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Organization Profile
Open Philanthropy
aka Coefficient Giving, Open Philanthropy / Coefficient Giving, open philanthropy coefficient giving
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
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Navigating Transformative AI
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Awards
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RecipientProgramAmountDateEvidence
- University of California, San DiegoProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Study on The Universality of Embedding Spaces (Meenakshi Khosla)Amount$231,000Date–
- University of IllinoisProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Low-Perplexity Jailbreak Testing (Varun Chandrasekaran)Amount$119,122Date–
- University of IllinoisProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Latent Certified Training Network (Gagandeep Singh)Amount$532,000Date–
- University of MarylandProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Study on Chain-of-Thought Necessity and Task Complexity (Sarah Wiegreffe)Amount$267,631Date–
- University of MarylandProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Emergent Collusion Project (Kaiqing Zhang)Amount$280,500Date–
- University of MarylandProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Data Filtering for AI Alignment (Ashwinee Panda and Thomas Goldstein)Amount$310,000Date–
- University of MarylandProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Steering Vectors for Externalizing LLM Reasoning (Ashwinee Panda)Amount$310,496Date–
- University of Massachusetts AmherstProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Research on LLM Rare Event Estimation (Scott Niekum)Amount$293,427Date–
- University of Massachusetts AmherstProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Research on Emergent Misalignment (Scott Niekum)Amount$426,371Date–
- University of Massachusetts BostonProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Development of White-Box Jailbreak Technique (Shichao Pei)Amount$165,000Date–
- University of MichiganProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Alignment Faking Experiments (Lu Wang)Amount$637,755Date–
- University of Notre DameProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Probe-Based Interventions for Training (Meng Jiang)Amount$281,628Date–
- University of Notre DameProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Robust Unlearning Research (Walter Scheirer)Amount$471,000Date–
- University of OxfordProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Research on LLM Steering Vectors (Philip Torr)Amount$224,780Date–
- University of OxfordProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Mitigating Collusion in LLMs for Multi-Agent Security (Christian Schroeder de Witt)Amount$352,365Date–
- University of OxfordProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Improved Latent Adversarial Training (Lin Li)Amount$371,009Date–
- University of Southern CaliforniaProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Research on Steganographic Encoding (Jonathan May)Amount$257,803Date–
- University of StuttgartProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Research into Deceptive Behaviors in LLMs (Thilo Hagendorf)Amount$186,500Date–
- University of Texas at AustinProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Research on Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in LLMs (Liu Leqi)Amount$214,500Date–
- University of Texas at DallasProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Control Evaluations for AI Debate (Xinya Du)Amount$218,513Date–
- University of TorontoProgramNavigating Transformative AI — AI Safety Research Projects (Zhijing Jin)Amount$926,200Date–
- University of WaterlooProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Study on Backdoors in AI Agents (Anudeep Das, Gurjot Singh, Pract Chantasantitam)Amount$58,100Date–
- University of Wisconsin–MadisonProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Reasoning in LLMs (Yiqiao Zhong)Amount$200,200Date–
- Various Individuals and OrganizationsProgramNavigating Transformative AI — RCT to Assess Impact of Technical AI Safety Research GrantmakingAmount$9,920,930Date–
- zkBricksProgramNavigating Transformative AI — Defenses Against LLM Backdoor Attacks (Mingyuan Wang and Sanjam Garg)Amount$209,000Date–
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$199.7M
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Live rounds
no open or announced rounds on file
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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).