Coefficient Giving is a research-driven philanthropic organization that identifies and funds the highest-impact opportunities across a range of cause areas. Originally founded as GiveWell Labs in 2011 and rebranded as Open Philanthropy in 2014, it became Coefficient Giving in November 2025 to reflect its expansion from serving a single major donor to partnering with multiple philanthropists. The organization has directed over $4 billion in grants since 2014, including more than $1 billion in 2025 alone. Its 13 funds cover AI safety and governance, global health, biosecurity, pandemic preparedness, farm animal welfare, lead exposure, scientific research, and more. The AI safety fund, Navigating Transformative AI, has made 480+ grants and funds technical alignment research, AI governance, and capacity building.
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- Annual Budget
- $1,000,000,000
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- Current Runway
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- Funding Goal
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- Funding Raised to Date
- $4,000,000,000
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Theory of Change
Coefficient Giving believes the most important philanthropic decision is cause selection, and that the highest-impact opportunities lie in neglected areas with significant funding gaps. For AI safety specifically, the organization argues that catastrophic AI risk mitigation is a public good that market incentives systematically underinvest in, compounded by competitive dynamics among AI developers and slow government and civil society responses to rapid AI progress. By funding technical AI safety research (alignment, robustness, interpretability), AI governance and policy frameworks, and field capacity building, Coefficient Giving aims to reduce the probability of catastrophic outcomes from advanced AI systems. The hits-based giving model expects a small number of funded efforts to produce disproportionate impact, so the organization funds a broad portfolio and accepts high failure rates. Worldview diversification ensures that even under deep uncertainty about which moral frameworks or interventions are optimal, some portfolio of funded work will prove highly impactful.
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- Last Updated
- Apr 2, 2026, 9:58 PM UTC
- Created
- Mar 19, 2026, 10:31 PM UTC