Grants

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Funding Type
Focus Area
Year
Amount
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    Title
  • Organization
    Name
  • Focus
    Area
  • Amount
  • Date
April 2022
Grant Title

Longview Philanthropy — Nuclear Security Grantmaking

Organization Name

Longview Philanthropy

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$500,000
Date
April 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
April 2022
Grant Title

AI Safety Support — Research on Trends in Machine Learning

Organization Name

AI Safety Support

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$42,000
Date
April 2022
April 2022
Grant Title

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — SERI MATS Program (2022)

Organization Name

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,008,127
Date
April 2022
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
April 2022
Grant Title

Effective Altruism Foundation — European Policy Research and Advocacy (April 2022)

Organization Name

Effective Altruism Foundation

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$200,000
Date
April 2022
April 2022
Grant Title

Open Phil AI Fellowship — 2022 Class

Organization Name

Open Phil AI Fellowship

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,840,000
Date
April 2022
April 2022
Grant Title

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — AI Standards (2022)

Organization Name

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$210,000
Date
April 2022
April 2022
Grant Title

Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity — AI Standards (2022)

Organization Name

University of California, Berkeley

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$20,000
Date
April 2022
April 2022
Grant Title

OpenMined — Research on Privacy-Enhancing Technologies and AI Safety

Organization Name

OpenMined

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$28,320
Date
April 2022
May 2022
Grant Title

Madhu Sriram — Career Transition and Planning Grant

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$50,000
Date
May 2022
May 2022
Grant Title

Centre for Effective Altruism — Research Assistant for Jonas Sandbrink

Organization Name

Centre for Effective Altruism

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$77,000
Date
May 2022
May 2022
Grant Title

European Summer Program on Rationality — General Support (2022)

Organization Name

European Summer Program on Rationality

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$4,715,000
Date
May 2022
May 2022
Grant Title

Alvea — DNA Vaccine Platform

Organization Name

Alvea

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$5,000,000
Date
May 2022
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
May 2022
Grant Title

Victory Briefs Institute — Effective Altruism Curriculum for Debaters

Organization Name

Victory Briefs Institute

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$95,000
Date
May 2022
May 2022
Grant Title

Rose Hadshar — Individual longtermism projects

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$163,830
Date
May 2022
May 2022
Grant Title

Metaculus — Platform Development

Organization Name

Metaculus

Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$5,500,000
Date
May 2022
May 2022
Grant Title

80,000 Hours — General Support (2022)

Organization Name

80,000 Hours

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,250,000
Date
May 2022
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
June 2022
Grant Title

80,000 Hours — Marketing

Organization Name

80,000 Hours

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$3,000,000
Date
June 2022
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 2022
Grant Title

AI Impacts — General Support

Organization Name

AI Impacts

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$364,893
Date
June 2022
June 2022
Grant Title

Open Philanthropy Undergraduate Scholarships (2022)

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$2,392,682
Date
June 2022
June 2022
Grant Title

University of Edinburgh — Effective Altruism Psychology Course

Organization Name

University of Edinburgh

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$47,000
Date
June 2022
June 2022
Grant Title

Epoch — General Support

Organization Name

Epoch

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,960,000
Date
June 2022
June 2022
Grant Title

Century Fellowship — 2022 Cohort

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,889,027
Date
June 2022
June 2022
Grant Title

University of Chicago — Chicago School of Existential Risk

Organization Name

University of Chicago

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$207,000
Date
June 2022
June 2022
Grant Title

Ajantha Nadesalingam — Effective Altruism Blog

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$9,120
Date
June 2022
June 2022
Grant Title

Columbia University — Far-UVC Sterilization Research

Organization Name

Columbia University

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$3,200,000
Date
June 2022
June 2022
Grant Title

Convergent Research — Sequencing Roadmap

Organization Name

Convergent Research

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$250,000
Date
June 2022
June 2022
Grant Title

Universidad de Sevilla — Course on Effective Altruism

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$19,982
Date
June 2022
June 2022
Grant Title

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — Language Model Alignment Research

Organization Name

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$40,000
Date
June 2022
July 2022
Grant Title

Stanford University — AI Alignment Research (Barrett and Viteri)

Organization Name

Stanford University

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$153,820
Date
July 2022
July 2022
Grant Title

Non-Trivial Pursuits — General Support

Organization Name

Non-Trivial

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,005,000
Date
July 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

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
July 2022
Grant Title

Biosecure — Biological Weapons Convention Verification Workshop

Organization Name

Biosecure Ltd

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$155,714
Date
July 2022
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
July 2022
Grant Title

University of Washington — Philosophy of AI Course Development

Organization Name

University of Washington

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$16,500
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
July 2022
Grant Title

Aaron Mayer — Effective Altruism Community Growth Projects

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$85,000
Date
July 2022
July 2022
Grant Title

Apollo Fellowship — Effective Altruism Debate Camp

Organization Name

Apollo Fellowship

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$321,838
Date
July 2022
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
July 2022
Grant Title

Ann Garth – Climate Change Research

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$5,250
Date
July 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

Daniel Dewey — AI Alignment Projects (2022)

Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$175,000
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

Redwood Research — General Support (2022)

Organization Name

Redwood Research

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$10,700,000
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

Effektiv Spenden — German Translation of The Life You Can Save

Organization Name

Effektiv Spenden

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$25,458
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

Centre for Effective Altruism — Biosecurity Coworking Space

Organization Name

Centre for Effective Altruism

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$5,318,000
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

Arizona State University — Adversarial Robustness Research

Organization Name

Arizona State University

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$200,000
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

Support for London Group Organizers

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$125,000
Date
August 2022
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
August 2022
Grant Title

Centre for Effective Altruism — Harvard Square Coworking Space

Organization Name

Centre for Effective Altruism

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$8,875,000
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
August 2022
Grant Title

Alexandra Balwit — Publicity for The Long View

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$45,000
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

Associated Students of Stanford University — Stanford Law School EA Group

Organization Name

Associated Students of Stanford University

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$10,000
Date
August 2022
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
August 2022
Grant Title

Centre for Effective Altruism — Harvard AI Safety Office

Organization Name

Centre for Effective Altruism

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$250,000
Date
August 2022
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
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
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
September 2022
Grant Title

AI Safety Hub — Startup Costs

Organization Name

AI Safety Hub

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$203,959
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title

Lightcone Infrastructure – General Support

Organization Name

Lightcone Infrastructure

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$4,500,000
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title

University Organizer Fellowship

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$5,597,743
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title

Centre for the Governance of AI — Compute Strategy Workshop

Organization Name

Centre for the Governance of AI

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$50,532
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title

Riley Harris — Global Priorities Research Blog

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$65,000
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title

Michael Specter — Existential Risk Courses at MIT

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$110,000
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title

AI Alignment Awards — Shutdown Problem Contest

Organization Name

AI Alignment Awards

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$75,000
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title

Effective Altruism Funds — Infrastructure Fund Regranting

Organization Name

Effective Altruism Funds

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$4,929,000
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title

Centre for the Governance of AI — Research Assistant

Organization Name

Centre for the Governance of AI

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$19,200
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title

American University — Solar Geoengineering Initiative

Organization Name

American University

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$100,000
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title

Princeton University — Existential Risk Course Development

Organization Name

Princeton University

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$27,555
Date
September 2022
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
September 2022
Grant Title

University of Queensland — Online EA Course

Organization Name

University of Queensland

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$36,561
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title

Wilton Park — Biological Weapons Convention Retreat

Organization Name

Wilton Park

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$47,722
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title

Council on Strategic Risks — Biosecurity Fellowships and Policy Work

Organization Name

Council on Strategic Risks

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$2,898,350
Date
September 2022
October 2022
Grant Title

Alvea — Drug Development Acceleration (October 2022)

Organization Name

Alvea

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$1,250,000
Date
October 2022
October 2022
Grant Title

Trevor Woolley — Effective Altruism Economics Course 

Organization Name

University of California, Berkeley

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$10,350
Date
October 2022
October 2022
Grant Title

Thomas Liao — Foundation Model Tracker

Organization Name

Foundation Model Tracker

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$15,000
Date
October 2022
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
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
October 2022
Grant Title

Travel Grants for the Biological Weapons Convention Review Conference (2022)

Organization Name
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$48,032
Date
October 2022
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
November 2022
Grant Title

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — General Support (2022)

Organization Name

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$100,000
Date
November 2022
November 2022
Grant Title

Nathan Maya — Effective Altruism Student Retreat

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$11,850
Date
November 2022
November 2022
Grant Title

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — Machine Learning Alignment Theory Scholars

Organization Name

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$2,047,268
Date
November 2022
November 2022
Grant Title

Mordechai Rorvig — Independent AI Journalism

Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$110,000
Date
November 2022
November 2022
Grant Title

Hamish Huggard — EA Content Creation

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$83,000
Date
November 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
November 2022
Grant Title

Helena — Health Security Policy

Organization Name

Helena

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$500,000
Date
November 2022
November 2022
Grant Title

Jacob Steinhardt — AI Alignment Research

Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$100,000
Date
November 2022
November 2022
Grant Title

Alignment Research Center — General Support (November 2022)

Organization Name

Alignment Research Center

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,250,000
Date
November 2022
November 2022
Grant Title

Seton Hall University — Longtermism Course Development

Organization Name

Seton Hall University

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$39,780
Date
November 2022
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
November 2022
Grant Title

AI Safety Support — SERI MATS Program

Organization Name

AI Safety Support

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,538,000
Date
November 2022
November 2022
Grant Title

Michael Ward — Effective Altruism Book Purchases

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$2,400
Date
November 2022
November 2022
Grant Title

AI Safety Hub — Safety Labs

Organization Name

AI Safety Hub

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$47,359
Date
November 2022
November 2022
Grant Title

SecureBio — Biosecurity Research

Organization Name

SecureBio

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$1,420,937
Date
November 2022
November 2022
Grant Title

Open Philanthropy Biosecurity Scholarships (2023)

Organization Name

Scholarship (Various)

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$352,312
Date
November 2022
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