Manifold for Charity

Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

1 grant matching “uvcs” · $25,000

• $25,000

  Blueprint Biosecurity · Washington, DC · 2024

  Validate a solution for ozone generation from far UVC germicidal light

Grant history

All 30 reported grants, largest first.

• $827,333

  Manifold Markets · San Francisco, CA · 2023

  Donation for general support of Manifold from Survival and Flourishing Fund via Founders Pledge

• $400,100

  Far Ai · San Diego, CA · 2023

  Ethan Perez Compute and other expenses for LLM alignment research

• $325,409

  Rethink Priorities · San Francisco, CA · 2023

  Apollo Research Scale up interpretability and behavioral model evals research

• $279,583

  Mats Research · Berkeley, CA · 2024

  MATS Program

• $190,178

  Mats Research · Berkeley, CA · 2023

  MATS Funding

• $190,000

  Center for Ai Safety · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  Removing Hazardous Knowledge from AIs

• $144,650

  Ashgro · Wilmington, DE · 2023

  Timaeus Scoping Developmental Interpretability

• $106,000

  Effective Ventures Foundation USA I · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  Long Term Future Fund

• $100,000

  1day Sooner · Brooklyn, NY · 2024

  Advocate for a specialized pandemic response team

• $100,000

  Center for Land Economics · Washington, DC · 2024

  Promote Georgism

• $100,000

  Innovate Animal Ag · Sacramento, CA · 2024

  Build a new nonprofit thinktank that advances technological solutions to animal welfare challenges

• $100,000

  Pauseai US · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  PauseAI US 2025 through Q2

• $100,000

  Players Philanthropy Fund · Towson, MD · 2024

  Regrant to charities working on developing country nutrition

• $100,000

  The Center for Innovative Governanc · Washington, DC · 2024

  African School of Economics in Zanzibar chartered Good Land Governance

• $58,900

  Ashgro · Wilmington, DE · 2024

  Apart incubates and facilitates hundreds of AI safety researchers around the globe

• $57,367

  Ashgro · Wilmington, DE · 2024

  AI Safety Camp

• $49,087

  Lightcone Infrastructure · Berkeley, CA · 2024

  Lightcone Infrastructure

• $32,000

  The Tarbell Center for Ai Journalis · Claymont, DE · 2024

  Tarbell Center for AI Journalism

• $26,760

  Rethink Priorities · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  Experiments to test EA longtermist framings and branding

• $25,100

  Allfed Institute · Lafayette, CO · 2024

  Convert a hybrid car to chip wood and generate electricity

• $25,000

  Blueprint Biosecurity · Washington, DC · 2024

  Validate a solution for ozone generation from far UVC germicidal light

• $25,000

  Healthlearn · Lowell, MA · 2024

  Assess online training platform for health workers in Nigeria

• $24,910

  Sentinel Research · Austin, TX · 2024

  Make ALERT happen Fund Sentinel for Q1 2025

• $19,160

  Rethink Priorities · San Francisco, CA · 2024

  Apollo Research to Scale up interpretability and behavioral model evals research

• $17,892

  Spartacus App · Santa Monica, CA · 2024

  An online platform to solve coordination problems and generate leverage through collective action campaigns

• $15,481

  New Roots Institute · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

  New Roots Institute Empowering the Next Generation to End Factory Farming

• $12,500

  Players Philanthropy Fund · Towson, MD · 2024

  Support Riesgos Catastroficos Globales

• $8,880

  The Clear Fund (Dba Givewell) · Oakland, CA · 2022

  To support Givewell's mission of saving lives

• $7,810

  Ashgro · Wilmington, DE · 2024

  Cadenza Labs AI Safety research group working on own interpretability agenda

• $5,110

  Ashgro · Wilmington, DE · 2024

  Apart Research Global AI Safety Research and Talent Pipeline

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