Manifund
FunderManifund is a $2M+ annual charitable regranting platform (founded 2022) that provides fast grants (<1 week) to AI safety projects through expert regrantors ($50K-400K budgets), fiscal sponsorship, and experimental impact certificates. The platform distributed $2.06M in 2023 (~40% to AI safety resear
Total Funding Raised
$2.3 million
as of 2025
Grants Made
$12M
377 grants
Grants Given
377377 grants totaling $12M
| Grant | Recipient | Amount | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Compute and other expenses for LLM alignment researchsource | Ethan Josean Perez | $400,100 | 2023-08-19 |
| Operating Capital for AI Safety Evaluation Infrastructuresource | Chris Canal | $400,000 | 2025-10-29 |
| Forethoughtsource | Amrit Sidhu Brar | $365,270 | 2025-12-16 |
| AI Security Startup Accelerator Batch #2source | Finn Metz | $355,000 | 2025-12-02 |
| Apollo Research: Scale up interpretability & behavioral model evals researchsource | Apollo Research | $339,409 | 2023-07-20 |
| MATS Programsource | Ryan Kidd | $290,193 | 2023-10-20 |
| Mox, a coworking & events space in SFsource | Mox | $261,820 | 2025-03-31 |
| AI Safety & Societysource | 60 | $250,000 | 2024-12-17 |
| Lightcone Infrastructuresource | Oliver Habryka | $237,365 | 2024-05-08 |
| 'Making God': a Documentary on AI Risks for the Publicsource | Connor Axiotes | $205,094 | 2025-03-31 |
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Financial
Total Funding Raised$2.3 million