AI Safety Funder Bulletin
This is a digest of funders in the AI safety space. The goal is to give an overview of who is funding in the space that includes the most relevant information for people seeking funds, looking to donate, or looking to work in grantmaking.
These tables are a rough summary of the numbers in the digest and the numbers are often best guesses based on public info; more detail is in the writeup and the footnotes. For funders that do work in multiple cause areas, it only considers grantmaking and staff focused on AIS. Some of the funding may repeat between rows—e.g. Coefficient donating to BlueDot or AISTOF making grants through Manifund—but this shouldn't substantially change the big-picture numbers.
This is intended to be a living document that updates regularly. If you have any corrections, please reach out!
At a glance
| Funder | $ donated in 2025 | # grants in 2025 | Expected $ in 2026 | FTE | General applications | Open RFPs | Accepting donations |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coefficient Giving | $400M [1] | 226 [2] | $1B [3] | 70 | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Longview Philanthropy | $60M [4] | — | $350M [5] | 13 | ✓ | ||
| OpenAI Foundation | $0 | 0 | $250M [6] | 2 | |||
| Macroscopic | $30M [7] | — | $100M [8] | 8 | |||
| SFF | $35M [9] | 89 [10] | $30M [11] | 8 | ✓ | ||
| Lightcone Commons | $0 | 0 | $20M | 2 | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Schmidt Sciences | $10M [12] | 27 [13] | $20M [14] | 2 | ✓ | ||
| AISTOF | $10M [15] | 1 | |||||
| Manifund | $6M [16] | 234 [17] | $6M [18] | 1 | ✓ | ✓ | |
| BlueDot Impact | $0 | 0 | $4M [19] | 1 | ✓ | ||
| LTFF | $3M [20] | 1 | ✓ | ✓ |
Takeaways
I didn't know that much about the current AIS funding landscape before I started compiling this. The things that struck me:
- Donations in 2026 are going to be a lot higher than 2025. CG is more than doubling its donations from last year, Macroscopic is more than tripling, and from what I can tell Longview already has tripled. And OpenAI Foundation is going to start donating a lot of money.
- On the other hand, besides OpenAI Foundation, the big funders have been in the space for a long time. The rising prominence…
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