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Funding Type
Focus Area
Year
Amount
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    Title
  • Organization
    Name
  • Focus
    Area
  • Amount
  • Date
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
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
March 2021
Grant Title

Tampere University — Work on Global Catastrophic Risks (2021)

Organization Name

Tampere University

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$20,000
Date
March 2021
March 2021
Grant Title

Hypermind — AI Forecasting

Organization Name

Hypermind

Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$147,180
Date
March 2021
April 2021
Grant Title

International Conference on Learning Representations — Security and Safety in Machine Learning Systems Workshop

Organization Name

International Conference on Learning Representations

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$3,000
Date
April 2021
April 2021
Grant Title

University of Cambridge — Machine Learning Research

Organization Name

University of Cambridge

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$250,000
Date
April 2021
April 2021
Grant Title

Wilson Center — AI Policy Training Program

Organization Name

The Wilson Center

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$291,214
Date
April 2021
April 2021
Grant Title

Future of Humanity Institute — Research Scholars Programs (2021)

Organization Name

Future of Humanity Institute

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$3,121,861
Date
April 2021
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
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
May 2021
Grant Title

Daniel Dewey — AI Alignment Project

Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$175,000
Date
May 2021
May 2021
Grant Title

Jennifer Dodd — Machine Learning Self-Study

Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$19,200
Date
May 2021
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
May 2021
Grant Title

LessWrong — General Support (2021)

Organization Name

LessWrong

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$460,000
Date
May 2021
July 2021
Grant Title

Rethink Priorities — AI Governance Research (2021)

Organization Name

Rethink Priorities

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$612,185
Date
July 2021
July 2021
Grant Title

EA Funding for Individuals — Work and Study Support

Organization Name
Focus Area
Other Areas
Amount
$719,034
Date
July 2021
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
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
July 2021
Grant Title

Center for International Security and Cooperation — AI and Strategic Stability

Organization Name

Center for International Security and Cooperation

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$365,361
Date
July 2021
July 2021
Grant Title

Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity — AI Standards (2021)

Organization Name

University of California, Berkeley

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$25,000
Date
July 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
August 2021
Grant Title

Center for Security and Emerging Technology — General Support (August 2021)

Organization Name

Center for Security and Emerging Technology

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$38,920,000
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title

Stanford University — Adversarial Robustness Research (Shibani Santurkar)

Organization Name

Stanford University

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$330,792
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title

Federation of American Scientists — Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness Fellowship

Organization Name

Federation of American Scientists

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$480,000
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title

Stanford University — Adversarial Robustness Research (Dimitris Tsipras)

Organization Name

Stanford University

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$330,792
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title

University of Southern California — Adversarial Robustness Research

Organization Name

University of Southern California

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$320,000
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title

UC Berkeley — Course Development Support (Jacob Steinhardt)

Organization Name

University of California, Berkeley

Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$53,983
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title

Center for Security and Emerging Technology — Biosecurity Research Project

Organization Name

Center for Security and Emerging Technology

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$3,330,000
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title

George Washington University — Innovation in National Security Fellowship

Organization Name

George Washington University

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$450,000
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title

UC Berkeley — Adversarial Robustness Research (Aditi Raghunathan)

Organization Name

University of California, Berkeley

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$87,829
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title

Future of Humanity Institute — Economist Survey

Organization Name

Future of Humanity Institute

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$30,000
Date
August 2021
September 2021
Grant Title

Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security — Forecasting Platforms

Organization Name

Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security

Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$7,993,782
Date
September 2021
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
September 2021
Grant Title

Peter McIntyre — Effective Altruism Community Building Projects

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$165,257
Date
September 2021
September 2021
Grant Title

Université de Montréal — Research Project on Artificial Intelligence

Organization Name

Université de Montréal

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$210,552
Date
September 2021
September 2021
Grant Title

Larissa Schiavo and Rachel Shu — COVID Response Documentary Miniseries

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$55,000
Date
September 2021
September 2021
Grant Title

Stanford University — AI Index

Organization Name

Stanford University

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$78,000
Date
September 2021
October 2021
Grant Title

Centre for Effective Altruism — Effective Altruism Infrastructure Fund

Organization Name

Centre for Effective Altruism

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$500,000
Date
October 2021
October 2021
Grant Title

Bit by Bit Coding — High School Courses on Neural Networks

Organization Name

Bit by Bit Coding

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$250,275
Date
October 2021
October 2021
Grant Title

University of Southern California — Course Development Support (Jake Nebel)

Organization Name

University of Southern California

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$33,000
Date
October 2021
October 2021
Grant Title

University of Pennsylvania — Forecasting Tournament Planning

Organization Name

University of Pennsylvania

Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$275,000
Date
October 2021
October 2021
Grant Title

University of Washington — Adversarial Robustness Research

Organization Name

University of Washington

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$730,000
Date
October 2021
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
October 2021
Grant Title

Fund for Alignment Research — Language Model Misalignment

Organization Name

FAR AI

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$425,800
Date
October 2021
October 2021
Grant Title

Eon Essay Contest — The Precipice Essay Contest

Organization Name

Eon Essay Contest

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$240,000
Date
October 2021
November 2021
Grant Title

Future of Humanity Institute — Administrative and Operational Support

Organization Name

Future of Humanity Institute

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$400,000
Date
November 2021
November 2021
Grant Title

Rational Animations — Video Animation Costs (2021)

Organization Name

Rational Animations

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$285,000
Date
November 2021
November 2021
Grant Title

The Degrees Initiative — General Support (2021)

Organization Name

The Degrees Initiative

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$5,000,000
Date
November 2021
November 2021
Grant Title

Michael Specter — Course Development Support

Organization Name

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$85,000
Date
November 2021
November 2021
Grant Title

Mila — Research Project on Artificial Intelligence

Organization Name

Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$237,931
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
November 2021
Grant Title

iGEM — Biological Weapons Convention Verification Project

Organization Name

iGem

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$300,000
Date
November 2021
November 2021
Grant Title

Redwood Research — General Support

Organization Name

Redwood Research

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$9,420,000
Date
November 2021
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
November 2021
Grant Title

Giving What We Can — General Support

Organization Name

Giving What We Can

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$600,000
Date
November 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
December 2021
Grant Title

William D’Alessandro — Course Development Support

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$19,000
Date
December 2021
December 2021
Grant Title

University of Maryland — Policy Fellowships

Organization Name

University of Maryland

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$483,880
Date
December 2021
December 2021
Grant Title

Biosecurity Funding for Individuals — Work and Study Support

Organization Name
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$554,910
Date
December 2021
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
December 2021
Grant Title

Georgetown University — Policy Fellowship (2021)

Organization Name

Georgetown University

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$246,564
Date
December 2021
December 2021
Grant Title

Gaëtan Selle — Videos About Longtermism

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$50,000
Date
December 2021
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
December 2021
Grant Title

Effective Ventures Foundation — Event Venue

Organization Name

Effective Ventures Foundation

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$23,179,563
Date
December 2021
December 2021
Grant Title

Cate Hall — Self-Study for Career Transition

Organization Name
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$25,000
Date
December 2021
December 2021
Grant Title

Centre for the Governance of AI — AI Field Building

Organization Name

Centre for the Governance of AI

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$2,537,600
Date
December 2021
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
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
January 2022
Grant Title

Nigerian Institute of Medical Research – COVID-19 Fractional Dosing Trial

Organization Name

Nigerian Institute of Medical Research

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$2,921,000
Date
January 2022
January 2022
Grant Title

Good Forever Foundation — Pandemic Preparedness and COVID-19 Mitigation (2021)

Organization Name

Good Forever Foundation

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$200,000
Date
January 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
January 2022
Grant Title

Nonlinear Fund — Personal Assistant Hiring Agency

Organization Name

Nonlinear Fund

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$15,000
Date
January 2022
January 2022
Grant Title

Effective Ventures Foundation USA — Asterisk Magazine

Organization Name

Effective Ventures Foundation USA

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$730,000
Date
January 2022
January 2022
Grant Title

Open Philanthropy Technology Policy Fellowship (2022)

Organization Name
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$2,869,940
Date
January 2022
February 2022
Grant Title

Early-Career Funding for Improving the Long-Term Future — Scholarship Support (2022)

Organization Name

Scholarship (Various)

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$4,877,344
Date
February 2022
February 2022
Grant Title

Effective Altruism Funds — Regranting Support

Organization Name

Effective Altruism Funds

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$7,783,000
Date
February 2022
February 2022
Grant Title

Good Forever — Regranting for Biosecurity Projects

Organization Name

Good Forever Foundation

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$4,905,066
Date
February 2022
February 2022
Grant Title

Michael Page — Career Transition Grant

Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$52,500
Date
February 2022
February 2022
Grant Title

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine — Safety-Critical Machine Learning

Organization Name

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$309,441
Date
February 2022
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
February 2022
Grant Title

Prometheus Science Bowl — EA-Themed Science Bowl

Organization Name

Prometheus Science Bowl

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$97,500
Date
February 2022
February 2022
Grant Title

University of Michigan — Course Development Support (Anna Edmonds)

Organization Name

University of Michigan

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$50,300
Date
February 2022
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
February 2022
Grant Title

Fiona Pollack — Effective Altruism Organizing at Harvard

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$75,000
Date
February 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
March 2022
Grant Title

Stiftung Neue Verantwortung — AI Policy Analysis

Organization Name

Stiftung Neue Verantwortung

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$444,000
Date
March 2022
March 2022
Grant Title

Cambridge Existential Risk Initiative — Summer Research Program

Organization Name

Cambridge Existential Risk Initiative

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$509,543
Date
March 2022
March 2022
Grant Title

Egor Krasheninnikov — Research Collaboration with David Krueger

Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$6,526
Date
March 2022
March 2022
Grant Title

Centre for Effective Altruism — General Support (2022)

Organization Name

Centre for Effective Altruism

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$26,000,000
Date
March 2022
March 2022
Grant Title

Atlas Fellowship — Scholarships and Summer Program for Students

Organization Name

Atlas Fellowship

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$5,000,000
Date
March 2022
March 2022
Grant Title

Massachusetts Institute of Technology — AI Trends and Impacts Research (2022)

Organization Name

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$13,277,348
Date
March 2022
March 2022
Grant Title

Rethink Priorities — AI Governance Research (2022)

Organization Name

Rethink Priorities

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$2,728,319
Date
March 2022
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
March 2022
Grant Title

Usman Anwar — Research Collaboration with David Krueger

Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$6,526
Date
March 2022
March 2022
Grant Title

Kurzgesagt — Short-form Video Content

Organization Name

Kurzgesagt

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$2,978,000
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
March 2022
Grant Title

Paris Peace Forum — Global Commission on Governing Risks from Climate Overshoot

Organization Name

Global Commission on Governing Risks from Climate Overshoot

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$616,305
Date
March 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
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
$140,050
Date
April 2022
April 2022
Grant Title

University of Illinois — Course Development Support (Ben Levinstein)

Organization Name

University of Illinois

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$58,141
Date
April 2022