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Grants
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Grant
Title -
Organization
Name -
Focus
Area -
Amount
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Date
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
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
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
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
July 2021
Grant Title
EA Funding for Individuals — Work and Study Support
Organization Name
Focus Area
Other Areas
Amount
$719,034
Date
July 2021
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
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
November 2019
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — CHAI Collaboration (2019)
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$705,000
Date
November 2019
August 2022
Grant Title
Center for Applied Rationality — SPARC (2022)
Organization Name
Center for Applied Rationality
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$700,000
Date
August 2022
March 2023
Grant Title
Global Challenges Project — General Support
Organization Name
Global Challenges Project
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$687,589
Date
March 2023
July 2022
Grant Title
Future Forum Foundation — Future Forum
Organization Name
Future Forum Foundation
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$654,500
Date
July 2022
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
FAR AI — AI Alignment Research Projects
Organization Name
FAR AI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$645,750
Date
January 2024
October 2016
Grant Title
Center for International Security and Cooperation — Megan Palmer’s Biosecurity Research (2016)
Organization Name
Center for International Security and Cooperation
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$643,415
Date
October 2016
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
December 2022
Grant Title
FAR AI — General Support (2022)
Organization Name
FAR AI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$625,000
Date
December 2022
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
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
December 2017
Grant Title
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace — Chinese and Indian Perspectives on Biotech Security Risks
Organization Name
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$613,380
Date
December 2017
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
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
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
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 2020
Grant Title
1Day Sooner — General Support (November 2020)
Organization Name
1Day Sooner
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$600,000
Date
November 2020
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
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
March 2020
Grant Title
Study and Training Related to AI Policy Careers — Scholarship Support
Organization Name
Study and Training Related to AI Policy Careers
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$593,540
Date
March 2020
February 2021
Grant Title
University of Tübingen — Robustness Research (Wieland Brendel)
Organization Name
University of Tübingen
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$590,000
Date
February 2021
May 2022
Grant Title
Effective Altruist Communications Fellowship — Summer 2022 Fellowship
Organization Name
Effective Altruist Communications Fellowship
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$585,000
Date
May 2022
February 2023
Grant Title
University of Tuebingen — Adversarial Robustness Research
Organization Name
University of Tuebingen
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$575,000
Date
February 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
August 2022
Grant Title
Effective Altruism Funds — Operating Expenses
Organization Name
Effective Altruism Funds
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$573,000
Date
August 2022
May 2018
Grant Title
Early-Career Funding for Global Catastrophic Biological Risks — Scholarship Support (2018)
Organization Name
Early-Career Funding for Global Catastrophic Biological Risks
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$570,000
Date
May 2018
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
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
January 2018
Grant Title
Center for Applied Rationality — SPARC (2018)
Organization Name
Center for Applied Rationality
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$560,000
Date
January 2018
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
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
November 2020
Grant Title
Massachusetts Institute of Technology — AI Trends and Impacts Research (2020)
Organization Name
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$550,688
Date
November 2020
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
May 2019
Grant Title
Global Catastrophic Risks Scholarships — Scholarship Support (2019)
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$547,800
Date
May 2019
February 2020
Grant Title
WestExec — Report on Assurance in Machine Learning Systems
Organization Name
WestExec
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$540,000
Date
February 2020
May 2018
Grant Title
Ought — General Support (2018)
Organization Name
Ought
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$525,000
Date
May 2018
January 2023
Grant Title
Biosecurity Fellowships
Organization Name
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$520,252
Date
January 2023
May 2016
Grant Title
iGEM — Synthetic Biology Safety and Security (2016)
Organization Name
International Genetically Engineered Machine Foundation
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$520,000
Date
May 2016
December 2020
Grant Title
University of Toronto — Machine Learning Research
Organization Name
University of Toronto
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$520,000
Date
December 2020
July 2019
Grant Title
European Summer Program on Rationality — General Support
Organization Name
European Summer Program on Rationality
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$510,000
Date
July 2019
February 2018
Grant Title
80,000 Hours — General Support (2018)
Organization Name
80,000 Hours
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$510,000
Date
February 2018
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
July 2015
Grant Title
Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative — General Support
Organization Name
Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$500,000
Date
July 2015
March 2016
Grant Title
University of Pennsylvania — Philip Tetlock on Forecasting
Organization Name
University of Pennsylvania
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$500,000
Date
March 2016
January 2017
Grant Title
Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense — General Support (2017)
Organization Name
Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$500,000
Date
January 2017
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
April 2022
Grant Title
Longview Philanthropy — Nuclear Security Grantmaking
Organization Name
Longview Philanthropy
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$500,000
Date
April 2022
November 2022
Grant Title
Helena — Health Security Policy
Organization Name
Helena
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$500,000
Date
November 2022
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
May 2020
Grant Title
Nuclear Threat Initiative — Biosecurity Program Support (May 2020)
Organization Name
Nuclear Threat Initiative
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$500,000
Date
May 2020
August 2016
Grant Title
Machine Intelligence Research Institute — General Support (2016)
Organization Name
Machine Intelligence Research Institute
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$500,000
Date
August 2016
May 2020
Grant Title
1Day Sooner — General Support (May 2020)
Organization Name
1Day Sooner
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$500,000
Date
May 2020
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
FABRIC — Rationality Camp Programs
Organization Name
FABRIC
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$500,000
Date
January 2024
June 2020
Grant Title
Wilson Center — AI Policy Seminar Series (June 2020)
Organization Name
The Wilson Center
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$496,540
Date
June 2020
September 2016
Grant Title
University of Cape Town — Geomagnetics Research
Organization Name
University of Cape Town
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$493,425
Date
September 2016
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
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
February 2017
Grant Title
Nuclear Threat Initiative — Planning Grant for Global Health Security Index
Organization Name
Nuclear Threat Initiative
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$476,859
Date
February 2017
August 2022
Grant Title
Fund for Alignment Research — Language Model Misalignment (2022)
Organization Name
FAR AI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$463,693
Date
August 2022
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
May 2021
Grant Title
LessWrong — General Support (2021)
Organization Name
LessWrong
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$460,000
Date
May 2021
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
May 2017
Grant Title
Genspace — DIYbio Labs Project
Organization Name
Genspace
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$454,025
Date
May 2017
May 2017
Grant Title
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine — International Meeting on Governance of Dual-Use Research
Organization Name
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$452,545
Date
May 2017
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
May 2020
Grant Title
Centre for the Governance of AI — General Support (2020)
Organization Name
Centre for the Governance of AI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$450,000
Date
May 2020
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
November 2022
Grant Title
London Effective Altruism Hub — EA Organizing in London
Organization Name
Arcadia Impact
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$445,000
Date
November 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
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
May 2019
Grant Title
Altruistic Technology Labs — Work on Biological Risk Prevention
Organization Name
Altruistic Technology Labs
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$440,525
Date
May 2019
July 2018
Grant Title
University of Oxford — Research on the Global Politics of AI
Organization Name
University of Oxford
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$429,770
Date
July 2018
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
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
November 2018
Grant Title
iGEM — Synthetic Biology Safety and Security (2018)
Organization Name
International Genetically Engineered Machine Foundation
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$420,000
Date
November 2018
March 2020
Grant Title
Council on Strategic Risks — Biological Weapons Prevention (March 2020)
Organization Name
Council on Strategic Risks
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$410,000
Date
March 2020
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
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
July 2017
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — Core Support and CHAI Collaboration
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$403,890
Date
July 2017
September 2018
Grant Title
Center for a New American Security — Outreach on Technological Risk Led by Richard Danzig
Organization Name
Center for a New American Security
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$400,352
Date
September 2018
July 2018
Grant Title
Wilson Center — AI Policy Seminar Series
Organization Name
The Wilson Center
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$400,000
Date
July 2018
October 2023
Grant Title
Convergent Research — Biosecurity Projects
Organization Name
Convergent Research
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$400,000
Date
October 2023
June 2022
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — SERI Summer Fellowships (2022)
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$400,000
Date
June 2022
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
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
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
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
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
March 2023
Grant Title
Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative — AI Safety Field-Building
Organization Name
Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$387,741
Date
March 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
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
February 2020
