Trace

University of Chicago

organization

Total routed
$4,587,528
Grants
10
Average size
$458,753
Years active
2022–26

Grants over time

$0$500K$1.0M$1.5M$2.0M20222023202420252026

Biggest funders

Coefficient Giving$2,778,52861%6
UK AI Security Institute$1,179,00026%2
Future of Life Institute$380,0008%1
FTX Future Fund$250,0005%1

Biggest recipients

Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago$1,490,00032%1
Existential Risk Laboratory$1,211,52826%4
Risi Kondor$589,50013%1
Ari Holtzman$589,50013%1
Chenhao Tan$500,00011%2
Chicago School of Existential Risk$207,0005%1

Grants received 2 · $2,045,068 · $1,022,534 average

DateFunderViaAmountCauseSourcePurpose
Aug 2023Coefficient Giving$73,125Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingAir Quality Monitoring Research
Jan 2022Coefficient Giving$1,971,943Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingResearch on Mobile Conditional Cash Transfers

Grants via

DateFunderRecipientViaAmountCauseSourcePurpose
Feb 19, 2026UK AI Security InstituteRisi KondorUniversity of Chicago~$589,500*Technical AI safety researchuk_aisiProbabilistic 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, 2026UK AI Security InstituteAri HoltzmanUniversity of Chicago~$589,500*Technical AI safety researchuk_aisiHyperstition 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 2025Coefficient GivingExistential Risk LaboratoryUniversity of Chicago$244,728Training pipelinescoefficient_givingExistential Risk Laboratory Fellowship Program
Jun 2024Coefficient GivingEnergy Policy Institute at the University of ChicagoUniversity of Chicago$1,490,000Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingEPIC Air Quality Fund
Apr 2024Coefficient GivingExistential Risk LaboratoryUniversity of Chicago$301,800Other existential riskcoefficient_givingExistential Risk Laboratory Fellowship Program
May 2023Coefficient GivingChenhao TanUniversity of Chicago$250,000Technical AI safety researchcoefficient_givingResearch on Complementary AI (Chenhao Tan)
May 2023Coefficient GivingExistential Risk LaboratoryUniversity of Chicago$285,000Training pipelinescoefficient_givingExistential Risk Laboratory Fellowship Program
2023Future of Life InstituteExistential Risk LaboratoryUniversity of Chicago$380,000Other existential riskfliSupport for Existential Risk Laboratory fellowship and coursework initiatives. — 2023 Grants (Existential Risk Reduction / Institutional Grants)
Jun 2022Coefficient GivingChicago School of Existential RiskUniversity of Chicago$207,000Other existential riskcoefficient_givingChicago School of Existential Risk
2022FTX Future FundChenhao TanUniversity of Chicago$250,000Training pipelinesftx_future_fundThis 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.