Trace

University of Toronto

organization

Total routed
$4,105,700
Grants
8
Average size
$513,213
Years active
2020–26

Grants over time

$0$500K$1.0M$1.5M$2.0M2020202120222023202420252026

Biggest funders

Coefficient Giving$2,226,20054%4
UK AI Security Institute$1,768,50043%3
Jaan Tallinn$111,0003%1

Biggest recipients

Zhijing Jin$2,105,20051%3
Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society$700,00017%1
Yonatan Kahn$589,50014%1
Chris Maddison$520,00013%1
Colin Raffel$111,0003%1
Toryn Klassen$80,0002%1

Grants received 1 · $40,000 · $40,000 average

DateFunderViaAmountCauseSourcePurpose
Mar 2023Coefficient Giving$40,000Strategy & forecastingcoefficient_givingSocial Science Prediction Platform

Grants via

DateFunderRecipientViaAmountCauseSourcePurpose
Feb 19, 2026UK AI Security InstituteYonatan KahnUniversity of Toronto~$589,500*Technical AI safety researchuk_aisiScaling laws, data distributions, and learning dynamics: simulated high-energy physics data as a benchmark for data in the wild — led by Yonatan Kahn, Noam Levi, Andrew Larkoski. — Alignment Project
Feb 19, 2026UK AI Security InstituteZhijing JinUniversity of Toronto~$589,500*Technical AI safety researchuk_aisiFormal verification and Empirical Testing of Translucency in Multi-Agent AI Systems — led by Zhijing Jin. — Alignment Project
Feb 19, 2026UK AI Security InstituteZhijing JinUniversity of Toronto~$589,500*Technical AI safety researchuk_aisiGame-Theoretic Safety Guarantees for Advanced AI Systems — led by Zhijing Jin. — Alignment Project
Oct 2025Coefficient GivingZhijing JinUniversity of Toronto$926,200Technical AI safety researchcoefficient_givingAI Safety Research Projects (Zhijing Jin)
Jun 2025Coefficient GivingSchwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and SocietyUniversity of Toronto$700,000Alignment methodscoefficient_givingAI Safety and Alignment Initiatives (Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society)
Feb 9, 2024Jaan TallinnColin RaffelLightspeed Grants, University of Toronto$111,000Otherjaan_onlineGeneral support for Colin Raffel
Jan 2023Coefficient GivingToryn KlassenUniversity of Toronto$80,000Alignment methodscoefficient_givingAlignment Research (Toryn Klassen)
Dec 2020Coefficient GivingChris MaddisonUniversity of Toronto$520,000Technical AI safety researchcoefficient_givingMachine Learning Research (Chris Maddison)

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

As fiscal sponsor 1 · $346,000 · $346,000 average

DateFunderRecipientViaAmountCauseSourcePurpose
May 2022Jaan TallinnSocial Science Prediction PlatformSurvival and Flourishing Fund$346,000Epistemic infrastructuresffGeneral support of Social Science Prediction Platform