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Grants
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Grant
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Organization
Name -
Focus
Area -
Amount
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Date
February 2023
Grant Title
Longview Philanthropy — Far-UVC Event (2023)
Organization Name
Longview Philanthropy
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$165,000
Date
February 2023
January 2023
Grant Title
University of Oxford — Genetic Engineering Attribution
Organization Name
University of Oxford
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$40,000
Date
January 2023
January 2023
Grant Title
Longview Philanthropy — Film Project Scoping Work
Organization Name
Longview Philanthropy
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$57,500
Date
January 2023
January 2023
Grant Title
Harvard University — Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics
Organization Name
Harvard University
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$190,000
Date
January 2023
January 2023
Grant Title
University of British Columbia — AI Alignment Research
Organization Name
University of British Columbia
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$100,375
Date
January 2023
January 2023
Grant Title
Lausanne AI Alignment — AI Alignment Bootcamp
Organization Name
Lausanne AI Alignment
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$27,000
Date
January 2023
January 2023
Grant Title
Oliver Crook — Travel Grant for Biological Attribution Event
Organization Name
Oliver Crook
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$4,553
Date
January 2023
December 2022
Grant Title
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab — Biosecurity Research (2022)
Organization Name
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$2,648,881
Date
December 2022
December 2022
Grant Title
Purdue University — Language Model Research
Organization Name
Purdue University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$170,000
Date
December 2022
December 2022
Grant Title
Simon McGregor — AI Risk Workshop
Organization Name
Simon McGregor
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$7,000
Date
December 2022
December 2022
Grant Title
Effective Altruism Consulting Network — General Support
Organization Name
Effective Altruism Consulting Network
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$34,500
Date
December 2022
December 2022
Grant Title
Tyler Whitmer — Scoping Work for Biosecurity Legal Research
Organization Name
Tyler Whitmer
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$125,000
Date
December 2022
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
December 2022
Grant Title
Chelsea Liang — Biosecurity Policy in Australia
Organization Name
Chelsea Liang
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$31,099
Date
December 2022
December 2022
Grant Title
Forecasting Research Institute — Science of Forecasting
Organization Name
Forecasting Research Institute
Focus Area
Longtermism
Amount
$5,352,800
Date
December 2022
December 2022
Grant Title
FAR AI — General Support
Organization Name
Fund for Alignment Research
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$625,000
Date
December 2022
December 2022
Grant Title
Latecomer Institute — Longtermist Magazine
Organization Name
Latecomer Institute
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$234,000
Date
December 2022
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
December 2022
Grant Title
FAR AI — Inverse Scaling Prize
Organization Name
Fund for Alignment Research
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$49,500
Date
December 2022
December 2022
Grant Title
Michel Justen — Career Transition
Organization Name
Michel Justen
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$13,000
Date
December 2022
December 2022
Grant Title
FAR AI — Interpretability Research
Organization Name
Fund for Alignment Research
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$50,000
Date
December 2022
December 2022
Grant Title
Effective Ventures Foundation UK — General Support
Organization Name
Effective Ventures Foundation UK
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$11,425,000
Date
December 2022
December 2022
Grant Title
Jérémy Scheurer — Independent AI Alignment Research
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$110,000
Date
December 2022
December 2022
Grant Title
Georgetown University — Policy Fellowship (2022)
Organization Name
Georgetown University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$239,061
Date
December 2022
November 2022
Grant Title
Northeastern University — Large Language Model Interpretability Research
Organization Name
Northeastern University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$562,128
Date
November 2022
November 2022
Grant Title
Longview Philanthropy — Far-UVC Event
Organization Name
Longview Philanthropy
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$60,000
Date
November 2022
November 2022
Grant Title
Open Philanthropy Biosecurity Scholarships (2023)
Organization Name
Scholarship (Various)
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$221,000
Date
November 2022
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
November 2022
Grant Title
SecureBio — Biosecurity Research
Organization Name
SecureBio
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$1,420,937
Date
November 2022
November 2022
Grant Title
Michael Ward — Effective Altruism Book Purchases
Organization Name
Michael Ward
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$2,400
Date
November 2022
November 2022
Grant Title
AI Safety Support — SERI MATS Program
Organization Name
AI Safety Support
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$513,576
Date
November 2022
November 2022
Grant Title
London Effective Altruism Hub — EA Organizing in London
Organization Name
London Effective Altruism Hub
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$445,000
Date
November 2022
November 2022
Grant Title
Seton Hall University — Longtermism Course Development
Organization Name
Seton Hall University
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$39,780
Date
November 2022
November 2022
Grant Title
Helena — Health Security Policy
Organization Name
Helena
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$500,000
Date
November 2022
November 2022
Grant Title
Jacob Steinhardt — AI Alignment Research
Organization Name
Jacob Steinhardt
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$100,000
Date
November 2022
November 2022
Grant Title
Hamish Huggard — EA Content Creation
Organization Name
Hamish Huggard
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$83,000
Date
November 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
November 2022
Grant Title
Mordechai Rorvig — Independent AI Journalism
Organization Name
Mordechai Rorvig
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$110,000
Date
November 2022
November 2022
Grant Title
Nathan Maya — Effective Altruism Student Retreat
Organization Name
Nathan Maya
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$11,850
Date
November 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
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
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
October 2022
Grant Title
Travel Grants for the Biological Weapons Convention Review Conference (2022)
Organization Name
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$48,032
Date
October 2022
October 2022
Grant Title
Funding for Effective Altruism-Related Translation Projects
Organization Name
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$608,986
Date
October 2022
October 2022
Grant Title
Trevor Woolley — Effective Altruism Economics Course
Organization Name
UC Berkeley
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$10,350
Date
October 2022
October 2022
Grant Title
Thomas Liao — Foundation Model Tracker
Organization Name
Foundation Model Tracker
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$15,000
Date
October 2022
October 2022
Grant Title
Conjecture — SERI MATS Program in London
Organization Name
Conjecture
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$457,380
Date
October 2022
September 2022
Grant Title
Council on Strategic Risks — Biosecurity Fellowships and Policy Work
Organization Name
Council on Strategic Risks
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$2,898,350
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title
Wilton Park — Biological Weapons Convention Retreat
Organization Name
Wilton Park
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$47,722
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title
Princeton University — Existential Risk Course Development
Organization Name
Princeton University
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$27,555
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title
Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security — Educational Degree Program
Organization Name
Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$3,908,161
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title
American University — Solar Geoengineering Initiative
Organization Name
American University
Focus Area
Longtermism
Amount
$100,000
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title
Centre for Effective Altruism — Infrastructure Fund Regranting
Organization Name
Center for Effective Altruism
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$4,929,000
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title
Michael Specter — Existential Risk Courses at MIT
Organization Name
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$110,000
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title
Riley Harris — Global Priorities Research Blog
Organization Name
Riley Harris
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$65,000
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title
Centre for the Governance of AI — Compute Strategy Workshop
Organization Name
Centre for the Governance of AI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$50,532
Date
September 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
September 2022
Grant Title
Lightcone Infrastructure – General Support
Organization Name
Lightcone Infrastructure
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$4,500,000
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title
University Organizer Fellowship
Organization Name
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$3,050,122
Date
September 2022
August 2022
Grant Title
Juan Gil — Book Distribution
Organization Name
Juan Gil
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$24,745
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title
Center for Applied Rationality — SPARC (2022)
Organization Name
Center for Applied Rationality
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$700,000
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title
Global Priorities Institute — General Support (2022)
Organization Name
Global Priorities Institute
Focus Area
Longtermism
Amount
$2,296,001
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title
Centre for Effective Altruism — Harvard AI Safety Office
Organization Name
Centre for Effective Altruism
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$250,000
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title
Effective Altruism Funds — Operating Expenses
Organization Name
Effective Altruism Funds
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$573,000
Date
August 2022
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
August 2022
Grant Title
Kuhan Jeyapragasan — University Group Organizing
Organization Name
Kuhan Jeyapragasan
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$250,000
Date
August 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
August 2022
Grant Title
Fund for Alignment Research — Language Model Misalignment (2022)
Organization Name
Fund for Alignment Research
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$463,693
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title
Centre for Effective Altruism — Harvard Square Coworking Space
Organization Name
Center for Effective Altruism
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$8,875,000
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title
Sam Glendenning — Support for London Group Organizers
Organization Name
Sam Glendenning
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$125,000
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title
Centre for Effective Altruism — Biosecurity Coworking Space
Organization Name
Centre for Effective Altruism
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$5,318,000
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title
Effektiv Spenden — German Translation of The Life You Can Save
Organization Name
Effektiv Spenden
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$25,458
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title
Redwood Research — General Support (2022)
Organization Name
Redwood Research
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$10,700,000
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title
Daniel Dewey — AI Alignment Projects (2022)
Organization Name
Daniel Dewey
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$175,000
Date
August 2022
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
July 2022
Grant Title
Ann Garth – Climate Change Research
Organization Name
Ann Garth
Focus Area
Longtermism
Amount
$5,250
Date
July 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 2022
Grant Title
Ramiro de Ávila Peres — Portuguese Translation Project
Organization Name
Ramiro de Ávila Peres
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$10,600
Date
July 2022
July 2022
Grant Title
Future Forum Foundation — Future Forum
Organization Name
Future Forum Foundation
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$654,500
Date
July 2022
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
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
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
July 2022
Grant Title
Funding for Projects to Estimate Biological Risk
Organization Name
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$1,391,169
Date
July 2022
July 2022
Grant Title
Stanford University — AI Alignment Research (Barrett and Viteri)
Organization Name
Stanford University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$153,820
Date
July 2022
July 2022
Grant Title
Non-trivial Pursuits — General Support
Organization Name
Non-trivial Pursuits
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$1,005,000
Date
July 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
June 2022
Grant Title
Convergent Research — Sequencing Roadmap
Organization Name
Convergent Research
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$250,000
Date
June 2022
June 2022
Grant Title
Universidad de Sevilla — Course on Effective Altruism
Organization Name
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$19,982
Date
June 2022
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
June 2022
Grant Title
Columbia University — Far-UVC Sterilization Research
Organization Name
Columbia University
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$3,200,000
Date
June 2022
June 2022
Grant Title
University of Chicago — Chicago School of Existential Risk
Organization Name
University of Chicago
Focus Area
Longtermism
Amount
$207,000
Date
June 2022
June 2022
Grant Title
Century Fellowship — 2022 Cohort
Organization Name
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$1,004,300
Date
June 2022
June 2022
Grant Title
Epoch — General Support
Organization Name
Epoch
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,960,000
Date
June 2022
June 2022
Grant Title
University of Edinburgh — Effective Altruism Psychology Course
Organization Name
University of Edinburgh
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$47,000
Date
June 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
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
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
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
May 2022