Grants

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Funding Type
Focus Area
Year
Amount
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  • Grant
    Title
  • Organization
    Name
  • Focus
    Area
  • Amount
  • Date
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
August 2021
Grant Title

Center for Security and Emerging Technology — General Support (August 2021)

Organization Name

Center for Security and Emerging Technology

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$38,920,000
Date
August 2021
April 2021
Grant Title

Malaria Consortium — Support for LLIN Distribution Campaigns

Organization Name

Malaria Consortium

Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$27,175,074
Date
April 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
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
March 2021
Grant Title

Malaria Consortium — Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention Programs (2021)

Organization Name

Malaria Consortium

Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$21,942,167
Date
March 2021
May 2021
Grant Title

International Rescue Committee – Treatment of Malnutrition (May to August 2021)

Organization Name

International Rescue Committee

Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$19,907,422
Date
May 2021
January 2021
Grant Title

New Incentives — General Support (2021)

Organization Name

New Incentives

Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$16,785,243
Date
January 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
January 2021
Grant Title

UC Berkeley — Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence (2021)

Organization Name

University of California, Berkeley

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$11,955,246
Date
January 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
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
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
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
January 2021
Grant Title

Center for Security and Emerging Technology — General Support (January 2021)

Organization Name

Center for Security and Emerging Technology

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$8,000,000
Date
January 2021
September 2021
Grant Title

Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security — Forecasting Platforms

Organization Name

Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security

Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$7,993,782
Date
September 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
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
January 2021
Grant Title

Centre for Pesticide Suicide Prevention — General Support (2021)

Organization Name

Centre for Pesticide Suicide Prevention

Focus Area
Global Public Health Policy
Amount
$6,949,382
Date
January 2021
July 2021
Grant Title

Compassion in World Farming — Fish Welfare and Efforts to End Cages (2021)

Organization Name

Compassion in World Farming

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$5,055,105
Date
July 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
October 2021
Grant Title

Sightsavers — Deworming Programs (October 2021)

Organization Name

Sightsavers

Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Amount
$4,438,085
Date
October 2021
September 2021
Grant Title

Kainomyx — Antimalarial Drug (2021)

Organization Name

Kainomyx

Focus Area
Other Scientific Research Areas
Amount
$4,000,000
Date
September 2021
July 2021
Grant Title

Dezernat Zukunft — General Support and Re-Granting

Organization Name

Dezernat Zukunft

Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
Amount
$4,000,000
Date
July 2021
October 2021
Grant Title

GiveWell — General Support (2021)

Organization Name

GiveWell

Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Amount
$3,600,295
Date
October 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
June 2021
Grant Title

Wild Animal Initiative — Animal Welfare Research

Organization Name

Wild Animal Initiative

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$3,500,000
Date
June 2021
June 2021
Grant Title

Global Priorities Institute — General Support (2021)

Organization Name

Global Priorities Institute

Focus Area
Other Areas
Amount
$3,333,997
Date
June 2021
August 2021
Grant Title

Center for Security and Emerging Technology — Biosecurity Research Project

Organization Name

Center for Security and Emerging Technology

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$3,330,000
Date
August 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
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
March 2021
Grant Title

SCI Foundation — General Support

Organization Name

SCI Foundation

Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$3,129,000
Date
March 2021
April 2021
Grant Title

Future of Humanity Institute — Research Scholars Programs (2021)

Organization Name

Future of Humanity Institute

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$3,121,861
Date
April 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
June 2021
Grant Title

Mercy for Animals — Corporate Campaigns (2021)

Organization Name

Mercy For Animals

Focus Area
Broiler Chicken Welfare
Amount
$3,000,000
Date
June 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
July 2021
Grant Title

Animal Equality — Cage-Free and Broiler Welfare (2021)

Organization Name

Animal Equality

Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Amount
$3,000,000
Date
July 2021
December 2021
Grant Title

Kurzgesagt — Video Creation and Translation

Organization Name

Kurzgesagt

Focus Area
Amount
$2,855,224
Date
December 2021
February 2021
Grant Title

Sightsavers — Deworming Programs (February 2021)

Organization Name

Sightsavers

Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$2,796,000
Date
February 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

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
June 2021
Grant Title

California YIMBY — General Support (2021)

Organization Name

California YIMBY

Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Amount
$2,600,000
Date
June 2021
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
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
January 2021
Grant Title

Early-Career Funding for Global Catastrophic Biological Risks — Scholarship Support (2021)

Organization Name
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$2,144,789
Date
January 2021
August 2021
Grant Title

Pure Earth — Support for Reducing Lead Exposure in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Organization Name

Pure Earth

Focus Area
Global Public Health Policy
Amount
$2,130,000
Date
August 2021
July 2021
Grant Title

Malaria Consortium — Monitoring and Evaluation of LLIN Distribution Campaign

Organization Name

Malaria Consortium

Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$2,051,853
Date
July 2021
August 2021
Grant Title

Justice Research Group — General Support

Organization Name

Justice Research Group

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$2,000,000
Date
August 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
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
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
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
August 2021
Grant Title

University of Notre Dame — Nanopore Protein Sequencing (Gregory Timp) (2021)

Organization Name

University of Notre Dame

Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$1,769,056
Date
August 2021
February 2021
Grant Title

Early-Career Funding for Improving the Long-Term Future — Scholarship Support (2021)

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$1,766,373
Date
February 2021
January 2021
Grant Title

Stanford Existential Risks Initiative — Global Catastrophic Risk Education

Organization Name

Stanford Existential Risks Initiative

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$1,500,000
Date
January 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
August 2021
Grant Title

Purdue University — Preclinical Data Research (Douglas Brubaker)

Organization Name

Purdue University

Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$1,500,000
Date
August 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
January 2021
Grant Title

Fair and Just Prosecution — General Support (2021)

Organization Name

Fair and Just Prosecution

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$1,500,000
Date
January 2021
February 2021
Grant Title

Massachusetts Institute of Technology — Adversarial Robustness Research

Organization Name

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,430,000
Date
February 2021
May 2021
Grant Title

Community Justice Exchange — Technical Assistance, Campaign Support, and Re-grants

Organization Name

Community Justice Exchange

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$1,400,000
Date
May 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
May 2021
Grant Title

Employ America — General Support (2021)

Organization Name

Employ America

Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
Amount
$1,250,000
Date
May 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
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
April 2021
Grant Title

Wakker Dier — Farm Animal Welfare Litigation

Organization Name

Wakker Dier

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$1,215,000
Date
April 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
May 2021
Grant Title

Eurogroup for Animals — Fish Welfare (2021)

Organization Name

Eurogroup for Animals

Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Amount
$1,190,000
Date
May 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
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
September 2021
Grant Title

UCSF — Chronic Pain Research (Allan Basbaum) (2021)

Organization Name

University of California, San Francisco

Focus Area
Other Scientific Research Areas
Amount
$1,066,312
Date
September 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
January 2021
Grant Title

Alliance for International Medical Action — Treatment of Malnutrition in Niger

Organization Name

Alliance for International Medical Action

Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$1,008,450
Date
January 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
August 2021
Grant Title

Open New York — General Support

Organization Name

Open New York

Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
August 2021
April 2021
Grant Title

Employ America Action Fund – General Support

Organization Name

Employ America Action Fund

Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
April 2021
April 2021
Grant Title

Open Phil AI Fellowship — 2021 Class

Organization Name

Open Phil AI Fellowship

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
April 2021
March 2021
Grant Title

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab — Kevin Esvelt’s Research (2021)

Organization Name

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
March 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
July 2021
Grant Title

Schepens Eye Research Institute at Mass Eye and Ear — Pulmonary Fibrosis Drug (Leo Kim)

Organization Name

Mass Eye and Ear

Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$920,000
Date
July 2021
April 2021
Grant Title

Georgia Tech — Research on Lipid Nanoparticles (James Dahlman)

Organization Name

Georgia Institute of Technology

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$882,000
Date
April 2021
May 2021
Grant Title

Equalia — General Support

Organization Name

Equalia

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$817,000
Date
May 2021
August 2021
Grant Title

University of Washington — Syphilis Vaccine Development (Lorenzo Giacani)

Organization Name

University of Washington (Institute for Protein Design)

Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$816,063
Date
August 2021
February 2021
Grant Title

Crustacean Compassion — General Support

Organization Name

Crustacean Compassion

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$786,830
Date
February 2021
August 2021
Grant Title

University Of Science Technical And Technologies De Bamako — Malaria Vaccine Clinical Trial (Alassane Dicko)

Organization Name

University Of Science Technical And Technologies De Bamako

Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$754,845
Date
August 2021
September 2021
Grant Title

Farmed Animal Funders — Regranting for Farm Animal Welfare in Europe

Organization Name

Farmed Animal Funders

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$750,000
Date
September 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
July 2021
Grant Title

EA Funding for Individuals — Work and Study Support

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

Animal Charity Evaluators — General Support (2021)

Organization Name

Animal Charity Evaluators

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$700,000
Date
June 2021
August 2021
Grant Title

Voters Organized to Educate — Civic Engagement and Criminal Justice Reform

Organization Name

Voters Organized to Educate

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$700,000
Date
August 2021
March 2021
Grant Title

CDC Foundation — Malaria Control Research Project (2021)

Organization Name

CDC Foundation

Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$672,500
Date
March 2021
May 2021
Grant Title

Humane Society International — Farm Animal Welfare in Southeast Asia and Latin America

Organization Name

Humane Society International

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$650,000
Date
May 2021
August 2021
Grant Title

Institut des Sciences et Techniques, Bobo-Dioulasso — Malaria Vaccine Clinical Trial (Jean Bosco Ouedraogo)

Organization Name

Institut des Sciences et Techniques, Bobo-Dioulasso

Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$631,162
Date
August 2021
June 2021
Grant Title

Life Sciences Research Foundation — Young Investigators (2021)

Organization Name

Life Sciences Research Foundation

Focus Area
Transformative Basic Science
Amount
$630,000
Date
June 2021
July 2021
Grant Title

Rethink Priorities — AI Governance Research (2021)

Organization Name

Rethink Priorities

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$612,185
Date
July 2021
April 2021
Grant Title

Stanford University — Research on Lipid Nanoparticles (Jeffrey Glenn)

Organization Name

Stanford University

Focus Area
Science Supporting Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$610,000
Date
April 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
March 2021
Grant Title

Abundant Housing Massachusetts — General Support (2021)

Organization Name

Abundant Housing Massachusetts

Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Amount
$600,000
Date
March 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
July 2021
Grant Title

Federation of American Scientists — High-Skilled Immigration Policy

Organization Name

Federation of American Scientists

Focus Area
Immigration Policy
Amount
$600,000
Date
July 2021