Ryan Kidd → grantmaking.ai
Initial reviewer named
2026-07-08
Chen names Kidd, Gavin Leech and Marcus Abramovitch as initial reviewers. No specific application assignment established.
Money. Identity. Technology.
Follow the money. Find the decision.
Programme
Public funding round. Reviewers, organizers and fiscal processor are distinct roles. No ControlAI award inferred.
Ryan Kidd → grantmaking.ai
2026-07-08
Chen names Kidd, Gavin Leech and Marcus Abramovitch as initial reviewers. No specific application assignment established.
Manifund → grantmaking.ai
2026-07-08
Chen's July 8 announcement identifies Manifund's administration role for the funding round.
Fund's own platform record: https://app.grantmaking.ai/funds/4597b683-2776-4731-8598-627189912dc7 . Opened/read Grants Made list; no ControlAI grant shown. No actual award or paid amount established. Site-wide distributed totals are not ControlAI receipts.
Read the research & sources ↗Source: https://app.grantmaking.ai/orgs/f723327d-43a4-4e02-ae12-5f68bb6f086f Opened/read. Platform-hosted organization and application record; the surrounding organizational summary is edited by grantmaking.ai and includes stale/conflated descriptions, so use the application and status fields narrowly.
Read the research & sources ↗On 20 April 2026 ControlAI proposed scaling to a $50m yearly budget, with scenarios reaching $500m or $1bn. Those are fundraising targets and hypothetical deployment scenarios, not receipts. Its July 13 2026 grantmaking.ai application asks for $50k minimum / up to $1m to expand G7 parliamentary outreach excluding the US. It is an application, not an award. Neither source discloses existing donors. No primary evidence of a ControlAI grant or gift from Jaan Tallinn, SFF, FLI, Open Philanthropy, a fiscal sponsor or a donor-advised fund was located. That is a record boundary, not evidence of absence.
Read the research & sources ↗Frame's public grantmaking.ai profile has an organization-edited “Grants Received” block updated July 13, 2026 . It reports “Jaan Tallin (DAF)” $20,000 , AISTOF/Jueyan Zhang $280,000 , and another AISTOF entry with amount hidden. Preserve the donor spelling in source data; the intended Tallinn identity is strongly supported by context but the specific DAF is unnamed. Akshyae Singh's public reply says the $280,000 was for Cohort 1.0. The profile names Manifold for Charity as fiscal sponsor and describes Frame selecting 13 of 150-plus applicants. These are recipient-side disclosures, not bank receipts, grant contracts, precise payment dates, or evidence of a donor selection veto. Do not infer the hidden amount or collapse the two AISTOF records into a known total.
Read the research & sources ↗Manifund → Fiscal sponsorship and payouts → grantmaking.ai
2026-07-08
Reported by the cited source
Chen's July 8 announcement identifies Manifund's administration role for the funding round.
Ryan Kidd → Initial reviewer named → grantmaking.ai
2026-07-08
Reported by the cited source
Chen names Kidd, Gavin Leech and Marcus Abramovitch as initial reviewers. No specific application assignment established.