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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
4 programs on fileLeo Gao's Experimental Microgranting Program
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Manifund AI Safety Regranting
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Manifund Falcon Fund — AI × Animal Welfare Grants
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Surplus
0 grants tracked · Ended · In rounds
2026 cohort applications: Closed, deadline 2026-06-24
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Leo Gao's Experimental Microgranting ProgramNo cadence on file
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Manifund Falcon Fund — AI × Animal Welfare GrantsNo cadence on file
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Awards
108 on fileShowing 26-50 of 108, newest dated evidence first
RecipientProgramAmountDateEvidence
- Delegated AI Payment SafetyProgramRyan Kidd (regrantor)Amount$2000 (PENDING)Date–
- Demonstration of LLMs deceiving and getting out of a sandboxProgramMarius Hobbhahn (regrantor)Amount$3000Date–
- Development of a Cautionary Tale Feature Film about Gradual DisempowermentProgramGavin Leech (regrantor)Amount$85000Date–
- Empirical research into AI consciousness and moral patienthoodProgramJoel Becker (regrantor)Amount$7200Date–
- Evaluating Model Attack Selection and Offensive Cyber HorizonsProgramJoel Becker (regrantor)Amount$41000Date–
- Evitable: a new public-facing AI risk non-profitProgramRyan Kidd (regrantor)Amount$5000Date–
- Exploring feature interactions in transformer LLMs through sparse autoencodersProgramMarcus Abramovitch (regrantor)Amount$8500Date–
- Exploring novel research directions in prosaic AI alignmentProgramMarcus Abramovitch (regrantor)Amount$4800Date–
- Forecasting - AI Governance PoliciesProgramMarcus Abramovitch (regrantor)Amount$9000Date–
- ForethoughtProgramLauren Mangla (laurenm, regrantor)Amount$10000Date–
- ForethoughtProgramEthan Perez (regrantor)Amount$100000Date–
- ForethoughtProgramNeel Nanda (regrantor)Amount$200000Date–
- ForethoughtProgramRyan Kidd (regrantor)Amount$5000Date–
- ForethoughtProgramAlexandra Bates (regrantor)Amount$50000Date–
- FragGuard: Cross-Session Malicious Activity Detection for Model APIsProgramRyan Kidd (regrantor)Amount$2000Date–
- Fund thebes' model tinkeringProgramJoel Becker (regrantor)Amount$7500Date–
- Funding for AI safety comms strategy & career transition supportProgramAdam Gleave (regrantor)Amount$38952Date–
- General Career SupportProgramJoel Becker (regrantor)Amount$38000Date–
- General support for SaferAIProgramAdam Gleave (regrantor)Amount$100000Date–
- Giving free AI safety books for potentially high-impact individualsProgramNeel Nanda (regrantor)Amount$501Date–
- Groundless Alignment Residency 2025ProgramRichard Ngo (regrantor)Amount$15000Date–
- Grow An AI Safety Tiktok Channel To Reach Ten Million PeopleProgramNeel Nanda (regrantor)Amount$8000Date–
- Guaranteed Safe AI Seminars 2026ProgramRyan Kidd (regrantor)Amount$2000Date–
- Hallucination DetectorProgramNeel Nanda (regrantor)Amount$6000Date–
- History of ideas concerning the future.ProgramGavin Leech (regrantor)Amount$13400Date–
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Programs
108
Awards
93
Grantees
$2.3M
Known USD
0
Current rounds
2
Active programs
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.