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People (2)

  • Alec Stapp Former Progressive Policy Institute and Niskanen Center technology policy fellow who co-founded the Open Philanthropy-funded Institute for Progress in 2021 and became its sole chief executive in 2026.
  • Caleb Watney Co-founder and co-chief executive of the Institute for Progress who in July 2026 became Coefficient Giving's first managing director of public policy, taking over its U.S. AI policy grantmaking.

Organizations (13)

  • Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Washington foreign-policy think tank founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1910, led by William Burns and then Tino Cuéllar, which hosted Holden Karnofsky and took Open Philanthropy money for AI-governance work.
  • Center for a New American Security Washington national-security think tank founded in 2007 by Kurt Campbell and Michèle Flournoy, funded by defense contractors, the Pentagon and Coefficient Giving, whose chief executive Richard Fontaine sits on Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust.
  • Center for Security and Emerging Technology Georgetown think tank on emerging technology and national security, launched in 2019 under former IARPA director Jason Matheny with 55 million dollars from Open Philanthropy, its main funder.
  • Combating Terrorism Center at West Point Privately funded counterterrorism research center at the U.S. Military Academy, founded in February 2003 with backing from Vincent Viola, which publishes the CTC Sentinel and releases captured al-Qaida documents.
  • CRESS Army-funded counterinsurgency and psychological-warfare research center at American University, founded in 1956 as the Special Operations Research Office (SORO), which ran Project Camelot and was renamed CRESS in 1966.
  • Foundation for American Innovation Washington technology think tank founded in Silicon Valley in 2014 as Lincoln Labs, renamed in 2023, funded by conservative foundations, Coefficient Giving and AI companies, whose former board member Michael Kratsios became OSTP director.
  • Human Resources Research Institute A US Air Force-affiliated behavioral science research organization at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, that conducted classified psychological vulnerability studies of Communist China beginning in 1951, producing analyses of Chinese newspaper letter columns and family revolution dynamics intended to support propaganda targeting.
  • HumRRO A nonprofit research organization founded in 1951 that served as the US Army's primary contractor for behavioral science research, conducting classified studies on training, leadership, counterinsurgency, and psychological vulnerability before separating from George Washington University in 1969.
  • Institute for Progress Washington think tank founded in 2021 by Alec Stapp and Caleb Watney with Open Philanthropy money, working on metascience, high-skilled immigration, biotechnology, infrastructure and emerging technology policy.
  • Institute for Strategic Dialogue London counter-extremism research body incorporated in 2008 as The Trialogue Foundation, with Lord Weidenfeld on its board until 2016, whose reports track Terrorgram and nihilistic-violence networks.
  • ORO-RAC A pair of successive Army-linked research organizations at Johns Hopkins University and then McLean, Virginia, that conducted early Cold War studies on fighter selection, unit cohesion, and guerrilla psychology before the university severed the relationship and the work continued under an independent nonprofit.
  • Rand Corporation The Rand Corporation is the US Air Force's principal Cold War nonprofit think tank in Santa Monica, founded as Project RAND in 1946 and incorporated in 1948, whose Vietnam-era Viet Cong Motivation and Morale Study produced critical findings that were suppressed at the time and later vindicated by Rand's own official history.
  • USARIBSS The US Army's primary in-house behavioral and social science research organization, which operated under a series of names from its origins as the US Army Personnel Research Office through its consolidation as the Army Research Institute for Behavioral and Social Sciences in 1974.