| Apr 28, 2023 | Jaan Tallinn | Survival and Flourishing Fund | $358,000 | Alignment methods | sff | General Support |
| 2023 | Future of Life Institute | | $358,000 | Other existential risk | fli | General support for mechanisms delegating reasoning to ML systems. — 2023 Grants (Existential Risk Reduction / Institutional Grants) |
| 2022 | FTX Future Fund | | $5,000,000 | Technical AI safety research | ftx_future_fund | This regrant will support Ought ’s work building Elicit , a language-model based research assistant. This work contributes to research on reducing alignment risk through scaling human supervision via process-based systems . — Artificial Intelligence |
| Nov 20, 2021 | Jaan Tallinn | Survival and Flourishing Fund | $542,000 | Alignment methods | sff | General Support |
| Jan 2020 | Coefficient Giving | | $1,593,333 | Alignment methods | coefficient_giving | General Support |
| Dec 4, 2019 | Jaan Tallinn | Tallinn Community Fund | $150,000 | Other | jaan_online | General support |
| Dec 2019 | Jaan Tallinn | Survival and Flourishing Fund | $100,000 | Other existential risk | sff | General Support |
| Nov 2019 | Coefficient Giving | | $1,000,000 | Alignment methods | coefficient_giving | General Support |
| Apr 2019 | Long-Term Future Fund | EA Funds | $50,000 | AI governance, policy, and advocacy | ea_funds | Unrestricted donation |
| 2019 | Jalex Stark | | $10,244 | Technical AI safety research | vipul_donations | The donor quotes the donee's self-description: "Ought is a research lab that develops mechanisms for delegating open-ended thinking to advanced machine learning systems. We study this delegation problem using experiments with human participants." |
| Oct 2018 | Long-Term Future Fund | EA Funds | $10,000 | AI governance, policy, and advocacy | ea_funds | Aiming to implement AI alignment concepts in real-world applications |
| May 2018 | Coefficient Giving | | $525,000 | Alignment methods | coefficient_giving | General Support |
| — | Longview Philanthropy | | — | Technical AI safety research | longview | Featured grant (no amount published; featured since at least Jan 2021, re-listed July 2022): research on factored cognition and AI alignment. — Longview advised/recommended grant (AI) |