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Grants
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Grant
Title -
Organization
Name -
Focus
Area -
Amount
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Date
April 2022
Grant Title
Funding for AI Alignment Projects Working With Deep Learning Systems
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$15,700,072
Date
April 2022
October 2022
Grant Title
Funding for Effective Altruism-Related Translation Projects
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,545,047
Date
October 2022
July 2022
Grant Title
Funding for Projects to Estimate Biological Risk
Organization Name
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$1,391,169
Date
July 2022
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
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 2016
Grant Title
Future of Humanity Institute — Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness
Organization Name
Future of Humanity Institute
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$115,652
Date
September 2016
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
March 2017
Grant Title
Future of Humanity Institute — General Support
Organization Name
Future of Humanity Institute
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,995,425
Date
March 2017
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
May 2020
Grant Title
Future of Humanity Institute — Research Scholars Programme
Organization Name
Future of Humanity Institute
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,586,224
Date
May 2020
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
July 2018
Grant Title
Future of Humanity Institute — Work on Global Catastrophic Risks
Organization Name
Future of Humanity Institute
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$12,250,810
Date
July 2018
August 2015
Grant Title
Future of Life Institute — Artificial Intelligence Risk Reduction
Organization Name
Future of Life Institute
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,186,000
Date
August 2015
March 2016
Grant Title
Future of Life Institute — General Support
Organization Name
Future of Life Institute
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$100,000
Date
March 2016
May 2017
Grant Title
Future of Life Institute — General Support (2017)
Organization Name
Future of Life Institute
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$100,000
Date
May 2017
June 2018
Grant Title
Future of Life Institute — General Support (2018)
Organization Name
Future of Life Institute
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$250,000
Date
June 2018
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 2020
Grant Title
Future of Life Institute — General Support (2020)
Organization Name
Future of Life Institute
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$176,000
Date
November 2020
March 2024
Grant Title
FutureHouse — Benchmarks for Biology Research and Development
Organization Name
FutureHouse
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$2,946,250
Date
March 2024
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
December 2021
Grant Title
Gaëtan Selle — Videos About Longtermism
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$50,000
Date
December 2021
February 2017
Grant Title
Genspace — DIYbio and FBI Meeting
Organization Name
Genspace
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$15,000
Date
February 2017
May 2017
Grant Title
Genspace — DIYbio Labs Project
Organization Name
Genspace
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$454,025
Date
May 2017
June 2016
Grant Title
George Mason University — Research into Future Artificial Intelligence Scenarios
Organization Name
George Mason University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$277,435
Date
June 2016
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
March 2017
Grant Title
Georgetown Center for Global Health Science and Security — General Support (2017)
Organization Name
Georgetown Center for Global Health Science and Security
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$3,500,000
Date
March 2017
February 2018
Grant Title
Georgetown Center for Global Health Science and Security — General Support (2018)
Organization Name
Georgetown Center for Global Health Science and Security
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$44,627
Date
February 2018
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
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
January 2019
Grant Title
Georgetown University — Center for Security and Emerging Technology
Organization Name
Center for Security and Emerging Technology
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$55,000,000
Date
January 2019
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 2022
Grant Title
Georgetown University — Policy Fellowship (2022)
Organization Name
Georgetown University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$239,061
Date
December 2022
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
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
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
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
March 2024
Grant Title
Global Challenges Project — General Support (2024)
Organization Name
Global Challenges Project
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$441,000
Date
March 2024
November 2020
Grant Title
Global Health Security Network — Global Health Security Conference
Organization Name
Global Health Security Network
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$50,000
Date
November 2020
August 2022
Grant Title
Global Priorities Institute — General Support (2022)
Organization Name
Global Priorities Institute
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$2,296,001
Date
August 2022
February 2023
Grant Title
Global Priorities Institute — General Support (2023)
Organization Name
Global Priorities Institute
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$2,506,291
Date
February 2023
October 2023
Grant Title
Global Priorities Institute — General Support (October 2023)
Organization Name
Global Priorities Institute
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$3,078,461
Date
October 2023
August 2018
Grant Title
GoalsRL — Workshop on Goal Specifications for Reinforcement Learning
Organization Name
GoalsRL
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$7,500
Date
August 2018
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
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
March 2024
Grant Title
Good Impressions — Amazon Advertising Campaign
Organization Name
Good Impressions
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$60,000
Date
March 2024
March 2020
Grant Title
Good Judgment Inc. — COVID-19 Forecasting
Organization Name
Good Judgment Inc.
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$75,500
Date
March 2020
January 2023
Grant Title
Good Judgment Inc. — Forecasting Review on Power-Seeking AI
Organization Name
Good Judgment Inc.
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$231,000
Date
January 2023
February 2023
Grant Title
Good Judgment Inc. — H5N1 Forecasts
Organization Name
Good Judgment Inc.
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$150,000
Date
February 2023
May 2020
Grant Title
Gryphon Scientific — Empirical Biosafety Research
Organization Name
Gryphon Scientific
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$2,000,000
Date
May 2020
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 2022
Grant Title
Hamish Huggard — EA Content Creation
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$83,000
Date
November 2022
January 2024
Grant Title
Harvard University — AI Interpretability, Controllability, and Safety Research
Organization Name
Harvard University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
January 2024
June 2020
Grant Title
Harvard University — Biosecurity and Biosafety
Organization Name
Harvard University
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$315,000
Date
June 2020
January 2023
Grant Title
Harvard University — Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics
Organization Name
Harvard University
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$190,000
Date
January 2023
December 2016
Grant Title
Harvard University — Solar Geoengineering Research Program
Organization Name
Harvard University
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$2,500,000
Date
December 2016
November 2022
Grant Title
Helena — Health Security Policy
Organization Name
Helena
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$500,000
Date
November 2022
January 2023
Grant Title
High Impact Medicine — Community Building for Medical Students
Organization Name
High Impact Medicine
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$134,000
Date
January 2023
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 2021
Grant Title
Hypermind — AI Forecasting
Organization Name
Hypermind
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$147,180
Date
March 2021
March 2021
Grant Title
Hypermind — AI Forecasting Tournament
Organization Name
Hypermind
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$121,124
Date
March 2021
February 2021
Grant Title
Hypermind — COVID-19 Forecasting
Organization Name
Hypermind
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$125,820
Date
February 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
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
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
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
February 2021
Grant Title
Immune Observatory — Single-Dose COVID-19 Vaccine Modeling
Organization Name
Immune Observatory
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$100,000
Date
February 2021
January 2024
Grant Title
Institute for AI Policy & Strategy — General Support
Organization Name
Institute for AI Policy and Strategy
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$2,916,898
Date
January 2024
February 2024
Grant Title
Institute for Replication — Large Language Model Replication Games
Organization Name
Institute for Replication
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$174,112
Date
February 2024
November 2017
Grant Title
InterAcademy Partnership — Side Event at the BWC Meeting of State Parties
Organization Name
InterAcademy Partnership
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$14,605
Date
November 2017
May 2020
Grant Title
International Conference on Learning Representations — Machine Learning Paper Awards
Organization Name
International Conference on Learning Representations
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$3,500
Date
May 2020
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
November 2022
Grant Title
Jacob Steinhardt — AI Alignment Research
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$100,000
Date
November 2022
January 2023
Grant Title
Jake Pencharz — Metagenomic Sequencing Research
Organization Name
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$12,900
Date
January 2023
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
January 2023
Grant Title
Jeremy Rubinoff — AI Safety Retreat
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$16,587
Date
January 2023
December 2022
Grant Title
Jérémy Scheurer — Independent AI Alignment Research
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$110,000
Date
December 2022
June 2018
Grant Title
Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security — SynBioBeta 2018 Meeting
Organization Name
Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$169,600
Date
June 2018
January 2017
Grant Title
Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security — Biosecurity, Global Health Security, and Global Catastrophic Risks (2017)
Organization Name
Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$16,000,000
Date
January 2017
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
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
September 2022
Grant Title
Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security — Educational Degree Program
Organization Name
Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$3,908,161
Date
September 2022
October 2016
Grant Title
Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security — Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity Initiative
Organization Name
Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$2,744,000
Date
October 2016
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
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
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
August 2022
Grant Title
Juan Gil — Book Distribution
Organization Name
Juan Gil
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$24,745
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title
Kuhan Jeyapragasan — University Group Organizing
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$250,000
Date
August 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
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
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
April 2024
Grant Title
LASR Labs — Fellowship Program
Organization Name
LASR Labs
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$288,732
Date
April 2024
December 2022
Grant Title
Latecomer Institute — Longtermist Magazine
Organization Name
Latecomer Institute
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$234,000
Date
December 2022
January 2023
Grant Title
Lausanne AI Alignment — AI Alignment Bootcamp
Organization Name
Lausanne AI Alignment
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$21,092
Date
January 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
January 2024
Grant Title
Lee Foster — LLM Misuse Database
Organization Name
Lee Foster
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$223,000
Date
January 2024
June 2023
Grant Title
Legal Priorities Project — General Support
Organization Name
Legal Priorities Project
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$170,000
Date
June 2023
August 2023
Grant Title
Legal Priorities Project — Law & AI Summer Research Fellowship
Organization Name
Legal Priorities Project
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$75,000
Date
August 2023
February 2023
Grant Title
Legal Priorities Project — Litigation Research
Organization Name
Legal Priorities Project
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$34,000
Date
February 2023
April 2020
Grant Title
LessWrong — General Support
Organization Name
LessWrong
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$300,000
Date
April 2020
May 2021