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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
No cadence on file

Awards

100 on file
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  1. ETH Zürich
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Improving Attribution in Circuit Discovery (Ryan Cotterell)
    Amount$479,748
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  2. FAR AI
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — AI Safety Research and Field-building
    Amount$28,675,000
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  3. Fewshot Corp
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Reward-Hacking Research
    Amount$875,000
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  4. George Washington University
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Study on Model Organisms of Reward-Hacking (Shi Feng and Kianté Brantley)
    Amount$3,149,000
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  5. Georgia Institute of Technology
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Training Probes from Misaligned Models (Anna Ivanova)
    Amount$318,120
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  6. HartreeWorks
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Educational Blog on AI Use
    Amount$40,000
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  7. Harvard University
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Robust Unlearning Evaluations (Roy Rinberg)
    Amount$124,300
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  8. Harvard University
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — LLM Discretion in Deliberative Alignment (Flavio Calmon)
    Amount$303,931
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  9. Harvard University
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Nonlinear Structure in Language Models (Melanie Weber)
    Amount$36,700
    Date–
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  10. Harvard University
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — LLM Techniques for Generating and Verifying Code (Nada Amin)
    Amount$653,431
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  11. Harvard University
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Study on Model Organisms of Reward-Hacking (Shi Feng and Kianté Brantley)
    Amount$748,000
    Date–
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  12. Iliad
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — AI Alignment Theory
    Amount$836,000
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  13. ILINA Program
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — AI Governance Fellowships
    Amount$234,120
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  14. Jacob Steinhardt
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Compute Funds for AI Safety Research
    Amount$130,000
    Date–
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  15. King's College London
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Verifiably Robust Conformal Probes (Nicola Paoletti and Osvaldo Simeone)
    Amount$439,725
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  16. Koddermann Public Affairs
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Recruiting Support for AI Safety Organizations
    Amount$149,282
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  17. McGill University
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Research on Latent Adversarial Training (Adam Oberman)
    Amount$295,000
    Date–
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  18. Meridian
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Improved Sleeper-Agent Techniques
    Amount$272,734
    Date–
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  19. Meridian
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Research on Realistic Alignment Faking
    Amount$561,000
    Date–
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  20. Mila
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Off-target Effects of Fine-tuning in LLMs (Aly Kassem and Golnoosh Farnadi)
    Amount$195,800
    Date–
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  21. Niagara University
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Agent Foundations Research (Steve Petersen)
    Amount$48,000
    Date–
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  22. Northeastern University
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Techniques to Mitigate Emergent Misalignment (Weiyan Shi)
    Amount$333,300
    Date–
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  23. Northeastern University
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Sabotage Benchmark (Weiyan Shi)
    Amount$707,594
    Date–
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  24. Ohio State University
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Study on Measuring LLM Values (Andrew Perrault)
    Amount$187,510
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  25. Ohio State University
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Eliciting Unintended Behaviors in Computer-Use Agents (Huan Sun and Yu Su)
    Amount$354,224
    Date–
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Programs
100
Awards
75
Grantees
$199.7M
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0
Live rounds
no open or announced rounds on file
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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