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Grants
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Grant
Title -
Organization
Name -
Focus
Area -
Amount
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Date
November 2021
Grant Title
1Day Sooner — General Support (2021)
Organization Name
1Day Sooner
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$2,000,000
Date
November 2021
May 2020
Grant Title
1Day Sooner — General Support (May 2020)
Organization Name
1Day Sooner
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$500,000
Date
May 2020
November 2020
Grant Title
1Day Sooner — General Support (November 2020)
Organization Name
1Day Sooner
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$600,000
Date
November 2020
March 2017
Grant Title
80,000 Hours — General Support
Organization Name
80,000 Hours
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$1,125,000
Date
March 2017
February 2018
Grant Title
80,000 Hours — General Support (2018)
Organization Name
80,000 Hours
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$510,000
Date
February 2018
February 2019
Grant Title
80,000 Hours — General Support (2019)
Organization Name
80,000 Hours
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$4,795,803
Date
February 2019
February 2020
Grant Title
80,000 Hours — General Support (2020)
Organization Name
80,000 Hours
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$3,457,284
Date
February 2020
May 2022
Grant Title
80,000 Hours — General Support (2022)
Organization Name
80,000 Hours
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$1,250,000
Date
May 2022
January 2023
Grant Title
80,000 Hours — General Support (2023)
Organization Name
80,000 Hours
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$1,200,000
Date
January 2023
June 2022
Grant Title
80,000 Hours — Marketing
Organization Name
80,000 Hours
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$3,000,000
Date
June 2022
September 2020
Grant Title
AcceleratingHT — COVID-19 Response
Organization Name
AcceleratingHT
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$50,000
Date
September 2020
March 2020
Grant Title
Against COVID-19 — COVID-19 Database Support
Organization Name
Against COVID-19
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$10,000
Date
March 2020
February 2022
Grant Title
AI Funding for Individuals — Work and Study Support
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$113,372
Date
February 2022
June 2022
Grant Title
AI Impacts — General Support
Organization Name
AI Impacts
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$364,893
Date
June 2022
December 2016
Grant Title
AI Impacts — General Support (2016)
Organization Name
AI Impacts
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$32,000
Date
December 2016
June 2018
Grant Title
AI Impacts — General Support (2018)
Organization Name
AI Impacts
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$100,000
Date
June 2018
November 2020
Grant Title
AI Impacts — General Support (2020)
Organization Name
AI Impacts
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$50,000
Date
November 2020
November 2022
Grant Title
AI Safety Hub — Safety Labs
Organization Name
AI Safety Hub
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$63,839
Date
November 2022
September 2022
Grant Title
AI Safety Hub — Startup Costs
Organization Name
AI Safety Hub
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$235,000
Date
September 2022
April 2022
Grant Title
AI Safety Support — Research on Trends in Machine Learning
Organization Name
AI Safety Support
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$42,000
Date
April 2022
November 2022
Grant Title
AI Safety Support — SERI MATS Program
Organization Name
AI Safety Support
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,538,000
Date
November 2022
February 2018
Grant Title
AI Scholarships — Scholarship Support (2018)
Organization Name
AI Scholarships
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$159,000
Date
February 2018
June 2022
Grant Title
Ajantha Nadesalingam — Effective Altruism Blog
Organization Name
Ajantha Nadesalingam
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$9,120
Date
June 2022
August 2022
Grant Title
Alexandra Balwit — Publicity for The Long View
Organization Name
Alexandra Balwit
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$45,000
Date
August 2022
March 2022
Grant Title
Alignment Research Center — General Support
Organization Name
Alignment Research Center
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$265,000
Date
March 2022
November 2022
Grant Title
Alignment Research Center — General Support (November 2022)
Organization Name
Alignment Research Center
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,250,000
Date
November 2022
May 2019
Grant Title
Altruistic Technology Labs — Work on Biological Risk Prevention
Organization Name
Altruistic Technology Labs
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$440,525
Date
May 2019
December 2020
Grant Title
Altruistic Technology Labs — Planning Grant
Organization Name
Altruistic Technology Labs
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$250,000
Date
December 2020
May 2022
Grant Title
Alvea — DNA Vaccine Platform
Organization Name
Alvea
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$5,000,000
Date
May 2022
October 2022
Grant Title
Alvea — Drug Development Acceleration (October 2022)
Organization Name
Alvea
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$1,250,000
Date
October 2022
December 2017
Grant Title
American Society for Microbiology — Biothreats Meeting
Organization Name
American Society for Microbiology
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$43,149
Date
December 2017
May 2016
Grant Title
American University — Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment
Organization Name
Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment
Focus Area
Longtermism
Amount
$76,234
Date
May 2016
September 2022
Grant Title
American University — Solar Geoengineering Initiative
Organization Name
American University
Focus Area
Longtermism
Amount
$100,000
Date
September 2022
June 2020
Grant Title
Andrew Lohn — Paper on Machine Learning Model Robustness
Organization Name
Andrew Lohn
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$15,000
Date
June 2020
December 2022
Grant Title
Andrew Szanton — Operation Warp Speed Memoir
Organization Name
Andrew Szanton
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$75,000
Date
December 2022
February 2023
Grant Title
Animal Ethics — Longtermist Animal Welfare Research
Organization Name
Animal Ethics
Focus Area
Longtermism
Amount
$6,100
Date
February 2023
July 2022
Grant Title
Ann Garth – Climate Change Research
Organization Name
Ann Garth
Focus Area
Longtermism
Amount
$5,250
Date
July 2022
December 2022
Grant Title
Apart Research — AI Alignment Hackathons
Organization Name
Apart Research
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$89,000
Date
December 2022
July 2022
Grant Title
Apollo Fellowship — Effective Altruism Debate Camp
Organization Name
Apollo Fellowship
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$321,838
Date
July 2022
July 2021
Grant Title
Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security — Report on Security Clearances
Organization Name
Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$70,000
Date
July 2021
February 2023
Grant Title
Arb Research — Staff Support
Organization Name
Arb Research
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$25,000
Date
February 2023
August 2022
Grant Title
Associated Students of Stanford University — Stanford Law School EA Group
Organization Name
Associated Students of Stanford University
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$10,000
Date
August 2022
February 2015
Grant Title
ASUC — Effective Altruists of Berkeley “DeCal” University Course
Organization Name
Associated Students of the University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$10,000
Date
February 2015
December 2022
Grant Title
Atlas Fellowship — General Support
Organization Name
Atlas Fellowship
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$1,800,000
Date
December 2022
March 2022
Grant Title
Atlas Fellowship — Scholarships and Summer Program for Students
Organization Name
Atlas Fellowship
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$5,000,000
Date
March 2022
March 2021
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative – SERI Summer Fellowships
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$210,000
Date
March 2021
July 2021
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — AI Standards (2021)
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$300,000
Date
July 2021
April 2022
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — AI Standards (2022)
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$210,000
Date
April 2022
November 2019
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — CHAI Collaboration (2019)
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$705,000
Date
November 2019
February 2022
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — CHAI Collaboration (2022)
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,126,160
Date
February 2022
January 2019
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — CHAI ML Engineers
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$250,000
Date
January 2019
July 2017
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — Core Support and CHAI Collaboration
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$403,890
Date
July 2017
April 2022
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — David Krueger Collaboration
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$40,000
Date
April 2022
January 2020
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — General Support
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$150,000
Date
January 2020
November 2022
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — General Support (2022)
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$100,000
Date
November 2022
June 2022
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — Language Model Alignment Research
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$30,000
Date
June 2022
November 2022
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — Machine Learning Alignment Theory Scholars
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$2,047,268
Date
November 2022
July 2021
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — MineRL BASALT Competition
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$70,000
Date
July 2021
November 2021
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — Sculpting Evolution Collaboration
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$451,571
Date
November 2021
November 2021
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — SERI MATS Program
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$195,000
Date
November 2021
April 2022
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — SERI MATS Program (2022)
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,008,127
Date
April 2022
June 2022
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — SERI Summer Fellowships (2022)
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Longtermism
Amount
$400,000
Date
June 2022
March 2022
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — Support for Kevin Esvelt’s Research
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$100,000
Date
March 2022
January 2021
Grant Title
Berryville Institute of Machine Learning — Machine Learning Security Research
Organization Name
Berryville Institute of Machine Learning
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$150,000
Date
January 2021
April 2017
Grant Title
BioBricks Foundation — Biosecurity Activities at SB7.0
Organization Name
BioBricks Foundation
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$152,950
Date
April 2017
July 2022
Grant Title
Biosecure — Biological Weapons Convention Verification Workshop
Organization Name
Biosecure Ltd
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$155,714
Date
July 2022
December 2018
Grant Title
Biosecure Ltd — Campaign Against Bioweapons Research
Organization Name
Biosecure Ltd
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$25,000
Date
December 2018
December 2021
Grant Title
Biosecurity Funding for Individuals — Work and Study Support
Organization Name
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$560,910
Date
December 2021
February 2020
Grant Title
Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense — General Support
Organization Name
Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$2,970,000
Date
February 2020
December 2021
Grant Title
Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense — General Support (2021)
Organization Name
Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$1,350,000
Date
December 2021
July 2022
Grant Title
Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense — General Support (2022)
Organization Name
Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$5,200,000
Date
July 2022
October 2021
Grant Title
Bit by Bit Coding — High School Courses on Neural Networks
Organization Name
Bit by Bit Coding
Focus Area
Longtermism
Amount
$250,275
Date
October 2021
April 2015
Grant Title
Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense
Organization Name
Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$300,000
Date
April 2015
August 2016
Grant Title
Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense — General Support (2016)
Organization Name
Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$1,300,000
Date
August 2016
January 2017
Grant Title
Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense — General Support (2017)
Organization Name
Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$500,000
Date
January 2017
January 2018
Grant Title
Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense— General Support (2018)
Organization Name
Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$2,588,162
Date
January 2018
June 2022
Grant Title
BlueDot Impact — General Support
Organization Name
BlueDot Impact
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$2,009,000
Date
June 2022
March 2021
Grant Title
Brian Christian — The Alignment Problem Book Promotion
Organization Name
Brian Christian
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$60,859
Date
March 2021
April 2020
Grant Title
Brown Institute for Media Innovation — COVID-19 Rapid Micro-Grants
Organization Name
Brown Institute for Media Innovation
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$15,000
Date
April 2020
January 2023
Grant Title
Byron Cohen — Biosecurity Community Building
Organization Name
Byron Cohen
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$5,560
Date
January 2023
October 2021
Grant Title
Californians Against Pandemics — California Pandemic Early Detection and Prevention Act Ballot Initiative
Organization Name
Californians Against Pandemics
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$11,100,000
Date
October 2021
January 2023
Grant Title
Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative — Machine Learning Bootcamps
Organization Name
Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$298,528
Date
January 2023
February 2023
Grant Title
Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative — MIT Office Space
Organization Name
Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$146,200
Date
February 2023
March 2022
Grant Title
Cambridge Existential Risk Initiative — Summer Research Program
Organization Name
Cambridge Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Longtermism
Amount
$743,902
Date
March 2022
March 2022
Grant Title
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace — AI Governance Research
Organization Name
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$597,717
Date
March 2022
December 2017
Grant Title
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace — Chinese and Indian Perspectives on Biotech Security Risks
Organization Name
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$613,380
Date
December 2017
May 2021
Grant Title
Carnegie Mellon University — Adversarial Robustness Research
Organization Name
Carnegie Mellon University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$330,000
Date
May 2021
July 2022
Grant Title
Carnegie Mellon University — Research on Adversarial Examples
Organization Name
Carnegie Mellon University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$343,235
Date
July 2022
December 2021
Grant Title
Cate Hall — Self-Study for Career Transition
Organization Name
Cate Hall
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$25,000
Date
December 2021
October 2022
Grant Title
Catherine Brewer — OxAI Safety Hub
Organization Name
OxAI Safety Hub
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$11,622
Date
October 2022
April 2022
Grant Title
Cecil Abungu — Effective Altruism Fellowship in Africa
Organization Name
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$294,000
Date
April 2022
October 2020
Grant Title
Center for a New American Security — AI and Security Projects
Organization Name
Center for a New American Security
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$116,744
Date
October 2020
October 2020
Grant Title
Center for a New American Security — AI Governance Projects
Organization Name
Center for a New American Security
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$24,350
Date
October 2020
September 2018
Grant Title
Center for a New American Security — Outreach on Technological Risk Led by Richard Danzig
Organization Name
Center for a New American Security
Focus Area
Longtermism
Amount
$400,352
Date
September 2018
September 2021
Grant Title
Center for a New American Security — Risks from Militarized AI
Organization Name
Center for a New American Security
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$101,187
Date
September 2021
March 2021
Grant Title
Center for a New American Security — Strategic Lessons from COVID-19
Organization Name
Center for a New American Security
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$250,000
Date
March 2021
August 2017
Grant Title
Center for a New American Security — Technological Risks and National Security
Organization Name
Center for a New American Security
Focus Area
Longtermism
Amount
$260,000
Date
August 2017
July 2022
Grant Title
Center for a New American Security — Work on AI Governance
Organization Name
Center for a New American Security
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$4,816,710
Date
July 2022
November 2022
Grant Title
Center for AI Safety — General Support
Organization Name
Center for AI Safety
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$5,160,000
Date
November 2022
February 2023