Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of 33,433,533 over five years to Evidence Action to provide technical assistance to support the government in setting up in-line chlorination in two states in India (Andhra Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh). This grant was made on GiveWell’s recommendation.
See GiveWell’s page on this grant for more details.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $300,000 to SJS Inc. to support its work to test a market-shaping approach to promoting alternative proteins.
Market shaping involves working with companies to dramatically lower costs and accelerate a product to market. The approach has been utilized in global health and climate technology contexts to significantly lower the costs of drugs, vaccines, diagnostics, and technology.
This follows our June 2023 support and falls within our focus area of farm animal welfare, specifically within our interest in alternatives to animal products.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $5,307,885 over five years to Dalhousie University to support research on human colostrum’s ability to reduce the incidence of neonatal sepsis.
Colostrum is produced in the mammary glands early in lactation, prior to mature milk production. This grant will support an analysis of colostrum components to identify the mechanism by which it protects newborns from infection. This is one of two grants we are making to support this work.
This falls within our focus area of scientific research.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $210,000 to the University of Warwick to support research on the impact of high-skilled immigration in the United Kingdom, led by Associate Professor Arun Advani.
This falls within our focus area of innovation policy.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $2,000,000 over two years to Probably Good for general support. Probably Good is a talent organization that helps people pursue impactful careers through services like one-on-one advising, online career guides, and a job board.
This follows our May 2024 support and falls within our focus area of empowering people to use their careers and donations to help others as much as possible.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of £985,000 (approximately $1,296,986 at the time of conversion) over two years to Ambitious Impact to support the creation of new animal welfare charities.
This follows our August 2022 support and falls within our focus area of farm animal welfare.
The grant amount was updated July 2025.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $2,500,000 to GovAI for general support. GovAI conducts research on AI governance and helps build the AI governance research community.
This follows our May 2023 support and falls within our focus area of potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of £38,000 (approximately $49,571 at the time of conversion) to the University of Southampton to support research led by Dr. Heather Browning on farm animal welfare.
This follows our September 2023 support and falls within our focus area of farm animal welfare.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $610,000 to Mantic to support research to improve the forecasting ability of LLMs, and to apply this technology to AI governance.
This falls within our focus area of forecasting.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $378,000 over two years to Ayuda Efectiva for general support. Ayuda Efectiva is a Spanish organization that works to fundraise for cost-effective charities, such as those recommended by GiveWell.
This follows our February 2023 support and falls within our focus area of empowering people to use their careers and donations to help others as much as possible.