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Grants
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Grant
Title -
Organization
Name -
Focus
Area -
Amount
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Date
April 2023
Grant Title
Leap Labs — Interpretability Research
Organization Name
Leap Labs
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$230,000
Date
April 2023
March 2023
Grant Title
Stanford University — Biosecurity Workshop
Organization Name
Stanford University
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$198,000
Date
March 2023
March 2023
Grant Title
cFactual — Consulting Services
Organization Name
cFactual
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$105,000
Date
March 2023
March 2023
Grant Title
FAR AI — FAR Labs Office Space
Organization Name
FAR AI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$280,000
Date
March 2023
March 2023
Grant Title
Global Challenges Project — General Support
Organization Name
Global Challenges Project
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$687,589
Date
March 2023
March 2023
Grant Title
Effective Ventures Foundation USA — Support for What We Owe the Future
Organization Name
Effective Ventures Foundation USA
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$75,617
Date
March 2023
March 2023
Grant Title
PIBBSS — AI Safety Summer Fellowship
Organization Name
Principles of Intelligent Behavior in Biological and Social Systems
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$239,000
Date
March 2023
February 2023
Grant Title
Longview Philanthropy — AI Policy Development at the OECD
Organization Name
Longview Philanthropy
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$770,076
Date
February 2023
February 2023
Grant Title
Successif — Career Advising
Organization Name
Successif
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$405,570
Date
February 2023
February 2023
Grant Title
Legal Priorities Project — Litigation Research
Organization Name
Legal Priorities Project
Focus Area
Longtermism
Amount
$34,000
Date
February 2023
February 2023
Grant Title
Epoch — AI Worldview Investigations
Organization Name
Epoch
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$188,558
Date
February 2023
February 2023
Grant Title
Effective Ventures Foundation USA — General Support
Organization Name
Effective Ventures Foundation USA
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$2,750,000
Date
February 2023
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
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
February 2023
Grant Title
Cornell University — AI Safety Research
Organization Name
Cornell University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$342,645
Date
February 2023
February 2023
Grant Title
Effective Altruism Funds — Long-Term Future and Infrastructure Fund Regranting
Organization Name
Effective Altruism Funds
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$3,150,000
Date
February 2023
February 2023
Grant Title
Animal Ethics — Longtermist Animal Welfare Research
Organization Name
Animal Ethics
Focus Area
Longtermism
Amount
$6,100
Date
February 2023
February 2023
Grant Title
Global Priorities Institute — General Support (2023)
Organization Name
Global Priorities Institute
Focus Area
Longtermism
Amount
$2,506,291
Date
February 2023
February 2023
Grant Title
Center for AI Safety — Philosophy Fellowship and NeurIPS Prizes
Organization Name
Center for AI Safety
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,433,000
Date
February 2023
February 2023
Grant Title
University of Pavia — Law, Ethics, and AI Course Development
Organization Name
University of Pavia
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$23,245
Date
February 2023
February 2023
Grant Title
Responsible AI Collaborative — AI Incident Database
Organization Name
Responsible AI Collaborative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$100,000
Date
February 2023
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
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
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
January 2023
Grant Title
Effective Ventures Foundation — Support for What We Owe the Future
Organization Name
Effective Ventures Foundation
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$37,128
Date
January 2023
January 2023
Grant Title
Neel Nanda — Interpretability Research
Organization Name
Neel Nanda
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$70,000
Date
January 2023
January 2023
Grant Title
Librea — Effective Altruism Book Rights
Organization Name
Librea
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$70,000
Date
January 2023
January 2023
Grant Title
University of Toronto — Alignment Research
Organization Name
University of Toronto
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$80,000
Date
January 2023
January 2023
Grant Title
Jake Pencharz — Metagenomic Sequencing Research
Organization Name
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$12,900
Date
January 2023
January 2023
Grant Title
Bertha von Suttner-Studienwerk — University Scholarships
Organization Name
Bertha von Suttner-Studienwerk
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$110,000
Date
January 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 — Support for Richard Chappell
Organization Name
Longview Philanthropy
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
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
Existential Risks Alliance — Cambridge Fellowship
Organization Name
Existential Risks Alliance
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$1,014,116
Date
January 2023
January 2023
Grant Title
Longview Philanthropy — Research Support for Kacper Kowalczyk
Organization Name
Longview Philanthropy
Focus Area
Longtermism
Amount
$74,557
Date
January 2023
January 2023
Grant Title
EffiSciences — Existential Risk Programs
Organization Name
Effisciences
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$9,600
Date
January 2023
January 2023
Grant Title
UC Santa Cruz — Adversarial Robustness Research (2023)
Organization Name
UC Santa Cruz
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$114,000
Date
January 2023
January 2023
Grant Title
Byron Cohen — Biosecurity Community Building
Organization Name
Byron Cohen
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$5,560
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
Sebastian Lodemann — Existential Risk Projects
Organization Name
Sebastian Lodemann
Focus Area
Longtermism
Amount
$43,000
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
January 2023
Grant Title
High Impact Medicine — Community Building for Medical Students
Organization Name
High Impact Medicine
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$134,000
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
Effective Ventures Foundation — Office Space
Organization Name
Effective Ventures Foundation
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$1,835,390
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
$6,305,675
Date
December 2022
December 2022
Grant Title
FAR AI — General Support
Organization Name
FAR AI
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
FAR AI
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
Apart Research — AI Alignment Hackathons
Organization Name
Apart Research
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$89,000
Date
December 2022
December 2022
Grant Title
FAR AI — Interpretability Research
Organization Name
FAR AI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$50,000
Date
December 2022
December 2022
Grant Title
Effective Ventures Foundation — General Support
Organization Name
Effective Ventures Foundation
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
$1,538,000
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
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
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
University of California, 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
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
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
University of Queensland — Online EA Course
Organization Name
University of Queensland
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$36,561
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
Centre 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