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| Vitalik Buterin | $549,531,672 | 95% | 1 |
| Lightcone Foundation | $25,300,000 | 4% | 2 |
| Coefficient Giving | $1,912,000 | 0% | 6 |
| Jaan Tallinn | $1,663,000 | 0% | 18 |
| Jed McCaleb | $10,000 | 0% | 1 |
| Future of Life Institute Europe | $180,297,079 | 40% | 1 |
| Lightcone Foundation | $56,518,058 | 13% | 2 |
| Future of Life Foundation | $25,025,000 | 6% | 1 |
| Improve the News Foundation | $8,300,000 | 2% | 3 |
| LawZero | $5,000,000 | 1% | 1 |
| International Association for Safe and Ethical AI (IASEAI) | $3,800,000 | 1% | 2 |
| Center for AI Risk Management & Alignment (CARMA) | $2,300,000 | 1% | 1 |
| FAR AI | $1,858,000 | 0% | 1 |
| Date ↓ | Funder | Via | Amount | Cause | Source | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Lightcone Foundation | $21,050,000 | AI safety | lightcone_990 | Grant reported in Lightcone Foundation’s 2024 Form 990 — Form 990 (2024) | |
| 2023 | Lightcone Foundation | $4,250,000 | AI safety | lightcone_990 | Charitable work in support of the Future of Life Foundation — Form 990 (2023) | |
| Nov 8, 2021 | Jaan Tallinn | Survival and Flourishing Fund | $23,000 | AI safety | jaan_online | General support |
| Mar 24, 2021 | Jaan Tallinn | Founders Pledge | $200,000 | AI safety | jaan_online | Policy research and advocacy on AI and other emerging technological risk |
| 2021 | Vitalik Buterin | $549,531,672 | AI safety | fli_990 | Donation of SHIB tokens; FLI’s Form 990 reports $549,531,672 of revenue for the 2021 tax year — Form 990 (2021) | |
| Dec 2020 | Jaan Tallinn | Survival and Flourishing Fund | $23,000 | AI safety | sff | General Support |
| Dec 2020 | Jaan Tallinn | Survival and Flourishing Fund | $347,000 | AI safety fieldbuilding | sff | General Support |
| Nov 2020 | Coefficient Giving | $176,000 | Other existential risk | coefficient_giving | General Support | |
| Jul 30, 2020 | Jaan Tallinn | Founders Pledge | $35,000 | AI safety | jaan_online | DARPA advocacy campaign |
| Jun 2020 | Jaan Tallinn | Survival and Flourishing Fund | $30,000 | AI safety fieldbuilding | sff | General Support |
| Jun 2020 | Jaan Tallinn | Survival and Flourishing Fund | $100,000 | AI safety | sff | General Support |
| Jun 2020 | Jed McCaleb | Survival and Flourishing Fund | $10,000 | AI safety fieldbuilding | sff | General Support |
| Oct 2019 | Coefficient Giving | $100,000 | Other existential risk | coefficient_giving | General Support | |
| Sep 2019 | Jaan Tallinn | Survival and Flourishing Fund | $130,000 | AI safety | sff | General Support |
| Apr 22, 2019 | Jaan Tallinn | Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative | $50,000 | AI safety | jaan_online | Unrestricted grant |
| Jun 2018 | Coefficient Giving | $250,000 | Other existential risk | coefficient_giving | General Support | |
| Apr 10, 2018 | Jaan Tallinn | Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative | $300,000 | AI safety | jaan_online | Unrestricted grant |
| Oct 27, 2017 | Jaan Tallinn | Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative | $100,000 | AI safety | jaan_online | Unrestricted grant |
| Oct 27, 2017 | Jaan Tallinn | Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative | $50,000 | AI safety | jaan_online | Unrestricted grant |
| May 2017 | Coefficient Giving | $100,000 | Other existential risk | coefficient_giving | General Support | |
| Dec 30, 2016 | Jaan Tallinn | $50,000 | AI safety | jaan_online | Donation | |
| Mar 2016 | Coefficient Giving | $100,000 | Other existential risk | coefficient_giving | General Support | |
| Mar 10, 2016 | Jaan Tallinn | $50,000 | AI safety | jaan_online | Donation | |
| 2016 | EA Giving Group | — | Other existential risk | vipul_donations | Actual date range: December 2015 to February 2016. Exact date, amount, or fraction not known, but it is the donee with the fourth highest amount donated out of six donees in this period | |
| Oct 2, 2015 | Jaan Tallinn | $25,000 | AI safety | jaan_online | Donation | |
| Aug 2015 | Coefficient Giving | $1,186,000 | Advocacy | coefficient_giving | Artificial Intelligence Risk Reduction | |
| Jan 16, 2015 | Jaan Tallinn | $50,000 | AI safety | jaan_online | Donation | |
| 2015 | EA Giving Group | — | Other existential risk | vipul_donations | Actual date range: December 2014 to December 2015. Exact date, amount, or fraction not known, but it is the donee with the second highest amount donated out of eight donees in this period | |
| Dec 12, 2014 | Jaan Tallinn | $50,000 | AI safety | jaan_online | Donation | |
| Jul 22, 2014 | Jaan Tallinn | $50,000 | AI safety | jaan_online | Donation |
| Date ↓ | Recipient | Via | Amount | Cause | Source | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Matthew Niermann (Lausanne Movement) | $50,000 | Advocacy | fli | Religious project on AGI race challenges — Lausanne Movement. — Religious Projects on AGI Race Challenges RFP | |
| 2026 | Sean Pan (Project Imago Dei) | $47,500 | Advocacy | fli | Religious project on AGI race challenges — Project Imago Dei. — Religious Projects on AGI Race Challenges RFP | |
| 2026 | Medlir Mema (Faith Matters) | $125,000 | Advocacy | fli | Religious project on AGI race challenges — Faith Matters. — Religious Projects on AGI Race Challenges RFP | |
| 2026 | Yaqub Chaudhary (MOUATANA) | $128,970 | Advocacy | fli | Religious project on AGI race challenges — MOUATANA. — Religious Projects on AGI Race Challenges RFP | |
| 2026 | Elizabeta Kitanovic (Facta est Lux) | $50,000 | Advocacy | fli | Religious project on AGI race challenges — Facta est Lux. — Religious Projects on AGI Race Challenges RFP | |
| 2026 | Diana Kirui (ILINA Project) | $90,671 | Advocacy | fli | Religious project on AGI race challenges — ILINA Project. — Religious Projects on AGI Race Challenges RFP | |
| 2026 | Marc Barnes (New Polity) | $100,000 | Advocacy | fli | Religious project on AGI race challenges — New Polity. — Religious Projects on AGI Race Challenges RFP | |
| 2026 | Richard Gibson | Wheaton College | $55,000 | Advocacy | fli | Religious project on AGI race challenges — Wheaton College. — Religious Projects on AGI Race Challenges RFP |
| 2026 | Octavian Machidon | University of Ljubljana | $100,050 | Advocacy | fli | Religious project on AGI race challenges — University of Ljubljana. — Religious Projects on AGI Race Challenges RFP |
| 2026 | Michael Graham (Gospel Coalition) | $200,000 | Advocacy | fli | Religious project on AGI race challenges — Gospel Coalition. — Religious Projects on AGI Race Challenges RFP | |
| 2026 | Lauren Daugherty (American Shield) | $56,980 | Advocacy | fli | Religious project on AGI race challenges — American Shield. — Religious Projects on AGI Race Challenges RFP | |
| 2026 | Sara Speicher (World Council of Churches) | $100,000 | Advocacy | fli | Religious project on AGI race challenges — World Council of Churches. — Religious Projects on AGI Race Challenges RFP | |
| 2026 | Geoffrey Mitelman (Sinai and Synapses) | $100,000 | Advocacy | fli | Religious project on AGI race challenges — Sinai and Synapses. — Religious Projects on AGI Race Challenges RFP | |
| 2026 | Impact Academy | $201,105 | Advocacy | fli | Religious project on AGI race challenges — Impact Academy. — Religious Projects on AGI Race Challenges RFP | |
| 2026 | Amana Raqub (IBA Karachi) | $50,000 | Advocacy | fli | Religious project on AGI race challenges — IBA Karachi. — Religious Projects on AGI Race Challenges RFP | |
| 2026 | Father Gregory-Telemachos Stamkopoulos (Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America) | $105,000 | Advocacy | fli | Religious project on AGI race challenges — Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. — Religious Projects on AGI Race Challenges RFP | |
| Dec 2025 | Clémence Peyrot | — | Other | grantmaking_ai | Grant from the Future of Life Institute to PauseAI Global (Stichting PauseAI), for building grassroots organizing networks. Part of it funded the salary of Pause IA France's Executive Director from December 2025 until around April 2026. We were not the direct grantee: the funding went to Global, which passed some of it on to us. Global no longer has the treasury to continue this, so Pause IA France now covers that salary in full. | |
| Jun 3, 2025 | LawZero | ~$5,000,000* | Technical AI safety research | org_reported | Launch funding for LawZero | |
| 2025 | Talos Network | $129,000 | Other existential risk | fli | Talos Fellowship launching European policy careers focused on safe AI deployment. — 2025 Grants (Existential Risk Reduction / Institutional Grants) | |
| 2025 | Palisade Research | $500,000 | Advocacy | fli | Raising awareness about superhuman AI risks. — Multistakeholder Engagement for Safe and Prosperous AI Grants | |
| 2025 | National Association of Voice Actors | $300,000 | Advocacy | fli | Global Creatives AI Summit. — Multistakeholder Engagement for Safe and Prosperous AI Grants | |
| 2025 | Blueprint for Free Speech | $345,000 | Advocacy | fli | Mobilizing trade unions in Germany and Greece on AI worker protections. — Multistakeholder Engagement for Safe and Prosperous AI Grants | |
| 2025 | Ruofei Wang | — | International governance, Training pipelines | fli | US-China AI Governance PhD Fellow, Class of 2025 — University of Southern Denmark. Fellowship covers tuition/fees plus $40,000 annual stipend and $10,000 research fund; per-fellow total not published. — US-China AI Governance PhD Fellowship | |
| 2025 | Economic Security Project Inc. | $500,000 | Advocacy | fli | Sacramento policy fights against Big Tech dominance. — Multistakeholder Engagement for Safe and Prosperous AI Grants | |
| 2025 | Samyak Jain | — | Training pipelines | fli | PhD Fellow, Class of 2025 — UC Berkeley. Per-fellow total not published. — Vitalik Buterin PhD Fellowship | |
| 2025 | Institute for Security and Technology | $484,050 | Advocacy | fli | Religious communities AI ethics education resources. — Multistakeholder Engagement for Safe and Prosperous AI Grants | |
| 2025 | International Association for Safe and Ethical AI (IASEAI) | $1,950,000 | International governance | fli | General support addressing AI risks and ensuring safe, ethical AI systems and policy development. — 2025 Grants (Existential Risk Reduction / Institutional Grants) | |
| 2025 | Foresight Institute | $485,000 | Other existential risk | fli | Expansion of Existential Hope program creating actionable visions for beneficial technology development. — 2025 Grants (Existential Risk Reduction / Institutional Grants) | |
| 2025 | Bureau of Investigative Journalism | $487,000 | Other existential risk | fli | 'Unmasking AI' initiative examining AI ecosystem threats, Big Tech-government ties, and policy influence. — 2025 Grants (Existential Risk Reduction / Institutional Grants) | |
| 2025 | International Nuclear Heuristics Research (INHR) | $150,000 | Advocacy | fli | U.S.-China-EU AI Safety Dialogue project. — Multistakeholder Engagement for Safe and Prosperous AI Grants | |
| 2025 | Institute for Family Studies | $550,000 | Other existential risk | fli | 'Pro-Family, Pro-Human AI' project guiding AI development to protect human and family interests. — 2025 Grants (Existential Risk Reduction / Institutional Grants) | |
| 2025 | PauseAI US | $200,000 | Advocacy | fli | Public awareness and community engagement for responsible AI. — Multistakeholder Engagement for Safe and Prosperous AI Grants | |
| 2025 | Common Sense Media | $500,000 | Advocacy | fli | Building Parent Power for AI Safety initiative. — Multistakeholder Engagement for Safe and Prosperous AI Grants | |
| 2025 | Center for AI Risk Management & Alignment (CARMA) | $2,300,000 | Technical AI safety research, Advocacy | fli | General support for lowering transformative AI risks through research and advocacy. — 2025 Grants (Existential Risk Reduction / Institutional Grants) | |
| 2025 | Kayla Blomquist | — | International governance, Training pipelines | fli | US-China AI Governance PhD Fellow, Class of 2025 — University of Oxford. Per-fellow total not published. — US-China AI Governance PhD Fellowship | |
| 2025 | Faith Matters Foundation | $174,000 | Other existential risk | fli | 'Organized Intelligence' exploring ethical and spiritual dimensions of AI from Latter-day Saint perspectives. — 2025 Grants (Existential Risk Reduction / Institutional Grants) | |
| 2025 | Jared Moore | — | Training pipelines | fli | PhD Fellow, Class of 2025 — Stanford University. Per-fellow total not published. — Vitalik Buterin PhD Fellowship | |
| 2025 | Mindstream Project | $60,000 | Advocacy | fli | Engaged Buddhists for Responsible AI Initiative. — Multistakeholder Engagement for Safe and Prosperous AI Grants | |
| 2025 | John Ferguson | — | International governance, Training pipelines | fli | US-China AI Governance PhD Fellow, Class of 2025 — University of Cambridge. Per-fellow total not published. — US-China AI Governance PhD Fellowship | |
| 2025 | Evitable | $100,000 | Advocacy | fli | Preventing superintelligence advancement and promoting AI scaling moratorium. — Multistakeholder Engagement for Safe and Prosperous AI Grants | |
| 2025 | Young People's Alliance Education Fund | $498,114 | Advocacy | fli | Bipartisan youth-led AI framework and coalition. — Multistakeholder Engagement for Safe and Prosperous AI Grants | |
| 2025 | Stichting PauseAI | $500,000 | Advocacy | fli | Catalyst Project for grassroots organizing networks. — Multistakeholder Engagement for Safe and Prosperous AI Grants | |
| 2025 | Ekō | $500,000 | Advocacy | fli | AI Corporate Accountability Hub. — Multistakeholder Engagement for Safe and Prosperous AI Grants | |
| 2025 | AI Objectives Institute | $206,000 | Advocacy | fli | Support for labor union engagement via Talk to the City platform. — Multistakeholder Engagement for Safe and Prosperous AI Grants | |
| Dec 2024 | Mila | Survival and Flourishing Fund | $23,000 | Other existential risk | sff | General support |
| Dec 2024 | University of Southern California | Survival and Flourishing Fund | $493,000 | Other existential risk | sff | General support |
| Dec 2024 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute & University of Massachusetts Amherst | Survival and Flourishing Fund | $209,000 | Other existential risk | sff | General support |
| Dec 2024 | Center for AI Safety, Inc. | Survival and Flourishing Fund | $21,000 | Technical AI safety research | sff | General support |
| Dec 2024 | Oregon State University | Survival and Flourishing Fund | $254,000 | Other existential risk | sff | General support |
| Oct 25, 2024 | Effct | $10,000 | Advocacy | fli | Prize winner, '6 Magazine Covers from the Future: Warnings About the Dangers of Artificial (Super)intelligence'. — Superintelligence Imagined Creative Contest | |
| Oct 25, 2024 | Marcus Eriksen, Vanessa Morrow, and Alberto Hidalgo | $10,000 | Advocacy | fli | Prize winner, 'ZARA MARS' (graphic novel). — Superintelligence Imagined Creative Contest | |
| Oct 25, 2024 | Zeaus Koh and Nainika Gupta | $10,000 | Advocacy | fli | Prize winner, 'Superintelligence: The End of Humanity or Our Golden Age?' (video). — Superintelligence Imagined Creative Contest | |
| Oct 25, 2024 | Karl von Wendt | $10,000 | Advocacy | fli | Prize winner, 'The Great Plan' (multi-media). — Superintelligence Imagined Creative Contest | |
| Oct 25, 2024 | Dr Waku | $10,000 | Advocacy | fli | Prize winner, 'How AI threatens humanity, with Yoshua Bengio' (video). — Superintelligence Imagined Creative Contest | |
| Oct 25, 2024 | Suzy Shepherd | $20,000 | Advocacy | fli | Grand Prize, 'Writing Doom' (short film) — Superintelligence Imagined creative contest. — Superintelligence Imagined Creative Contest | |
| 2024 | Formation Research | $80,300 | Economics | fli | Predictive modeling for AI power 'lock-in' scenarios. — Mitigate AI-Driven Power Concentration Grants | |
| 2024 | Convergence Analysis | $280,000 | Economics | fli | Project to mitigate AI-driven power concentration. — Mitigate AI-Driven Power Concentration Grants | |
| 2024 | OpenMined Foundation | $1,661,750 | Economics | fli | Federated infrastructure for data provider compensation and control. — Mitigate AI-Driven Power Concentration Grants | |
| 2024 | CalMatters and The Markup | $350,000 | Economics | fli | Mapping AI control patterns; tracking corporate lobbying efforts. — Mitigate AI-Driven Power Concentration Grants | |
| 2024 | Federation of American Scientists | $1,500,000 | Other existential risk | fli | 18-month investigation of AI implications on global risk, including nuclear deterrence, bioengineering, and cyber security. — 2024 Grants (Existential Risk Reduction / Institutional Grants) | |
| 2024 | Cambridge Existential Risk Initiative | $157,565 | Economics, Other existential risk | fli | Risk index measuring AI-enabled power concentration across governments. — Mitigate AI-Driven Power Concentration Grants | |
| 2024 | Luke Bailey | — | Training pipelines | fli | PhD Fellow, Class of 2024 — Stanford University. Per-fellow total not published. — Vitalik Buterin PhD Fellowship | |
| 2024 | M. Oladoyin Odubanjo | $15,000 | Evals | fli | Evaluating the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Health Outcomes in Nigeria — Nigerian Academy of Science. — Impact of AI on Sustainable Development Goals RFP | |
| 2024 | Anton Korinek | University of Virginia | $109,564 | Economics | fli | Professor Anton Korinek's research on the economics of transformative AI. — 2024 Grants (Existential Risk Reduction / Institutional Grants) |
| 2024 | Nicholas Ngepah | $15,000 | Other | fli | Maternal Mortality impacts of AI — African Institute for Inclusive Growth, South Africa. — Impact of AI on Sustainable Development Goals RFP | |
| 2024 | Metagov | $15,000 | AI safety | fli_990 | Research into global governance institution design — Form 990 (2024) | |
| 2024 | Reeta Sharma | $15,000 | Other | fli | AI for Climate Resilience — The Energy and Resources Institute, India. — Impact of AI on Sustainable Development Goals RFP | |
| 2024 | The Elders | $294,160 | Other existential risk | fli | Support for Long-View Leadership project addressing intractable problems through evidence-based decisions. — 2024 Grants (Existential Risk Reduction / Institutional Grants) | |
| 2024 | Mila | $446,762 | Economics | fli | Simulations testing defenses against AI-powered discourse manipulation. — Mitigate AI-Driven Power Concentration Grants | |
| 2024 | Nandi Schoots | — | Training pipelines | fli | Postdoctoral Fellow, Class of 2024 — Oxford University. Per-fellow total not published. — Vitalik Buterin Postdoctoral Fellowship | |
| 2024 | Collective Intelligence Project | $400,000 | Economics | fli | Project to mitigate AI-driven power concentration. — Mitigate AI-Driven Power Concentration Grants | |
| 2024 | Ekdeep Singh Lubana | — | Training pipelines | fli | Postdoctoral Fellow, Class of 2024 — institution not listed on FLI page. Per-fellow total not published. — Vitalik Buterin Postdoctoral Fellowship | |
| 2024 | Surafel Tilahun | $15,000 | Other | fli | The Impact of AI on Health — Addis Ababa Science and Technology University, Ethiopia. — Impact of AI on Sustainable Development Goals RFP | |
| 2024 | Patrick Owoche | $15,000 | Other | fli | The Role of AI in Reducing Maternal Mortality — Kibabii University, Kenya. — Impact of AI on Sustainable Development Goals RFP | |
| 2024 | José Villalobos Ruiz | $15,000 | International governance, Legal | fli | International Treaty on the Prohibition of Misaligned Artificial General Intelligence — Institute for Law & AI and Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative, Costa Rica. — Designs for Global Institutions Governing AI RFP | |
| 2024 | Project Libertas | $395,600 | Economics | fli | Mapping AI surveillance vulnerabilities and governance interventions. — Mitigate AI-Driven Power Concentration Grants | |
| 2024 | Angira Sharma | — | Training pipelines | fli | PhD Fellow, Class of 2024 — Oxford University. Per-fellow total not published. — Vitalik Buterin PhD Fellowship | |
| 2024 | International Association for Safe and Ethical AI (IASEAI) | $1,850,000 | Other existential risk | fli | General support for nonprofit ensuring AI systems operate safely and ethically. — 2024 Grants (Existential Risk Reduction / Institutional Grants) | |
| 2024 | Wise Ancestors | $169,000 | AI safety | fli_990 | Conservation of Earth’s biodiversity for the benefit of all — Form 990 (2024) | |
| 2024 | Center for Collective Intelligence Design | $460,096 | Economics | fli | Project to mitigate AI-driven power concentration. — Mitigate AI-Driven Power Concentration Grants | |
| 2024 | Peace Research and Education Program | $350,000 | Economics | fli | Project to mitigate AI-driven power concentration. — Mitigate AI-Driven Power Concentration Grants | |
| 2024 | Andrés García-Suaza | $15,000 | Other | fli | The future of work and inequality — Universidad del Rosario, Colombia. — Impact of AI on Sustainable Development Goals RFP | |
| 2024 | Haydn Belfield | $15,000 | AI governance, policy, and advocacy | fli | IAEA and CERN for AI — University of Cambridge, UK. — Designs for Global Institutions Governing AI RFP | |
| 2024 | Justin Bullock | $15,000 | AI governance, policy, and advocacy | fli | A Global AGI Agency — University of Washington, USA. — Designs for Global Institutions Governing AI RFP | |
| 2024 | Surekha Tetali | $15,000 | Other | fli | Assessing the role of AI in heat mitigation and adaptation — Mahindra University, India. — Impact of AI on Sustainable Development Goals RFP | |
| 2024 | Institute for Law & AI | $15,000 | Legal | fli_990 | Research into global governance institution design — Form 990 (2024) | |
| 2024 | Future Coalition | $25,000 | Advocacy | fli_990 | Advocacy for a future with human-centered artificial intelligence — Form 990 (2024) | |
| 2024 | Uroš Ćemalović | $15,000 | Other | fli | AI and education on climate change mitigation — Center for Ecology and Sustainability, Serbia. — Impact of AI on Sustainable Development Goals RFP | |
| 2024 | Institute for Security and Technology | $242,981 | Economics | fli | Framework for antitrust enforcement balancing security concerns. — Mitigate AI-Driven Power Concentration Grants | |
| 2024 | Katharina Zuegel | $15,000 | AI governance, policy, and advocacy | fli | Fair Trade AI — Forum on Information and Democracy, France. — Designs for Global Institutions Governing AI RFP | |
| 2024 | Center for AI Safety, Inc. | $500,000 | Technical AI safety research | fli | Developing tamper-resistant safeguards for open-weight language models. — Mitigate AI-Driven Power Concentration Grants | |
| 2024 | Encode | $250,000 | AI governance, policy, and advocacy | fli | Young people mobilizing policymakers for human-centered artificial intelligence. — 2024 Grants (Existential Risk Reduction / Institutional Grants) | |
| 2024 | Joel Christoph | $15,000 | International governance | fli | Stable AGI Governance through the International AI Governance Organization (IAIGO) — European University Institute, Italy. — Designs for Global Institutions Governing AI RFP | |
| 2024 | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists | $315,975 | Economics | fli | Investigating AI developer influence in politics, media, and the military. — Mitigate AI-Driven Power Concentration Grants | |
| 2024 | CAF America | $619,861 | AI safety, Other existential risk | fli_990 | Support for university research into the consequences of nuclear war — Form 990 (2024) | |
| 2024 | Longview Philanthropy | $100,000 | AI safety | fli_990 | Finding solutions to collective action problems — Form 990 (2024) | |
| 2024 | Sumaya Nur Adan | $15,000 | Evals, AI governance, policy, and advocacy | fli | Evaluating Impact and Scaling Progress through Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships — Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative, UK. — Impact of AI on Sustainable Development Goals RFP | |
| 2024 | Joshua Tan | $15,000 | AI governance, policy, and advocacy | fli | The Practical Bengio (network of publicly-funded AI labs for safe AGI) — Metagov and University of Oxford, USA. — Designs for Global Institutions Governing AI RFP | |
| 2024 | Marko Grobelnik | $15,000 | Other | fli | An AI-driven Observatory Against Poverty — International Research Centre on Artificial Intelligence (UNESCO/JSI), Slovenia. — Impact of AI on Sustainable Development Goals RFP | |
| 2024 | Tarbell Center for AI Journalism | $150,000 | Other existential risk | fli | Funding established journalists for original reporting on current and future harms from AI. — 2024 Grants (Existential Risk Reduction / Institutional Grants) | |
| 2024 | Unknown Recipients | Silicon Valley Community Foundation | $2,470,096 | AI safety, Other existential risk | fli_990 | Granted to a donor-advised fund at the Silicon Valley Community Foundation — support sponsored projects encode, tarbell, the elders, the collective intelligence project, and university research into the consequences of nuclear war — Form 990 (2024) |
| Oct 26, 2023 | Centre for Long-Term Resilience | Survival and Flourishing Fund | $769,000 | Other existential risk | sff | General Support of The Centre for Long-Term Resilience (Alpenglow Group Limited) |
| Oct 26, 2023 | Oxford China Policy Lab | Survival and Flourishing Fund | $252,000 | Other existential risk | sff | General Support of Oxford China Policy Lab |
| Oct 26, 2023 | AI Impacts | Survival and Flourishing Fund | $162,000 | Other existential risk | sff | General Support of AI Impacts |
| Oct 26, 2023 | The Future Society, Inc. | Survival and Flourishing Fund | $365,000 | Other existential risk | sff | General Support |
| 2023 | Improve the News Foundation | $2,100,000 | Other | fli_990 | Grant to support ITN’s efforts to improve the informational ecosystem — Form 990 (2023) | |
| 2023 | Susan Solomon | $283,857 | Other existential risk | fli | Halogen-catalyzed reactions on smoke destroy the ozone layer after regional nuclear war — MIT. — Nuclear War Research Grants | |
| 2023 | Christian Folberth | $462,024 | Other existential risk | fli | Advanced ensemble projections for indirect impacts of nuclear war in global food systems — IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria. — Nuclear War Research Grants | |
| 2023 | Kayo Yin | — | Training pipelines | fli | PhD Fellow, Class of 2023 — UC Berkeley. Per-fellow total not published. — Vitalik Buterin PhD Fellowship | |
| 2023 | Yawen Duan | — | Training pipelines | fli | PhD Fellow, Class of 2023 — University of Cambridge. Per-fellow total not published. — Vitalik Buterin PhD Fellowship | |
| 2023 | AI Policy Hub | University of California, Berkeley | $600,000 | AI governance, policy, and advocacy, AI safety fieldbuilding | fli | Funding for AI Policy Hub training next-generation AI policy talent. — 2023 Grants (Existential Risk Reduction / Institutional Grants) |
| 2023 | Redwood Research | $500,000 | Foundations | fli | General support for theoretical and applied AI alignment research. — 2023 Grants (Existential Risk Reduction / Institutional Grants) | |
| 2023 | Peter S. Park | — | Training pipelines | fli | Postdoctoral Fellow, Class of 2023 — Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Per-fellow total not published. — Vitalik Buterin Postdoctoral Fellowship | |
| 2023 | Alex Wellerstein | $144,992 | Other existential risk | fli | TARGETMAP: A Tool for Generating Nuclear War Scenarios — Stevens Institute of Technology. — Nuclear War Research Grants | |
| 2023 | Francesco S.R. Pausata | $450,000 | Other existential risk | fli | Constraining Nuclear War Fire Emissions and their Impacts on the Climate System — University of Quebec in Montreal. — Nuclear War Research Grants | |
| 2023 | Alan Robock | $500,000 | Other existential risk | fli | Impacts of Nuclear War on Agriculture and Global Food Security — Rutgers University. — Nuclear War Research Grants | |
| 2023 | FAR AI | $1,858,000 | Technical AI safety research | fli | General support for neglected, high-potential AI safety research agendas. — 2023 Grants (Existential Risk Reduction / Institutional Grants) | |
| 2023 | Collective Intelligence Project | $150,000 | Technical AI safety research, AI governance, policy, and advocacy | fli | Support for Alignment Assemblies for Legitimate AI Governance project. — 2023 Grants (Existential Risk Reduction / Institutional Grants) | |
| 2023 | James Haywood | $272,000 | Other existential risk | fli | StratospHeric aerosol Impacts under Various nuclEaR conflict scenarios (SHIVER) — University of Exeter & Hadley Centre. — Nuclear War Research Grants | |
| 2023 | Nicole Lovenduski | $494,534 | Other existential risk | fli | The cascading impacts of postnuclear ultraviolet radiation on photosynthesizers in the Earth system — University of Colorado Boulder. — Nuclear War Research Grants | |
| 2023 | AI Objectives Institute | $500,000 | Other existential risk | fli | Support for Talk to the City and Moral Mirror projects on AI dynamics and human values. — 2023 Grants (Existential Risk Reduction / Institutional Grants) | |
| 2023 | Existential Risk Laboratory | University of Chicago | $380,000 | Other existential risk | fli | Support for Existential Risk Laboratory fellowship and coursework initiatives. — 2023 Grants (Existential Risk Reduction / Institutional Grants) |
| 2023 | The Future Society, Inc. | $365,000 | AI governance, policy, and advocacy | fli | General support for nonprofit focused on AI governance. — 2023 Grants (Existential Risk Reduction / Institutional Grants) | |
| 2023 | Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative | $481,000 | Other existential risk | fli | Collaboration with Center for Human-Compatible AI to develop beneficial AI systems. — 2023 Grants (Existential Risk Reduction / Institutional Grants) | |
| 2023 | Centre for Long-Term Resilience | $769,000 | Other existential risk | fli | General support for UK-based think tank improving governance of extreme risks. — 2023 Grants (Existential Risk Reduction / Institutional Grants) | |
| 2023 | Owen Toon | $500,000 | Other existential risk | fli | Studies of Environmental Impacts of Nuclear Conflicts — University of Colorado at Boulder. — Nuclear War Research Grants | |
| 2023 | Center for AI Safety, Inc. | $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) | |
| 2023 | Adam Kochanski | $450,127 | Other existential risk | fli | WUDAPT-based framework for numerical simulations of nuclear urban fires and pyroconvective plumes — San Jose State University. — Nuclear War Research Grants | |
| 2023 | Ought | $358,000 | Other existential risk | fli | General support for mechanisms delegating reasoning to ML systems. — 2023 Grants (Existential Risk Reduction / Institutional Grants) | |
| 2023 | Foresight Institute | $290,000 | Other existential risk | fli | Support for Existential Hope and Tech Tree Programs. — 2023 Grants (Existential Risk Reduction / Institutional Grants) | |
| 2023 | Caspar Oesterheld | — | Training pipelines | fli | PhD Fellow, Class of 2023 — Carnegie Mellon University. Per-fellow total not published. — Vitalik Buterin PhD Fellowship | |
| 2023 | CAF America | $292,264 | AI safety | fli_990 | To support sponsored projects teeside university, uqam foundation and international institute for applied systems analysis — Form 990 (2023) | |
| 2023 | Christoph Müller | $500,000 | Other existential risk | fli | Improving the representation of crop production losses due to nuclear conflict (CODEC) — Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. — Nuclear War Research Grants | |
| 2023 | Lightcone Foundation | $6,511,558 | AI safety | fli_990 | Grant to fund lightcone foundation — Form 990 (2023) | |
| 2023 | Oxford China Policy Lab | $252,000 | Other existential risk | fli | General support for mitigating risks from US-China competition in AI. — 2023 Grants (Existential Risk Reduction / Institutional Grants) | |
| 2023 | METR | $1,401,000 | Evals | fli | Funding for Evals Team building capability and alignment evaluations for advanced ML models. — 2023 Grants (Existential Risk Reduction / Institutional Grants) | |
| 2023 | Center for Humane Technology | $500,000 | AI governance, policy, and advocacy | fli | Support for AI policy work and messaging cohesion within the AI risk community. — 2023 Grants (Existential Risk Reduction / Institutional Grants) | |
| 2022 | Future of Life Foundation | $25,025,000 | AI safety | fli_990 | Grant to establish and fund the Future of Life Foundation — Form 990 (2022) | |
| 2022 | Alexander Pan | — | Training pipelines | fli | PhD Fellow, Class of 2022 — UC Berkeley. Per-fellow total not published. — Vitalik Buterin PhD Fellowship | |
| 2022 | Wise Ancestors | $1,113,685 | Other existential risk | fli | Platform combining genomic sequencing, biobanking, and Indigenous Knowledge to create, fund and complete Conservation Challenges. — 2022 Grants (Existential Risk Reduction / Institutional Grants) | |
| 2022 | Lightcone Foundation | $50,006,500 | AI safety | fli_990 | Grant to establish the Lightcone Foundation — Form 990 (2022) | |
| 2022 | Centre for the Study of Existential Risk | University of Cambridge | $1,000,000 | Biosecurity | fli | Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER): funded director position and research on catastrophic risks including climate, pandemics, and AI. — 2022 Grants (Existential Risk Reduction / Institutional Grants) |
| 2022 | Erik Jones | — | Training pipelines | fli | PhD Fellow, Class of 2022 — UC Berkeley. Per-fellow total not published. — Vitalik Buterin PhD Fellowship | |
| 2022 | Usman Anwar | — | Training pipelines | fli | PhD Fellow, Class of 2022 — University of Cambridge. Per-fellow total not published. — Vitalik Buterin PhD Fellowship | |
| 2022 | AI Policy Hub | University of California, Berkeley | $450,000 | AI governance, policy, and advocacy, Training pipelines | fli | AI Policy Hub: training graduate researchers in AI policy via fellowship, mentorship and policymaker connections. — 2022 Grants (Existential Risk Reduction / Institutional Grants) |
| 2022 | Stephen Casper | — | Training pipelines | fli | PhD Fellow, Class of 2022 — Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Per-fellow total not published. — Vitalik Buterin PhD Fellowship | |
| 2022 | Good Ventures Foundation | $161,865 | AI safety | fli_990 | Support for ai fellowship program supporting promising machine learning researchers — Form 990 (2022) | |
| 2022 | Erik Jenner | — | Training pipelines | fli | PhD Fellow, Class of 2022 — UC Berkeley. Per-fellow total not published. — Vitalik Buterin PhD Fellowship | |
| 2022 | Xin Cynthia Chen | — | Training pipelines | fli | PhD Fellow, Class of 2022 — ETH Zurich. Per-fellow total not published. — Vitalik Buterin PhD Fellowship | |
| 2022 | Zhijing Jin | — | Training pipelines | fli | PhD Fellow, Class of 2022 — University of Toronto (as listed by FLI). Per-fellow total not published. — Vitalik Buterin PhD Fellowship | |
| 2022 | Improve the News Foundation | $2,950,000 | Other | fli_990 | Grant to support ITN’s efforts to improve the informational ecosystem — Form 990 (2022) | |
| 2022 | Johannes Treutlein | — | Training pipelines | fli | PhD Fellow, Class of 2022 — UC Berkeley. Fellowship covers tuition/fees plus $40,000 annual stipend and $10,000 research fund; per-fellow total not published. — Vitalik Buterin PhD Fellowship | |
| 2022 | Unknown Recipients | ~$110,689,770† | Other | fund_estimates | Aggregate estimate — other causes | |
| 2022 | Foresight Institute | $1,000,000 | Other existential risk | fli | Existential Hope project: resources, projects and organizations for beneficial development of high-impact technology. — 2022 Grants (Existential Risk Reduction / Institutional Grants) | |
| 2022 | Nisan Stiennon | — | Training pipelines | fli | Postdoctoral Fellow, Class of 2022 — UC Berkeley, Center for Human-Compatible AI. Fellowship provides an $80,000 annual stipend plus $10,000 research fund; per-fellow total not published. — Vitalik Buterin Postdoctoral Fellowship | |
| 2022 | Future of Life Institute Europe | $180,297,079 | AI safety | fli_990 | Establishing and funding Europe-based affiliate (Schedule F, Europe) — Form 990 (2022) | |
| 2022 | Hollywood, Health & Society | University of Southern California | $170,000 | Other existential risk | fli | Hollywood, Health & Society program: entertainment-industry education on nuclear weapons risks and irresponsible uses of AI; BlueSky Screenwriting Competition. — 2022 Grants (Existential Risk Reduction / Institutional Grants) |
| 2021 | Unknown Recipients | ~$45,246‡ | Other | fund_estimates | Aggregate estimate — other causes | |
| 2021 | Improve the News Foundation | $3,250,000 | Other | fli | General support for work toward less hate and more understanding, reasoned compassion, constructive discourse, and well-informed decision-making. — 2021 Grants (Existential Risk Reduction / Institutional Grants) | |
| 2021 | The Future Society, Inc. | $120,000 | Other existential risk | fli | General support for independent nonprofit working to align AI through better governance. — 2021 Grants (Existential Risk Reduction / Institutional Grants) | |
| 2021 | Unknown Recipients | Silicon Valley Community Foundation | $10,000,000 | AI safety | fli_990 | Granted to a donor-advised fund at the Silicon Valley Community Foundation — charitable work in support of fli's mission — Form 990 (2021) |
| 2021 | Wise Ancestors | $106,000 | Other existential risk | fli | Pilot funding for platform combining genomic sequencing, biobanking, and Indigenous Knowledge for biodiversity conservation. — 2021 Grants (Existential Risk Reduction / Institutional Grants) | |
| 2018 | Josh Tenenbaum | $150,000 | Technical AI safety research | fli | Reverse Engineering Fair Cooperation — MIT — 2018 AGI Safety Grants | |
| 2018 | Centre for the Governance of AI, Inc. | — | AI governance, policy, and advocacy | org_reported | our funders--including...and the Future of Life Institute | |
| 2018 | Jose Hernandez-Orallo | $220,000 | Technical AI safety research | fli | Paradigms of Artificial General Intelligence and Their Associated Risks — University of Cambridge — 2018 AGI Safety Grants | |
| 2018 | Dorsa Sadigh | $250,000 | Technical AI safety research | fli | Safe Learning and Verification of Human-AI Systems — Stanford University — 2018 AGI Safety Grants | |
| 2018 | Allan Dafoe | $276,000 | Technical AI safety research, AI governance, policy, and advocacy | fli | Governance of AI Programme — Yale University — 2018 AGI Safety Grants | |
| 2018 | Marcus Hutter | $276,000 | Technical AI safety research | fli | The Control Problem for Universal AI: A Formal Investigation — Australian National University — 2018 AGI Safety Grants | |
| 2018 | James Miller | $78,289 | Technical AI safety research | fli | Utility Functions: A Guide for Artificial General Intelligence Theorists — Smith College — 2018 AGI Safety Grants | |
| 2018 | Stefano Ermon | $100,000 | Technical AI safety research | fli | Value Alignment and Multi-agent Inverse Reinforcement Learning — Stanford University — 2018 AGI Safety Grants | |
| 2018 | The Anh Han | $224,747 | Technical AI safety research | fli | Incentives for Safety Agreement Compliance in AI Race — Teesside University — 2018 AGI Safety Grants | |
| 2018 | Peter Stone | $200,000 | Technical AI safety research | fli | Ad hoc Teamwork and Moral Feedback as a Framework for Safe Robot Behavior — University of Texas — 2018 AGI Safety Grants | |
| 2018 | Owain Evans | $225,000 | Technical AI safety research | fli | Factored Cognition: Amplifying Human Cognition for Safely Scalable AGI — Oxford University — 2018 AGI Safety Grants | |
| Sep 1, 2015 | Andre Platzer | Carnegie Mellon University | $200,000 | Foundations | vipul_donations | A project grant. Project title: Andre Platzer. |
| 2015 | Adrian Weller | $50,000 | Technical AI safety research | fli | Investigation of Self-Policing AI Agents — University of Cambridge — 2015 AI Safety Grants | |
| 2015 | Stefano Ermon | $250,000 | Technical AI safety research | fli | Robust probabilistic inference engines for autonomous agents — Stanford University — 2015 AI Safety Grants | |
| 2015 | Fuxin Li | $121,642 | Technical AI safety research | fli | Understanding when a deep network is going to be wrong — Georgia Institute of Technology — 2015 AI Safety Grants | |
| 2015 | Benja Fallenstein | $250,000 | Technical AI safety research | fli | Aligning Superintelligence With Human Interests — Machine Intelligence Research Institute — 2015 AI Safety Grants | |
| 2015 | Vincent Conitzer | $200,000 | Technical AI safety research | fli | How to Build Ethics into Robust Artificial Intelligence — Duke University — 2015 AI Safety Grants | |
| 2015 | Francesca Rossi | $275,000 | Technical AI safety research | fli | Safety Constraints and Ethical Principles in Collective Decision Making Systems — University of Padova — 2015 AI Safety Grants | |
| 2015 | Daniel Weld | $200,000 | Technical AI safety research | fli | Computational Ethics for Probabilistic Planning — University of Washington — 2015 AI Safety Grants | |
| 2015 | Paul Christiano | $50,000 | Technical AI safety research | fli | Counterfactual Human Oversight — University of California, Berkeley — 2015 AI Safety Grants | |
| 2015 | Peter Asaro | $116,974 | Technical AI safety research, AI governance, policy, and advocacy | fli | Regulating Autonomous Artificial Agents: A Systematic Approach to Developing AI & Robot Policy — The New School — 2015 AI Safety Grants | |
| 2015 | Kaj Sotala | $20,000 | Technical AI safety research | fli | Teaching AI Systems Human Values Through Human-Like Concept Learning — Theiss Research — 2015 AI Safety Grants | |
| 2015 | Manuela Veloso | $200,000 | Technical AI safety research | fli | Explanations for Complex AI Systems — Carnegie Mellon University — 2015 AI Safety Grants | |
| 2015 | Jacob Steinhardt | $88,050 | Technical AI safety research | fli | Summer Program in Applied Rationality and Cognition — Stanford University — 2015 AI Safety Grants | |
| 2015 | Benjamin Rubinstein | $98,532 | Evals, Security | fli | Security Evaluation of Machine Learning Systems — The University of Melbourne — 2015 AI Safety Grants | |
| 2015 | Katja Grace | $49,310 | Technical AI safety research | fli | AI Impacts — Machine Intelligence Research Institute — 2015 AI Safety Grants | |
| 2015 | Heather Roff | $136,918 | Technical AI safety research | fli | Lethal Autonomous Weapons, Artificial Intelligence and Meaningful Human Control — University of Denver — 2015 AI Safety Grants | |
| 2015 | Anna Salamon | $111,757 | Technical AI safety research | fli | Specialized rationality skills for the AI research community — Center for Applied Rationality — 2015 AI Safety Grants | |
| 2015 | Alex Aiken | $100,813 | Technical AI safety research | fli | Verifying Deep Mathematical Properties of AI Systems — Stanford University — 2015 AI Safety Grants | |
| 2015 | Michael Wooldridge | $125,000 | Technical AI safety research | fli | Towards a Code of Ethics for AI Research — University of Oxford — 2015 AI Safety Grants | |
| 2015 | Seth Baum | $100,000 | Evals | fli | Evaluation of Safe Development Pathways for Artificial Superintelligence — Social & Environmental Entrepreneurs — 2015 AI Safety Grants | |
| 2015 | David Parkes | $200,000 | Technical AI safety research | fli | Mechanism Design for AI Architectures — Harvard University — 2015 AI Safety Grants | |
| 2015 | Michael Wellman | $200,000 | Technical AI safety research | fli | Understanding and Mitigating AI Threats to the Financial System — University of Michigan — 2015 AI Safety Grants | |
| 2015 | Wendell Wallach | $180,000 | Technical AI safety research | fli | Control and Responsible Innovation in the Development of Autonomous Machines — Yale University — 2015 AI Safety Grants | |
| 2015 | Nick Bostrom | $1,500,000 | Technical AI safety research | fli | Strategic Research Center for Artificial Intelligence — University of Oxford — 2015 AI Safety Grants | |
| 2015 | Moshe Vardi | $69,000 | Technical AI safety research | fli | Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work — Rice University — 2015 AI Safety Grants | |
| 2015 | Michael Webb | $76,318 | Technical AI safety research | fli | Optimal Transition to the AI Economy — Stanford University — 2015 AI Safety Grants | |
| 2015 | Percy Liang | $255,160 | Security | fli | Predictable AI via Failure Detection and Robustness — Stanford University — 2015 AI Safety Grants | |
| 2015 | Bas Steunebrink | $196,650 | Technical AI safety research | fli | Experience-based AI (EXPAI) — IDSIA — 2015 AI Safety Grants | |
| 2015 | Thomas Dietterich | $200,000 | Technical AI safety research | fli | Robust and Transparent Artificial Intelligence Via Anomaly Detection and Explanation — Oregon State University — 2015 AI Safety Grants | |
| 2015 | Owain Evans | $227,212 | Technical AI safety research | fli | Inferring Human Values: Learning 'Ought', not 'Is' — University of Oxford — 2015 AI Safety Grants | |
| 2015 | Long Ouyang | $99,750 | Technical AI safety research | fli | Democratizing Programming: Synthesizing Valid Programs with Recursive Bayesian Inference — Theiss Research — 2015 AI Safety Grants | |
| 2015 | Bart Selman | $24,950 | Technical AI safety research | fli | Scaling-up AI Systems: Insights From Computational Complexity — Cornell University — 2015 AI Safety Grants | |
| 2015 | Brian Ziebart | $134,247 | Technical AI safety research | fli | Towards Safer Inductive Learning — University of Illinois at Chicago — 2015 AI Safety Grants | |
| 2015 | Ramana Kumar | $36,750 | Foundations | fli | Applying Formal Verification to Reflective Reasoning — University of Cambridge — 2015 AI Safety Grants | |
| 2015 | Seth Herd | $98,400 | Technical AI safety research | fli | Stability of Neuromorphic Motivational Systems — University of Colorado — 2015 AI Safety Grants | |
| 2015 | Stuart Russell | $342,727 | Technical AI safety research | fli | Value Alignment and Moral Metareasoning — University of California, Berkeley — 2015 AI Safety Grants | |
| 2015 | Owen Cotton-Barratt | $119,670 | Technical AI safety research | fli | Decision-relevant uncertainty in AI safety — Centre for Effective Altruism, Oxford — 2015 AI Safety Grants | |
| — | Machine Intelligence Research Institute | $412,252 | Foundations | org_reported | Recent top contributor; cumulative contributions over the past 5 years incl. matching |
* LawZero launched in June 2025 naming the Future of Life Institute, Coefficient Giving (then Open Philanthropy) and Schmidt Sciences among its backers without a split; $15m of its roughly $30m of launch funding is attributed here, divided evenly between the three. Jaan Tallinn's share is recorded as his grant to Safe AI for Humanity via Mila, and the remainder arrived through Mila, which incubated LawZero.
† Future of Life Institute's Form 990 reports $372,863,899 of grants paid in 2022; grants itemized in this database are subtracted from the total.
‡ Future of Life Institute's Form 990 reports $13,521,246 of grants paid in 2021; grants itemized in this database are subtracted from the total.