organization
| Coefficient Giving | $2,778,528 | 61% | 6 |
| UK AI Security Institute | $1,179,000 | 26% | 2 |
| Future of Life Institute | $380,000 | 8% | 1 |
| FTX Future Fund | $250,000 | 5% | 1 |
| Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago | $1,490,000 | 32% | 1 |
| Existential Risk Laboratory | $1,211,528 | 26% | 4 |
| Risi Kondor | $589,500 | 13% | 1 |
| Ari Holtzman | $589,500 | 13% | 1 |
| Chenhao Tan | $500,000 | 11% | 2 |
| Chicago School of Existential Risk | $207,000 | 5% | 1 |
| Date ↓ | Funder | Via | Amount | Cause | Source | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2023 | Coefficient Giving | $73,125 | Global health and development | coefficient_giving | Air Quality Monitoring Research | |
| Jan 2022 | Coefficient Giving | $1,971,943 | Global health and development | coefficient_giving | Research on Mobile Conditional Cash Transfers |
| Date ↓ | Funder | Recipient | Via | Amount | Cause | Source | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 19, 2026 | UK AI Security Institute | Risi Kondor | University of Chicago | ~$589,500* | Technical AI safety research | uk_aisi | Probabilistic Agentic Foundations for Mesa-Optimization and Emergent Misalignment: formalising how hidden objectives emerge within agents and designing strategies to mitigate them — led by Risi Kondor. — Alignment Project |
| Feb 19, 2026 | UK AI Security Institute | Ari Holtzman | University of Chicago | ~$589,500* | Technical AI safety research | uk_aisi | Hyperstition in LLMs: Mapping how narratives become model policies, probing their persistence after removal, and building tamper-evident tripwires against self-fulfilling AI behaviour — led by Ari Holtzman. — Alignment Project |
| May 2025 | Coefficient Giving | Existential Risk Laboratory | University of Chicago | $244,728 | Training pipelines | coefficient_giving | Existential Risk Laboratory Fellowship Program |
| Jun 2024 | Coefficient Giving | Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago | University of Chicago | $1,490,000 | Global health and development | coefficient_giving | EPIC Air Quality Fund |
| Apr 2024 | Coefficient Giving | Existential Risk Laboratory | University of Chicago | $301,800 | Other existential risk | coefficient_giving | Existential Risk Laboratory Fellowship Program |
| May 2023 | Coefficient Giving | Chenhao Tan | University of Chicago | $250,000 | Technical AI safety research | coefficient_giving | Research on Complementary AI (Chenhao Tan) |
| May 2023 | Coefficient Giving | Existential Risk Laboratory | University of Chicago | $285,000 | Training pipelines | coefficient_giving | Existential Risk Laboratory Fellowship Program |
| 2023 | Future of Life Institute | Existential Risk Laboratory | University of Chicago | $380,000 | Other existential risk | fli | Support for Existential Risk Laboratory fellowship and coursework initiatives. — 2023 Grants (Existential Risk Reduction / Institutional Grants) |
| Jun 2022 | Coefficient Giving | Chicago School of Existential Risk | University of Chicago | $207,000 | Other existential risk | coefficient_giving | Chicago School of Existential Risk |
| 2022 | FTX Future Fund | Chenhao Tan | University of Chicago | $250,000 | Training pipelines | ftx_future_fund | This regrant will support the hiring of a PhD student or postdoc to help orient their lab toward AI safety. — Artificial Intelligence |
* UK AISI reported a total of 27m GBP over 60 projects, so estimating each of them at the average grant size.