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Grants
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Grant
Title -
Organization
Name -
Focus
Area -
Amount
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Date
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
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
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
July 2019
Grant Title
Metaculus — AI Forecasting Tournament
Organization Name
Metaculus
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$100,000
Date
July 2019
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
September 2019
Grant Title
EA Scholarships — Scholarship Support (2019)
Organization Name
EA Scholarships
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$49,676
Date
September 2019
September 2019
Grant Title
Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security — Biosecurity, Global Health Security, and Global Catastrophic Risks (2019)
Organization Name
Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$20,192,755
Date
September 2019
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
October 2019
Grant Title
Future of Life Institute — General Support (2019)
Organization Name
Future of Life Institute
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$100,000
Date
October 2019
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
November 2019
Grant Title
UC Berkeley — Center for Human-Compatible AI (2019)
Organization Name
University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$200,000
Date
November 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
December 2019
Grant Title
Stanford University — Global Catastrophic Risk Education
Organization Name
Stanford University
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$250,000
Date
December 2019
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
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
January 2020
Grant Title
Press Shop — Support for Human Compatible
Organization Name
Press Shop
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$17,000
Date
January 2020
January 2020
Grant Title
RAND Corporation — Research on the State of AI Assurance Methods
Organization Name
The RAND Corporation
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$30,751
Date
January 2020
January 2020
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — General Support
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$150,000
Date
January 2020
January 2020
Grant Title
Stanford University — AI Safety Seminar
Organization Name
Stanford University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$6,500
Date
January 2020
January 2020
Grant Title
Centre for Effective Altruism — General Support and Community-Building Grants (2020)
Organization Name
Centre for Effective Altruism
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$4,146,795
Date
January 2020
January 2020
Grant Title
Centre for Effective Altruism — Support for The Precipice
Organization Name
Centre for Effective Altruism
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$38,350
Date
January 2020
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
February 2020
Grant Title
Center for Applied Rationality — General Support (2020)
Organization Name
Center for Applied Rationality
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$375,000
Date
February 2020
February 2020
Grant Title
80,000 Hours — General Support (2020)
Organization Name
80,000 Hours
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$3,457,284
Date
February 2020
February 2020
Grant Title
Machine Intelligence Research Institute — General Support (2020)
Organization Name
Machine Intelligence Research Institute
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$7,703,750
Date
February 2020
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
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
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
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
February 2020
Grant Title
Wilson Center — AI Policy Seminar Series (February 2020)
Organization Name
The Wilson Center
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$368,440
Date
February 2020
February 2020
Grant Title
Nuclear Threat Initiative — Biosecurity Program Support (February 2020)
Organization Name
Nuclear Threat Initiative
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$8,000,000
Date
February 2020
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
February 2020
Grant Title
Centre for Effective Altruism — Support for Jade Leung
Organization Name
Centre for Effective Altruism
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$180,000
Date
February 2020
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
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
March 2020
Grant Title
Good Judgment Inc. — COVID-19 Forecasting
Organization Name
Good Judgment Inc.
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$75,500
Date
March 2020
March 2020
Grant Title
Center for Global Development — COVID-19 Local Response Guidelines
Organization Name
Center for Global Development
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$250,000
Date
March 2020
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
March 2020
Grant Title
Johns Hopkins University — Support for Jared Kaplan and Brice Ménard
Organization Name
Johns Hopkins University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$55,000
Date
March 2020
March 2020
Grant Title
Against COVID-19 — COVID-19 Database Support
Organization Name
Against COVID-19
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$10,000
Date
March 2020
April 2020
Grant Title
University of Colorado — COVID-19 Personal Protective Equipment Experiments
Organization Name
University of Colorado
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$250,000
Date
April 2020
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
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
April 2020
Grant Title
Sea-Long Global Respiratory Systems — COVID-19 Ventilation Helmet Production
Organization Name
Sea-Long Global Respiratory Systems
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$325,000
Date
April 2020
April 2020
Grant Title
Rutgers University — Nuclear Conflict Climate Modeling (2020)
Organization Name
Rutgers University
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$3,000,000
Date
April 2020
April 2020
Grant Title
LessWrong — General Support
Organization Name
LessWrong
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$300,000
Date
April 2020
April 2020
Grant Title
World Economic Forum — Global AI Council Workshop
Organization Name
World Economic Forum
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$50,000
Date
April 2020
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
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
May 2020
