Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $200,000 to Solutions for Our Climate Korea to support advocacy efforts promoting the accelerated adoption of alternative proteins.
This falls within our focus area of farm animal welfare, specifically within our interest in alternatives to animal products.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $500,000 to UC Davis to support the construction of an insectary on the island of Príncipe. This facility will support research into the potential ecological impact of releasing genetically engineered Anopheles mosquitoes designed to prevent transmission of Plasmodium falciparum, the parasite responsible for causing malaria.
This follows our December 2021 support and falls within our focus area of scientific research, specifically within our interest in advancing human health and wellbeing.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $2,880,750 over three years to Harvard University to support Dr. Flaminia Catteruccia’s research on a novel method of malaria prevention. The project will develop bednets and sprays that target the malaria parasites within mosquitoes to prevent malaria transmission, and establish improved screening methods for more potent transmission-blocking compounds. The activity of these nets will be evaluated in proof-of-concept hut trials, and their potential impact and cost-effectiveness will be modeled, with the ultimate goal of advancing promising interventions to larger field trials. This is one of two grants we’ve made to support this work.
This falls within our focus area of global health R&D.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $6,160 to the University of Warsaw to support the development and running of a course called “Critical Introduction to Effective Altruism” taught by Maciej Zając.
We sought applications for this funding to support the development of courses on a range of topics that are relevant to certain areas of Open Philanthropy’s grantmaking.
This falls within our focus area of growing and empowering the community of people focused on global catastrophic risk reduction.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $1,095,017 over two years to Northeastern University to support Professor David Bau‘s research on interpreting large language models.
This follows our November 2022 support and falls within our focus area of potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $100,000 to the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine to support research focused on understanding the main gaps in evidence and additional barriers that hinder the implementation of malaria chemoprevention strategies targeted at school-aged children, led by Dr. Lauren Cohee.
This falls within our focus area of global health R&D.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $661,635 over three years to the Fund for the Global Fund (FGF). This grant will support the Friends of the Global Fund, Japan (FGFJ), a private initiative launched and operated by Japan Center for International Exchange (JCIE), in its efforts to raise awareness of The Global Fund within Japan. The FGF coordinates organizations in the US, Europe, and Japan that advocate for The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
This follows our October 2023 support and falls within our focus area of global aid policy.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $77,000 over two years to Positive Money Europe to support their research and advocacy on macroeconomic and monetary policy in Europe.
This follows our January 2022 support and falls within our focus area of macroeconomic stabilization policy. It represents an “exit grant” that will provide Positive Money Europe with operational support.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $42,273 to Government Relations Group to support advocacy work for Japan to increase its contribution to the World Health Organization Expanded Special Project for Elimination of Neglected Tropical Disease.
This falls within our focus area of global aid policy.
This project was supported through a contractor agreement. While we typically do not publish pages for contractor agreements, we occasionally opt to do so.
The contract amount was updated in May 2025.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $880,000 over two years to Stanford University to support a project evaluating the abilities of Large Language Model (LLM) agents at generating Machine Learning (ML) research project ideas via a large-scale experiment, led by Assistant Professor Tatsunori Hashimoto.
This grant was funded via a request for proposals for projects benchmarking LLM agents on consequential real-world tasks and falls within our focus area of potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence.