Funding search · EIN 810861541 · San Francisco, CA
Openai Foundation Fka Openai
A grantmaking public charity (files IRS Form 990, Schedule I). Charities like this often run real grant programs with application cycles.
- 37
- grants reported
- $10.2M
- total given
- 2022–2024
- filing years
- $170,000
- median grant
Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.
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Grant history
All 37 reported grants, largest first.
- $1.0M
Meridian Prime · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
AI Safety Fund
- $950,000
Carnegie Mellon University · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
Superalignment Research Grant
- $950,000
Uc Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2024
Superalignment Research Grant
- $524,000
Stanford University · Redwood City, CA · 2024
Superalignment Research Grant
- $518,000
Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2024
Superalignment Research Grant
- $500,000
Operation Hope · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Research AI Economic Opportunity
- $500,000
Turnio Pbc · Denver, CO · 2024
LLMs for Education/Health/Economics
- $420,000
Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2024
Superalignment Research Grant
- $395,000
New York University · New York, NY · 2023
Ethics & Journalism Grant
- $333,333
Center for Ai Safety · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Research to ensure AI Safety
- $333,333
Center for Ai Safety · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Research to ensure AI Safety
- $333,333
Duke University · Durham, NC · 2023
Research AI Morality
- $333,333
Duke University · Durham, NC · 2022
Research Support
- $250,000
Eleutherai · Washington, DC · 2024
Superalignment Research Grant
- $250,000
Operation Hope · Atlanta, GA · 2023
Research AI Economic Opportunity
- $230,000
Toyota Technological Inst · Chicago, IL · 2024
Superalignment Research Grant
- $200,000
University of Virginia · Charlottesville, VA · 2024
Superalignment Research Grant
- $180,000
University of Texas at Austin · Austin, TX · 2024
Superalignment Research Grant
- $170,000
University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2024
Superalignment Research Grant
- $150,000
Cornell University · Ithaca, NY · 2024
Superalignment Research Grant
- $150,000
University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Superalignment Research Grant
- $133,000
Washington Univ St Louis · Missouri, MO · 2024
Superalignment Research Grant
- $110,000
Harvard College · Boston, MA · 2023
Democratic AI Inputs Grant
- $110,000
University of Illinois Fdn · St Urbana, IL · 2023
Inclusive.AI Gifts
- $110,000
University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2023
Democratic AI Processes Grant
- $108,000
University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2023
Democratic AI Inputs Grant
- $106,000
Energize Ai · Cambridge, MA · 2023
Democratic AI Inputs Grant
- $104,000
Inst for Meaning Alignment · Wayland, MA · 2023
Democratic Fine-tuning Grant
- $102,000
University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2024
Superalignment Research Grant
- $100,000
Benefits Data Trust · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
OpenAI Economic Opportunity Prize
- $100,000
Digital Green Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2024
AI Small Scale Farming
- $100,000
Khan Academy · Mountain View, CA · 2024
Khanmigo for School Districts
- $100,000
Ai To Benefit People · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Democratic AI Inputs Grant
- $100,000
Khan Academy · Mountain View, CA · 2023
Khanmigo for School Districts
- $50,000
Recidiviz · Oakland, CA · 2024
OpenAI Foundation Day Grant
- $50,000
Creative Commons Corporation · Mountain View, CA · 2023
Research Support
- $30,000
Nyx Arts Llc · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Community Engagement on AI Impact
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