Research university in Stanford, California, founded in 1885; home of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI), which works on AI research, education and policy.
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Received $10M from 6 funders
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Checked 25 Oct 2026
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24 grants totalling $10M, newest first.
2026 4 grants · $3M
| Date | Funder | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 Feb 2026 | The Alignment Project | ~$590k | Alignment Project round 1 (lead: Silverstein, Eva): Precision optimization and symmetry breaking for improving AI predictability. Amount undisclosed; awards £50k–£1M from a £27m pool across 60 announced projects. source |
| 19 Feb 2026 | The Alignment Project | ~$590k | Alignment Project round 1 (lead: Duchi, John): (Mis)aligned preferences: what data is needed for agents to reflect honest human preferences. Amount undisclosed; awards £50k–£1M from a £27m pool across 60 announced projects. source |
| 19 Feb 2026 | The Alignment Project | ~$590k | Alignment Project round 1 (lead: Van Roy, Benjamin): A Mathematical Model of Misalignment. Amount undisclosed; awards £50k–£1M from a £27m pool across 60 announced projects. source |
| 2026 | MacArthur Foundation | $1.2M | Stanford Trustworthy AI Research (STAIR): research, policy, events, education (3 years) — MacArthur (programme not labelled on grantee page; AI Opportunity era), grantee page source |
2025 1 grant · $30k
| Date | Funder | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | MacArthur Foundation | $30k | AI Measurement Convening on gaps between AI performance claims and real-world capabilities (1 year 6 months) — MacArthur Technology in the Public Interest, grantee page source |
2024 3 grants · $772k
| Date | Funder | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 2024 | AI Safety Fund (Frontier Model Forum) | ~$250k | AISF Round 1 (PI Percy Liang): Foundation Model Transparency Index (FMTI). Amount undisclosed (grants were $150k–$400k); share of >$3M across 12 grants. Amount here is an estimate: an equal share of the round's >$3M. source |
| Jul 2024 | Long-Term Future Fund | $22k | 4-month stipend to bring to completion a mechanistic interpretability research project on how neural networks perform co source |
| 2024 | MacArthur Foundation | $500k | Launch STAIR's Evaluation and AI Governance project (public-interest study of generative AI) (2 years) — MacArthur Technology in the Public Interest, grantee page source |
2023 5 grants · $1.9M
| Date | Funder | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 2023 | Navigating Transformative AI | $120k | Stanford University — AI Economic Impacts Workshop — Open Philanthropy recommended a gift of $120,000 to Stanford University to support a workshop on the economic and societal impacts of transformative AI. One of the organizers was the Stanford Digital... [Navigating Transformati source |
| Jun 2023 | Coefficient Giving | $700k | Honesty in language models — paid by Good Ventures Foundation on Open Philanthropy's advice, fiscal year Jul 2022–Jun 2023 (990-PF Part XIV 3a; payment in that year, not the grant total) source |
| Jun 2023 | Coefficient Giving | $500k | AI alignment research pipeline for young researchers — paid by Good Ventures Foundation on Open Philanthropy's advice, fiscal year Jul 2022–Jun 2023 (990-PF Part XIV 3a; payment in that year, not the grant total) source |
| Jun 2023 | Coefficient Giving | $300k | Generative models of neural network representations — paid by Good Ventures Foundation on Open Philanthropy's advice, fiscal year Jul 2022–Jun 2023 (990-PF Part XIV 3a; payment in that year, not the grant total) source |
| Apr 2023 | Navigating Transformative AI | $250k | Stanford University — Language Model Evaluations — Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $250,000 to Stanford University to support Holistic Evaluation of Language Models (HELM), which is a project to evaluate language models using many different... [Navigating Transformative source |
2022 2 grants · $654k
| Date | Funder | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2022 | Navigating Transformative AI | $154k | Grant "to support research on AI alignment by Professor Clark Barrett and Stanford student Individual #1851.". From Vipul Naik's donations database (via OpenBook) source |
| Jun 2022 | Coefficient Giving | $500k | AI alignment research pipeline for young researchers — paid by Good Ventures Foundation on Open Philanthropy's advice, fiscal year Jul 2021–Jun 2022 (990-PF Part XIV 3a; payment in that year, not the grant total) source |
2021 4 grants · $2.2M
| Date | Funder | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 2021 | Navigating Transformative AI | $1.5M | Grant to "support research led by Professor Percy Liang on AI safety and alignment.". From Vipul Naik's donations database (via OpenBook) source |
| Sep 2021 | Navigating Transformative AI | $78k | Grant to "support the AI Index, which collects and reports data related to artificial intelligence, including data relevant to AI safety and AI ethics." The webpage https://aiindex.stanford.edu/ is linked.. From Vipul Naik's donations database (via OpenBook) source |
| Aug 2021 | Navigating Transformative AI | $331k | Grant "to support early-career research by Individual #4108 on adversarial robustness as a means to improve AI safety.". From Vipul Naik's donations database (via OpenBook) source |
| Aug 2021 | Navigating Transformative AI | $331k | Stanford University — Adversarial Robustness Research (Shibani Santurkar) — Grant Investigator: Catherine Olsson This page was reviewed but not written by the grant investigators. Stanford University staff also reviewed this page prior to publication. Open Philanthropy... [Naviga source |
2020 1 grant · $7k
| Date | Funder | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2020 | Navigating Transformative AI | $7k | The grant "is intended to fund the travel costs for experts on AI safety to present at the [AI safety] seminar [led by Dorsa Sadigh].". From Vipul Naik's donations database (via OpenBook) source |
2018 2 grants · $107k
| Date | Funder | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2018 | Navigating Transformative AI | $100k | Grant "to support machine learning security research led by Professor Dan Boneh and his PhD student, Individual #1779.". From Vipul Naik's donations database (via OpenBook) |
| Apr 2018 | Navigating Transformative AI | $7k | Grant to support the Neural Information Processing System (NIPS) workshop “Machine Learning and Computer Security.” at https://nips.cc/Conferences/2017/Schedule?showEvent=8775. From Vipul Naik's donations database (via OpenBook) source |
2017 2 grants · $1.4M
| Date | Funder | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 2017 | Navigating Transformative AI | $1.3M | The grant is intended to fund about 20% of Percy Liang's time as well as about three graduate students. Liang expects to focus on a subset of these topics: robustness against adversarial attacks on ML systems, verification of the.... From Vipul Naik's donations database (via Open source |
| Mar 2017 | Navigating Transformative AI | $25k | Grant "to enable Professor Liang to spend significant time engaging in our process to determine whether to provide his research group with a much larger grant." The larger grant.... From Vipul Naik's donations database (via OpenBook) source |