Trace

Joel Becker

organization

Total granted
$401,180
Grants
14
Average size
$28,656
Coverage
100%
itemized by recipient
Years active
2023–26

Grants over time

$0$100K$200K$300K2023202420252026

Biggest cause areas

Other$149,98037%1
AI safety meta$82,20020%3
AI safety fieldbuilding$70,00017%2
Technical AI safety research$60,25015%3
AI governance, policy, and advocacy$21,5505%3
Other existential risk$10,0002%1
AI safety adjacent$7,2002%1

Biggest recipients

Lyptus Research$149,98037%1
Sean Peters$73,00018%2
Sage$71,70018%1
Parker Whitfill$38,0009%1
ChinaTalk$17,5504%1
Theia Vogel$17,5004%1
Good Ancestors Policy$10,0002%1
ALERT$8,0002%1

Grants received 7 · $85,928 · $12,275 average

DateFunderViaAmountCauseSourcePurpose
Aug 21, 2024Ross Rheingans-YooManifund$200Global health and developmentmanifundEstimating annual burden of airborne disease (last mile to MVP)
Dec 5, 2023Gavriel KleinwaksManifund$3,400Global health and developmentmanifundEstimating annual burden of airborne disease (last mile to MVP)
Dec 5, 2023Austin ChenManifund$3,600Global health and developmentmanifundEstimating annual burden of airborne disease (last mile to MVP)
Dec 5, 2023bManifund$1,000Global health and developmentmanifundEstimating annual burden of airborne disease (last mile to MVP)
Oct 2022EA Infrastructure FundEA Funds$8,480Other existential riskea_fundsPart-time salary for myself and my PA to work on SHELTER (Safe Haven to Evade Long-Term Extinction Risk) Weekend
Oct 2022Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$27,248Other existential riskea_funds5-month salary plus expenses to support civilizational resilience projects arising from SHELTER Weekend
Jan 2021Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$42,000Strategy & forecastingea_fundsReplacement salary for teaching during economics Ph.D., freeing time for conduct research into forecasting and pandemics

Grants made

DateRecipientViaAmountCauseSourcePurpose
Apr 28, 2026Lyptus ResearchManifund$149,980OthermanifundLyptus Research: Bridge Funding
Jan 9, 2026Parker WhitfillManifund$38,000Career transitionsmanifundGeneral Career Support
Jan 4, 2026Sean PetersManifund$41,000EvalsmanifundEvaluating Model Attack Selection and Offensive Cyber Horizons
Dec 18, 2025SageManifund$71,700Epistemic infrastructuremanifundAI Digest
Nov 5, 2025Theia VogelManifund$17,500InterpretabilitymanifundFund thebes' model tinkering
Sep 15, 2025Sean PetersManifund$32,000Career transitionsmanifund3 Months Career Transition into AI Safety Research & Software Engineering
Jan 9, 2024Marcel van DiemenManifund$2,500Epistemic infrastructuremanifundThe Base Rate Times
Dec 15, 2023ChinaTalkManifund$17,550International governancemanifundSupport for Deep Coverage of China and AI
Dec 14, 2023Alexa PanManifund$1,500International governancemanifundExplainer and analysis of CNCERT/CC (国家互联网应急中心)
Dec 12, 2023ALERTManifund$8,000Strategy & forecastingmanifundMake ALERT happen
Dec 11, 2023Zhonghao HeManifund$1,750InterpretabilitymanifundMapping neuroscience and mechanistic interpretability
Dec 5, 2023Good Ancestors PolicyManifund$10,000Other existential riskmanifundGood Ancestors Policy expenses
Oct 5, 2023Robert LongManifund$7,200AI welfaremanifundEmpirical research into AI consciousness and moral patienthood
Aug 21, 2023Holly ElmoreManifund$2,500AdvocacymanifundHolly Elmore organizing people for a frontier AI moratorium