Vitalik Buterin
organization
- Total granted
- $551,336,808
- Grants
- 4
- Average size
- $137,834,202
- Coverage
- 100%
- itemized by recipient
- Years active
- 2018–25
Grants over time
Biggest cause areas
| AI safety | $549,531,672 | 100% | 1 |
| AI safety meta | $1,000,000 | 0% | 1 |
| Technical AI safety research | $802,136 | 0% | 1 |
| Other | $3,000 | 0% | 1 |
Grants made 4 · $551,336,808 · $137,834,202 average
| Date ↓ | Recipient | Via | Amount | Cause | Source | Purpose |
|---|
| Jan 8, 2025 | Alex Toussaint | Manifund | $3,000 | Other | manifund | Build anti-mosquito drones |
| 2023 | Lightcone Infrastructure | | $1,000,000 | Epistemic infrastructure | org_reported | Vitalik Buterin and Jed McCaleb who each contributed $1,000,000 in 2023 |
| 2021 | Future of Life Institute | | $549,531,672 | AI safety | fli_990 | Donation of SHIB tokens; FLI’s Form 990 reports $549,531,672 of revenue for the 2021 tax year — Form 990 (2021) |
| 2018 | Machine Intelligence Research Institute | | $802,136 | Foundations | vipul_donations | |