Trace

Neel Nanda

organization

Total granted
$585,844
Grants
39
Average size
$15,022
Coverage
100%
itemized by recipient
Years active
2024–26

Grants over time

$0$100K$200K$300K202420252026

Biggest cause areas

Other$211,21936%3
Technical AI safety research$179,30331%16
AI safety fieldbuilding$70,97212%7
AI safety meta$66,05011%7
EA infrastructure$50,2509%5
AI governance, policy, and advocacy$8,0001%1
Biosecurity$500%1

Biggest recipients

Forethought$200,00034%1
Asterisk Magazine$60,00010%1
Glen M. Taggart$55,0009%1
Tyler John$50,0009%1
Inspect Evals$19,7033%1
Camila Blank$19,2003%1
Laurence Aitchison$18,5003%1
Alex Cloud$16,0473%1

Grants received 3 · $247,000 · $82,333 average

Date ↓FunderViaAmountCauseSourcePurpose
Jul 2023Long-Term Future Fund$52,000Interpretabilityvipul_donationsThe grants database gives the following intended use of funds: "6 months of funding for Arthur Conmy to work with me (Neel Nanda) on mechanistic interpretability research"
Jan 2023Coefficient Giving$70,000Interpretabilitycoefficient_givingInterpretability Research
2022FTX Future Fund$125,000Technical AI safety research, Research infrastructureftx_future_fundThis regrant will provide a year of salary, funding to hire a research assistant, and compute for an independent AI safety researcher. — Artificial Intelligence

Grants made

Date ↓RecipientViaAmountCauseSourcePurpose
Aug 26, 2026Jan BauerManifund$5,400InterpretabilitymanifundInterpretability research spring 2026
Aug 6, 2026CelesteManifund$15,000InterpretabilitymanifundInterpretability research feb-jun
May 14, 2026Camila BlankManifund$19,200Training pipelinesmanifundMATS 10.0 Neel Subliminal Learning
Apr 1, 2026Arya JakkliManifund$719OthermanifundSeer
Mar 25, 2026TransluceManifund$10,000ControlmanifundTransluce: Fund Scalable Democratic Oversight of AI
Mar 2, 2026Aria WongManifund$7,900Alignment methodsmanifundMitigating Reward Hacking Through RL Training Interventions
Feb 9, 2026ForethoughtManifund$200,000OthermanifundForethought
Oct 29, 2025Inspect EvalsManifund$19,703EvalsmanifundInspect Evals
Aug 13, 2025Michaël Rubens TrazziManifund$8,000AdvocacymanifundGrow An AI Safety Tiktok Channel To Reach Ten Million People
Aug 6, 2025Decode ResearchManifund$6,800InterpretabilitymanifundSupport for SAELens and other Decode Research Projects
Aug 5, 2025Steve PetersenManifund$10,500OthermanifundSystems that "give a damn"
Jul 7, 2025Aidar ToktargazinManifund$501AI safety fieldbuildingmanifundGiving free AI safety books for potentially high-impact individuals
Jul 7, 2025Bryce MeyerManifund$13,000Research infrastructuremanifundTransformerLens - Bridge Funding
Jul 3, 2025Jim MaarManifund$1,000InterpretabilitymanifundImplicit planning in LLMs Paper
Jul 2, 2025Fred HeidingManifund$4,500SecuritymanifundAI scam research targeting seniors
Jun 22, 2025Asterisk MagazineManifund$60,000Training pipelines, Epistemic infrastructuremanifundAsterisk AI Blogging Fellowship
Jun 20, 2025SageManifund$5,000Epistemic infrastructuremanifundAI Digest
May 29, 2025tamar rott shahamManifund$1,500InterpretabilitymanifundThe First Workshop on Mechanistic Interpretability for Vision
May 16, 2025Oscar Balcells ObesoManifund$6,000InterpretabilitymanifundHallucination Detector
May 7, 2025AI Futures ProjectManifund$5,000Strategy & forecastingmanifundAI forecasting and policy research by the AI 2027 team
Apr 21, 2025Tyler JohnManifund$50,000EA infrastructuremanifundPhilanthropic advising
Apr 7, 2025Laurence AitchisonManifund$18,500EvalsmanifundBayesian modelling of LLM capabilities from evals
Jan 27, 2025Epoch AIManifund$5,000Strategy & forecastingmanifundInvestigating and informing the public about the trajectory of AI
Jan 16, 2025Robert KrzyzanowskiManifund$2,000EvalsmanifundUnprompted Unfaithful Chain of Thought Dataset Project
Dec 19, 2024Piotr ZaborszczykManifund$5,124Local groupsmanifundAI safety fieldbuilding in Warsaw, Poland (funding for 1 semester)
Nov 19, 2024Iván Arcuschin MorenoManifund$11,000InterpretabilitymanifundMechanistic Interpretability research for unfaithful chain-of-thought (1 month)
Nov 7, 2024Gavin LeechManifund$8,000Epistemic infrastructuremanifundShallow review of AI safety 2024
Sep 30, 202480,000 HoursManifund$50EA infrastructuremanifund80,000 Hours
Sep 23, 2024Giving What We CanManifund$50EA infrastructuremanifundGiving What We Can
Sep 14, 2024Marisa VogiatziManifund$50EA infrastructuremanifundSocial Media Strategy for EA Orgs
Sep 14, 2024LEAH Coworking SpaceManifund$50Research hubsmanifundLEAH Coworking Space
Sep 14, 2024Elizabeth Van NostrandManifund$50BiosecuritymanifundCovid Work By Elizabeth VN/Aceso Under Glass
Aug 22, 2024MATS ResearchManifund$50Training pipelinesmanifundMATS Program
Aug 22, 2024TeamworkManifund$100EA infrastructuremanifundTeamwork - professional EA co-working space in Berlin
Aug 22, 2024Lightcone InfrastructureManifund$50Epistemic infrastructuremanifundLightcone Infrastructure
Aug 20, 2024Alex CloudManifund$16,047Training pipelinesmanifundCompute for 4 MATS scholars to rapidly scale promising new method pre-ICLR
Jun 28, 2024Lovis HeindrichManifund$11,000InterpretabilitymanifundUnderstanding SAE features using Sparse Feature Circuits
May 12, 2024Glen M. TaggartManifund$55,000InterpretabilitymanifundIndependent research to improve SAEs (4-6 months)
May 10, 2024Tom McGrathManifund$4,000InterpretabilitymanifundTrain great open-source sparse autoencoders