Grants

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Funding Type
Focus Area
Year
Amount
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    Title
  • Organization
    Name
  • Focus
    Area
  • Amount
  • Date
June 2023
Grant Title

Effective Altruism Switzerland — Zurich Coworking Space

Organization Name

Effective Altruism Switzerland

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$101,426
Date
June 2023
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
June 2023
Grant Title

Centre for Effective Altruism — General Support (2023)

Organization Name

Centre for Effective Altruism

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$11,000,000
Date
June 2023
June 2023
Grant Title

Redwood Research — General Support (2023)

Organization Name

Redwood Research

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$5,300,000
Date
June 2023
June 2023
Grant Title

Constellation — Coworking Space

Organization Name

Constellation

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$3,000,000
Date
June 2023
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

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
May 2023
Grant Title

Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security — Health Security Scholars

Organization Name

Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$381,220
Date
May 2023
May 2023
Grant Title

Stiftelsen Impact Academy — Future Academy Program

Organization Name

Stiftelsen Impact Academy

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$62,000
Date
May 2023
May 2023
Grant Title

Non-Trivial — Fellowship Program

Organization Name

Non-Trivial

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$315,894
Date
May 2023
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
May 2023
Grant Title

Effective Altruism Funds — Regranting and Operations Support (May 2023)

Organization Name

Effective Altruism Funds

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$3,370,000
Date
May 2023
May 2023
Grant Title

Council on Strategic Risks — Biosecurity Fellowship

Organization Name

Council on Strategic Risks

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$326,500
Date
May 2023
May 2023
Grant Title

University of Chicago — Research on Complementary AI

Organization Name

University of Chicago

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$250,000
Date
May 2023
May 2023
Grant Title

AI Safety Support — AI Safety Technical Program (May 2023)

Organization Name

AI Safety Support

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$146,165
Date
May 2023
May 2023
Grant Title

Mila — Workshop on Human-Level AI

Organization Name

Mila

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$50,000
Date
May 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
May 2023
Grant Title

University of Birmingham — Biological Threat Detection Research

Organization Name

University of Birmingham

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$75,000
Date
May 2023
May 2023
Grant Title

RAND Corporation — Biosecurity Policy

Organization Name

RAND Corporation

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$14,000,000
Date
May 2023
May 2023
Grant Title

Conjecture — AI Safety Technical Program

Organization Name

Conjecture

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$223,569
Date
May 2023
May 2023
Grant Title

University of Chicago — Existential Risk Laboratory Fellowship Program

Organization Name

University of Chicago

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$285,000
Date
May 2023
May 2023
Grant Title

80,000 Hours — General Support (May 2023)

Organization Name

80,000 Hours

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$5,575,238
Date
May 2023
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
May 2023
Grant Title

Swiss Existential Risk Initiative — Summer Research Fellowship

Organization Name

Pivotal Research

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$286,500
Date
May 2023
May 2023
Grant Title

Michael West — Pivotal Essay Contest

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$80,500
Date
May 2023
May 2023
Grant Title

Effective Altruism Consulting Network — General Support (2023)

Organization Name

Effective Altruism Consulting Network

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$380,000
Date
May 2023
April 2023
Grant Title

Rethink Priorities — AI Governance Research (2023)

Organization Name

Rethink Priorities

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$154,810
Date
April 2023
April 2023
Grant Title

80,000 Hours — Marketing (2023)

Organization Name

80,000 Hours

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$2,492,000
Date
April 2023
April 2023
Grant Title

Epoch — General Support (2023)

Organization Name

Epoch

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$6,922,565
Date
April 2023
April 2023
Grant Title

University of Maryland — Policy Fellowship (2023)

Organization Name

University of Maryland

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$312,959
Date
April 2023
April 2023
Grant Title

Victory Briefs Institute — Debate Camp Scholarships (2023)

Organization Name

Victory Briefs Institute

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$40,500
Date
April 2023
April 2023
Grant Title

Conjecture — SERI MATS (2023)

Organization Name

Conjecture

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$245,000
Date
April 2023
April 2023
Grant Title

Stanford University — Language Model Evaluations

Organization Name

Stanford University

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$250,000
Date
April 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 2023
Grant Title

University of Utah — AI Alignment Research

Organization Name

University of Utah

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$140,000
Date
April 2023
April 2023
Grant Title

Center for AI Safety — General Support (2023)

Organization Name

Center for AI Safety

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$4,025,729
Date
April 2023
April 2023
Grant Title

Metaculus — Platform Development (2023)

Organization Name

Metaculus

Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$3,000,000
Date
April 2023
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
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
April 2023
Grant Title

Rethink Priorities — AI Governance Workshop

Organization Name

Rethink Priorities

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$302,390
Date
April 2023
April 2023
Grant Title

National Science Foundation — Safe Learning-Enabled Systems

Organization Name

National Science Foundation

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$5,000,000
Date
April 2023
April 2023
Grant Title

Nuclear Threat Initiative — Biosecurity Program Support (2023)

Organization Name

Nuclear Threat Initiative

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$7,831,500
Date
April 2023
April 2023
Grant Title

Forethought Foundation — Global Priorities Research

Organization Name

Forethought Foundation

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$348,993
Date
April 2023
April 2023
Grant Title

RAND Corporation — Emerging Technology Fellowships and Research

Organization Name

RAND Corporation

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$5,500,000
Date
April 2023
April 2023
Grant Title

AI Safety Support — Situational Awareness Research

Organization Name

AI Safety Support

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$443,716
Date
April 2023
April 2023
Grant Title

Charity Entrepreneurship — Health Security Organizations

Organization Name

Charity Entrepreneurship

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$250,000
Date
April 2023
March 2023
Grant Title

Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security — Biosecurity, Global Health Security, and Global Catastrophic Risks (2023)

Organization Name

Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$10,000,000
Date
March 2023
March 2023
Grant Title

FAR AI — AI Interpretability Research

Organization Name

FAR AI

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$100,000
Date
March 2023
March 2023
Grant Title

University of Illinois — AI Alignment Research

Organization Name

University of Illinois

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$80,000
Date
March 2023
March 2023
Grant Title

Stanford University — Biosecurity Workshop

Organization Name

Stanford University

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$198,000
Date
March 2023