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RAND Corporation

www.rand.org · organization

Nonpartisan research organization whose work includes AI policy and tools to assist policymakers.

Leadership

  • Jason Matheny · President and Chief Executive Officer, RAND
  • Jim Mitre · Senior Vice President and Chief Research Officer
  • Eric Peltz · Senior Vice President and Chief Financial and Operations Officer

Team

headcount not published

source, Oct 2026

AI governance, policy, and advocacyBiosecurityTechnical AI safety researchAI safety fieldbuildingOther

Received
$93,468,751
from 4 funders
Grants
23
Funders
4
Years active
2020–26

Grants over time

$0$10M$20M$30M$40M2020202120222023202420252026
Coefficient GivingJaan TallinnLongview PhilanthropySentinel Bio

Biggest funders

Coefficient Giving$86,955,75193%17
Jaan Tallinn$4,022,0004%3
Longview Philanthropy$1,300,0001%1
Sentinel Bio$1,191,0001%2

Reviews

Zvi Mowshowitz · nonprofits.zone · full post · Nov 26, 2025

Confidence: Medium, Funding needs: High

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This is a thing that RAND should be doing and that should exist. There are obvious dangers here, but I don’t think this makes them substantially worse and I do think this can potentially improve policy a lot. RAND is well placed to get the resulting models to be actually used. That would enhance state capacity, potentially quite a bit.

The problem is that doing this is not cheap, and while funding this shouldn’t fall to those reading this, it plausibly does. This could be a good place to consider sinking quite a large check, if you believe in the agenda.

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Grants received

Date ↓FunderViaAmountCauseSourcePurpose
May 2026Sentinel Bio$756,000AI × bio, Biosecuritysentinel_bioWe provided RAND with a gift of $756,000 to be spent at the discretion of RAND president and CEO Jason Matheny. Matheny has allocated this funding to support the RAND Center on AI, Security, and Technology and its research and analysis on U.S. biosecurity risk governance, including implementation of nucleic acid synthesis screening frameworks; advancing gene synthesis screening infrastructure such as sequences-of-concern database architecture and know-your-customer standards; strengthening EU and UK biosecurity frameworks and their interoperability with U.S. requirements; and building China-U.S. dialogue on shared norms for AI-enabled biological research governance.
2025Longview Philanthropy$1,300,000Otherirs_990General Support
Nov 2025Coefficient Giving$6,000,000AI governance, policy, and advocacycoefficient_givingAI Security Research
Nov 2025Sentinel Bio$435,000AI × bio, Biosecuritysentinel_bioWe provided RAND with a gift of $445,000 to be spent at the discretion of RAND president and CEO Jason Matheny. Matheny has allocated this funding to support research and analysis on creating an early warning system for dangerous capabilities in frontier AI-enabled biological design tools (BDTs); raising awareness among labs and BDT developers to drive risk mitigation efforts; improving governance of nucleic acid synthesis; and informing future biosecurity policy in Europe and globally.
Sep 2025Coefficient Giving$9,500,000Biosecuritycoefficient_givingMeselson Center
Sep 2025Coefficient Giving$10,000,000Evalscoefficient_givingAI Evaluation and Testing
Sep 2025Jaan TallinnSurvival and Flourishing Fund$1,022,000Domestic policysffGeneral support of Technology and Security Policy Center
May 2025Coefficient Giving$2,500,000AI governance, policy, and advocacycoefficient_givingEmerging Technology Initiatives
May 2025Coefficient Giving$1,050,000Biosecuritycoefficient_givingMeselson Center
May 2025Coefficient Giving$2,000,000AI governance, policy, and advocacycoefficient_givingTechnology and Security Policy Center
Nov 2024Coefficient Giving$6,000,000Technical AI safety researchcoefficient_givingAI Security Research
Oct 2024Coefficient Giving$450,000Biosecuritycoefficient_givingBiological Risk and Critical Infrastructure Analysis
Aug 28, 2024Jaan TallinnSurvival and Flourishing Fund$2,000,000Otherjaan_onlineFor general operating support
Aug 2024Coefficient Giving$6,000,000AI governance, policy, and advocacycoefficient_givingTechnology and Security Policy Center
Aug 2024Coefficient Giving$3,400,000Strategy & forecastingcoefficient_givingForecasting Platform
Jul 2024Coefficient Giving$5,000,000AI governance, policy, and advocacycoefficient_givingEmerging Technology Initiatives
Apr 2024Coefficient Giving$2,500,000AI governance, policy, and advocacycoefficient_givingEmerging Technology Fellowships and Research
Feb 16, 2024Jaan TallinnFounders Pledge$1,000,000Otherjaan_onlineUnrestricted Gift
Oct 2023Coefficient Giving$10,500,000AI governance, policy, and advocacycoefficient_givingEmerging Technology Initiatives
May 2023Coefficient Giving$16,500,000Biosecuritycoefficient_givingBiosecurity Policy
Apr 2023Coefficient Giving$5,500,000Training pipelinescoefficient_givingEmerging Technology Fellowships and Research
Feb 2022Coefficient Giving$25,000Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingStudy Planning
Jan 2020Coefficient Giving$30,751AI governance, policy, and advocacycoefficient_givingResearch on the State of AI Assurance Methods