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Kairos

kairos-project.org · organization · Kairos Project, The Kairos Project

AI safety fieldbuildingOther existential riskTechnical AI safety research

Received
$53,537,080
from 1 funders
Grants
7
Funders
1
Years active
2024–26

Grants over time

$0$20M$40M$60M202420252026

Biggest funders

Coefficient Giving$53,537,080100%7

Biggest recipients

Aishwarya Balwani$5,500100%1

Grants received

Date ↓FunderViaAmountCauseSourcePurpose
Sep 2, 2026Coefficient Giving$50,000,000Training pipelinesorg_reportedTwo years of funding for AI safety talent infrastructure: SPAR, Pathfinder, the Generator Residency, Global Challenges Project, and new Kairos Labs, Talent Operations and Special Projects teams
Apr 2026Coefficient Giving$50,000Alignment methodscoefficient_givingResearch on Scalable Oversight (Rishub Jain)
Nov 2025Coefficient Giving$855,795Other existential riskcoefficient_givingGeneral Support
Sep 2025Coefficient Giving$100,000Other existential riskcoefficient_givingResearch Expenses for SPAR
Aug 2025Coefficient Giving$1,450,000Training pipelinescoefficient_givingPathfinder Fellowship and Group Support
Jun 2025Coefficient Giving$195,000Local groupscoefficient_givingGeneral Support
Oct 2024Coefficient Giving$886,285Local groupscoefficient_givingAI Safety University Group Support

Grants made 4 · $5,500 · $5,500 average

Date ↓RecipientViaAmountCauseSourcePurpose
Feb 2026Eitan Sprejer—AI safetygrantmaking_aiSupporting the Buenos Aires AI Safety community
2026Aishwarya Balwani$5,500Othergrantmaking_aiCompute for Project 2, i.e., Lottery tickets and sparse subnetworks underlying unintended generalization for Fall 2026
2026Trevor Lohrbeer—Othergrantmaking_aiProject accepted for the SPAR Fall 2026 cohort with funding provided to support part of the costs for participant compensation, blind expert validation and compute.
2026Trevor Lohrbeer—Othergrantmaking_aiReduction of researcher time by 50% due to mentees performing much of the work itself. Researcher time shifts to oversight, management and review. Assumes 4 mentees.