Jaan Tallinn → Identifies as his holding company → Slimrock (Tallinn ledger vehicle)
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Tallinn’s donor-ledger footnote identifies Slimrock as one of his holding companies.
AI, money & persuasion
Tallinn: funding routes and decision rights
Follow donor payments into ControlAI, grant allocation and AI-policy organizations.
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What the connections say
9 relationshipsSlimrock (Tallinn ledger vehicle) → £500,000 donation, November 2023 → Secure Future Research
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Tallinn reports £500,000 disbursed through Slimrock to Secure Future Research on 14 November 2023; USD ledger equivalent $615,850. Donor report; no allocation to a particular creator or campaign.
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Slimrock (Tallinn ledger vehicle) → £2m donation, April 2024 → Secure Future Research
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Tallinn reports £2m disbursed through Slimrock to Secure Future Research on 10 April 2024; USD ledger equivalent $2,546,200. Do not infer a donor-dependence percentage from the filed balance sheets.
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Secure Future Research → UK legal identity → ControlAI
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Company 15088415, formerly Secure Future Research Ltd, became CONTROLAI on 10 September 2026.
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Jaan Tallinn → Weights and final funding adjustments → Survival and Flourishing Fund
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SFF’s 2025 process gives Tallinn a role in deference weights and final allocation adjustments. Recommendations can be conditional or pending; not all are disbursed.
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Jaan Tallinn → Primary client → Survival and Flourishing Corp.
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SFC’s September 2026 update identifies Tallinn as its primary client. SFC describes its own separate ownership and facilitation discretion.
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Survival and Flourishing Corp. → Facilitates grantmaking → Survival and Flourishing Fund
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SFC describes its work facilitating grants associated with SFF.
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Jaan Tallinn → $442,000 across three 2024 entries → AI Policy Institute
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Tallinn’s ledger reports $10,000, $300,000 and $132,000 associated with AIPI in July and December 2024. Recommendations and disbursements must be reconciled, not added together.
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Jaan Tallinn → $3.221m across five 2023–2024 entries → CAIS Action Fund
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Tallinn’s ledger contains five payments associated with the Center for AI Safety Action Fund totaling $3,221,000 during 2023–2024. Historical selected disbursements, not a current campaign budget.