Sources
122 sources cited by signals: 109 confirmed, 1 imported, 10 unaudited, 2 unverifiable. Tier 1 is a filing or a funder's own index; tier 2 a third-party ledger; tier 3 the organization's own statement; tier 4 press.
| Source | Publisher | Published | Tier | Audit | Signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| It looks like there are some good funding opportunities in AI safety right now | 80,000 Hours | 2025-10-13 | tier 4 press | confirmed | 3 |
| AI Evaluator Forum launch and AEF-1 | AI Evaluator Forum | 2025-12-04 | tier 3 self | confirmed | 6 |
| Evaluation Transparency Letter | AI Evaluator Forum | 2026 | tier 3 self | confirmed | 1 |
| UK AI Security Institute | AI Wiki | 2026-05-07 | tier 4 press | confirmed | 1 |
| Illinois SB 315: A State Strategy for Enduring National AI Safety Standards | Akerman LLP | 2026-06-10 | tier 4 press | confirmed | 1 |
| METR raises $71M to independently stress-test AI | AlphaSignal | 2026-08 | tier 4 press | confirmed | 1 |
| Andon Labs | Andon Labs | 2026-07 | tier 3 self | confirmed | 7 |
| About | Apollo Research | 2026 | tier 3 self | confirmed | 4 |
| Apollo Research is becoming a PBC | Apollo Research | 2026-01-20 | tier 3 self | confirmed | 1 |
| Apollo Research is becoming a PBC (governance) | Apollo Research | 2026-01-20 | tier 3 self | confirmed | 1 |
| Apollo Research is becoming a PBC (investment section) | Apollo Research | 2026-01-20 | tier 3 self | confirmed | 3 |
| Our Norms on Security, Science Communication and Conflicts of Interest | Apollo Research | 2025-11-26 | tier 3 self | confirmed | 4 |
| The First Year of Apollo Research | Apollo Research | 2024 | tier 3 self | confirmed | 1 |
| Expanding External Access to Frontier AI Models for Dangerous Capability Evaluations (arXiv 2601.11916) | arXiv | 2026-01-21 | tier 4 press | confirmed | 1 |
| Frontier AI Auditing: Toward Rigorous Third-Party Assessment (arXiv 2601.11699) | arXiv | 2026-02-07 | tier 4 press | confirmed | 1 |
| About | AVERI | 2026 | tier 3 self | confirmed | 4 |
| About (funding and conflicts) | AVERI | 2026 | tier 3 self | confirmed | 4 |
| AVERI Pilot Report: The World's First Double-Blind Evaluation of a Proprietary Language Model | AVERI | 2026-08 | tier 3 self | confirmed | 6 |
| Center for AI Safety | CAIS | 2026 | tier 3 self | confirmed | 7 |
| CAISI Frontier Testing Agreements Reach Five Labs | Cloud Security Alliance | 2026-05-20 | tier 4 press | unaudited | 5 |
| UK AISI's Frontier AI Trends Report: Security Implications | Cloud Security Alliance | 2026-07-12 | tier 4 press | confirmed | 7 |
| CAISI Frontier Testing Agreements Reach Five Labs | Cloud Security Alliance (research note) | 2026-05-05 | tier 4 press | confirmed | 2 |
| Scale AI not winding down following Meta deal, interim CEO says | CNBC | 2025-06-18 | tier 4 press | confirmed | 1 |
| Trump's head of AI safety agency CAISI resigns after months on job | CNBC | 2026-07-20 | tier 4 press | confirmed | 1 |
| Coefficient Giving grants index | Coefficient Giving | 2026-09-11 | tier 1 index | imported | 8 |
| Coefficient Giving home | Coefficient Giving | 2026 | tier 3 self | confirmed | 1 |
| Illinois AI Safety Measures Act SB 315 | Crowell & Moring | 2026-07-08 | tier 4 press | confirmed | 3 |
| Illinois Enacts Frontier AI Safety Law | Davis Wright Tremaine | 2026-07-15 | tier 3 self | confirmed | 1 |
| Gray Swan raises $40M Series A to secure frontier AI | Dealroom | 2026-06 | tier 4 press | unaudited | 1 |
| Clarifying the creation and use of the FrontierMath benchmark | Epoch AI | 2025-01-23 | tier 3 self | confirmed | 5 |
| Transparency | Epoch AI | 2026 | tier 3 self | confirmed | 3 |
| Transparency | Epoch AI | 2026 | tier 3 self | confirmed | 2 |
| FAR.AI Secures Over $30 Million in Multi-Funder Support | FAR.AI | 2026-07-16 | tier 3 self | confirmed | 6 |
| Transparency | FAR.AI | 2026 | tier 3 self | confirmed | 1 |
| Gray Swan AI Is Working With OpenAI to Red Team Its Models | Forbes | 2024-10-29 | tier 4 press | confirmed | 1 |
| This AI Startup's Army of 15,000 Hackers | Forbes | 2026-05-28 | tier 4 press | confirmed | 3 |
| Former OpenAI policy chief debuts new institute called AVERI | Fortune | 2026-01-15 | tier 4 press | confirmed | 1 |
| Hugging Face goes from a scrappy startup to $13 billion Nvidia acquisition | Fortune | 2026-09-03 | tier 4 press | confirmed | 1 |
| Frontier AI grantmaking | Founders Pledge | 2026 | tier 3 self | confirmed | 1 |
| Gemini model documentation, external testing | Google DeepMind | 2025 | tier 3 self | confirmed | 8 |
| Gray Swan announces Series A | Gray Swan | 2026-05-28 | tier 3 self | confirmed | 6 |
| Humane Intelligence | Humane Intelligence | 2026 | tier 3 self | confirmed | 8 |
| Who Funds the AI Safety Watchdogs | Inside The Black Box (Substack) | 2026-06-03 | tier 4 press | confirmed | 8 |
| Funding for CAISI | Institute for Progress | 2026 | tier 4 press | confirmed | 2 |
| What Will It Cost for the US to Be Ready for the Next Big AI Breakthrough? | Institute for Progress | 2026 | tier 4 press | confirmed | 1 |
| Alignment Research Center 990 report | Instrumentl | 2025 | tier 2 ledger | unaudited | 1 |
| METR donor rule wording over time (Wayback captures of metr.org/about and /donate) | Internet Archive | 2025-08 | tier 2 ledger | unverifiable | 1 |
| evaluators.csv (24 evaluators: Coefficient and SFF totals, lab money, government contracts, leadership) | Kevin Bass (GitHub) | 2026-09-14 | tier 2 ledger | unverifiable | 28 |
| metr-money-figure research ledger and audits | Kevin Bass (GitHub) | 2026-09-14 | tier 2 ledger | confirmed | 4 |
| Illinois Joins Growing State-Level Effort | Latham & Watkins | 2026-07-15 | tier 4 press | confirmed | 1 |
| FAR AI | Longterm Wiki | 2026 | tier 2 ledger | unaudited | 1 |
| FAR AI | Longterm Wiki | 2026-02-26 | tier 4 press | confirmed | 7 |
| Third-Party Model Auditing | Longterm Wiki | 2026-01-29 | tier 4 press | confirmed | 4 |
| Why We Are Co-Leading Gray Swan's Series A | Madrona | 2026-05-28 | tier 4 press | confirmed | 1 |
| Apollo Research on Manifund | Manifund | 2024 | tier 3 self | confirmed | 1 |
| Transluce: Fund Scalable Democratic Oversight of AI | Manifund | 2026 | tier 3 self | confirmed | 5 |
| Anthropic's 3-Step 'Pace the Frontier' Plan | MarkTechPost | 2026-09-13 | tier 3 self | confirmed | 2 |
| About METR | METR | 2026-08 | tier 3 self | confirmed | 6 |
| Brief independent investigation of agents' behavior in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident | METR | 2026-08-26 | tier 3 self | confirmed | 7 |
| Frontier AI safety regulations: A reference for lab staff | METR | 2026-01-29 | tier 3 self | confirmed | 7 |
| Funding update | METR | 2026-08-14 | tier 3 self | confirmed | 2 |
| New Support Through The Audacious Project | METR | 2024-10-09 | tier 3 self | confirmed | 1 |
| Team | METR | 2026 | tier 3 self | confirmed | 1 |
| Microsoft AI Red Team (Microsoft Learn) | Microsoft | 2026 | tier 3 self | unaudited | 8 |
| 3 takeaways from red teaming 100 generative AI products | Microsoft Security Blog | 2025-01-13 | tier 3 self | unaudited | 1 |
| The Launch of AVERI | Miles Brundage (Substack) | 2026-01-15 | tier 3 self | confirmed | 2 |
| MLCommons AI Safety / AILuminate | MLCommons | 2026 | tier 3 self | confirmed | 7 |
| Irregular Raises $80 Million | Newswire | 2025-09-17 | tier 4 press | confirmed | 3 |
| Center for AI Standards and Innovation | NIST | 2026-08-08 | tier 3 self | confirmed | 4 |
| Constellation Programmatic Activities and Operating Expenses | Open Philanthropy / Coefficient Giving | 2024 | tier 1 index | unaudited | 1 |
| FAR.AI General Support (2022) | Open Philanthropy / Coefficient Giving | 2022 | tier 1 index | unaudited | 1 |
| Longview Philanthropy grants | Open Philanthropy / Coefficient Giving | 2024 | tier 1 index | unaudited | 1 |
| Palisade Research grants | Open Philanthropy / Coefficient Giving | 2025 | tier 1 index | unaudited | 1 |
| Redwood Research General Support | Open Philanthropy / Coefficient Giving | 2025-11 | tier 1 index | confirmed | 1 |
| Advancing independent research on AI alignment | OpenAI | 2026 | tier 3 self | confirmed | 1 |
| Zico Kolter Joins OpenAI's Board of Directors | OpenAI | 2024-08 | tier 3 self | confirmed | 1 |
| Palisade Research | Palisade Research | 2026 | tier 3 self | confirmed | 8 |
| What METR's OpenAI Agent Investigation Left Out | Pebblous | 2026-09 | tier 4 press | confirmed | 1 |
| Andon Labs profile | PitchBook | 2026 | tier 4 press | confirmed | 1 |
| Macroscopic Ventures investor profile | Premier Alts | 2026 | tier 4 press | confirmed | 1 |
| Holistic Agent Leaderboard | Princeton | 2026 | tier 3 self | confirmed | 9 |
| Nonprofit Explorer summaries: METR (EIN 99-1219864) and ARC (EIN 86-3605182) | ProPublica | 2025 | tier 1 filing | confirmed | 1 |
| METR FY2024 Form 990 (EIN 99-1219864) | ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer | 2025 | tier 1 filing | confirmed | 2 |
| RAND AI Security Project Receives Funding Commitment Through The Audacious Project | RAND | 2024-10-09 | tier 3 self | confirmed | 1 |
| RAND and the AI Evaluator Forum | RAND | 2026 | tier 3 self | confirmed | 8 |
| AI Security Institute (renaming) | Regulations.ai | 2026-09 | tier 4 press | confirmed | 4 |
| About | SaferAI | 2026 | tier 3 self | confirmed | 1 |
| SaferAI | SaferAI | 2026 | tier 3 self | confirmed | 8 |
| Why the U.S. Needs an Independent AI Evaluation Framework for National Security | Scale AI | 2026-05-20 | tier 3 self | confirmed | 9 |
| Building a three-day early-warning system for novel pathogens | SecureBio | 2026-08-20 | tier 3 self | confirmed | 9 |
| SecureBio AI: 2025 in Review | SecureBio | 2026-01 | tier 3 self | confirmed | 1 |
| SecureBio on X: OpenAI Foundation grant | SecureBio | 2026 | tier 3 self | confirmed | 2 |
| Building a three-day early-warning system for novel pathogens | SecureBio (Substack) | 2026 | tier 3 self | confirmed | 1 |
| Partnering with Irregular | Sequoia Capital | 2025-09-17 | tier 3 self | confirmed | 6 |
| Illinois Passes Landmark AI Law | Slashdot | 2026-05-28 | tier 4 press | confirmed | 1 |
| How AI hyperscalers can use ISO 42001 internal audit to comply with Illinois SB 315 | StackAware | 2026-07-14 | tier 4 press | confirmed | 4 |
| SFF-2025 S-Process Recommendations Announcement | Survival and Flourishing Fund | 2025 | tier 3 self | confirmed | 1 |
| OpenAI Agents Formed Secret Swarm, Hacked Hugging Face | Tech Times | 2026-08-27 | tier 4 press | confirmed | 1 |
| AI benchmarking organization criticized for waiting to disclose funding from OpenAI | TechCrunch | 2025-01-19 | tier 4 press | confirmed | 6 |
| Irregular raises $80M to secure frontier AI models | TechCrunch | 2025-09-17 | tier 4 press | confirmed | 3 |
| Hugging Face Open Alignment Initiative | Techmeme | 2026-09-12 | tier 4 press | confirmed | 3 |
| The EU's Real AI Leverage Is Making Compliance the Path of Least Resistance | TechPolicy.Press | 2026-02-26 | tier 4 press | confirmed | 1 |
| TED 864574-2025 Technical Assistance for AI Safety | Tenders Electronic Daily | 2025-12 | tier 1 filing | confirmed | 8 |
| TED notice 864574-2025: Artificial Intelligence Act: Technical Assistance for AI Safety | Tenders Electronic Daily | 2025-12-26 | tier 1 filing | confirmed | 1 |
| OpenAI quietly funded independent math benchmark | The Decoder | 2025-01-19 | tier 4 press | confirmed | 1 |
| Governance & Policy Fellow at Transluce | The Economic Misfit (job listing) | 2026-04-18 | tier 3 self | confirmed | 2 |
| Hugging Face's Open Alignment Initiative wants lab access | TNW | 2026-09-14 | tier 4 press | confirmed | 8 |
| The nonprofit that investigated OpenAI's rogue agents runs on a $36m grant | TNW | 2026-09 | tier 4 press | confirmed | 1 |
| Andon Labs, agent safety evaluations | tooldirectory.ai | 2026-07-08 | tier 4 press | confirmed | 4 |
| Company | Transluce | 2026 | tier 3 self | confirmed | 2 |
| Independence and Transparency Policy | Transluce | 2026-08-27 | tier 3 self | confirmed | 3 |
| Independent evaluation of model responses to mental health crises | Transluce | 2026-09 | tier 3 self | confirmed | 2 |
| About the Alignment Project | UK AI Security Institute | 2026 | tier 3 self | confirmed | 1 |
| Alignment Project grants | UK AI Security Institute | 2025 | tier 3 self | confirmed | 1 |
| Funding 60 projects to advance AI alignment research | UK AI Security Institute | 2026-02 | tier 3 self | confirmed | 1 |
| Altman Says OpenAI Will Match Anthropic's Embedded Evaluator Pledge | Unite.AI | 2026-09-12 | tier 4 press | confirmed | 1 |
| Anthropic CEO pitches AI slow-down plan | Washington Examiner | 2026-09-12 | tier 4 press | confirmed | 1 |
| Coefficient Giving | Wikipedia | 2026 | tier 4 press | confirmed | 1 |
| Zico Kolter | Wikipedia | 2026 | tier 4 press | confirmed | 1 |
| Bio | Zico Kolter | 2026 | tier 3 self | confirmed | 1 |
| METR and Redwood Offer Postmortem Of The HuggingFace Hack | Zvi Mowshowitz | 2026-08 | tier 4 press | confirmed | 1 |
| We Must Pace The Frontier | Zvi Mowshowitz | 2026-09-14 | tier 4 press | confirmed | 1 |