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While we typically do not publish pages for contractor agreements, we occasionally opt to do so.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.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $301,800 to the University of Chicago to support the Existential Risk Laboratory (formerly known as the Chicago School of Existential Risk), a summer research fellowship for undergraduate and graduate students focused on reducing existential risks.
This follows our May 2023 support and falls within our focus area of Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $139,228 to Effective Altruism Israel to support a pilot program for information security talent development.
This falls within our focus area of potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $88,240 to Rethink Priorities to support experiments testing public responses to different branding strategies within the effective altruism and longtermism movements.
This falls within our focus area of Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of £36,547 (approximately $46,524 at the time of conversion) to Imperial College London to support a project led by Dr. Joseph Challenger.
The project aims to update model predictions of the impact of a malaria transmission-blocking vaccine (Pfs230D1/Matrix-M), either alone or in combination with the R21 or RTS,S vaccines.
This falls within our focus area of global health R&D.
Open Philanthropy recommended a contract of JPY 3,500,000 (approximately $22,400 at the time of conversion) with Big Picture to support a project aimed at understanding the feasibility and potential impact of building political will for increased emphasis on global health within aid allocation. Big Picture is a government affairs consultancy in Japan.
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 While we typically do not publish pages for contractor agreements, we occasionally opt to do so.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $1,149,000 over two years to Successif, an advising service that helps experienced professionals transition to impactful roles focused on mitigating catastrophic risks from artificial intelligence.
This follows our February 2023 support and falls within our focus area of Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $550,000 to Sage to support the creation of public explainers and demos explaining AI capabilities and their effects for AI Digest, a website focused on recent developments in AI.
This falls within our focus area of potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $550,000 to Sage to support the development and maintenance of forecasting software tools like Fatebook and Quantified Intuitions.
This falls within our focus area of forecasting.
Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $2,750,000 to Metaculus to support work to improve its online forecasting platform, which allows forecasters to make predictions about world events. Metaculus has a strong forecasting track record, and offers direct forecasting services to organizations (including the option to run tournaments on specific topics).
We believe this work will help to provide more accurate and calibrated forecasts in domains relevant to Open Philanthropy’s work — such as AI and biosecurity and pandemic preparedness — and enable organizations and individuals working in those areas to make better decisions.
This follows our April 2023 support and falls within our focus area of forecasting.