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Manifund (AI safety regranting)
aka Manifund, manifund ai safety regranting
Manifund runs a regranting program that gives independent budgets ($100k+) to expert regrantors in AI safety, who recommend fast grants of roughly $5k-$50k to seed early-stage projects, independent researchers, and field-building work. Projects can also be posted publicly on the platform for ongoing crowdfunding from donors and regrantors. Regrants go to registered charities and individuals, with for-profit organizations eligible pending due diligence.1,2,3,4
Programs
3 programs on fileLeo Gao's Experimental Microgranting Program
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Manifund AI Safety Regranting
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2026 cohort applications: closed, closes 2026-06-24
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Awards
108 on fileShowing 1-25 of 108, newest dated evidence first
RecipientProgramAmountDateEvidence
- 'Making God': a Documentary on AI Risks for the PublicProgramMarcus Abramovitch (regrantor)Amount$5000Date–
- 10th edition of AI Safety CampProgramRichard Ngo (regrantor)Amount$15000Date–
- 3 Months Career Transition into AI Safety Research & Software EngineeringProgramJoel Becker (regrantor)Amount$32000Date–
- 3 months full-time contributing software to InspectProgramMarius Hobbhahn (regrantor)Amount$10000Date–
- Acausal research and interventionsProgramThomas Larsen (regrantor)Amount$10000Date–
- Acausal research and interventionsProgramLauren Mangla (laurenm, regrantor)Amount$30000Date–
- Activation vector steering with BCIProgramMarcus Abramovitch (regrantor)Amount$15000Date–
- Agent Island: An Environment for Interagent Cooperation and ConflictProgramRyan Kidd (regrantor)Amount$3000Date–
- AI DigestProgramThomas Larsen (regrantor)Amount$10000Date–
- AI DigestProgramJoel Becker (regrantor)Amount$31700Date–
- AI DigestProgramNeel Nanda (regrantor)Amount$5000Date–
- AI forecasting and policy research by the AI 2027 teamProgramNeel Nanda (regrantor)Amount$5000Date–
- AI safety fieldbuilding in Warsaw, Poland (funding for 1 semester)ProgramNeel Nanda (regrantor)Amount$1904Date–
- AI scam research targeting seniorsProgramMarcus Abramovitch (regrantor)Amount$10000Date–
- Ambitious AI Alignment SeminarProgramRichard Ngo (regrantor)Amount$5000Date–
- Apollo Research: Scale up interpretability & behavioral model evals researchProgramMarcus Abramovitch (regrantor)Amount$9999Date–
- Asterisk AI Blogging FellowshipProgramNeel Nanda (regrantor)Amount$60000Date–
- Automatic circuit discovery on sparse autoencoded featuresProgramAdam Gleave (regrantor)Amount$25000Date–
- Awareness-conditioned emergent misalignmentProgramMarius Hobbhahn (regrantor)Amount$6500Date–
- Bayesian modelling of LLM capabilities from evalsProgramNeel Nanda (regrantor)Amount$18500Date–
- Benchmarking and comparing different evaluation awareness metricsProgramMarius Hobbhahn (regrantor)Amount$3000Date–
- CaML - AGI alignment to nonhumansProgramRyan Kidd (regrantor)Amount$10000Date–
- CaML - AGI alignment to nonhumansProgramMarcus Abramovitch (regrantor)Amount$20000Date–
- Compute and other expenses for LLM alignment researchProgramLeopold Aschenbrenner (regrantor)Amount$200000Date–
- Compute for 4 MATS scholars to rapidly scale promising new method pre-ICLRProgramNeel Nanda (regrantor)Amount$16047Date–
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Programs
108
Awards
93
Grantees
$2.3M
Known USD
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Live rounds
no open or announced rounds on file
Active
Status
Focus Areas
AI safety, early-stage / seed funding, AI safety research, field-building, independent researchers, public goods funding infrastructure.
Typical size$5k-$50k per regrant (regrantors hold independent budgets of $100k+)
CadenceRolling -- regrantors can initiate fast grants at any time; projects can also be posted on the platform for ongoing crowdfunding.