Top Contributors
The Machine Intelligence Research Institute has had 4,793 contributors throughout its history. Those who have given $5,000 or more and wish to be recognized are listed below.
Recent Contributors
Active supporters who have given within the past five years, listed with their total contributions (including earlier support and matching funds leveraged):
| Open Philanthropy | $15,925,143 |
| Vitalik Buterin | $5,411,216 |
| Jaan Tallinn | $1,631,447 |
| Survival and Flourishing Fund | $1,479,607 |
| Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative | $1,101,000 |
| EA Funds Long-Term Future Fund | $788,994 |
| Jed McCaleb | $773,138 |
| Loren A. Merritt | $725,000 |
| Edwin Daniel Evans | $609,197 |
| Richard Schwall | $527,129 |
| Future of Life Institute | $412,252 |
| Jonathan Weissman | $231,290 |
| Scott Dickey | $196,520 |
| Sebastian Hagen | $150,338 |
| Fergus Dall | $150,062 |
| Michael Blume | $142,155 |
| Gordon Irlam | $119,700 |
| The Maurice Amado Foundation | $106,000 |
| Paul Crowley | $99,397 |
| Robin Powell | $96,595 |
| Ben Hoskin | $94,370 |
| Simon Sáfár | $83,843 |
| Robert Mushkatblat | $77,050 |
| Mikko J Rauhala | $67,937 |
| Alan Chang | $60,570 |
| Mikhail Samin | $58,477 |
| János Kramár | $47,425 |
| Mick Porter | $47,210 |
| Max Kesin | $34,778 |
| Kenn Hamm | $34,708 |
| Alex Schell | $33,488 |
| Derek Kisman | $33,000 |
| Jesse Liptrap | $29,703 |
| Jeremy Schlatter | $28,939 |
| Bruno Parga | $27,922 |
| Liron Shapira | $26,770 |
| Ivan Bakhtsin | $25,670 |
| Luke Titmus | $24,898 |
| Phil Hazelden | $24,502 |
| Joshua Fox | $23,842 |
| Lance Jackson | $22,420 |
| William Ehlhardt | $21,240 |
| Jay Schweikert | $19,271 |
| Clark Gaebel | $19,011 |
| William Morgan | $19,000 |
| Laura and Chris Soares | $17,110 |
| Elisabeth Davis | $15,268 |
| Radu Floricica | $14,893 |
| Eric Lin | $14,095 |
| Tobias Dänzer | $14,059 |
| Grady Simon | $13,780 |
| Cliff & Stephanie Hyra | $12,204 |
| Alexander Popov | $11,521 |
| Andrew Rettek | $10,035 |
| Jim Dauterive | $9,301 |
| Daniel Hook | $8,950 |
| Paul Rhodes | $8,426 |
| Nader Chehab | $7,786 |
| Nate and Julia Sharpe | $7,705 |
Top contributors are listed under “Recent” if at least $500 of their support came in the past 5 years.
Past Contributors
Other supporters who helped get us to where we are today:
| Thiel Foundation | $1,627,000 |
| Christian Calderon | $367,575 |
| Blake Borgeson | $350,492 |
| Raising for Effective Giving | $204,167 |
| Brian Cartmell | $146,700 |
| Alameda Research | $132,226 |
| Ethan Ashkie | $123,842 |
| Patrick LaVictoire | $117,199 |
| Eric S Rogstad | $100,691 |
| Marius van Voorden (via Bitcoin) | $71,461 |
| Buck Shlegeris | $70,184 |
| Leif K-Brooks | $67,216 |
| Luke Stebbing | $63,417 |
| Chris Haley | $60,350 |
| The Casey & Family Foundation | $60,000 |
| Alexei Andreev | $58,763 |
| Misha Gurevich | $52,370 |
| Brandon Reinhart | $50,050 |
| Bryce Woodworth | $45,118 |
| Jason Joachim | $44,100 |
| Michael Cohen | $39,389 |
| Austin Peña | $37,518 |
| Quinn Maurmann | $35,103 |
| Mihaly Barasz | $34,160 |
| Mike Anderson | $33,613 |
| Scott Siskind | $33,500 |
| Gustav Simonsson | $30,281 |
| Peter Scott | $30,000 |
| Henrik Jonsson | $29,909 |
| Guy Srinivasan | $29,210 |
| Tomer Kagan | $26,500 |
| Kelsey S Piper | $25,728 |
| Scott Worley | $25,003 |
| Martine Rothblatt | $25,000 |
| Gary Basin | $25,000 |
| Marcello Herreshoff | $24,050 |
| Johan Edström | $23,680 |
| Nathaniel Soares | $23,230 |
| Kevin Fischer | $21,230 |
| Nicolas Tarleton | $19,560 |
| Jai Dhyani | $19,156 |
| Leopold Bauernfeind | $18,900 |
| Sergejs Silko | $18,200 |
| John Salvatier | $17,719 |
| Stanley Pecavar | $17,450 |
| Victoria Krakovna | $16,833 |
| Rolf Nelson | $15,810 |
| Ethan Sterling | $15,460 |
| Sergio Martinez Lahidalga Tarrero | $15,332 |
| Zvi Mowshowitz | $15,010 |
| Quixey | $15,000 |
| James Mazur | $14,753 |
| Tran Bao Trung | $14,379 |
| Aleksei Riikonen | $14,372 |
| Brian Tomasik | $14,010 |
| Isaac F Leonard | $12,509 |
| Michael Roy Ames | $12,500 |
| Daniel Weinand | $12,400 |
| Robert and Judith Babcock | $11,600 |
| Pasha Kamyshev | $11,600 |
| Carsten Otto | $11,523 |
| Michal Pokorný | $10,406 |
| Riley Goodside | $10,049 |
| Gil Elbaz | $10,000 |
| Adam Weissman | $10,000 |
| Josh Triplett | $10,000 |
| Chris Barnett | $9,717 |
| Charlie Dake | $9,229 |
| Benjamin Goldhaber | $8,625 |
| Richard Ngo | $8,579 |
| Daniel R Nelson | $8,147 |
| Robert and Gery Ruddick | $8,000 |
| Michael D Plotz | $7,960 |
| Donald King | $7,500 |
| Stephan T. Lavavej | $7,500 |
| Benjamin R Hoffman | $7,373 |
| Andrew McKnight | $7,354 |
| Xerxes Dotiwalla | $7,200 |
| Joel Lehman | $7,000 |
| Nhat Anh Phan | $7,000 |
| Alex Edelman | $6,932 |
| Raymond Arnold | $6,770 |
| James and Darin Douma | $6,430 |
| Sam Z Eisenstat | $6,356 |
| Kevin Secretan | $6,251 |
| Andrew Hay | $6,201 |
| Bryan Gordon Dana | $6,186 |
| András Kovács | $6,156 |
| Jean-Philippe Sugarbroad | $6,100 |
| T. Swett | $6,081 |
| Emma Borhanian | $6,000 |
| Trenton Osborn | $6,000 |
| Stephanie Watson Zolayvar | $5,901 |
| Jacob Falkovich | $5,524 |
| Fathom Computing PBC | $5,500 |
| Frank Adamek | $5,250 |
| John Maxwell | $5,215 |
| Mark Xu | $5,204 |
| Giles Edkins | $5,145 |
| Ryan Carey | $5,086 |
| Jeff Bone | $5,000 |
| Thomas Campbell Jackson | $5,000 |
| Tuxedage John Adams | $5,000 |
| Daniel Ziegler | $5,000 |
| Robert Yaman | $5,000 |
| Kevin R. Fischer | $5,000 |
| Steve Byrnes | $5,000 |
Please contact development@intelligence.org if you believe you qualify for either of these lists and wish to be recognized.
These lists were last updated on 2026/02/12 (15:52 Pacific).