University of Tübingen donations received
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Basic donee information
We do not have any donee information for the donee University of Tübingen in our system.
Donee donation statistics
| Cause area | Count | Median | Mean | Minimum | 10th percentile |
20th percentile |
30th percentile |
40th percentile |
50th percentile |
60th percentile |
70th percentile |
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90th percentile |
Maximum |
| Overall |
4 |
300,000 |
422,481 |
224,923 |
224,923 |
224,923 |
300,000 |
300,000 |
300,000 |
575,000 |
575,000 |
590,000 |
590,000 |
590,000 |
| ACT Fellowship |
1 |
224,923 |
224,923 |
224,923 |
224,923 |
224,923 |
224,923 |
224,923 |
224,923 |
224,923 |
224,923 |
224,923 |
224,923 |
224,923 |
| AI safety |
3 |
575,000 |
488,333 |
300,000 |
300,000 |
300,000 |
300,000 |
575,000 |
575,000 |
575,000 |
590,000 |
590,000 |
590,000 |
590,000 |
Donation amounts by donor and year for donee University of Tübingen
| Donor |
Total |
2023 |
2021 |
2017 |
| Open Philanthropy (filter this donee) |
1,465,000.00 |
575,000.00 |
890,000.00 |
0.00 |
| John Templeton Foundation (filter this donee) |
224,923.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
224,923.00 |
| Total |
1,689,923.00 |
575,000.00 |
890,000.00 |
224,923.00 |
Full list of documents in reverse chronological order (0 documents)
There are no documents associated with this donee.
Full list of donations in reverse chronological order (4 donations)
Graph of top 10 donors (for donations with known year of donation) by amount, showing the timeframe of donations
| Donor | Amount (current USD) | Amount rank (out of 4) | Donation date | Cause area | URL | Influencer | Notes |
|---|
| Open Philanthropy | 575,000.00 | 2 | 2023-02 | AI safety/technical research | https://www.openphilanthropy.org/grants/university-of-tuebingen-adversarial-robustness-research/ | -- | Intended use of funds (category): Direct project expenses
Intended use of funds: Grant "to support research led by Professor Matthias Bethge on adversarial robustness as a means to improve AI safety." |
| Open Philanthropy | 590,000.00 | 1 | 2021-02 | AI safety/technical research | https://www.openphilanthropy.org/grants/university-of-tubingen-robustness-research-wieland-brendel/ | Catherine Olsson Nick Beckstead | Intended use of funds (category): Direct project expenses
Intended use of funds: The grant page says the grant is "to support early-career research by Wieland Brendel on robustness as a means to improve AI safety."
Donor reason for selecting the donee: Open Phil made five grants https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/potential-risks-advanced-artificial-intelligence/university-of-tuebingen-adversarial-robustness-hein https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/potential-risks-advanced-artificial-intelligence/uc-santa-cruz-xie-adversarial-robustness https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/potential-risks-advanced-artificial-intelligence/uc-berkeley-adversarial-robustness-wagner https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/potential-risks-advanced-artificial-intelligence/uc-berkeley-adversarial-robustness-song https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/potential-risks-advanced-artificial-intelligence/mit-adversarial-robustness-research for "adversarial robustness research" in January and February 2021, around the time of this grant. It looks like the donor became interested in funding this research topic at this time.
Donor reason for donating at this time (rather than earlier or later): Open Phil made five grants https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/potential-risks-advanced-artificial-intelligence/university-of-tuebingen-adversarial-robustness-hein https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/potential-risks-advanced-artificial-intelligence/uc-santa-cruz-xie-adversarial-robustness https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/potential-risks-advanced-artificial-intelligence/uc-berkeley-adversarial-robustness-wagner https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/potential-risks-advanced-artificial-intelligence/uc-berkeley-adversarial-robustness-song https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/potential-risks-advanced-artificial-intelligence/mit-adversarial-robustness-research for "adversarial robustness research" in January and February 2021, around the time of this grant. It looks like the donor became interested in funding this research topic at this time.
Intended funding timeframe in months: 36 |
| Open Philanthropy | 300,000.00 | 3 | 2021-02 | AI safety/technical research | https://www.openphilanthropy.org/grants/university-of-tubingen-adversarial-robustness-research-matthias-hein/ | Catherine Olsson Nick Beckstead | Intended use of funds (category): Direct project expenses
Intended use of funds: Grant "to support research by Professor Matthias Hein on adversarial robustness as a means to improve AI safety."
Donor reason for selecting the donee: This is one of five grants made by the donor for "adversarial robustness research" in January and February 2021, all with the same grant investigators (Catherine Olsson and Daniel Dewey) except the Santa Cruz grant that had Olsson and Nick Beckstead. https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/potential-risks-advanced-artificial-intelligence/uc-santa-cruz-xie-adversarial-robustness https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/potential-risks-advanced-artificial-intelligence/mit-adversarial-robustness-research https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/potential-risks-advanced-artificial-intelligence/uc-berkeley-adversarial-robustness-wagner and https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/potential-risks-advanced-artificial-intelligence/uc-berkeley-adversarial-robustness-song are the four other grants. It looks like the donor became interested in funding this research topic at this time.
Donor reason for donating that amount (rather than a bigger or smaller amount): No explicit reasons for the amount are given, but the amount is similar to the amounts for other grants from Open Philanthropy to early-stage researchers in adversarial robustness research. This includes three other grants https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/potential-risks-advanced-artificial-intelligence/uc-santa-cruz-xie-adversarial-robustness https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/potential-risks-advanced-artificial-intelligence/uc-berkeley-adversarial-robustness-wagner and https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/potential-risks-advanced-artificial-intelligence/uc-berkeley-adversarial-robustness-song made at the same time as well as grants later in the year to early-stage researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, Stanford University, and University of Southern California.
Donor reason for donating at this time (rather than earlier or later): This is one of five grants made by the donor for "adversarial robustness research" in January and February 2021, all with the same grant investigators (Catherine Olsson and Daniel Dewey) except the Santa Cruz grant that had Olsson and Nick Beckstead. https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/potential-risks-advanced-artificial-intelligence/uc-santa-cruz-xie-adversarial-robustness https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/potential-risks-advanced-artificial-intelligence/mit-adversarial-robustness-research https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/potential-risks-advanced-artificial-intelligence/uc-berkeley-adversarial-robustness-wagner and https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/potential-risks-advanced-artificial-intelligence/uc-berkeley-adversarial-robustness-song are the four other grants. It looks like the donor became interested in funding this research topic at this time.
Intended funding timeframe in months: 36 |
| John Templeton Foundation | 224,923.00 | 4 | 2017 | ACT Fellowship | https://templeton.org/grants/grant-database | -- | For project Hong Yu Wong- ACT Fellowship Application – The New Concept of Mind; Project leaders: Hong Yu Wong,. Affected regions: Europe; affected countries: FIXME. |