Trace

University of Maryland

organization

Total routed
$3,457,706
Grants
7
Average size
$493,958
Years active
2023–26

Grants over time

$0$500K$1.0M$1.5M$2.0M2023202420252026

Biggest funders

Coefficient Giving$3,457,706100%7

Biggest recipients

Yizheng Chen$1,721,07950%1
Tom Goldstein and Ashwinee Panda$528,00015%2
Tom Goldstein$350,00010%1
Ashwinee Panda$310,4969%1
Kaiqing Zhang$280,5008%1
Sarah Wiegreffe$267,6318%1

Grants received 3 · $1,133,446 · $377,815 average

Date ↓FunderViaAmountCauseSourcePurpose
Jul 2025Coefficient Giving$336,607Othercoefficient_givingScience & Community Impacts Mapping Project
Apr 2023Coefficient Giving$312,959Training pipelinescoefficient_givingPolicy Fellowship
Dec 2021Coefficient Giving$483,880Other existential riskcoefficient_givingPolicy Fellowships

Grants via

Date ↓FunderRecipientViaAmountCauseSourcePurpose
Feb 2026Coefficient GivingSarah WiegreffeUniversity of Maryland$267,631Interpretabilitycoefficient_givingStudy on Chain-of-Thought Necessity and Task Complexity (Sarah Wiegreffe)
Nov 2025Coefficient GivingTom Goldstein and Ashwinee PandaUniversity of Maryland$310,000Alignment methodscoefficient_givingData Filtering for AI Alignment (Ashwinee Panda and Thomas Goldstein)
Sep 2025Coefficient GivingAshwinee PandaUniversity of Maryland$310,496Controlcoefficient_givingSteering Vectors for Externalizing LLM Reasoning (Ashwinee Panda)
Aug 2025Coefficient GivingKaiqing ZhangUniversity of Maryland$280,500Technical AI safety researchcoefficient_givingEmergent Collusion Project (Kaiqing Zhang)
Jun 2025Coefficient GivingTom Goldstein and Ashwinee PandaUniversity of Maryland$218,000Controlcoefficient_givingStudy on Encoded Reasoning in LLMs (Tom Goldstein, Ashwinee Panda)
Sep 2024Coefficient GivingYizheng ChenUniversity of Maryland$1,721,079Securitycoefficient_givingLLM Cybersecurity Benchmark (Yizheng Chen)
Aug 2023Coefficient GivingTom GoldsteinUniversity of Maryland$350,000Technical AI safety researchcoefficient_givingResearch on Neural Network Generalization (Tom Goldstein)