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ACX Grants 2025

2 proposals
39 active projects
$1.75M
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Daniela Shuman

Improve eligibility for organ donation

Help previously ineligible living organ donors become eligible to donate

ACX Grants 2025Global health & development
6
2
$105K raised
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Screwworm Free Future

Screwworm Free Future: Seizing the Eradication Window

Accelerate eradication of the New World Screwworm from South America via research, coordination, and advocacy around safe development of gene-drives

ACX Grants 2025
6
1
$55.6K raised
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Jacob Witten

mRNA for airway disease

Cure idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, eventually reverse lung aging

ACX Grants 2025
1
6
$80K raised
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Gregory Sadler

Good Ancestors (Australia)

Advocate for Australian policies that safeguard against global catastrophic risks – including pandemics, AI risks, and catastrophic disasters.

ACX Grants 2025
3
2
$65K raised
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Markus Englund

Software to detect data fabrication

Continue developing ‘copy-paste-detective’ - a software that detects signs of data fabrication in scientific research - and run it against 20,000 publicly available Excel datasets.

Science & technologyACX Grants 2025
2
1
$50K raised
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Daniel Elton

The Metascience Observatory

AI pipelines to conduct metascience research at scale, mapping how reproducibility and rigor vary across fields, countries, institutions, and journals.

ACX Grants 2025
2
2
$35K raised
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Elaine Perlman

More End Kidney Deaths campaigning

Continue leading a national campaign to pass the End Kidney Deaths Act (H.R. 2687), a bill projected to save 100,000 lives and $37B in taxpayer costs over the next decade.

ACX Grants 2025
1
1
$94K / $188K
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David Rozado

Disentangling Political Bias from Epistemic Integrity in AI Systems

An Integrative Framework for Auditing Political Preferences and Truth-Seeking in AI Systems

Science & technologyTechnical AI safetyACX Grants 2025AI governanceForecastingGlobal catastrophic risks
1
1
$50K raised
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Kurtis Lockhart

YIMBY movement for African cities

Support the AUL to bring a YIMBY movement to African cities so these cities can build the urban infrastructure needed to accommodate ~900 million new urbanites by 2050.

ACX Grants 2025
0
1
$85K raised
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Jacob Arbeid

Help AIs create AI safety tools

Automated creation of defensive tools like AI control protocols and defensive cybersecurity agents

Technical AI safetyACX Grants 2025
0
1
$80K raised
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Yonatan Grad

Research introduction of new antibiotics

Since new antibiotics are a rare and precious resource, how do we best introduce them to minimize the emergence and spread of resistance?

ACX Grants 2025
0
1
$78K raised
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JD Bauman

Advertise Christians for Impact (EA for Christians)

Scale the reach of evidence-based, impact-focused career advice for Christians through a high-leverage digital engagement campaign at Christians for Impact.

ACX Grants 2025
1
1
$40K raised
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Charlie Molthrop

Normie-friendly prediction market interfaces

Normie-friendly interfaces for prediction markets and their probabilities

ACX Grants 2025
2
4
$7K raised
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Alejandro Acelas

AI to screen DNA orders

Create open-source AI tools for customer screening of DNA orders.

ACX Grants 2025
1
2
$26K raised
Jorge Bastos

AI that standardizes and curates bio datasets

Create a permanent, public, and computable foundation of biological knowledge by building an AI-powered engine that automatically standardizes and curates the world’s biological datasets—past, present, and future.

ACX Grants 2025
0
1
$70K raised
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Thomas Lingard on behalf of Stichting Centre for Future Generations

Transformative AI scenarios for EU policymakers

Build awareness and urgency among European policymakers on AI’s rapid, transformative impacts through future scenarios and targeted institutional engagement

ACX Grants 2025
1
1
$30K raised
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GG

Eradicate the hidden factory farming of feeder rodents

Developing and commercializing an alternative to feeder rodents—tackling one of the most neglected and high-suffering forms of factory farming.

Science & technologyACX Grants 2025Animal welfareBiosecurity
0
1
$50.2K raised
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Micaella Rogers

Lead-acid battery recycling in Philippines

Develop and promote market-based policies to reduce informal lead-acid battery recycling in the Philippines.

ACX Grants 2025Global health & development
0
1
$50K raised
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Nishank Bhalla

Vaccine manufacturing platform

Creating a manufacturing platform to rapidly and scalably manufacture vaccines against current and emerging viral pandemic threats.

ACX Grants 2025
0
1
$50K raised
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Misha Gurevich

make and sell far-UVC lamps for air disinfection

Make cheap, inherently safe, and effective consumer 222nm far-UVC lamps for air and surface disinfection

ACX Grants 2025
0
1
$50K / $250K