Grants

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Funding Type
Focus Area
Year
Amount
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  • Grant
    Title
  • Organization
    Name
  • Focus
    Area
  • Amount
  • Date
Grant Title

Support for Career Development and Transitions

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$3,841,768
Date
January 1970
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 2016
Grant Title

Center for Applied Rationality — SPARC

Organization Name

Center for Applied Rationality

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$304,000
Date
May 2016
July 2016
Grant Title

Center for Applied Rationality — General Support

Organization Name

Center for Applied Rationality

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,035,000
Date
July 2016
September 2016
Grant Title

Founders Pledge — General Support

Organization Name

Founders Pledge

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,032,947
Date
September 2016
March 2017
Grant Title

80,000 Hours — General Support

Organization Name

80,000 Hours

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,125,000
Date
March 2017
March 2017
Grant Title

Centre for Effective Altruism — General Support (2017)

Organization Name

Centre for Effective Altruism

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$2,500,000
Date
March 2017
May 2017
Grant Title

Center for Applied Rationality — European Summer Program on Rationality

Organization Name

Center for Applied Rationality

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$340,000
Date
May 2017
January 2018
Grant Title

Center for Applied Rationality — SPARC (2018)

Organization Name

Center for Applied Rationality

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$560,000
Date
January 2018
January 2018
Grant Title

Center for Applied Rationality — General Support (2018)

Organization Name

Center for Applied Rationality

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
January 2018
February 2018
Grant Title

80,000 Hours — General Support (2018)

Organization Name

80,000 Hours

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$510,000
Date
February 2018
February 2018
Grant Title

Founders Pledge — General Support (2018)

Organization Name

Founders Pledge

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$5,222,653
Date
February 2018
March 2018
Grant Title

Centre for Effective Altruism — New Discretionary Fund

Organization Name

Centre for Effective Altruism

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$5,000,000
Date
March 2018
June 2018
Grant Title

Centre for Effective Altruism — General Support (2018)

Organization Name

Centre for Effective Altruism

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$2,688,000
Date
June 2018
February 2019
Grant Title

80,000 Hours — General Support (2019)

Organization Name

80,000 Hours

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$4,795,803
Date
February 2019
May 2019
Grant Title

Global Catastrophic Risks Scholarships — Scholarship Support (2019)

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$547,800
Date
May 2019
July 2019
Grant Title

European Summer Program on Rationality — General Support

Organization Name

European Summer Program on Rationality

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$510,000
Date
July 2019
July 2019
Grant Title

Effective Altruism Foundation — Research and Operations

Organization Name

Effective Altruism Foundation

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
July 2019
September 2019
Grant Title

EA Scholarships — Scholarship Support (2019)

Organization Name

EA Scholarships

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$49,676
Date
September 2019
September 2019
Grant Title

Centre for Effective Altruism — General Support and Community-Building Grants (2019)

Organization Name

Centre for Effective Altruism

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,755,921
Date
September 2019
January 2020
Grant Title

Centre for Effective Altruism — Support for The Precipice

Organization Name

Centre for Effective Altruism

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$38,350
Date
January 2020
January 2020
Grant Title

Centre for Effective Altruism — General Support and Community-Building Grants (2020)

Organization Name

Centre for Effective Altruism

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$4,146,795
Date
January 2020
February 2020
Grant Title

Center for Applied Rationality — General Support (2020)

Organization Name

Center for Applied Rationality

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$375,000
Date
February 2020
February 2020
Grant Title

80,000 Hours — General Support (2020)

Organization Name

80,000 Hours

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$3,457,284
Date
February 2020
February 2020
Grant Title

University of Oxford — New Office for Effective Altruism Organizations

Organization Name

University of Oxford

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$776,271
Date
February 2020
February 2020
Grant Title

Future of Humanity Institute — New DPhil Positions

Organization Name

Future of Humanity Institute

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$939,263
Date
February 2020
February 2020
Grant Title

Centre for Effective Altruism — Support for Jade Leung

Organization Name

Centre for Effective Altruism

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$180,000
Date
February 2020
April 2020
Grant Title

LessWrong — General Support

Organization Name

LessWrong

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$300,000
Date
April 2020
May 2020
Grant Title

Future of Humanity Institute — Research Scholars Programme

Organization Name

Future of Humanity Institute

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,586,224
Date
May 2020
September 2020
Grant Title

Centre for Effective Altruism — Longtermist Incubator

Organization Name

Centre for Effective Altruism

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$48,736
Date
September 2020
December 2020
Grant Title

Founders Pledge — General Support (2020)

Organization Name

Founders Pledge

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,500,000
Date
December 2020
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
January 2021
Grant Title

Dan Lahav – EA Debate Tournament

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$2,000
Date
January 2021
February 2021
Grant Title

Centre for Effective Altruism — General Support (2021)

Organization Name

Centre for Effective Altruism

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$7,500,000
Date
February 2021
May 2021
Grant Title

LessWrong — General Support (2021)

Organization Name

LessWrong

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$460,000
Date
May 2021
July 2021
Grant Title

EA Funding for Individuals — Work and Study Support

Organization Name
Focus Area
Other Areas
Amount
$719,034
Date
July 2021
September 2021
Grant Title

Peter McIntyre — Effective Altruism Community Building Projects

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$165,257
Date
September 2021
September 2021
Grant Title

Larissa Schiavo and Rachel Shu — COVID Response Documentary Miniseries

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$55,000
Date
September 2021
October 2021
Grant Title

Centre for Effective Altruism — Effective Altruism Infrastructure Fund

Organization Name

Centre for Effective Altruism

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$500,000
Date
October 2021
October 2021
Grant Title

University of Southern California — Course Development Support (Jake Nebel)

Organization Name

University of Southern California

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$33,000
Date
October 2021
October 2021
Grant Title

Eon Essay Contest — The Precipice Essay Contest

Organization Name

Eon Essay Contest

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$240,000
Date
October 2021
November 2021
Grant Title

Future of Humanity Institute — Administrative and Operational Support

Organization Name

Future of Humanity Institute

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$400,000
Date
November 2021
November 2021
Grant Title

Rational Animations — Video Animation Costs (2021)

Organization Name

Rational Animations

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$285,000
Date
November 2021
November 2021
Grant Title

Michael Specter — Course Development Support

Organization Name

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$85,000
Date
November 2021
November 2021
Grant Title

Giving What We Can — General Support

Organization Name

Giving What We Can

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$600,000
Date
November 2021
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
December 2021
Grant Title

Effective Ventures Foundation — Event Venue

Organization Name

Effective Ventures Foundation

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$23,179,563
Date
December 2021
January 2022
Grant Title

Should We Studio — Video Production

Organization Name

Should We Studio

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$2,320,000
Date
January 2022
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
January 2022
Grant Title

Effective Ventures Foundation USA — Asterisk Magazine

Organization Name

Effective Ventures Foundation USA

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$730,000
Date
January 2022
February 2022
Grant Title

Effective Altruism Funds — Regranting Support

Organization Name

Effective Altruism Funds

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$7,783,000
Date
February 2022
February 2022
Grant Title

Prometheus Science Bowl — EA-Themed Science Bowl

Organization Name

Prometheus Science Bowl

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$97,500
Date
February 2022
February 2022
Grant Title

University of Michigan — Course Development Support (Anna Edmonds)

Organization Name

University of Michigan

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$50,300
Date
February 2022
February 2022
Grant Title

Fiona Pollack — Effective Altruism Organizing at Harvard

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$75,000
Date
February 2022
March 2022
Grant Title

Centre for Effective Altruism — General Support (2022)

Organization Name

Centre for Effective Altruism

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$26,000,000
Date
March 2022
March 2022
Grant Title

Atlas Fellowship — Scholarships and Summer Program for Students

Organization Name

Atlas Fellowship

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$5,000,000
Date
March 2022
April 2022
Grant Title

University of Illinois — Course Development Support (Ben Levinstein)

Organization Name

University of Illinois

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$58,141
Date
April 2022
April 2022
Grant Title

Cecil Abungu — Effective Altruism Fellowship in Africa

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$294,000
Date
April 2022
May 2022
Grant Title

Madhu Sriram — Career Transition and Planning Grant

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$50,000
Date
May 2022
May 2022
Grant Title

European Summer Program on Rationality — General Support (2022)

Organization Name

European Summer Program on Rationality

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$4,715,000
Date
May 2022
May 2022
Grant Title

Effective Altruist Communications Fellowship — Summer 2022 Fellowship

Organization Name

Effective Altruist Communications Fellowship

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$585,000
Date
May 2022
May 2022
Grant Title

Victory Briefs Institute — Effective Altruism Curriculum for Debaters

Organization Name

Victory Briefs Institute

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$95,000
Date
May 2022
May 2022
Grant Title

80,000 Hours — General Support (2022)

Organization Name

80,000 Hours

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,250,000
Date
May 2022
June 2022
Grant Title

80,000 Hours — Marketing

Organization Name

80,000 Hours

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$3,000,000
Date
June 2022
June 2022
Grant Title

BlueDot Impact — General Support

Organization Name

BlueDot Impact

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$2,009,000
Date
June 2022
June 2022
Grant Title

Open Philanthropy Undergraduate Scholarships (2022)

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$2,392,682
Date
June 2022
June 2022
Grant Title

University of Edinburgh — Effective Altruism Psychology Course

Organization Name

University of Edinburgh

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$47,000
Date
June 2022
June 2022
Grant Title

Century Fellowship — 2022 Cohort

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,889,027
Date
June 2022
June 2022
Grant Title

Ajantha Nadesalingam — Effective Altruism Blog

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$9,120
Date
June 2022
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
July 2022
Grant Title

Non-Trivial Pursuits — General Support

Organization Name

Non-Trivial

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,005,000
Date
July 2022
July 2022
Grant Title

Future Forum Foundation — Future Forum

Organization Name

Future Forum Foundation

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$654,500
Date
July 2022
July 2022
Grant Title

Aaron Mayer — Effective Altruism Community Growth Projects

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$85,000
Date
July 2022
July 2022
Grant Title

Apollo Fellowship — Effective Altruism Debate Camp

Organization Name

Apollo Fellowship

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$321,838
Date
July 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

Effektiv Spenden — German Translation of The Life You Can Save

Organization Name

Effektiv Spenden

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$25,458
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

Support for London Group Organizers

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$125,000
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

Centre for Effective Altruism — Harvard Square Coworking Space

Organization Name

Centre for Effective Altruism

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$8,875,000
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

Kuhan Jeyapragasan — University Group Organizing

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$250,000
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

Alexandra Balwit — Publicity for The Long View

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$45,000
Date
August 2022
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
August 2022
Grant Title

Effective Altruism Funds — Operating Expenses

Organization Name

Effective Altruism Funds

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$573,000
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

Center for Applied Rationality — SPARC (2022)

Organization Name

Center for Applied Rationality

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$700,000
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

Juan Gil — Book Distribution

Organization Name

Juan Gil

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$24,745
Date
August 2022
September 2022
Grant Title

Lightcone Infrastructure – General Support

Organization Name

Lightcone Infrastructure

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$4,500,000
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title

University Organizer Fellowship

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$5,597,743
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title

Riley Harris — Global Priorities Research Blog

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$65,000
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title

Michael Specter — Existential Risk Courses at MIT

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$110,000
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title

Effective Altruism Funds — Infrastructure Fund Regranting

Organization Name

Effective Altruism Funds

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$4,929,000
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title

Princeton University — Existential Risk Course Development

Organization Name

Princeton University

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$27,555
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title

University of Queensland — Online EA Course

Organization Name

University of Queensland

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$36,561
Date
September 2022
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 2022
Grant Title

Funding for Effective Altruism-Related Translation Projects

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,545,047
Date
October 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
November 2022
Grant Title

Hamish Huggard — EA Content Creation

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$83,000
Date
November 2022
November 2022
Grant Title

Seton Hall University — Longtermism Course Development

Organization Name

Seton Hall University

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$39,780
Date
November 2022
November 2022
Grant Title

London Effective Altruism Hub — EA Organizing in London

Organization Name

Arcadia Impact

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$445,000
Date
November 2022
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
December 2022
Grant Title

Effective Ventures Foundation — General Support

Organization Name

Effective Ventures Foundation

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$11,425,000
Date
December 2022
December 2022
Grant Title

Michel Justen — Career Transition

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$13,000
Date
December 2022
December 2022
Grant Title

Latecomer Institute — Longtermist Magazine

Organization Name

Latecomer Institute

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$234,000
Date
December 2022