AISTOF is a pooled multi-donor charitable fund managed by philanthropic advisor and grantmaker JueYan Zhang. The fund seeks to reduce the probability and severity of catastrophic risks from advanced AI by staying agile and capturing time-sensitive funding opportunities. It operates across technical alignment, AI governance, and evaluations and auditing, targeting projects that larger funders may not discover or fund quickly enough. The fund targets medium-to-high net worth donors and has raised more than $30 million, committing more than 150 grants since its founding in 2023.
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- Funding Raised to Date
- $30,000,000
- Fiscal Sponsor
- Manifund (Manifold for Charity)
Theory of Change
AISTOF operates on the premise that the AI safety funding landscape has important gaps that large institutional funders like Open Philanthropy are too slow or too constrained to fill. By pooling capital from multiple donors and maintaining a fast, flexible grant process with no formal application requirements, the fund can identify and back high-leverage opportunities in technical alignment, governance, and evaluations before the window closes. The causal chain is: aggregate donations from aligned donors -> rapid deployment to promising but underfunded projects and individuals -> acceleration of safety-relevant research and policy work -> reduced probability and severity of catastrophic outcomes from advanced AI systems.
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- Last Updated
- Apr 2, 2026, 10:07 PM UTC
- Created
- Mar 19, 2026, 10:31 PM UTC