Grants

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Funding Type
Focus Area
Year
Amount
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    Title
  • Organization
    Name
  • Focus
    Area
  • Amount
  • Date
October 2023
Grant Title

Australian Alliance for Animals — Farm Animal Welfare Advocacy

Organization Name

Australian Alliance for Animals

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$150,000
Date
October 2023
February 2024
Grant Title

AWARE — Pig Welfare Reforms (2024)

Organization Name

Animal Welfare Awareness, Research, and Education

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$301,522
Date
February 2024
March 2019
Grant Title

Ayni Institute — Criminal Justice Reform Coaching (2019)

Organization Name

Ayni Institute

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$264,000
Date
March 2019
January 2021
Grant Title

Ayni Institute — Criminal Justice Reform Coaching (2021)

Organization Name

Ayni Institute

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$100,000
Date
January 2021
July 2016
Grant Title

Ayni Institute — Momentum Training

Organization Name

Ayni Institute

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$40,000
Date
July 2016
December 2016
Grant Title

Ayni Institute — Movement Ecology and Metrics

Organization Name

Ayni Institute

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$250,000
Date
December 2016
March 2016
Grant Title

Ayni Institute — Movement Ecology Training

Organization Name

Ayni Institute

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$110,000
Date
March 2016
October 2021
Grant Title

Ayni Institute — Movement Strategy and Trainings

Organization Name

Ayni Institute

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$480,000
Date
October 2021
February 2023
Grant Title

Ayuda Efectiva — General Support

Organization Name

Ayuda Efectiva

Focus Area
Effective Altruism (Global Health and Wellbeing)
Amount
$225,000
Date
February 2023
March 2021
Grant Title

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative – SERI Summer Fellowships

Organization Name

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$210,000
Date
March 2021
July 2021
Grant Title

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — AI Standards (2021)

Organization Name

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$300,000
Date
July 2021
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
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
February 2022
Grant Title

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — CHAI Collaboration (2022)

Organization Name

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,126,160
Date
February 2022
January 2024
Grant Title

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — CHAI Internships

Organization Name

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$500,000
Date
January 2024
January 2019
Grant Title

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — CHAI ML Engineers

Organization Name

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$250,000
Date
January 2019
July 2017
Grant Title

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — Core Support and CHAI Collaboration

Organization Name

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$403,890
Date
July 2017
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
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
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
July 2023
Grant Title

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — Lab Retreat

Organization Name

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$35,000
Date
July 2023
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
March 2024
Grant Title

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — Latent Adversarial Training Project 

Organization Name

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$45,000
Date
March 2024
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 2023
Grant Title

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — MATS (November 2023)

Organization Name

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$2,641,368
Date
November 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
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
November 2021
Grant Title

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — Sculpting Evolution Collaboration

Organization Name

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$451,571
Date
November 2021
June 2023
Grant Title

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — SERI MATS 4.0

Organization Name

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$428,942
Date
June 2023
November 2021
Grant Title

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — SERI MATS Program

Organization Name

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$195,000
Date
November 2021
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
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
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
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
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
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 2013
Grant Title

BetaGov

Organization Name

Pepperdine University

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$200,000
Date
December 2013
March 2023
Grant Title

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center — Long COVID Therapy Trial

Organization Name

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$1,500,000
Date
March 2023
January 2018
Grant Title

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center — Sepsis Therapy Clinical Trial (Michael Donnino)

Organization Name

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$2,939,400
Date
January 2018
April 2016
Grant Title

Better Boulder — YIMBY 2016

Organization Name

Better Boulder

Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Amount
$37,000
Date
April 2016
February 2018
Grant Title

Better Eating International — Millennial Vegan Survey

Organization Name

Better Eating International

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$67,110
Date
February 2018
September 2018
Grant Title

Better Eating International — Organizational Development

Organization Name

Better Eating International

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$12,690
Date
September 2018
November 2020
Grant Title

Binx — COVID-19 Testing Platform

Organization Name

Binx

Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$2,000,000
Date
November 2020
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
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
December 2018
Grant Title

Biosecure Ltd — Campaign Against Bioweapons Research

Organization Name

Biosecure Ltd

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$25,000
Date
December 2018
January 2023
Grant Title

Biosecurity Fellowships

Organization Name
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$520,252
Date
January 2023
December 2021
Grant Title

Biosecurity Funding for Individuals — Work and Study Support

Organization Name
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$554,910
Date
December 2021
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