Trace

Ryan Kidd

organization

Total granted
$459,705
Grants
71
Average size
$6,475
Coverage
100%
itemized by recipient
Years active
2023–26

Grants over time

$0$50K$100K$150K$200K2023202420252026

Biggest cause areas

Technical AI safety research$122,26827%16
AI safety fieldbuilding$113,55925%22
AI governance, policy, and advocacy$75,62916%12
AI safety meta$67,00015%6
Other$51,00011%9
AI safety adjacent$15,0003%3
Other existential risk$10,0002%2
Biosecurity$2,0000%1

Biggest recipients

Charbel-Raphael Segerie$39,0008%1
Principles of Intelligence$25,0005%1
Luthien$20,0004%1
Kyle Gracey$20,0004%1
Timaeus$20,0004%1
Inspect Evals$19,9974%1
Oliver Klingefjord$15,0003%2
Apart Research$15,0003%2

Grants made

DateRecipientViaAmountCauseSourcePurpose
Sep 8, 2026PauseAI UKManifund$5,000Other existential riskmanifundCore funding for PauseAI UK
Aug 3, 2026Black in AI Safety and Ethics (BASE)Manifund$5,000Training pipelinesmanifundBASE Technical AI Safety Training Initiative
Jul 31, 2026Oliver KlingefjordManifund$10,000OthermanifundPax Machina
Jul 19, 2026AI Safety NepalManifund$1,609Local groupsmanifundAI Safety Nepal
Jul 15, 2026Conor PlunkettManifund$2,000EvalsmanifundPayBench: A Benchmark for Unsafe Commercial Autonomy
Jul 15, 2026Flourishing Futures FellowshipManifund$10,000Training pipelinesmanifundFlourishing Futures Fellowship
Jul 14, 2026Sapiens FirstManifund$5,000AI safety fieldbuildingmanifundMovement-building to make AGI go well
Jul 4, 2026Falcon FundManifund$1,000OthermanifundFalcon Fund
Jul 3, 2026Anju ChhetriManifund$1,000EventsmanifundTravel grant to attend HAAISS Prague 2026
Jun 20, 2026AhmedManifund$4,000Epistemic infrastructuremanifundAI Safety Roster: a searchable directory of everyone in AI safety
Jun 18, 2026Tarbell Center for AI JournalismManifund$10,000AdvocacymanifundTarbell Center for AI Journalism
Jun 8, 2026Saurav PanigrahiManifund$2,030EventsmanifundICML Workshop Travel: Cross-Constitution Drift in LLM Character Training
Jun 1, 2026Shaun SrirangamManifund$5,000EvalsmanifundStress-testing alignment auditing methods of AuditBench
May 31, 2026Connacher MurphyManifund$3,000EvalsmanifundAgent Island: An Environment for Interagent Cooperation and Conflict
May 29, 2026Emma Jane HumphreyManifund$5,000EventsmanifundTravel Grants for New Zealand's Inaugural AI Safety Conference
May 26, 2026Jake ProkopetsManifund$2,000EvalsmanifundLLMMatrix: Synthetic World Benchmark for Contamination Free LLM Forcasting
May 18, 2026Tom BibbyManifund$2,000AdvocacymanifundVideos covering AI news and politics with a focus on the extinction threat
Apr 29, 2026Karsten BrensingManifund$5,000AI governance, policy, and advocacymanifundPrecautionary AGI Governance
Apr 29, 2026Linh LeManifund$2,000SecuritymanifundFragGuard: Cross-Session Malicious Activity Detection for Model APIs
Apr 29, 2026Yuanyuan SunManifund$502EventsmanifundTravel support for Sarah (Yuanyuan) Sun to attend ControlConf from China
Mar 25, 2026TransluceManifund$10,000ControlmanifundTransluce: Fund Scalable Democratic Oversight of AI
Feb 9, 2026ForethoughtManifund$5,000OthermanifundForethought
Feb 4, 2026EvitableManifund$5,000AdvocacymanifundEvitable: a new public-facing AI risk non-profit
Dec 23, 2025Lawrence WagnerManifund$10,000AI safety fieldbuildingmanifundReducing Risk in AI Safety Through Expanding Capacity.
Dec 23, 2025Krishna PatelManifund$2,500AI × biomanifundIsolating CBRN Knowledge in LLMs for Safety - Phase 2 (Research)
Nov 24, 2025Evžen WybitulManifund$1,300EventsmanifundRetroactive: Presenting a poster at the ICML technical AI governance workshop
Nov 19, 2025CaMLManifund$10,000Alignment methods, AI welfaremanifundCaML - AGI alignment to nonhumans
Oct 29, 2025Inspect EvalsManifund$19,997EvalsmanifundInspect Evals
Oct 29, 2025Orpheus LummisManifund$2,000EventsmanifundGuaranteed Safe AI Seminars 2026
Oct 17, 2025Rufo GuerreschiManifund$10,000International governancemanifundThe Deal of the Century: Targeted Persuasion Campaign for a US-China AI Treaty
Oct 11, 2025Chris WendlerManifund$900EventsmanifundEnabling a Student to Present his Mechanistic Interpretability Work at NeurIPS
Oct 10, 2025Sheikh Abdur Raheem AliManifund$500EventsmanifundEmergency travel funding to attend EA Global: New York 2025
Sep 15, 2025Michaël Rubens TrazziManifund$1,000AdvocacymanifundGrow An AI Safety Tiktok Channel To Reach Ten Million People
Aug 13, 2025AI Safety Los Angeles (AISLA)Manifund$2,500Local groupsmanifundAI Safety Los Angeles (AISLA)
Jul 30, 2025Chi NguyenManifund$10,000FoundationsmanifundAcausal research and interventions
Jul 19, 2025Bryce MeyerManifund$3,000Research infrastructuremanifundTransformerLens - Bridge Funding
Jun 18, 2025Apart ResearchManifund$10,000Training pipelinesmanifundKeep Apart Research Going: Global AI Safety Research & Talent Pipeline
May 7, 2025AI Futures ProjectManifund$5,000Strategy & forecastingmanifundAI forecasting and policy research by the AI 2027 team
Apr 27, 2025Coordinal ResearchManifund$10,000Technical AI safety researchmanifundCoordinal Research: Accelerating the research of safely deploying AI systems.
Apr 24, 2025Francesca GomezManifund$10,000ControlmanifundDevelop technical framework for human control mechanisms for agentic AI systems
Apr 24, 2025GuyManifund$6,500AdvocacymanifundOut of This Box: AI Safety Musical
Apr 8, 2025Connor AxiotesManifund$5,000Advocacymanifund'Making God': a Documentary on AI Risks for the Public
Apr 1, 2025Matthew FarrManifund$600Eventsmanifund[Urgent] Top-up funding to present poster at the Tokyo AI Safety Conference
Apr 1, 2025LuthienManifund$20,000OthermanifundLuthien
Feb 12, 2025Sydney AI Safety Hub (SASH)Manifund$5,167Local groupsmanifundBridge Funding for the Sydney AI Safety Hub (SASH)
Dec 10, 2024Technical Alignment Research Accelerator (TARA)Manifund$14,901Alignment methods, Training pipelinesmanifundHelp launch the Technical Alignment Research Accelerator (TARA)!
Dec 5, 2024Leonard BarrettManifund$250Global health and developmentmanifundMetaculus x Givewell Forecasting Tournament
Nov 7, 2024Constance LiManifund$7,500AI welfaremanifundAI Animals and Digital Minds 2025
Nov 7, 2024Gavin LeechManifund$1,000Epistemic infrastructuremanifundShallow review of AI safety 2024
Nov 2, 2024Michaël Rubens TrazziManifund$6,000OthermanifundFinishing The SB-1047 Documentary
Oct 29, 2024SentinelManifund$5,000Other existential riskmanifundFund Sentinel for Q1-2025
Oct 17, 2024AthenaManifund$8,000Training pipelinesmanifundAthena 2.0
Oct 13, 2024Michaël Rubens TrazziManifund$4,600AdvocacymanifundMaking 52 AI Alignment Video Explainers and Podcasts
Oct 13, 2024Rethink PrioritiesManifund$1,000Animal welfaremanifundAnimal Advocacy Strategy Forum
Oct 10, 2024Johan FredrikzonManifund$5,000Local groupsmanifundDeveloping a Course on AI x-risk
Sep 30, 2024AI Safety and Governance FundManifund$1,529AdvocacymanifundTesting and spreading messages to reduce AI x-risk
Sep 22, 2024Joss OliverManifund$820FoundationsmanifundTravel funding to the International Conference on Algorithmic Decision Theory.
Sep 14, 2024wasabipestoManifund$2,000OthermanifundCalibration City
Sep 13, 2024Principles of IntelligenceManifund$25,000Training pipelinesmanifundPIBBSS - General Programs funding or specific funding
Aug 20, 2024Kyle GraceyManifund$20,000AI governance, policy, and advocacymanifundAI Policy Breakthroughs — Empowering Insiders
Aug 10, 2024Ammon LamManifund$500OthermanifundGraduate School Application Fee for Students from Third World Country
Aug 10, 2024Oliver KlingefjordManifund$5,000OthermanifundAI-Driven Market Alternatives for a post-AGI world
Aug 1, 2024Cambridge Biosecurity HubManifund$4,000Biosecurity, EA infrastructuremanifundPreventing Worst Case Pandemics Symposium @ Cambridge
Jul 23, 2024Constance LiManifund$1,500OthermanifundAI, Animals, and Digital Minds 2024 Conference and Retreat
Jul 2, 2024Fazl BarezManifund$10,000EvalsmanifundEvaluating the Effectiveness of Unlearning Techniques
May 22, 2024Charbel-Raphael SegerieManifund$39,000Epistemic infrastructuremanifundAI Safety Textbook
Jan 17, 2024AI Safety Research Organization IncubatorManifund$15,000Org incubation & opsmanifundAI Safety Research Organization Incubator - Pilot Program
Jan 11, 2024Apart ResearchManifund$5,000EventsmanifundHelp Apart Expand Global AI Safety Research
Jan 9, 2024Institute for AI Policy and StrategyManifund$5,000AI governance, policy, and advocacymanifundAI Policy work @ IAPS
Dec 31, 2023Cadenza LabsManifund$5,000InterpretabilitymanifundCadenza Labs: AI Safety research group working on own interpretability agenda
Oct 2, 2023TimaeusManifund$20,000InterpretabilitymanifundScoping Developmental Interpretability