Grants

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Focus Area
Year
Amount
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    Title
  • Organization
    Name
  • Focus
    Area
  • Amount
  • Date
April 2023
Grant Title

Victory Briefs Institute — Debate Camp Scholarships (2023)

Organization Name

Victory Briefs Institute

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$40,500
Date
April 2023
April 2023
Grant Title

Conjecture — SERI MATS (2023)

Organization Name

Conjecture

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$245,000
Date
April 2023
April 2023
Grant Title

Stanford University — Language Model Evaluations

Organization Name

Stanford University

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$250,000
Date
April 2023
April 2023
Grant Title

Epoch — General Support (2023)

Organization Name

Epoch

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$6,922,565
Date
April 2023
April 2023
Grant Title

University of Maryland — Policy Fellowship (2023)

Organization Name

University of Maryland

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$312,959
Date
April 2023
April 2023
Grant Title

80,000 Hours — Marketing (2023)

Organization Name

80,000 Hours

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$2,492,000
Date
April 2023
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
May 2023
Grant Title

Swiss Existential Risk Initiative — Summer Research Fellowship

Organization Name

Pivotal Research

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$286,500
Date
May 2023
May 2023
Grant Title

Michael West — Pivotal Essay Contest

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$80,500
Date
May 2023
May 2023
Grant Title

Effective Altruism Consulting Network — General Support (2023)

Organization Name

Effective Altruism Consulting Network

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$380,000
Date
May 2023
May 2023
Grant Title

Rational Animations — Video Animation Costs (2023)

Organization Name

Rational Animations

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
May 2023
May 2023
Grant Title

80,000 Hours — General Support (May 2023)

Organization Name

80,000 Hours

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$5,575,238
Date
May 2023
May 2023
Grant Title

University of Chicago — Existential Risk Laboratory Fellowship Program

Organization Name

University of Chicago

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$285,000
Date
May 2023
May 2023
Grant Title

Conjecture — AI Safety Technical Program

Organization Name

Conjecture

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$223,569
Date
May 2023
May 2023
Grant Title

RAND Corporation — Biosecurity Policy

Organization Name

RAND Corporation

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$14,000,000
Date
May 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
May 2023
Grant Title

Mila — Workshop on Human-Level AI

Organization Name

Mila

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$50,000
Date
May 2023
May 2023
Grant Title

Centre for the Governance of AI — General Support (2023)

Organization Name

Centre for the Governance of AI

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,500,000
Date
May 2023
May 2023
Grant Title

University of Chicago — Research on Complementary AI

Organization Name

University of Chicago

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$250,000
Date
May 2023
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
May 2023
Grant Title

Council on Strategic Risks — Biosecurity Fellowship

Organization Name

Council on Strategic Risks

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$326,500
Date
May 2023
May 2023
Grant Title

Effective Altruism Funds — Regranting and Operations Support (May 2023)

Organization Name

Effective Altruism Funds

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$3,370,000
Date
May 2023
May 2023
Grant Title

Non-Trivial — Fellowship Program

Organization Name

Non-Trivial

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$315,894
Date
May 2023
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
May 2023
Grant Title

Stiftelsen Impact Academy — Future Academy Program

Organization Name

Stiftelsen Impact Academy

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$62,000
Date
May 2023
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
May 2023
Grant Title

Owain Evans Research Group — AI Evaluations Research

Organization Name

Effective Ventures Foundation USA

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$838,620
Date
May 2023
June 2023
Grant Title

Apollo Research — Startup Funding

Organization Name

Apollo Research

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,535,480
Date
June 2023
June 2023
Grant Title

Redwood Research — General Support (2023)

Organization Name

Redwood Research

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$5,300,000
Date
June 2023
June 2023
Grant Title

Constellation — Coworking Space

Organization Name

Constellation

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$3,000,000
Date
June 2023
June 2023
Grant Title

Centre for Effective Altruism — General Support (2023)

Organization Name

Centre for Effective Altruism

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$11,000,000
Date
June 2023
June 2023
Grant Title

Effective Ventures Foundation USA — Centre for Effective Altruism (June 2023)

Organization Name

Effective Ventures Foundation USA

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$2,360,192
Date
June 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
June 2023
Grant Title

Condor Camp — Summer Program for Brazilian Students

Organization Name

Condor Camp

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$301,197
Date
June 2023
June 2023
Grant Title

Effective Altruism Germany — ML4Good Bootcamp

Organization Name

Effective Altruism Germany

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$40,377
Date
June 2023
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
June 2023
Grant Title

AI Safety Support — SERI MATS 4.0

Organization Name

AI Safety Support

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,240,840
Date
June 2023
June 2023
Grant Title

Foundation for American Innovation — AI Safety Policy Advocacy

Organization Name

Foundation for American Innovation

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$552,500
Date
June 2023
June 2023
Grant Title

BlueDot Impact — General Support (2023)

Organization Name

BlueDot Impact

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$388,890
Date
June 2023
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
July 2023
Grant Title

World Health Organization — Responsible Life Sciences Research

Organization Name

World Health Organization

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$900,000
Date
July 2023
July 2023
Grant Title

Princeton University — Graduate Student Support

Organization Name

Princeton University

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$500,000
Date
July 2023
July 2023
Grant Title

FAR AI — General Support (2023)

Organization Name

FAR AI

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$460,000
Date
July 2023
July 2023
Grant Title

EffiSciences — Existential Risk Programs (2023)

Organization Name

Effisciences

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$205,000
Date
July 2023
July 2023
Grant Title

BlueDot Impact — General Support (July 2023)

Organization Name

BlueDot Impact

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,542,364
Date
July 2023
July 2023
Grant Title

Eradivir — Influenza Antiviral Drug

Organization Name

Eradivir

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
July 2023
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
July 2023
Grant Title

Massachusetts Institute of Technology — AI Trends and Impacts Research (2023)

Organization Name

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$2,911,324
Date
July 2023
August 2023
Grant Title

University of Utah — Course on Human-AI Alignment

Organization Name

University of Utah

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$31,773
Date
August 2023
August 2023
Grant Title

AI Impacts — Expert Survey on Progress in AI

Organization Name

AI Impacts

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$345,000
Date
August 2023
August 2023
Grant Title

Blueprint Biosecurity — General Support

Organization Name

Blueprint Biosecurity

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$50,000
Date
August 2023
August 2023
Grant Title

AI Impacts — General Support (2023)

Organization Name

AI Impacts

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$620,000
Date
August 2023
August 2023
Grant Title

University of Maryland — Research on Neural Network Generalization

Organization Name

University of Maryland

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$350,000
Date
August 2023
August 2023
Grant Title

Modulo Research — AI Safety Research

Organization Name

Modulo Research

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$408,255
Date
August 2023
August 2023
Grant Title

Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative — AI Research and Governance Workshop

Organization Name

Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$38,220
Date
August 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
August 2023
Grant Title

Swiss AI Safety Summer Camp — AI Safety Bootcamp

Organization Name

Swiss AI Safety Summer Camp

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$51,248
Date
August 2023
August 2023
Grant Title

AI Worldviews Contest Winners

Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$225,000
Date
August 2023
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
August 2023
Grant Title

SecureBio — Pathogen Early Warning Project

Organization Name

SecureBio

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$340,000
Date
August 2023
August 2023
Grant Title

Effective Ventures Foundation — AI Safety Communications Centre

Organization Name

Effective Ventures Foundation

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$288,000
Date
August 2023
August 2023
Grant Title

Angela Aristizábal — ITAM AI Futures Fellowship

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$390,155
Date
August 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
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 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
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
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
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
September 2023
Grant Title

Michael Specter — Existential Risk Courses at MIT (2023)

Organization Name

Michael Specter

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$60,000
Date
September 2023
September 2023
Grant Title

Exscientia — Agonists for Interferon Lambda

Organization Name

Exscientia

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$2,300,000
Date
September 2023
September 2023
Grant Title

Matthew Kenney – Language Model Capabilities Benchmarking

Organization Name

Matthew Kenney

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$397,350
Date
September 2023
September 2023
Grant Title

OpenMined — Software for AI Audits

Organization Name

OpenMined

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$6,000,000
Date
September 2023
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 2023
Grant Title

University of Maryland — Policy Fellowship (September 2023)

Organization Name

University of Maryland

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$286,000
Date
September 2023
September 2023
Grant Title

Training for Good — Operating Costs and Tarbell Fellowship

Organization Name

Training for Good

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$575,000
Date
September 2023
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
October 2023
Grant Title

RAND Corporation — Emerging Technology Initiatives

Organization Name

RAND Corporation

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$10,500,000
Date
October 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
October 2023
Grant Title

Convergent Research — Biosecurity Projects 

Organization Name

Convergent Research

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$400,000
Date
October 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
October 2023
Grant Title

Should We Studio — Video Production (2023)

Organization Name

Should We Studio

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$245,000
Date
October 2023
October 2023
Grant Title

Centre for Effective Altruism — Groups Team Support (EVF USA)

Organization Name

Centre for Effective Altruism

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$276,127
Date
October 2023
October 2023
Grant Title

University of California, Berkeley — AI Alignment Workshop

Organization Name

University of California, Berkeley

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$26,000
Date
October 2023
October 2023
Grant Title

80,000 Hours — Marketing (October 2023)

Organization Name

80,000 Hours

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$2,400,000
Date
October 2023
October 2023
Grant Title

Non-Trivial — Fellowship Program (October 2023)

Organization Name

Non-Trivial

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,264,691
Date
October 2023
October 2023
Grant Title

Centre for Effective Altruism — Groups Team Support (EVF)

Organization Name

Centre for Effective Altruism

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$710,042
Date
October 2023
October 2023
Grant Title

Effective Ventures Foundation — Office Space (2023)

Organization Name

Effective Ventures Foundation

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$320,000
Date
October 2023
November 2023
Grant Title

London Initiative for Safe AI (LISA) — General Support

Organization Name

London Initiative for Safe AI

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$237,000
Date
November 2023
November 2023
Grant Title

AI Safety Support — MATS Program (November 2023)

Organization Name

AI Safety Support

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$732,631
Date
November 2023
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
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
November 2023
Grant Title

Stanford Existential Risks Initiative – General Support

Organization Name

Stanford Existential Risks Initiative

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$630,000
Date
November 2023
November 2023
Grant Title

Eleuther AI — Interpretability Research

Organization Name

Eleuther AI

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$2,642,273
Date
November 2023
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
November 2023
Grant Title

Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative — Harvard AI Safety Team

Organization Name

Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$550,000
Date
November 2023
November 2023
Grant Title

Synonym Bio — Food Production Research

Organization Name

Synonym Bio

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$30,000
Date
November 2023
November 2023
Grant Title

Arcadia Impact — University Group Support

Organization Name

Arcadia Impact

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$405,254
Date
November 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
November 2023
Grant Title

ETH Zurich Foundation (USA) — Machine Learning Research Support

Organization Name

ETH Zurich Fondation (USA)

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$25,000
Date
November 2023
November 2023
Grant Title

Forecasting Research Institute — Analysis of Historical Forecasts

Organization Name

Forecasting Research Institute

Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$60,000
Date
November 2023