organization · Center for AI Safety (CAIS)
Technical AI safety researchAI safety fieldbuildingAI governance, policy, and advocacy
| Coefficient Giving | $12,485,288 | 69% | 4 |
| Jaan Tallinn | $4,016,000 | 22% | 9 |
| UK AI Security Institute | $589,500 | 3% | 1 |
| Future of Life Institute | $543,000 | 3% | 3 |
| Dan Hendrycks | $250,000 | 1% | 1 |
| Schmidt Sciences | $250,000 | 1% | 1 |
| Blake Borgeson | $1,000 | 0% | 1 |
| Date ↓ | Funder | Via | Amount | Cause | Source | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 19, 2026 | UK AI Security Institute | ~$589,500* | Technical AI safety research | uk_aisi | Steering Models Towards Safer Reasoning — led by Austin Meek. — Alignment Project | |
| Sep 2025 | Jaan Tallinn | Survival and Flourishing Fund | $289,000 | Technical AI safety research | sff | General support |
| Feb 12, 2025 | Dan Hendrycks | Manifund | $250,000 | Advocacy | manifund | AI Safety & Society |
| 2025 | Schmidt Sciences | $250,000 | Technical AI safety research | org_reported | This project is supported by Schmidt Sciences...$250,000 in prizes | |
| Dec 13, 2024 | Jaan Tallinn | Survival and Flourishing Com | $300,000 | Technical AI safety research | jaan_online | To support research and analysis of relevance to the Bureau of Industry and Security |
| Dec 2024 | Blake Borgeson | Survival and Flourishing Fund | $1,000 | Technical AI safety research | sff | General support |
| Dec 2024 | Future of Life Institute | Survival and Flourishing Fund | $21,000 | Technical AI safety research | sff | General support |
| Oct 30, 2024 | Jaan Tallinn | Survival and Flourishing Fund | $1,146,000 | Technical AI safety research | sff | General support |
| Jul 24, 2024 | Jaan Tallinn | Survival and Flourishing Fund | $10,000 | Technical AI safety research | jaan_online | For general operating support |
| Jul 15, 2024 | Jaan Tallinn | Survival and Flourishing Fund | $40,000 | Technical AI safety research | jaan_online | For general operating support |
| 2024 | Jaan Tallinn | Survival and Flourishing Fund | $300,000 | Technical AI safety research | sff | To support research and analysis of relevance to the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS). |
| 2024 | Jaan Tallinn | Survival and Flourishing Fund | $1,000,000 | Technical AI safety research | sff | General support |
| 2024 | Future of Life Institute | $500,000 | Technical AI safety research | fli | Developing tamper-resistant safeguards for open-weight language models. — Mitigate AI-Driven Power Concentration Grants | |
| Oct 26, 2023 | Jaan Tallinn | Survival and Flourishing Fund | $909,000 | Technical AI safety research | sff | General Support |
| Oct 2023 | Coefficient Giving | $1,866,559 | Technical AI safety research | coefficient_giving | General Support (Exit Grant) | |
| Apr 28, 2023 | Jaan Tallinn | Survival and Flourishing Fund | $22,000 | Technical AI safety research | sff | General Support of Center for AI Safety |
| Apr 2023 | Coefficient Giving | $4,025,729 | Technical AI safety research | coefficient_giving | General Support | |
| Feb 2023 | Coefficient Giving | $1,433,000 | Training pipelines | coefficient_giving | Philosophy Fellowship and NeurIPS Prizes | |
| 2023 | Future of Life Institute | $22,000 | AI governance, policy, and advocacy | fli | General support for equipping leaders with tools to manage AI risk. — 2023 Grants (Existential Risk Reduction / Institutional Grants) | |
| Nov 2022 | Coefficient Giving | $5,160,000 | Technical AI safety research | coefficient_giving | General Support |
* UK AISI reported a total of 27m GBP over 60 projects, so estimating each of them at the average grant size.