Trace

Stanford University

organization

Total routed
$29,558,226
Grants
37
Average size
$798,871
Years active
2017–26

Grants over time

$0$5.0M$10M$15M2017201820192020202120222023202420252026

Biggest funders

Coefficient Giving$27,369,72693%32
UK AI Security Institute$1,768,5006%3
Jaan Tallinn$420,0001%2

Biggest recipients

Mark Davis, Justin Sonnenburg, and Bali Pulendran$8,293,67628%1
Percy Liang$6,049,60020%5
Jeffrey Glenn$4,636,00016%5
Tatsunori Hashimoto$2,802,1459%2
Sanmi Koyejo$924,0553%2
Christopher Potts$743,5003%1
Humane & Sustainable Food Lab$700,0002%3
John Duchi$589,5002%1

Grants received 21 · $26,016,662 · $1,238,889 average

Date ↓FunderViaAmountCauseSourcePurpose
Apr 2026Coefficient Giving$139,097Biosecuritycoefficient_givingBiosecurity and Biosafety Work
Mar 2026Coefficient Giving$150,000Biosecuritycoefficient_givingBiosecurity Project
Jan 2026Coefficient Giving$1,954,805Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingPre-eclampsia Research
Aug 2025Coefficient Giving$10,444,480Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingProject Unleaded
Jul 2025Coefficient Giving$165,000Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingPerennial Malaria Chemoprevention with Dihydroartemisinin-Piperaquine
May 2025Coefficient Giving$1,980,000Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingImmunization Research
Apr 2025Coefficient Giving$2,310,000Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingIn Vitro Immunology
Feb 2025Coefficient Giving$100,000Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingH5N1 Testing Scale-up
Dec 2024Coefficient Giving$4,000,000Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingResearch on Vaccine Durability
Sep 2024Coefficient Giving$330,000Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingImmunology Project
Jul 2024Long-Term Future FundEA Funds$22,325Interpretabilityea_funds4-month stipend to bring to completion a mechanistic interpretability research project on how neural networks perform co
Feb 2024Coefficient Giving$2,500,000Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingHepatitis B Research
Feb 2024Coefficient Giving$188,478Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingEthical Protections for Potential Tuberculosis Vaccine Trial
Feb 2024Coefficient Giving$100,796Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingNew Method for Measuring Lead in Paint
Nov 2023Coefficient Giving$120,000Eventscoefficient_givingAI Economic Impacts Workshop
Sep 2023Coefficient Giving$500,000Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingImmunization Research
Mar 2023Coefficient Giving$198,000Biosecuritycoefficient_givingBiosecurity Workshop
Dec 2022Coefficient Giving$206,910Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingBangladeshi Brick Kilns RCT
Dec 2021Coefficient Giving$350,000Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingImmunization Research
Dec 2019Coefficient Giving$250,000Other existential riskcoefficient_givingGlobal Catastrophic Risk Education
Apr 2018Coefficient Giving$6,771Eventscoefficient_givingNIPS Workshop on Machine Learning Security

Grants via

Date ↓FunderRecipientViaAmountCauseSourcePurpose
Feb 19, 2026UK AI Security InstituteJohn DuchiStanford University~$589,500*Technical AI safety researchuk_aisi(Mis)aligned preferences: what data is needed for agents to reflect honest human preferences — led by John Duchi. — Alignment Project
Feb 19, 2026UK AI Security InstituteEva SilversteinStanford University~$589,500*Technical AI safety researchuk_aisiPrecision optimization and symmetry breaking for improving AI predictability — led by Eva Silverstein. — Alignment Project
Feb 19, 2026UK AI Security InstituteBenjamin Van RoyStanford University~$589,500*Technical AI safety researchuk_aisiA Mathematical Model of Misalignment: a general mathematical model of how a training process can give rise to a misaligned AI system that poses catastrophic risk — led by Benjamin Van Roy. — Alignment Project
Nov 2025Coefficient GivingSanmi KoyejoStanford University$503,573Strategy & forecastingcoefficient_givingResearch on Predicting AI Capabilities (Sanmi Koyejo)
Oct 2025Coefficient GivingSanmi KoyejoStanford University$420,482Technical AI safety researchcoefficient_givingNovel Method for Concept Unlearning (Sanmi Koyejo)
Oct 2025Coefficient GivingEric DarveStanford University$485,000Interpretabilitycoefficient_givingHierarchical Atlas for LLM Interpretability (Eric Darve)
Sep 2025Coefficient GivingJade Benjamin-ChungStanford University$316,149Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingCement Flooring Study (Jade Benjamin-Chung)
Aug 2025Coefficient GivingDiyi YangStanford University$531,299Technical AI safety researchcoefficient_givingRisks in Multi-Agent LLM Systems (Diyi Yang)
Jul 2025Coefficient GivingSomil BansalStanford University$304,951Securitycoefficient_givingReachability Analysis for Jailbreak Detection (Somil Bansal)
Jun 2025Coefficient GivingHumane & Sustainable Food LabStanford University$300,000Animal welfarecoefficient_givingHumane & Sustainable Food Lab
Jun 2025Coefficient GivingTatsunori HashimotoStanford University$1,922,145Evals, Securitycoefficient_givingRobust AI Benchmarks (Tatsunori Hashimoto)
Apr 2025Coefficient GivingChristopher PottsStanford University$743,500Interpretabilitycoefficient_givingAI Interpretability Research (Christopher Potts)
Mar 2025Coefficient GivingPhilip TrammellStanford University$165,000Training pipelinescoefficient_givingTransformative AI Summer Program (Philip Trammell)
Mar 2025Coefficient GivingColin KahlStanford University$387,500AI governance, policy, and advocacycoefficient_givingAI Standards Report (Colin Kahl)
Dec 23, 2024Jaan TallinnErik BrynjolfssonSurvival and Flourishing Fund, Stanford University$400,000Otherjaan_onlineThis gift is in support for Erik Brynjolfsson’s work at Stanford
Oct 2024Coefficient GivingHumane & Sustainable Food LabStanford University$200,000Animal welfarecoefficient_givingHumane & Sustainable Food Lab
Jul 30, 2024Jaan TallinnStanford Existential Risks InitiativeSurvival and Flourishing Fund, Stanford University$20,000Other existential riskjaan_onlineGeneral support for Stanford Existential Risks Initiative
Jul 2024Coefficient GivingPercy LiangStanford University$2,937,000Securitycoefficient_givingLLM Cybersecurity Benchmark (Percy Liang)
May 2024Coefficient GivingTatsunori HashimotoStanford University$880,000Evalscoefficient_givingLLM-Generated Research Ideation Benchmark (Tatsunori Hashimoto)
Nov 2023Coefficient GivingHumane & Sustainable Food LabStanford University$200,000Animal welfarecoefficient_givingHumane & Sustainable Food Lab
Apr 2023Coefficient GivingPercy LiangStanford University$250,000Evalscoefficient_givingLanguage Model Evaluations (Percy Liang)
Jul 2022Coefficient GivingClark Barrett and Scott ViteriStanford University$153,820Alignment methodscoefficient_givingAI Alignment Research (Clark Barrett, Scott Viteri)
Nov 2021Coefficient GivingPercy LiangStanford University$1,500,000Alignment methodscoefficient_givingAI Alignment Research (Percy Liang)
Sep 2021Coefficient GivingStanford AI IndexStanford University$78,000Strategy & forecastingcoefficient_givingAI Index
Sep 2021Coefficient GivingPandemic Preparedness CenterStanford University$200,000Biosecuritycoefficient_givingPandemic Preparedness Center
Aug 2021Coefficient GivingDimitris TsiprasStanford University$330,792Securitycoefficient_givingAdversarial Robustness Research (Dimitris Tsipras)
Aug 2021Coefficient GivingShibani SanturkarStanford University$161,739Securitycoefficient_givingAdversarial Robustness Research (Shibani Santurkar)
Apr 2021Coefficient GivingJeffrey GlennStanford University$610,000Biosecurity, Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingResearch on Lipid Nanoparticles (Jeffrey Glenn)
Jul 2020Coefficient GivingJeffrey GlennStanford University$415,000Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingUniversal Flu Drug Research (Jeffrey Glenn)
Jun 2020Coefficient GivingJeffrey GlennStanford University$2,531,000Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingCoronavirus Drug Research (Jeffrey Glenn)
May 2020Coefficient GivingJeffrey GlennStanford University$915,000Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingPreclinical Research on Hepatitis B (Jeffrey Glenn)
Mar 2020Coefficient GivingMark Davis, Justin Sonnenburg, and Bali PulendranStanford University$8,293,676Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingInfant Immunome Study (Mark Davis, Justin Sonnenburg, and Bali Pulendran)
Feb 2020Coefficient GivingJeffrey GlennStanford University$165,000Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingCoronavirus Drug Research (Jeffrey Glenn)
Jan 2020Coefficient GivingDorsa SadighStanford University$6,500AI safety fieldbuildingcoefficient_givingAI Safety Seminar (Dorsa Sadigh)
Jul 2018Coefficient GivingDan BonehStanford University$100,000Securitycoefficient_givingMachine Learning Security Research (Dan Boneh, Florian Tramer)
May 2017Coefficient GivingPercy LiangStanford University$1,337,600Technical AI safety researchcoefficient_givingSupport for Percy Liang
Mar 2017Coefficient GivingPercy LiangStanford University$25,000Technical AI safety researchcoefficient_givingPercy Liang Planning Grant

* UK AISI reported a total of 27m GBP over 60 projects, so estimating each of them at the average grant size.

As fiscal sponsor 2 · $125,000 · $62,500 average

Date ↓FunderRecipientViaAmountCauseSourcePurpose
Dec 2020Jed McCalebStanford Existential Risks InitiativeSurvival and Flourishing Fund$56,000OthersffGeneral Support of Stanford Existential Risks Initiative
Dec 2020Jaan TallinnStanford Existential Risks InitiativeSurvival and Flourishing Fund$69,000OthersffGeneral Support of Stanford Existential Risks Initiative