ETH Zürich
www.ethz.ch · organization
- Total routed
- $729,748
- Grants
- 4
- Average size
- $182,437
- Years active
- 2024–25
Grants over time
Technical AI safety researchAI safety meta
Biggest funders
| Coefficient Giving | $629,748 | 86% | 3 |
| Foresight Institute | $100,000 | 14% | 1 |
Biggest recipients
| Ryan Cotterell | $479,748 | 66% | 1 |
| Florian Tramèr | $230,000 | 32% | 2 |
| Xin Chen and Florian Tramer | $20,000 | 3% | 1 |
Grants received 2 · $381,950 · $190,975 average
| Date ↓ | Funder | Via | Amount | Cause | Source | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2025 | Coefficient Giving | $356,950 | Evals, AI × cyber | coefficient_giving | Research on Malware and Surveillance Capabilities of LLMs | |
| Nov 2023 | Coefficient Giving | $25,000 | Technical AI safety research | coefficient_giving | Machine Learning Research Support |
Grants via
| Date ↓ | Funder | Recipient | Via | Amount | Cause | Source | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 2025 | Coefficient Giving | Ryan Cotterell | ETH Zürich | $479,748 | Interpretability | coefficient_giving | Improving Attribution in Circuit Discovery (Ryan Cotterell) |
| Jun 2025 | Coefficient Giving | Xin Chen and Florian Tramer | ETH Zürich | $20,000 | Security | coefficient_giving | Research on Prompt Injection Attacks (Xin Chen, Florian Tramer) |
| Sep 2024 | Coefficient Giving | Florian Tramèr | ETH Zürich | $130,000 | Security | coefficient_giving | LLM Adversarial Attacks Benchmark (Florian Tramér) |
| May 2024 | Foresight Institute | Florian Tramèr | ETH Zürich | ~$100,000* | Security, Strategy & forecasting | foresight | AI Safety Research — formalizing threat models for using cryptography to secure AI applications. Focus area: Security/Cryptography. First listed on foresight.org/ai-safety by May 2024. — AI Safety Grants (Underexplored Approaches: Automation / Neurotech / Security / Multi-Agent) |
* Foresight Institute planned to give $2.5-3.2m over 26 grants in 2023 and 2024; estimating each at roughly the average grant size.