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Grants
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Grant
Title -
Organization
Name -
Focus
Area -
Amount
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Date
January 2022
Grant Title
Open Philanthropy Biosecurity Scholarships (2022)
Organization Name
Scholarship (Various)
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$2,426,491
Date
January 2022
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
July 2017
Grant Title
Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms — AI Safety Research
Organization Name
Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$2,400,000
Date
July 2017
March 2020
Grant Title
Georgetown Center for Global Health Science and Security — General Support (March 2020)
Organization Name
Georgetown Center for Global Health Science and Security
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$2,400,000
Date
March 2020
June 2022
Grant Title
Open Philanthropy Undergraduate Scholarships (2022)
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$2,392,682
Date
June 2022
June 2023
Grant Title
Effective Ventures Foundation USA — Centre for Effective Altruism (June 2023)
Organization Name
Effective Ventures Foundation USA
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$2,360,192
Date
June 2023
May 2019
Grant Title
Open Phil AI Fellowship — 2019 Class
Organization Name
Open Phil AI Fellowship
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$2,325,000
Date
May 2019
January 2022
Grant Title
Should We Studio — Video Production
Organization Name
Should We Studio
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$2,320,000
Date
January 2022
September 2023
Grant Title
Exscientia — Agonists for Interferon Lambda
Organization Name
Exscientia
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$2,300,000
Date
September 2023
May 2020
Grant Title
Open Phil AI Fellowship — 2020 Class
Organization Name
Open Phil AI Fellowship
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$2,300,000
Date
May 2020
August 2022
Grant Title
Global Priorities Institute — General Support (2022)
Organization Name
Global Priorities Institute
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$2,296,001
Date
August 2022
January 2021
Grant Title
Early-Career Funding for Global Catastrophic Biological Risks — Scholarship Support (2021)
Organization Name
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$2,144,789
Date
January 2021
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
November 2020
Grant Title
Council on Strategic Risks — Biological Weapons Prevention (November 2020)
Organization Name
Council on Strategic Risks
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$2,050,000
Date
November 2020
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
January 2022
Grant Title
Wilson Center — AI Policy Training Program (2022)
Organization Name
The Wilson Center
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$2,023,322
Date
January 2022
June 2022
Grant Title
BlueDot Impact — General Support
Organization Name
BlueDot Impact
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$2,009,000
Date
June 2022
May 2020
Grant Title
Gryphon Scientific — Empirical Biosafety Research
Organization Name
Gryphon Scientific
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$2,000,000
Date
May 2020
September 2017
Grant Title
Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative — General Support (2017)
Organization Name
Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$2,000,000
Date
September 2017
April 2023
Grant Title
Atlas Fellowship — General Support (2023)
Organization Name
Atlas Fellowship
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$2,000,000
Date
April 2023
March 2017
Grant Title
Future of Humanity Institute — General Support
Organization Name
Future of Humanity Institute
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,995,425
Date
March 2017
June 2022
Grant Title
Epoch — General Support
Organization Name
Epoch
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,960,000
Date
June 2022
November 2018
Grant Title
Nuclear Threat Initiative — Projects to Reduce Global Catastrophic Biological Risks
Organization Name
Nuclear Threat Initiative
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$1,904,942
Date
November 2018
June 2022
Grant Title
Century Fellowship — 2022 Cohort
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,889,027
Date
June 2022
February 2020
Grant Title
Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security — Masters and PhD Program Support
Organization Name
Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$1,860,000
Date
February 2020
April 2022
Grant Title
Open Phil AI Fellowship — 2022 Class
Organization Name
Open Phil AI Fellowship
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,840,000
Date
April 2022
December 2022
Grant Title
Effective Ventures Foundation — Office Space
Organization Name
Effective Ventures Foundation
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,835,390
Date
December 2022
December 2022
Grant Title
Atlas Fellowship — General Support
Organization Name
Atlas Fellowship
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,800,000
Date
December 2022
February 2021
Grant Title
Early-Career Funding for Improving the Long-Term Future — Scholarship Support (2021)
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$1,766,373
Date
February 2021
September 2019
Grant Title
Centre for Effective Altruism — General Support and Community-Building Grants (2019)
Organization Name
Centre for Effective Altruism
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,755,921
Date
September 2019
May 2023
Grant Title
Kurzgesagt — Video Production (2023)
Organization Name
Kurzgesagt
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,700,000
Date
May 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
January 2019
Grant Title
Center for International Security and Cooperation — Megan Palmer’s Biosecurity Research (2019)
Organization Name
Center for International Security and Cooperation
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$1,625,000
Date
January 2019
January 2020
Grant Title
Ought — General Support (2020)
Organization Name
Ought
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,593,333
Date
January 2020
May 2020
Grant Title
Future of Humanity Institute — Research Scholars Programme
Organization Name
Future of Humanity Institute
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,586,224
Date
May 2020
July 2017
Grant Title
University of Pennsylvania — Philip Tetlock’s “Making Conversations Smarter, Faster” Forecasting Project
Organization Name
University of Pennsylvania
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$1,550,000
Date
July 2017
October 2022
Grant Title
Funding for Effective Altruism-Related Translation Projects
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,545,047
Date
October 2022
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
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
May 2017
Grant Title
UCLA School of Law — AI Governance
Organization Name
UCLA School of Law
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,536,222
Date
May 2017
June 2023
Grant Title
Apollo Research — Startup Funding
Organization Name
Apollo Research
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,535,480
Date
June 2023
May 2023
Grant Title
Centre for the Governance of AI — General Support (2023)
Organization Name
Centre for the Governance of AI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,500,000
Date
May 2023
December 2020
Grant Title
Founders Pledge — General Support (2020)
Organization Name
Founders Pledge
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,500,000
Date
December 2020
November 2021
Grant Title
Stanford University — AI Alignment Research (2021)
Organization Name
Stanford University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,500,000
Date
November 2021
January 2021
Grant Title
Stanford Existential Risks Initiative — Global Catastrophic Risk Education
Organization Name
Stanford Existential Risks Initiative
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$1,500,000
Date
January 2021
October 2017
Grant Title
UC Berkeley — AI Safety Research
Organization Name
University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,450,016
Date
October 2017
March 2022
Grant Title
Hofvarpnir Studios — Compute Cluster for AI Safety Research
Organization Name
Hofvarpnir Studios
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,443,540
Date
March 2022
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 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 2021
Grant Title
Massachusetts Institute of Technology — Adversarial Robustness Research
Organization Name
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,430,000
Date
February 2021
November 2022
Grant Title
SecureBio — Biosecurity Research
Organization Name
SecureBio
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$1,420,937
Date
November 2022
July 2020
Grant Title
Early-Career Funding for Global Catastrophic Biological Risks — Scholarship Support (2019-2020)
Organization Name
Early-Career Funding for Global Catastrophic Biological Risks
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$1,394,530
Date
July 2020
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
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
May 2017
Grant Title
Stanford University — Support for Percy Liang
Organization Name
Stanford University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,337,600
Date
May 2017
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
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
May 2022
Grant Title
80,000 Hours — General Support (2022)
Organization Name
80,000 Hours
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,250,000
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
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
December 2021
Grant Title
Nuclear Threat Initiative — Global Catastrophic Biological Risk Reduction (2021)
Organization Name
Nuclear Threat Initiative
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$1,250,000
Date
December 2021
May 2018
Grant Title
Open Phil AI Fellowship — 2018 Class
Organization Name
Open Phil AI Fellowship
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,245,000
Date
May 2018
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
January 2023
Grant Title
80,000 Hours — General Support (2023)
Organization Name
80,000 Hours
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,200,000
Date
January 2023
February 2020
Grant Title
Georgetown Center for Global Health Science and Security — General Support (February 2020)
Organization Name
Georgetown Center for Global Health Science and Security
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$1,200,000
Date
February 2020
August 2015
Grant Title
Future of Life Institute — Artificial Intelligence Risk Reduction
Organization Name
Future of Life Institute
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,186,000
Date
August 2015
November 2018
Grant Title
UC Berkeley — AI Safety Research (2018)
Organization Name
University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,145,000
Date
November 2018
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
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
March 2017
Grant Title
80,000 Hours — General Support
Organization Name
80,000 Hours
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,125,000
Date
March 2017
December 2019
Grant Title
UC Berkeley — AI Safety Research (2019)
Organization Name
University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,111,000
Date
December 2019
July 2016
Grant Title
Center for Applied Rationality — General Support
Organization Name
Center for Applied Rationality
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,035,000
Date
July 2016
September 2016
Grant Title
Founders Pledge — General Support
Organization Name
Founders Pledge
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,032,947
Date
September 2016
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 2023
Grant Title
Existential Risks Alliance — Cambridge Fellowship
Organization Name
Existential Risks Alliance
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,014,116
Date
January 2023
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
July 2022
Grant Title
Non-Trivial Pursuits — General Support
Organization Name
Non-Trivial
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,005,000
Date
July 2022
July 2019
Grant Title
Effective Altruism Foundation — Research and Operations
Organization Name
Effective Altruism Foundation
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
July 2019
January 2018
Grant Title
Center for Applied Rationality — General Support (2018)
Organization Name
Center for Applied Rationality
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
January 2018
March 2021
Grant Title
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab — Kevin Esvelt’s Research (2021)
Organization Name
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
March 2021
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
April 2021
Grant Title
Open Phil AI Fellowship — 2021 Class
Organization Name
Open Phil AI Fellowship
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
April 2021
March 2019
Grant Title
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab — Kevin Esvelt’s Research (2019)
Organization Name
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
March 2019
November 2019
Grant Title
Ought — General Support (2019)
Organization Name
Ought
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
November 2019
May 2023
Grant Title
Rational Animations — Video Animation Costs (2023)
Organization Name
Rational Animations
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
May 2023
July 2023
Grant Title
Eradivir — Influenza Antiviral Drug
Organization Name
Eradivir
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
July 2023
April 2023
Grant Title
Effective Ventures Foundation USA — Asterisk (2023)
Organization Name
Effective Ventures Foundation USA
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$991,000
Date
April 2023
April 2020
Grant Title
iGEM — Synthetic Biology Safety and Security (2020)
Organization Name
International Genetically Engineered Machine Foundation
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$940,000
Date
April 2020
February 2020
Grant Title
Future of Humanity Institute — New DPhil Positions
Organization Name
Future of Humanity Institute
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$939,263
Date
February 2020
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
October 2020
Grant Title
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab — DNA Synthesis Screening Methods
Organization Name
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$890,000
Date
October 2020
April 2021
Grant Title
Georgia Tech — Research on Lipid Nanoparticles (James Dahlman)
Organization Name
Georgia Institute of Technology
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$882,000
Date
April 2021
May 2023
Grant Title
Owain Evans Research Group — AI Evaluations Research
Organization Name
Effective Ventures Foundation USA
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$838,620
Date
May 2023
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
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
February 2023
Grant Title
Successif — Career Advising
Organization Name
Successif
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$778,570
Date
February 2023
February 2020
Grant Title
University of Oxford — New Office for Effective Altruism Organizations
Organization Name
University of Oxford
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$776,271
Date
February 2020
March 2017
Grant Title
UCLA — Climate Engineering Governance
Organization Name
UCLA School of Law
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$776,095
Date
March 2017
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
March 2023