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ETH Zürich

organization · ETH Zurich Fondation (USA)

Total routed
$773,748
Grants
5
Average size
$154,750
Years active
2024–25

Grants over time

$0$200K$400K$600K20242025

Biggest funders

Coefficient Giving$629,74881%3
Foresight Institute$100,00013%1
Jaan Tallinn$44,0006%1

Biggest recipients

Ryan Cotterell$479,74862%1
Florian Tramèr$274,00035%3
Xin Chen and Florian Tramer$20,0003%1

Grants received 2 · $381,950 · $190,975 average

DateFunderViaAmountCauseSourcePurpose
Aug 2025Coefficient Giving$356,950Evals, AI × cybercoefficient_givingResearch on Malware and Surveillance Capabilities of LLMs
Nov 2023Coefficient Giving$25,000Technical AI safety researchcoefficient_givingMachine Learning Research Support

Grants via

DateFunderRecipientViaAmountCauseSourcePurpose
Dec 2025Coefficient GivingRyan CotterellETH Zürich$479,748Interpretabilitycoefficient_givingImproving Attribution in Circuit Discovery (Ryan Cotterell)
Jun 2025Coefficient GivingXin Chen and Florian TramerETH Zürich$20,000Securitycoefficient_givingResearch on Prompt Injection Attacks (Xin Chen, Florian Tramer)
Sep 30, 2024Jaan TallinnFlorian TramèrLightspeed Grants, ETH Zürich$44,000Otherjaan_onlineFlorian.tramer@inf.ethz.ch
Sep 2024Coefficient GivingFlorian TramèrETH Zürich$130,000Securitycoefficient_givingLLM Adversarial Attacks Benchmark (Florian Tramér)
May 2024Foresight InstituteFlorian TramèrETH Zürich~$100,000*Security, Strategy & forecastingforesightAI 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.