Grants

Further Opportunities

Further Funding Opportunities Based on the SFF-2025 S-Process Round

Earlier this year (2025), twelve people participated as "Recommenders" in a single round of a grant-recommendation process for the Funder Jaan Tallinn. The total funding expected to be distributed in association with this round is $34.92MM.

In the interest of connecting organizations in need of funding to other potential donors, we are publishing further funding recommendations beyond the funding level provided by Jaan Tallinn.

For more information on who participated in this round, the recommendation process that was used, and which organizations were already recommended funding, see the SFF-2025 Recommendations Announcement for more details.

How recommendation amounts were determined

Recommenders specified marginal utility functions for funding each application, and adjusted those functions through discussions with each other as the round progressed. Similarly, the Funder specified and adjusted different utility functions for deferring to each Recommender.

To generate the recommendations for further funding opportunities, we simulated two scenarios: increasing the total funding budget by an additional $5MM, and by an additional $15MM. For the $5MM scenario, we used the Funder's existing marginal utility functions for deferring to each Recommender, since those were defined up to that point. For the $15MM scenario, the first $5MM was allocated using those same utility functions, and the remaining $10MM was allocated proportionally among Recommenders based on the Funder's marginal utility functions for this round. This allowed us to extrapolate what organizations would receive new or additional funding based on Recommenders' marginal utility functions.

We also established a minimum recommendation threshold. We’ve only shared recommendations for further funding opportunities that are 1) at least $100,000 or 2) at least 10% of the base funding request made by the organization.

Significant contributions

If you make a significant contribution to any of the organizations after reading these recommendations for further funding, we encourage you to reach out to us at sff-contact@googlegroups.com.

We’re very interested in learning about any impact that comes from sharing these recommendations.

Recipient
Receiving Charity
$5M Additional
$15M Additional
Association for Computing Machinery
$0
$20,000
Ashgro, Inc.
$10,000
$20,000
Thoughtful Tech Project, Inc.
$30,000
$180,000
AI Futures Project
$20,000
$220,000
Lightcone Infrastructure, Inc.
$0
$180,000
Epistea, z.s.
$50,000
$190,000
Association for Long Term Existence and Resilience
$10,000
$260,000
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
$60,000
$110,000
Ashgro, Inc.
$20,000
$160,000
Center for AI Safety, Inc.
$90,000
$290,000
Center for AI Safety Action Fund, Inc.
$90,000
$840,000
Center for Humane Technology
$110,000
$440,000
Centre for AI Security and Access (CASA)
Rethink Priorities
$20,000
$30,000
Founders Pledge, Inc.
$120,000
$420,000
Centre for the Governance of AI, Inc.
$110,000
$290,000
Civic AI Security Program, Inc.
$90,000
$410,000
Cornell University
$60,000
$130,000
Effective Institutions Project, Inc.
$40,000
$130,000
Encode AI Corporation
$50,000
$170,000
FAR AI, Inc.
$250,000
$610,000
Flourishing Future Foundation
$80,000
$280,000
The Foresight Institute
$50,000
$70,000
Forethought Research
$80,000
$170,000
Foundation for American Innovation
$80,000
$230,000
International Association for Safe and Ethical Artificial Intelligence, Inc.
$360,000
$510,000
Good Forever Foundation
$10,000
$40,000
Lightcone Infrastructure, Inc.
$0
$40,000
Manifold for Charity
$580,000
$780,000
Machine Intelligence Research Institute
$30,000
$160,000
Mathematical Metaphysics Institute
Mathematical Metaphysics Institute
$10,000
$40,000
The Hack Foundation
$30,000
$70,000
Medronho
Ashgro, Inc.
$10,000
$80,000
Metaculus, Inc.
$90,000
$100,000
Mindstream Project, Ltd.
$40,000
$110,000
MATS Research, Inc.
$90,000
$220,000
Model Evaluation and Threat Research, Inc.
$220,000
$1,210,000
Convergence Analysis
$0
$10,000
Non-Trivial Ventures
$20,000
$90,000
Whistleblower Netzwerk, e.V.
$0
$300,000
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
$40,000
$120,000
University of Oxford Development Trust Fund
$60,000
$210,000
Palisade Research
$40,000
$460,000
RAND Corporation
$110,000
$360,000
SaferAI
$70,000
$240,000
Secure AI Project, Inc.
$110,000
$220,000
SecureBio
$780,000
$950,000
Impact Academy Limited
$70,000
$170,000
Tarbell Center for AI Journalism, Inc.
$150,000
$380,000
The Future Society, Inc.
$40,000
$160,000
Rethink Priorities
$60,000
$130,000
Less Death, Inc.
$70,000
$120,000
Timaeus Research Inc.
$100,000
$450,000
Topos Institute
$70,000
$260,000
Ulyssean PBC
$40,000
$260,000
University of Toronto & University of Michigan [Toronto and Michigan NLP Group for AI Safety]
The Governing Council of the University of Toronto (1/2) & University of Michigan (1/2)
$30,000
$120,000