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organization · Various Donors

Total granted
$617,860,639
Grants
30
Average size
$30,893,032
of 20 with a disclosed amount
Coverage
100%
itemized by recipient
Years active
2017–26

Grants over time

$0$100M$200M$300M2017201820192020202120222023202420252026

Biggest cause areas

Other$517,032,58884%8
Technical AI safety research$96,644,00016%3
AI safety meta$3,806,7881%3
Other existential risk$361,7500%3
AI governance, policy, and advocacy$15,0000%1
AI safety fieldbuilding$5000%1
EA infrastructure$130%1

Biggest recipients

Coefficient Giving$500,000,00081%3
METR$96,644,00016%3
Transluce$16,880,0003%2
Lightcone Infrastructure$3,767,7881%2
Liron Shapira$215,0000%2
Berkeley Genomics Project$100,0000%1
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative$100,0000%1
Integral Altruism$61,7500%1

Grants made

DateRecipientViaAmountCauseSourcePurpose
Jul 22, 2026Berkeley Genomics ProjectManifund$100,000Othermanifundhuman intelligence amplification @ Berkeley Genomics Project
Jun 8, 2026Integral AltruismManifund$61,750Other existential riskmanifundIntegral Altruism
May 1, 2026Robi Rahman$25,000Othergrantmaking_aiReceived an interest-free loan to fund hardware purchase and setup costs during the exploratory phase.
2026Liron Shapira$200,000Other existential riskgrantmaking_aiSupporting the show's mission to lower P(Doom) by raising awareness of AI x-risk and raising the quality of discourse & debate
2026METR~$71,000,000*Evalsorg_reportedCommitments raised February–August 2026, per METR’s funding update
2026Coefficient Giving~$200,000,000Otherfund_estimatesAggregate estimate — Coefficient Giving grantmaking
Dec 13, 2025Lightcone Infrastructure~$1,855,000Epistemic infrastructureorg_reportedDonations to the fundraiser launched in December 2025 that are not itemized individually
Dec 5, 2025Liron ShapiraManifund$15,000AdvocacymanifundDoom Debates — Serious AI X-Risk Debates & Analysis as Mainstream Infotainment
Jan 19, 2025Lightcone Infrastructure~$1,912,788§Epistemic infrastructureorg_reportedDonations to the 2024–25 LessWrong + Lighthaven fundraiser that are not itemized individually
2025Coefficient Giving~$200,000,000Otherfund_estimatesAggregate estimate — Coefficient Giving grantmaking
2025Transluce~$10,000,000*Otherorg_reportedDonations not itemized individually
2025METR~$20,952,000*Evalsorg_reportedDonations not individually identified
Feb 6, 2024AI Safety CampManifund$500Eventsmanifund10th edition of AI Safety Camp
2024METR~$4,692,000*Evalsorg_reportedDonations not individually identified
2024Coefficient Giving~$100,000,000*Otherfund_estimatesAggregate estimate — Coefficient Giving grantmaking
2024Transluce~$6,880,000*Otherorg_reportedDonations not itemized individually
Mar 29, 2019Centre for Enabling EA Learning & Research$13EA infrastructurevipul_donations
Jul 5, 2018AI Impacts$39,000Strategy & forecastingvipul_donationsTo support several projects from AI Impacts’s list of promising research projects https://aiimpacts.org/promising-research-projects/
Dec 2017Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative$100,000Other existential riskvipul_donations
Luc BrinkmanOthergrantmaking_ai
Nnaemeka Emmanuel NnadiOthergrantmaking_ai
Allen LuOthergrantmaking_ai
PauseAI UK$27,588Othergrantmaking_aiOur general expenses
grantmaking.aiOthergrantmaking_aireported on the grantmaking.ai project “grantmaking.ai”
Sergey ShkolnikovOthergrantmaking_ai
Akshyae SinghOthergrantmaking_ai
Jai DhyaniOthergrantmaking_ai
Akshyae SinghOthergrantmaking_ai
Allen LuOthergrantmaking_ai
Nikhil MaturiOthergrantmaking_ai

* METR reported raising around $71m in commitments in the six months before August 2026; grant-level amounts were not disclosed.

Coefficient Giving (then Open Philanthropy) granted $970,738,813 in 2026 per this database, including estimated giving. Funding beyond Good Ventures' assumed share is attributed to various donors.

Lightcone Infrastructure said it needed about $2m for the year in the fundraiser it launched on 13 December 2025; no closing total was posted, so the round is estimated at $2m and the $145,000 of donations recorded individually in this database is subtracted.

§ Lightcone Infrastructure reported raising over $2.1m when its 2024–25 LessWrong + Lighthaven fundraiser closed on 19 January 2025; the $187,212 of fundraiser donations recorded individually in this database is subtracted from that total.

Coefficient Giving (then Open Philanthropy) granted $894,464,021 in 2025 per this database, including estimated giving. Funding beyond Good Ventures' assumed share is attributed to various donors.

* Estimated total donations to Transluce of $10,000,000 in 2025; no donations for that year are recorded individually in this database.

* Estimated total donations to METR of $30m in 2025; the Audacious Project's $8.5m and donations recorded individually in this database are subtracted.

* METR's 2024 Form 990 reports $13.6m of total donations; the Audacious Project's $8.5m and donations recorded individually in this database are subtracted.

* Coefficient Giving (then Open Philanthropy) granted $595,031,558 in 2024 per this database, including estimated giving. Funding beyond Good Ventures' assumed share is attributed to various donors.

* Estimated total donations to Transluce of $6,900,000 in 2024; the $20,000 recorded individually in this database is subtracted.