Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of €195,800 (approximately $211,014 at the time of conversion) to the Bouisson-Bertrand Institute to support a study assessing the impact of loiasis disease (African eye worm) on people living in Republic of Congo and Cameroon.
This falls within our focus area of global health R&D.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $2,178,700 to Apollo Research for general support. Apollo Research is a research organization that develops evaluations to test the alignment and safety of AI models, with a focus on capability evaluations, interpretability research, and governance.
This follows our June 2023 support and falls within our focus area of potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence.
Open Philanthropy recommended two grants totaling €1,233,318 (approximately $1,329,945 at the time of conversion) over three years to Eurogroup for Animals to support their efforts to insert farm animal welfare language into EU trade agreements. The farm animal welfare team views trade agreements as a relatively neglected way to improve the welfare of farmed animals.
This follows our February 2022 support and falls within our focus area of farm animal welfare.
The grant amount was updated in July 2025.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $250,000 to Probably Good to support its work on online content, including career guides and career profiles, aimed at helping people have more impact with their careers.
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.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $39,400 to A World of Good Initiative (AWOGI) to support a forum for policymakers on farm animal welfare in Pakistan. The forum will be co-organized by AWOGI and Pakistan’s Ministry of National Food Safety & Research.
This falls within our focus area of farm animal welfare, specifically within our interest in farm animal welfare in Asia.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $2,585,990 over five years to the University of Pennsylvania to support Professor Kotaro Sasaki’s research on converting stem cells into male germ cells.
This work will help advance our basic understanding of how the human body generates spermatozoa and their progenitor cells and may contribute to the development of new infertility treatments.
This follows our December 2022 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 $21,060 to the Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative to support a workshop on using AI to improve epistemics. The workshop was led by Julian Michael, and the organizing committee included Deger Turan, Colleen McKenzie, Owain Evans, and Josh Rosenberg.
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 $4,371,604 to Evidence Action to support deworming programs in select locations in Nigeria, Pakistan, Kenya, and India through 2026. This grant was made on GiveWell’s recommendation.
See GiveWell’s page on this grant for more details.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of £75,000 (approximately $92,597 at the time of conversion) over two years to Faculty AI to support the development of a wargame for a documentary about the potential risks of advanced AI.
This falls within our focus area of growing and empowering the community of people focused on global catastrophic risk reduction.
Open Philanthropy recommended a contract of $982,500 with Kyle House Group to consult on Open Philanthropy’s global aid policy strategy and to advocate for select aid policy goals within the United States.
This follows our January 2023 contract and falls within our focus area of global aid policy.
While we typically do not publish pages for contractor agreements, we occasionally opt to do so.
The grant amount was updated in April 2025.