Trace

Austin Chen

individual

Total granted
$213,940
Grants
76
Average size
$2,815
Coverage
100%
itemized by recipient
Years active
2023–26

Grants over time

$0$20K$40K$60K$80K2023202420252026

Biggest cause areas

Other$78,83037%23
AI safety meta$32,90015%9
AI safety fieldbuilding$32,01015%11
Global health and development$17,6008%5
Technical AI safety research$17,4508%11
AI governance, policy, and advocacy$13,0006%5
EA infrastructure$12,0506%5
Other existential risk$4,0502%3

Biggest recipients

Aaron Silverbook$20,0009%1
Michaël Rubens Trazzi$12,5006%3
Sage$10,3005%2
Jennifer Baik$10,0005%1
Oliver Klingefjord$10,0005%2
Asterisk Magazine$10,0005%1
VaccinateCA$10,0005%1
wasabipesto$5,1002%1

Grants made

DateRecipientViaAmountCauseSourcePurpose
Sep 11, 2026Fumi KimuraManifund$100Other existential risk, Animal welfaremanifundPhilosium Tokyo 9/19/2026
Aug 19, 2026Jessica OceanManifund$5,000AdvocacymanifundHow Then Shall We Live? Meaning in the Age of AI
Aug 18, 2026IBBISManifund$5,000OthermanifundScaling adoption of synthesis screening outside the US and EU
Aug 17, 2026Ricki HeicklenManifund$2,500OthermanifundMetagame 2026
Aug 10, 2026陳鈺澔Manifund$500SecuritymanifundCryptoMind: Verifiable Safety for Financial AI Agents
Aug 7, 2026Jennifer BaikManifund$10,000Local groupsmanifundFund an AIS Community/Field-Builder: Effective Altruism SF & other initiatives
Aug 6, 2026SPARCManifund$5,000EA infrastructure, Global health and developmentmanifundSupplementing Summer Program for Applied Rationality and Cognition 2026 (SPARC)
Jul 31, 2026Oliver KlingefjordManifund$5,000OthermanifundPax Machina
Jul 27, 2026SeparatrixManifund$5,000OthermanifundSeparatrix
Jul 17, 2026AI Safety NepalManifund$1,000Local groupsmanifundAI Safety Nepal
Jul 15, 2026Conor PlunkettManifund$1,000EvalsmanifundPayBench: A Benchmark for Unsafe Commercial Autonomy
Jul 4, 2026Falcon FundManifund$1,000OthermanifundFalcon Fund
Jun 8, 2026Integral AltruismManifund$3,000Other existential riskmanifundIntegral Altruism
May 26, 2026Jake ProkopetsManifund$750EvalsmanifundLLMMatrix: Synthetic World Benchmark for Contamination Free LLM Forcasting
May 26, 2026vibecampManifund$1,000Eventsmanifundvibecamp
May 18, 2026Aditi BasuManifund$400Animal welfaremanifundEnding Male Chick Culling in Asia-Pacific ll
Apr 27, 2026Benjamin HauseManifund$500Animal welfaremanifundnohotdog.love: fund cool nature & animal projects with others
Apr 21, 2026Aldan CreoManifund$500EvalsmanifundTELL: The AI Detector You *Don't* Have To Trust
Mar 2, 2026Safe AI Germany (SAIGE)Manifund$5,000Local groupsmanifundSafe AI Germany (SAIGE)
Feb 20, 2026Connacher MurphyManifund$2,000EvalsmanifundAgent Island: An Environment for Interagent Cooperation and Conflict
Jan 28, 2026Center for Applied RationalityManifund$2,500EA infrastructuremanifundaCFAR 2025/6 Fundraiser
Dec 23, 2025Krishna PatelManifund$2,500AI × biomanifundIsolating CBRN Knowledge in LLMs for Safety - Phase 2 (Research)
Dec 5, 2025Daniela ShumanManifund$5,000OthermanifundImprove eligibility for organ donation
Nov 19, 2025MetaculusManifund$1,000Animal welfaremanifundMetaculus' First Animal-Focused Forecasting Tournament
Nov 5, 2025Theia VogelManifund$2,500InterpretabilitymanifundFund thebes' model tinkering
Nov 4, 2025Charlie MolthropManifund$2,000Epistemic infrastructuremanifundNormie-friendly prediction market interfaces
Aug 31, 2025Petr SalabaManifund$2,500Foundations, Global health and developmentmanifundDevelopment of a Cautionary Tale Feature Film about Gradual Disempowerment
Aug 13, 2025Michaël Rubens TrazziManifund$2,000AdvocacymanifundGrow An AI Safety Tiktok Channel To Reach Ten Million People
Aug 5, 2025Bryce MeyerManifund$2,000Research infrastructuremanifundTransformerLens - Bridge Funding
Aug 5, 2025Steve PetersenManifund$1,000OthermanifundSystems that "give a damn"
Jun 22, 2025Asterisk MagazineManifund$10,000Training pipelines, Epistemic infrastructuremanifundAsterisk AI Blogging Fellowship
Jun 20, 2025SageManifund$10,000Epistemic infrastructuremanifundAI Digest
May 30, 2025wasabipestoManifund$5,100OthermanifundCalibration City
May 22, 2025niplavManifund$500OthermanifundOrexin Pilot Experiment for Reducing Sleep Need
May 16, 2025Florian DietzManifund$1,000Alignment methodsmanifundSplit Personality Training
May 7, 2025AI Futures ProjectManifund$5,000Strategy & forecastingmanifundAI forecasting and policy research by the AI 2027 team
May 7, 2025CoursetextsManifund$2,500OthermanifundCoursetexts
Apr 27, 2025Coordinal ResearchManifund$5,000Technical AI safety researchmanifundCoordinal Research: Accelerating the research of safely deploying AI systems.
Apr 24, 2025GuyManifund$3,000AdvocacymanifundOut of This Box: AI Safety Musical
Apr 24, 2025Constance LiManifund$1,000Animal welfaremanifundAnimal Advocacy Innovation Hub in the Bay Area
Mar 15, 2025Scott ViteriManifund$3,000OthermanifundAttention-Guided-RL for Human-Like LMs
Feb 16, 2025AI Safety CampManifund$1,000Training pipelinesmanifund11th edition of AI Safety Camp
Jan 28, 2025Agustín Martinez SuñéManifund$500FoundationsmanifundSafePlanBench: evaluating a Guaranteed Safe AI Approach for LLM-based Agents
Jan 3, 2025Jacob CohenManifund$500OthermanifundRabbitholeathon Event Food
Dec 5, 2024Leonard BarrettManifund$1,000Global health and developmentmanifundMetaculus x Givewell Forecasting Tournament
Nov 15, 2024Tom DavidManifund$1,300Eventsmanifund1200€ to move in SF for an international high-level event and meetings
Nov 7, 2024Elizabeth Van NostrandManifund$1,300Epistemic infrastructuremanifundElizabeth and Timothy Podcast on values in Effective Altruism (Funded)
Nov 2, 2024Michaël Rubens TrazziManifund$10,000OthermanifundFinishing The SB-1047 Documentary
Oct 16, 2024SentinelManifund$1,000Other existential riskmanifundFund Sentinel for Q1-2025
Oct 10, 2024Johan FredrikzonManifund$5,000Local groupsmanifundDeveloping a Course on AI x-risk
Sep 23, 2024Giving What We CanManifund$50EA infrastructuremanifundGiving What We Can
Sep 17, 2024Case SandbergManifund$100Epistemic infrastructuremanifundPlay money prediction markets
Sep 16, 2024SageManifund$300OthermanifundFatebook and Quantified Intuitions
Sep 14, 2024David GliddenManifund$550OthermanifundForecasting Meetup Network - Washington, DC pilot (4 meetups)
Sep 14, 2024Daniel ElabiManifund$10Local groupsmanifundEffective Altruism Meetup, Abuja, Nigeria
Sep 14, 2024Elizabeth Van NostrandManifund$600BiosecuritymanifundCovid Work By Elizabeth VN/Aceso Under Glass
Sep 14, 2024Centre for Enabling EA Learning & ResearchManifund$1,050OthermanifundCEEALAR (EA Hotel) Needs a New Roof
Sep 14, 2024Lucas KohorstManifund$380OthermanifundAdjacent News
Jul 30, 2024BAIS (AIS Hub Serbia)Manifund$2,200Research hubsmanifundBAIS (ex-AIS Hub Serbia) Office Space for (Frugal) AI Safety Researchers
Jul 23, 2024Constance LiManifund$2,000OthermanifundAI, Animals, and Digital Minds 2024 Conference and Retreat
Jul 11, 2024Oliver KlingefjordManifund$5,000OthermanifundAI-Driven Market Alternatives for a post-AGI world
Jun 21, 2024Shreeda SeganManifund$600OthermanifundDesign budget for rebuilding the dating site we all want back.
May 9, 2024Lightcone InfrastructureManifund$5,000Epistemic infrastructuremanifundLightcone Infrastructure
May 2, 2024EA PhilippinesManifund$350OthermanifundSupport a thriving and talented community of Filipino EAs
Feb 20, 2024Sophia PungManifund$2,500OthermanifundEEG using a generalizable ML model + 32 channel PCB
Feb 20, 2024Michaël Rubens TrazziManifund$500AdvocacymanifundMaking 52 AI Alignment Video Explainers and Podcasts
Jan 11, 2024David MossManifund$5,000EA infrastructuremanifundExperiments to test EA / longtermist framings and branding
Dec 11, 2023Zhonghao HeManifund$1,200InterpretabilitymanifundMapping neuroscience and mechanistic interpretability
Dec 5, 2023Joel BeckerManifund$3,600Global health and developmentmanifundEstimating annual burden of airborne disease (last mile to MVP)
Aug 21, 2023Holly ElmoreManifund$2,500AdvocacymanifundHolly Elmore organizing people for a frontier AI moratorium
Jul 31, 2023Decode ResearchManifund$2,500Research infrastructuremanifundNeuronpedia - Open Interpretability Platform
Jul 31, 2023Vikram (Vik) GuptaManifund$500Training pipelinesmanifundOne semester living expenses for MIT-based researcher
Jul 27, 2023VaccinateCAManifund$10,000Global health and developmentmanifundVaccinateCA
Jul 26, 2023Aaron SilverbookManifund$20,000OthermanifundRecreate the cavity-preventing GMO bacteria BCS3-L1 from precursor
Jul 18, 2023Sophia PungManifund$500Global health and developmentmanifundFunding for Solar4Africa app development
Jul 6, 2023David ThorstadManifund$2,000EA infrastructuremanifundReflective altruism