Trace

AI Safety Tactical Opportunities Fund

fund · AISTOF, JueYan Zhang / AISTOF

Total granted
$47,000,000
Grants
48
Average size
$1,021,739
Coverage
9%
itemized by recipient
Years active
2023–26

Grants over time

$0$10M$20M$30M2023202420252026

Biggest cause areas

AI safety$42,765,76891%5
Technical AI safety research$1,656,9234%15
Other$749,1622%6
AI safety meta$669,8611%4
AI safety fieldbuilding$508,1901%10
EA infrastructure$350,0001%1
AI governance, policy, and advocacy$144,2060%3
AI safety adjacent$120,8900%1

Biggest recipients

Thomas Jiralerspong$473,3321%2
Peter van Hardenberg$436,8611%1
Chris Canal$400,0001%1
Seldon$355,0001%1
Mox$350,0001%1
Stewy Slocum$245,0001%1
Geodesic Research$200,0000%1
Aashka Patel$159,1530%3

Grants made

DateRecipientViaAmountCauseSourcePurpose
Sep 1, 2026Thomas JiralerspongManifund$390,000OthermanifundExploring the Benefits of Alignment Pretraining
Sep 1, 2026Thomas JiralerspongManifund$83,332Technical AI safety researchmanifundCompute funding for five mentored AI safety research projects
Sep 1, 2026Faithful Preference Learning: Cognitively-Aligned Post-TrainingManifund$15,000AI safetymanifundFaithful Preference Learning : Cognitively-Aligned Post-Training
Aug 21, 2026Genevieve SheaManifund$35,000Other existential riskmanifundFrontier AI Election Evaluation Framework
Aug 20, 2026Logan GravesManifund$8,022InterpretabilitymanifundBelief state geometry of language model personas
Aug 20, 2026Paul WangManifund$50,000Technical governancemanifundPostdoc on verification protocols for frontier AI training
Aug 20, 2026Aryo Pradipta GemaManifund$33,439InterpretabilitymanifundWhat Factors Influence Chain-of-Thought Faithfulness?
Aug 20, 2026BAISHManifund$18,000Local groupsmanifundHelp the Argentinian AI Safety Community Grow
Aug 20, 2026SeparatrixManifund$150,000OthermanifundSeparatrix
Aug 19, 2026Stewy SlocumManifund$245,000EvalsmanifundToward a Superhuman, Open-Ended Alignment Auditor
Aug 13, 2026AI Safety Hong KongManifund$85,000Local groupsmanifundAI Safety Hong Kong (AISHK)
Jul 17, 2026Cedric PotvliegeManifund$80,000ControlmanifundShutdown evaluations for AI agents
Jul 15, 2026Elliot ArledgeManifund$15,000OthermanifundKernelBench: an independent benchmark for AI-automated GPU kernel engineering
Jul 13, 2026Alexander (Sandy) FraserManifund$76,621InterpretabilitymanifundConcept control in transformers with Sparse Concept Anchoring
Jul 7, 2026Jessica Pu WangManifund$30,000Eventsmanifund2026 European Frontier AI Safety Day
Jul 2, 2026Aashka PatelManifund$149,599Training pipelinesmanifundAI Safety Workshops For 6th-8th Graders in India
Jun 28, 2026Aashka PatelManifund$6,663AdvocacymanifundAI Nutrition Labels For Everyday Consumers & AI Agents: Travel + POC Grant
Apr 2, 2026Jonathan Elsworth EicherManifund$50,000FoundationsmanifundEmergent misalignment and memetic replication in multi-agent codebases
Mar 31, 2026Peter van HardenbergManifund$436,861AI safety metamanifundCollaboration Infrastructure for Safeguarding AI
Mar 19, 2026Rishub JainManifund$30,000EvalsmanifundHuman-AI Complementarity for Identifying Harm
Mar 18, 2026Matei-Alexandru AnghelManifund$5,000EvalsmanifundDystopiaBench
Mar 15, 2026Safe AI Germany (SAIGE)Manifund$80,000Local groupsmanifundSafe AI Germany (SAIGE)
Mar 13, 2026MoxManifund$350,000EA infrastructuremanifundMox: 2026 Fundraiser
Feb 4, 2026Haakon HuynhManifund$23,000Research infrastructuremanifundTowards Shared AI Compute Infrastructure
Feb 3, 2026Aashka PatelManifund$2,891EventsmanifundHelp a Bootstrapped AI Risk Literacy Founder Get To IASEAI 2026 in Paris
Feb 2, 2026AISAManifund$100,000EventsmanifundAI Crisis Convening at India AI Impact Summit 2026
Feb 2, 2026Geodesic ResearchManifund$200,000Org incubation & opsmanifundSeed Funding For Geodesic Research
2026Akshyae SinghOthergrantmaking_aiRecent Update: received funding for our conservative ask from Jueyan Zhang. We are still excited to raise more to fulfill our base ask and support more communicators, and build stronger infrastructure for the comms space.
2026Unknown Recipients~$22,251,572*AI safetyfund_estimatesAggregate estimate — AI safety
Dec 25, 2025Krishna PatelManifund$120,890AI × biomanifundIsolating CBRN Knowledge in LLMs for Safety - Phase 2 (Research)
Dec 3, 2025SeldonManifund$355,000SecuritymanifundAI Security Startup Accelerator Batch #2
Nov 25, 2025LManifund$4,000Career transitionsmanifundVisa fee support for Australian researcher to join a fellowship with Anthropic
Nov 20, 2025Mirco GiacobbeManifund$128,000FoundationsmanifundFormal Certification Technologies for AI Safety
Nov 5, 2025Orpheus LummisManifund$25,700EventsmanifundGuaranteed Safe AI Seminars 2026
Nov 4, 2025Jade MasterManifund$39,009FoundationsmanifundSDCPNs for AI Safety
Oct 31, 2025Chris CanalManifund$400,000EvalsmanifundOperating Capital for AI Safety Evaluation Infrastructure
Oct 14, 2025LuthienManifund$150,000OthermanifundLuthien
Aug 14, 2025Bryce MeyerManifund$10,000Research infrastructuremanifundTransformerLens - Bridge Funding
Aug 6, 2025Coordinal ResearchManifund$110,000Technical AI safety researchmanifundCoordinal Research: Accelerating the research of safely deploying AI systems.
Jul 22, 2025HManifund$87,543International governancemanifundFunding researcher on frontier AI governance inclusive of global majority
Apr 7, 2025Laurence AitchisonManifund$13,500EvalsmanifundBayesian modelling of LLM capabilities from evals
Jan 21, 2025Michaël Rubens TrazziManifund$41,162OthermanifundFinishing The SB-1047 Documentary
2025Unknown Recipients~$13,515,196AI safetyfund_estimatesAggregate estimate — AI safety
Feb 29, 2024JManifund$13,000Career transitionsmanifundStipend to enable a US PhD student to move to the UK for a temporary role with the UK DSIT
Feb 28, 2024SManifund$3,000OthermanifundVisa fee support for US researcher to take on a temporary role with the UK AISI
2024Unknown Recipients~$4,984,000AI safetyfund_estimatesAggregate estimate — AI safety
2023Unknown Recipients~$2,000,000§AI safetyfund_estimatesAggregate estimate — AI safety
TimaeusInterpretabilityorg_reportedwe've raised ~$3.5mm via the SFF, Manifund, LTFF, Open Phil, and AISTOF

* Estimated total given out by the AI Safety Tactical Opportunities Fund in 2026; grants recorded individually in this database are subtracted from the total.

Estimated total given out by the AI Safety Tactical Opportunities Fund in 2025; grants recorded individually in this database are subtracted from the total.

Estimated total given out by the AI Safety Tactical Opportunities Fund in 2024; grants recorded individually in this database are subtracted from the total.

§ Estimated total given out by the AI Safety Tactical Opportunities Fund in 2023; grants recorded individually in this database are subtracted from the total.