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AI Safety & Existential Risk Funding
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A funding community dedicated to reducing catastrophic risks from advanced AI: technical alignment and interpretability research, AI governance and policy, model evaluations, and field-building. Capital moves from large grantmakers (Coefficient Giving, formerly Open Philanthropy; Survival and Flourishing Fund; Future of Life Institute; Schmidt Sciences) and pooled funds (Long-Term Future Fund, AI Safety Fund at the Frontier Model Forum) into research nonprofits, fellowships and talent pipelines (MATS, BlueDot Impact), and regranting platforms such as Manifund. Government AI security institutes participate as research anchors of the same field.
Funders in this System
23 on file| Name | Programs | Current rounds | Active programs | Last activity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coefficient Giving | 5 | 2 | 2 | Sep 15, 2026 | Active |
| Future of Life Institute | 5 | 0 | 4 | Jan 5, 2026 | Active |
| Longview Philanthropy | 4 | 0 | 1 | Jul 24, 2026 | Active |
| Manifund (AI safety regranting) | 4 | 0 | 2 | Jun 24, 2026 | Active |
| Schmidt Sciences | 4 | 0 | 0 | Aug 8, 2026 | Active |
| Cooperative AI Foundation | 3 | 0 | 2 | Aug 8, 2026 | Active |
| Foresight Institute | 3 | 0 | 2 | Oct 31, 2026 | Active |
| AI Security Institute | 2 | 0 | 0 | – | Active |
| BlueDot Impact | 2 | 1 | 2 | Oct 8, 2026 | Active |
| Survival and Flourishing Fund | 2 | 0 | 2 | Jul 8, 2026 | Active |
| Who Let The Docs Out | 2 | 0 | 0 | Mar 16, 2026 | Active |
| Center for AI Safety | 1 | 0 | 1 | – | Active |
| Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) | 1 | 0 | 1 | – | Active |
| Center on Long-Term Risk | 1 | 0 | 0 | Jul 24, 2026 | Active |
| FAR AI | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | Active |
| Frontier Model Forum | 1 | 0 | 1 | Dec 11, 2025 | Active |
| Long-Term Future Fund | 1 | 0 | 1 | – | Active |
| MATS (MATS Research) | 1 | 0 | 1 | Jun 7, 2026 | Active |
| Open Philanthropy | 1 | 0 | 1 | – | Active |
| Principles of Intelligence | 1 | 0 | 0 | Jul 20, 2026 | Active |
| AI Risk Mitigation Fund (ARM Fund) | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | Active |
| Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative (BERI) | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | Active |
| UK AI Security Institute (AISI) | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | Active |
Programs
43 on fileAI and Society Fellowship
Center for AI SafetyFellowship
Status: Active
How to apply: Not recorded
AI for Science & Safety Nodes
Foresight InstituteGrants
Status: Paused
How to apply: In rounds
AI Safety Fund
Frontier Model ForumGrants
Status: Active
How to apply: In rounds
AISI Alignment Project
AI Security InstituteGrants
Status: Ended
How to apply: Not recorded
AISI Challenge Fund
AI Security InstituteGrants
Status: Ended
How to apply: Not recorded
Automation & Humanity Documentary Fund
Who Let The Docs OutGrants
Status: Ended
How to apply: In rounds
BlueDot Impact Rapid Grants (Expanded Round)
BlueDot ImpactGrants
Status: Active
How to apply: Any time
CAIF Research Grants
Cooperative AI FoundationGrants
Status: Active
How to apply: Not recorded
Career Transition Grants
BlueDot ImpactGrants
Status: Active
How to apply: Not recorded
Coefficient Giving Alternative Protein R&D RFP
Coefficient GivingRFP
Status: Active
How to apply: In rounds
Coefficient Giving Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness RFP
Coefficient GivingRFP
Status: Ended
How to apply: In rounds
Cooperative AI PhD Fellowship
Cooperative AI FoundationFellowship
Status: Active
How to apply: Not recorded
Digital Minds RFP
Longview PhilanthropyRFP
Status: Ended
How to apply: In rounds
Extreme Power Concentration RFP
Longview PhilanthropyRFP
Status: Ended
How to apply: In rounds
FAR.AI Grantmaking Program
FAR AIGrants
Status: Paused
How to apply: Not recorded
FLI Grant Programs
Future of Life InstituteRFP
Status: Active
How to apply: Not recorded
FLI Technical Postdoctoral Fellowship
Future of Life InstituteFellowship
Status: Active
How to apply: In rounds
Foresight Fellowship
Foresight InstituteFellowship
Status: Active
How to apply: In rounds
Foundational Research Grants
Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)Grants
Status: Active
How to apply: Not recorded
Frontier AI Fund
Longview PhilanthropyGrants
Status: Active
How to apply: Not recorded
Global Catastrophic Risks Opportunities Fund
Coefficient GivingGrants
Status: Active
How to apply: Any time
Leo Gao's Experimental Microgranting Program
Manifund (AI safety regranting)Grants
Status: Active
How to apply: Not recorded
Long-Term Future Fund Grants
Long-Term Future FundGrants
Status: Active
How to apply: Not recorded
Manifund AI Safety Regranting
Manifund (AI safety regranting)Other
Status: Active
How to apply: Not recorded
MATS Program
MATS (MATS Research)Fellowship
Status: Active
How to apply: In rounds
Multi-Agent AI Safety Research Fund
Google DeepMindGrants
Status: Ended
How to apply: In rounds
Multi-Agent Safety (Scaling AI Safety for a Multi-Agent World)
Schmidt SciencesGrants
Status: Ended
How to apply: In rounds
Multi-Agent Safety Fund
Cooperative AI FoundationGrants
Status: Ended
How to apply: In rounds
Navigating Transformative AI
Open PhilanthropyGrants
Status: Active
How to apply: Not recorded
Norm Hardy Prize
Foresight InstitutePrize
Status: Active
How to apply: In rounds
Request for Proposals: Research and Applied Work on Digital Minds (Longview Philanthropy)
Longview PhilanthropyRFP
Status: Ended
How to apply: In rounds
RFP: Global Health and Wellbeing in an Era of Transformative AI
Coefficient GivingRFP
Status: Ended
How to apply: In rounds
Safe Pareto Improvements (SPI) Fundamentals Program
Center on Long-Term RiskFellowship
Status: Ended
How to apply: In rounds
Safeguarded AI: Cybersecurity (TA2)
ARIA (Advanced Research and Invention Agency)Grants
Status: Ended
How to apply: In rounds
Schmidt Sciences — Science of Trustworthy AI
Schmidt SciencesRFP
Status: Paused
How to apply: In rounds
Schmidt Sciences AI Interpretability RFP
Schmidt SciencesRFP
Status: Ended
How to apply: In rounds
Schmidt Sciences RFP for AI-at-Work Field Experiments
Schmidt SciencesGrants
Status: Ended
How to apply: In rounds
SFF S-Process Grant Rounds
Survival and Flourishing FundGrants
Status: Active
How to apply: In rounds
Speculation Grants (Rolling Application)
Survival and Flourishing FundGrants
Status: Active
How to apply: Not recorded
Surplus
Manifund (AI safety regranting)Incubator
Status: Ended
How to apply: In rounds
US-China AI Governance PhD Fellowship
Future of Life InstituteFellowship
Status: Active
How to apply: In rounds
Vitalik Buterin PhD Fellowship in AI Existential Safety
Future of Life InstituteFellowship
Status: Active
How to apply: Not recorded
Who Let The Docs Out — Documentary Funds
Who Let The Docs OutGrants
Status: Ended
How to apply: In rounds