Trace

University of Oxford

organization · Oxford University, University of Oxford Development Trust, University of Oxford (nanopore sequencing diagnostics study)

Total routed
$19,950,684
Grants
35
Average size
$570,020
Years active
2013–26

Grants over time

$0$5.0M$10M$15M20132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026

Biggest funders

Coefficient Giving$17,307,15187%11
UK AI Security Institute$2,157,90011%6
Jaan Tallinn$285,6331%16
Foresight Institute$200,0001%2

Biggest recipients

Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative$14,128,01871%2
Jakob Foerster$901,3915%2
Peter Evans and Stefan Dercon$609,0663%1
Kai Sandbrink$589,5003%1
Rahul Santhanam$589,5003%1
Joan Velja$589,5003%1
Allan Dafoe$429,7702%1
Lin Li$371,0092%1

Grants received 11 · $15,583,245 · $1,558,325 average

Date ↓FunderViaAmountCauseSourcePurpose
Apr 2026Coefficient Giving$108,419Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingEstablishment of the Malaria Vaccine Alliance
Nov 2025Coefficient Giving$357,000Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingStudy on IV Delivery of BCG Tuberculosis Vaccine
Jul 2025Global Health and Development FundEA Funds$152,140Global health and developmentea_fundsFunding for a study comparing iron bioavailability across sources among pregnant women in Kenya.
Jun 2025Coefficient Giving$3,496,050Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingMalaria Vaccine Durability in School-Aged Children
Dec 2024Coefficient Giving$4,703,785Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingMalaria Vaccine Manufacturing
Dec 2024Coefficient Giving$4,296,130Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingImproved First-Generation Malaria Vaccine Development
Apr 2024Coefficient Giving$1,353,450Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingHepatitis C Challenge Model
Nov 2023Coefficient Giving$300,000Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingMonoclonal Antibody Development for Malaria
Jan 2023Coefficient Giving$40,000Biosecuritycoefficient_givingGenetic Engineering Attribution
Feb 2020Coefficient Giving$776,271Other existential riskcoefficient_givingNew Office for Effective Altruism Organizations
—Longview Philanthropy—BiosecuritylongviewFeatured grant on the 2021 longview.org site (no amount published): study validating a nanopore-sequencing diagnostic tool for early detection of emerging infectious diseases. — Longview advised/recommended grant (biosecurity)

Grants via

Date ↓FunderRecipientViaAmountCauseSourcePurpose
May 2026Coefficient GivingOxford Martin AI Governance InitiativeUniversity of Oxford$8,705,000AI governance, policy, and advocacycoefficient_givingOxford AI Governance Initiative
May 2026Coefficient GivingJakob FoersterUniversity of Oxford$279,224AI safetycoefficient_givingReducing Encoded Reasoning in Chains of Thought (Jakob Foerster)
Mar 2026Coefficient GivingLin LiUniversity of Oxford$371,009Securitycoefficient_givingImproved Latent Adversarial Training (Lin Li)
Feb 19, 2026UK AI Security InstituteKai SandbrinkUniversity of Oxford, University College London~$589,500*Technical AI safety researchuk_aisiAlignment Training Dynamics — led by Kai Sandbrink. — Alignment Project
Feb 19, 2026UK AI Security InstituteRahul SanthanamUniversity of Oxford~$589,500*Technical AI safety researchuk_aisiA Theoretical Framework for Machine Understanding — led by Rahul Santhanam. — Alignment Project
Feb 19, 2026UK AI Security InstituteJoan VeljaUniversity of Oxford~$589,500*Technical AI safety researchuk_aisiAdversarial Elicitation Theory — led by Joan Velja. — Alignment Project
Dec 2025Coefficient GivingPhilip TorrUniversity of Oxford$224,780Interpretabilitycoefficient_givingResearch on LLM Steering Vectors (Philip Torr)
Sep 2025Coefficient GivingChristian Schroeder de WittUniversity of Oxford$352,365Technical AI safety researchcoefficient_givingMitigating Collusion in LLMs for Multi-Agent Security (Christian Schroeder de Witt)
Apr 2025Coefficient GivingPeter Evans and Stefan DerconUniversity of Oxford$609,066Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingPractical Politics Platform (Peter Evans & Stefan Dercon)
Apr 3, 2025UK AI Security InstituteAdel BibiUniversity of Oxford~$129,800†AI safetyuk_aisiThe Safety of Operating Systems AI Agents: Formulations, Evaluations, and Certification — led by Adel Bibi, Philip Torr, Adam Mahdi. Seed grant of up to £200,000. — Systemic Safety Grants (Phase 1)
Apr 3, 2025UK AI Security InstituteMichael BronsteinUniversity of Oxford, Mila, McGill University~$129,800†AI safetyuk_aisiTowards Trustworthy AI Agents for Information Veracity — led by Michael Bronstein, Reihaneh Rabbany, Shenyang Huang. Seed grant of up to £200,000. — Systemic Safety Grants (Phase 1)
Apr 3, 2025UK AI Security InstituteNick HawesUniversity of Oxford~$129,800†AI safetyuk_aisiAI and Hard Choices: The Parity Model — led by Nick Hawes, Ruth Chang. Seed grant of up to £200,000. — Systemic Safety Grants (Phase 1)
Mar 2025Coefficient GivingOxford Martin AI Governance InitiativeUniversity of Oxford$5,423,018AI governance, policy, and advocacycoefficient_givingOxford AI Governance Initiative
Nov 2024Coefficient GivingBrianna Rosen and Ciaran MartinUniversity of Oxford$264,666AI × cybercoefficient_givingAI Cybersecurity Project (Brianna Rosen, Ciaran Martin)
Sep 2024Coefficient GivingJakob FoersterUniversity of Oxford$622,167Technical AI safety researchcoefficient_givingLLM Research Replication (Jakob Foerster)
Sep 2024Foresight InstituteAbhinav SinghUniversity of Oxford~$100,000‡SecurityforesightAI SecureOps: GenAI and LLM Security Training for Enterprises — CTF-style professional GenAI security training. Focus area: Security/Cryptography. First listed on foresight.org/ai-safety by Sep 2024. — AI Safety Grants (Underexplored Approaches: Automation / Neurotech / Security / Multi-Agent)
May 2024Foresight InstituteToby D. PilditchUniversity of Oxford~$100,000‡SecurityforesightCutting Through the Complexity of Multi-agent AI Scenarios — multi-agent computational model simulating multipolar and game-theoretic AI scenarios. Focus area: Safe Multipolar/Multi-Agent AI. First listed on foresight.org/ai-safety by May 2024. — AI Safety Grants (Underexplored Approaches: Automation / Neurotech / Security / Multi-Agent)
Nov 18, 2019Jaan TallinnJelena LuketinaUniversity of Oxford, Solenum Foundation$12,770Otherjaan_onlineFunding for Jelena Luketina’s Oxford PhD
Oct 2018Coefficient GivingAndrew Snyder-BeattieUniversity of Oxford$26,086Biosecuritycoefficient_givingD.Phil Support for Andrew Snyder-Beattie
Aug 6, 2018Jaan TallinnJelena LuketinaUniversity of Oxford, Solenum Foundation$13,350Otherjaan_onlineFunding for Jelena Luketina’s Oxford PhD
Jul 2018Coefficient GivingAllan DafoeUniversity of Oxford$429,770International governancecoefficient_givingResearch on the Global Politics of AI (Allan Dafoe)
Jul 17, 2017Jaan TallinnJelena LuketinaUniversity of Oxford, Solenum Foundation$13,350Otherjaan_onlineDonation to Oxford CS department (for Jelena Luketina)
Jul 5, 2016Jaan TallinnFuture of Humanity InstituteUniversity of Oxford, Solenum Foundation$24,698Otherjaan_onlineDonation to Future of Humanity Institute, Faculty of Philosophy ($25k)
Mar 9, 2016Jaan TallinnFuture of Humanity InstituteUniversity of Oxford, Solenum Foundation$23,496Otherjaan_onlineDonation to Future of Humanity Institute, Faculty of Philosophy ($25k)
Nov 23, 2015Jaan TallinnFuture of Humanity InstituteUniversity of Oxford, Solenum Foundation$21,894Otherjaan_onlineDonation to Future of Humanity Institute, Faculty of Philosophy ($25k)
Jul 10, 2015Jaan TallinnFuture of Humanity InstituteUniversity of Oxford, Solenum Foundation$21,360Otherjaan_onlineDonation to Future of Humanity Institute, Faculty of Philosophy ($25k)
Mar 31, 2015Jaan TallinnFuture of Humanity InstituteUniversity of Oxford, Solenum Foundation$34,897Otherjaan_onlineDonation to Future of Humanity Institute, Faculty of Philosophy (£16k + $15k)
Dec 22, 2014Jaan TallinnFuture of Humanity InstituteUniversity of Oxford, Solenum Foundation$42,720Otherjaan_onlineDonation to Future of Humanity Institute, Faculty of Philosophy ($50000)
Sep 9, 2014Jaan TallinnFuture of Humanity InstituteUniversity of Oxford, Solenum Foundation$20,025Otherjaan_onlineDonation to Future of Humanity Institute, Faculty of Philosophy
Jun 9, 2014Jaan TallinnFuture of Humanity InstituteUniversity of Oxford, Solenum Foundation$20,025Otherjaan_onlineDonation to Future of Humanity Institute, Faculty of Philosophy ($5000)
Mar 4, 2014Jaan TallinnFuture of Humanity InstituteUniversity of Oxford$20,025Otherjaan_onlineDonation to Future of Humanity Institute, Faculty of Philosophy
Dec 4, 2013Jaan TallinnFuture of Humanity InstituteUniversity of Oxford$4,085Otherjaan_onlineDonation to Future of Humanity Institute, Faculty of Philosophy (usd 5000)
Sep 4, 2013Jaan TallinnFuture of Humanity InstituteUniversity of Oxford$4,285Otherjaan_onlineDonation to Future of Humanity Institute, Faculty of Philosophy
May 10, 2013Jaan TallinnFuture of Humanity InstituteUniversity of Oxford$4,339Otherjaan_onlineDonation to Future of Humanity Institute, Faculty of Philosophy
Feb 18, 2013Jaan TallinnFuture of Humanity InstituteUniversity of Oxford$4,315Otherjaan_onlineDonation to Future of Humanity Institute, Faculty of Philosophy

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

† UK AISI awarded grants of up to 200k GBP for this round, so estimating each of them at 100k.

‡ Foresight Institute planned to give $2.5-3.2m over 26 grants in 2023 and 2024; estimating each at roughly the average grant size.

As fiscal sponsor 2 · $248,000 · $124,000 average

Date ↓FunderRecipientViaAmountCauseSourcePurpose
Dec 2020Jaan TallinnFuture of Humanity Institute, Research Scholars ProgrammeSurvival and Flourishing Fund$30,000OthersffGeneral Support of the Research Scholars Programme at Future of Humanity Institute
Dec 2020Safe AI ForumFuture of Humanity Institute, Research Scholars ProgrammeSurvival and Flourishing Fund$218,000OthersffGeneral Support of the Research Scholars Programme at Future of Humanity Institute