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Funder·Founded 2026
“Find, evaluate, and fund AI safety work, without rebuilding the map yourself.”In its own words: grantmaking.ai
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A non-profit platform listing AI safety organisations, projects and funds with community evaluation signals to help donors coordinate. Its $1M kickoff grant round (2026) has been fully distributed; projects can still list funding asks.

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An AI safety funding platform: a public database of projects seeking money, with reviewer endorsements and community signals on top. Its $1M launch round took short applications, ran them through an AI filter, and then had named reviewers recommend amounts.

Says it gives about $1M a year (2026)

Typical grant $30k

On applying “Expect a short application, a fast turnaround, and a real human reading what you wrote.” grantmaking.ai

Itemised here $949k in 32 grants

Led by Matt Brooks (Project lead)Its grants page ↗Checked 29 Oct 2026

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How to apply

Applications
Open
Who can apply
Individuals, New organisations, Organisations
Decision time
No round running: listings go live at once and donors fund directly

List a project at app.grantmaking.ai/list (work whose main purpose is reducing catastrophic or existential risk from advanced AI). Listings go live immediately and stay up for 30 days; there is no round or deadline. The $1M kickoff round is fully distributed and no new round has been announced.

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32 grants totalling $949k, newest first. Recipients link to their own pages; people who received grants without a public profile are shown by number.

2026 32 grants · $949k
DateRecipientAmountPurpose
7 Sep 2026Individual #6552$30kDistinguishing progress in data and algorithms
1 Sep 2026Faithful Preference Learning: Cognitively-Aligned Post-Training$35kFaithful Preference Learning : Cognitively-Aligned Post-Training source
24 Aug 2026Individual #2553$20kPreserving the Human Veto
20 Aug 2026Individual #8681$50kSurrogate base model for Mechanistic Interpretability
17 Aug 2026Sentient Futures$20kSentient Futures Project Incubator source
17 Aug 2026Individual #1021$10kA Mechanistic Analysis of Activation Verbalizers: Promise and Risks
14 Aug 2026ILINA Program$40kILINA Junior Research Fellowship source
13 Aug 2026Individual #1609$12kPrediction of Inoculation Prompt Side Effects
12 Aug 2026Georgia Tech Research Corporation$50kSafeguarding DNA Synthesis from Biological Risks Posed by Advanced AI source
10 Aug 2026Individual #2515$22kFormally verified autoresearch for theoretical mech interp
5 Aug 2026Individual #4622$15kFormalizing mathematical AI safety research in Lean
4 Aug 2026Individual #3972$38kBioRAG-Guard: Poisoning Evals for Biological AI Agents
3 Aug 2026Individual #8637$50kThe AI Safety Stack
3 Aug 2026Individual #7902$12kBelief state geometry of language model personas
2 Aug 2026Individual #4816$50kGetting Split-Personality Training ready for deployment
31 Jul 2026Individual #6330$10kAI safety for builders hackathon / fellowship
30 Jul 2026Individual #8227$20kFOIs about AI Existential and Catastrophic Risks
30 Jul 2026Individual #5640$10kEvaluating the Tacit Coordination Capacity and Decision Theory of LMs
29 Jul 2026BAISH$27kHelp the Argentinian AI Safety Community Grow source
28 Jul 2026Humans in Control$25kLaunching Humans in Control's Student Program source
28 Jul 2026Individual #5561$25kUS Policy Communication Playbook for an AI Crisis
27 Jul 2026Individual #7882$25kUsing deals to find misalignment in current AI models
21 Jul 2026lucas.irwin$50kToken taxes as a mechanism for reducing AI-driven power concentration. source
20 Jul 2026Individual #1186$50kPostdoc on verification protocols for frontier AI training
20 Jul 2026Sergey$33kEmpirical econ - applied AI transition for quantitative econometrician source
20 Jul 2026Individual #1124$25kWhat Factors Influence Chain-of-Thought Faithfulness?
17 Jul 2026Individual #1557$40kOriginality, Quantification, and Decomposition of Generalization.
Jul 2026Individual #86435$50kDNA-synthesis customer screening (grantmaking.ai launch round results page)
Jul 2026Individual #2188$50kSeparatrix (grantmaking.ai launch round results page)
Jul 2026Individual #6552$30kHardware-sensor workload classification (grantmaking.ai launch round results page)
Jul 2026Individual #2537$20kChina AI registry monitor (grantmaking.ai launch round results page)
Jul 2026Individual #3037 (PauseAI Australia)$5kPauseAI Australia to PauseCon (grantmaking.ai launch round results page) source