Trace

Anton Makiievskyi

individual

Total granted
$1,331,355
Grants
55
Average size
$24,206
Coverage
100%
itemized by recipient
Years active
2023–26

Grants over time

$0$500K$1.0M$1.5M2023202420252026

Biggest cause areas

Technical AI safety research$342,00026%16
AI governance, policy, and advocacy$251,99219%5
Other$212,75016%7
AI safety fieldbuilding$170,41313%9
AI safety adjacent$153,00011%4
AI safety meta$72,5005%5
AI safety$55,0004%2
Other existential risk$45,1503%3

Biggest recipients

Connor Axiotes$150,00011%1
AI Safety Camp$62,6005%3
Robi Rahman$60,0005%2
Phil Palmer$50,0004%1
Raffaello Fornasiere$50,0004%1
IBBIS$50,0004%1
Georgia Tech Research Corporation$50,0004%1
Tomáš Gavenčiak$50,0004%1

Grants made

DateRecipientViaAmountCauseSourcePurpose
Sep 7, 2026Robi Rahmangrantmaking.ai, Manifund$30,000EvalsmanifundDistinguishing progress in data and algorithms
Sep 3, 2026Phil Palmergrantmaking.ai, Manifund$50,000Other existential risk, Othermanifundsafely.bio: Customer screening for DNA synthesis providers
Sep 1, 2026Faithful Preference Learning: Cognitively-Aligned Post-Traininggrantmaking.ai, Manifund$35,000AI safetymanifundFaithful Preference Learning : Cognitively-Aligned Post-Training
Aug 31, 2026Peter Horniak⏸️🔸grantmaking.ai, Manifund$5,000OthermanifundPauseAI Australia attendance PauseCon London
Aug 24, 2026Salvatore Barberagrantmaking.ai, Manifund$20,000AI safetymanifundPreserving the Human Veto
Aug 21, 2026Sofia Yablonskayagrantmaking.ai, Manifund$19,650Other existential riskmanifundReading China's AI Registry: A Public Monitor
Aug 21, 2026Robi Rahmangrantmaking.ai, Manifund$30,000OthermanifundAdversarially robust workload classification using hardware sensors
Aug 20, 2026Raffaello Fornasieregrantmaking.ai, Manifund$50,000Interpretability, EvalsmanifundSurrogate base model for Mechanistic Interpretability
Aug 18, 2026IBBISgrantmaking.ai, Manifund$50,000OthermanifundScaling adoption of synthesis screening outside the US and EU
Aug 17, 2026Tony Wugrantmaking.ai, Manifund$10,000InterpretabilitymanifundA Mechanistic Analysis of Activation Verbalizers: Promise and Risks
Aug 17, 2026Sentient Futuresgrantmaking.ai, Manifund$20,000AI safety adjacent, Animal welfaremanifundSentient Futures Project Incubator
Aug 14, 2026ILINAgrantmaking.ai, Manifund$40,000Training pipelinesmanifundILINA Junior Research Fellowship
Aug 13, 2026Nikhil Maturigrantmaking.ai, Manifund$12,100EvalsmanifundPrediction of Inoculation Prompt Side Effects
Aug 12, 2026Georgia Tech Research Corporationgrantmaking.ai, Manifund$50,000AI × biomanifundSafeguarding DNA Synthesis from Biological Risks Posed by Advanced AI
Aug 10, 2026Karthik Viswanathangrantmaking.ai, Manifund$21,900InterpretabilitymanifundFormally verified autoresearch for theoretical mech interp
Aug 5, 2026Felix Hardergrantmaking.ai, Manifund$15,000FoundationsmanifundFormalizing mathematical AI safety research in Lean
Aug 4, 2026Michail Patsakisgrantmaking.ai, Manifund$38,000EvalsmanifundBioRAG-Guard: Poisoning Evals for Biological AI Agents
Aug 3, 2026Tomáš Gavenčiakgrantmaking.ai, Manifund$50,000AI safety metamanifundThe AI Safety Stack
Aug 3, 2026Logan Gravesgrantmaking.ai, Manifund$12,000InterpretabilitymanifundBelief state geometry of language model personas
Aug 2, 2026Florian Dietzgrantmaking.ai, Manifund$50,000InterpretabilitymanifundGetting Split-Personality Training ready for deployment
Jul 31, 2026Ankur Pandeygrantmaking.ai, Manifund$10,000Training pipelinesmanifundAI safety for builders hackathon / fellowship
Jul 30, 2026Karolina Gruzelgrantmaking.ai, Manifund$20,000Domestic policymanifundFOIs about AI Existential and Catastrophic Risks
Jul 30, 2026Christopher Leetgrantmaking.ai, Manifund$10,000FoundationsmanifundEvaluating the Tacit Coordination Capacity and Decision Theory of LMs
Jul 29, 2026BAISHgrantmaking.ai, Manifund$27,000Local groupsmanifundHelp the Argentinian AI Safety Community Grow
Jul 28, 2026Humans in Controlgrantmaking.ai, Manifund$25,000Training pipelinesmanifundLaunching Humans in Control's Student Program
Jul 28, 2026Gabriel Shermangrantmaking.ai, Manifund$25,000AdvocacymanifundUS Policy Communication Playbook for an AI Crisis
Jul 27, 2026Ram Pothamgrantmaking.ai, Manifund$25,000EvalsmanifundUsing deals to find misalignment in current AI models
Jul 27, 2026Separatrixgrantmaking.ai, Manifund$50,000OthermanifundSeparatrix
Jul 21, 2026lucas.irwingrantmaking.ai, Manifund$50,000EconomicsmanifundToken taxes as a mechanism for reducing AI-driven power concentration.
Jul 20, 2026Aryo Pradipta Gemagrantmaking.ai, Manifund$25,000InterpretabilitymanifundWhat Factors Influence Chain-of-Thought Faithfulness?
Jul 20, 2026Sergeygrantmaking.ai, Manifund$33,000EconomicsmanifundEmpirical econ - applied AI transition for quantitative econometrician
Jul 20, 2026Paul Wanggrantmaking.ai, Manifund$50,000Technical governancemanifundPostdoc on verification protocols for frontier AI training
Jul 17, 2026Ari Spiesbergergrantmaking.ai, Manifund$40,000InterpretabilitymanifundOriginality, Quantification, and Decomposition of Generalization.
Feb 4, 2026AI Safety CampManifund$40,000Eventsmanifund12th Edition of AI Safety Camp
Feb 2026Luc Brinkman$42,000Othergrantmaking_aiTo get started
Sep 4, 2025MoxManifund$813Research hubsmanifundMox, a coworking & events space in SF
Jun 18, 2025CeSIAManifund$20,000Epistemic infrastructuremanifundScaling AI safety awareness via content creators
May 24, 2025Connor AxiotesManifund$150,000Advocacymanifund'Making God': a Documentary on AI Risks for the Public
Feb 16, 2025AI Safety CampManifund$20,000Training pipelinesmanifund11th edition of AI Safety Camp
Jan 23, 2025AI Safety CampManifund$2,600Eventsmanifund10th edition of AI Safety Camp
Dec 5, 2024Leonard BarrettManifund$1,000Global health and developmentmanifundMetaculus x Givewell Forecasting Tournament
Nov 7, 2024Gavin LeechManifund$1,000Epistemic infrastructuremanifundShallow review of AI safety 2024
Nov 7, 2024Elizabeth Van NostrandManifund$1,300Epistemic infrastructuremanifundElizabeth and Timothy Podcast on values in Effective Altruism (Funded)
Oct 16, 2024SentinelManifund$500Other existential riskmanifundFund Sentinel for Q1-2025
Sep 30, 202480,000 HoursManifund$50EA infrastructuremanifund80,000 Hours
Sep 23, 2024Giving What We CanManifund$500EA infrastructuremanifundGiving What We Can
Aug 21, 2024Michaël Rubens TrazziManifund$6,992AdvocacymanifundMaking 52 AI Alignment Video Explainers and Podcasts
Aug 21, 2024Lightcone InfrastructureManifund$200Epistemic infrastructuremanifundLightcone Infrastructure
Jun 21, 2024Effective Altruism New ZealandManifund$25,000EA infrastructuremanifundEffective Giving in New Zealand
May 20, 2024EA PhilippinesManifund$10,750OthermanifundSupport a thriving and talented community of Filipino EAs
May 12, 2024A Happier WorldManifund$2,000EA infrastructuremanifundA Happier World (YouTube channel promoting EA ideas)
Aug 22, 2023Apart ResearchManifund$5,000EventsmanifundRun five international hackathons on AI safety research
Aug 16, 2023Lucy FarnikManifund$1,000InterpretabilitymanifundDiscovering latent goals (mechanistic interpretability PhD salary)
Aug 4, 2023Alexander BistagneManifund$1,000Technical AI safety researchmanifundAlignment Is Hard
Aug 1, 2023Joseph BloomManifund$1,000InterpretabilitymanifundJoseph Bloom - Independent AI Safety Research