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Grants
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Grant
Title -
Organization
Name -
Focus
Area -
Amount
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Date
March 2024
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — Latent Adversarial Training Project
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$45,000
Date
March 2024
March 2024
Grant Title
Future House — Benchmarks for Biology Research and Development
Organization Name
Future House
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$2,946,250
Date
March 2024
March 2024
Grant Title
Good Impressions — Amazon Advertising Campaign
Organization Name
Good Impressions
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$60,000
Date
March 2024
March 2024
Grant Title
FutureSearch – Benchmark for Language Model Forecasting
Organization Name
FutureSearch
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$606,600
Date
March 2024
March 2024
Grant Title
Cambridge Biosecurity Hub – Biosecurity Course and Club Events
Organization Name
Cambridge Biosecurity Hub
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$11,936
Date
March 2024
March 2024
Grant Title
Pivotal Research — Summer Research Fellowship (2024)
Organization Name
Pivotal Research
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$395,608
Date
March 2024
March 2024
Grant Title
cFactual — Fellowship Program
Organization Name
cFactual
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$220,000
Date
March 2024
March 2024
Grant Title
London Initiative for Safe AI (LISA) — London Coworking Space
Organization Name
London Initiative for Safe AI
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$821,248
Date
March 2024
February 2024
Grant Title
Rational Animations — Video Animation Costs (2024)
Organization Name
Rational Animations
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$2,980,355
Date
February 2024
February 2024
Grant Title
FABRIC — General Support
Organization Name
FABRIC
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,436,000
Date
February 2024
February 2024
Grant Title
— AI Risk Management Frameworks (2024)
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$713,000
Date
February 2024
February 2024
Grant Title
Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity — AI Risk Management Frameworks (2024)
Organization Name
Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$200,000
Date
February 2024
January 2024
Grant Title
Lee Foster — LLM Misuse Database
Organization Name
Lee Foster
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$223,000
Date
January 2024
January 2024
Grant Title
OPTIC Forecasting — Forecasting Competitions
Organization Name
OPTIC Forecasting
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$39,000
Date
January 2024
January 2024
Grant Title
Rethink Priorities — General Support (2024)
Organization Name
Rethink Priorities
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$2,100,000
Date
January 2024
January 2024
Grant Title
Existential Risk Alliance — Cambridge AI Fellowship
Organization Name
Existential Risks Alliance
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,015,101
Date
January 2024
January 2024
Grant Title
Longview Philanthropy — Effective Giving Information Sharing
Organization Name
Longview Philanthropy
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$595,426
Date
January 2024
January 2024
Grant Title
FABRIC — Rationality Camp Programs
Organization Name
FABRIC
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$500,000
Date
January 2024
January 2024
Grant Title
Harvard University — AI Interpretability, Controllability, and Safety Research
Organization Name
Harvard University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
January 2024
January 2024
Grant Title
FAR AI — AI Alignment Research Projects
Organization Name
FAR AI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$645,750
Date
January 2024
January 2024
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — CHAI Internships
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$500,000
Date
January 2024
January 2024
Grant Title
Nice Light — AI Documentary
Organization Name
Nice Light
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$127,070
Date
January 2024
January 2024
Grant Title
Institute for AI Policy & Strategy — General Support
Organization Name
Institute for AI Policy and Strategy
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$2,916,898
Date
January 2024
January 2024
Grant Title
Condor Camp — Summer Program for Brazilian Students (2024)
Organization Name
Condor Camp
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$652,465
Date
January 2024
January 2024
Grant Title
AI Safety Support – Astra Fellowship
Organization Name
AI Safety Support
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$567,000
Date
January 2024
January 2024
Grant Title
University of Illinois Foundation — LLM Hacking Benchmarks
Organization Name
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$800,000
Date
January 2024
December 2023
Grant Title
Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative — AI Research and Governance Workshop (2023)
Organization Name
Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$66,950
Date
December 2023
December 2023
Grant Title
Cambridge Existential Risk Initiative — Student Group Expenses
Organization Name
Cambridge Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$50,006
Date
December 2023
December 2023
Grant Title
Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative — General Support for MIT AI Alignment
Organization Name
Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$612,470
Date
December 2023
December 2023
Grant Title
Longview Philanthropy — General Support (December 2023)
Organization Name
Longview Philanthropy
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,697,008
Date
December 2023
December 2023
Grant Title
Effective Altruism Funds — Regranting and Operations Support (December 2023)
Organization Name
Effective Altruism Funds
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$5,026,513
Date
December 2023
December 2023
Grant Title
Centre for Effective Altruism – General Support (EVF USA)
Organization Name
Effective Ventures Foundation USA
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$3,513,239
Date
December 2023
November 2023
Grant Title
Forecasting Research Institute — Analysis of Historical Forecasts
Organization Name
Forecasting Research Institute
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$60,000
Date
November 2023
November 2023
Grant Title
Centre for Effective Altruism – General Support (EVF)
Organization Name
Effective Ventures Foundation
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$3,342,238
Date
November 2023
November 2023
Grant Title
ETH Zurich Foundation (USA) — Machine Learning Research Support
Organization Name
ETH Zurich Fondation (USA)
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$25,000
Date
November 2023
November 2023
Grant Title
Dandelion Labs — Machine Learning and AI Safety Bootcamps
Organization Name
Dandelion Labs
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$104,803
Date
November 2023
November 2023
Grant Title
Arcadia Impact — University Group Support
Organization Name
Arcadia Impact
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$405,254
Date
November 2023
November 2023
Grant Title
Synonym Bio — Food Production Research
Organization Name
Synonym Bio
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$30,000
Date
November 2023
November 2023
Grant Title
Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative — Harvard AI Safety Team
Organization Name
Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$550,000
Date
November 2023
November 2023
Grant Title
Stanford University — AI Economic Impacts Workshop
Organization Name
Stanford University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$120,000
Date
November 2023
November 2023
Grant Title
Eleuther AI — Interpretability Research
Organization Name
Eleuther AI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$2,642,273
Date
November 2023
November 2023
Grant Title
Stanford Existential Risks Initiative – General Support
Organization Name
Stanford Existential Risks Initiative
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$630,000
Date
November 2023
November 2023
Grant Title
Longview Philanthropy — General Support (November 2023)
Organization Name
Longview Philanthropy
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,139,355
Date
November 2023
November 2023
Grant Title
Alignment Research Engineer Accelerator — AI Safety Technical Program (2023)
Organization Name
Alignment Research Engineer Accelerator
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$127,350
Date
November 2023
November 2023
Grant Title
AI Safety Support — MATS Program (November 2023)
Organization Name
AI Safety Support
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$732,631
Date
November 2023
November 2023
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — MATS (November 2023)
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$2,641,368
Date
November 2023
November 2023
Grant Title
London Initiative for Safe AI (LISA) — General Support
Organization Name
London Initiative for Safe AI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$237,000
Date
November 2023
October 2023
Grant Title
Non-Trivial — Fellowship Program (October 2023)
Organization Name
Non-Trivial
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,264,691
Date
October 2023
October 2023
Grant Title
Centre for Effective Altruism — Groups Team Support (EVF)
Organization Name
Centre for Effective Altruism
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$710,042
Date
October 2023
October 2023
Grant Title
University of California, Berkeley — AI Alignment Workshop
Organization Name
University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$26,000
Date
October 2023
October 2023
Grant Title
80,000 Hours — Marketing (October 2023)
Organization Name
80,000 Hours
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$2,400,000
Date
October 2023
October 2023
Grant Title
Centre for Effective Altruism — Groups Team Support (EVF USA)
Organization Name
Centre for Effective Altruism
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$276,127
Date
October 2023
October 2023
Grant Title
Should We Studio — Video Production (2023)
Organization Name
Should We Studio
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$245,000
Date
October 2023
October 2023
Grant Title
Global Priorities Institute — General Support (October 2023)
Organization Name
Global Priorities Institute
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$3,078,461
Date
October 2023
October 2023
Grant Title
Convergent Research — Biosecurity Projects
Organization Name
Convergent Research
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$400,000
Date
October 2023
October 2023
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — University Collaboration Program
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$70,000
Date
October 2023
October 2023
Grant Title
RAND Corporation — Emerging Technology Initiatives
Organization Name
RAND Corporation
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$10,500,000
Date
October 2023
September 2023
Grant Title
Northeastern University — Mechanistic Interpretability Research
Organization Name
Northeastern University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$116,072
Date
September 2023
September 2023
Grant Title
Training for Good — Operating Costs and Tarbell Fellowship
Organization Name
Training for Good
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$575,000
Date
September 2023
September 2023
Grant Title
OpenMined — Software for AI Audits
Organization Name
OpenMined
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$6,000,000
Date
September 2023
September 2023
Grant Title
FAR AI — Alignment Workshop
Organization Name
FAR AI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$166,500
Date
September 2023
September 2023
Grant Title
University of Maryland — Policy Fellowship (September 2023)
Organization Name
University of Maryland
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$286,000
Date
September 2023
September 2023
Grant Title
Matthew Kenney – Language Model Capabilities Benchmarking
Organization Name
Matthew Kenney
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$397,350
Date
September 2023
September 2023
Grant Title
Exscientia — Agonists for Interferon Lambda
Organization Name
Exscientia
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$2,300,000
Date
September 2023
September 2023
Grant Title
Michael Specter — Existential Risk Courses at MIT (2023)
Organization Name
Michael Specter
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$60,000
Date
September 2023
September 2023
Grant Title
Surge AI — Data Production for AI Safety Research
Organization Name
Surge AI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$126,250
Date
September 2023
September 2023
Grant Title
Forecasting Research Institute — Existential Risk Persuasion Tournament
Organization Name
Forecasting Research Institute
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$75,000
Date
September 2023
September 2023
Grant Title
Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative — HAIST Office Space
Organization Name
Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$151,678
Date
September 2023
September 2023
Grant Title
University of Pennsylvania — AI Governance Roundtables
Organization Name
University of Pennsylvania
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$110,000
Date
September 2023
September 2023
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — Scalable Oversight Dataset
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$70,000
Date
September 2023
August 2023
Grant Title
SecureBio — Pathogen Early Warning Project
Organization Name
SecureBio
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$340,000
Date
August 2023
August 2023
Grant Title
Effective Ventures Foundation — AI Safety Communications Centre
Organization Name
Effective Ventures Foundation
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$288,000
Date
August 2023
August 2023
Grant Title
Angela Aristizábal — ITAM AI Futures Fellowship
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$390,155
Date
August 2023
August 2023
Grant Title
Effective Altruism Canada — Toronto Coworking Space
Organization Name
Effective Altruism Canada
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$135,378
Date
August 2023
August 2023
Grant Title
Guide Labs — Open Access Interpretability Project
Organization Name
Guide Labs
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$750,000
Date
August 2023
August 2023
Grant Title
Swiss AI Safety Summer Camp — AI Safety Bootcamp
Organization Name
Swiss AI Safety Summer Camp
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$51,248
Date
August 2023
August 2023
Grant Title
AI Worldviews Contest Winners
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$225,000
Date
August 2023
August 2023
Grant Title
Legal Priorities Project — Law & AI Summer Research Fellowship
Organization Name
Legal Priorities Project
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$75,000
Date
August 2023
August 2023
Grant Title
Modulo Research — AI Safety Research
Organization Name
Modulo Research
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$408,255
Date
August 2023
August 2023
Grant Title
Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative — AI Research and Governance Workshop
Organization Name
Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$38,220
Date
August 2023
August 2023
Grant Title
University of Maryland — Research on Neural Network Generalization
Organization Name
University of Maryland
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$350,000
Date
August 2023
August 2023
Grant Title
Blueprint Biosecurity — General Support
Organization Name
Blueprint Biosecurity
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$50,000
Date
August 2023
August 2023
Grant Title
AI Impacts — General Support (2023)
Organization Name
AI Impacts
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$620,000
Date
August 2023
August 2023
Grant Title
AI Impacts — Expert Survey on Progress in AI
Organization Name
AI Impacts
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$345,000
Date
August 2023
August 2023
Grant Title
University of Utah — Course on Human-AI Alignment
Organization Name
University of Utah
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$31,773
Date
August 2023
July 2023
Grant Title
Massachusetts Institute of Technology — AI Trends and Impacts Research (2023)
Organization Name
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$2,911,324
Date
July 2023
July 2023
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — Lab Retreat
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$35,000
Date
July 2023
July 2023
Grant Title
Eradivir — Influenza Antiviral Drug
Organization Name
Eradivir
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
July 2023
July 2023
Grant Title
BlueDot Impact — General Support (July 2023)
Organization Name
BlueDot Impact
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,542,364
Date
July 2023
July 2023
Grant Title
EffiSciences — Existential Risk Programs (2023)
Organization Name
Effisciences
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$205,000
Date
July 2023
July 2023
Grant Title
FAR AI — General Support (2023)
Organization Name
FAR AI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$460,000
Date
July 2023
July 2023
Grant Title
Princeton University — Graduate Student Support
Organization Name
Princeton University
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$500,000
Date
July 2023
July 2023
Grant Title
World Health Organization — Responsible Life Sciences Research
Organization Name
World Health Organization
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$900,000
Date
July 2023
June 2023
Grant Title
Legal Priorities Project — General Support
Organization Name
Legal Priorities Project
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$170,000
Date
June 2023
June 2023
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — SERI MATS 4.0
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$428,942
Date
June 2023
June 2023
Grant Title
AI Safety Support — SERI MATS 4.0
Organization Name
AI Safety Support
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,240,840
Date
June 2023
June 2023
Grant Title
Foundation for American Innovation — AI Safety Policy Advocacy
Organization Name
Foundation for American Innovation
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$552,500
Date
June 2023
June 2023
Grant Title
BlueDot Impact — General Support (2023)
Organization Name
BlueDot Impact
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$388,890
Date
June 2023
June 2023
Grant Title
Effective Altruism Germany — ML4Good Bootcamp
Organization Name
Effective Altruism Germany
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$40,377
Date
June 2023
June 2023
