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University of California, Berkeley

organization · Regents of the University of California at Berkeley

Total routed
$52,787,764
Grants
50
Average size
$1,099,745
Years active
2015–26

Grants over time

$0$5.0M$10M$15M$20M201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026

Biggest funders

Coefficient Giving$49,099,26493%41
UK AI Security Institute$1,768,5003%3
Future of Life Institute$1,050,0002%2
FTX Future Fund$800,0002%1
Longview Philanthropy$70,0000%1

Biggest recipients

Center for Human-Compatible AI$17,780,79634%4
Irina Conboy$8,346,60016%3
Dawn Song$3,920,0007%3
Jacob Steinhardt$3,752,6177%3
Alternative Meats Lab$3,377,7806%5
Amy Pickering$1,999,0004%2
Center for Effective Global Action$1,596,4473%2
Sergey Levine$1,450,0163%1

Grants received 17 · $7,048,118 · $414,595 average

Date ↓FunderViaAmountCauseSourcePurpose
Feb 2026Coefficient Giving$149,692Othercoefficient_givingTool for Preregistration Assessment in Economics
Oct 2025Coefficient Giving$124,525Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingSensor-Based Air Measurement Observatory Project
Jun 2025Coefficient Giving$198,000Other existential riskcoefficient_givingResearch Expenses
May 2025Coefficient Giving$550,000Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingIn-line Water Chlorination Devices 
Feb 2025Coefficient Giving$20,000Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingFieldwork Trip for Proposed RCT
Oct 30, 2024Jaan TallinnSurvival and Flourishing Fund$365,000OthersffGeneral support of Prof. Emma Pierson
Oct 2023Coefficient Giving$26,000Alignment methodscoefficient_givingAI Alignment Workshop
Sep 2022Coefficient Giving$1,308,342Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingPAVITRA Pollution Modeling Tool
Aug 2022Coefficient Giving$1,788,799Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingFollow-Up Research on Cash Transfers Study
Aug 2022Coefficient Giving$84,760Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingTuberculosis Research
Jun 2022FTX Future Fund$600,000Othervipul_donationsGrant to "support a project to study how large language models integrated with offline reinforcement learning pose a risk of machine deception and persuasion."
May 2022FTX Future Fund$800,000Othervipul_donationsGrant to "support a project to develop interactive AI algorithms for alignment that can uncover the causal features in human reward systems, and thereby help AI systems learn underlying human values that generalize to new situations."
Nov 2021Coefficient Giving$50,000Othercoefficient_givingResearch on Labor Market Outcomes (Predates Fund)
Jul 2021Coefficient Giving$25,000AI governance, policy, and advocacycoefficient_givingAI Standards
Dec 2020Coefficient Giving$700,000Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingAir Quality Sensors in South Asia
Mar 2020Coefficient Giving$88,000Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingDeworming and Cash Transfers
Feb 2019Coefficient Giving$170,000Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingDeworming and Cash Transfers

Grants via

Date ↓FunderRecipientViaAmountCauseSourcePurpose
May 2026Coefficient GivingAlternative Meats LabUniversity of California, Berkeley$600,000Animal welfarecoefficient_givingAlternative Meats Lab
Apr 2026Coefficient GivingAndy ZhangUniversity of California, Berkeley$451,000Evalscoefficient_givingCybersecurity Benchmark Design (Andy Zhang)
Feb 19, 2026UK AI Security InstituteBin YuUniversity of California, Berkeley~$589,500*Technical AI safety researchuk_aisiThe Geometry of Risk: Using Model Complexity to Improve Predictions of Catastrophic AI Failures — led by Bin Yu. — Alignment Project
Feb 19, 2026UK AI Security InstituteVenkatesan GuruswamiUniversity of California, Berkeley~$589,500*Technical AI safety researchuk_aisiError-correction and Pseudorandomness in Alignment: Watermarks and Backdoors — led by Venkatesan Guruswami. — Alignment Project
Feb 19, 2026UK AI Security InstituteCenter for Responsible, Decentralized IntelligenceUniversity of California, Berkeley~$589,500*Technical AI safety researchuk_aisiModel Organisms of Reward Hacking and Long-Horizon Deception for Testing RL Alignment — led by Dawn Song. — Alignment Project
2026Longview PhilanthropyBerkeley Risk and Security LabUniversity of California, Berkeley—Other existential risklongviewFeatured grant (no amount published): six-fellow program pairing AI specialists with nuclear experts, collaborative research, and placement of fellows into US government roles (Defense, State, Energy, Capitol Hill). Added to longview.org May 2026. — Nuclear Weapons Policy Fund
Dec 2025Coefficient GivingLijie ChenUniversity of California, Berkeley$527,366Foundationscoefficient_givingTheoretical AI Safety Projects (Lijie Chen)
Dec 2025Coefficient GivingBin YuUniversity of California, Berkeley$12,000Eventscoefficient_givingAI Safety Retreat (Bin Yu)
Nov 2025Coefficient GivingJosh MartinUniversity of California, Berkeley$95,150EA infrastructurecoefficient_givingPeace Per Dollar (Josh Martin)
Sep 2025Coefficient GivingDawn SongUniversity of California, Berkeley$200,000Eventscoefficient_givingAI Cybersecurity Research and Workshop (Dawn Song)
Aug 2025Coefficient GivingAlane SuhrUniversity of California, Berkeley$310,200Technical AI safety researchcoefficient_givingModularized Reasoning Language Models (Alane Suhr)
Jun 2025Coefficient GivingDawn SongUniversity of California, Berkeley$3,390,000Evalscoefficient_givingCyberoffense Benchmark (Dawn Song)
Jun 2025Coefficient GivingEmma PiersonUniversity of California, Berkeley$499,597Evalscoefficient_givingStudy on Frontier Model Behavior (Emma Pierson)
May 2025Coefficient GivingJacob SteinhardtUniversity of California, Berkeley$2,587,634Technical AI safety researchcoefficient_givingCompute Resources for AI Safety Research (Jacob Steinhardt)
Feb 2025Coefficient GivingInterACT LabUniversity of California, Berkeley$775,000Alignment methodscoefficient_givingInterACT Lab (Anca Dragan)
Jan 2025Coefficient GivingAndrew ReddieUniversity of California, Berkeley$100,000Evalscoefficient_givingAI Red-teaming Bootcamp (Andrew Reddie)
Aug 2024Coefficient GivingKoushik SenUniversity of California, Berkeley$739,866Evalscoefficient_givingSoftware Engineering Benchmark (Koushik Sen)
Mar 2024Coefficient GivingAlternative Meats LabUniversity of California, Berkeley$800,000Animal welfarecoefficient_givingAlternative Meats Lab
Jan 2023Coefficient GivingIrina ConboyUniversity of California, Berkeley$3,042,600Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingAging Research (Irina Conboy)
2023Future of Life InstituteAI Policy HubUniversity of California, Berkeley$600,000AI governance, policy, and advocacy, AI safety fieldbuildingfliFunding for AI Policy Hub training next-generation AI policy talent. — 2023 Grants (Existential Risk Reduction / Institutional Grants)
Dec 2022Longview PhilanthropyCenter for Human-Compatible AIUniversity of California, Berkeley$70,000Technical AI safety researchlongviewSupporting graduate students, affiliated researchers, and infrastructure for AI alignment research. Longtermism Fund (now Emerging Challenges Fund) December 2022 grants report. — Emerging Challenges Fund (formerly Longtermism Fund)
Apr 2022Coefficient GivingCenter for Long-Term CybersecurityUniversity of California, Berkeley$20,000Technical governancecoefficient_givingAI Standards (Center for Long-Term Cybsecurity)
2022FTX Future FundAnca DraganUniversity of California, Berkeley$800,000Technical AI safety researchftx_future_fundWe recommended a grant to support a project to develop interactive AI algorithms for alignment that can uncover the causal features in human reward systems, and thereby help AI systems learn underlying human values that generalize to new situations. — Artificial Intelligence
2022Future of Life InstituteAI Policy HubUniversity of California, Berkeley$450,000AI governance, policy, and advocacy, Training pipelinesfliAI Policy Hub: training graduate researchers in AI policy via fellowship, mentorship and policymaker connections. — 2022 Grants (Existential Risk Reduction / Institutional Grants)
Dec 2021Coefficient GivingAmy PickeringUniversity of California, Berkeley$1,900,000Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingIn-Line Water Chlorination Devices (Amy Pickering)
Oct 2021Coefficient GivingAlternative Meats LabUniversity of California, Berkeley$1,146,201Animal welfarecoefficient_givingAlternative Meats Lab
Aug 2021Coefficient GivingAditi RaghunathanUniversity of California, Berkeley$87,829Securitycoefficient_givingAdversarial Robustness Research (Aditi Raghunathan)
Aug 2021Coefficient GivingJacob SteinhardtUniversity of California, Berkeley$53,983Other existential riskcoefficient_givingCourse Development Support (Jacob Steinhardt)
Jul 2021Coefficient GivingAdithya Cattamanchi and Sarah StanleyUniversity of California, Berkeley$60,000Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingTuberculosis Diagnosis (Adithya Cattamanchi and Sarah Stanley)
Feb 2021Coefficient GivingDavid WagnerUniversity of California, Berkeley$330,000Securitycoefficient_givingAdversarial Robustness Research (David Wagner)
Feb 2021Coefficient GivingDawn SongUniversity of California, Berkeley$330,000Securitycoefficient_givingAdversarial Robustness Research (Dawn Song)
Jan 2021Coefficient GivingCenter for Human-Compatible AIUniversity of California, Berkeley$11,955,246Technical AI safety researchcoefficient_givingCenter for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence
Oct 2020Coefficient GivingAmy PickeringUniversity of California, Berkeley$99,000Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingIn-Line Water Chlorination Devices (Amy Pickering)
Aug 2020Coefficient GivingAmy Pickering and Michael KremerUniversity of California, Berkeley$220,000Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingAssessing COVID-19 Infection Prevalence in Rural Kenya (Amy Pickering and Michael Kremer)
Apr 2020Coefficient GivingLisa Barcellos and Eva HarrisUniversity of California, Berkeley$1,300,000Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingResearch on Rapid COVID-19 Serology Testing (Lisa Barcellos and Eva Harris)
Dec 2019Coefficient GivingJacob SteinhardtUniversity of California, Berkeley$1,111,000Technical AI safety researchcoefficient_givingAI Safety Research (Jacob Steinhardt)
Nov 2019Coefficient GivingCenter for Human-Compatible AIUniversity of California, Berkeley$200,000Technical AI safety researchcoefficient_givingCenter for Human-Compatible AI
Oct 2019Coefficient GivingAlternative Meats LabUniversity of California, Berkeley$700,000Animal welfarecoefficient_givingAlternative Meats Lab
Jun 2019Coefficient GivingIrina ConboyUniversity of California, Berkeley$304,000Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingAging Research (Irina Conboy)
Jan 2019Coefficient GivingAlternative Meats LabUniversity of California, Berkeley$131,579Animal welfarecoefficient_givingAlternative Meats Lab
Nov 2018Coefficient GivingPieter AbbeelUniversity of California, Berkeley$1,145,000Technical AI safety researchcoefficient_givingAI Safety Research (Pieter Abbeel, Aviv Tamar)
Oct 2018Coefficient GivingBrian StaskawiczUniversity of California, Berkeley$200,000Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingResearch on Drought-Tolerant Rice (Brian Staskawicz)
Oct 2017Coefficient GivingSergey LevineUniversity of California, Berkeley$1,450,016Technical AI safety researchcoefficient_givingAI Safety Research (Sergey Levine, Anca Dragan)
Aug 2017Coefficient GivingIrina ConboyUniversity of California, Berkeley$5,000,000Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingAging Research (Irina Conboy)
Jul 2017Coefficient GivingCenter for Effective Global ActionUniversity of California, Berkeley$492,188Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingScoping RCTs for Follow-Up
Apr 2017Coefficient GivingCenter for Effective Global ActionUniversity of California, Berkeley$1,104,259Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingKLPS-4 Survey
Dec 2016Coefficient GivingBrian StaskawiczUniversity of California, Berkeley$63,000Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingPlant Pathology Workshop (Brian Staskawicz)
Aug 2016Coefficient GivingCenter for Human-Compatible AIUniversity of California, Berkeley$5,555,550Technical AI safety researchcoefficient_givingCenter for Human-Compatible AI
Feb 2015Coefficient GivingEA BerkeleyUniversity of California, Berkeley$10,000Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingEffective Altruists of Berkeley "DeCal" University Course
—Longview PhilanthropyCenter for Human-Compatible AIUniversity of California, Berkeley—Technical AI safety researchlongviewFeatured grant on longview.org (no amount published; featured since at least Jan 2021, re-listed March 2023): support for CHAI's AI safety research and PhD training. Distinct from (and possibly additional to) the $70,000 Longtermism Fund grant of Dec 2022 recorded separately. — Longview advised/recommended grant (AI)

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