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Machine Intelligence Research Institute

organization · Machine Intelligence Research, Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), MIRI, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence

Technical AI safety researchAI safety fieldbuilding

Received
$49,246,074
from 192 funders
Grants
523
Funders
192
Years active
2007–25

Grants over time

$0$5.0M$10M$15M$20M2007200920112013201520172019202120232025

Biggest funders

Coefficient Giving$14,756,25030%5
Jaan Tallinn$5,284,50011%31
Thiel Foundation$1,627,0003%7
Edwin Evans$1,114,2762%9
Vitalik Buterin$802,1362%1
Long-Term Future Fund$678,9941%4
Jed McCaleb$671,1371%2
Loren Merritt$525,0001%6

Biggest recipients

AI Safety Camp$3,793100%1

Grants received

Date ↓FunderViaAmountCauseSourcePurpose
Sep 2025Jaan TallinnSurvival and Flourishing Fund$1,607,000FoundationssffGeneral support
Dec 24, 2024Jaan TallinnFounders Pledge$31,500Foundationsjaan_onlineGeneral support for Eisenstat Research Directions
Oct 30, 2024Jaan TallinnSurvival and Flourishing Fund$54,000FoundationssffGeneral support
Aug 2, 2024Jaan TallinnSurvival and Flourishing Fund$10,000Foundationsjaan_onlineGeneral support for Eisenstat Research Directions
Jul 20, 2023Jaan TallinnSurvival and Flourishing Fund$72,000Foundationsjaan_onlineGeneral support for AI Impacts
May 13, 2021Anonymous MIRI cryptocurrency donor$15,592,829Foundationsvipul_donationsThe blog post announcing the donation says: "Their amazingly generous new donation comes in the form of 3001 MKR, governance tokens used in MakerDAO, a stablecoin project on the Ethereum blockchain. MIRI liquidated the donated MKR for $15,592,829 after receiving it. With this donation, the anonymous donor becomes our largest all-time supporter."
Dec 17, 2020Jaan TallinnFounders Pledge$563,000Foundationsjaan_onlineGeneral support
Dec 2020Jaan TallinnSurvival and Flourishing Fund$543,000FoundationssffGeneral Support
Jun 2020Jaan TallinnSurvival and Flourishing Fund$20,000FoundationssffGeneral Support
Jun 2020Jed McCalebSurvival and Flourishing Fund$40,000FoundationssffGeneral Support
Jun 2020Jaan TallinnSurvival and Flourishing Fund$280,000FoundationssffGeneral Support
Apr 14, 2020Long-Term Future Fund$100,000Foundationsvipul_donationsIn the blog post https://intelligence.org/2020/04/27/miris-largest-grant-to-date/ MIRI mentions the grant along with a $7.7 million grant from the Open Philanthropy Project and a $300,000 grant from Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative.
Mar 2, 2020Jaan TallinnBerkeley Existential Risk Initiative$300,000Foundationsjaan_onlineUnrestricted grant
Feb 2020Coefficient Giving$7,703,750Foundationscoefficient_givingGeneral Support
2019Casey and Family Foundation$50,000Foundationsirs_990CHARITABLE
Apr 2019Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$50,000Foundationsea_fundsUnrestricted donation
Feb 26, 2019Jaan TallinnBerkeley Existential Risk Initiative$600,000Foundationsjaan_onlineUnrestricted grant
Feb 2019Coefficient Giving$2,652,500Foundationscoefficient_givingGeneral Support
Dec 22, 2018Vipul Naik$500Foundationsvipul_donationsUnrestricted funding to support MIRI's operations
Nov 29, 2018Long-Term Future Fund$40,000Foundationsvipul_donationsThe grant page links to MIRI's research directions post https://intelligence.org/2018/11/22/2018-update-our-new-research-directions/ and to MIRI's 2018 fundraiser post https://intelligence.org/2018/11/26/miris-2018-fundraiser/ saying "According to their fundraiser post, MIRI believes it will be able to find productive uses for additional funding, and gives examples of ways additional funding was used to support their work this year."
Jul 2018Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$488,994Foundationsea_fundsFunding to trade money for saving the time or increasing the productivity of their employees (e.g. subsidizing electronics upgrades or childcare)
Jun 2018Coefficient Giving$150,000Career transitionscoefficient_givingAI Safety Retraining Program
2018Gustav Simonsson$33,285Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Paul Crowley$7,400Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Sebastian Hagen$6,000Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Simon Sáfár$3,131Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Kenn Hamm$11,472Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Bruno Parga$10,382Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Victoria Krakovna$2,801Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Daniel Weinand$5,000Foundationsvipul_donations
2018James Mazur$475Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Buck Shlegeris$5Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Sergejs Silko$18,200Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Misha Gurevich$1,500Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Robin Powell$600Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Max Kesin$10,000Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Michael Blume$1,100Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Michael Plotz$4,000Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Peter Scott$30,000Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Alan Chang$17,000Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Ethan Sterling$23,418Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Kelsey Piper$30,730Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Joshua Fox$240Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Jeremy Schlatter$150Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Robert and Gery Ruddick$5,500Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Alex Edelman$1,800Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Eric Lin$1,850Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Ryan Carey$5,086Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Bryan Dana$70Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Paul Rhodes$1,017Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Quinn Maurmann$3,000Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Mike Anderson$23,000Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Jai Dhyani$6,100Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Michal Pokorný$1,000Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Mick Porter$800Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Scott Worley$9,486Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Scott Dickey$2,000Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Edwin Evans$35,550Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Jonathan Weissman$20,000Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Nader Chehab$6,786Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Mikko Rauhala$7,200Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Raymond Arnold$250Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Cliff & Stephanie Hyra$1,000Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Pasha Kamyshev$20,200Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Luke Stebbing$3,000Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Richard Schwall$59,639Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Eric Rogstad$19,000Foundationsvipul_donations
2018James Mazur$200Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Sebastian Hagen$16,384Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Michael Plotz$7,960Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Alan Chang$16,050Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Ben Hoskin$31,481Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Eric Lin$11,020Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Rolf Nelson$100Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Alex Schell$9,575Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Richard Schwall$5,550Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Joshua Fox$120Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Michael Blume$300Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Paul Rhodes$7Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Patrick LaVictoire$5,000Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Xerxes Dotiwalla$1,350Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Scott Dickey$1,000Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Robert and Judith Babcock$11,100Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Vitalik Buterin$802,136Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Victoria Krakovna$17,066Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Robin Powell$400Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Cliff & Stephanie Hyra$5,208Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Paul Crowley$6,000Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Kevin Fischer$1,000Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Austin Peña$26,554Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Mick Porter$400Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Jai Dhyani$1,651Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Raymond Arnold$250Foundationsvipul_donations
2018Quinn Maurmann$27,575Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Casey and Family Foundation$10,000Foundationsirs_990CHARITABLE
Dec 28, 2017Jaan TallinnBerkeley Existential Risk Initiative$100,000Foundationsjaan_onlineUnrestricted grant
2017Simon Sáfár$3,131Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Scott Worley$5,500Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Scott Siskind$10,000Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Jai Dhyani$11,405Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Bruno Parga$11,361Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Jonathan Weissman$20,000Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Mikko Rauhala$7,200Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Eric Rogstad$55,103Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Jeremy Schlatter$150Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Kevin Fischer$5,000Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Raymond Arnold$3,420Foundationsvipul_donations2000 subtracted because it is recorded in EA Survey data.
2017Max Kesin$10,000Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Paul Crowley$12,450Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Austin Peña$1,034Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Xerxes Dotiwalla$7,350Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Edwin Evans$30,000Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Alex Edelman$5,132Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Joshua Fox$360Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Buck Shlegeris$72,674Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Paul Rhodes$22Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Jacob Falkovich$5,065Foundationsvipul_donations350 from EA Survey subtracted.
2017Richard Schwall$46,698Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Marius van Voorden$59,251Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Raising for Effective Giving$29,140Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Mick Porter$1,200Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Tran Bao Trung$1,240Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Laura and Chris Soares$7,510Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Leopold Bauernfeind$16,900Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Bryan Dana$66Foundationsvipul_donations
2017James Mazur$825Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Robin Powell$400Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Scott Dickey$8,000Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Christian Calderon$367,574Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Ethan Dickinson$17,400Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Tobias Dänzer$5,734Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Luke Stebbing$7,500Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Misha Gurevich$1,500Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Ryan Carey$5,086Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Luke Titmus$8,837Foundationsvipul_donations
Dec 10, 2017Patrick Brinich-Langlois$3,000Foundationsvipul_donations
Oct 2017Coefficient Giving$3,750,000Foundationscoefficient_givingGeneral Support
2017Tran Bao Trung$4,239Foundationsvipul_donations
Oct 2017Loren Merritt$25,000Foundationsvipul_donationsTotal amount donated by Loren Merritt to MIRI as of 2017-12-23 is $525,000. The amount listed as of October 2017 was http://web.archive.org/web/20171003083300/https://intelligence.org/topcontributors/ so the extra $25,000 was donated between those months
2017Ethan Dickinson$3,000Foundationsvipul_donations
2017James Mazur$1,617Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Austin Peña$9,929Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Mick Porter$1,200Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Tran Bao Trung$8,900Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Joshua Fox$360Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Phil Hazelden$5,559Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Michal Pokorný$12,000Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Paul Rhodes$789Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Nhat Anh Phan$7,000Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Simon Sáfár$1,000Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Alan Chang$18,000Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Misha Gurevich$1,500Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Max Kesin$5,000Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Bryan Dana$5,463Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Sam Eisenstat$12,356Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Leif K-Brooks$67,216Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Patrick LaVictoire$20,885Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Scott Dickey$3,000Foundationsvipul_donations
Sep 13, 2017Jaan TallinnBerkeley Existential Risk Initiative$100,000Foundationsjaan_onlineUnrestricted grant
2017Scott Worley$5,677Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Ethan Dickinson$2,000Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Nathaniel Soares$10Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Brandon Reinhart$5,000Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Joshua Fox$360Foundationsvipul_donations
2017The Maurice Amado Foundation$16,000Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Daniel Ziegler$5,000Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Max Kesin$2,000Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Scott Dickey$2,000Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Michael Blume$375Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Misha Gurevich$1,500Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Benjamin Goldhaber$3,625Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Ben Hoskin$5,000Foundationsvipul_donations
2017James Mazur$10,010Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Paul Rhodes$58Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Eric Rogstad$46,133Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Mick Porter$2,000Foundationsvipul_donations
Jun 5, 2017Jaan Tallinn$25,000Foundationsjaan_onlineDonation
May 30, 2017Anonymous MIRI cryptocurrency donor$1,006,549Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Misha Gurevich$1,500Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Simon Sáfár$1,000Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Jean-Philippe Sugarbroad$200Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Peter Scott$50,000Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Robin Powell$10,400Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Ethan Dickinson$3,000Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Sebastian Hagen$409Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Johan Edström$2,000Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Raising for Effective Giving$175,027Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Scott Dickey$3,000Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Ben Hoskin$5,000Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Joshua Fox$360Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Janos Kramar$200Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Benjamin Goldhaber$1,375Foundationsvipul_donations
Mar 6, 2017Jaan Tallinn$25,000Foundationsjaan_onlineDonation
2017Max Kesin$3,420Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Johan Edström$3,700Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Brandon Reinhart$20,050Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Kevin Fischer$2,000Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Ben Hoskin$20,000Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Misha Gurevich$3,000Foundationsvipul_donations
2017William Morgan$1,000Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Jonathan Weissman$20,000Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Jean-Philippe Sugarbroad$11,000Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Michael Cohen$9,977Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Simon Sáfár$10,900Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Joshua Fox$600Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Jaan Tallinn$60,500Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Nicolas Tarleton$2,000Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Mick Porter$4,800Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Scott Worley$10,510Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Emma Borhanian$12,000Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Scott Dickey$17,000Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Benjamin Hoffman$100Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Luke Stebbing$10,550Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Robin Powell$400Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Edwin Evans$30,000Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Marcello Herreshoff$12,000Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Michael Blume$5,050Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Benjamin Goldhaber$12,250Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Sebastian Hagen$10,442Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Scott Siskind$19,000Foundationsvipul_donations
2017Mikko Rauhala$6,000Foundationsvipul_donations
Aug 2016Coefficient Giving$500,000Foundationscoefficient_givingGeneral Support
Jul 22, 2016Jaan Tallinn$10,500Foundationsjaan_onlineDonation in the name of scott siskind
2016Joshua Fox$560Foundationsvipul_donations
2016Paul Rhodes$26Foundationsvipul_donations
2016Alexei Andreev$525Foundationsvipul_donations
2016Sebastian Hagen$6,085Foundationsvipul_donations
2016Misha Gurevich$2,000Foundationsvipul_donations
2016Brandon Reinhart$15,000Foundationsvipul_donations
Jun 9, 2016Jaan Tallinn$25,000Foundationsjaan_onlineDonation
Mar 10, 2016Jaan Tallinn$25,000Foundationsjaan_onlineDonation
2016Paul Rhodes$5Foundationsvipul_donations
2016Joshua Fox$100Foundationsvipul_donations
2016Michael Cohen$29,382Foundationsvipul_donations
2016Misha Gurevich$1,000Foundationsvipul_donations
2016Max Kesin$6,580Foundationsvipul_donations
2016Scott Dickey$11,000Foundationsvipul_donations
2016Scott Worley$5,488Foundationsvipul_donations
2016Paul Rhodes$30Foundationsvipul_donations
2016Sebastian Hagen$6,000Foundationsvipul_donations
2016Mikko Rauhala$6,000Foundationsvipul_donations
2016Jaan Tallinn$80,000Foundationsvipul_donations
2016Luke Stebbing$10,500Foundationsvipul_donations
2016Michael Blume$15,000Foundationsvipul_donations
2016William Morgan$400Foundationsvipul_donations
2016Scott Siskind$2,037Foundationsvipul_donations
2016Mick Porter$2,400Foundationsvipul_donations
2016Misha Gurevich$3,000Foundationsvipul_donations
2016Janos Kramar$541Foundationsvipul_donations
2016Jeremy Schlatter$4,000Foundationsvipul_donations

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Grants made 1 · $3,793 · $3,793 average

Date ↓RecipientViaAmountCauseSourcePurpose
Jun 7, 2018AI Safety Camp$3,793Training pipelinesvipul_donationsThe actual donation probably happened sometime between February and June 2018.

As fiscal sponsor 10 · $1,355,000 · $135,500 average

Date ↓FunderRecipientViaAmountCauseSourcePurpose
Oct 26, 2023Jaan TallinnAI ImpactsSurvival and Flourishing Fund$179,000Other existential risksffGeneral Support of AI Impacts
Oct 26, 2023Future of Life InstituteAI ImpactsSurvival and Flourishing Fund$162,000Other existential risksffGeneral Support of AI Impacts
Dec 2022Jaan TallinnAI ImpactsSurvival and Flourishing Fund$546,000Strategy & forecastingsffGeneral Support of AI Impacts
Jul 2021Jaan TallinnAI ImpactsSurvival and Flourishing Fund$221,000Strategy & forecastingsffGeneral Support of AI Impacts
Jul 2021Jed McCalebAI ImpactsSurvival and Flourishing Fund$82,000Strategy & forecastingsffGeneral Support of AI Impacts
Jun 2020Jed McCalebAI ImpactsSurvival and Flourishing Fund$20,000Strategy & forecastingsffGeneral Support of AI Impacts
Jun 2020Jaan TallinnAI ImpactsSurvival and Flourishing Fund$40,000Strategy & forecastingsffGeneral Support of AI Impacts
Dec 4, 2019Jaan TallinnAI ImpactsTallinn Community Fund$30,000Otherjaan_onlineGeneral support for AI Impacts
Dec 2019Jaan TallinnAI ImpactsSurvival and Flourishing Fund$70,000Other existential risksffGeneral Support of AI Impacts
Oct 15, 2015Jaan TallinnAI Impacts$5,000Otherjaan_onlineDonation to AI Impacts