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Grants
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Grant
Title -
Organization
Name -
Focus
Area -
Amount
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Date
November 2016
Grant Title
Impossible Foods — R&D Investment
Organization Name
Impossible Foods
Focus Area
Alternatives to Animal Products
Amount
Date
November 2016
October 2020
Grant Title
Smitha Milli — Participatory Approaches to Machine Learning Workshop
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$370
Date
October 2020
May 2020
Grant Title
You Are Not Alone — Drug Possession Decriminalization
Organization Name
You Are Not Alone
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$1,500
Date
May 2020
January 2021
Grant Title
Dan Lahav – EA Debate Tournament
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$2,000
Date
January 2021
August 2015
Grant Title
ARNOVA — History of Philanthropy Prize
Organization Name
ARNOVA
Focus Area
Other Areas
Amount
$2,000
Date
August 2015
November 2018
Grant Title
Daniel Kang, Jacob Steinhardt, Yi Sun, and Alex Zhai — Study of the Robustness of Machine Learning Models
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$2,351
Date
November 2018
November 2022
Grant Title
Michael Ward — Effective Altruism Book Purchases
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$2,400
Date
November 2022
April 2021
Grant Title
International Conference on Learning Representations — Security and Safety in Machine Learning Systems Workshop
Organization Name
International Conference on Learning Representations
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$3,000
Date
April 2021
May 2020
Grant Title
International Conference on Learning Representations — Machine Learning Paper Awards
Organization Name
International Conference on Learning Representations
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$3,500
Date
May 2020
September 2022
Grant Title
Ryan Teo — Publishing Fees for BWC Paper
Organization Name
Ryan Teo
Focus Area
Science Supporting Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$3,600
Date
September 2022
January 2023
Grant Title
Oliver Crook — Travel Grant for Biological Attribution Event
Organization Name
Oliver Crook
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$4,553
Date
January 2023
October 2017
Grant Title
Initiate Justice — Prisoner Education on Prop 57
Organization Name
Initiate Justice
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$5,000
Date
October 2017
July 2021
Grant Title
Elle Pfeffer — Dissertation Research
Organization Name
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$5,000
Date
July 2021
January 2020
Grant Title
Vegan Women Summit — General Support
Organization Name
Vegan Women Summit
Focus Area
Alternatives to Animal Products
Amount
$5,000
Date
January 2020
July 2022
Grant Title
Ann Garth – Climate Change Research
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$5,250
Date
July 2022
January 2023
Grant Title
Byron Cohen — Biosecurity Community Building
Organization Name
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$5,560
Date
January 2023
January 2021
Grant Title
Effective Altruism Debate Championship — General Support
Organization Name
Effective Altruism Debate Championship
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$5,915
Date
January 2021
February 2023
Grant Title
Animal Ethics — Longtermist Animal Welfare Research
Organization Name
Animal Ethics
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$6,100
Date
February 2023
January 2020
Grant Title
Stanford University — AI Safety Seminar
Organization Name
Stanford University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$6,500
Date
January 2020
March 2022
Grant Title
Egor Krasheninnikov — Research Collaboration with David Krueger
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$6,526
Date
March 2022
March 2022
Grant Title
Usman Anwar — Research Collaboration with David Krueger
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$6,526
Date
March 2022
October 2018
Grant Title
Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics — Animal Sentience Workshop
Organization Name
Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$6,683
Date
October 2018
April 2018
Grant Title
Stanford University — NIPS Workshop on Machine Learning Security
Organization Name
Stanford University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$6,771
Date
April 2018
December 2022
Grant Title
Simon McGregor — AI Risk Workshop
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$7,000
Date
December 2022
August 2018
Grant Title
GoalsRL — Workshop on Goal Specifications for Reinforcement Learning
Organization Name
GoalsRL
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$7,500
Date
August 2018
June 2016
Grant Title
Vera Institute of Justice — Common Justice
Organization Name
Vera Institute of Justice
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$8,000
Date
June 2016
May 2021
Grant Title
iGEM — Support for Team ABSI_Kenya’s Project
Organization Name
International Genetically Engineered Machine Foundation
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$8,500
Date
May 2021
July 2020
Grant Title
Momentum — Criminal Justice Reform Trainings (2020)
Organization Name
Momentum
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$9,000
Date
July 2020
June 2022
Grant Title
Ajantha Nadesalingam — Effective Altruism Blog
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$9,120
Date
June 2022
January 2023
Grant Title
EffiSciences — Existential Risk Programs
Organization Name
Effisciences
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$9,600
Date
January 2023
February 2015
Grant Title
ASUC — Effective Altruists of Berkeley “DeCal” University Course
Organization Name
Associated Students of the University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$10,000
Date
February 2015
May 2020
Grant Title
Mass Liberation Arizona — General Support
Organization Name
Mass Liberation Arizona
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$10,000
Date
May 2020
October 2018
Grant Title
Photo Patch Foundation — General Support
Organization Name
Photo Patch Foundation
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$10,000
Date
October 2018
March 2020
Grant Title
Against COVID-19 — COVID-19 Database Support
Organization Name
Against COVID-19
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$10,000
Date
March 2020
August 2022
Grant Title
Associated Students of Stanford University — Stanford Law School EA Group
Organization Name
Associated Students of Stanford University
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$10,000
Date
August 2022
April 2019
Grant Title
Photo Patch Foundation — General Support (2019)
Organization Name
Photo Patch Foundation
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$10,000
Date
April 2019
May 2018
Grant Title
Nick Otis — Forecasting Research
Organization Name
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$10,000
Date
May 2018
February 2019
Grant Title
Legal Services for Prisoners with Children — CJR Events Support
Organization Name
Legal Services for Prisoners with Children
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$10,000
Date
February 2019
October 2022
Grant Title
Trevor Woolley — Effective Altruism Economics Course
Organization Name
University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$10,350
Date
October 2022
October 2018
Grant Title
Otwarte Klatki — CARE Conference Travel Grants
Organization Name
Otwarte Klatki
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$10,350
Date
October 2018
June 2018
Grant Title
Compassion in World Farming — Organizational Development
Organization Name
Compassion in World Farming
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$10,720
Date
June 2018
January 2024
Grant Title
Dartmouth — Workshop Travel Expenses (January 2024)
Organization Name
Dartmouth
Focus Area
Innovation Policy
Amount
$11,000
Date
January 2024
October 2022
Grant Title
Catherine Brewer — OxAI Safety Hub
Organization Name
OxAI Safety Hub
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$11,622
Date
October 2022
May 2022
Grant Title
IDinsight — Moral Weights Survey Planning
Organization Name
IDinsight
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$11,760
Date
May 2022
November 2022
Grant Title
Nathan Maya — Effective Altruism Student Retreat
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$11,850
Date
November 2022
March 2024
Grant Title
Cambridge Biosecurity Hub – Biosecurity Course and Club Events
Organization Name
Cambridge Biosecurity Hub
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$11,936
Date
March 2024
September 2018
Grant Title
Better Eating International — Organizational Development
Organization Name
Better Eating International
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$12,690
Date
September 2018
January 2023
Grant Title
Jake Pencharz — Metagenomic Sequencing Research
Organization Name
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$12,900
Date
January 2023
December 2022
Grant Title
Michel Justen — Career Transition
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$13,000
Date
December 2022
October 2019
Grant Title
Humane Society International — African Swine Fever Training
Organization Name
Humane Society International
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$13,145
Date
October 2019
March 2018
Grant Title
Aquaculture Stewardship Council — Organizational Development
Organization Name
Aquaculture Stewardship Council
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$13,813
Date
March 2018
February 2023
Grant Title
WorkStream Business Systems — EA Operations and Leadership Fellowships
Organization Name
WorkStream Business Systems
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$14,000
Date
February 2023
April 2020
Grant Title
Reducetarian Foundation — Fish Consumption Messaging Research
Organization Name
Reducetarian Foundation
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$14,190
Date
April 2020
March 2021
Grant Title
Duke University — COVID-19 Antiviral Studies (Timothy Haystead)
Organization Name
Duke University
Focus Area
Science Supporting Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$14,355
Date
March 2021
November 2017
Grant Title
InterAcademy Partnership — Side Event at the BWC Meeting of State Parties
Organization Name
InterAcademy Partnership
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$14,605
Date
November 2017
May 2017
Grant Title
Eurogroup for Animals — Broiler Chicken Welfare Campaign
Organization Name
Eurogroup for Animals
Focus Area
Broiler Chicken Welfare
Amount
$14,961
Date
May 2017
May 2020
Grant Title
Court Watch NOLA — General Support (2020)
Organization Name
Court Watch NOLA
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$15,000
Date
May 2020
January 2022
Grant Title
Nonlinear Fund — Personal Assistant Hiring Agency
Organization Name
Nonlinear Fund
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$15,000
Date
January 2022
April 2020
Grant Title
Families Against Mandatory Minimums — General Support
Organization Name
Families Against Mandatory Minimums
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$15,000
Date
April 2020
July 2017
Grant Title
The Ahimsa Collective — Restorative Justice Movement-Building Report
Organization Name
The Ahimsa Collective
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$15,000
Date
July 2017
October 2022
Grant Title
Thomas Liao — Foundation Model Tracker
Organization Name
Foundation Model Tracker
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$15,000
Date
October 2022
April 2020
Grant Title
Brown Institute for Media Innovation — COVID-19 Rapid Micro-Grants
Organization Name
Brown Institute for Media Innovation
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$15,000
Date
April 2020
May 2020
Grant Title
Public Policy and Education Fund of New York — Criminal Justice Reform
Organization Name
Public Policy and Education Fund of New York
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$15,000
Date
May 2020
February 2020
Grant Title
Commonwealth Veterinary Association — Farm Animal Welfare
Organization Name
Commonwealth Veterinary Association
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$15,000
Date
February 2020
April 2019
Grant Title
Tampere University — Work on Global Catastrophic Risks (2019)
Organization Name
Tampere University
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$15,000
Date
April 2019
May 2019
Grant Title
Alliance for Safety and Justice — General Support (May 2019)
Organization Name
Alliance for Safety and Justice
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$15,000
Date
May 2019
June 2020
Grant Title
Andrew Lohn — Paper on Machine Learning Model Robustness
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$15,000
Date
June 2020
October 2018
Grant Title
Momentum — Criminal Justice Reform Trainings
Organization Name
Momentum
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$15,000
Date
October 2018
February 2023
Grant Title
Rethink Priorities — Moral Weight Book Rights
Organization Name
Rethink Priorities
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$15,000
Date
February 2023
September 2020
Grant Title
BlackRoots Alliance — Work on Prosecutor Accountability (2020)
Organization Name
BlackRoots Alliance
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$15,000
Date
September 2020
August 2022
Grant Title
Commonwealth Veterinary Association — Animal Welfare Training (2022)
Organization Name
Commonwealth Veterinary Association
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$15,000
Date
August 2022
February 2017
Grant Title
Genspace — DIYbio and FBI Meeting
Organization Name
Genspace
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$15,000
Date
February 2017
March 2021
Grant Title
Faunalytics — Farm Animal Welfare Goal Setting and Impact Tracking
Organization Name
Faunalytics
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$15,000
Date
March 2021
April 2020
Grant Title
Riverside Justice Table — Criminal Justice Reform Work
Organization Name
Riverside Justice Table
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$15,000
Date
April 2020
May 2019
Grant Title
Just Media — Communications Training
Organization Name
Just Media
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$15,000
Date
May 2019
April 2020
Grant Title
Amistad Law Project — General Support (April 2020)
Organization Name
Amistad Law Project
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$15,000
Date
April 2020
June 2020
Grant Title
Frontline Dads — General Support (June 2020)
Organization Name
Frontline Dads
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$15,000
Date
June 2020
April 2020
Grant Title
Effective Altruism Foundation — European Policy Research
Organization Name
Effective Altruism Foundation
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$15,358
Date
April 2020
July 2022
Grant Title
University of Washington — Philosophy of AI Course Development
Organization Name
University of Washington
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$16,500
Date
July 2022
January 2023
Grant Title
Jeremy Rubinoff — AI Safety Retreat
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$16,587
Date
January 2023
January 2020
Grant Title
Press Shop — Support for Human Compatible
Organization Name
Press Shop
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$17,000
Date
January 2020
May 2019
Grant Title
Animal Kingdom Foundation — Corporate Campaigns (May 2019)
Organization Name
Animal Kingdom Foundation
Focus Area
Cage-Free Reforms
Amount
$17,000
Date
May 2019
June 2017
Grant Title
Center for Effective Global Action at UC Berkeley — Deworming Study Planning Gift
Organization Name
Center for Effective Global Action at UC Berkeley
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$18,000
Date
June 2017
February 2023
Grant Title
Alignment Research Engineer Accelerator — AI Safety Technical Program
Organization Name
Alignment Research Engineer Accelerator
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$18,800
Date
February 2023
December 2021
Grant Title
William D’Alessandro — Course Development Support
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$19,000
Date
December 2021
May 2021
Grant Title
Jennifer Dodd — Machine Learning Self-Study
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$19,200
Date
May 2021
September 2022
Grant Title
Centre for the Governance of AI — Research Assistant
Organization Name
Centre for the Governance of AI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$19,200
Date
September 2022
January 2023
Grant Title
Adam Jermyn — Independent AI Alignment Research
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$19,231
Date
January 2023
June 2022
Grant Title
Universidad de Sevilla — Course on Effective Altruism
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$19,982
Date
June 2022
December 2017
Grant Title
One Voice — General Support
Organization Name
One Voice
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$20,000
Date
December 2017
August 2020
Grant Title
Workers Center for Racial Justice — Prosecutorial Accountability in Chicago (2020)
Organization Name
Workers Center for Racial Justice
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$20,000
Date
August 2020
December 2017
Grant Title
The Prodigal Child Project — General Support
Organization Name
The Prodigal Child Project
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$20,000
Date
December 2017
March 2021
Grant Title
Tampere University — Work on Global Catastrophic Risks (2021)
Organization Name
Tampere University
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$20,000
Date
March 2021
October 2020
Grant Title
Vegan Women Summit — Plant- and Cell-Based Startup Pitch Competition
Organization Name
Vegan Women Summit
Focus Area
Alternatives to Animal Products
Amount
$20,000
Date
October 2020
April 2022
Grant Title
Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity — AI Standards (2022)
Organization Name
University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$20,000
Date
April 2022
August 2023
Grant Title
Animal Charity Evaluators — Impact Consultant
Organization Name
Animal Charity Evaluators
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$20,000
Date
August 2023
March 2019
Grant Title
Columbia University — Beyond the Bars Conference 2019
Organization Name
Center for Justice at Columbia University
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$20,000
Date
March 2019
March 2024
Grant Title
Dartmouth — Workshop Travel Expenses (March 2024)
Organization Name
Dartmouth
Focus Area
Innovation Policy
Amount
$20,000
Date
March 2024
May 2018
Grant Title
Greenburger Center for Social and Criminal Justice — Criminal Justice Convening
Organization Name
Greenburger Center for Social and Criminal Justice
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$20,000
Date
May 2018
January 2018