fund · AISTOF, JueYan Zhang / AISTOF
| AI safety | $42,765,768 | 91% | 5 |
| Technical AI safety research | $1,656,923 | 4% | 15 |
| Other | $749,162 | 2% | 6 |
| AI safety meta | $669,861 | 1% | 4 |
| AI safety fieldbuilding | $508,190 | 1% | 10 |
| EA infrastructure | $350,000 | 1% | 1 |
| AI governance, policy, and advocacy | $144,206 | 0% | 3 |
| AI safety adjacent | $120,890 | 0% | 1 |
| Thomas Jiralerspong | $473,332 | 1% | 2 |
| Peter van Hardenberg | $436,861 | 1% | 1 |
| Chris Canal | $400,000 | 1% | 1 |
| Seldon | $355,000 | 1% | 1 |
| Mox | $350,000 | 1% | 1 |
| Stewy Slocum | $245,000 | 1% | 1 |
| Geodesic Research | $200,000 | 0% | 1 |
| Aashka Patel | $159,153 | 0% | 3 |
| Date ↓ | Recipient | Via | Amount | Cause | Source | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 2026 | Thomas Jiralerspong | Manifund | $390,000 | Other | manifund | Exploring the Benefits of Alignment Pretraining |
| Sep 1, 2026 | Thomas Jiralerspong | Manifund | $83,332 | Technical AI safety research | manifund | Compute funding for five mentored AI safety research projects |
| Sep 1, 2026 | Faithful Preference Learning: Cognitively-Aligned Post-Training | Manifund | $15,000 | AI safety | manifund | Faithful Preference Learning : Cognitively-Aligned Post-Training |
| Aug 21, 2026 | Genevieve Shea | Manifund | $35,000 | Other existential risk | manifund | Frontier AI Election Evaluation Framework |
| Aug 20, 2026 | Logan Graves | Manifund | $8,022 | Interpretability | manifund | Belief state geometry of language model personas |
| Aug 20, 2026 | Paul Wang | Manifund | $50,000 | Technical governance | manifund | Postdoc on verification protocols for frontier AI training |
| Aug 20, 2026 | Aryo Pradipta Gema | Manifund | $33,439 | Interpretability | manifund | What Factors Influence Chain-of-Thought Faithfulness? |
| Aug 20, 2026 | BAISH | Manifund | $18,000 | Local groups | manifund | Help the Argentinian AI Safety Community Grow |
| Aug 20, 2026 | Separatrix | Manifund | $150,000 | Other | manifund | Separatrix |
| Aug 19, 2026 | Stewy Slocum | Manifund | $245,000 | Evals | manifund | Toward a Superhuman, Open-Ended Alignment Auditor |
| Aug 13, 2026 | AI Safety Hong Kong | Manifund | $85,000 | Local groups | manifund | AI Safety Hong Kong (AISHK) |
| Jul 17, 2026 | Cedric Potvliege | Manifund | $80,000 | Control | manifund | Shutdown evaluations for AI agents |
| Jul 15, 2026 | Elliot Arledge | Manifund | $15,000 | Other | manifund | KernelBench: an independent benchmark for AI-automated GPU kernel engineering |
| Jul 13, 2026 | Alexander (Sandy) Fraser | Manifund | $76,621 | Interpretability | manifund | Concept control in transformers with Sparse Concept Anchoring |
| Jul 7, 2026 | Jessica Pu Wang | Manifund | $30,000 | Events | manifund | 2026 European Frontier AI Safety Day |
| Jul 2, 2026 | Aashka Patel | Manifund | $149,599 | Training pipelines | manifund | AI Safety Workshops For 6th-8th Graders in India |
| Jun 28, 2026 | Aashka Patel | Manifund | $6,663 | Advocacy | manifund | AI Nutrition Labels For Everyday Consumers & AI Agents: Travel + POC Grant |
| Apr 2, 2026 | Jonathan Elsworth Eicher | Manifund | $50,000 | Foundations | manifund | Emergent misalignment and memetic replication in multi-agent codebases |
| Mar 31, 2026 | Peter van Hardenberg | Manifund | $436,861 | AI safety meta | manifund | Collaboration Infrastructure for Safeguarding AI |
| Mar 19, 2026 | Rishub Jain | Manifund | $30,000 | Evals | manifund | Human-AI Complementarity for Identifying Harm |
| Mar 18, 2026 | Matei-Alexandru Anghel | Manifund | $5,000 | Evals | manifund | DystopiaBench |
| Mar 15, 2026 | Safe AI Germany (SAIGE) | Manifund | $80,000 | Local groups | manifund | Safe AI Germany (SAIGE) |
| Mar 13, 2026 | Mox | Manifund | $350,000 | EA infrastructure | manifund | Mox: 2026 Fundraiser |
| Feb 4, 2026 | Haakon Huynh | Manifund | $23,000 | Research infrastructure | manifund | Towards Shared AI Compute Infrastructure |
| Feb 3, 2026 | Aashka Patel | Manifund | $2,891 | Events | manifund | Help a Bootstrapped AI Risk Literacy Founder Get To IASEAI 2026 in Paris |
| Feb 2, 2026 | AISA | Manifund | $100,000 | Events | manifund | AI Crisis Convening at India AI Impact Summit 2026 |
| Feb 2, 2026 | Geodesic Research | Manifund | $200,000 | Org incubation & ops | manifund | Seed Funding For Geodesic Research |
| 2026 | Akshyae Singh | — | Other | grantmaking_ai | Recent 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. | |
| 2026 | Unknown Recipients | ~$22,251,572* | AI safety | fund_estimates | Aggregate estimate — AI safety | |
| Dec 25, 2025 | Krishna Patel | Manifund | $120,890 | AI × bio | manifund | Isolating CBRN Knowledge in LLMs for Safety - Phase 2 (Research) |
| Dec 3, 2025 | Seldon | Manifund | $355,000 | Security | manifund | AI Security Startup Accelerator Batch #2 |
| Nov 25, 2025 | L | Manifund | $4,000 | Career transitions | manifund | Visa fee support for Australian researcher to join a fellowship with Anthropic |
| Nov 20, 2025 | Mirco Giacobbe | Manifund | $128,000 | Foundations | manifund | Formal Certification Technologies for AI Safety |
| Nov 5, 2025 | Orpheus Lummis | Manifund | $25,700 | Events | manifund | Guaranteed Safe AI Seminars 2026 |
| Nov 4, 2025 | Jade Master | Manifund | $39,009 | Foundations | manifund | SDCPNs for AI Safety |
| Oct 31, 2025 | Chris Canal | Manifund | $400,000 | Evals | manifund | Operating Capital for AI Safety Evaluation Infrastructure |
| Oct 14, 2025 | Luthien | Manifund | $150,000 | Other | manifund | Luthien |
| Aug 14, 2025 | Bryce Meyer | Manifund | $10,000 | Research infrastructure | manifund | TransformerLens - Bridge Funding |
| Aug 6, 2025 | Coordinal Research | Manifund | $110,000 | Technical AI safety research | manifund | Coordinal Research: Accelerating the research of safely deploying AI systems. |
| Jul 22, 2025 | H | Manifund | $87,543 | International governance | manifund | Funding researcher on frontier AI governance inclusive of global majority |
| Apr 7, 2025 | Laurence Aitchison | Manifund | $13,500 | Evals | manifund | Bayesian modelling of LLM capabilities from evals |
| Jan 21, 2025 | Michaël Rubens Trazzi | Manifund | $41,162 | Other | manifund | Finishing The SB-1047 Documentary |
| 2025 | Unknown Recipients | ~$13,515,196† | AI safety | fund_estimates | Aggregate estimate — AI safety | |
| Feb 29, 2024 | J | Manifund | $13,000 | Career transitions | manifund | Stipend to enable a US PhD student to move to the UK for a temporary role with the UK DSIT |
| Feb 28, 2024 | S | Manifund | $3,000 | Other | manifund | Visa fee support for US researcher to take on a temporary role with the UK AISI |
| 2024 | Unknown Recipients | ~$4,984,000‡ | AI safety | fund_estimates | Aggregate estimate — AI safety | |
| 2023 | Unknown Recipients | ~$2,000,000§ | AI safety | fund_estimates | Aggregate estimate — AI safety | |
| — | Timaeus | — | Interpretability | org_reported | we'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.