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Open Philanthropy

aka Coefficient Giving, Open Philanthropy / Coefficient Giving, open philanthropy coefficient giving
NonprofitAI Safety & Existential Risk FundingActivecoefficientgiving.orgX ↗
Open Philanthropy, now rebranded as Coefficient Giving, is a major philanthropic organization making large grants in AI safety and governance, global health, scientific research, and effective-giving causes, directing over $1B in 2025. Grantmaking is mostly proactive outreach plus open application forms and periodic RFPs; first-time funding for a project or organization typically starts around $200k-$2M per year over 1-2 years. Its Navigating Transformative AI fund supports technical AI safety research, AI governance and policy, and capacity-building to grow the field.1,2,3

Programs

1 program on file
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Navigating Transformative AI
0 grants tracked
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Awards

100 on file
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  1. Aether
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — AI Control & Monitoring Projects
    Amount$756,570
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  2. AI Verification and Evaluation Research Institute (AVERI)
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Third-Party AI Auditing & Advocacy
    Amount$4,000,000
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  3. AI X-risk Research Podcast
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Production Support
    Amount$51,102
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  4. Albion East
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — AI Safety Strategy
    Amount$103,000
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  5. Alec Radford
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Gradient Routing and Other AI Safety Research
    Amount$601,057
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  6. Alignment of Complex Systems Research Group
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — General Support
    Amount$1,019,700
    Date–
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  7. Arb Research
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Shallow Review of AI Safety Research
    Amount$15,000
    Date–
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  8. Arcadia Impact
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Research on Diffuse Threat Models in AI Systems
    Amount$32,358
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  9. Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — AI Governance
    Amount$648,167
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  10. Boston University
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Non-Human-Like Features In LLMs (Aaron Mueller)
    Amount$373,219
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  11. Boston University
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Mechanistic Interpretability Research (Mark Crovella)
    Amount$52,647
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  12. Brown University
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Research into AI "Self-Jailbreaking" (Stephen Bach)
    Amount$124,955
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  13. Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Survey-Based Research
    Amount$274,645
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  14. Cambridge in America
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Chain-of-Thought Faithfulness
    Amount$628,000
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  15. Carnegie Mellon University
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Adversarial Reasoning Training (Aviral Kumar and Aditi Raghunathan)
    Amount$466,183
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  16. Centre for International Governance Innovation
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Global AI Risks Initiative
    Amount$135,873
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  17. Centre for the Governance of AI
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — General Support
    Amount$54,500,000
    Date–
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  18. Chapman University
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Alignment Faking Research (Uri Maoz)
    Amount$733,320
    Date–
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  19. Collider
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Operating Expenses
    Amount$800,000
    Date–
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  20. Columbia University
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — New Methods for Estimating Rare Event Probabilities (Hongseok Namkoong)
    Amount$451,159
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  21. Concordia University
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Research on Jailbreaking in LLMs (Eugene Belilovsky and Geraldine Nanfack)
    Amount$200,750
    Date–
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  22. Convergent Research
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Work on Software Formal Verification
    Amount$5,000,000
    Date–
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  23. Decode Research
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Infrastructure for Interpretability Research
    Amount$707,000
    Date–
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  24. ELLIS Institute Tübingen
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Research Group Support (Maksym Andriushchenko)
    Amount$1,000,000
    Date–
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  25. ETH Zürich
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Research on Malware and Surveillance Capabilities of LLMs
    Amount$356,950
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Programs
100
Awards
75
Grantees
$199.7M
Known USD
0
Live rounds
no open or announced rounds on file
Active
Status
Focus Areas

AI safety, technical AI safety research, AI governance & policy, capacity building for transformative AI, global catastrophic risks, biosecurity & pandemic preparedness, effective giving.

Typical sizeWhen funding a project/organization for the first time, typically (but not always) begins with a grant of $200k-$2M/yr over 1-2 years; projects under $200k/yr are ideally funded by others
CadenceRolling; mostly proactive outreach to grantees, plus open application forms and periodic Requests for Proposals (RFPs).
Sources
  1. coefficientgiving.org
  2. coefficientgiving.org/apply-for-funding
  3. coefficientgiving.org/funds/navigating-transformative-ai