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Grants
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Grant
Title -
Organization
Name -
Focus
Area -
Amount
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Date
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
September 2020
Grant Title
Federation of American Scientists — International Science Advisory Body for Biosecurity
Organization Name
Federation of American Scientists
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$175,000
Date
September 2020
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
May 2021
Grant Title
Daniel Dewey — AI Alignment Project
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$175,000
Date
May 2021
December 2022
Grant Title
Purdue University — Language Model Research
Organization Name
Purdue University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$170,000
Date
December 2022
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
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
September 2023
Grant Title
FAR AI — Alignment Workshop
Organization Name
FAR AI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$166,500
Date
September 2023
September 2021
Grant Title
Peter McIntyre — Effective Altruism Community Building Projects
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$165,257
Date
September 2021
February 2023
Grant Title
Longview Philanthropy — Far-UVC Event (2023)
Organization Name
Longview Philanthropy
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$165,000
Date
February 2023
May 2022
Grant Title
Rose Hadshar — Individual longtermism projects
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$163,830
Date
May 2022
February 2018
Grant Title
AI Scholarships — Scholarship Support (2018)
Organization Name
AI Scholarships
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$159,000
Date
February 2018
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
April 2023
Grant Title
Rethink Priorities — AI Governance Research (2023)
Organization Name
Rethink Priorities
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$154,810
Date
April 2023
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
April 2017
Grant Title
BioBricks Foundation — Biosecurity Activities at SB7.0
Organization Name
BioBricks Foundation
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$152,950
Date
April 2017
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
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
June 2018
Grant Title
Machine Intelligence Research Institute — AI Safety Retraining Program
Organization Name
Machine Intelligence Research Institute
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$150,000
Date
June 2018
February 2023
Grant Title
Good Judgment Inc. — H5N1 Forecasts
Organization Name
Good Judgment Inc.
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$150,000
Date
February 2023
March 2023
Grant Title
Forecasting Research Institute — AI Forecasting Project
Organization Name
Forecasting Research Institute
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$150,000
Date
March 2023
January 2021
Grant Title
Berryville Institute of Machine Learning — Machine Learning Security Research
Organization Name
Berryville Institute of Machine Learning
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$150,000
Date
January 2021
March 2021
Grant Title
Hypermind — AI Forecasting
Organization Name
Hypermind
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$147,180
Date
March 2021
May 2023
Grant Title
AI Safety Support — AI Safety Technical Program (May 2023)
Organization Name
AI Safety Support
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$146,165
Date
May 2023
February 2023
Grant Title
Max Henderson — Career Transition
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$145,833
Date
February 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
April 2022
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — David Krueger Collaboration
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$140,050
Date
April 2022
April 2023
Grant Title
University of Utah — AI Alignment Research
Organization Name
University of Utah
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$140,000
Date
April 2023
August 2023
Grant Title
Effective Altruism Canada — Toronto Coworking Space
Organization Name
Effective Altruism Canada
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$135,378
Date
August 2023
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
February 2021
Grant Title
University of Pennsylvania — Geopolitical Forecasting Research (2021)
Organization Name
University of Pennsylvania
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$132,181
Date
February 2021
November 2023
Grant Title
Alignment Research Engineer Accelerator — AI Safety Technical Program (2023)
Organization Name
Alignment Research Engineer Accelerator
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$127,350
Date
November 2023
January 2024
Grant Title
Nice Light — AI Documentary
Organization Name
Nice Light
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$127,070
Date
January 2024
September 2023
Grant Title
Surge AI — Data Production for AI Safety Research
Organization Name
Surge AI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$126,250
Date
September 2023
February 2021
Grant Title
Hypermind — COVID-19 Forecasting
Organization Name
Hypermind
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$125,820
Date
February 2021
August 2022
Grant Title
Support for London Group Organizers
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$125,000
Date
August 2022
December 2022
Grant Title
Tyler Whitmer — Scoping Work for Biosecurity Legal Research
Organization Name
Tyler Whitmer
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$125,000
Date
December 2022
March 2021
Grant Title
Hypermind — AI Forecasting Tournament
Organization Name
Hypermind
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$121,124
Date
March 2021
November 2023
Grant Title
Stanford University — AI Economic Impacts Workshop
Organization Name
Stanford University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$120,000
Date
November 2023
September 2020
Grant Title
Center for Strategic and International Studies — AI Accident Risk and Technology Competition
Organization Name
Center for Strategic and International Studies
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$118,307
Date
September 2020
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
September 2023
Grant Title
Northeastern University — Mechanistic Interpretability Research
Organization Name
Northeastern University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$116,072
Date
September 2023
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
January 2023
Grant Title
UC Santa Cruz — Adversarial Robustness Research (2023)
Organization Name
University of California, Santa Cruz
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$114,000
Date
January 2023
February 2022
Grant Title
AI Funding for Individuals — Work and Study Support
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$113,372
Date
February 2022
January 2023
Grant Title
Bertha von Suttner-Studienwerk — University Scholarships
Organization Name
Bertha von Suttner-Studienwerk
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$110,000
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
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
November 2022
Grant Title
Mordechai Rorvig — Independent AI Journalism
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$110,000
Date
November 2022
September 2023
Grant Title
University of Pennsylvania — AI Governance Roundtables
Organization Name
University of Pennsylvania
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$110,000
Date
September 2023
March 2023
Grant Title
cFactual — Consulting Services
Organization Name
cFactual
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$105,000
Date
March 2023
November 2023
Grant Title
Dandelion Labs — Machine Learning and AI Safety Bootcamps
Organization Name
Dandelion Labs
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$104,803
Date
November 2023
June 2023
Grant Title
Effective Altruism Switzerland — Zurich Coworking Space
Organization Name
Effective Altruism Switzerland
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$101,426
Date
June 2023
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
January 2023
Grant Title
University of British Columbia — AI Alignment Research
Organization Name
University of British Columbia
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$100,375
Date
January 2023
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
November 2022
Grant Title
Jacob Steinhardt — AI Alignment Research
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$100,000
Date
November 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
April 2024
Grant Title
Forecasting Research Institute – Forecasting Benchmark
Organization Name
Forecasting Research Institute
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$100,000
Date
April 2024
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
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
July 2019
Grant Title
Metaculus — AI Forecasting Tournament
Organization Name
Metaculus
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$100,000
Date
July 2019
March 2023
Grant Title
FAR AI — AI Interpretability Research
Organization Name
FAR AI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$100,000
Date
March 2023
February 2024
Grant Title
University of Michigan — Scalable Oversight Research
Organization Name
University of Michigan
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$100,000
Date
February 2024
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
February 2023
Grant Title
Responsible AI Collaborative — AI Incident Database
Organization Name
Responsible AI Collaborative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$100,000
Date
February 2023
July 2018
Grant Title
Stanford University — Machine Learning Security Research Led by Dan Boneh and Florian Tramer
Organization Name
Stanford University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$100,000
Date
July 2018
June 2018
Grant Title
AI Impacts — General Support (2018)
Organization Name
AI Impacts
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$100,000
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
March 2022
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — Support for Kevin Esvelt’s Research
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$100,000
Date
March 2022
February 2022
Grant Title
Prometheus Science Bowl — EA-Themed Science Bowl
Organization Name
Prometheus Science Bowl
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$97,500
Date
February 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
December 2022
Grant Title
Apart Research — AI Alignment Hackathons
Organization Name
Apart Research
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$89,000
Date
December 2022
August 2021
Grant Title
UC Berkeley — Adversarial Robustness Research (Aditi Raghunathan)
Organization Name
University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$87,829
Date
August 2021
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
November 2021
Grant Title
Michael Specter — Course Development Support
Organization Name
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$85,000
Date
November 2021
November 2022
Grant Title
Hamish Huggard — EA Content Creation
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$83,000
Date
November 2022
May 2023
Grant Title
Michael West — Pivotal Essay Contest
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$80,500
Date
May 2023
January 2023
Grant Title
University of Toronto — Alignment Research
Organization Name
University of Toronto
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$80,000
Date
January 2023
March 2023
Grant Title
University of Illinois — AI Alignment Research
Organization Name
University of Illinois
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$80,000
Date
March 2023
September 2021
Grant Title
Stanford University — AI Index
Organization Name
Stanford University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$78,000
Date
September 2021
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 2016
Grant Title
American University — Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment
Organization Name
Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$76,234
Date
May 2016
March 2023
Grant Title
Effective Ventures Foundation USA — Support for What We Owe The Future
Organization Name
Effective Ventures Foundation USA
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$75,617
Date
March 2023
March 2020
Grant Title
Good Judgment Inc. — COVID-19 Forecasting
Organization Name
Good Judgment Inc.
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$75,500
Date
March 2020
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
May 2023
Grant Title
University of Birmingham — Biological Threat Detection Research
Organization Name
University of Birmingham
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$75,000
Date
May 2023
December 2022
Grant Title
Andrew Szanton — Operation Warp Speed Memoir
Organization Name
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$75,000
Date
December 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
February 2022
Grant Title
Fiona Pollack — Effective Altruism Organizing at Harvard
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$75,000
Date
February 2022
September 2023
Grant Title
Forecasting Research Institute — Existential Risk Persuasion Tournament
Organization Name
Forecasting Research Institute
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$75,000
Date
September 2023
January 2023
Grant Title
Longview Philanthropy — Research Support for Kacper Kowalczyk
Organization Name
Longview Philanthropy
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$74,557
Date
January 2023
January 2023
Grant Title
Eon Essay Contest — The Precipice Essay Contest (2023)
Organization Name
Eon Essay Contest
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$73,000
Date
January 2023
July 2021
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — MineRL BASALT Competition
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$70,000
Date
July 2021
July 2021
Grant Title
Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security — Report on Security Clearances
Organization Name
Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$70,000
Date
July 2021
January 2023
Grant Title
Neel Nanda — Interpretability Research
Organization Name
Neel Nanda
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$70,000
Date
January 2023
October 2023
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — University Collaboration Program
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$70,000
Date
October 2023
September 2023
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — Scalable Oversight Dataset
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$70,000
Date
September 2023
September 2020
Grant Title
Center for International Security and Cooperation — AI Accident Risk and Technology Competition
Organization Name
Center for International Security and Cooperation
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$67,000
Date
September 2020
December 2023