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Manifund helps great charities get the funding they need. Discover amazing projects, buy impact certs, and weigh in on what gets funded.

Including 707 projects in all stages and from all rounds.

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Acausal research and interventions

Making sure AI systems don't mess up acausal interactions

Technical AI safety Global catastrophic risks

$60K / $800K

Aidar Toktargazin

Give free books

Give free AI safety books to potentially high-impact individuals

AI governance EA community

$0 / $4.01K

Aidar Toktargazin

Give free books

Give free AI safety books to potentially high-impact individuals

AI governance EA community

$0 / $4.01K

Aidar Toktargazin

Giving free AI safety books for potentially high-impact individuals

EA community

$0 / $4.01K

Jaeson Booker

The AI Safety Research Fund

Creating a fund exclusively focused on supporting AI Safety Research

Technical AI safety

$100 / $100K

Igor Ivanov

Demonstration of LLMs deceiving and getting out of a sandbox

Technical AI safety

$3K raised

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Fred Heiding

AI scam research targeting seniors

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

Science & technology AI governance

$3.5K raised

Sterlin Lujan

Edge City Governance Research via Polis Laboratories

Conducting focus groups, interviews, and delivering surveys to develop governance frameworks

Science & technology Global catastrophic risks

$50 / $30K

Blake Bertuccelli-Booth

High School AI Lab for Ethical Learning

Prototype for Scalable, Secure AI Literacy in Public Schools

Science & technology

$11 / $6.98K

Adam Binksmith

AI Digest

Interactive AI explainers and demos, including the Agent Village

$26K raised

Apart Research

Keep Apart Research Going: Global AI Safety Research & Talent Pipeline

Funding ends June 2025: Urgent support for proven AI safety pipeline converting technical talent from 26+ countries into published contributors

Technical AI safety AI governance EA community

$131K raised

niplav

Orexin Pilot Experiment for Reducing Sleep Need

Testing intranasal orexin-A administration for sleep need reduction: a 2-3 participant self-blinded randomized controlled trial

Science & technology Biomedical

$5.07K raised

Abram Demski

Understanding Trust

Funding Basic Theoretical AI Safety Research

$100K raised

Asterisk Magazine

Asterisk AI Blogging Fellowship

Technical AI safety AI governance Global catastrophic risks

$70K raised

Sushant Shah

Project AXL

Building AI That Is The Hardware

Science & technology

$200 / $950K

Jim Maar

Implicit planning in LLMs Paper

Reproducing the Claude poetry planning results quantitatively

Technical AI safety

$1K / $1K

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tamar rott shaham

The First Workshop on Mechanistic Interpretability for Vision

Science & technology Technical AI safety

$1.5K raised

Peli Grietzer

Virtue-Ethical Rationality and Training Dynamics

$20K raised

Alexandria Beck

Improving farmed fish welfare in Egypt

Animal welfare EA community

$5K / $10K

Miles Tidmarsh

Synthetic pretraining to make AIs more compassionate

Enabling Compassion in Machine Learning (CaML) to develop methods and data to shift future AI values

Technical AI safety Animal welfare

$0 / $159K

Including 707 projects in all stages and from all rounds.

🦀

Acausal research and interventions

Making sure AI systems don't mess up acausal interactions

Technical AI safety Global catastrophic risks

$60K / $800K

Aidar Toktargazin

Give free books

Give free AI safety books to potentially high-impact individuals

AI governance EA community

$0 / $4.01K

Aidar Toktargazin

Give free books

Give free AI safety books to potentially high-impact individuals

AI governance EA community

$0 / $4.01K

Aidar Toktargazin

Giving free AI safety books for potentially high-impact individuals

EA community

$0 / $4.01K

Jaeson Booker

The AI Safety Research Fund

Creating a fund exclusively focused on supporting AI Safety Research

Technical AI safety

$100 / $100K

Igor Ivanov

Demonstration of LLMs deceiving and getting out of a sandbox

Technical AI safety

$3K raised

🐢

Fred Heiding

AI scam research targeting seniors

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

Science & technology AI governance

$3.5K raised

Sterlin Lujan

Edge City Governance Research via Polis Laboratories

Conducting focus groups, interviews, and delivering surveys to develop governance frameworks

Science & technology Global catastrophic risks

$50 / $30K

Blake Bertuccelli-Booth

High School AI Lab for Ethical Learning

Prototype for Scalable, Secure AI Literacy in Public Schools

Science & technology

$11 / $6.98K

Adam Binksmith

AI Digest

Interactive AI explainers and demos, including the Agent Village

$26K raised

Apart Research

Keep Apart Research Going: Global AI Safety Research & Talent Pipeline

Funding ends June 2025: Urgent support for proven AI safety pipeline converting technical talent from 26+ countries into published contributors

Technical AI safety AI governance EA community

$131K raised

niplav

Orexin Pilot Experiment for Reducing Sleep Need

Testing intranasal orexin-A administration for sleep need reduction: a 2-3 participant self-blinded randomized controlled trial

Science & technology Biomedical

$5.07K raised

Abram Demski

Understanding Trust

Funding Basic Theoretical AI Safety Research

$100K raised

Asterisk Magazine

Asterisk AI Blogging Fellowship

Technical AI safety AI governance Global catastrophic risks

$70K raised

Sushant Shah

Project AXL

Building AI That Is The Hardware

Science & technology

$200 / $950K

Jim Maar

Implicit planning in LLMs Paper

Reproducing the Claude poetry planning results quantitatively

Technical AI safety

$1K / $1K

🥥

tamar rott shaham

The First Workshop on Mechanistic Interpretability for Vision

Science & technology Technical AI safety

$1.5K raised

Peli Grietzer

Virtue-Ethical Rationality and Training Dynamics

$20K raised

Alexandria Beck

Improving farmed fish welfare in Egypt

Animal welfare EA community

$5K / $10K

Miles Tidmarsh

Synthetic pretraining to make AIs more compassionate

Enabling Compassion in Machine Learning (CaML) to develop methods and data to shift future AI values

Technical AI safety Animal welfare

$0 / $159K