This is an online portal with information on donations that were announced publicly (or have been shared with permission) that were of interest to Vipul Naik. The git repository with the code for this portal, as well as all the underlying data, is available on GitHub. All payment amounts are in current United States dollars (USD). The repository of donations is being seeded with an initial collation by Issa Rice as well as continued contributions from him (see his commits and the contract work page listing all financially compensated contributions to the site) but all responsibility for errors and inaccuracies belongs to Vipul Naik. Current data is preliminary and has not been completely vetted and normalized; if sharing a link to this site or any page on this site, please include the caveat that the data is preliminary (if you want to share without including caveats, please check with Vipul Naik). We expect to have completed the first round of development by the end of July 2025. See the about page for more details. Also of interest: pageview data on analytics.vipulnaik.com, tutorial in README, request for feedback to EA Forum.
We do not have any donor information for the donor Future of Life Institute in our system.
| Cause area | Count | Median | Mean | Minimum | 10th percentile | 20th percentile | 30th percentile | 40th percentile | 50th percentile | 60th percentile | 70th percentile | 80th percentile | 90th percentile | Maximum |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 49 | 162,000 | 209,548 | 20,000 | 50,000 | 88,050 | 100,000 | 121,642 | 162,000 | 200,000 | 200,000 | 250,000 | 276,000 | 1,500,000 |
| AI safety | 49 | 162,000 | 209,548 | 20,000 | 50,000 | 88,050 | 100,000 | 121,642 | 162,000 | 200,000 | 200,000 | 250,000 | 276,000 | 1,500,000 |
If you hover over a cell for a given cause area and year, you will get a tooltip with the number of donees and the number of donations.
Note: Cause area classification used here may not match that used by donor for all cases.
| Cause area | Number of donations | Number of donees | Total | 2023 | 2018 | 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI safety (filter this donor) | 49 | 34 | 10,267,866.00 | 1,563,000.00 | 2,000,036.00 | 6,704,830.00 |
| Total | 49 | 34 | 10,267,866.00 | 1,563,000.00 | 2,000,036.00 | 6,704,830.00 |
Graph of spending by cause area and year (incremental, not cumulative)
Graph of spending by cause area and year (cumulative)
If you hover over a cell for a given subcause area and year, you will get a tooltip with the number of donees and the number of donations.
For the meaning of “classified” and “unclassified”, see the page clarifying this.
| Subcause area | Number of donations | Number of donees | Total | 2023 | 2018 | 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI safety | 47 | 33 | 8,704,866.00 | 0.00 | 2,000,036.00 | 6,704,830.00 |
| AI safety/technical research | 1 | 1 | 1,401,000.00 | 1,401,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| AI safety/strategy | 1 | 1 | 162,000.00 | 162,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Classified total | 49 | 34 | 10,267,866.00 | 1,563,000.00 | 2,000,036.00 | 6,704,830.00 |
| Unclassified total | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Total | 49 | 34 | 10,267,866.00 | 1,563,000.00 | 2,000,036.00 | 6,704,830.00 |
Graph of spending by subcause area and year (incremental, not cumulative)
Graph of spending by subcause area and year (cumulative)
Graph of spending by donee and year (incremental, not cumulative)
Graph of spending by donee and year (cumulative)
If you hover over a cell for a given influencer and year, you will get a tooltip with the number of donees and the number of donations.
For the meaning of “classified” and “unclassified”, see the page clarifying this.
| Influencer | Number of donations | Number of donees | Total | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Survival and Flourishing Fund|Olle Häggström|Steve Omohundro|Daniel Kokotajlo | 1 | 1 | 1,401,000.00 | 1,401,000.00 |
| Survival and Flourishing Fund|Nathan Labenz|Michael Page | 1 | 1 | 162,000.00 | 162,000.00 |
| Classified total | 2 | 2 | 1,563,000.00 | 1,563,000.00 |
| Unclassified total | 47 | 33 | 8,704,866.00 | 0.00 |
| Total | 49 | 34 | 10,267,866.00 | 1,563,000.00 |
Skipping spending graph as there is at most one year’s worth of donations.
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| Title (URL linked) | Publication date | Author | Publisher | Affected donors | Affected donees | Affected influencers | Document scope | Cause area | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FLI Podcast: Existential Hope in 2020 and Beyond with the FLI Team | 2019-12-27 | Lucas Perry | Future of Life Institute | Future of Life Institute | Future of Life Institute | Donee periodic update | AI safety/Global catastrophic risks | This is a podcast along with transcript. FLI team members each describe what they do, how their role has evolved, and their plans for 2020 |
Graph of top 10 donees (for donations with known year of donation) by amount, showing the timeframe of donations
| Donee | Amount (current USD) | Amount rank (out of 49) | Donation date | Cause area | URL | Influencer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI Impacts | 162,000.00 | 25 | AI safety/strategy | https://survivalandflourishing.fund/sff-2023-h2-recommendations | Survival and Flourishing Fund Nathan Labenz Michael Page | Donation process: Part of the Survival and Flourishing Fund's 2023 H2 grants based on the S-process (simulation process) that "involves allowing the Recommenders and funders to simulate a large number of counterfactual delegation scenarios. In each simulation, Recommenders specify a marginal value function for funding each application, and an algorithm calculates a table of grant recommendations by taking turns distributing funding recommendations from each Recommender in succession, using their marginal value functions to prioritize. The Recommenders then discuss their evaluations and update the simulation with their new opinions, using approval voting to prioritize discussion topics, until the end of the last meeting when their inputs are finalized. Similarly, funders specify and adjust different value functions for deferring to each Recommender. In this round, the process also allowed the funders to make some final adjustments to decide on their final intended grant amounts." Intended use of funds (category): Organizational general support Donor reason for donating at this time (rather than earlier or later): Timing determined by timing of grant round; this is SFF's tenth grant round and the fifth with a grant to this grantee. Other notes: A grant recommendation to the same grantee of $179,000 is also made for funder Jaan Tallinn as part of the same SFF round. |
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| Alignment Research Center | 1,401,000.00 | 2 | AI safety/technical research | https://futureoflife.org/grant-program/2023-grants/ | Survival and Flourishing Fund Olle Häggström Steve Omohundro Daniel Kokotajlo | Donation process: Part of the Survival and Flourishing Fund's 2023 H1 grants https://survivalandflourishing.fund/sff-2023-h1-recommendations based on the S-process (simulation process) that "involves allowing the Recommenders and funders to simulate a large number of counterfactual delegation scenarios. In each simulation, Recommenders specify a marginal value function for funding each application, and an algorithm calculates a table of grant recommendations by taking turns distributing funding recommendations from each Recommender in succession, using their marginal value functions to prioritize. The Recommenders then discuss their evaluations and update the simulation with their new opinions, using approval voting to prioritize discussion topics, until the end of the last meeting when their inputs are finalized. Similarly, funders specify and adjust different value functions for deferring to each Recommender. In this round, the process also allowed the funders to make some final adjustments to decide on their final intended grant amounts." Intended use of funds (category): Direct project expenses Intended use of funds: https://futureoflife.org/grant-program/2023-grants/ says: "Support for the Alignment Research Center (ARC) Evaluation (Evals) Team. Evals is a new team at ARC building capability evaluations (and in the future, alignment evaluations) for advanced ML models. The goals of the project are to improve our understanding of what alignment danger is going to look like, understand how far away we are from dangerous AI, and create metrics that labs can make commitments around." Donor reason for donating at this time (rather than earlier or later): Timing determined by timing of grant round; this is SFF's ninth grant round and the second with a grant to this grantee. Other notes: In this grant round, there are two funders: Jaan Tallinn and Future of Life Institute, and the page https://survivalandflourishing.fund/sff-2023-h1-recommendations does not provide a breakdown of the grant amount $3,247,000 by funder. https://futureoflife.org/grant-program/2023-grants/ is used to obtain the amount actually granted by FLI. |
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| Yale University (Earmark: Allan Dafoe) | 276,000.00 | 4 | AI safety | https://futureoflife.org/2018-ai-grant-recipients#Dafoe | -- | A project grant. Project title: Allan Dafoe. | |
| Stanford University (Earmark: Stefano Ermon) | 100,000.00 | 35 | AI safety | https://futureoflife.org/2018-ai-grant-recipients#Ermon | -- | A project grant. Project title: Stefano Ermon. | |
| University of Oxford (Earmark: Owain Evans) | 225,000.00 | 12 | AI safety | https://futureoflife.org/2018-ai-grant-recipients#Evans | -- | A project grant. Project title: Owain Evans. | |
| Teesside University (Earmark: The Anh Han) | 224,747.00 | 13 | AI safety | https://futureoflife.org/2018-ai-grant-recipients#Han | -- | A project grant. Project title: The Anh Han. | |
| University of Cambridge (Earmark: Jose Hernandez-Orallo) | 220,000.00 | 14 | AI safety | https://futureoflife.org/2018-ai-grant-recipients#Hernandez | -- | A project grant. Project title: Jose Hernandez-Orallo. | |
| Smith College (Earmark: James Miller) | 78,289.00 | 41 | AI safety | https://futureoflife.org/2018-ai-grant-recipients#Miller | -- | A project grant. Project title: James Miller. | |
| Stanford University (Earmark: Dorsa Sadigh) | 250,000.00 | 8 | AI safety | https://futureoflife.org/2018-ai-grant-recipients#Sadigh | -- | A project grant. Project title: Dorsa Sadigh. | |
| University of Texas (Earmark: Peter Stone) | 200,000.00 | 15 | AI safety | https://futureoflife.org/2018-ai-grant-recipients#Stone | -- | A project grant. Project title: Peter Stone. | |
| MIT (Earmark: Josh Tenenbaum) | 150,000.00 | 26 | AI safety | https://futureoflife.org/2018-ai-grant-recipients#Tenenbaum | -- | A project grant. Project title: Josh Tenenbaum. | |
| Australian National University (Earmark: Marcus Hutter) | 276,000.00 | 4 | AI safety | https://futureoflife.org/2018-ai-grant-recipients#Hutter | -- | A project grant. Project title: Marcus Hutter. | |
| Carnegie Mellon University (Earmark: Manuela Veloso) | 200,000.00 | 15 | AI safety | https://futureoflife.org/AI/2015awardees#Veloso | -- | A project grant. Project title: Manuela Veloso. | |
| Stanford University (Earmark: Michael Webb) | 76,318.00 | 42 | AI safety | https://futureoflife.org/AI/2015awardees#Webb | -- | A project grant. Project title: Michael Webb. | |
| University of Washington (Earmark: Daniel Weld) | 200,000.00 | 15 | AI safety | https://futureoflife.org/AI/2015awardees#Weld | -- | A project grant. Project title: Daniel Weld. | |
| University of Cambridge (Earmark: Adrian Weller) | 50,000.00 | 44 | AI safety | https://futureoflife.org/AI/2015awardees#Weller | -- | A project grant. Project title: Adrian Weller. | |
| University of Michigan (Earmark: Michael Wellman) | 200,000.00 | 15 | AI safety | https://futureoflife.org/AI/2015awardees#Wellman | -- | A project grant. Project title: Michael Wellman. | |
| University of Oxford (Earmark: Michael Wooldridge) | 125,000.00 | 29 | AI safety | https://futureoflife.org/AI/2015awardees#Wooldridge | -- | A project grant. Project title: Michael Wooldridge. | |
| University of Illinois at Chicago (Earmark: Brian Ziebart) | 134,247.00 | 28 | AI safety | https://futureoflife.org/AI/2015awardees#Ziebart | -- | A project grant. Project title: Brian Ziebart. | |
| University of Oxford (Earmark: Nick Bostrom) | 1,500,000.00 | 1 | AI safety | https://futureoflife.org/AI/2015awardees#Bostrom | -- | A center grant. Project title: Nick Bostrom. | |
| Yale (Earmark: Wendell Wallach) | 180,000.00 | 24 | AI safety | https://futureoflife.org/AI/2015awardees#Wallach | -- | A conference and education grant. Project title: Wendell Wallach. | |
| Center for Applied Rationality (Earmark: Anna Salamon) | 111,757.00 | 33 | AI safety | https://futureoflife.org/AI/2015awardees#Salamon | -- | A conference and education grant. Project title: Anna Salamon. | |
| Rice University (Earmark: Moshe Vardi) | 69,000.00 | 43 | AI safety | https://futureoflife.org/AI/2015awardees#Vardi | -- | A conference and education grant. Project title: Moshe Vardi. | |
| Stanford University (Earmark: Jacob Steinhardt) | 88,050.00 | 40 | AI safety | https://futureoflife.org/AI/2015awardees#Steinhardt | -- | A conference and education grant. Project title: Jacob Steinhardt. | |
| IDSIA (Earmark: Bas Steunebrink) | 196,650.00 | 23 | AI safety | https://futureoflife.org/AI/2015awardees#Steunebrink | -- | A project grant. Project title: Bas Steunebrink. | |
| University of Cambridge (Earmark: Ramana Kumar) | 36,750.00 | 47 | AI safety | https://futureoflife.org/AI/2015awardees#Kumar | -- | A project grant. Project title: Ramana Kumar. | |
| The New School (Earmark: Peter Asaro) | 116,974.00 | 32 | AI safety | https://futureoflife.org/AI/2015awardees#Asaro | -- | A project grant. Project title: Peter Asaro. | |
| Social & Environmental Entrepreneurs (Earmark: Seth Baum) | 100,000.00 | 35 | AI safety | https://futureoflife.org/AI/2015awardees#Baum | -- | A project grant. Project title: Seth Baum. | |
| University of California, Berkeley (Earmark: Paul Christiano) | 50,000.00 | 44 | AI safety | https://futureoflife.org/AI/2015awardees#Christiano | -- | A project grant. Project title: Paul Christiano. | |
| Duke University (Earmark: Vincent Conitzer) | 200,000.00 | 15 | AI safety | https://futureoflife.org/AI/2015awardees#Conitzer | -- | A project grant. Project title: Vincent Conitzer. | |
| Centre for Effective Altruism, Oxford (Earmark: Owen Cotton-Barratt) | 119,670.00 | 31 | AI safety | https://futureoflife.org/AI/2015awardees#Cotton | -- | A project grant. Project title: Owen Cotton-Barratt. | |
| Oregon State University (Earmark: Thomas Dietterich) | 200,000.00 | 15 | AI safety | https://futureoflife.org/AI/2015awardees#Dietterich | -- | A project grant. Project title: Thomas Dietterich. | |
| Stanford University (Earmark: Stefano Ermon) | 250,000.00 | 8 | AI safety | https://futureoflife.org/AI/2015awardees#Ermon | -- | A project grant. Project title: Stefano Ermon. | |
| University of Oxford (Earmark: Owain Evans) | 227,212.00 | 11 | AI safety | https://futureoflife.org/AI/2015awardees#Evans | -- | A project grant. Project title: Owain Evans. | |
| Machine Intelligence Research Institute (Earmark: Benja Fallenstein) | 250,000.00 | 8 | AI safety | https://futureoflife.org/AI/2015awardees#Fallenstein | -- | A project grant. Project title: Benja Fallenstein. It appears like this was added on the MIRI top donors website with an amount of $250,252 on 2017-02-04: see https://web.archive.org/web/20170204024838/https://intelligence.org/topdonors/ for more. | |
| AI Impacts (Earmark: Katja Grace) | 49,310.00 | 46 | AI safety | https://futureoflife.org/AI/2015awardees#Grace | -- | A project grant. Project title: Katja Grace. | |
| University of Colorado (Earmark: Seth Herd) | 98,400.00 | 39 | AI safety | https://futureoflife.org/AI/2015awardees#Herd | -- | A project grant. Project title: Seth Herd. | |
| Stanford University (Earmark: Alex Aiken) | 100,813.00 | 34 | AI safety | https://futureoflife.org/AI/2015awardees#Aiken | -- | A project grant. Project title: Alex Aiken. | |
| Georgia Institute of Technology (Earmark: Fuxin Li) | 121,642.00 | 30 | AI safety | https://futureoflife.org/AI/2015awardees#Li | -- | A project grant. Project title: Fuxin Li. | |
| Stanford University (Earmark: Percy Liang) | 255,160.00 | 7 | AI safety | https://futureoflife.org/AI/2015awardees#Liang | -- | A project grant. Project title: Percy Liang. | |
| Theiss Research (Earmark: Long Ouyang) | 99,750.00 | 37 | AI safety | https://futureoflife.org/AI/2015awardees#Ouyang | -- | A project grant. Project title: Long Ouyang. | |
| Harvard University (Earmark: David Parkes) | 200,000.00 | 15 | AI safety | https://futureoflife.org/AI/2015awardees#Parkes | -- | A project grant. Project title: David Parkes. | |
| Carnegie Mellon University (Earmark: Andre Platzer) | 200,000.00 | 15 | AI safety | https://futureoflife.org/AI/2015awardees#Platzer | -- | A project grant. Project title: Andre Platzer. | |
| University of Denver (Earmark: Heather Roff) | 136,918.00 | 27 | AI safety | https://futureoflife.org/AI/2015awardees#Roff | -- | A project grant. Project title: Heather Roff. | |
| University of Padova (Earmark: Francesca Rossi) | 275,000.00 | 6 | AI safety | https://futureoflife.org/AI/2015awardees#Rossi | -- | A project grant. Project title: Francesca Rossi. | |
| The University of Melbourne (Earmark: Benjamin Rubinstein) | 98,532.00 | 38 | AI safety | https://futureoflife.org/AI/2015awardees#Rubinstein | -- | A project grant. Project title: Benjamin Rubinstein. | |
| University of California, Berkeley (Earmark: Stuart Russell) | 342,727.00 | 3 | AI safety | https://futureoflife.org/AI/2015awardees#Russell | -- | A project grant. Project title: Stuart Russell. | |
| Cornell University (Earmark: Bart Selman) | 24,950.00 | 48 | AI safety | https://futureoflife.org/AI/2015awardees#Selman | -- | A project grant. Project title: Bart Selman. | |
| Theiss Research (Earmark: Kaj Sotala) | 20,000.00 | 49 | AI safety | https://futureoflife.org/AI/2015awardees#Sotala | -- | A project grant. Project title: Kaj Sotala. |
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