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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
Showing 51-75 of 100, newest dated evidence first
  1. Penn State University
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Work to Mitigate AI Agent Sandbagging (Rui Zhang)
    Amount$166,078
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  2. Poseidon Research
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Encoded Reasoning Project
    Amount$640,200
    Date–
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  3. Positive AI Labs
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Technical and Community-Building Work
    Amount$500,000
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  4. Princeton University
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Research on In-Context Learning (Gautam Reddy)
    Amount$302,693
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  5. RAND Corporation
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — AI Evaluation and Testing
    Amount$10,000,000
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  6. RAND Corporation
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — AI Security Research
    Amount$6,000,000
    Date–
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  7. Redwood Research
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — General Support
    Amount$36,566,000
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  8. Rethink Priorities
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Evaluation of AI Agent Risk Attitudes
    Amount$585,468
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  9. Rethink Priorities
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — "Truthful AI" Research Group
    Amount$6,116,133
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  10. Simon Institute for Longterm Governance
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — International AI Governance
    Amount$93,911
    Date–
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  11. Simplex
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — General Support
    Amount$2,045,200
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  12. Stanford University
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Novel Method for Concept Unlearning (Sanmi Koyejo)
    Amount$420,482
    Date–
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  13. Stanford University
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Hierarchical Atlas for LLM Interpretability (Eric Darve)
    Amount$485,000
    Date–
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  14. Stanford University
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Research on Predicting AI Capabilities (Sanmi Koyejo)
    Amount$503,573
    Date–
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  15. Stanford University
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Risks in Multi-Agent LLM Systems (Diyi Yang)
    Amount$531,299
    Date–
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  16. Technical University of Munich
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Research on Unlearning Methods (Leo Schwinn)
    Amount$325,600
    Date–
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  17. Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Covert Communication in LLMs (Yonatan Belinkov)
    Amount$365,378
    Date–
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  18. The AI & Cyber Security Institute
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Phishing Benchmark (Fred Heiding)
    Amount$612,000
    Date–
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  19. Timaeus Research
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — General Support
    Amount$1,540,000
    Date–
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  20. TransformerLens
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Library for MechInterp Research
    Amount$132,500
    Date–
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  21. University of Bonn
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Externalizing LLM Reasoning (Florian Mai)
    Amount$100,000
    Date–
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  22. University of California, Berkeley
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — AI Safety Retreat (Bin Yu)
    Amount$12,000
    Date–
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  23. University of California, Berkeley
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — AI Cybersecurity Research and Workshop (Dawn Song)
    Amount$200,000
    Date–
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  24. University of California, Berkeley
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Modularized Reasoning Language Models (Alane Suhr)
    Amount$310,200
    Date–
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  25. University of California, Berkeley
    ProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Theoretical AI Safety Projects (Lijie Chen)
    Amount$527,366
    Date–
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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