COOPERATIVE AI FOUNDATION — grant history

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Latest income

£2.3m

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£1.6m

Accounts grants total

£1.6m

listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2025 accounts

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

Deadlines: Applications are due by 9 August 12:59 BST (8 August 23:59 AoE).

Summarised from www.cooperativeai.org · www.cooperativeai.org/post/10m-funding-call-launched-with-schmidt-sciences-google-deepmind-and-aria · www.cooperativeai.org/post/updates-to-the-caif-grant-program-in-2025 on 14/08/2026. Always check the funder’s site before applying.

What this funder supports

Based on the register classifications and operating areas of the grant recipients we could match to the charity register (a subset of all grantees).

Causes funded

Arts/culture/heritage/science (1 grantee)
Education/training (1 grantee)
Other Charitable Purposes (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Throughout England And Wales (1 grantee)

What changed: FY2024 → FY2025

Grantees that appear, disappear or move by 50%+ between the two most recent filings we have read. A grantee “dropped” may simply have received a multi-year grant earlier.

Change	Grantee	FY2024	FY2025
new	Oxford University	—	£366k
new	the Evens Foundation	—	£209k
new	AI Safety Cape Town	—	£120k
new	New York University	—	£113k
new	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	—	£91k
new	Principles of Intel	—	£71k
new	Uppsala University	—	£51k
new	Epistea	—	£50k
up	PhD Fellowships	£278k	£441k
not listed	University of Michigan	£276k	—
not listed	University of Washington	£233k	—
not listed	Harvard University	£169k	—
not listed	MATS Research Inc	£55k	—
not listed	Principles of Intelligent Behaviour in Biological and Social Systems	£15k	—
not listed	MLChallenges	£1k	—
not listed	conference attendance	£706	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
PhD Fellowships	FY2025	£441k	PhD Fellowships
Oxford University	FY2025	£366k
the Evens Foundation	FY2025	£209k
AI Safety Cape Town	FY2025	£120k
New York University	FY2025	£113k
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	FY2025	£91k
Principles of Intel	FY2025	£71k
Uppsala University	FY2025	£51k
Epistea	FY2025	£50k
Centre on Long Term Risk	FY2025	£50k
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute	FY2025	£29k
Democracy sandbox	FY2025	£17k
Koranis Tanuswith	FY2025	£12k
Sonja Kraiczy	FY2025	£6k
Alan Turing Institute	FY2025	£5k
PhD Fellowships	FY2024	£278k	PhD Fellowships
University of Michigan	FY2024	£276k	University of Michigan
University of Washington	FY2024	£233k	University of Washington
Harvard University	FY2024	£169k	Harvard University
MATS Research Inc	FY2024	£55k	MATS Research Inc
Principles of Intelligent Behaviour in Biological and Social Systems	FY2024	£15k	Principles of Intelligent Behaviour in Biological and Social Systems
MLChallenges	FY2024	£1k	MLChallenges
conference attendance	FY2024	£706	support conference attendance
Stanford University	FY2023	£393k
Carnegie Mellon University	FY2023	£309k
Harvard College	FY2023	£293k
Cornell University	FY2023	£194k
University of California	FY2023	£177k
University of Washington	FY2023	£177k
University of Bonn	FY2023	£149k
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	FY2023	£110k
Emanuel Tewolde	FY2022	£7k
Francis Rhys Ward	FY2022	£6k

About this data

This grant list is extracted by automated reading of the grant-maker’s own accounts PDFs as filed with the Charity Commission, and cross-checked against the accounts’ stated grant totals (listed sum 1630198 vs reference 1630199 (0.0% diff; ref=stated)). Recipients are linked to register entries only on an exact charity-number or unambiguous exact-name match. If you represent this funder and want a correction, contact us.