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Grants
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Grant
Title -
Organization
Name -
Focus
Area -
Amount
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Date
December 2021
Grant Title
Centre for the Governance of AI — AI Field Building
Organization Name
Centre for the Governance of AI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$2,537,600
Date
December 2021
December 2021
Grant Title
The END Fund — General Support (2021)
Organization Name
The END Fund
Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$500,000
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
December 2021
Grant Title
Cate Hall — Self-Study for Career Transition
Organization Name
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$25,000
Date
December 2021
December 2021
Grant Title
California Renters Legal Advocacy and Education Fund — General Support (2021)
Organization Name
CalHDF
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Amount
$400,000
Date
December 2021
December 2021
Grant Title
Food and Agriculture Research — Keel Bone Damage Reduction
Organization Name
Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$3,000,000
Date
December 2021
December 2021
Grant Title
Center for Global Development — IPA Fellow Placements
Organization Name
Center for Global Development
Focus Area
Global Aid Policy
Amount
$1,050,000
Date
December 2021
December 2021
Grant Title
UC Berkeley — In-Line Water Chlorination Devices (Amy Pickering) (2021)
Organization Name
University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$1,900,000
Date
December 2021
December 2021
Grant Title
Nuclear Threat Initiative — Global Catastrophic Biological Risk Reduction (2021)
Organization Name
Nuclear Threat Initiative
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$1,250,000
Date
December 2021
December 2021
Grant Title
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai — Bat Cell Line Research
Organization Name
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Focus Area
Science Supporting Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$100,000
Date
December 2021
December 2021
Grant Title
Just Impact — Safely Reducing Incarceration
Organization Name
Just Impact
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$50,000,000
Date
December 2021
December 2021
Grant Title
Gaëtan Selle — Videos About Longtermism
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$50,000
Date
December 2021
December 2021
Grant Title
National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls — General Support (2021)
Organization Name
National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$2,000,000
Date
December 2021
December 2021
Grant Title
Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense — General Support (2021)
Organization Name
Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$1,350,000
Date
December 2021
December 2021
Grant Title
Georgetown University — Policy Fellowship (2021)
Organization Name
Georgetown University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$246,564
Date
December 2021
December 2021
Grant Title
UC Davis — Malaria Gene Drive Feasibility Analysis (Greg Lanzaro) (2021)
Organization Name
University of California, Davis
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$10,248,967
Date
December 2021
December 2021
Grant Title
Animal Welfare Awareness, Research, and Education — Pig Welfare Reforms
Organization Name
Animal Welfare Awareness, Research, and Education
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$267,723
Date
December 2021
December 2021
Grant Title
Kurzgesagt — Video Creation and Translation
Organization Name
Kurzgesagt
Focus Area
Amount
$2,855,224
Date
December 2021
December 2021
Grant Title
Harvard University — CRISPR-Based Diagnostics for Febrile Diseases
Organization Name
Harvard University
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$600,213
Date
December 2021
December 2021
Grant Title
Greater Greater Washington — Housing and Land Use Reform (2021)
Organization Name
Greater Greater Washington
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Amount
$450,000
Date
December 2021
December 2021
Grant Title
FairVote Washington — Ranked Choice Voting Adoption
Organization Name
FairVote Washington
Focus Area
Other Areas
Amount
$217,000
Date
December 2021
December 2021
Grant Title
Stanford University — Immunization Research
Organization Name
Stanford University
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$350,000
Date
December 2021
December 2021
Grant Title
Biosecurity Funding for Individuals — Work and Study Support
Organization Name
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$554,910
Date
December 2021
December 2021
Grant Title
theguardian.org – Journalism on Factory Farming and Animal Cruelty (2021)
Organization Name
The Guardian
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$450,000
Date
December 2021
December 2021
Grant Title
University of Maryland — Policy Fellowships
Organization Name
University of Maryland
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$483,880
Date
December 2021
December 2021
Grant Title
Malaria Consortium — Monitoring and Evaluation of Net Distribution in Anambra, Nigeria
Organization Name
Malaria Consortium
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$1,099,808
Date
December 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
University of Washington — Syphilis Vaccine Development (David Baker and Neil King)
Organization Name
University of Washington
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$283,539
Date
December 2021
November 2021
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — Sculpting Evolution Collaboration
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$451,571
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
November 2021
Grant Title
Redwood Research — General Support
Organization Name
Redwood Research
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$9,420,000
Date
November 2021
November 2021
Grant Title
Desegregate CT — General Support
Organization Name
Desegregate CT
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Amount
$425,000
Date
November 2021
November 2021
Grant Title
Stanford University — AI Alignment Research (2021)
Organization Name
Stanford University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,500,000
Date
November 2021
November 2021
Grant Title
iGEM — Biological Weapons Convention Verification Project
Organization Name
iGem
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$300,000
Date
November 2021
November 2021
Grant Title
Mila — Research Project on Artificial Intelligence
Organization Name
Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$237,931
Date
November 2021
November 2021
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — SERI MATS Program
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$195,000
Date
November 2021
November 2021
Grant Title
fair-fish international association — Wild-Caught Fish Welfare Standards
Organization Name
fair-fish international association
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$2,672,830
Date
November 2021
November 2021
Grant Title
University of California, San Francisco Foundation — Reproductive Medicine Research
Organization Name
University of California, San Francisco
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$550,000
Date
November 2021
November 2021
Grant Title
The Degrees Initiative — General Support (2021)
Organization Name
The Degrees Initiative
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$5,000,000
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
LatinoJustice — Criminal Justice Reform Policy & Practice Center
Organization Name
LatinoJustice
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$125,000
Date
November 2021
November 2021
Grant Title
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine — Research on Chronic Viral Infections
Organization Name
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$2,670,441
Date
November 2021
November 2021
Grant Title
UC Berkeley — Research on Labor Market Outcomes
Organization Name
University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Amount
$50,000
Date
November 2021
November 2021
Grant Title
Working Families Organization — Prosecutor Accountability and Criminal Justice Reform (2021)
Organization Name
Working Families Organization
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$1,500,000
Date
November 2021
November 2021
Grant Title
University of Washington — Protein Design Research (David Baker)
Organization Name
University of Washington (Institute for Protein Design)
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$3,263,750
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
Texas Organizing Project — Criminal Justice Reform (2021)
Organization Name
Texas Organizing Project
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$1,200,000
Date
November 2021
November 2021
Grant Title
Sightline Institute — Housing Reform in Washington and Oregon (2021)
Organization Name
Sightline Institute
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Amount
$600,000
Date
November 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
Founders Pledge — General Support (2021)
Organization Name
Founders Pledge
Focus Area
Other Areas
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
November 2021
November 2021
Grant Title
1Day Sooner — General Support (2021)
Organization Name
1Day Sooner
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Amount
$2,000,000
Date
November 2021
October 2021
Grant Title
Court Watch NOLA — General Support (2021)
Organization Name
Court Watch NOLA
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$250,000
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
October 2021
Grant Title
The Ahimsa Collective — “Life Comes From It” Fund Administration (2021)
Organization Name
The Ahimsa Collective
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$155,000
Date
October 2021
October 2021
Grant Title
Ayni Institute — Movement Strategy and Trainings
Organization Name
Ayni Institute
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$480,000
Date
October 2021
October 2021
Grant Title
Living Goods — Exit Grant
Organization Name
Living Goods
Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$100,000
Date
October 2021
October 2021
Grant Title
The Good Food Institute — General Support (2021)
Organization Name
The Good Food Institute
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$10,000,000
Date
October 2021
October 2021
Grant Title
UC Berkeley — Alternative Meats Lab (2021)
Organization Name
University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$1,146,201
Date
October 2021
October 2021
Grant Title
University of Rochester — Rural-Urban Migration in Kenya
Organization Name
University of Rochester
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$1,007,377
Date
October 2021
October 2021
Grant Title
GiveWell — General Support (2021)
Organization Name
GiveWell
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Amount
$3,600,295
Date
October 2021
October 2021
Grant Title
Californians Against Pandemics — California Pandemic Early Detection and Prevention Act Ballot Initiative
Organization Name
Californians Against Pandemics
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$11,100,000
Date
October 2021
October 2021
Grant Title
Malaria Consortium — Support for SMC in FCT and Oyo States, Nigeria
Organization Name
Malaria Consortium
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$15,900,000
Date
October 2021
October 2021
Grant Title
Wren Collective — Criminal Justice Reform Communications Strategies
Organization Name
The Wren Collective
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$250,000
Date
October 2021
October 2021
Grant Title
Fund for Alignment Research — Language Model Misalignment
Organization Name
FAR AI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$425,800
Date
October 2021
October 2021
Grant Title
Institute for Progress — Policy Research
Organization Name
Institute for Progress
Focus Area
Innovation Policy
Amount
$2,215,000
Date
October 2021
October 2021
Grant Title
IRD Global — Mobile Conditional Cash Transfers for Immunizations
Organization Name
IRD Global
Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$25,000,000
Date
October 2021
October 2021
Grant Title
University of Washington — Adversarial Robustness Research
Organization Name
University of Washington
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$730,000
Date
October 2021
October 2021
Grant Title
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition — Exit Grant
Organization Name
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition
Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$100,000
Date
October 2021
October 2021
Grant Title
Citizen Action of New York — Criminal Justice Reform (2021)
Organization Name
Citizen Action of New York
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$250,000
Date
October 2021
October 2021
Grant Title
Albert Schweitzer Foundation — General Support (2021)
Organization Name
Albert Schweitzer Foundation
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare in Europe
Amount
$3,000,000
Date
October 2021
October 2021
Grant Title
Botswana-Harvard AIDS Institute – Early detection of preterm births
Organization Name
Botswana-Harvard AIDS Institute
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$90,000
Date
October 2021
October 2021
Grant Title
University of Pennsylvania — Forecasting Tournament Planning
Organization Name
University of Pennsylvania
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$275,000
Date
October 2021
October 2021
Grant Title
Development Media International — Exit Grant
Organization Name
Development Media International
Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$100,000
Date
October 2021
October 2021
Grant Title
Food Fortification Initiative — Exit Grant
Organization Name
Food Fortification Initiative
Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$100,000
Date
October 2021
October 2021
Grant Title
Sightsavers — Deworming Programs (October 2021)
Organization Name
Sightsavers
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Amount
$4,438,085
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
The Humane League — General Support (2021)
Organization Name
The Humane League
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$7,000,000
Date
October 2021
October 2021
Grant Title
Evidence Action — Dispensers for Safe Water Exit Grant
Organization Name
Evidence Action
Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$100,000
Date
October 2021
October 2021
Grant Title
Bit by Bit Coding — High School Courses on Neural Networks
Organization Name
Bit by Bit Coding
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$250,275
Date
October 2021
October 2021
Grant Title
gui2de — Zusha! Road Safety Exit Grant
Organization Name
Georgetown University Initiative on Innovation, Development, and Evaluation
Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$100,000
Date
October 2021
October 2021
Grant Title
International Rescue Committee – Treatment of Malnutrition (October 2021)
Organization Name
International Rescue Committee
Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$42,000
Date
October 2021
October 2021
Grant Title
Solar Cooling Engineering — Solar Refrigerator Testing
Organization Name
Solar Cooling Engineering
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$100,000
Date
October 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
Forward Justice — Criminal Justice Reform Advocacy and Organizing (2021)
Organization Name
Forward Justice
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$150,000
Date
October 2021
September 2021
Grant Title
Precision Development — Exit Grant
Organization Name
Precision Development
Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$100,000
Date
September 2021
September 2021
Grant Title
Stanford University — AI Index
Organization Name
Stanford University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$78,000
Date
September 2021
September 2021
Grant Title
Iodine Global Network — Exit Grant
Organization Name
Iodine Global Network
Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$100,000
Date
September 2021
September 2021
Grant Title
Project Healthy Children — Exit Grant
Organization Name
Project Healthy Children
Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$100,000
Date
September 2021
September 2021
Grant Title
Environment & Animal Society of Taiwan — Farm Animal Welfare in Taiwan (2021)
Organization Name
Environment & Animal Society of Taiwan
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$1,245,000
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
September 2021
Grant Title
Rethink Priorities — Farm Animal Welfare Research (2021)
Organization Name
Rethink Priorities
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$2,000,000
Date
September 2021
September 2021
Grant Title
Promise of Justice Initiative — East Baton Rouge Parish Prison Reform Coalition (2021)
Organization Name
Promise of Justice Initiative
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$170,000
Date
September 2021
September 2021
Grant Title
Stanford University — Pandemic Preparedness Center
Organization Name
Stanford University
Focus Area
Science Supporting Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$200,000
Date
September 2021
September 2021
Grant Title
HEARD — General Support (2021)
Organization Name
Helping Educate to Advance the Rights of Deaf Communities
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$100,000
Date
September 2021
September 2021
Grant Title
Université de Montréal — Research Project on Artificial Intelligence
Organization Name
Université de Montréal
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$210,552
Date
September 2021
September 2021
Grant Title
Plant Based Foods Association — General Support (2021)
Organization Name
Plant Based Foods Association
Focus Area
Alternatives to Animal Products
Amount
$3,500,000
Date
September 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
University of Washington — Universal Influenza Vaccines (Neil King)
Organization Name
University of Washington (Institute for Protein Design)
Focus Area
Other Scientific Research Areas
Amount
$3,230,394
Date
September 2021
September 2021
Grant Title
Center for a New American Security — Risks from Militarized AI
Organization Name
Center for a New American Security
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$101,187
Date
September 2021
September 2021