Trace

Carnegie Mellon University

organization

Total routed
$7,471,905
Grants
13
Average size
$574,762
Years active
2015–26

Grants over time

$0$1.0M$2.0M$3.0M$4.0M201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026

Biggest funders

Coefficient Giving$5,632,40575%8
Jaan Tallinn$1,050,00014%3
UK AI Security Institute$589,5008%1
Future of Life Institute$200,0003%1

Biggest recipients

Foundations of Cooperative AI Lab$2,982,72240%3
Andrew Ilyas$1,141,90015%1
Aditi Raghunathan$932,73512%2
Virginia Smith and Steven Wu$584,1088%1
Graham Neubig$547,4527%1
Aviral Kumar and Aditi Raghunathan$466,1836%1
Zico Kolter$330,0004%1
Hong Shen and Fei Fang$266,8054%1

Grants received 1 · $102,478 · $102,478 average

DateFunderViaAmountCauseSourcePurpose
Nov 2025Coefficient Giving$102,478Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingREACH Air Pollution Model

Grants via

DateFunderRecipientViaAmountCauseSourcePurpose
May 2026Coefficient GivingFoundations of Cooperative AI LabCarnegie Mellon University$1,952,722Foundationscoefficient_givingFoundations of Cooperative AI Research Center (Vincent Conitzer)
Mar 2026Coefficient GivingAndrew IlyasCarnegie Mellon University$1,141,900Securitycoefficient_givingStudy on Covert Malicious Fine-Tuning (Andrew Ilyas)
Feb 19, 2026UK AI Security InstituteAditi RaghunathanCarnegie Mellon University~$589,500*Technical AI safety researchuk_aisiEnhanced Cyber Control Evaluations: An Empirical and Learning-Theoretic Approach — led by Aditi Raghunathan. — Alignment Project
Sep 2025Coefficient GivingAviral Kumar and Aditi RaghunathanCarnegie Mellon University$466,183Securitycoefficient_givingAdversarial Reasoning Training (Aviral Kumar and Aditi Raghunathan)
May 2025Coefficient GivingVirginia Smith and Steven WuCarnegie Mellon University$584,108Technical AI safety researchcoefficient_givingRobust AI Unlearning Techniques (Virginia Smith, Steven Wu)
Jul 25, 2024Jaan TallinnFoundations of Cooperative AI LabSurvival and Flourishing Fund, Carnegie Mellon University$30,000Otherjaan_onlineGeneral support for Foundations of Cooperative AI Lab (FOCAL) at
May 2024Coefficient GivingHong Shen and Fei FangCarnegie Mellon University$266,805Strategy & forecastingcoefficient_givingLLM Use Case Database (Hong Shen, Fei Fang)
Mar 2024Coefficient GivingGraham NeubigCarnegie Mellon University$547,452Evalscoefficient_givingBenchmark for Web-Based Tasks (Graham Neubig)
Feb 2, 2023Jaan TallinnFoundations of Cooperative AI LabFounders Pledge, Carnegie Mellon University$1,000,000Otherjaan_onlineFoundations of Cooperative AI Lab
Jul 2022Coefficient GivingAditi RaghunathanCarnegie Mellon University$343,235Securitycoefficient_givingResearch on Adversarial Examples (Aditi Raghunathan)
May 2021Coefficient GivingZico KolterCarnegie Mellon University$330,000Securitycoefficient_givingAdversarial Robustness Research (Zico Kolter)
Jan 23, 2020Jaan TallinnLaboratory for Social Minds at Carnegie Mellon UniversityFounders Pledge, Carnegie Mellon University$20,000Otherjaan_onlineGeneral support for Laboratory for Social Minds
Sep 1, 2015Future of Life InstituteAndre PlatzerCarnegie Mellon University$200,000Foundationsvipul_donationsA project grant. Project title: Andre Platzer.

* UK AISI reported a total of 27m GBP over 60 projects, so estimating each of them at the average grant size.