Funding & Volunteering

The Coalition has been supported, so far, by over 1,500 hours of volunteer work and about  $75,000 in donations since February 2025.

Who Has Funded Us

  • Oct 2025: $10,000 Ryan Kidd (Oct 2025), CEO of a $30m/yr AI educational institution funded by the Coefficient Giving (the largest NGO and donor in the AI safety space) and regrantor based in Berkeley, California.

  • Sep 2025: $2,000 from Troy Davis (Sep 2025), international democracy activist

  • Feb 2025: $60,000 from the Survival and Flourishing Fund (SFF), the 2nd largest funder in the AI safety sector, funded by Jaan Tallinn, the founder of Skype and cofounder of the Future of Life Institute, the world's leading AI safety NGO.

  • Recurring Donations: we receive 430€/mo in recurring donations by two people, including Jens Groth for a total of about €1600. These proved critical at times.

Professional Volunteering

Since its foundation in July 2024 and until SFF's frist February 2025 seed donation, the Coalition operated entirely on a volunteer basis.

We are very proud of the astounding progress we have made. With only one full-time volunteer staff member, we still managed to catalyze over 1,500 hours of volunteer work from our community, expand from six founding NGO partners to ten, and add over 25 exceptional team members and advisors.

We launched the Coalition on December 18, 2025, via an Open Call for a Baruch Plan for AI. This was accompanied by a detailed 90-page Case for a Coalition for a Baruch Plan for AI (v. 1), featuring 22 exceptional contributors, and an explanatory video.

Some team members and advisors have contributed at considerable financial and personal costs, demonstrating exceptional dedication, sacrifice and frugality. Here are all those who so far have contributed pro-bono 20 hours or more to the Coalition:

  • Rufo Guerreschi, 950 hours

  • Felix De Simone, 130 hours,

  • Joep Meindertsma, 130 hours

  • Wendell Wallach, 80 hours

  • Robert Whitfield, 60 hours, $600

  • Tolga Bilge, 60 hours

  • Richard Pagett, 40 hours

  • David Wood, 40 hours

  • Mark Barwinski, 35 hours

  • Massimiliano Alessandri, 20 hrs

  • Roberto Savio, 25 hrs

  • various undisclosed, 300 hours