Coefficient Giving (Open Philanthropy)
- HQ / base
- San Francisco
- Founded
- 2014 (spun from GiveWell Labs; renamed Nov 2025)
- Money
- $4B+ directed since 2014; ~$650M in 2024; ~$50M/yr technical AI safety
- Status
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The strategic brain of the network: recommends grants (executed mostly by Good Ventures Foundation) across global health, farm animal welfare, biosecurity, and 'potential risks from advanced AI.' Renamed Coefficient Giving in Nov 2025 as it pivoted to multi-donor funds ('Navigating Transformative AI' fund). CEO Alexander Berger. Launched $120M Abundance & Growth Fund (2025, with Patrick Collison money) and a $40M technical-AI-safety RFP. Key AI-safety-adjacent grants: CSET (~$140M+ cumulative), FAR AI $28.7M (2025), BlueDot Impact $25.6M (2025), MATS $23.6M (2025), IAPS $11.5M (2025), CHAI Berkeley $11.4M, OpenMined $10.9M, Forecasting Research Institute $10.1M, RAND $10.5M+, Horizon Institute ~$14.7M, MIT FutureTech $13.3M. Also invested in The Argument media outlet (2025) and granted it $1M.
Connections
- Good Ventures Foundationexecutes its grant recommendations
- Open Philanthropy Action Fundsister 501(c)(4)
- GiveWellspun from GiveWell Labs (2014)
- Holden Karnofskybuilt as co-CEO
- Alexander BergerCEO
- OpenAI$30M grant (2017) + board seat (Karnofsky)
- Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET)~$140M+ since 2019 (largest-ever grants)
- RAND Corporation (AI wing)$10.5M+ for AI policy (2023)
- Horizon Institute for Public Service$2.9M seed; 'effectively created' (Politico)
- Centre for the Governance of AI (GovAI)principal funder
- CHAI (UC Berkeley)$11.4M+ (2016–2021)
- FAR AI$28.7M (2025)
- BlueDot Impact$25.6M (2025)
- MATS (ML Alignment Theory Scholars)$23.6M (2025)
- Institute for AI Policy and Strategy (IAPS)$11.5M (2025)
- OpenMined$10.9M (2025)
- Forecasting Research Institute$10.1M (2025)
- MIT FutureTech / academic safety labs$13.3M (2022)
- Redwood Research~$21M (2021–22)
- MIRI (Machine Intelligence Research Institute)$14.8M cumulative (2016–2020)
- Center for AI Safety (CAIS)major funder
- Americans for Responsible Innovation (ARI)recommended significant funding
- The Argumentinvestor + $1M grant (2025)
- Kurzgesagt (funding link)~$2.7M video grants (approx)
- Our World in Data~$15M+ cumulative (approx)
- Abundance / Progress Studies network$120M Abundance & Growth Fund (2025)
- Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security$55M+ biosecurity anchor grants
- The Humane League$25M (2021) +ongoing
- Lewis Bollardfarm-animal program director
- Good Food Institutefunder
- Development Innovation Ventures (USAID)$45M (2023)
- Lead Exposure Elimination Project → Lead-Free Futurecatalyzed $104M lead fund (2024)
- Nick Becksteadex-program officer
- Wytham Abbeyfunding lineage (with Tallinn-linked money)
- Epoch AIprimary early funder
- Ajeya Cotrabioanchors timelines report
- Joe Carlsmithsenior philosopher
- Carl Shulmanadvisor lineage
- Luke MuehlhauserAI governance lead
- Center for AI Policy (closed)donor base collapsed 2025 (funding rejected)
- Ought / Elicitearly grantee (as Ought)
- Translucefunder (approx)
- Blueprint Biosecurity / 1Day Sooner / Alveafunder
- Asterisk Magazinefunding orbit
- Metaculusgrantee
- Institute for Law & AI (LawAI)funder lineage (Legal Priorities Project)
- Simon Institute for Longterm Governancefunder (approx)
- RAND Corporation (AI wing)funder ($15M+ network; TASP + discretionary)
- RAND CAST / TASPcore funder of TASP/CAST
- Georgetown University$55M over five years (2019) to launch CSET; $105,250,000 across the full grant series