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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 76-100 of 108, newest dated evidence first
RecipientProgramAmountDateEvidence
- Next Steps in Developmental InterpretabilityProgramAdam Gleave (regrantor)Amount$50000Date–
- PIBBSS - General Programs funding or specific fundingProgramGavin Leech (regrantor)Amount$25000Date–
- Pilot for new benchmark by Epoch AIProgramLeopold Aschenbrenner (regrantor)Amount$200000Date–
- Precautionary AGI GovernanceProgramRyan Kidd (regrantor)Amount$5000Date–
- Progress Studies YouTube ChannelProgramMarcus Abramovitch (regrantor)Amount$20000Date–
- Reducing Risk in AI Safety Through Expanding Capacity.ProgramRyan Kidd (regrantor)Amount$10000Date–
- Relocating to Montreal to work full time on AI safetyProgramAdam Gleave (regrantor)Amount$10000Date–
- Retroactive: Presenting a poster at the ICML technical AI governance workshopProgramRyan Kidd (regrantor)Amount$1300Date–
- Scoping Developmental InterpretabilityProgramMarcus Abramovitch (regrantor)Amount$10000Date–
- SeerProgramNeel Nanda (regrantor)Amount$719Date–
- Split Personality TrainingProgramMarius Hobbhahn (regrantor)Amount$2000Date–
- Stress-testing alignment auditing methods of AuditBenchProgramRyan Kidd (regrantor)Amount$5000Date–
- Support for Deep Coverage of China and AIProgramJoel Becker (regrantor)Amount$900Date–
- Support for SAELens and other Decode Research ProjectsProgramNeel Nanda (regrantor)Amount$6800Date–
- Synthesizing Standalone World-ModelsProgramThomas Larsen (regrantor)Amount$40000Date–
- Systems that "give a damn"ProgramNeel Nanda (regrantor)Amount$10500Date–
- Tarbell Center for AI JournalismProgramRyan Kidd (regrantor)Amount$10000 (PENDING)Date–
- Tarbell Center for AI JournalismProgramMarcus Abramovitch (regrantor)Amount$7500 (PENDING)Date–
- The First Actionable Interpretability Workshop at ICML 2025ProgramNeel Nanda (regrantor)Amount$1500Date–
- The First Workshop on Mechanistic Interpretability for VisionProgramNeel Nanda (regrantor)Amount$1500Date–
- The Metascience ObservatoryProgramGavin Leech (regrantor)Amount$10000Date–
- Tooling + Model Orgs for CoT Faithfulness ResearchProgramMarius Hobbhahn (regrantor)Amount$3000Date–
- TransformerLens - Bridge FundingProgramNeel Nanda (regrantor)Amount$13000Date–
- Transluce: Fund Scalable Democratic Oversight of AIProgramNeel Nanda (regrantor)Amount$10000Date–
- Travel funding for International Conference on Learning RepresentationsProgramAdam Gleave (regrantor)Amount$1500Date–
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Programs
108
Awards
93
Grantees
$2.3M
Known USD
0
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.