Trace

University of Pennsylvania

organization

Global health and developmentOtherOther existential riskAI safety fieldbuilding

Received
$6,972,603
from 1 funders
Grants
9
Funders
1
Years active
2020–25

Grants over time

$0$1.0M$2.0M$3.0M202020212022202320242025

Biggest funders

Coefficient Giving$6,972,603100%9

Grants received

DateFunderViaAmountCauseSourcePurpose
Oct 2025Coefficient Giving$750,000Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingVEuPath Database
May 2025Coefficient Giving$30,000Eventscoefficient_givingFarm Animal Welfare Conference
Aug 2024Coefficient Giving$750,000Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingVEuPATH Database
Apr 2024Coefficient Giving$1,100,000Othercoefficient_givingHigh-Skilled Immigration Budget Modeling (Predates Fund)
Dec 2023Coefficient Giving$2,585,990Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingHuman Germ Cell Research
Dec 2022Coefficient Giving$1,320,000Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingAdrenal Cell Research
Oct 2021Coefficient Giving$275,000Other existential riskcoefficient_givingForecasting Tournament Planning
Feb 2021Coefficient Giving$132,181Other existential riskcoefficient_givingGeopolitical Forecasting Research
Aug 2020Coefficient Giving$29,432Other existential riskcoefficient_givingGeopolitical Forecasting Research

Grants via 10 · ~$5,060,200 · $562,244 average

DateFunderRecipientViaAmountCauseSourcePurpose
Feb 19, 2026UK AI Security InstituteShirin Saeedi BidokhtiUniversity of Pennsylvania~$589,500*Technical AI safety research, AI governance, policy, and advocacyuk_aisiStrategic Behavior and Manipulation in Large Language Models: Experiments, Theory, and Regulatory Mechanisms — led by Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti. — Alignment Project
2026Longview PhilanthropyPerry World HouseUniversity of PennsylvaniaOther existential risklongviewFeatured grant (no amount published): drafting an 'Autonomous Incidents Agreement' on AI-nuclear risk and operationalizing the Biden-Xi commitment to human control of nuclear launch; Chinese-language research and Track-2 dialogues. Added to longview.org May 2026. — Nuclear Weapons Policy Fund
Jul 2025Coefficient GivingGeorge Pappas and Hamed HassaniUniversity of Pennsylvania$268,000Securitycoefficient_givingReasoning-Based Jailbreak Red Teaming (George Pappas and Hamed Hassani)
Sep 2024Foresight InstituteKonrad KordingUniversity of Pennsylvania~$100,000SecurityforesightTo simulate a first complete brain in C. elegans — Complete Neuronal Input-Output Functions Project (with Ed Boyden). Focus area: Neurotech/WBE. First listed on foresight.org/ai-safety by Sep 2024. — AI Safety Grants (Underexplored Approaches: Automation / Neurotech / Security / Multi-Agent)
Sep 2023Coefficient GivingPeter Conti-BrownUniversity of Pennsylvania$110,000AI governance, policy, and advocacycoefficient_givingAI Governance Roundtables (Peter Conti-Brown)
2022FTX Future FundGeoff GoodwinUniversity of Pennsylvania$282,700Otherftx_future_fundThis regrant will support three years of work on the Global Priorities Research psychology research agenda, for a post doc, conference attendance, research assistants, and payments for experimental participants, among other expenses. — Research That Can Help Us Improve
Dec 2020Coefficient GivingKotaro SasakiUniversity of Pennsylvania$1,000,000Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingResearch on Mammalian Reproduction (Kotaro Sasaki)
Feb 2019Coefficient GivingKotaro SasakiUniversity of Pennsylvania$660,000Global health and developmentcoefficient_givingResearch on Mammalian Reproduction (Kotaro Sasaki)
Jul 2017Coefficient GivingPhilip TetlockUniversity of Pennsylvania$1,550,000Other existential riskcoefficient_giving“Making Conversations Smarter, Faster” Forecasting Project (Philip Tetlock)
Mar 2016Coefficient GivingPhilip TetlockUniversity of Pennsylvania$500,000Other existential riskcoefficient_givingForecasting Projects (Philip Tetlock)

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

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