AI will change millions of jobs. Honest Works turns AI companies' giving into the software governments need, and pays the people AI displaces to do the work that still needs humans.
The money is coming. The question is what it flows through, and whether anyone can see where it went.
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The fund says it might make direct distributions to specific populations, names AI's labor-market impacts as one example, and says "bolder approaches may be needed."
Anthropic, "Investing in the public benefit," Oct 18, 2026$50M
Grants of $500,000 to $2 million for organizations working with city governments to improve public services with AI, open to any AI model.
OpenAI Foundation, "Helping cities deliver more for their residents," Oct 14, 2026Honest Works is independent and has no relationship with Anthropic, OpenAI, The Rockefeller Foundation or any company named on this site.
AI labs, foundations and people give to one shared fund. A published benchmark, not the donor, picks the AI model for each task.
What you won't get with us:
Every dollar we receive is published: who gave it, what it paid for, and which agency it served. No anonymous corporate money, ever.
No slogans about revolutionizing government. We bid, we build, and we publish the numbers, including the ones that don't flatter us.
No coins, no speculation, no equity games. People are paid from what governments pay us, with a long-term benefit plan on top.
Public code for public money. Open source wherever the agency allows it, licensed so nobody can close it and sell it back.
Gifts go into one shared fund. A published benchmark, not the donor, picks the AI model for each task. People are paid from what governments pay us, not from gifts. This is the ledger we will publish.
Example of the format · illustrative figures
| Donor | Gift | Spent | Went to |
|---|---|---|---|
| An AI lab | $1,500,000 | $612,400 | Model use, chosen by benchmark, on 9 county and city projects |
| A second AI lab | $1,000,000 | $388,900 | Model use on 6 state agency projects |
| A cloud provider | $600,000 | $214,000 | Hosting for 11 public websites |
| A family foundation | $500,000 | $290,500 | Training for 23 new hires |
| A community foundation | $250,000 | $131,200 | Accessibility audits for 4 school districts |
| 1,412 individual donors | $450,000 | $168,000 | Open-source tools any agency can reuse |
| Total | $4,300,000 | $1,805,000 | 38 public projects |
Developers who want to give back, funders, agencies and people whose work AI is changing: let's build it together.