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ACX Grants

www.astralcodexten.com · fund · Astral Codex Ten Grants

Total granted
$4,790,000
Grants
121
Average size
$40,252
Coverage
100%
itemized by recipient
Years active
2021–26

Grants over time

$0$500K$1.0M$1.5M$2.0M202120222023202420252026

Biggest cause areas

Other$3,144,00066%74
Biosecurity$490,00010%8
Global health and development$230,0005%6
Animal welfare$180,0004%5
AI safety fieldbuilding$161,0003%5
AI safety meta$134,5003%5
Technical AI safety research$129,5003%6
AI governance, policy, and advocacy$95,0002%2

Biggest recipients

David Carel$150,0003%1
Oxfendazole Development Group$150,0003%1
Daniela Shuman$100,0002%1
Robert Yaman$100,0002%1
African School of Economics$100,0002%1
1Day Sooner$100,0002%1
Joseph Caissie$100,0002%1
Michael Sklar$100,0002%1

Grants made

DateRecipientViaAmountCauseSourcePurpose
Jan 28, 2026Misha GurevichManifund$50,000Biosecuritymanifundmake and sell far-UVC lamps for air disinfection
Jan 12, 2026GGManifund$50,000Animal welfaremanifundEradicate the hidden factory farming of feeder rodents
Jan 12, 2026Yonatan GradManifund$78,000OthermanifundResearch introduction of new antibiotics
Jan 12, 2026400fe9a6-6614-4e98-a334-f7e70a67f3daManifund$70,000OthermanifundAI that standardizes and curates bio datasets
Dec 8, 2025Chetan KharbandaManifund$30,000EA infrastructuremanifundBuilding Effective Giving ecosystem in India
Dec 8, 2025Centre for Future GenerationsManifund$30,000Domestic policymanifundTransformative AI scenarios for EU policymakers
Dec 5, 2025Jacob WittenManifund$80,000OthermanifundmRNA for airway disease
Dec 5, 2025Daniela ShumanManifund$100,000OthermanifundImprove eligibility for organ donation
Nov 26, 2025Ben EngebrethManifund$6,000OthermanifundSearch for more solar system objects
Nov 25, 2025Micaella RogersManifund$50,000OthermanifundLead-acid battery recycling in Philippines
Nov 24, 2025Nishank BhallaManifund$50,000Global health and developmentmanifundVaccine manufacturing platform
Nov 19, 2025Thomas BriggsManifund$5,000OthermanifundCharting the Policy Landscape of Advanced Education in America
Nov 19, 2025Africa Urban LabManifund$85,000OthermanifundYIMBY movement for African cities
Nov 13, 2025Bryan DavisManifund$50,000OthermanifundOpenReg: AI tools for FDA application and reg compliance
Nov 13, 2025Ka Wang PangManifund$10,000OthermanifundHuman Inductive Bias Project
Nov 12, 2025David RozadoManifund$50,000SecuritymanifundDisentangling Political Bias from Epistemic Integrity in AI Systems
Nov 12, 2025Christians for ImpactManifund$40,000EA infrastructuremanifundAdvertise Christians for Impact (EA for Christians)
Nov 11, 2025Good Ancestors PolicyManifund$65,000AI governance, policy, and advocacymanifundGood Ancestors (Australia)
Nov 11, 2025Simon ChenManifund$25,000Strategy & forecastingmanifundAutomated forecasting
Nov 11, 2025Dr. Lewis WallManifund$50,000Global health and developmentmanifundProduce therapeutic food for Ethiopia
Nov 11, 2025Nino O’Shea-NejadManifund$5,000Animal welfaremanifundIs electrical stunning a humane slaughter method for decapods?
Nov 11, 2025Alexander (Olek) PiseraManifund$50,000OthermanifundScale up biologics manufacturing
Nov 6, 2025Screwworm Free FutureManifund$50,000Global health and developmentmanifundScrewworm Free Future: Seizing the Eradication Window
Nov 6, 2025Adam MorrisManifund$15,000InterpretabilitymanifundTrain LLMs in honest introspection
Nov 6, 2025Venkata Subhash Chandra SadhuManifund$23,000OthermanifundAI-assisted low-cost ultrasound scanner
Nov 6, 2025Aaron SilverbookManifund$5,000Alignment methodsmanifund"Sweeten" training corpora with stories of nice AI
Nov 5, 2025Matthew LoftusManifund$45,000Global health and developmentmanifundHIV/TB clinic in Africa
Nov 5, 2025Markus EnglundManifund$50,000Research infrastructuremanifundSoftware to detect data fabrication
Nov 5, 2025Nuño SempereManifund$50,000Other existential riskmanifundForecasting global disasters
Nov 5, 2025Felix Onyeka NwoseManifund$10,000Animal welfaremanifundFish welfare training in Nigeria
Nov 5, 2025Alejandro AcelasManifund$24,000AI × biomanifundAI to screen DNA orders
Nov 5, 2025David CarelManifund$150,000OthermanifundClean Indoor Air for Schools
Nov 5, 2025Saeed AhmadManifund$10,000Technical AI safety researchmanifundCan Fragile Labs Use AI Safely?
Nov 4, 2025The Metascience ObservatoryManifund$25,000Research infrastructuremanifundThe Metascience Observatory
Nov 4, 2025Kasey MarkelManifund$10,000Global health and developmentmanifundGene editing corn for nutrition
Nov 4, 2025Harry WarneManifund$25,000OthermanifundOffline AI voice restoration device for people with voice disorders
Nov 4, 2025Eli ElsterManifund$13,000OthermanifundNative psilocybin use in Southern Africa
Nov 4, 2025Charlie MolthropManifund$5,000Epistemic infrastructuremanifundNormie-friendly prediction market interfaces
Sep 27, 2024Tarbell Center for AI JournalismManifund$32,000Career transitionsmanifundSupport early career journalists covering AI by providing training, funding, and placements at major news outlets.
Mar 6, 2024Samuel CelarekManifund$20,000OthermanifundDevelop an app or website to help parents choose between IVF clinics
Mar 4, 2024İbrahim Çağrı MutafManifund$15,000Animal welfaremanifundImproving fish welfare through producer and retail outreach in Türkiye
Mar 3, 2024Chris LakinManifund$40,000AI safety fieldbuildingmanifundSeed fund for boundaries-based empirical AI safety projects after workshop.
Feb 27, 2024Joshua MorganManifund$8,000OthermanifundTardigrade stress tolerance genes that modified for improved performance in human cells.
Feb 20, 2024Robert YamanManifund$100,000Animal welfaremanifundBuild a new nonprofit thinktank that advances technological solutions to animal welfare challenges
Feb 19, 2024Gene SmithManifund$20,000OthermanifundCreate open source predictors for various genetically influenced traits such as intelligence and disease risk
Feb 18, 2024Tetra JonesManifund$17,000OthermanifundCreate a platform for assurance contracts that looks nice.
Feb 16, 2024Jacob SwettManifund$25,000OthermanifundValidate a solution for ozone generation from far-UVC germicidal light
Feb 15, 2024Duncan PurvisManifund$30,000BiosecuritymanifundInfluenza Pandemic Protection on Day 1 through universal priming vaccines
Feb 15, 2024Aleksandr PutilinManifund$32,500OthermanifundReplicate and extend brain entrainment results
Feb 14, 2024Joshua Michael SparksManifund$50,000S-riskmanifundThe first public benefit biotechnology company with an explicit goal of involuntary suffering abolition.
Feb 14, 2024African School of EconomicsManifund$100,000OthermanifundAfrican School of Economics in Zanzibar charter city
Feb 13, 2024Anthony James MaxinManifund$60,000OthermanifundUse smartphone pupillometry to triage brain injury in rural Missouri.
Feb 13, 2024Nnaemeka Emmanuel NnadiManifund$60,000BiosecuritymanifundCombat global antibiotic resistance
Feb 13, 2024John LohierManifund$13,000OthermanifundConduct field research on informal lead-acid battery recycling supply chains in Nigeria
Feb 13, 2024HealthLearnManifund$25,000Global health and developmentmanifundAssess online training platform for health workers in Nigeria
Feb 13, 2024Alex ToussaintManifund$20,000OthermanifundBuild anti-mosquito drones
Feb 13, 2024Mark WebbManifund$5,000OthermanifundStudy land reform
Feb 13, 2024Chris MManifund$20,000OthermanifundScenario analysis and planning platform for more effective developing world agriculture projects
Feb 13, 2024Mike Saint-AntoineManifund$1,000OthermanifundYoutube tutorial videos about computational biology and bioinformatics
Feb 13, 2024Apart ResearchManifund$59,000Research hubsmanifundApart incubates and facilitates hundreds of AI safety researchers around the globe.
Feb 13, 20241Day SoonerManifund$100,000BiosecuritymanifundAdvocate for a specialized pandemic response team at the FDA
Feb 13, 2024Tugrul IrmakManifund$80,000OthermanifundCharge selective large pore membranes for artificial implantable kidney.
Feb 13, 2024Joseph CaissieManifund$100,000OthermanifundPromote Georgism
Feb 13, 2024Andrew LuskinManifund$25,000OthermanifundDevelop an accessible, low-cost system for single-cell imaging in multiple regions of freely moving organisms
Feb 13, 2024Jordan BraunsteinManifund$17,000OthermanifundAn online platform to solve coordination problems and generate leverage through collective action campaigns
Feb 13, 2024Spencer OrensteinManifund$1,500OthermanifundWrite a good primer on political change.
Feb 2024Elaine Perlman$50,000Otheracx_grantsAdvocacy to modify organ donation laws via the End Kidney Deaths Act. — ACX Grants 2024
Feb 2024John Lohier and Hugo Smith$13,000Otheracx_grantsResearch economic solutions for formalizing lead-acid battery recycling in Nigeria. — ACX Grants 2024
Feb 2024Jordan Braunstein and Tetra Jones$34,000Otheracx_grantsDevelop assurance contract platforms on spartacus.app. — ACX Grants 2024
Feb 2024Alexander Putilin and Andrew X Stewart$32,500Otheracx_grantsReplicate studies on brain wave synchronization and learning. — ACX Grants 2024
Feb 2024Marcin Kowrygo$50,000Otheracx_grantsDevelop painkillers based on a rare genetic mutation affecting pain perception (Far Out Initiative). — ACX Grants 2024
Feb 2024Esben Kran$59,000Technical AI safety research, Org incubation & opsacx_grantsIncubate AI alignment researchers through Apart Research. [AI-related] — ACX Grants 2024
Feb 2024Celene Nightingale$1,000Otheracx_grantsAdvocate for repealing the Interstate Compact on Juveniles' runaway provisions. — ACX Grants 2024
Feb 2024Anthony Maxin and Lynn McGrath$60,000Otheracx_grantsDevelop smartphone pupillometry for neurological diagnosis. — ACX Grants 2024
Feb 2024Greg Sadler$65,000Otheracx_grantsContinue policy advocacy work in Australia via Good Ancestors. — ACX Grants 2024
Feb 2024Chris Mimm$20,000Otheracx_grantsDevelop an agricultural program scenario analysis platform. — ACX Grants 2024
Feb 2024EN (anonymous)$60,000Otheracx_grantsResearch bacteriophage therapy for antibiotic-resistant infections. — ACX Grants 2024
Feb 2024S (anonymous)$7,000Other existential riskacx_grantsProduce forecasting materials for European government policymakers. — ACX Grants 2024
Feb 2024Blueprint Biosecurity$25,000Biosecurityacx_grantsResearch germicidal far-UV-C light safety and ozone scrubbing for biosecurity. — ACX Grants 2024
Feb 2024Chris Lakin and Evan Miyazono$40,000Technical AI safety research, Eventsacx_grantsSupport AI safety research by Conceptual Boundaries Workshop participants. [AI-related] — ACX Grants 2024
Feb 2024C (anonymous)$10,000Otheracx_grantsFurther a political career (details withheld). — ACX Grants 2024
Nov 2022Anonymous (typist for mathematician Saharon Shelah)Otheracx_grantsACXG+ grant (funded by an anonymous outside funder) for a typist to help make Saharon Shelah's handwritten mathematical results suitable for publication. — ACX Grants + (2022)
Nov 2022Luca De LeoTechnical AI safety researchacx_grantsACXG+ grant (funded by an anonymous outside funder) enabling him to start work in AI safety research and secure an internship. [AI-related] — ACX Grants + (2022)
Dec 2021Nikos Bosse$5,000Other existential riskacx_grantsCreation of a wiki about forecasting, with technical articles and superforecaster interviews. — ACX Grants 2021
Dec 2021NA (AshLael)$90,000Otheracx_grantsUsing political expertise to promote effective altruist goals through lobbying or training EAs. — ACX Grants 2021
Dec 2021Michael Sklar$100,000Otheracx_grantsStatistical modeling programs to help automate/streamline the FDA approval process for drug studies. — ACX Grants 2021
Dec 2021Will Jarvis and Lars Doucet$55,000Otheracx_grantsAutomated land value assessment model for Pennsylvania counties (Georgist land value tax groundwork). — ACX Grants 2021
Dec 2021Jimmy Koppel$40,000Otheracx_grantsHybrid intelligent tutoring systems combining computer and human instruction methods. — ACX Grants 2021
Dec 2021Trevor Klee$20,000Otheracx_grantsPharmacokinetic modeling for neurodegenerative and autoimmune disease treatment. — ACX Grants 2021
Dec 2021L (anonymous)$17,000Otheracx_grantsSelective breeding of darkling beetles for improved plastic digestion capability. — ACX Grants 2021
Dec 20211DaySooner and Rethink Priorities$17,500Otheracx_grantsResearch on public attitudes regarding human challenge trials. — ACX Grants 2021
Dec 2021Michael Todhunter$40,000Otheracx_grantsAutomating cell culture media testing to accelerate biology experiments. — ACX Grants 2021
Dec 2021Yoram Bauman$50,000Otheracx_grantsEconomically literate climate change solutions (carbon pricing) ballot campaign work across seven states. — ACX Grants 2021
Dec 2021Delia Grace$30,000Otheracx_grantsMobile slaughterhouse system to prevent African Swine Fever spread in Uganda. — ACX Grants 2021
Dec 2021Alfonso Escudero$75,000Otheracx_grantsPlatform expanding a scientific-collaboration matching model to diverse research fields. — ACX Grants 2021
Dec 2021The Segura Lab at Duke$50,000Otheracx_grantsMaterials research promoting healthy tissue regrowth after stroke. — ACX Grants 2021
Dec 2021Legal Impact for Chickens$72,000Otheracx_grantsLawsuit strategy against factory farms violating animal cruelty laws. — ACX Grants 2021
Dec 2021D (anonymous)$5,000Otheracx_grantsTravel and lost income support for a computer science professor interview circuit. — ACX Grants 2021
Dec 2021Oxfendazole Development Group$150,000Otheracx_grantsDevelopment of oxfendazole, a next-generation antiparasitic drug for deworming. — ACX Grants 2021
Dec 2021Alice Evans$60,000Otheracx_grantsResearch and book on how gender equality develops across different countries. — ACX Grants 2021
Dec 2021Morgan Rivers$30,000Otheracx_grantsImproving food security modeling during global catastrophes for ALLFED. — ACX Grants 2021
Dec 2021Nuño Sempere$10,000Other existential riskacx_grantsMetaforecast website and prediction aggregation/forecasting infrastructure development. — ACX Grants 2021
Dec 2021Nils Kraus$40,000Otheracx_grantsNew measurement methods for precision weighting in human mental predictions. — ACX Grants 2021
Dec 2021Pedro Silva$60,000Otheracx_grantsDiscovering targets of natural antibiotics through computational screening and molecular dynamics simulations. — ACX Grants 2021
Dec 2021SD (anonymous)$5,000Other existential riskacx_grantsHonors thesis funding for neutrino physics research with nuclear disarmament applications. — ACX Grants 2021
Dec 2021Nell Watson$1,000Otheracx_grantsCreation of a hazard symbol for endocrine disruptors. — ACX Grants 2021
Dec 2021S (anonymous)$10,000Otheracx_grantsPolitical career support (details withheld per recipient request). — ACX Grants 2021
Dec 2021Alex Hoekstra$100,000Biosecurityacx_grantsRapid Deployment Vaccine Collaborative for open-source, modular, affordable vaccines. — ACX Grants 2021
Dec 2021Beny Falkovich$25,000Otheracx_grantsCompound screening platform using new imaging technology for psychiatric drug discovery. — ACX Grants 2021
Dec 2021Jeffrey Hsu$50,000Otheracx_grantsIvy Natal startup developing in vitro gametogenesis reproductive technology. — ACX Grants 2021
Dec 2021Troy Davis$10,000Otheracx_grantsCampaign to implement approval voting in Seattle. — ACX Grants 2021
Dec 2021Erik Mohlhenrich$6,000Otheracx_grantsSeeds of Science journal supporting nontraditional scientific publishing with community peer review. — ACX Grants 2021
Dec 2021Kartik Akileswaran and Jonathan Mazumdar$75,000Otheracx_grantsGrowth Teams supporting economic development in low-income countries. — ACX Grants 2021
Dec 2021Stuart Buck$50,000Otheracx_grantsGood Science Project think tank advocating improved US science funding policy. — ACX Grants 2021
Dec 2021D (anonymous)$10,000Training pipelinesacx_grantsSupport for time between master's and PhD for reorientation and skill development in aging/evolution research. — ACX Grants 2021
Dec 2021Nathan Young$5,000EA infrastructureacx_grantsForecasting infrastructure work and effective altruism community bridge-building. — ACX Grants 2021
Dec 2021Spencer Greenberg$40,000Otheracx_grantsPilot of rapid replications of high-impact social science papers. — ACX Grants 2021
Dec 2021Allison Berke$100,000Biosecurityacx_grantsBuilding a biosecurity research hub at Stanford for pandemic and bioweapon defense. — ACX Grants 2021
Dec 2021Siddhartha Roy$25,000Biosecurityacx_grantsCitizen pathogen surveillance kits for drinking water monitoring. — ACX Grants 2021
Dec 2021M (anonymous)$100,000Otheracx_grantsCRISPR tissue 'spellchecking' project (details withheld per recipient request). — ACX Grants 2021
Dec 2021Stephen Grugett, James Grugett, Austin Chen$20,000Otheracx_grantsSubjective-resolution prediction market (Manifold Markets) with user-submitted questions and decentralized arbitration. — ACX Grants 2021