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Grants
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Grant
Title -
Organization
Name -
Focus
Area -
Amount
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Date
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
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
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
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
Century Fellowship — 2022 Cohort
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,889,027
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
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
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
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
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
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
May 2022
Grant Title
Metaculus — Platform Development
Organization Name
Metaculus
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$5,500,000
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Longview Philanthropy — Nuclear Security Grantmaking
Organization Name
Longview Philanthropy
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$500,000
Date
April 2022
April 2022
Grant Title
University of Illinois — Course Development Support (Ben Levinstein)
Organization Name
University of Illinois
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$58,141
Date
April 2022
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
March 2022
Grant Title
Paris Peace Forum — Global Commission on Governing Risks from Climate Overshoot
Organization Name
Global Commission on Governing Risks from Climate Overshoot
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$616,305
Date
March 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
March 2022
Grant Title
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace — AI Governance Research
Organization Name
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$597,717
Date
March 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
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 2022
Grant Title
Usman Anwar — Research Collaboration with David Krueger
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$6,526
Date
March 2022
March 2022
Grant Title
Massachusetts Institute of Technology — AI Trends and Impacts Research (2022)
Organization Name
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$13,277,348
Date
March 2022
March 2022
Grant Title
Rethink Priorities — AI Governance Research (2022)
Organization Name
Rethink Priorities
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$2,728,319
Date
March 2022
March 2022
Grant Title
Atlas Fellowship — Scholarships and Summer Program for Students
Organization Name
Atlas Fellowship
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$5,000,000
Date
March 2022
March 2022
Grant Title
Centre for Effective Altruism — General Support (2022)
Organization Name
Centre for Effective Altruism
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$26,000,000
Date
March 2022
March 2022
Grant Title
Cambridge Existential Risk Initiative — Summer Research Program
Organization Name
Cambridge Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$509,543
Date
March 2022
March 2022
Grant Title
Egor Krasheninnikov — Research Collaboration with David Krueger
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$6,526
Date
March 2022
March 2022
Grant Title
Stiftung Neue Verantwortung — AI Policy Analysis
Organization Name
Stiftung Neue Verantwortung
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$444,000
Date
March 2022
March 2022
Grant Title
Alignment Research Center — General Support
Organization Name
Alignment Research Center
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$265,000
Date
March 2022
February 2022