Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $20,000 to the Gradient Institute to support the 2024 Australian AI Safety Forum. The Gradient Institute is a nonprofit research institute that aims to build ethics, accountability, and transparency into AI systems.
This falls within our focus area of potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $110,000 to Observatorio de Riesgos Catastróficos Globales to support AI policy research and science diplomacy efforts in the EU and Latin America.
This falls within our focus area of potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $318,000 to Consultants for Impact to support a career transition fellowship pilot. Consultants for Impact supports current, former, and prospective consultants to optimize the social impact of their careers.
This falls within our focus area of Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $55,000 to High Impact Athletes (HIA) for general support. HIA is a nonprofit that aims to connect elite athletes with impactful giving opportunities.
This falls within our focus area of empowering people to use their careers and donations to help others as much as possible.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $1,397,395 over two years to Consultants for Impact for general support. Consultants for Impact supports current, former, and prospective consultants to optimize the social impact of their careers.
This follows our May 2023 support and falls within our focus area of Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building.
Open Philanthropy recommended a contract of $116,707 with the Swift Centre to support a forecasting project on alternative proteins.
This falls within our focus area of farm animal welfare, specifically within our interest in alternatives to animal products.
To learn more about new approaches and strategies, we sometimes make “experimental contracts”, which involve less vetting than our other contracts. This is an experimental contract.
The contract amount was updated in June 2025.
Open Philanthropy recommended a gift of $622,167 to the University of Oxford to support the development of a benchmark to test whether large language models can replicate results from computational science and engineering papers published on arXiv.org. The project will be led by Professor Jakob Foerster.
This gift 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 £717, 807 (approximately $957,080 at the time of conversion) over three years to support Meridian, a collaborative space in Cambridge, UK. Meridian will use the funds to host events, programs, fellowships, and retreats, as well as pay for office expenses and staff salaries.
This falls within our focus area of Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building.
The grant amount was updated in December 2024.
Open Philanthropy recommended a gift of $349,000 over two years to Dartmouth to support course buyouts that will enable Professor Christopher Snyder to lead innovation and policy research at the University of Chicago’s Market Shaping Accelerator.
This falls within our focus area of innovation policy.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $750,000 over two years to Speculative Technologies to support its Brains program, which trains individuals to lead ambitious coordinated research programs.
This follows our November 2023 support and falls within our focus area of innovation policy.