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Grants
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Grant
Title -
Organization
Name -
Focus
Area -
Amount
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Date
February 2020
Grant Title
Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense — General Support
Organization Name
Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$2,970,000
Date
February 2020
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
July 2022
Grant Title
Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense — General Support (2022)
Organization Name
Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$5,200,000
Date
July 2022
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
April 2015
Grant Title
Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense
Organization Name
Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$300,000
Date
April 2015
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
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
January 2018
Grant Title
Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense— General Support (2018)
Organization Name
Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$2,588,162
Date
January 2018
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
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
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
August 2023
Grant Title
Blueprint Biosecurity — General Support
Organization Name
Blueprint Biosecurity
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$50,000
Date
August 2023
February 2023
Grant Title
Brian Christian — Psychology Research
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$37,903
Date
February 2023
March 2021
Grant Title
Brian Christian — The Alignment Problem Book Promotion
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$60,859
Date
March 2021
April 2020
Grant Title
Brown Institute for Media Innovation — COVID-19 Rapid Micro-Grants
Organization Name
Brown Institute for Media Innovation
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$15,000
Date
April 2020
January 2023
Grant Title
Byron Cohen — Biosecurity Community Building
Organization Name
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$5,560
Date
January 2023
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
January 2023
Grant Title
Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative — Machine Learning Bootcamps
Organization Name
Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$284,629
Date
January 2023
February 2023
Grant Title
Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative — MIT Office Space
Organization Name
Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$143,751
Date
February 2023
March 2023
Grant Title
Cambridge Effective Altruism — AI Safety Labs
Organization Name
Cambridge Effective Altruism
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$25,239
Date
March 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
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
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
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
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
July 2022
Grant Title
Carnegie Mellon University — Research on Adversarial Examples
Organization Name
Carnegie Mellon University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$343,235
Date
July 2022
December 2021
Grant Title
Cate Hall — Self-Study for Career Transition
Organization Name
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$25,000
Date
December 2021
October 2022
Grant Title
Catherine Brewer — OxAI Safety Hub
Organization Name
OxAI Safety Hub
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$11,622
Date
October 2022
April 2022
Grant Title
Cecil Abungu — Effective Altruism Fellowship in Africa
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$294,000
Date
April 2022
October 2020
Grant Title
Center for a New American Security — AI and Security Projects
Organization Name
Center for a New American Security
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$116,744
Date
October 2020
October 2020
Grant Title
Center for a New American Security — AI Governance Projects
Organization Name
Center for a New American Security
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$24,350
Date
October 2020
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
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
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
August 2017
Grant Title
Center for a New American Security — Technological Risks and National Security
Organization Name
Center for a New American Security
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$260,000
Date
August 2017
July 2022
Grant Title
Center for a New American Security — Work on AI Governance
Organization Name
Center for a New American Security
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$5,149,398
Date
July 2022
November 2022
Grant Title
Center for AI Safety — General Support (2022)
Organization Name
Center for AI Safety
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$5,160,000
Date
November 2022
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
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
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
May 2017
Grant Title
Center for Applied Rationality — European Summer Program on Rationality
Organization Name
Center for Applied Rationality
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$340,000
Date
May 2017
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
January 2018
