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New grantmaking platform coordinating large-scale philanthropy in quarterly rounds. Simple application process.
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Best for switching career
Funding and support over a defined period to work full-time on transitioning into AI safety careers.
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Funds theory-driven research on ReLU networks and projects that raise the epistemic bar of AI safety. Mathematicians especially welcome, regardless of prior AI experience.
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Funds new research orgs and projects meeting a high standard of scientific rigor – predictive, mathematically founded theory and methodologically mature experiments.
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Funds alignment researchers with ideas they can't pursue within their current institutional funding and experts from other fields whose perspectives could produce breakthroughs.
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Funds new projects addressing transformative AI, with grants typically $10k-$150k. Run by Effective Altruism Funds. Replaced the Long-Term Future Fund (LTFF).
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Provides financial support to organizations working to improve humanity’s long-term prospects for survival and flourishing. Speculation Grants are rolling; full S-Process runs annually.
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Funds research on AI externalities, evals science, alignment questions, and slowing AI progress.
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Awards grants and prizes for corrigibility research – aiming to ensure AI keeps humans informed and in control. Managed by Max Harms and housed at Lightcone Infrastructure.
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Funds projects that support people working in AI safety, help people transition to the field, or contribute to public discourse about transformative AI.
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$10k grants for ambitious, unusual projects to make AGI go well, via a deliberately minimal application. Open to anyone, including those new to the field.
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$10k honorarium plus funder matchmaking for short pitches for projects preparing for advanced AI – including in alignment, control, evals, and AI security.
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Grants of up to $10k for work on AI safety research, field-building, talent acceleration, events etc.
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Regranting platform where individual regranters have funding pools to direct towards publicly-listed projects.
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Foresight's 'AI for Science & Safety Nodes' program offers funding, a community hub, and local compute in either San Francisco or Berlin.
Applications close 31 October 2026
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Public database of AI safety projects seeking funding. Applications are displayed to various donors and can receive rapid feedback.
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Funds research studying the safety of large networks of interacting AI agents, run jointly with Google DeepMind, ARIA, and CAIF. Offering up to $1M over 1–2 years.
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UK government R&D funding agency aiming to unlock scientific and technological breakthroughs that benefit everyone. Similar to DARPA in the US.
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Pooled multi-donor fund structured to be fast and rapidly capture emerging opportunities, including in governance, technical alignment, and evaluations.
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Aiming to reduce catastrophic risks from advanced AI through grants towards technical research, policy, and training programs for new researchers.
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Aiming to increase the impact of effective altruism projects (including AI safety) by increasing their access to talent, capital, and knowledge.
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Supporting digital content from creators raising awareness and understanding about ongoing AI developments and issues.
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Devises and executes bespoke giving strategies for major donors. Grants focus on reducing the risks posed by AI, nuclear war, and engineered pandemics.
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Swiss nonprofit focused on reducing suffering risks, including that posed by catastrophic AI misuse and AI conflict. Makes both grants to nonprofits and investments in for-profit companies.
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Joint DARPA and NSF program funding US university-led research on interpretability, control, and adversarial robustness for national security applications.
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Grants of $1k–20k to support journalism on AI and its impacts. Mainly focuses on written journalism, but also funds other formats.
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Funding initiative with $25M annual giving, backing people and ideas with the funding, strategic guidance, and networks they need to steer transformative AI toward beneficial outcomes.
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UK government organization running large-scale grant programs funding AI safety research. Collaborates with researchers and institutions to identify promising projects to fund.
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Helping entrepreneurs direct their charitable giving where it will do the most good, including (but not limited to) AI safety.
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Fast grants/investments of up to $1M for new technical research nonprofits/for-profits advancing AI safety.
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Makes grants for studying the risks from powerful technologies and developing strategies for reducing them – through RFPs, contests, and collaborations.
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Nonprofit that controls OpenAI which has committed $25 billion to grants in various cause areas – including AI safety.
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Charity foundation backed by a large philanthropic commitment supporting research into improving cooperative intelligence of advanced AI.
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Provides financial support to future and current PhD students in the field of cooperative AI. Run by the Cooperative AI Foundation (CAIF).
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Evergreen VC and fund by Jaan Tallinn backing tech that supports humanity's long-term survival. Profits from the VC go towards funding AI safety nonprofits.
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Initiative run by the Frontier Model Forum (i.e. frontier AI companies) to accelerate and expand the field of AI safety.
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Private foundation funding AI governance: policymaker education on capabilities, policy design across a range of future scenarios, and civil society coordination on AI risk.
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Supports projects and individuals aiming to address worst-case suffering risks from the development and deployment of advanced AI systems.
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Supports the exploration of foundational technical topics that relate to the potential national security implications of AI over the long term.
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Network of donors funding charitable projects that work one level removed from direct impact, often cross-cutting between cause areas.
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Berlin-based foundation of tech investor Jan Beckers, funding research in LLM auditing/evaluations, interpretability, and global AI governance.
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Small organization with a long history of finding people doing impactful work to prevent human-created existential risks and financially supporting them.
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Private foundation providing grants to projects working to make the future with advanced AI go well. Also invests in for-profits in order to redeploy capital to AI safety nonprofits.
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Foundation run by Dustin Moskovitz and Cari Tuna providing funding in a range of cause areas, including AI safety.
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Program from Schmidt Sciences supporting exceptional people working on key opportunities and hard problems that are critical to get right for society to benefit from AI.
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Grant program providing funding to those raising awareness about AI risks or advocating for a pause in AI development.
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Private foundation of Elastic co-founder Steven Schuurman, providing €5M/year to various initiatives including AI safety.
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Jed McCaleb's fund, making grants to organizations and projects in various cause areas including AI safety.
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Crowdsourced charity evaluator and one-stop shop for AI safety funding applications. No longer active.
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$5–50k grants for individuals building high-impact AI safety projects. Applicants needed to have completed their AGI Strategy course.
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The EU funded important projects to research AI safety and Tendery.ai offered free support in applying.
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Funded projects that have a chance of substantially changing humanity's future trajectory for the better. Disbursed 8 million USD in the 2023 round but has been inactive since.
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Platform taking grant applications and presenting them to a donor circle, who then reached out if they were interested. Last round was in 2024.
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Decentralized bounty platform offering prize money for delivering on specific AI safety projects.
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New grantmaking platform coordinating large-scale philanthropy in quarterly rounds. Simple application process.
Applications on a rolling basis
Platform
Funding and support over a defined period to work full-time on transitioning into AI safety careers.
Applications on a rolling basis
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