Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $636,000 over two years to the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change to support a series of AI governance initiatives, led by Jakob Mökander. With the funding, Mökander and his team aim to publish a number of AI governance papers, host roundtables, and prepare policy briefings.
This falls within our focus area of potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $3,000,000 over two years to the Center for Responsible Innovation (CRI) for general support. CRI is a nonprofit focused on AI-related issue promotion, policy research and development, and educational programming.
This falls within our focus area of potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of £686,000 (approximately $866,446 at the time of conversion) to Pivotal Research to support its fellowship programs, which provide guidance for undergraduate and graduate students as they research topics related to global catastrophic risks.
This follows our May 2023 support and falls within our focus area of Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building.
The grant amount was updated in May 2025.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $582,000 to FABRIC for general support.
This follows our February 2024 support and falls within our focus area of Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building. It represents an “exit grant” that will provide FABRIC with approximately one year of operational funding.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $484,000 over two years to Langsikt to support its work on aid policy in Norway. Langsikt is a nonpartisan organization that works at the intersection of research and policy.
This falls within our focus area of global aid policy.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of €786,060 (approximately $828,979 at the time of conversion) over two years to Friedrich Schiller University Jena to support the development of a benchmark assessing whether LLM agents can solve organic structural analysis problems in chemistry. The project will be led by Dr. Kevin Jablonka.
This grant was funded via a request for proposals for projects benchmarking LLM agents on consequential real-world tasks. This falls within our focus area of potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $35,000 to the Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative to support research activities at the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative.
This falls within our focus area of potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $69,900 over two years to Crate Free USA to support its work on corporate campaigns against the use of pig gestation crates.
This follows our August 2022 support and falls within our focus area of farm animal welfare. It represents an “exit grant”.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $200,000 over two years to the Humane Society International to support cage-free pledge implementation and help egg producers transition to cage-free systems in Mexico.
This falls within our focus area of farm animal welfare, specifically within our interest in cage-free reforms.
To learn more about new approaches and strategies, we sometimes make “experimental grants”, which involve less vetting than our other contracts. This is an experimental grant.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $1,052,500 to the Algorithmic Research Group to support a project developing evaluations that will benchmark the ability of language model agents to accelerate AI R&D.
This grant was funded via a request for proposals for projects benchmarking LLM agents on consequential real-world tasks. It follows our September 2023 support and falls within our focus area of potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence.