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Organizes the expertise that guides major philanthropic allocation
Coefficient Giving, formerly Open Philanthropy, researches philanthropic causes and recommends giving opportunities to donors including Good Ventures. Its work helps determine which organizations, fields and projects receive sustained support, including technical AI safety, training and organizations producing government-facing AI policy.
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Coefficient Giving is the organization formerly known as Open Philanthropy. Good Ventures identifies it as its philanthropic adviser and credits its team with supporting the foundation’s giving. That role includes investigating causes and opportunities, allowing donors to draw on a professional research and recommendation process when allocating substantial resources.
The importance of that work goes beyond choosing a single project. Sustained support can allow organizations to recruit specialists, establish training programmes or maintain policy capacity. In this network, those choices help explain the institutions available to produce AI-risk research, brief policymakers and develop regulatory ideas. The adviser helps organize the judgments on which major giving decisions depend.
The Centre for Long-Term Resilience provides a concrete policy example. Its 2024 annual report, published in 2025, describes an Open Philanthropy commitment of £4 million over three years, with separate matching offered up to £3 million. CLTR works on government guidance and proposals for AI institutions. Its report says the commitments deny donors influence over strategy and priorities, making a distinction between supporting an institution and directing its particular recommendations.
The historical footprint also includes MIRI, whose contributor list credits Open Philanthropy with about $15.93 million in cumulative support under its stated matching methodology. Talos separately acknowledges Coefficient support. These relationships show the breadth of institution-building around AI and long-term risks. Reading Coefficient alongside Good Ventures clarifies how research, donor decisions and recipient work connect within that funding landscape.
Assessment updated 2026-09-12
Coefficient Giving → Machine Intelligence Research Institute
Checked 12 September 2026
Coefficient Giving → Machine Intelligence Research Institute: acknowledged historical support. MIRI reports $15,925,143; cumulative support credit under its stated matching methodology.
Holden Karnofsky → Coefficient Giving
2026-09-16
The organization now named Coefficient Giving identifies Karnofsky as its former CEO, who stepped down in 2023.
Coefficient Giving → Good Ventures
Observed 2026-09-05
Institutional advisory role; recommendations and actual foundation awards must not be counted twice.
Ajeya Cotra → Coefficient Giving
Checked 14 September 2026; event date unresolved
Technical AI safety leadership in 2024; AI giving strategy in 2025.
Coefficient Giving → Talos Network
Dates unspecified; read 2026-09-05
Talos disclosure says funders do not select fellows, develop content or direct strategy. No onward ControlAI transfer established.
Coefficient Giving → Centre for Long-Term Resilience
Checked 12 September 2026
CLTR’s report published in 2025 describes a £4m three-year Open Philanthropy commitment and separate matching up to £3m.
Targeted public searches for ControlAI and/or Secure Future Research in Survival and Flourishing Fund, Coefficient Giving/Open Philanthropy and Manifund did not identify a grant specifically awarded to ControlAI. This is search non-discovery, not an exhaustive database audit or proof no funding occurred.
Read the research & sources ↗CAIS has a documented public communications pathway connecting a research nonprofit, a separate policy advocacy nonprofit, and creator training/placement. The historical donor trail reaches Good Ventures (Cari Tuna / Dustin Moskovitz, advised by Open Philanthropy, now Coefficient Giving), SVCF, and FLI. The public evidence does not establish who financed a particular 2026 creator offer, current donor concentration, or donor control of particular videos. A historically indexed October 2023 Good Ventures entry is explicitly labelled an exit grant; do not casually call Open Phil/Good Ventures CAIS's current paymaster.
Read the research & sources ↗The most discriminating wider bridge is Talos Network: she self-reports membership, and the publisher's indexed alumni roster identifies her as a 2022 fellow. Talos acknowledges FLI, Coefficient Giving and Survival and Flourishing Fund support. However, the funding disclosure gives no dates or individual allocations, and expressly denies donor involvement in fellow selection, content and strategy. This is a funding-to-career-network connection, not evidence that these donors paid Behrens personally, financed her 2022 place, or command ControlAI.
Read the research & sources ↗CLTR’s report, published in 2025, describes a £4m three-year Open Philanthropy commitment plus matching up to £3m. It says grant commitments deny funders influence over strategy. Its current support page separately offers expert access and advocacy opportunities. Together these disclose resources and relationship benefits; neither a bank receipt nor a hidden donor veto has been established.
Read the research & sources ↗Follow historical donor support into the institution, then distinguish its leadership roles.
Open diagram →Multi-year philanthropy supports policy capacity; recurring organizing support has its own published conditions.
Open diagram →Follow grants, lab access, people and public-sector work around the evaluator.
Open diagram →Coefficient Giving → Primary philanthropic adviser → Good Ventures
Observed 2026-09-05
Institutional advisory role; recommendations and actual foundation awards must not be counted twice.
Coefficient Giving → Support disclosed; amount/date unspecified → Talos Network
Dates unspecified; read 2026-09-05
Reported by the cited source
Talos disclosure says funders do not select fellows, develop content or direct strategy. No onward ControlAI transfer established.
Coefficient Giving → Acknowledged historical support → Machine Intelligence Research Institute
Checked 12 September 2026
Coefficient Giving → Machine Intelligence Research Institute: acknowledged historical support. MIRI reports $15,925,143; cumulative support credit under its stated matching methodology. Total institutional support credits including leveraged matching. Not annual spending,personal payment,current campaign allocation or donor control. Thiel listed among past contributors.
Coefficient Giving → £4m commitment plus matching offer → Centre for Long-Term Resilience
Checked 12 September 2026
Reported by the cited source
CLTR’s report published in 2025 describes a £4m three-year Open Philanthropy commitment and separate matching up to £3m. Recipient-reported commitments; not £7m of established receipts. Report states grant commitments deny influence over strategic priorities.
Ajeya Cotra → Former programme and strategy roles → Coefficient Giving
Checked 14 September 2026; event date unresolved
Technical AI safety leadership in 2024; AI giving strategy in 2025.
Holden Karnofsky → Former CEO of Open Philanthropy → Coefficient Giving
2026-09-16
The organization now named Coefficient Giving identifies Karnofsky as its former CEO, who stepped down in 2023. Former role, not current grantmaking authority; no direct METR donation is identified by this record.