$1M Grant Round

$1M Grant Round is sponsored by grantmaking. ai. This grant round is distributing funds to people and projects working to reduce existential risk (x-risk) from AI.

It is an open platform to find, evaluate, and fund AI x-risk work.

Seeking funding? Build your profile so funders can find you. Apply for funding.

We're building an AI safety funding platform, and we're kicking it off with a $1M grant round. Find, evaluate, and fund AI safety work, without rebuilding the map yourself. Explore active projects Apply for funding We're a small non-profit team with experience building infrastructure for the AI safety community.

The French Center for AI Safety (Centre pour la Securite de l'IA) is a Paris-based non-profit think tank and research center working to reduce risks from AI through education, technical research, and policy advocacy in France and Europe.

Led by Charbel-Raphaël Segerie Existential Risk Observatory A Dutch foundation that works to reduce existential risk by informing the public debate through media engagement, policy advocacy, research, and public events. An AI safety funding platform. A database of organizations, projects, and funds with a trust and signal layer on top.

Here's a preview of the 563 organizations from our broader database. Existential Risk Observatory A Dutch foundation that works to reduce existential risk by informing the public debate through media engagement, policy advocacy, research, and public events. An international AI x-risk strategy think tank that conducts scenario research and governance analysis to mitigate risks from transformative AI technologies.

Led by David Kristoffersson The French Center for AI Safety (Centre pour la Securite de l'IA) is a Paris-based non-profit think tank and research center working to reduce risks from AI through education, technical research, and policy advocacy in France and Europe. Led by Charbel-Raphaël Segerie A nonprofit that runs fellowships and educational programs to develop expert, mission-aligned talent for AI safety research and governance.

A Swiss non-profit think tank that develops evidence-based policy proposals on AI safety, biosecurity, and emerging technologies, bridging science, politics, and civil society for Switzerland and beyond. A non-profit AI alignment research organization focused on agent foundations, pursuing formal goal alignment approaches that would scale to superintelligence. Explore 563 AI Safety orgs The ecosystem is about to receive billions.

It isn't ready. Dozens of new funders are about to deploy billions into AI safety. The current system wasn't built for them.

Smaller grants get missed Projects asking for <$50K are often too small for larger funds and too hard to discover casually. Due diligence gets repeated Every donor rebuilds the same picture. Every grantee re-answers the same questions.

Funding status is unclear It's hard to tell who is actively fundraising and what their runway looks like. Discovery is insider-heavy Good opportunities and honest takes on them are still mostly passed around through private networks. We're building the coordination layer the ecosystem needs: comprehensive public data, living funding status, and trusted signal — all in one place.

Every public AI Safety funding opportunity, and the context you need, in one place. See what experienced evaluators think, not just what projects say about themselves. See who is actively fundraising and where marginal dollars can help the most.

Put your request in front of dozens of donors and get feedback in weeks, not months. grantmaking. ai is built to help you get funded.

We're funding AI existential safety work. Focused on existential AI safety Initial decisions in weeks We're partnering with Manifund to distribute $1M in grants for AI existential safety work. Expect a short application, a fast turnaround, and a real human reading what you wrote.

Not fundraising right now? We still want your profile in the database! We're building the comprehensive AI safety database — so when you do need funding, your profile is already there, already current, already visible to every funder.

Add your background, links, and the cause areas that describe your work. Add the context funders need Keep your profile current so funders can understand your work before you apply. Stay discoverable to funders Your profile remains part of the database, so future donors can find you faster even after the initial round.

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