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| 2020 || {{dts|February}} || Financial || The Open Philanthropy Project grants $7,703,750 to MIRI over two yearswith the money amount determined by the Committee for Effective Altruism Support (CEAS). Of thee funding, $6.24 million comes from Good Ventures (the usual funding source) and $1.46 milion comes from Ben Delo, co-founder of BitMEX and recent Giving Pledgee signatory, via a co-funding partnership. Other organizations receiving money based on CEAS recommendations at around the same time are Ought (also focused on AI safety), the Centre for Effective Altruism, and 80,000 Hours.<ref name="donations-portal-open-phil-ai-safety">{{cite web |url=https://donations.vipulnaik.com/donor.php?donor=Open+Philanthropy+Project&cause_area_filter=AI+safety |title=Open Philanthropy Project donations made (filtered to cause areas matching AI risk) |accessdate=July 27, 2017}}</ref> MIRI would blog about the grant in April 2020, calling the grant "our largest grant to date."<ref name=miris-largest-grant-to-date>{{cite web|url = https://intelligence.org/2020/04/27/miris-largest-grant-to-date/|title = MIRI’s largest grant to date!|last = Bensinger|first = Rob|date = April 27, 2020|accessdate = May 2, 2020|publisher = Machine Intelligence Research Institute}}</ref>
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| 2020 || {{dts|March 2}} || Financial || The Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative (BERI) grants $300,000 to MIRI. Writing about the grant in April 2020, MIRI says: "at the time of our 2019 fundraiser, we expected to receive a grant from BERI in early 2020, and incorporated this into our reserves estimates. However, we predicted the grant size would be $600k; now that we know the final grant amount, that estimate should be $300k lower."<reef ref name=miris-largest-grant-to-date/>
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| 2020 || {{dts|April 14}} || Financial || The Long-Term Future Fund grants $100,000 to MIRI.<ref name=ltf-april-2020>{{cite web|url = https://app.effectivealtruism.org/funds/far-future/payouts/3waQ7rp3Bfy4Lwr5sZP9TP|title = Fund Payout Report: April 2020 – Long-Term Future Fund Grant Recommendations|date = April 14, 2020|accessdate = May 5, 2020|publisher = Effective Altruism Funds}}</ref><ref name=miris-largest-grant-to-date/>
