","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Transparency","low":1,"median":5,"unit":""}],"color":"#4f8a5b","description":"Animal-welfare fund launched on Manifund in April 2026, making rapid, early-stage grants with a particular interest in animals and transformative AI (not an AI safety fund as such).","edit":"toggle","fundUrl":"","grantsUrl":"","inactive":false,"logo":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/8833e7982214a38b7c9440d750639a00.svg","order":142,"parent":"manifund","profile":{"applications":{"decisionTime":"Decision target under 1 week; Manifund wires funds in under 3 days","url":"https://manifund.org/projects/falcon-fund"},"checked":"2026-10-29","founded":"2026","grantSize":{"basis":"The page states rapid early-stage grants of $25k–$150k","high":150000,"kind":"grant","low":25000,"method":"published","url":"https://manifund.org/projects/falcon-fund"},"homepage":"https://manifund.org/projects/falcon-fund","howToApply":"Mostly by invitation: the lead plans to reach out to promising people rather than mainly take inbound applications.","moneyFrom":[{"name":"Individual and organisational donors","note":"Donations via Manifund (Manifold for Charity Inc., 501(c)(3)); $380,032 raised of a $2M goal at fetch time."}],"notes":"The given website (manifund.substack.com post) failed to fetch (client_error), so the homepage was replaced with the Manifund project page. A personal donation email appears on the page and was deliberately omitted. Not fetched: the Forum/LessWrong announcement 'Manifund's Falcon Fund' and the 'Fast grants for AI x animals' post.","parentOrg":"Manifund (Manifold for Charity Inc.)","people":[{"name":"Marcus Abramovitch","role":"Regrantor, fund lead"}],"quote":"We make rapid (<1 week), early-stage ($25k–$150k) grants across animal welfare, with a particular interest in the intersection of animals and transformative AI.","quoteUrl":"https://manifund.org/projects/falcon-fund","sources":{"applications":"https://manifund.org/projects/falcon-fund","founded":"https://manifund.org/projects/falcon-fund","grantSize":"https://manifund.org/projects/falcon-fund","homepage":"https://manifund.org/projects/falcon-fund","howToApply":"https://manifund.org/projects/falcon-fund","moneyFrom":"https://manifund.org/projects/falcon-fund","people":"https://manifund.org/projects/falcon-fund","quote":"https://manifund.org/projects/falcon-fund","status":"https://manifund.org/projects/falcon-fund","strategy":"https://manifund.org/projects/falcon-fund","strategyQuote":"https://manifund.org/projects/falcon-fund","summary":"https://manifund.org/projects/falcon-fund"},"status":"active","strategy":"A Manifund-hosted fund that makes fast early-stage grants in animal welfare, especially where animals meet transformative AI. A single regrantor, Marcus Abramovitch, decides (target under a week), mostly by reaching out to promising people rather than taking inbound applications, and publishes grants in real time.","summary":"A Manifund-hosted rolling fund, created in April 2026 and led by Marcus Abramovitch, that makes rapid early-stage animal-welfare grants with a focus on animals and transformative AI. It is not an AI safety fund as such; Manifund provides operations and fiscal sponsorship for 5% overhead.","uncertain":"The quote is a fragment, not a full sentence, and was taken via a summarising fetch tool. The amount raised is a live figure, captured when the page was fetched in October 2026."},"rated":false,"role":"pool","shortName":"Falcon Fund","slider":{"high":10,"left":"Cautious / Intrusive","low":0,"median":5,"right":"Risk tolerant / Empowering"},"subtitle":"","tags":"Funding","theme":"auto","title":"Falcon Fund","url":"https://manifund.substack.com/p/manifunds-falcon-fund"},"manifund":{"applicants":["individual","newOrg","org"],"applications":"open","applyUrl":"https://manifund.org/create","axes":[{"high":5.4,"label":"Taste","low":3.3,"median":4.3,"note":"Scale: 10 × the dollar-weighted tier weight of the funder’s counted grants (all years, programmes included): T1 1, T2 0.5, T3 0.1, Adjacent 0, T4 −1; clamped to 0–10. Untiered money counts as Adjacent. Range: ±1 for judgement in the tiers; the top end also counts untiered money as T2. This is the view of people most concerned about takeover by unaligned superintelligence; see About the ratings.\n\nCalculated (Nov 2026): of $5.4M counted in 949 grants: T1 31% · T2 23% · T3 30% · Adjacent 13% · T4 2% · untiered 1%. Average weight 0.43. Without the negative weight on T4 it would be 0.45; T4 money: Epoch AI $41k, Individual #3640 $22k, Inspect Evals $20k and others.","unit":"","xr":{"Adjacent":692347,"T1":1686033,"T2":1227169,"T3":1628621,"T4":121213,"score":0.431,"total":5434382,"untiered":79000}},{"high":10,"label":"Speed","low":6.1,"median":8.1,"note":"","unit":""},{"high":10,"label":"Reliability","low":1,"median":5,"note":"","unit":""},{"high":10,"label":"Communication","low":1,"median":5,"note":"","unit":""},{"high":8.7,"label":"Efficiency","low":7.7,"median":8.2,"note":"Efficiency is mostly the size of grant a typical dollar goes out in: smaller grants score higher, on a log scale from $30k (10) to $30M (0). Large funders score low by design, because this is per dollar, not per grant. It is 70% that and 30% how many recipients the money effectively reaches (1 = 0, 1,000 = 10). Money passed to a regrantor counts at the regrantor’s own grant sizes. Counted grants since 2022; inputs are in the Grant data tab.\n\nCalculated (Nov 2026): a typical dollar goes out in a $42k grant (9.5/10); it reaches about 38 recipients effectively (5.3/10). 949 counted grants since 2022, $5.5M in all; Trace. Includes regrants and small crowdfunded donations routed through Manifund. Your rating before this recalculation was 6.6 (5–9.9).","unit":""},{"high":7,"label":"Volume","low":6.7,"median":6.9,"note":"Estimate (Oct 2026): ~$5.9M donated through Manifund in 2025; ~$8.8M projected for 2026.","unit":"usd-log"},{"high":10,"label":"Transparency","low":7.8,"median":8.5,"note":"Scale: 1 + 6 × dollar coverage (share of 2024–26 giving itemised publicly with recipient and amount) + named recipients (0–1) + per-grant write-ups (0–1) + open applications/evaluations (0–1) + reporting to its own donors (0–3; up to 3 more on the range’s top end when that isn’t confirmed), capped at 10. 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It is 70% that and 30% how many recipients the money effectively reaches (1 = 0, 1,000 = 10). Money passed to a regrantor counts at the regrantor’s own grant sizes. Counted grants since 2022; inputs are in the Grant data tab.\n\nCalculated (Oct 2026): a typical dollar goes out in a $903k grant (5.1/10); it reaches about 1 recipients effectively (0.1/10). 2 counted grants since 2022, $1.0M in all; MCF write-ups on the EA Forum. Covers all its grants (EA meta, not only AI safety).","unit":""},{"high":6.2,"label":"Volume","low":5.4,"median":5.8,"note":"Estimate (Oct 2026): Network of donors funding meta charities; rounds of roughly $1–2M. 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Reporting to its own donors: none found (0), Funding circle whose members give their own money; publishes a write-up per round listing each grant, amount and members' notes. No reporting beyond the public write-ups (counts only beyond the public record since 7 Nov 2026, Q64); the top of the range allows +3 for reporting the public can’t see. Rounds without a published write-up are missing from the list. 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The homepage still shows the Fall 2025 round (closed 31 Oct 2025) and announces no 2026 round. No grant size range is stated on the homepage.","notes":"metacharityfunders.com/funding-circle is robots-disallowed and was not retried. No registration exists or none was found (not a legal entity). 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Board chair not found.","people":[{"name":"Nabiha Syed","role":"Executive Director"},{"name":"Mark Surman","role":"President"},{"name":"Nicole Wong","role":"Board Chair"}],"quote":"Make good tech the norm.","quoteUrl":"https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/","registration":{"id":"EIN 20-0097189","register":"IRS (via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer), 501(c)(3)","url":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/200097189"},"sources":{"assets":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/200097189","founded":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Foundation","giving":"https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/","homepage":"https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/","howToApply":"https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/","legalForm":"https://www.mozilla.org/foundation/documents","legalName":"https://www.guidestar.org/profile/20-0097189","location":"https://www.guidestar.org/profile/20-0097189","people":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Foundation","quote":"https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/","registration":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/200097189","status":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/200097189","strategy":"https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/blog/mozillas-ai-funding-principles-open-source-building-blocks-for-philanthropy/","strategyQuote":"https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/","summary":"https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/blog/mozillas-ai-funding-principles-open-source-building-blocks-for-philanthropy/"},"status":"active","strategy":"Gives trustworthy-AI grants, fellowships and awards that shift power to communities building alternatives to centralised AI, guided by its published AI Funding Principles. 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FAQ gives an EIN only for the parent fund: The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fund for Strategic Innovation, EIN 46-3460261 (https://www.schmidtsciences.org/faq); Schmidt Sciences' own EIN not stated, so registration left empty. Launch year, location, programme budget not on fetched pages. Lead: Wikipedia 'Schmidt_Sciences' page (not fetched) for founding year/location. 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Launch date not stated. No suitable verbatim self-description found under 15 words; quote left empty. 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Shares of the prize are decided after the fact by a credit assessment in which prospective winners score each other.","strategyQuote":"The sharing proportions will be decided by an after-the-fact credit assessment.","summary":"A $5M-$20M prize offered by Survival and Flourishing Corp for 'Independently Supervised and Peer-Assisted' (ISPA) inspections, in which an independent auditor enlists one frontier AI lab to help inspect another. Jaan Tallinn funds at least $5M; grant support for inspections can be requested via SFF.","uncertain":"Status 'active' rests on the page offering the prize with no deadline stated; page does not explicitly say open. 'giving' is the prize size range, not money disbursed. 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Grants are typically $10k to $150k and rarely exceed $300k.","uncertain":"Launch year not stated on either fetched page (the announcement mirror had no date)."},"rated":false,"role":"pool","shortName":"TAIF","size":{"max":300000,"min":10000,"note":"Typically $10k–$150k, rarely above $300k"},"slider":{"high":10,"left":"Cautious / Intrusive","low":0,"median":5,"right":"Risk tolerant / Empowering"},"subtitle":"","tags":"Funding","theme":"auto","title":"Transformative AI Fund","url":"https://funds.effectivealtruism.org/funds/transformative-ai"},"uk-aisi-challenge-fund":{"applicants":["academic","org","newOrg"],"applications":"closed","applyUrl":"https://find-government-grants.service.gov.uk/grants/aisi-challenge-fund-1","axes":[{"high":10,"label":"Taste","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Speed","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Reliability","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Communication","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Volume","low":1,"median":5,"unit":"usd-log"},{"high":10,"label":"Efficiency","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Transparency","low":1,"median":5,"unit":""}],"checked":"2026-10-28","color":"#4f8a5b","deadline":"","decisionDays":28,"description":"UK government fund for academic and non-profit research on AI safety and security, with a focus on AISI's priority areas; applications, through a two-stage expression-of-interest and full-application process, are now closed. AISI's Systemic Safety Grants (societal-resilience research) are also closed; their first 20 projects are underway.","edit":"toggle","focus":["governance","technical"],"fundUrl":"","grantsUrl":"https://www.aisi.gov.uk/grants/example-projects","inactive":false,"logo":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/44c4095a5f35a3730ffc43960bcd3b96.png","nextRound":"Not announced","order":1792946548801,"profile":{"checked":"2026-10-29","founded":"2025","giving":{"amount":null,"amountLocal":"GBP 5,000,000","basis":"Total programme budget as announced at launch, in GBP (not converted); awards GBP 50,000-200,000 per project","url":"https://www.freevacy.com/news/uk-government/ai-security-institute-launches-ps5m-funding-programme/6175","year":"2025"},"homepage":"https://www.aisi.gov.uk/grants","howToApply":"Closed: applications are no longer accepted.","legalForm":"UK government grant programme (AISI, a directorate of DSIT)","legalName":"Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (fund delivered by the AI Security Institute)","location":"London, United Kingdom","moneyFrom":[{"name":"UK government (DSIT)","note":"Find a grant: 'an initiative delivered by the AI Security Institute on behalf of DSIT'"}],"notes":"Treated as a government programme (1 fetch). No total fund size published on the page. Location is the UK in general; the page gives no city.","parentOrg":"AI Security Institute (directorate of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)","people":[{"name":"Henry de Zoete OBE","role":"Director, AI Security Institute (parent; no named fund lead)"},{"name":"Ian Hogarth","role":"Chair, AI Security Institute (parent)"}],"quote":"The Challenge Fund supports research to understand and tackle potential risks from advanced AI.","quoteUrl":"https://www.aisi.gov.uk/grants","registration":{"id":"aisi-challenge-fund-1","register":"GOV.UK Find a grant (listing, not a legal register)","url":"https://find-government-grants.service.gov.uk/grants/aisi-challenge-fund-1"},"sources":{"founded":"https://www.aisi.gov.uk/grants","giving":"https://www.freevacy.com/news/uk-government/ai-security-institute-launches-ps5m-funding-programme/6175","homepage":"https://www.aisi.gov.uk/grants","howToApply":"https://www.aisi.gov.uk/grants","legalForm":"https://www.aisi.gov.uk/about","legalName":"https://find-government-grants.service.gov.uk/grants/aisi-challenge-fund-1","location":"https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/037042-2025","moneyFrom":"https://find-government-grants.service.gov.uk/grants/aisi-challenge-fund-1","parentOrg":"https://www.aisi.gov.uk/grants","people":"https://www.aisi.gov.uk/about","quote":"https://www.aisi.gov.uk/grants","registration":"https://find-government-grants.service.gov.uk/grants/aisi-challenge-fund-1","status":"https://www.aisi.gov.uk/grants","summary":"https://www.aisi.gov.uk/grants"},"status":"active","statusNote":"Grants page: 'Applications are now closed.' Opened 5 March 2025.","summary":"A £5M UK government grant fund, run by the AI Security Institute for DSIT, that gave academic and non-profit researchers £50k–£200k per project for AI safety and security research in AISI's priority areas. Applications are now closed.","uncertain":"founded = applications opened 5 March 2025. Per-project cap is GBP 200,000 (no total pot stated). Treated as government class despite input cls org, so no people or registration. No legal register exists for a government fund, so 'registration' points to the Find a grant listing. London comes from the DSIT commercial address on a Find a Tender notice; the AISI About page gives no location. The £5M total comes from trade press (freevacy) and is not stated on the official grant pages.","estReasons":{"r1":{"why":"AISI's Systemic Safety Grants [set aside £4M for about 20 projects of up to £200k each](https://www.techuk.org/resource/uk-launches-200-000-grants-for-systemic-ai-safety-fostering-trust-and-safety.html), so each is counted at about £200k ({each}); Trace's £100k (half the cap) is kept as the low end.","url":"https://www.techuk.org/resource/uk-launches-200-000-grants-for-systemic-ai-safety-fostering-trust-and-safety.html","count":20}},"estBasisRows":{"647fd97f":"r1","bcfaf6b0":"r1","120bb820":"r1","59be6c14":"r1"}},"rated":false,"role":"source","size":{"max":266000,"min":66500,"note":"£50k-£200k per project. Paid monthly in arrears after a June 2025 change."},"slider":{"high":10,"left":"Cautious / Intrusive","low":0,"median":5,"right":"Risk tolerant / Empowering"},"theme":"auto","title":"AISI Challenge Fund (UK AI Security Institute)","url":"https://www.aisi.gov.uk/grants","parent":"uk-government"},"uk-aisi-evals-bounty":{"applicants":["forprofit","individual","newOrg","org"],"applications":"closed","applyUrl":"","axes":[{"high":10,"label":"Taste","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Speed","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Reliability","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Communication","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Volume","low":1,"median":5,"unit":"usd-log"},{"high":10,"label":"Efficiency","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Transparency","low":1,"median":5,"unit":""}],"checked":"2026-10-28","color":"#4f8a5b","description":"AISI offered outside builders bounties for agentic dangerous-capability evaluation tasks and agent scaffolds in Inspect, through a two-stage proposal-then-build process. Payouts depended on development time and success against judging criteria, with IP and payout terms in a separate AISI document.","edit":"toggle","focus":["technical"],"fundUrl":"","grantsUrl":"","inactive":true,"logo":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/44c4095a5f35a3730ffc43960bcd3b96.png","nextRound":"No new round announced; 2024-25 round closed Mar 2025","order":999,"parent":"uk-government","profile":{"checked":"2026-10-29","founded":"2024","homepage":"https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/evals-bounty","notes":"No single lead named; the post lists 9 authors (e.g. 1 fetch used.","parentOrg":"UK AI Security Institute (DSIT)","quote":"We are launching a bounty for novel evaluations and agent scaffolds to help assess dangerous capabilities in frontier AI systems.","quoteUrl":"https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/evals-bounty","sources":{"founded":"https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/evals-bounty","homepage":"https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/evals-bounty","quote":"https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/evals-bounty","status":"https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/evals-bounty","summary":"https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/evals-bounty"},"summary":"A one-off AISI bounty that paid outside developers (typically £3k–£15k per accepted task) to build agentic dangerous-capability evaluation tasks and agent scaffolds in Inspect. Deadlines ran from Dec 2024 to March 2025.","uncertain":"Status inferred from past deadlines; the page doesn't say closed. Amounts are in GBP. Closed status is inferred from past deadlines. The post lists nine authors (Individual #3354, Individual #8196, Sid Black, Oliver Sourbut, Mojmir Stehlik, Individual #5482, Michael Schmatz, Jessica Wang, Individual #4984) without naming a programme lead; only the first-listed author is given.","status":"closed","statusNote":"Inferred: Stage 1 deadline 14 Dec 2024 and final submissions by 15 March 2025. The page does not explicitly say closed."},"rated":false,"role":"source","size":{"max":20000,"min":4000,"note":"£100-200 per dev hour, roughly £3k-15k per accepted task, plus £2k compute at stage 2"},"slider":{"high":10,"left":"Cautious / Intrusive","low":0,"median":5,"right":"Risk tolerant / Empowering"},"tags":"Funding","theme":"auto","title":"UK AISI Evals Bounty","url":"https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/evals-bounty"},"uk-aisi-procurement":{"applicants":["forprofit","org"],"applications":"invite","applyUrl":"https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk","axes":[{"high":10,"label":"Taste","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Speed","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Reliability","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Communication","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Volume","low":1,"median":5,"unit":"usd-log"},{"high":10,"label":"Efficiency","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Transparency","low":1,"median":5,"unit":""}],"checked":"2026-10-28","color":"#4f8a5b","description":"DSIT commercial teams buy research and evaluation services for AISI as call-offs from dynamic purchasing systems such as the Crown Commercial Service AI DPS (RM6200). Recent awards include a £5M research-and-evals partner for cyber and autonomous capabilities and a £2.3M contract to administer a fund that sources external dangerous-capability evaluations.","edit":"toggle","focus":["technical","governance"],"fundUrl":"","grantsUrl":"","inactive":false,"loc":{"exclude":[],"note":"UK public contracts; winners so far are UK-registered entities. Bidding usually requires being on the relevant DPS/framework.","only":[],"prefer":["uk"]},"logo":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/44c4095a5f35a3730ffc43960bcd3b96.png","nextRound":"Ad hoc: call-offs are run through government dynamic purchasing systems and published on Find a Tender / Contracts Finder","order":999,"parent":"uk-government","profile":{"checked":"2026-10-29","founded":"2024","giving":{"amount":"","basis":"Example award: £5,000,000 ex VAT (GBP, not converted) to Rethink Priorities UK, concluded 1 Jul 2025, as an RM6200 AI DPS call-off; not an annual total","url":"https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/037042-2025","year":"2025"},"homepage":"https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/037042-2025","location":"London, United Kingdom","notes":"The notice received 18 tenders (13 from SMEs), and the initial estimated value was £2.5M. The £2.3M fund-administration contract mentioned in the input was not verified (no fetch). The notice's mission quote was omitted because it is over 15 words when complete. 1 fetch used.","parentOrg":"UK AI Security Institute (DSIT); bought via DESNZ & DSIT Group Commercial","sources":{"founded":"https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/001706-2024","giving":"https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/037042-2025","homepage":"https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/037042-2025","location":"https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/037042-2025","parentOrg":"https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/037042-2025","summary":"https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/037042-2025","quote":"https://www.aisi.gov.uk/"},"status":"active","summary":"Contracts that DSIT's commercial teams award to buy research and evaluation services for AISI. Examples are a £235k bio-evals contract with FutureHouse (Jan 2024) and a £5M cyber and autonomy research-and-evals partner contract with Rethink Priorities UK (July 2025).","uncertain":"The homepage is a single award notice, not a programme page. The giving amount is one contract, not an annual total. 'Founded' 2024 is the earliest AISI award notice found (FutureHouse, 18 Jan 2024). Frontier AI Taskforce contracts from 2023 may be earlier.","quote":"We are conducting research and building infrastructure to understand the capabilities and impacts of advanced AI and to develop and test risk mitigations.","quoteUrl":"https://www.aisi.gov.uk/"},"rated":false,"referral":"Get onto the relevant government dynamic purchasing system (DPS): AISI calls off contracts through it and posts notices on Find a Tender and Contracts Finder.","role":"source","size":{"max":6650000,"min":460000,"note":"Examples: a £5M cyber and autonomy evals contract (Jul 2025) and £349k to RAND Europe for CNI monitoring (Dec 2025)."},"slider":{"high":10,"left":"Cautious / Intrusive","low":0,"median":5,"right":"Risk tolerant / Empowering"},"tags":"Funding","theme":"auto","title":"UK AISI research and evaluation contracts","url":"https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/037042-2025","slug":"uk-aisi-contracts"},"uk-government":{"applications":"","applyUrl":"","axes":[{"high":10,"label":"Taste","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Speed","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Reliability","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Communication","low":1,"median":5},{"high":8.16,"label":"Volume","low":7.9,"median":7.97,"note":"Estimate (Oct 2026): 2026 budget ~£70M (£60M FY26-27 base); high end allows for the extra £120M reported 23–24 Oct 2026 with no stated period. DSIT R&D allocations and Main Estimate memo.","unit":"usd-log"},{"high":10,"label":"Efficiency","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Transparency","low":1,"median":5,"unit":""}],"checked":"2026-10-25","color":"#4f8a5b","deadline":"","description":"UK government funding of the AI Security Institute, renamed from the AI Safety Institute in February 2025, which states £66m in funding per financial year. AISI runs its own grant programmes (Alignment Project, Challenge Fund), listed separately.","edit":"toggle","fundUrl":"","grantsUrl":"","inactive":false,"logo":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/2a70bf47ff43f2f072bb67266061658e.svg","order":1792950000000,"profile":{"checked":"2026-10-29","homepage":"https://www.aisi.gov.uk/","howToApply":"Grant programmes listed at https://www.aisi.gov.uk/grants; all three (Alignment Project, Challenge Fund, Systemic Safety Grants) were shown as closed when checked.","location":"London, United Kingdom","notes":"The homepage meta description reads: 'The AI Security Institute is a directorate of the Department of Science, Innovation, and Technology.' The fetched pages don't mention the former name (AI Safety Institute) or the budget figures in the site description (£100M, £66-69M, £60M/yr, £120M), so those remain unverified here. Alignment Project site: https://alignmentproject.aisi.gov.uk/. Example Systemic Safety projects: https://www.aisi.gov.uk/grants/example-projects. No leaders named on the fetched pages, and people are not collected for the government class anyway.","parentOrg":"Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT)","quote":"Our mission is to equip governments with a scientific understanding of the risks posed by advanced AI.","quoteUrl":"https://www.aisi.gov.uk/","sources":{"homepage":"https://www.aisi.gov.uk/","howToApply":"https://www.aisi.gov.uk/grants","legalForm":"https://www.aisi.gov.uk/","location":"https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/037042-2025","parentOrg":"https://www.aisi.gov.uk/","quote":"https://www.aisi.gov.uk/","status":"https://www.aisi.gov.uk/about","summary":"https://www.aisi.gov.uk/grants"},"status":"active","summary":"UK central government funds the AI Security Institute, a research directorate inside DSIT. The About page cites £66m a year, and AISI passes part of it on through grant programmes and contracts.","uncertain":"Location: the fetched pages don't state a city. London is likely but was not verified, so the field says only United Kingdom. London comes from the DSIT commercial address (SW1A) on a Find a Tender notice, not from the AISI site."},"rated":false,"role":"source","shortName":"UK government","slider":{"high":10,"left":"Cautious / Intrusive","low":0,"median":5,"right":"Risk tolerant / Empowering"},"theme":"auto","title":"UK government","url":"https://www.aisi.gov.uk/"},"us-caisi-procurement":{"applicants":["forprofit","org"],"applications":"closed","applyUrl":"https://sam.gov","axes":[{"high":10,"label":"Taste","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Speed","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Reliability","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Communication","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Volume","low":1,"median":5,"unit":"usd-log"},{"high":10,"label":"Efficiency","low":1,"median":5},{"high":10,"label":"Transparency","low":1,"median":5,"unit":""}],"checked":"2026-10-28","color":"#4f8a5b","description":"Contracts let by NIST's Center for Advancing Innovation and Standards for Super Intelligence (CAISSI, formerly CAISI, the Center for AI Standards and Innovation). In October 2025 it chose Signature Science for a basic ordering agreement, with task orders under a $3M ceiling, to develop benchmarks for the chemical and biological capabilities and safety of frontier AI models.","edit":"toggle","focus":["technical"],"fundUrl":"","grantsUrl":"","inactive":false,"infoboxTried":{"date":"2026-10-31","notFound":["people"]},"loc":{"exclude":[],"note":"Federal contracts generally need SAM.gov registration; awards so far went to US firms.","only":["us"],"prefer":[]},"logo":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/314b76da01a4b7877f64ef1ab390d6c0.png","nextRound":"No open CAISSI (formerly CAISI) solicitation found; watch SAM.gov for NIST notices (a model-hosting RFQ was expected in 2026)","order":999,"parent":"us-government","profile":{"checked":"2026-10-27","founded":"2025","homepage":"https://www.nist.gov/caissi","location":"Gaithersburg, MD, United States","notes":"Class check: 'programme' is reasonable as a description of a procurement channel, but this isn't a fund with a lead, so I treated it as a government procurement line and left people empty. Signature Science press release: https://www.signaturescience.com/?p=6069. It says CAISI will 'use the BOA construct to issue and award task orders' and describes human uplift studies and red teaming as Signature Science offerings. Leads not fetched: https://intelligencecommunitynews.com/nist-caisi-awards-signature-science-boa/ and the HigherGov IDV record https://www.highergov.com/idv/70RSAT25G00000003. I didn't check the Feb 2026 sources-sought notice for hosting open-weight models (budget).","parentOrg":"US government (CAISSI at NIST, formerly CAISI)","quote":"The Center for Advancing Innovation and Standards for Super Intelligence (CAISSI) will serve as industry’s primary point of contact within the U.S. government","quoteUrl":"https://www.nist.gov/caisi","sources":{"founded":"https://www.signaturescience.com/?p=6069","homepage":"https://www.nist.gov/caisi","location":"https://www.nist.gov/caisi","quote":"https://www.nist.gov/caisi","summary":"https://www.signaturescience.com/?p=6069"},"status":"active","summary":"CAISSI (formerly CAISI) buys outside AI-safety evaluation work through federal contracting vehicles rather than grants. One example is a Basic Ordering Agreement with Signature Science (press release dated 21 Oct 2025, $3M task-order ceiling) covering chem/bio benchmarks and pre-deployment testing of frontier models.","uncertain":"The 'founded' year is the earliest award date found (the Signature Science BOA, announced 21 Oct 2025), not a formal launch date for the programme. NIST renamed CAISI to CAISSI (Center for Advancing Innovation and Standards for Super Intelligence); nist.gov/caisi redirects to nist.gov/caissi (checked 1 Nov 2026)."},"rated":false,"role":"source","size":{"max":3000000,"min":null,"note":"Chem/bio evals BOA ceiling $3M, spent through task orders"},"slider":{"high":10,"left":"Cautious / Intrusive","low":0,"median":5,"right":"Risk tolerant / Empowering"},"tags":"Funding","theme":"auto","title":"US CAISSI (NIST) contracts and ordering agreements","url":"https://www.nist.gov/caissi","slug":"us-caisi-contracts"},"us-government":{"applications":"","applyUrl":"","axes":[{"high":1.8,"label":"Taste","low":0,"median":0.8,"note":"Scale: 10 × the dollar-weighted tier weight of the funder’s counted grants (all years, programmes included): T1 1, T2 0.5, T3 0.1, Adjacent 0, T4 −1; clamped to 0–10. Untiered money counts as Adjacent. Range: ±1 for judgement in the tiers; the top end also counts untiered money as T2. This is the view of people most concerned about takeover by unaligned superintelligence; see About the ratings.\n\nCalculated (Nov 2026): of $8.2M counted in 13 grants: T3 81% · Adjacent 19%. Average weight 0.08.","unit":"","xr":{"Adjacent":1534556,"T1":0,"T2":0,"T3":6693860,"T4":0,"score":0.081,"total":8228416,"untiered":0}},{"high":10,"label":"Speed","low":1,"median":5,"note":"","unit":""},{"high":10,"label":"Reliability","low":1,"median":5,"note":"","unit":""},{"high":10,"label":"Communication","low":1,"median":5,"note":"","unit":""},{"high":5,"label":"Efficiency","low":4.4,"median":4.7,"note":"Efficiency is mostly the size of grant a typical dollar goes out in: smaller grants score higher, on a log scale from $30k (10) to $30M (0). Large funders score low by design, because this is per dollar, not per grant. It is 70% that and 30% how many recipients the money effectively reaches (1 = 0, 1,000 = 10). Money passed to a regrantor counts at the regrantor’s own grant sizes. Counted grants since 2022; inputs are in the Grant data tab.\n\nCalculated (Nov 2026): a typical dollar goes out in a $708k grant (5.4/10); it reaches about 8 recipients effectively (3.0/10). 13 counted grants since 2022, $8.2M in all.","unit":""},{"high":7.3,"label":"Volume","low":7,"median":7.2,"note":"Estimate (Oct 2026): ~$15M working budget (IFP, FedScoop); FY27 $27M request not yet enacted.","unit":"usd-log"},{"high":10,"label":"Transparency","low":1,"median":5,"note":"","unit":""}],"checked":"2026-10-25","color":"#4f8a5b","deadline":"","description":"NIST's Center for Advancing Innovation and Standards for Super Intelligence (CAISSI; formerly CAISI and, before that, the US AI Safety Institute), a US government centre that makes voluntary agreements with private-sector developers and evaluators and leads unclassified evaluations of super-intelligence capabilities that may pose risks to national security. It has bought outside work through contracts, such as a 2025 basic ordering agreement with Signature Science.","edit":"toggle","fundUrl":"","grantsUrl":"","history":[{"at":"2026-11-02","by":"auto","from":7.2,"k":"Efficiency","to":5,"why":"Recalculated from grant data"},{"at":"2026-11-02","by":"auto","from":5,"k":"Volume","to":7.2,"why":"Recalculated from grant data"},{"at":"2026-11-03","by":"auto","from":7.2,"k":"Efficiency","to":5,"why":"Recalculated from grant data"},{"at":"2026-11-03","by":"auto","from":5,"k":"Volume","to":7.2,"why":"Recalculated from grant data"},{"at":"2026-11-03","by":"auto","from":7.2,"k":"Efficiency","to":4.7,"why":"Recalculated from grant data"},{"at":"2026-11-03","by":"auto","from":5,"k":"Volume","to":7.2,"why":"Recalculated from grant data"},{"at":"2026-11-03","by":"auto","from":5,"k":"Taste","to":0.7,"why":"Recalculated from grant data"},{"at":"2026-11-03","by":"auto","from":0.7,"k":"Taste","to":0.8,"why":"Recalculated from grant data"}],"inactive":false,"logo":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/8e6e8229d9d0dc39f7feb73d1f9f2ef5.svg","order":1792950000002,"profile":{"checked":"2026-10-27","homepage":"https://www.nist.gov/caissi","location":"Gaithersburg, MD, United States","notes":"The fetched page doesn't mention the former name 'US AI Safety Institute' or any budget figures; the $10M/yr appropriation, the $10M loan and the $27M FY27 request in the site description remain unverified here. The 2025 rename from AISI to CAISI appears in search results (https://www.nist.gov/document/nist-announcements-june-2025, cdomagazine, broadbandbreakfast) but I didn't fetch them. No director named on the page. Self-description on the page: 'will serve as industry's primary point of contact within the U.S. government' (that is 13 words, but it isn't a description of funding, so I left it out of quote). Budget spent: 2 fetches (the Puck fetch failed).","parentOrg":"National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), US Department of Commerce","sources":{"homepage":"https://www.nist.gov/caisi","location":"https://www.nist.gov/caisi","parentOrg":"https://www.nist.gov/caisi","summary":"https://www.nist.gov/caisi"},"status":"active","summary":"US federal funding for NIST's AI centre (CAISSI, formerly CAISI and before that the US AI Safety Institute), which evaluates frontier AI for cyber, bio and chemical risks and makes voluntary agreements with developers. It funds outside work through contracts rather than grants.","uncertain":"Name: NIST renamed CAISI to CAISSI (Center for Advancing Innovation and Standards for Super Intelligence); nist.gov/caisi redirects to nist.gov/caissi (checked 1 Nov 2026). Parent: the page doesn't name Commerce, but it is a NIST page with Commerce.gov in the footer."},"rated":false,"role":"source","shortName":"US government","slider":{"high":10,"left":"Cautious / Intrusive","low":0,"median":5,"right":"Risk tolerant / Empowering"},"theme":"auto","title":"US government","url":"https://www.nist.gov/caissi"},"vitalik-buterin":{"applications":"","applyUrl":"","axes":[{"high":10,"label":"Taste","low":9,"median":10,"note":"Scale: 10 × the dollar-weighted tier weight of the funder’s counted grants (all years, programmes included): T1 1, T2 0.5, T3 0.1, Adjacent 0, T4 −1; clamped to 0–10. Untiered money counts as Adjacent. Range: ±1 for judgement in the tiers; the top end also counts untiered money as T2. This is the view of people most concerned about takeover by unaligned superintelligence; see About the ratings.\n\nCalculated (Nov 2026): of $6.1M counted in 3 grants: T1 100% · T2 <1%. Average weight 1.00.","unit":"","xr":{"Adjacent":0,"T1":6116418,"T2":25711,"T3":0,"T4":0,"score":0.998,"total":6142129,"untiered":0}},{"high":10,"label":"Speed","low":1,"median":5,"note":"","unit":""},{"high":10,"label":"Reliability","low":1,"median":5,"note":"","unit":""},{"high":10,"label":"Communication","low":1,"median":5,"note":"","unit":""},{"high":3.7,"label":"Efficiency","low":3.1,"median":3.4,"note":"Efficiency is mostly the size of grant a typical dollar goes out in: smaller grants score higher, on a log scale from $30k (10) to $30M (0). Large funders score low by design, because this is per dollar, not per grant. It is 70% that and 30% how many recipients the money effectively reaches (1 = 0, 1,000 = 10). Money passed to a regrantor counts at the regrantor’s own grant sizes. Counted grants since 2022; inputs are in the Grant data tab.\n\nCalculated (Nov 2026): a typical dollar goes out in a $1,000k grant (4.9/10); it reaches about 1 recipients effectively (0.0/10). 1 counted grant since 2022, $1.0M in all.","unit":""},{"high":7.9,"label":"Volume","low":7,"median":7.5,"note":"Estimate (Oct 2026): Longterm Wiki estimate ~$50M/yr; unverified.","unit":"usd-log"},{"high":10,"label":"Transparency","low":1,"median":5,"note":"","unit":""}],"color":"#4f8a5b","description":"Ethereum co-founder and individual donor to AI safety. In May 2021 he donated $665 million to the Future of Life Institute (Wikipedia); by his own account the gift was SHIB tokens, which FLI sold for roughly $500 million (The Block, March 2026).","donorId":"vitalik-buterin","edit":"toggle","fundUrl":"","grantsUrl":"","history":[{"at":"2026-11-02","by":"auto","from":7.5,"k":"Efficiency","to":5,"why":"Recalculated from grant data"},{"at":"2026-11-02","by":"auto","from":5,"k":"Volume","to":7.5,"why":"Recalculated from grant data"},{"at":"2026-11-03","by":"auto","from":7.5,"k":"Efficiency","to":5,"why":"Recalculated from grant data"},{"at":"2026-11-03","by":"auto","from":5,"k":"Volume","to":7.5,"why":"Recalculated from grant data"},{"at":"2026-11-03","by":"auto","from":7.5,"k":"Efficiency","to":3.4,"why":"Recalculated from grant data"},{"at":"2026-11-03","by":"auto","from":5,"k":"Volume","to":7.5,"why":"Recalculated from grant data"},{"at":"2026-11-03","by":"auto","from":5,"k":"Taste","to":10,"why":"Recalculated from grant data"}],"inactive":false,"kind":"person","logo":"","logoAsset":"/_blob/5831ebd5021abbdaabe2a32c888cc28d.svg","order":151,"profile":{"checked":"2026-10-27","homepage":"https://vitalik.eth.limo/","moneyFrom":[{"name":"Personal crypto holdings","note":"In 2021 he split SHIB tokens he had received between FLI and CryptoRelief (The Block, Mar 2026)"}],"notes":"Giving vehicles found: a direct gift to FLI, plus CryptoRelief for the other part of the SHIB tokens. The Block says he recently put about $40M into his own initiative on open-source security hardware and pandemic detection but doesn't name it. Balvi is a lead but wasn't confirmed on any fetched page. vitalik.eth.limo is his personal blog, not a giving page; relevant posts include 'My response to AI 2027' (2025-07-10), 'd/acc: one year later' (2025-01-05) and several Gitcoin/public-goods funding reviews. Other AI safety gifts (e.g. MIRI) are leads only, not verified.","sources":{"description":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitalik_Buterin https://www.theblock.co/post/393525/vitalik-buterin-questions-political-pivot-by-ai-safety-group-that-cashed-out-roughly-500m-from-his-shib-donation","homepage":"https://vitalik.eth.limo/","moneyFrom":"https://www.theblock.co/post/393525/vitalik-buterin-questions-political-pivot-by-ai-safety-group-that-cashed-out-roughly-500m-from-his-shib-donation","summary":"https://www.theblock.co/post/393525/vitalik-buterin-questions-political-pivot-by-ai-safety-group-that-cashed-out-roughly-500m-from-his-shib-donation","quote":"https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/11/27/techno_optimism.html"},"summary":"Ethereum co-founder and individual donor. In 2021 he gave SHIB tokens to the Future of Life Institute, which reportedly liquidated about $500M of them, far above the $10-25M he expected. In March 2026 he publicly questioned FLI's later pivot toward political action.","uncertain":"The amount: $665M is the stated value of the tokens (Wikipedia); The Block says FLI 'liquidated roughly $500 million'. The gap is most likely the tokens' fall in price before sale, but no source says so outright.","quote":"AI is fundamentally different from other tech, and it is worth being uniquely careful","quoteUrl":"https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/11/27/techno_optimism.html"},"rated":false,"role":"source","shortName":"Vitalik","slider":{"high":10,"left":"Cautious / Intrusive","low":0,"median":5,"right":"Risk tolerant / Empowering"},"subtitle":"","tags":"Funding","theme":"auto","title":"Vitalik Buterin","url":"https://vitalik.eth.limo/"}}