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Total Funding Raised$2.3 million2025▶
| As Of | Value | Source | Fact ID |
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| 2025 | $2.3 million | manifund.org | f_9cmhuAHFrA |
Grants
377| Name | Recipient | Program | Amount | Period | Date | Status | Source | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Train great open-source sparse autoencoders | Tom McGrath | — | $4,025 | — | May 2024 | — | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety] Find the best settings for SAE training we can, then scale across models |
| Develop an accessible, low-cost system for single-cell imaging in multiple regions of freely moving organisms | Andrew Luskin | — | $25,000 | — | Feb 2024 | — | manifund.org | ACX Grants 2024 |
| Interpretable Forecasting with Transformers | Sheikh Abdur Raheem Ali | — | $602.5 | — | Feb 2023 | — | manifund.org | [ACX mini-grants, Forecasting] Make accurate, well-calibrated, and honest predictions with large language models. |
| Forethought | Amrit Sidhu-Brar | — | $365,270 | — | Dec 2025 | — | manifund.org | [AI governance, Global catastrophic risks] Research on how to navigate the transition to a world with superintelligent AI systems |
| Luthien | Jai Dhyani | — | $170,470 | — | Mar 2025 | — | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety, Global catastrophic risks] Developing AI Control for Immediate Real-World Use |
| Investigating the Effects of IF in the reversal of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. | Ambreen Deol | — | $8,500 | — | Mar 2024 | — | manifund.org | [Biomedical, Global health & development] RCT with predominantly Asian Indian population and literature review for understanding mechanisms of IF in relation to T2DM |
| Connect For Animals: a platform for ending factory farming | Steven Rouk | — | $21,054 | — | Aug 2024 | — | manifund.org | [Animal welfare, EA Community Choice] Scaling up the people power of the movement to end factory farming. |
| Split Personality Training | Florian Dietz | — | $3,000 | — | Apr 2025 | — | manifund.org | [Science & technology, Technical AI safety, Global catastrophic risks] Revealing Latent Knowledge Through Personality-Shift Tokens |
| Holly Elmore organizing people for a frontier AI moratorium | Holly Elmore | — | $5,310 | — | Jul 2023 | — | manifund.org | [AI governance] Help me to organize US moratorium-promoting activities to expand the Overton window and increase public pressure in favor of a moratorium on frontier AI. |
| Lead-acid battery recycling in Philippines | Micaella Rogers | — | $50,000 | — | Oct 2025 | — | manifund.org | [ACX Grants 2025, Global health & development] Develop and promote market-based policies to reduce informal lead-acid battery recycling in the Philippines. |
| AI-Plans.com | Kabir Kumar | — | $5,370 | — | Jan 2024 | — | manifund.org | Science & technology, Technical AI safety, AI governance |
| Adjacent News | Lucas Kohorst | — | $1,000 | — | Aug 2024 | — | manifund.org | [EA Community Choice, EA community, Forecasting] Prediction Market Driven News |
| African School of Economics in Zanzibar charter city | Kurtis Lockhart | — | $100,000 | — | Feb 2024 | — | manifund.org | ACX Grants 2024 |
| Forecasting global disasters | 248 | — | $50,705 | — | Oct 2025 | — | manifund.org | [ACX Grants 2025] Elite cyborg forecasters identify and share the most important signs of global catastrophic risks for you and the public. |
| Hive Highlights Newsletter - farmed animal advocacy upd with 7k/month views | Sofia Balderson | — | $1,452 | — | Aug 2024 | — | manifund.org | [Animal welfare, EA Community Choice, EA community] Help deliver key movement updates to over 3000 advocates (50% open rate) |
| Tooling + Model Orgs for CoT Faithfulness Research | Sudarsh Kunnavakkam | — | $3,000 | — | Jul 2025 | — | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety] Building model organisms of CoT and Python packages for intervention in reasoning traces |
| Recreate the cavity-preventing GMO bacteria BCS3-L1 from precursor | Aaron Silverbook | — | $40,640 | — | Jul 2023 | — | manifund.org | [Science & technology] Because I think curing cavities for everyone would be "based", actually |
| 'Making God': a Documentary on AI Risks for the Public | Connor Axiotes | — | $205,094 | — | Mar 2025 | — | manifund.org | [Science & technology, Technical AI safety, AI governance, Global catastrophic risks] Geoffrey Hinton & Yoshua Bengio Interviews Secured, Funding Still Needed |
| Transformative AI scenarios for EU policymakers | Thomas Lingard on behalf of Stichting Centre for Future Generations | — | $30,000 | — | Oct 2025 | — | manifund.org | [ACX Grants 2025] Build awareness and urgency among European policymakers on AI’s rapid, transformative impacts through future scenarios and targeted institutional engagement |
| LEAH Coworking Space | Joseph Hardie | — | $3,847 | — | Aug 2024 | — | manifund.org | [EA Community Choice, EA community] Rent costs for a coworking space supporting organisations and individuals in London. |
| Good Ancestors (Australia) | Gregory Sadler | — | $65,020 | — | Oct 2025 | — | manifund.org | [ACX Grants 2025] Advocate for Australian policies that safeguard against global catastrophic risks – including pandemics, AI risks, and catastrophic disasters. |
| Coursetexts | Coursetexts | — | $2,540 | — | May 2025 | — | manifund.org | [Science & technology] Open sourcing advanced science graduate courses at scale, to democratize higher level education. |
| Make large-scale analysis of Python code several orders of magnitude quicker | Tom Forbes | — | $1,000 | — | Mar 2023 | — | manifund.org | Forecasting |
| Crystal Ballin' Podcast | Brian T. Edwards | — | $2,790.08 | — | Mar 2023 | — | manifund.org | [ACX mini-grants, Forecasting] New fortnightly podcast on all things prediction markets |
| Elizabeth and Timothy Podcast on values in Effective Altruism (Funded) | Elizabeth Van Nostrand | — | $7,810 | — | Oct 2024 | — | manifund.org | [Science & technology, EA community] Elizabeth and Timothy create a podcast about truthseeking, values drift, and a potential EA Renaissance (or diaspora). |
| Stipend to enable a US PhD student to move to the UK for a temporary role with the UK DSIT | J | — | $13,000 | — | Feb 2024 | — | manifund.org | — |
| News through prediction markets | Marcel van Diemen | — | $499 | — | Feb 2024 | — | manifund.org | [ACX Grants 2024] The Base Rate Times |
| Convert a hybrid car to chip wood and generate electricity | David Denkenberger | — | $25,100 | — | Feb 2024 | — | manifund.org | ACX Grants 2024, Biosecurity, Global catastrophic risks |
| Telemedicine platform for Congo | Manoj Nathwani | — | $12,000 | — | Oct 2025 | — | manifund.org | [ACX Grants 2025] Provide an equitable and accessible telemedicine platform in DRC where there is a humanitarian crisis to provide free healthcare over the phone. |
| Mechanistic Interpretability research for unfaithful chain-of-thought (1 month) | Iván Arcuschin Moreno | — | $11,000 | — | Nov 2024 | — | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety] Iván and Jett are seeking funding to research unfaithful chain-of-thought, under Arthur Conmy's mentorship, for a month before the start of MATS. |
| Social Media Strategy for EA Orgs | Marisa Vogiatzi | — | $1,246 | — | Aug 2024 | — | manifund.org | [EA Community Choice, EA community] Providing free professional social media strategy consulting for EA orgs |
| 80,000 Hours | Jørgen Ljønes | — | $4,915.11 | — | Aug 2024 | — | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety, AI governance, Biosecurity, EA Community Choice, EA community, Global catastrophic risks] We provide research and support to help people move into careers that effectively tackle the world’s most pressing problems. |
| CaML - AGI alignment to nonhumans | Miles Tidmarsh | — | $30,000 | — | Nov 2025 | — | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety, Animal welfare] Training AI to generalize compassion for all sentient beings using pretraining-style interventions as a more robust alternative to instruction tuning |
| Evaluating the Effectiveness of Unlearning Techniques | FazlBarez | — | $30,000 | — | Jun 2024 | — | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety] Unlearning, AI Safety |
| Mox, a coworking & events space in SF | Mox | — | $261,820 | — | Mar 2025 | — | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety, EA community] For AI safety, AI labs, EA charities & startups |
| Synthesizing Standalone World-Models | Thane Ruthenis | — | $51,500 | — | Sep 2025 | — | manifund.org | [Science & technology, Technical AI safety, Global catastrophic risks] Research agenda aimed at developing methods for constructing powerful, easily interpretable world-models. |
| Animal Advocacy Africa | Cameron King | — | $5,585 | — | Aug 2024 | — | manifund.org | [Animal welfare, EA Community Choice] Mitigating factory farming in Africa (Empowering animal advocates in African countries) |
| Forecast Dissemination Mini-Market 2 of 3: Hurricane Hazards | Ryan Kupyn | — | $450 | — | Feb 2023 | — | manifund.org | [ACX mini-grants, Forecasting] Promoting forecasts in order to help mitigate weather risks, then evaluating the effect of this information. |
| Benchmarking and comparing different evaluation awareness metrics | Hieu Minh Nguyen | — | $3,000 | — | Aug 2025 | — | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety, AI governance] LLMs often know when they are being evaluated. We’ll do a study comparing various methods to measure and monitor this capability. |
| Year one of AI Safety Tokyo | Blaine William Rogers | — | $600 | — | Feb 2024 | — | manifund.org | Technical AI safety, ACX Grants 2024, AI governance, EA community |
| Hive Slack - an active community space for engaged farmed animal advocates | Sofia Balderson | — | $3,749 | — | Aug 2024 | — | manifund.org | [Animal welfare, EA Community Choice, EA community] Help us fund Slack fees for over 1000 monthly active members |
| Kickstarting EA Latvia community | Effective Altruism Latvia | — | $507 | — | Aug 2024 | — | manifund.org | [EA Community Choice, EA community] A group of latvian EAs have recently created an NGO and is attempting to grow it |
| Native psilocybin use in Southern Africa | Eli Elster | — | $13,000 | — | Oct 2025 | — | manifund.org | [ACX Grants 2025] Continue documenting the indigenous use of native Psilocybe mushrooms in Lesotho, including the collection of physical samples, to identify novel medical applications of psilocybin. |
| [AI Safety Workshop @ EA Hotel] Autostructures | Sahil | — | $8,555 | — | Oct 2024 | — | manifund.org | Scaling meaning without fixed structure (...dynamically generating it instead.) |
| Joseph Bloom - Independent AI Safety Research | joseph bloom | — | $51,400 | — | Jul 2023 | — | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety] Trajectory Models and Agent Simulators |
| Videos on UK Free Speech | Sam Glover | — | $7,700 | — | Aug 2025 | — | manifund.org | We want to make a series of videos intended to inform the UK public about arrests/convictions related to free speech. |
| Conduct field research on informal lead-acid battery recycling supply chains in Nigeria | John Lohier | — | $13,000 | — | Feb 2024 | — | manifund.org | ACX Grants 2024 |
| Medical Expenses for CHAI PhD Student | Rachel Freedman | — | $23,043 | — | Jun 2023 | — | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety] Allow Berkeley PhD student to devote more time and focus to AI safety research and mentorship. |
| VaccinateCA | Karl Yang | — | $15,075 | — | Jul 2023 | — | manifund.org | [Global health & development] Retroactive grant for website & infra to display COVID vaccine availability |
| AI that standardizes and curates bio datasets | 400fe9a6-6614-4e98-a334-f7e70a67f3da | — | $70,000 | — | Oct 2025 | — | manifund.org | [ACX Grants 2025] Create a permanent, public, and computable foundation of biological knowledge by building an AI-powered engine that automatically standardizes and curates the world’s biological datasets—past, present, and future. |
| Tardigrade stress tolerance genes that modified for improved performance in human cells. | Joshua Morgan | — | $8,000 | — | Feb 2024 | — | manifund.org | ACX Grants 2024 |
| Formal Certification Technologies for AI Safety | Mirco Giacobbe | — | $128,000 | — | Nov 2025 | — | manifund.org | [Science & technology, Technical AI safety, AI governance] Developing the software infrastructure to make AI systems safe, with formal guarantees |
| Apart incubates and facilitates hundreds of AI safety researchers around the globe. | Esben Kran Christensen | — | $59,000 | — | Feb 2024 | — | manifund.org | ACX Grants 2024 |
| BAIS (ex-AIS Hub Serbia) Office Space for (Frugal) AI Safety Researchers | Dusan D Nesic | — | $10,473 | — | Dec 2023 | — | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety, AI governance, EA Community Choice, Long-Term Future Fund, EA community] Free/Subsidized/Cheap office space outside of EU but in good timezones with favorable visa policies (especially for Chinese/Russian but also US&others near EU). |
| Pilot for new benchmark by Epoch AI | Epoch Artificial Intelligence, Inc. | — | $200,000 | — | Dec 2024 | — | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety, AI governance] For tracking and predicting future AI progress to AGI |
| Produce therapeutic food for Ethiopia | Dr. Lewis Wall | — | $50,000 | — | Oct 2025 | — | manifund.org | [ACX Grants 2025] Production and distribution of peanut butter based therapeutic food for the treatment of childhood malnutrition in northern Ethiopia |
| FloraForge: Aesthetic Gene Editing in Petunias | Justin Bianchini | — | $5,000 | — | Nov 2025 | — | manifund.org | [Science & technology, Biomedical] A modular gene-editing platform for engineering new pigment patterns in ornamental plants, starting with a vein-pattern rescue line in petunias. |
| Virtue-Ethical Rationality and Training Dynamics | Peli Grietzer | — | $20,000 | — | May 2025 | — | manifund.org | — |
| AI Safety & Society | 60 | — | $250,000 | — | Dec 2024 | — | manifund.org | High-quality, timely articles on AI safety |
| Understanding SAE features using Sparse Feature Circuits | Lovis Heindrich | — | $11,000 | — | Jun 2024 | — | manifund.org | Technical AI safety |
| Publish a book on Egan education for parents | Brandon Hendrickson | — | $5,602.89 | — | Feb 2024 | — | manifund.org | [ACX Grants 2024] Working title — Egan @ Home, the Elementary Years |
| Covid Work By Elizabeth VN/Aceso Under Glass | Elizabeth Van Nostrand | — | $1,484 | — | Aug 2024 | — | manifund.org | [Science & technology, EA Community Choice, EA community] retroactive support for covid work |
| Invest in the Conflux Manifold Media Empire(??) | Jacob Cohen | — | $310.58 | — | Nov 2023 | — | manifund.org | [Manifold Community Fund] I'm planning to do something starting in January, but I'm not sure what! |
| "Contemporary Issues in Animal Rights Law" online course | Marine Lercier | — | $1,380 | — | Aug 2024 | — | manifund.org | [Animal welfare, EA Community Choice, EA community] Educating and training 30 animal rights advocates per online course globally |
| Manifold x College Admissions | cc6 | — | $949.32 | — | Dec 2023 | — | manifund.org | [Manifold Community Fund, Forecasting] Attract more high school seniors anxious about their college admissions chances |
| Impact Assessment of Social Programs | Devansh Mehta | — | $3,500 | — | Feb 2023 | — | manifund.org | [ACX mini-grants, Forecasting] Verifying and Quantifying the Outcomes of Nonprofits |
| Improving fish welfare through producer and retail outreach in Türkiye | İbrahim Çağrı Mutaf | — | $15,000 | — | Feb 2024 | — | manifund.org | ACX Grants 2024 |
| Help a Bootstrapped AI Risk Literacy Founder Get To IASEAI 2026 in Paris | Aashkaben Kalpesh Patel | — | $3,036 | — | Jan 2026 | — | manifund.org | [Science & technology, Technical AI safety, AI governance, EA community, Global catastrophic risks] Nutrition labels transformed food safety through informed consumer choice, help me do the same for AI and make this standard :) |
| Making God's Post-Production: Aiming for Netflix | Connor Axiotes | — | $550 | — | Aug 2025 | — | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety, AI governance, Global catastrophic risks] Making God is now raising for post-production so we can deliver a festival-ready documentary fit for Netflix acquisition. |
| Good Ancestors Policy expenses | Gregory Sadler | — | $15,100 | — | Sep 2023 | — | manifund.org | [AI governance, Biosecurity, Global catastrophic risks] GAP is an Australian charity, working to improve the long-term future, that requires funding for salary and operational expenses. |
| Influenza Pandemic Protection on Day 1 through universal priming vaccines | Duncan Purvis | — | $30,000 | — | Feb 2024 | — | manifund.org | [Science & technology, ACX Grants 2024, Biomedical, Biosecurity, Global catastrophic risks] Pivoting this project, due to stakeholder feedback. Former focus was inclusion of a pre-pandemic strain in a quadrivalent seasonal influenza vaccine |
| Trading bot guide | nikki | — | $20 | — | Dec 2023 | — | manifund.org | [Manifold Community Fund, Forecasting] More bots, better predictions! |
| SDCPNs for AI Safety | Jade Master | — | $39,009 | — | Oct 2025 | — | manifund.org | [Science & technology, Technical AI safety, Global catastrophic risks] Developing correct-by-construction world models for verification of frontier AI |
| Safe AI Germany (SAIGE) | Jessica P. Wang | — | $9,201 | — | Jan 2026 | — | manifund.org | [Science & technology, Technical AI safety, AI governance, EA community, Global catastrophic risks] Germany’s talents are critical to the global effort of reducing catastrophic risks brought by artificial intelligence. |
| Teamwork - professional EA co-working space in Berlin | anne schulze | — | $1,868 | — | Aug 2024 | — | manifund.org | [EA Community Choice, EA community] Funding for 2025 operational budget to maintain and manage Teamwork |
| Forecasting Meetup Network - Washington, DC pilot (4 meetups) | David Glidden | — | $677 | — | Aug 2024 | — | manifund.org | [EA Community Choice, Long-Term Future Fund, EA community, Forecasting, EA Infrastructure Fund] Local meetups of forecasters, fans of prediction markets, and others interested in improving humanity’s ability to predict the future. |
| Charge selective large pore membranes for artificial implantable kidney. | Tugrul Irmak | — | $80,000 | — | Feb 2024 | — | manifund.org | ACX Grants 2024 |
| Compute for 4 MATS scholars to rapidly scale promising new method pre-ICLR | Alex Cloud | — | $16,047 | — | Aug 2024 | — | manifund.org | Technical AI safety |
| Distribute HPMOR copies in Bangalore, India | Aditya Arpitha Prasad | — | $1,000 | — | Feb 2024 | — | manifund.org | [ACX Grants 2024] Let the kids read, we need to raise the sanity waterline and inspire creative minds into AI Safety |
| Visa fee support for Australian researcher to join a fellowship with Anthropic | L | — | $4,000 | — | Nov 2025 | — | manifund.org | Technical AI safety |
| Mitigating Reward Hacking Through RL Training Interventions | Aria Wong | — | $7,900 | — | Feb 2026 | — | manifund.org | Technical AI safety |
| Funding researcher on frontier AI governance inclusive of global majority | H | — | $87,543 | — | Jul 2025 | — | manifund.org | Technical AI safety, AI governance |
| Gene editing corn for nutrition | Kasey Markel | — | $10,000 | — | Oct 2025 | — | manifund.org | [ACX Grants 2025] Use a new and more precise form of gene editing to increase the nutritional content of corn, primarily for Central America and Sub-Saharan Africa. |
| Is electrical stunning a humane slaughter method for decapods? | Nino O’Shea-Nejad | — | $5,020 | — | Oct 2025 | — | manifund.org | [ACX Grants 2025] Produce a peer-reviewed literature review assessing whether electrical stunning is a humane method for slaughtering decapod crustaceans, identifying evidence gaps, methodological flaws, and next research steps to guide advocacy and policy. |
| The Grass is Greener: Skirting Deflation via Strong Overseas Growth. Again. | Jason M. Kingodn | — | $40 | — | Jan 2024 | — | manifund.org | [ChinaTalk Essay Contest, Forecasting] There is an 80% change that the top five performing Chinese Internet and Internet related companies will be those who manage domestic deflationary pressures via |
| Manifold merch store | tobiasvyseri | — | $302 | — | Nov 2023 | — | manifund.org | [Manifold Community Fund, EA community] Putting the "fold" in Manifold |
| YIMBY movement for African cities | Kurtis Lockhart | — | $85,000 | — | Oct 2025 | — | manifund.org | [ACX Grants 2025] Support the AUL to bring a YIMBY movement to African cities so these cities can build the urban infrastructure needed to accommodate ~900 million new urbanites by 2050. |
| BLAM Liberia Seed Project | Saeed Ahmad | — | $10,000 | — | Oct 2025 | — | manifund.org | [ACX Grants 2025] Scoping Biosafety and Biosecurity Strengthening for Global Health Security |
| Doom Debates - Podcast & debate show to help AI x-risk discourse go mainstream | Liron Shapira | — | $41,195 | — | Aug 2024 | — | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety, AI governance, EA Community Choice, Global catastrophic risks] Let's warn millions of people about the near-term AI extinction threat by directly & proactively explaining the issue in every context where it belongs |
| Build anti-mosquito drones | Alex Toussaint | — | $28,630 | — | Feb 2024 | — | manifund.org | ACX Grants 2024 |
| Field building in universities for AI policy careers in the US | Matthew David Fargo | — | $25,000 | — | Dec 2023 | — | manifund.org | — |
| Demonstration of LLMs deceiving and getting out of a sandbox | Igor Ivanov | — | $3,110 | — | Jun 2025 | — | manifund.org | Technical AI safety |
| Improve eligibility for organ donation | Daniela Shuman | — | $105,000 | — | Oct 2025 | — | manifund.org | [ACX Grants 2025, Global health & development] Help previously ineligible living organ donors become eligible to donate |
| Independent research to improve SAEs (4-6 months) | Glen M. Taggart | — | $55,025 | — | Apr 2024 | — | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety] By rapid iteration on possible alternative architectures & training techniques |
| Finishing a Video on the Google DeepMind Hunger Strike | Michaël Rubens Trazzi | — | $1,800 | — | Oct 2025 | — | manifund.org | [Science & technology, Technical AI safety, AI governance] Funding gap to pay for a video editor and scriptwriter |
| Accelerating the AI Safety talent pipeline in South Africa| Matched donations | Carmen Csilla Medina | — | $656 | — | Aug 2024 | — | manifund.org | Technical AI safety, AI governance, EA Community Choice, Long-Term Future Fund, EA Infrastructure Fund, Global catastrophic risks |
| AI Policy work @ IAPS | Peter Wildeford | — | $10,050 | — | Dec 2023 | — | manifund.org | AI governance |
| Write a good primer on political change. | Spencer Orenstein | — | $1,500 | — | Feb 2024 | — | manifund.org | ACX Grants 2024 |
| Evitable: a new public-facing AI risk non-profit | David Krueger | — | $8,982 | — | Dec 2025 | — | manifund.org | [AI governance, Global catastrophic risks] Our mission is to inform and organize the public to confront societal-scale risks of AI, and put an end to the reckless race to develop superintelligent AI. |
| AI-Plans.com Critique-a-Thon $500 Prize Fund Proposal | Kabir Kumar | — | $500 | — | Jul 2023 | — | manifund.org | Technical AI safety |
| Metaculus x Givewell Forecasting Tournament | Leonard Barrett | — | $4,500 | — | Nov 2024 | — | manifund.org | Science & technology, Global health & development |
| Athena - New Program for Women in AI Alignment Research | Claire Short | — | $20,000 | — | Dec 2023 | — | manifund.org | — |
| Scaling AI safety awareness via content creators | Centre pour la Sécurité de l'IA | — | $21,309 | — | Apr 2025 | — | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety, AI governance, Global catastrophic risks] 4M+ views on AI safety: Help us replicate and scale this success with more creators |
| Eradicate the hidden factory farming of feeder rodents | GG | — | $50,200 | — | Oct 2025 | — | manifund.org | [Science & technology, ACX Grants 2025, Animal welfare, Biosecurity] Developing and commercializing an alternative to feeder rodents—tackling one of the most neglected and high-suffering forms of factory farming. |
| Lost Ones in-person meetups | Yoyo Y | — | $10 | — | Aug 2024 | — | manifund.org | [EA Community Choice, EA community] hackathons, dinners etc |
| Run a public online Turing Test with a variety of models and prompts | camrobjones | — | $3,149 | — | Feb 2024 | — | manifund.org | ACX Grants 2024 |
| Calibration City | wasabipesto | — | $8,864 | — | Aug 2024 | — | manifund.org | [EA Community Choice, Forecasting] Prediction markets have the potential to reshape the way we process information, but how accurate are they in practice? |
| Progress Studies YouTube Channel | Justin Petersen | — | $20,000 | — | Dec 2025 | — | manifund.org | — |
| Promote Georgism | Joseph Caissie | — | $100,000 | — | Feb 2024 | — | manifund.org | ACX Grants 2024 |
| Fund a Fellow for the Cooperative AI Research Fellowship! | Leo Hyams | — | $2,530 | — | Sep 2025 | — | manifund.org | [Science & technology, Technical AI safety, AI governance, Global catastrophic risks] A 3-month fellowship in Cape Town, connecting a global cohort of talent to top mentors at MIT, Oxford, CMU, and Google DeepMind |
| Developing a Course on AI x-risk | Johan Fredrikzon | — | $10,000 | — | Aug 2024 | — | manifund.org | Science & technology, Technical AI safety, AI governance, Global catastrophic risks |
| Scenario analysis and planning platform for more effective developing world agriculture projects | Chris M | — | $20,000 | — | Feb 2024 | — | manifund.org | ACX Grants 2024 |
| Superforecaster predictions of long-term impacts | David Rhys Bernard | — | $4,548.33 | — | Feb 2023 | — | manifund.org | [ACX mini-grants, Forecasting] I will pay 30 superforecasters to make forecasts of long-run treatment effects from randomised control trials |
| Forecast Dissemination Mini-Market 3 of 3: Earthquake Risk | Ryan Kupyn | — | $345 | — | Feb 2023 | — | manifund.org | [ACX mini-grants, Forecasting] Evaluating whether forecasts of earthquake risk lead people to take steps to prepare |
| Scoping Developmental Interpretability | Jesse Hoogland | — | $144,650 | — | Jul 2023 | — | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety] 6-month funding for a team of researchers to assess a novel AI alignment research agenda that studies how structure forms in neural networks |
| Charting the Policy Landscape of Advanced Education in America | Thomas Briggs | — | $8,350 | — | Oct 2025 | — | manifund.org | [Science & technology, ACX Grants 2025, EA community] This nationwide report will provide a detailed account of the policies states have that in place to help advanced learners thrive. |
| Blog about Forecasting Global Catastrophic Risks | Damien Laird | — | $1,449.55 | — | Feb 2023 | — | manifund.org | [ACX mini-grants, Forecasting] Forecasting GCRs is hard. How can we do it better, and how much better is that? |
| Assess online training platform for health workers in Nigeria | HealthLearn | — | $25,000 | — | Feb 2024 | — | manifund.org | ACX Grants 2024 |
| Isolating CBRN Knowledge in LLMs for Safety - Phase 2 (Research) | Krishna Patel | — | $150,000.16 | — | Dec 2025 | — | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety, Biomedical, Biosecurity] Expanding proven isolation techniques to high-risk capability domains in Mixture of Expert models |
| A Lumenator Company, or: A More Ambitious Life Trajectory | Adrian Regenfuss | — | $6,000 | — | Sep 2023 | — | manifund.org | Using Bright Lamps to make money, improve EAs productivity, do research and achieve free agency |
| General Career Support | Parker Whitfill | — | $38,000 | — | Nov 2025 | — | manifund.org | Technical AI safety, Forecasting |
| AI scam research targeting seniors | Fred Heiding | — | $10,000 | — | Aug 2025 | — | manifund.org | [Science & technology, AI governance] A microgrant to help us scale our research on AI-assisted online scams by building real-world defenses for seniors and collecting data for ScamBench. |
| Replicate and extend brain entrainment results | Aleksandr Putilin | — | $32,500 | — | Feb 2024 | — | manifund.org | ACX Grants 2024 |
| Attention-Guided-RL for Human-Like LMs | Scott Viteri | — | $3,100 | — | Mar 2025 | — | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety] Compute Funding |
| Estimating annual burden of airborne disease (last mile to MVP) | Joel Becker | — | $8,200 | — | Oct 2023 | — | manifund.org | [Biosecurity, Global catastrophic risks] Boosting advocacy for investment in and deployment of technologies for improving indoor air quality |
| Sentience Politics | Melina Tan | — | $535 | — | Aug 2024 | — | manifund.org | [Animal welfare, EA community] We place the interests of non-human animals at the centre of society. Our vision is a society in which animals are protected from suffering. |
| Study land reform | Mark Webb | — | $5,000 | — | Feb 2024 | — | manifund.org | [ACX Grants 2024, Global health & development] Direct land purchases and transfer from landowners to tenant farmers |
| Train LLMs in honest introspection | Adam Morris | — | $15,000 | — | Oct 2025 | — | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety, ACX Grants 2025] Train LLMs to accurately & honestly report on their internal decision-making processes through real-time introspection |
| Introductory resources for Singular Learning Theory | Matthew Cameron Farrugia-Roberts | — | $10,650 | — | Jul 2023 | — | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety] Literature review or other introductory material for Singular Learning Theory targeted at AI alignment applications |
| Seed Funding For Geodesic Research | Cameron Tice | — | $201,000 | — | Jan 2026 | — | manifund.org | Technical AI safety |
| The AI Governance Archive (TAIGA) | David Corfield | — | $1,485 | — | Aug 2024 | — | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety, AI governance, EA Community Choice, Long-Term Future Fund, EA community, Global catastrophic risks] Site maintenance, grant writing, and leadership handover |
| Support funding for Hardeep Gambhir's gap semester | Hardeep Singh Gambhir | — | $3,999 | — | Aug 2023 | — | manifund.org | — |
| AI to screen DNA orders | Alejandro Acelas | — | $26,000 | — | Oct 2025 | — | manifund.org | [ACX Grants 2025] Create open-source AI tools for customer screening of DNA orders. |
| Project on optimal government hedging against labour automation | Nathan Barnard | — | $9,000 | — | Aug 2025 | — | manifund.org | [AI governance] Paper and policy briefs on the feasibility and optimality of governments hedging against the risk of labour automation by selling bonds and buying equities. |
| Platform for migrants to start legal & profitable microbusinesses. | Emily Kerr-Finell | — | $4,050 | — | Feb 2024 | — | manifund.org | [ACX Grants 2024, Global health & development] Briico helps migrants legally start profitable microbusinesses in less than 30 days with less than $500 – allowing millions of people to skip decades of “gray e |
| MATS Program | Ryan Kidd | — | $290,193 | — | Oct 2023 | — | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety, AI governance, EA Community Choice, Long-Term Future Fund, Global catastrophic risks] Help us support more research scholars! |
| Dads Against AGI Inc. | John Sherman | — | $20,181 | — | Mar 2025 | — | manifund.org | [AI governance, Global catastrophic risks] Funding For Humanity: An AI Risk Podcast |
| Support for Deep Coverage of China and AI | Jordan Schneider | — | $37,567 | — | Jul 2023 | — | manifund.org | AI governance |
| Build an app to track ones impact on animal cruelty | Sai Deep Tetali | — | $1,000 | — | Feb 2024 | — | manifund.org | ACX Grants 2024 |
| Rabbitholeathon Event Food | Jacob Cohen | — | $500 | — | Dec 2024 | — | manifund.org | Ineffective altruism (but I figured why not post it) |
| PIBBSS - General Programs funding or specific funding | PIBBSS | — | $51,200 | — | Jul 2024 | — | manifund.org | [Science & technology, Technical AI safety, AI governance, Global catastrophic risks] Fund unique approaches to research, field diversification, and scouting of novel ideas by experienced researchers supported by PIBBSS research team |
| Establishing the Utilitarian School of Thought in Thai Society | Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal | — | $1,012 | — | Feb 2025 | — | manifund.org | [EA community] Utilitarianism.net into Thai |
| Animal Advocacy Innovation Hub in the Bay Area | Constance Li | — | $4,100 | — | Feb 2025 | — | manifund.org | [Animal welfare, EA community] Hackathon and co-working space for animal advocates in SF |
| Coordinal Research: Accelerating the research of safely deploying AI systems. | Ronak Mehta | — | $125,062 | — | Apr 2025 | — | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety] Funding for a new nonprofit organization focusing on accelerating and automating safety work. |
| Using M&E to increase impact in the animal cause area, by The Mission Motor. | N. Peracha | — | $3,372 | — | Aug 2024 | — | manifund.org | [Animal welfare, EA Community Choice] Increasing the impact of current projects while building a deeper understanding of what works for animals in the long run. |
| Implicit planning in LLMs Paper | Jim Maar | — | $1,000 | — | May 2025 | — | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety] Reproducing the Claude poetry planning results quantitatively |
| Clean Indoor Air for Schools | David Carel | — | $150,000 | — | Oct 2025 | — | manifund.org | [Science & technology, ACX Grants 2025, Biomedical, Biosecurity, Global catastrophic risks, Global health & development] Accelerating the adoption of air filters in every classroom |
| Bayesian modelling of LLM capabilities from evals | Laurence Aitchison | — | $32,000 | — | Dec 2024 | — | manifund.org | — |
| Disentangling Political Bias from Epistemic Integrity in AI Systems | David Rozado | — | $50,000 | — | Oct 2025 | — | manifund.org | [Science & technology, Technical AI safety, ACX Grants 2025, AI governance, Forecasting, Global catastrophic risks] An Integrative Framework for Auditing Political Preferences and Truth-Seeking in AI Systems |
| An online platform to solve coordination problems and generate leverage through collective action campaigns | Jordan Braunstein | — | $17,090 | — | Feb 2024 | — | manifund.org | ACX Grants 2024 |
| BioBind for the Amazon | Tom O’Haire | — | $1,050 | — | Aug 2024 | — | manifund.org | [Science & technology, EA community, Global health & development] Valorising sustainable nut meal. Empowering indiginous operators. Protecting Rainforests. |
| Offline AI voice restoration device for people with voice disorders | Harry Warne | — | $25,000 | — | Oct 2025 | — | manifund.org | [ACX Grants 2025] I am developing a portable, offline AI assistive medical device which restores disordered speech to a clear, natural voice. |
| 3 Months Career Transition into AI Safety Research & Software Engineering | Sean Peters | — | $32,000 | — | Sep 2025 | — | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety] I'd like to explore a research agenda at the intersection of time horizon model evaluation and control protocols. |
| Develop technical framework for human control mechanisms for agentic AI systems | Francesca Gomez | — | $10,030 | — | Feb 2025 | — | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety, AI governance] Building a technical mechanism to assess risks, evaluate safeguards, and identify control gaps in agentic AI systems, enabling verifiable human oversight. |
| Telegram bot for Manifold Markets | Valentin Golev | — | $1,251.41 | — | Feb 2023 | — | manifund.org | ACX mini-grants, Forecasting |
| Out of This Box: AI Safety Musical | Guy | — | $19,205 | — | Mar 2025 | — | manifund.org | [Science & technology, Technical AI safety, AI governance] Out of This Box: The Last Musical (Written by Humans) |
| Bridge Funding for the Sydney AI Safety Hub (SASH) | Yanni Kyriacos | — | $5,167 | — | Feb 2025 | — | manifund.org | — |
| One semester living expenses for MIT-based researcher | Vikram (Vik) Gupta | — | $500 | — | Jul 2023 | — | manifund.org | Science & technology |
| Build a new nonprofit thinktank that advances technological solutions to animal welfare challenges | Robert Yaman | — | $100,000 | — | Feb 2024 | — | manifund.org | ACX Grants 2024 |
| Scale up biologics manufacturing | Alexander (Olek) Pisera | — | $50,000 | — | Oct 2025 | — | manifund.org | [ACX Grants 2025] Develop a system to enable scalable, cheap, yeast-based manufacturing of difficult biologics using a continuous in vivo evolution platform, facilitating cheaper medicines, new drugs, and broadening access in low-income countries by enabling manufacturing will less reliance on cold chains. |
| Animal Advocacy Strategy Forum | t0p43V5oLA | — | $2,942 | — | Aug 2024 | — | manifund.org | [Animal welfare, EA Community Choice, EA community] Connecting and coordinating leaders and key decision makers to strengthen the animal advocacy movement |
| Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) timelines ignore the social factor at their peril | Trevor Klee | — | $650 | — | Mar 2023 | — | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety, AI governance, Open Philanthropy AI Worldviews Contest] By Trevor Klee |
| Vaccine manufacturing platform | Nishank Bhalla | — | $50,000 | — | Oct 2025 | — | manifund.org | [ACX Grants 2025] Creating a manufacturing platform to rapidly and scalably manufacture vaccines against current and emerging viral pandemic threats. |
| AI-assisted low-cost ultrasound scanner | Venkata Subhash Chandra Sadhu | — | $23,000 | — | Oct 2025 | — | manifund.org | [ACX Grants 2025, Biomedical, Global health & development] Low-cost wearable ultrasound scanner backed with AI diagnostics available to people at home or in settings where hospitals are inaccessible |
| Athena 2.0 | Claire Short | — | $8,000 | — | Aug 2024 | — | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety, AI governance, EA Community Choice, EA community, Global catastrophic risks] Program for Women in AI Alignment Research |
| Giving What We Can | Lucas Moore | — | $3,173 | — | Aug 2024 | — | manifund.org | [EA Community Choice, EA community] Making giving effectively and significantly a global cultural norm |
| AI Animals and Digital Minds 2025 | Constance Li | — | $17,380 | — | Aug 2024 | — | manifund.org | [Science & technology, AI governance, Animal welfare, EA Community Choice, EA community] Field building on AI's impact on nonhumans |
| Kickstarting For Good - High-Impact Nonprofit Incubation Program | SebastianJoy | — | $2,631 | — | Aug 2024 | — | manifund.org | [Animal welfare, EA Community Choice, EA community] Turning impactful ideas for transforming the global food system into reality |
| Operating Capital for AI Safety Evaluation Infrastructure | Chris Canal | — | $400,000 | — | Oct 2025 | — | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety, AI governance, Biosecurity] Enabling rapid deployment of specialized engineering teams for critical AI safety evaluation projects worldwide |
| Emergency travel funding to attend EA Global: New York 2025 | Sheikh Abdur Raheem Ali | — | $500 | — | Oct 2025 | — | manifund.org | — |
| Manifold Tournaments | Isaac King | — | $262.5 | — | Nov 2023 | — | manifund.org | Manifold Community Fund, EA community, Forecasting |
| General support for SaferAI | SaferAI | — | $100,025 | — | Feb 2025 | — | manifund.org | [AI governance] Support for SaferAI’s technical and governance research and education programs to enable responsible and safe AI. |
| Act I: Exploring emergent behavior from multi-AI, multi-human interaction | ampdot | — | $67,832.77 | — | Aug 2024 | — | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety, EA Community Choice, Forecasting, Global catastrophic risks] Community exploring and predicting potential risks and opportunities arising from a future that involves many independently controlled AI systems |
| Standardized Tools for Impact Market Reporting | Ryan Kupyn | — | $1,263.53 | — | Feb 2023 | — | manifund.org | [ACX mini-grants, Forecasting] Working towards GAAP For Impact Markets |
| Long-Term Future Fund | Linch Zhang | — | $141,457 | — | Sep 2023 | — | manifund.org | — |
| Forecast Dissemination Mini-Market 1 of 3: College Majors | Ryan Kupyn | — | $550 | — | Feb 2023 | — | manifund.org | [ACX mini-grants, Forecasting] Promoting forecasts in order to help college choose their field of study, then evaluating the effect of this information. |
| human intelligence amplification @ Berkeley Genomics Project | Tsvi Benson-Tilsen | — | $107,502 | — | Mar 2025 | — | manifund.org | [Science & technology, Biomedical, Global catastrophic risks] accelerating strong human germline genomic engineering to make lots of geniuses |
| Support early career journalists covering AI by providing training, funding, and placements at major news outlets. | Cillian Crosson | — | $32,000 | — | Feb 2024 | — | manifund.org | ACX Grants 2024 |
| Preventing Worst Case Pandemics Symposium @ Cambridge | Grace Braithwaite | — | $4,100 | — | May 2024 | — | manifund.org | [Biomedical, Biosecurity, Global catastrophic risks] A Cambridge Biosecurity Hub and Cambridge Infectious Diseases Symposium on Avoiding Worst-Case Scenarios |
| Orexin Pilot Experiment for Reducing Sleep Need | niplav | — | $5,170 | — | May 2025 | — | manifund.org | [Science & technology, Biomedical] Testing intranasal orexin-A administration for sleep need reduction: a 2-3 participant self-blinded randomized controlled trial |
| Experiments to test EA / longtermist framings and branding | David Moss | — | $26,760 | — | Nov 2023 | — | manifund.org | [EA community] Testing responses to “effective altruism”, “longtermism”, “existential risk” etc. |
| Advertise Christians for Impact (EA for Christians) | JD Bauman | — | $40,000 | — | Oct 2025 | — | manifund.org | [ACX Grants 2025] Scale the reach of evidence-based, impact-focused career advice for Christians through a high-leverage digital engagement campaign at Christians for Impact. |
| Mapping neuroscience and mechanistic interpretability | Zhonghao He | — | $5,950 | — | Dec 2023 | — | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety] Surveying neuroscience for tools to analyze and understand neural networks and building a natural science of deep learning |
| PauseAI US 2025 through Q2 | PauseAI US | — | $100,000 | — | Nov 2024 | — | manifund.org | [AI governance, Global catastrophic risks] SFF main round did us dirty! |
| Lightcone Infrastructure | Oliver Habryka | — | $237,365 | — | May 2024 | — | manifund.org | [Science & technology, Technical AI safety, AI governance, EA Community Choice, EA community, Forecasting, Global catastrophic risks] Funding for LessWrong.com, the AI Alignment Forum, Lighthaven and other Lightcone Projects |
| EEG using a generalizable ML model + 32 channel PCB | Sophia Pung | — | $2,500 | — | Jan 2024 | — | manifund.org | [Science & technology] A group of 5 teenage hackers creating a novel PCB design and ML model to process electrical signals generated by neurons with an Electroencephalogram. |
| Combat global antibiotic resistance | Nnaemeka Emmanuel Nnadi | — | $60,000 | — | Feb 2024 | — | manifund.org | ACX Grants 2024 |
| Shallow review of AI safety 2024 | Gavin Leech | — | $20,860 | — | Oct 2024 | — | manifund.org | — |
| Development of a Cautionary Tale Feature Film about Gradual Disempowerment | Petr Salaba | — | $100,000 | — | Jul 2025 | — | manifund.org | [AI governance, Global catastrophic risks] work title: Seductive Machines and Human Agency |
| Agent Island: An Environment for Interagent Cooperation and Conflict | Connacher Murphy | — | $2,000 | — | Feb 2026 | — | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety] A flexible simulation environment for assessing strategic and persuasive capabilities, benchmarking, and agent development, inspired by reality TV competitions. |
| OpenReg: AI tools for FDA application and reg compliance | Bryan Davis | — | $50,000 | — | Oct 2025 | — | manifund.org | [Science & technology, ACX Grants 2025, Biomedical] A set of AI-powered open-source tools intended to shorten time-to-market for medtech innovators. |
| PauseAI local communities - volunteer stipends | Joep Meindertsma | — | $93,574 | — | Aug 2024 | — | manifund.org | [AI governance, EA Community Choice] Help the largest AI activist group grow |
| AI Governance YouTube Channel | Gaurav Yadav | — | $732 | — | Aug 2024 | — | manifund.org | [AI governance, EA Community Choice] Explainable videos for ideas in AI Governance |
| AI-Driven Market Alternatives for a post-AGI world | Oliver Klingefjord | — | $15,745 | — | Jul 2024 | — | manifund.org | [Science & technology, Technical AI safety, AI governance, Global health & development] Develop an LLM-based coordinator and test against consumer spending with 200 people. |
| Making 52 AI Alignment Video Explainers and Podcasts | Michaël Rubens Trazzi | — | $15,269 | — | Feb 2024 | — | manifund.org | EA Community Choice |
| Finishing The SB-1047 Documentary | Michaël Rubens Trazzi | — | $118,987 | — | Oct 2024 | — | manifund.org | [Science & technology, Technical AI safety, AI governance] How California became ground zero in the global debate over who gets to shape humanity's most powerful technology |
| AI Safety Research Organization Incubator - Pilot Program | Alexandra Bos | — | $15,977 | — | Nov 2023 | — | manifund.org | — |
| 3 months full-time contributing software to Inspect | Anthony Duong | — | $20,000 | — | Aug 2025 | — | manifund.org | Technical AI safety |
| Fund thebes' model tinkering | Theia Vogel | — | $26,402 | — | Nov 2025 | — | manifund.org | [Science & technology] Research, tutorial writing, and open-source libraries & tools for experimenting with language models |
| Shanzhai Intelligence and the role of AI in China’s future | frank yu | — | $40 | — | Jan 2024 | — | manifund.org | [Science & technology, Technical AI safety, ChinaTalk Essay Contest, AI governance, Forecasting] Can China’s AI industry adapt to a changing global landscape |
| Democratising charity evaluations | Sasha Cooper | — | $501 | — | Sep 2024 | — | manifund.org | [EA Community Choice, Long-Term Future Fund, EA community, EA Infrastructure Fund] Creating a database of independent charity evaluations, incentives to use them and tools to use them with |
| AI, Animals, and Digital Minds 2024 Conference and Retreat | Constance Li | — | $5,109 | — | Jun 2024 | — | manifund.org | [Science & technology, AI governance, Animal welfare, EA Community Choice] Request for Retroactive Funding |
| The Deal of the Century: Targeted Persuasion Campaign for a US-China AI Treaty | Rufo Guerreschi | — | $11,050 | — | Oct 2025 | — | manifund.org | [AI governance, Global catastrophic risks] Persuading a critical mass of key potential influencers of Trump's AI policy to champion a bold, timely and proper US-China-led global AI treaty |
| Manifold feature to improve non-resolving popularity markets | Kenan Schaefkofer | — | $800 | — | Mar 2023 | — | manifund.org | [ACX mini-grants, Forecasting] Add additional social incentives to bet YES to publicly signal value/support/belief and NO to signal the opposite. |
| Research Staff for AI Safety Research Projects | 106 | — | $26,710 | — | May 2024 | — | manifund.org | Technical AI safety, Biosecurity |
| Optimizing clinical Metagenomics and Far-UVC implementation. | Miti Saksena | — | $41,800 | — | Aug 2023 | — | manifund.org | [Biosecurity] 3-month research to inform the design of large-scale R&D projects in metagenomics and Far-UVC |
| China’s Incoming AI Ethics Leadership Push | Emmie Hine | — | $40 | — | Jan 2024 | — | manifund.org | [ChinaTalk Essay Contest, AI governance, Forecasting] There is a 70% chance that China will tie AI ethics into its Digital Silk Road, releasing a global AI ethics framework targeting developing countries. |
| Keep Apart Research Going: Global AI Safety Research & Talent Pipeline | Apart Research | — | $130,926 | — | May 2025 | — | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety, AI governance, EA community] Funding ends June 2025: Urgent support for proven AI safety pipeline converting technical talent from 26+ countries into published contributors |
| Systems that "give a damn" | Steve Petersen | — | $12,000 | — | Aug 2025 | — | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety, Animal welfare] Teleology, agential risks, and AI well-being |
| Software to detect data fabrication | Markus Englund | — | $50,000 | — | Oct 2025 | — | manifund.org | [Science & technology, ACX Grants 2025] Continue developing ‘copy-paste-detective’ - a software that detects signs of data fabrication in scientific research - and run it against 20,000 publicly available Excel datasets. |
| Finish Video Game about AI Girlfriends and Social Peril | Keaton Lee | — | $20,000 | — | Oct 2025 | — | manifund.org | Hire Human Illustrators! |
| New Roots Institute: Empowering the Next Generation to End Factory Farming | Monica Chen | — | $15,531 | — | Aug 2024 | — | manifund.org | [Animal welfare, EA Community Choice] Growing Advocacy Ecosystems |
| Youtube tutorial videos about computational biology and bioinformatics | Mike Saint-Antoine | — | $1,000 | — | Feb 2024 | — | manifund.org | ACX Grants 2024 |
| 12th Edition of AI Safety Camp | Remmelt Ellen | — | $40,190 | — | Jan 2026 | — | manifund.org | Technical AI safety, AI governance |
| aCFAR 2025/6 Fundraiser | Anna Salamon | — | $3,250 | — | Dec 2025 | — | manifund.org | Revised CFAR workshops. Same Sequences-epistemics, same CFAR classics, more support for individual freedom, sovereignty, and authorship |
| Human Inductive Bias Project | Ka Wang Pang | — | $10,000 | — | Oct 2025 | — | manifund.org | [ACX Grants 2025] Investigating intersection between mathematical models of human and machine learning |
| Create a platform for assurance contracts that looks nice. | Tetra Jones | — | $17,000 | — | Feb 2024 | — | manifund.org | ACX Grants 2024 |
| 1200€ to move in SF for an international high-level event and meetings | Tom David | — | $1,300 | — | Nov 2024 | — | manifund.org | — |
| TransformerLens - Bridge Funding | Bryce Meyer | — | $30,000 | — | Jul 2025 | — | manifund.org | Science & technology, Technical AI safety |
| OPTIC | Saul Munn | — | $12,926.2 | — | Mar 2023 | — | manifund.org | [ACX mini-grants, Forecasting] Intercollegiate Forecasting Tournament |
| Pro-Animal Future | Aidan Kankyoku | — | $4,020 | — | Aug 2024 | — | manifund.org | [Animal welfare] U.S. citizen initiatives to disrupt factory farming |
| AI Safety Los Angeles (AISLA) | Kristina Vaia | — | $2,500 | — | Jul 2025 | — | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety, AI governance, Global catastrophic risks] The official AI safety community in Los Angeles |
| Support EA NZ's operations | Effective Altruism New Zealand | — | $1,531 | — | Aug 2024 | — | manifund.org | EA Community Choice, EA community |
| Retroactive: Presenting a poster at the ICML technical AI governance workshop | Evžen Wybitul | — | $1,300 | — | Nov 2025 | — | manifund.org | AI governance |
| Help launch the Technical Alignment Research Accelerator (TARA)! | Yanni Kyriacos | — | $14,901 | — | Nov 2024 | — | manifund.org | — |
| Giving free AI safety books for potentially high-impact individuals | Aidar Toktargazin | — | $761 | — | Jun 2025 | — | manifund.org | EA community |
| Advocate for a specialized pandemic response team at the FDA | 9k7drw6Qpg | — | $100,000 | — | Feb 2024 | — | manifund.org | ACX Grants 2024 |
| make and sell far-UVC lamps for air disinfection | Misha Gurevich | — | $50,000 | — | Oct 2025 | — | manifund.org | [ACX Grants 2025] Make cheap, inherently safe, and effective consumer 222nm far-UVC lamps for air and surface disinfection |
| FarmKind - A donation platform creating new donors for effective animal advocacy | Aidan Alexander | — | $2,581 | — | Aug 2024 | — | manifund.org | Animal welfare, EA Community Choice |
| N.C. Young's Umbrella Project | N.C. Young | — | $393.03 | — | Nov 2023 | — | manifund.org | [Manifold Community Fund] Everything Manifold-related that I'm doing on my own |
| Asterisk AI Blogging Fellowship | Asterisk Magazine | — | $70,000 | — | May 2025 | — | manifund.org | Technical AI safety, AI governance, Global catastrophic risks |
| Alignment Is Hard | Alexander Bistagne | — | $6,070 | — | Jul 2023 | — | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety] Proving Computational Hardness of Verifying Alignment Desirata |
| Manifold Markets Add-on for Google Sheets | Jesús Francisco Quevedo Osegueda | — | $879.69 | — | Feb 2023 | — | manifund.org | [ACX mini-grants, Forecasting] An Add-on for easy access to Manifold´s Prediction Markets |
| AI scam research targeting seniors | Fred Heiding | — | $4,500 | — | Jun 2025 | — | manifund.org | [Science & technology, AI governance] A microgrant to help us disseminate our work on AI scams targeting seniors and present it at BSides Las Vegas, DEF CON, and other conferences |
| Create open source predictors for various genetically influenced traits such as intelligence and disease risk | Gene Smith | — | $20,000 | — | Feb 2024 | — | manifund.org | ACX Grants 2024 |
| Manufacture Manyfold Manifolders in the Maritime Metropolis | Robert Cousineau | — | $800 | — | Nov 2023 | — | manifund.org | [Manifold Community Fund, EA community, Forecasting] Lets create a new defining addiction for Seattle! |
| Inspect Evals | Justin Olive | — | $50,000 | — | Sep 2025 | — | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety, AI governance] Funding to cover our expenses for 3 months during unexpected shortfall |
| Comparing forecasting platform accuracy | Jack | — | $2,173.59 | — | Mar 2023 | — | manifund.org | ACX mini-grants, Forecasting |
| Help Apart Expand Global AI Safety Research | Apart Research | — | $17,732 | — | Dec 2023 | — | manifund.org | [Science & technology, Technical AI safety, AI governance, EA community, Global catastrophic risks] Incubate AI safety research and develop the next generation of global AI safety talent via research sprints and research fellowships |
| Why I think strong general AI is coming soon | Ross Nordby | — | $60 | — | Mar 2023 | — | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety, Open Philanthropy AI Worldviews Contest] By porby |
| Talos Network | Cillian Crosson | — | $1,000 | — | Dec 2023 | — | manifund.org | [AI governance] - |
| CEEALAR (EA Hotel) Needs a New Roof | Greg Colbourn | — | $3,476 | — | Sep 2023 | — | manifund.org | [EA Community Choice, EA community, EA Infrastructure Fund, Global catastrophic risks] Centre hosting EAs’ research projects/EAs’ upskilling for ~1/3 of the average cost of funding such projects remotely |
| Manifold: Live! | Joshua Fleming | — | $1,927 | — | Nov 2023 | — | manifund.org | [Manifold Community Fund, EA community, Forecasting] A weekly community livestream/discord call where top traders discuss the week's events on Manifold and live-bet with the audience on markets from new users |
| Wasabipesto's Umbrella Project | wasabipesto | — | $3,500 | — | Nov 2023 | — | manifund.org | [Manifold Community Fund, Forecasting] Six Projects in Search of an Investor - Details inside |
| EA Christian / CFI Community | JD Bauman | — | $4,902 | — | Aug 2024 | — | manifund.org | [EA Community Choice, EA community] Growth Fund |
| Educate the public about high impact causes | Alex Khurgin | — | $2,050 | — | Feb 2024 | — | manifund.org | Science & technology, Technical AI safety, ACX Grants 2024, Animal welfare, Biosecurity, Global catastrophic risks, Global health & development |
| "Sweeten" training corpuses with stories of nice AI | Aaron Silverbook | — | $5,000 | — | Oct 2025 | — | manifund.org | [ACX Grants 2025] Flood the internet with stories about AI being nice, to nudge future AI training data nicer |
| AI safety fieldbuilding in Warsaw, Poland (funding for 1 semester) | Piotr Zaborszczyk | — | $10,024 | — | Nov 2024 | — | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety, Global catastrophic risks] Reach the university that trained close to 20% of OpenAI early employees |
| Wise AI: Fine-Tune an Open Source Model | Oliver Klingefjord | — | $5,550 | — | Jan 2024 | — | manifund.org | Aligning to Human Values by Eliciting a Moral Graph |
| 11th edition of AI Safety Camp | Remmelt Ellen | — | $45,115 | — | Dec 2024 | — | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety, AI governance] Cost-efficiently support new careers and new organisations in AI Safety. |
| Acausal research and interventions | Chi Nguyen | — | $80,050 | — | Jun 2025 | — | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety, Global catastrophic risks] Making sure AI systems don't mess up acausal interactions |
| Activation vector steering with BCI | Lisa Thiergart | — | $30,260 | — | Jul 2023 | — | manifund.org | Technical AI safety |
| Understanding Trust | Abram Demski | — | $100,000 | — | May 2025 | — | manifund.org | Funding Basic Theoretical AI Safety Research |
| Forecasting - AI Governance Policies | Tolga Bilge | — | $9,000 | — | Aug 2023 | — | manifund.org | AI governance, Forecasting |
| Scaling Training Process Transparency | Robert Krzyzanowski | — | $5,150 | — | Nov 2023 | — | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety] Compute and infrastructure costs |
| Database of the Most Impactful Research Questions by Discipline and Cause Area | Joel Christoph | Effective Thesis | — | $500 | — | Feb 2024 | — | manifund.org | [ACX Grants 2024] To match the highest-potential research questions with the students and researchers that can work on them |
| Runway till January: Amplify's funding ask to market EA & AI Safety | Gergő Gáspár | — | $520 | — | Nov 2025 | — | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety, AI governance, EA community, Global catastrophic risks] Help us solve the talent and funding bottleneck for EA and AIS. |
| The Base Rate Times | Marcel van Diemen | — | $4,275 | — | Jul 2023 | — | manifund.org | [Forecasting] News through prediction markets |
| Satoshi's Antithesis: China to use CBDC to Boost CNY Trade | Will Peracchio | — | $40 | — | Jan 2024 | — | manifund.org | [Science & technology, ChinaTalk Essay Contest, Forecasting] There is a 95% chance China will trade internationally with their eCNY CBDC an annual volume in excess of $50bn USD by 2028 |
| Make ALERT happen | 248 | — | $18,466 | — | Dec 2023 | — | manifund.org | [Science & technology, Forecasting, Global catastrophic risks] ALERT := Active Longtermist Emergency Response Team |
| Biosecurity bootcamp by EffiSciences | Jonathan Samuel Claybrough | — | $1,300 | — | Jan 2025 | — | manifund.org | [Biosecurity, Global catastrophic risks] 5 day bootcamp upskilling participants on biosecurity, to enable and empower career change towards reducing biorisks, from ML4Good organisers |
| Avoiding Incentives for Performative Prediction in AI | Rubi Hudson | — | $33,200 | — | Aug 2023 | — | manifund.org | Technical AI safety |
| Pandemic Interventions Course - Introductory Biosecurity Syllabus | Lin Bowker-Lonnecker | — | $1,117 | — | Aug 2024 | — | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety, Biosecurity, EA Community Choice, Global catastrophic risks] Updates, additional resources and promotion for a 4-week introductory syllabus that looks at interventions to help prevent future pandemics. |
| WhiteBox Research’s AI Interpretability Fellowship | Brian Tan | — | $2,005 | — | Jul 2024 | — | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety, EA Community Choice] ~4 FTE for 9 months to fund WhiteBox Research, mainly for the 2nd cohort of our AI Interpretability Fellowship in Manila |
| Graduate School Application Fee for Students from Third World Country | Ammon Lam | — | $5,000 | — | Apr 2024 | — | manifund.org | Global health & development |
| Thrive Philanthropy | Jessika Ava, MS, MPA | — | $12,646 | — | Aug 2024 | — | manifund.org | [Animal welfare, EA Community Choice, Global health & development] Catalyzing Global End to Factory Farming |
| Personal development and better infrastructure for learning, "Anki V2" | Brent Burdick | — | $10,000 | — | Nov 2023 | — | manifund.org | [Science & technology] SRS software projects and general career development |
| Help me create a free programming school in my city | Matías Federico Ciruelos | — | $800 | — | Nov 2024 | — | manifund.org | Science & technology |
| Enabling a Student to Present his Mechanistic Interpretability Work at NeurIPS | Chris Wendler | — | $1,100 | — | Oct 2025 | — | manifund.org | [Science & technology, Technical AI safety] Help fund our student’s trip to NeurIPS to present his main conference paper on interpretable features in text-to-image diffusion models. |
| Commissions for a Cause - a Profit for Good project | Brad West | — | $801 | — | Aug 2024 | — | manifund.org | [Animal welfare, EA Community Choice, Global health & development] Profit for Good Initiative Project Enabling People to Buy Insurance and Fund Charities at no Extra Cost |
| Support a thriving and talented community of Filipino EAs | Zian Marie V. Bonoan | — | $43,700 | — | Mar 2024 | — | manifund.org | [EA Community Choice, EA community] Your contribution makes a difference at EA Philippines! |
| Isaac's Blog Writing | Isaac King | — | $1,034.46 | — | Nov 2023 | — | manifund.org | Manifold Community Fund, Forecasting, Global catastrophic risks |
| Towards Shared AI Compute Infrastructure | Haakon Huynh | — | $23,000 | — | Jan 2026 | — | manifund.org | Science & technology, AI governance |
| Update Big List of Cause Candidates | David Federico Rivadeneira | — | $1,000 | — | Dec 2023 | — | manifund.org | EA community, Global catastrophic risks, Global health & development |
| Travel grant to present AI safety paper at ACM FAccT | Max Kaufmann | — | $1,650 | — | Jun 2024 | — | manifund.org | Technical AI safety |
| Metaculus' First Animal-Focused Forecasting Tournament | Aditi Basu | — | $3,400 | — | Oct 2025 | — | manifund.org | [Animal welfare, Forecasting] Generating decision-relevant forecasts for the animal advocacy community |
| Building Effective Giving ecosystem in India | Chetan Kharbanda | — | $30,000 | — | Oct 2025 | — | manifund.org | [Science & technology, ACX Grants 2025, Biomedical, Animal welfare, Biosecurity, EA community, Global health & development] Funding circles and advisory to fund high impact non-profits |
| Removing Hazardous Knowledge from AIs | Alexander Pan | — | $190,000 | — | Dec 2023 | — | manifund.org | Technical AI safety |
| AI Policy Breakthroughs — Empowering Insiders | Kyle Gracey | — | $20,000 | — | Jul 2024 | — | manifund.org | [AI governance] Strategy Consulting Support for AI Policymakers |
| CHAT Diplomacy | John Buridan | — | $50 | — | May 2023 | — | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety, AI governance, Open Philanthropy AI Worldviews Contest] Advances in LLMs are a National Security Risk |
| Use smartphone pupillometry to triage brain injury in rural Missouri. | Anthony James Maxin | — | $60,000 | — | Feb 2024 | — | manifund.org | ACX Grants 2024 |
| The Looming Super-Bug Crisis | Nick Ayrton | — | $40 | — | Jan 2024 | — | manifund.org | [Science & technology, ChinaTalk Essay Contest, Biosecurity, Forecasting, Global catastrophic risks, Global health & development] China's Battle Against Antimicrobial Resistance |
| Support Riesgos Catastroficos Globales | Jorge Andrés Torres Celis | — | $32,500 | — | Sep 2023 | — | manifund.org | Science & technology, AI governance, Biosecurity, Global catastrophic risks |
| Seed fund for boundaries-based empirical AI safety projects after workshop. | Chris Lakin | — | $40,000 | — | Feb 2024 | — | manifund.org | ACX Grants 2024 |
| Budget for events aiming to "mainstream" EA in Sweden | Jonas Ludvig Daniel Wernstedt | — | $1,047 | — | Aug 2024 | — | manifund.org | [EA Community Choice, EA community] Make it Count is an effective giving initiative aiming to make a cultural shift in Sweden to give 1) to effective charities and 2) a percentage of ones income |
| Explainer and analysis of CNCERT/CC (国家互联网应急中心) | Alexa Pan | — | $3,000 | — | Dec 2023 | — | manifund.org | — |
| Live Governance | Murray Buchanan | — | $3,000 | — | Nov 2024 | — | manifund.org | [AI governance, Global catastrophic risks] Leveraging AI to enable coordination without demanding centralization |
| Mirrorbot | Joris Kerkhoff | — | $1,593.12 | — | Nov 2023 | — | manifund.org | [Manifold Community Fund, Forecasting] Automatically mirror popular questions from other platforms to Manifold |
| EVN General Support Application | Elizabeth Van Nostrand | — | $50,000 | — | Nov 2024 | — | manifund.org | — |
| Visa fee support for US researcher to take on a temporary role with the UK AISI | S | — | $3,000 | — | Feb 2024 | — | manifund.org | — |
| Future-Proofing Forecasting: Easy Open-Source Solution | Osnat Katz | — | $2,071 | — | Aug 2024 | — | manifund.org | [EA Community Choice, Forecasting] Free Forecasting For Everyone, Everywhere |
| Travel funding to the International Conference on Algorithmic Decision Theory. | Joss Oliver | — | $1,170 | — | Sep 2024 | — | manifund.org | — |
| Guaranteed Safe AI Seminars 2026 | Orpheus Lummis | — | $30,000 | — | Oct 2025 | — | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety, AI governance, Global catastrophic risks] Seminars on quantitative/guaranteed AI safety (formal methods, verification, mech-interp), with recordings, debates, and the guaranteedsafe.ai community hub. |
| "Litigating and Legislating for Animal Rights" Online Seminar Series | Marine Lercier | — | $781 | — | Aug 2024 | — | manifund.org | [Animal welfare, EA Community Choice, Long-Term Future Fund, EA community, Global health & development] Educating an online global audience about strategic litigation and legislative reform for animal rights |
| Next Steps in Developmental Interpretability | Jesse Hoogland | — | $80,680 | — | Jul 2024 | — | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety] Addressing Immediate AI Safety Concerns through DevInterp |
| Effective Altruism Meetup, Abuja, Nigeria | Daniel Elabi | — | $1,448 | — | Aug 2024 | — | manifund.org | [EA Community Choice, EA community] Effective Altruism meetup for community members in Abuja, Nigeria to foster aligned discussions, networking and collaboration |
| London Manifold.love dating shows | Aleksandr Putilin | — | $2,538.91 | — | Dec 2023 | — | manifund.org | [Manifold Community Fund, Forecasting] Two prediction market dating show with live betting |
| Play money prediction markets | Case Sandberg | — | $2,400 | — | Aug 2024 | — | manifund.org | [EA Community Choice, Forecasting] Community-run, open source prediction market platform |
| Scaling Legal Impact for Chickens to make factory-farm cruelty a liability | Alene Georgia Anello | — | $5,674 | — | Feb 2024 | — | manifund.org | [ACX Grants 2024, Animal welfare] Help us sue executives and companies that abuse animals. |
| Compute and other expenses for LLM alignment research | Ethan Josean Perez | — | $400,100 | — | Aug 2023 | — | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety] 4 different projects (finding RLHF alignment failures, debate, improving CoT faithfulness, and model organisms) |
| Run five international hackathons on AI safety research | Esben Kran Christensen | — | $10,950 | — | Jul 2023 | — | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety] Six-month support for a Program Manager to organize and execute international AI safety hackathons with Apart Research |
| AI Safety Textbook | Charbel-Raphael Segerie | — | $41,070 | — | Apr 2024 | — | manifund.org | We are writing an AI safety textbook designed to serve as a comprehensive educational resource for the field. |
| mRNA for airway disease | Jacob Witten | — | $80,000 | — | Oct 2025 | — | manifund.org | [ACX Grants 2025] Cure idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, eventually reverse lung aging |
| Reflective altruism | David Thorstad | — | $2,000 | — | Jul 2023 | — | manifund.org | EA community |
| Neuronpedia - Open Interpretability Platform | Johnny Lin | — | $2,500 | — | Jul 2023 | — | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety] Platform for interpretability researchers, especially those creating/using Sparse Autoencoders |
| Apollo Research: Scale up interpretability & behavioral model evals research | pKeaWwP6sQ | — | $339,409 | — | Jul 2023 | — | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety] Hire 3 additional AI safety research engineers / scientists |
| VoiceDeck | Devansh Mehta | — | $538 | — | Aug 2024 | — | manifund.org | [EA Community Choice, EA Infrastructure Fund] Marketplace for Impact Certificates |
| Unprompted Unfaithful Chain of Thought Dataset Project | Robert Krzyzanowski | — | $2,000 | — | Jan 2025 | — | manifund.org | Technical AI safety |
| SafePlanBench: evaluating a Guaranteed Safe AI Approach for LLM-based Agents | Agustín Martinez Suñé | — | $1,975 | — | Jan 2025 | — | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety, AI governance] Seeking funding to develop and evaluate a new benchmark for systematically assesing safety of LLM-based agents |
| Normie-friendly prediction market interfaces | Charlie Molthrop | — | $7,000 | — | Oct 2025 | — | manifund.org | [ACX Grants 2025] Normie-friendly interfaces for prediction markets and their probabilities |
| Fatebook and Quantified Intuitions | Adam Binksmith | — | $1,025 | — | Aug 2024 | — | manifund.org | [EA Community Choice, Forecasting] Forecasting tools by Sage. Fatebook: the fastest way to track your predictions. Quantified Intuitions: Forecasting training tools with rapid feedback loops |
| Design budget for rebuilding the dating site we all want back. | Shreeda Segan | — | $5,000 | — | Jun 2024 | — | manifund.org | [EA community] We know what works. Let's make sure it looks good. |
| Funding for Solar4Africa app development | Sophia Pung | — | $500 | — | Jul 2023 | — | manifund.org | [Global health & development] Supplementing living expenses of a full stack dev to pursue educational opportunities while doing app development in Berkeley for a week. |
| AI Governance Exchange (focus on China, AI safety), Seed Funding | Yuanyuan Sun | — | $12,365 | — | Mar 2025 | — | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety, AI governance, Global catastrophic risks] Building bridges between Western and Chinese AI governance efforts to address global AI safety challenges. |
| Hallucination Detector | Oscar Balcells Obeso | — | $6,000 | — | May 2025 | — | manifund.org | — |
| Impact Accelerator Program: Biggest career program for experienced professionals | Nina Friedrich | — | $978 | — | Aug 2024 | — | manifund.org | [EA Community Choice, EA community] Help us create more high impact career transitions via the Impact Accelerator Program run by High Impact Professionals (HIP) |
| Exploring feature interactions in transformer LLMs through sparse autoencoders | Kunvar Thaman | — | $8,500 | — | Dec 2023 | — | manifund.org | Technical AI safety |
| Measuring the Epistemic Cost-Effectiveness of AI Safety Content | Aditya Mehta | — | $6,060 | — | Oct 2025 | — | manifund.org | [EA community] https://drive.google.com/file/d/16KxeA1ZdFrKRAa10owLStunk5huAAyLr/view?usp=sharing |
| HIV/TB clinic in Africa | Matthew Loftus | — | $45,000 | — | Oct 2025 | — | manifund.org | [ACX Grants 2025] We want to integrate our HIV/TB clinic with our medical clinic at our hospital in rural Kenya and tell the world about it to promote conversations about how to continue providing excellent outpatient HIV/TB care as foreign aid to support these projects changes. |
| Search for more solar system objects | Ben Engebreth | — | $6,000 | — | Oct 2025 | — | manifund.org | [Science & technology, ACX Grants 2025] Purchase compute and support algorithm development |
| Journal of Animal Rights Law | Marine Lercier | — | $911 | — | Aug 2024 | — | manifund.org | [Animal welfare, EA Community Choice, Long-Term Future Fund, EA community, Global health & development] The first and only open-access legal journal dedicated to disseminating and discussing animal rights law research |
| Fish welfare training in Nigeria | Felix Onyeka Nwose | — | $10,000 | — | Oct 2025 | — | manifund.org | [ACX Grants 2025] Pilot a scalable, direct-to-farmer fish welfare program in Nigeria, training 400+ farmers across five clusters to adopt and maintain humane handling, slaughter, and welfare practices through hands-on field training and ongoing farm support. |
| A tool for making well sized (~Kelly optimal) bets on manifold | Will Howard | — | $10,890.93 | — | Feb 2023 | — | manifund.org | [ACX mini-grants, Forecasting] Instead of saying "I want to bet $X on this market" you will say "I think the true probability is Y%", and it will tell you how much to bet |
| AI Crisis Convening at India AI Impact Summit 2026 | AISA | — | $100,000 | — | Jan 2026 | — | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety, AI governance, Global catastrophic risks] Translating in-person convening to measurable outcomes |
| AI Security Startup Accelerator Batch #2 | Finn Metz | — | $355,000 | — | Dec 2025 | — | manifund.org | [Science & technology, Technical AI safety, Global catastrophic risks] Funding 5–10 AI security startups through Seldon’s second SF cohort. |
| Cadenza Labs: AI Safety research group working on own interpretability agenda | Cadenza Labs | — | $7,810 | — | Nov 2023 | — | manifund.org | [Science & technology, Technical AI safety, Global catastrophic risks] We're a team of SERI-MATS alumni working on interpretability, seeking funding to continue our research after our LTFF grant ended. |
| Philanthropic advising | Tyler John | — | $50,000 | — | Mar 2025 | — | manifund.org | Technical AI safety, AI governance, Biosecurity, Global catastrophic risks |
| The Metascience Observatory | Daniel Elton | — | $35,000 | — | Oct 2025 | — | manifund.org | [ACX Grants 2025] AI pipelines to conduct metascience research at scale, mapping how reproducibility and rigor vary across fields, countries, institutions, and journals. |
| Testing and spreading messages to reduce AI x-risk | AI Safety and Governance Fund | — | $12,600 | — | Aug 2024 | — | manifund.org | [AI governance, EA Community Choice] Educating the general public about AI and risks in most efficient ways and leveraging this to achieve good policy outcomes |
| Fund Sentinel for Q1-2025 | 248 | — | $42,384 | — | Sep 2024 | — | manifund.org | [Biosecurity, Forecasting, Global catastrophic risks] A foresight and emergency response team seeking to react fast to calamities |
| Collaborative Resolution of Political Controversies | EB_Team | — | $1,714 | — | Mar 2023 | — | manifund.org | ACX mini-grants, Forecasting |
| Overcoming inertial barriers to collective action through anonymous coordination | Jordan Braunstein | — | $822 | — | Aug 2024 | — | manifund.org | [Science & technology, AI governance, EA Community Choice, EA community, Global catastrophic risks] Combining "kickstarter" style functionality with transitional anonymity to decrease risk and raise expected value of participating in collective action. |
| Funding for AI safety comms strategy & career transition support | Alex Lintz | — | $38,952 | — | Aug 2024 | — | manifund.org | [AI governance, Long-Term Future Fund, Global catastrophic risks] Mostly retroactive funding for prior work on AI safety comms strategy as well as career transition support. |
| Start an online editorial journal focusing on paradigm development in psychiatry and psychology | Jessica Ocean | — | $10,020 | — | Feb 2024 | — | manifund.org | ACX Grants 2024 |
| Empirical research into AI consciousness and moral patienthood | Robert Long | — | $12,020 | — | Sep 2023 | — | manifund.org | — |
| SirCryptomind Moderation | x | — | $400 | — | Feb 2024 | — | manifund.org | [Manifold Community Fund, EA community] Remote Moderation |
| Validate a solution for ozone generation from far-UVC germicidal light | Jacob Swett | — | $25,000 | — | Feb 2024 | — | manifund.org | ACX Grants 2024 |
| Provide Rationality / EA Education at University of Maryland | Max Morawski | — | $7,800 | — | Mar 2023 | — | manifund.org | ACX mini-grants, Forecasting |
| 10th edition of AI Safety Camp | Remmelt Ellen | — | $68,463 | — | Dec 2023 | — | manifund.org | Technical AI safety, AI governance |
| Automatic circuit discovery on sparse autoencoded features | Can Rager | — | $25,000 | — | Dec 2023 | — | manifund.org | 3-month independent research |
| Effective Giving in New Zealand | Effective Altruism New Zealand | — | $25,000 | — | May 2024 | — | manifund.org | EA community |
| Helping to change the stray animal crisis in Mexico | Ace Malik | — | $600 | — | Aug 2024 | — | manifund.org | — |
| Develop an app or website to help parents choose between IVF clinics | Samuel F Celarek | — | $20,000 | — | Feb 2024 | — | manifund.org | ACX Grants 2024 |
| Isaac's power-user Manifold search and dashboard | Isaac King | — | $2,478.55 | — | Nov 2023 | — | manifund.org | Manifold Community Fund, Forecasting |
| Discovering latent goals (mechanistic interpretability PhD salary) | Lucy Farnik | — | $1,590 | — | Jul 2023 | — | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety] 6-month salary for interpretability research focusing on probing for goals and "agency" inside large language models |
| Screwworm Free Future: Seizing the Eradication Window | Screwworm Free Future | — | $55,599 | — | Oct 2025 | — | manifund.org | [ACX Grants 2025] Accelerate eradication of the New World Screwworm from South America via research, coordination, and advocacy around safe development of gene-drives |
| Reducing Risk in AI Safety Through Expanding Capacity. | Lawrence Wagner | — | $11,025 | — | Dec 2025 | — | manifund.org | Technical AI safety, AI governance, EA community, Global catastrophic risks |
| Trading assistant bot (Remind Me) | cc6 | — | $230.46 | — | Nov 2023 | — | manifund.org | [Manifold Community Fund, Forecasting] Sends you notifications when markets that you are betting on have a big swing and allows you to set parameters for custom reminders |
| Exploring novel research directions in prosaic AI alignment | Lawrence Chan | — | $30,000 | — | Nov 2023 | — | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety] 3 month |
| [Urgent] Top-up funding to present poster at the Tokyo AI Safety Conference | Matthew Farr | — | $700 | — | Mar 2025 | — | manifund.org | [Science & technology, Technical AI safety] My allocated travel funding is insufficient. Seeking extra funding for flights, accommodation, etc, to present poster and network |
| Improving farmed fish welfare in Egypt | Alexandria Beck | — | $5,000 | — | May 2025 | — | manifund.org | Animal welfare, EA community |
| Investigating and informing the public about the trajectory of AI | cBPkzcVBBQ | — | $5,975 | — | Jan 2025 | — | manifund.org | AI governance, Forecasting |
| Evaluating Model Attack Selection and Offensive Cyber Horizons | Sean Peters | — | $41,000 | — | Dec 2025 | — | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety] Measuring attack selection as an emergent capability, and extending offensive cyber time horizons to newer models and benchmarks |
| Groundless Alignment Residency 2025 | Aditya Arpitha Prasad | — | $15,000 | — | Sep 2025 | — | manifund.org | [Science & technology, Technical AI safety, EA community, Global catastrophic risks] Practicing Embodied Protocols that work with Live Interfaces |
| Translation of BlueDot Impact's AI alignment curriculum into Portuguese | Luan Rafael Marques de Oliveira | — | $3,300 | — | Dec 2023 | — | manifund.org | [Science & technology, Technical AI safety, EA community, Global catastrophic risks] Support to translate BlueDot Impact’s AI alignment curriculum into (Br) Portuguese to be used in university study groups and an online course |
| AI Digest | Adam Binksmith | — | $97,730 | — | Jun 2025 | — | manifund.org | Interactive AI explainers and demos, including the Agent Village |
| AI forecasting and policy research by the AI 2027 team | Jonas Vollmer | — | $44,022 | — | May 2025 | — | manifund.org | [AI governance, Forecasting] AI Futures Project |
| Regrant to charities working on developing country nutrition | Joel Tan Jiong Yang | — | $100,012 | — | Feb 2024 | — | manifund.org | ACX Grants 2024 |
| Automated forecasting | Simon Chen | — | $25,000 | — | Oct 2025 | — | manifund.org | [ACX Grants 2025] Automate Forecasting in Unfun Domains - by Exploring with Shapley Attribution and all the other Low Hanging Fruits. |
| Research introduction of new antibiotics | Yonatan Grad | — | $78,000 | — | Oct 2025 | — | manifund.org | [ACX Grants 2025] Since new antibiotics are a rare and precious resource, how do we best introduce them to minimize the emergence and spread of resistance? |
| Civitech Incubator | Lincoln Quirk | — | $10,000 | — | Jan 2026 | — | manifund.org | Building Talent Infrastructure for American Democracy |
| The first public benefit biotechnology company with an explicit goal of involuntary suffering abolition. | Joshua Michael Sparks | — | $50,020 | — | Feb 2024 | — | manifund.org | ACX Grants 2024 |
| Building a Culture of Care: Educating on Animal Welfare in Somalia | Abdiaziz Idiris Mohamud | — | $520 | — | Aug 2024 | — | manifund.org | Animal welfare, EA community |
| Survey for LLM Self-Knowledge and Coordination Practices | Francisco Carvalho | — | $10,000 | — | Aug 2024 | — | manifund.org | — |
| Help AIs create AI safety tools | Jacob Arbeid | — | $80,000 | — | Oct 2025 | — | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety, ACX Grants 2025] Automated creation of defensive tools like AI control protocols and defensive cybersecurity agents |
| AI Safety Reading Group at metauni [Retrospective] | Matthew Cameron Farrugia-Roberts | — | $815 | — | Aug 2024 | — | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety, EA Community Choice] Retrospective support for small virtual reading group on AI safety topics |
| Grow An AI Safety Tiktok Channel To Reach Ten Million People | Michaël Rubens Trazzi | — | $29,700 | — | Aug 2025 | — | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety, AI governance] 20 Weeks Salary to reach a neglected audience of 10M viewers |
| A Happier World (YouTube channel promoting EA ideas) | Jeroen Willems | — | $2,790 | — | Apr 2024 | — | manifund.org | [EA community] A Happier World explores exciting ideas with the potential to radically improve the world. It discusses the most pressing problems and how we can solve them. |
| WhiteBox Research: Training Exclusively for Mechanistic Interpretability | Brian Tan | — | $12,420 | — | Aug 2023 | — | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety] 1.9 FTE for 9 months to pilot a training program in Manila exclusively focused on Mechanistic Interpretability |
| AI Alignment Research Lab for Africa | Jonas Kgomo | — | $2,450 | — | Jul 2023 | — | manifund.org | [Technical AI safety] AI Safety lab focusing on technical alignment and governance of AI in Africa and the Global South more broadly. We are a grassroots community-led research lab |
| Building Bridges: Effective Animal Advocacy in the Global South | Caroline Araujo de Oliveira | — | $2,667 | — | Aug 2024 | — | manifund.org | [Animal welfare, EA Community Choice, EA community] Gathering activists, influencers, and organizations to foster effective advocacy and drive impactful change in regions where factory farming is growing, yet adv |
| The First Workshop on Mechanistic Interpretability for Vision | tamar rott shaham | — | $1,500 | — | May 2025 | — | manifund.org | Science & technology, Technical AI safety |
| Aquatic Animal Alliance: A Global Movement for Neglected Species | Cecilia Valenza | — | $4,212 | — | Aug 2024 | — | manifund.org | [Animal welfare, EA Community Choice, EA community] Building a Unified Front for Aquatic Animal Welfare |
| Travel funding for International Conference on Learning Representations | Joar Skalse | — | $1,500 | — | May 2024 | — | manifund.org | Presenting an AI safety paper, STARC |
| Subsidize Real Money Prediction Markets on High Impact Topics | Ezra Brodey | — | $8,042 | — | Mar 2023 | — | manifund.org | [ACX mini-grants, Forecasting] Create Subsidized Prediction Markets On Polymarket.com |
| A Critical Study of the EU’s Anti-Subsidy Probe into Chinese Electric Vehicles | Sebastian Contin Trillo-Figueroa | — | $40 | — | Jan 2024 | — | manifund.org | Science & technology, ChinaTalk Essay Contest, Forecasting, Global catastrophic risks |
| Support for SAELens and other Decode Research Projects | David Chanin | — | $6,800 | — | Aug 2025 | — | manifund.org | Technical AI safety |
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