We believe choosing causes is the most important decision a philanthropist can make, so we think hard about where our funding can help others the most. To maximize impact, we prioritize causes based on three criteria: importance, neglectedness, and tractability.
Highlighted Grants
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KU Leuven — Influenza Antiviral Research
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $3,550,000 to KU Leuven to support research, led by Lieve Naesens, to optimize drug candidates that inhibit the influenza virus RNA polymerase and may be useful as antiviral drugs.
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The University of Chicago — EPIC Air Quality Fund
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $1,490,000 to The University of Chicago to establish an Air Quality Fund at the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC), and to support the fund’s first round of regranting.
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Stanford University — LLM Cybersecurity Benchmark
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $2,937,000 to Stanford University to support research to develop a benchmark for the cybersecurity capabilities of large language model (LLM) agents.
About Us
Open Philanthropy started with the question:
How can we accomplish as much good as possible with our giving?
Our mission is to help others as much as we can with the resources available to us. So far, we’ve concentrated on selecting focus areas in two broad categories: Global Health and Wellbeing and Global Catastrophic Risks.
Our main funders are Cari Tuna and Dustin Moskovitz.