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Grants
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Grant
Title -
Organization
Name -
Focus
Area -
Amount
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Date
January 2021
Grant Title
Dan Lahav – EA Debate Tournament
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$2,000
Date
January 2021
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
July 2021
Grant Title
Elle Pfeffer — Dissertation Research
Organization Name
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$5,000
Date
July 2021
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
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
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
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
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
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
May 2021
Grant Title
Stanford Existential Risks Initiative — Distribution of The Precipice
Organization Name
Stanford Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Other Areas
Amount
$24,000
Date
May 2021
July 2021
Grant Title
Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity — AI Standards (2021)
Organization Name
University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$25,000
Date
July 2021
May 2021
Grant Title
POWER — Voter Engagement on Criminal Justice Reform
Organization Name
POWER
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$25,000
Date
May 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
April 2021
Grant Title
Health Alliance for Violence Intervention — General Support
Organization Name
Health Alliance for Violence Intervention
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$25,000
Date
April 2021
January 2021
Grant Title
Mount Kenya University — Farm Animal Welfare Science Masters Program
Organization Name
Mount Kenya University
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$29,886
Date
January 2021
August 2021
Grant Title
Future of Humanity Institute — Economist Survey
Organization Name
Future of Humanity Institute
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$30,000
Date
August 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
International Rescue Committee – Treatment of Malnutrition (October 2021)
Organization Name
International Rescue Committee
Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$42,000
Date
October 2021
June 2021
Grant Title
Center for Global Development — Malaria Reduction
Organization Name
Center for Global Development
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$50,000
Date
June 2021
February 2021
Grant Title
San Francisco Rising — Criminal Justice Reform
Organization Name
San Francisco Rising
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$50,000
Date
February 2021
February 2021
Grant Title
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition — Universal Salt Iodization (January 2021)
Organization Name
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition
Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$50,000
Date
February 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
July 2021
Grant Title
Kansas State University — Fungal Genetics Stock Center
Organization Name
Kansas State University
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$50,000
Date
July 2021
December 2021
Grant Title
Gaëtan Selle — Videos About Longtermism
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$50,000
Date
December 2021
August 2021
Grant Title
UC Berkeley — Course Development Support (Jacob Steinhardt)
Organization Name
University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$53,983
Date
August 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
July 2021
Grant Title
Justice Solutions — Anne Seymour’s Crime Victims and Survivors Work (2021)
Organization Name
Justice Solutions
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$55,000
Date
July 2021
August 2021
Grant Title
Korean Animal Welfare Association — Cage-Free Layer Hen Farming
Organization Name
Korean Animal Welfare Association
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$57,000
Date
August 2021
July 2021
Grant Title
UC Berkeley — Tuberculosis Diagnosis (Adithya Cattamanchi and Sarah Stanley)
Organization Name
University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$60,000
Date
July 2021
March 2021
Grant Title
Brian Christian — The Alignment Problem Book Promotion
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$60,859
Date
March 2021
May 2021
Grant Title
Action St. Louis — Prosecutor Accountability
Organization Name
Action St. Louis
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$65,000
Date
May 2021
July 2021
Grant Title
Ifakara Health Institute — Malaria Vaccine Clinical Trial (Ally Olotu)
Organization Name
Ifakara Health Institute
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$68,184
Date
July 2021
January 2021
Grant Title
Mercy for Animals — The People’s Fund
Organization Name
Mercy For Animals
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$69,750
Date
January 2021
July 2021
Grant Title
Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security — Report on Security Clearances
Organization Name
Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$70,000
Date
July 2021
July 2021
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — MineRL BASALT Competition
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$70,000
Date
July 2021
February 2021
Grant Title
Crate-Free Illinois — Campaigning Against Gestation Crates (2021)
Organization Name
Crate-Free Illinois
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$70,350
Date
February 2021
January 2021
Grant Title
Positive Money Europe — Macroeconomic Policy Research and Advocacy
Organization Name
Positive Money Europe
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
Amount
$73,368
Date
January 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
April 2021
Grant Title
Rethink Charity — Farm Animal Welfare Movement Building
Organization Name
Rethink Charity
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$79,040
Date
April 2021
July 2021
Grant Title
Chicago Community Bond Fund — Support for the Coalition to End Money Bond (2021)
Organization Name
Chicago Community Bond Fund
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$85,000
Date
July 2021
January 2021
Grant Title
People for Animals Uttarakhand — Farm Animal Welfare Fellowship
Organization Name
People for Animals Uttarakhand
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Amount
$85,000
Date
January 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
August 2021
Grant Title
UC Berkeley — Adversarial Robustness Research (Aditi Raghunathan)
Organization Name
University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$87,829
Date
August 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
May 2021
Grant Title
SPCA Selangor — Cage-Free Campaigns
Organization Name
SPCA Selangor
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$99,000
Date
May 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
Solar Cooling Engineering — Solar Refrigerator Testing
Organization Name
Solar Cooling Engineering
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$100,000
Date
October 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
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
January 2021
Grant Title
Ayni Institute — Criminal Justice Reform Coaching (2021)
Organization Name
Ayni Institute
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$100,000
Date
January 2021
October 2021
Grant Title
Living Goods — Exit Grant
Organization Name
Living Goods
Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$100,000
Date
October 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
January 2021
Grant Title
Vital Strategies — Support for a Consortium on Alcohol Control Policy
Organization Name
Vital Strategies
Focus Area
Global Public Health Policy
Amount
$100,000
Date
January 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
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
March 2021
Grant Title
Equity and Transformation — General Support (2021)
Organization Name
Equity and Transformation
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$100,000
Date
March 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
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
February 2021
Grant Title
Immune Observatory — Single-Dose COVID-19 Vaccine Modeling
Organization Name
Immune Observatory
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$100,000
Date
February 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
March 2021
Grant Title
UC Davis — COVID-19 Antiviral Studies (Lark L. Coffey)
Organization Name
University of California, Davis
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$100,642
Date
March 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
July 2021
Grant Title
Sneha’s Care — Dairy Welfare Regulations
Organization Name
Sneha’s Care
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$110,050
Date
July 2021
April 2021
Grant Title
Surge Network — Faith-Based Criminal Justice Reform Organizing
Organization Name
Surge Network
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$115,000
Date
April 2021
March 2021
Grant Title
Working Families Party — Prosecutor Reforms in New York (2021)
Organization Name
Working Families Party
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$117,300
Date
March 2021
March 2021
Grant Title
Hypermind — AI Forecasting Tournament
Organization Name
Hypermind
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$121,124
Date
March 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
February 2021
Grant Title
Hypermind — COVID-19 Forecasting
Organization Name
Hypermind
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$125,820
Date
February 2021
February 2021
Grant Title
University of Pennsylvania — Geopolitical Forecasting Research (2021)
Organization Name
University of Pennsylvania
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$132,181
Date
February 2021
August 2021
Grant Title
International Vaccine Institute — Schistosomiasis Vaccine Assessment
Organization Name
International Vaccine Institute
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$140,000
Date
August 2021
March 2021
Grant Title
Hypermind — AI Forecasting
Organization Name
Hypermind
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$147,180
Date
March 2021
September 2021
Grant Title
The Political Report — Journalism on Criminal Justice Reform
Organization Name
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$150,000
Date
September 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
January 2021
Grant Title
Berryville Institute of Machine Learning — Machine Learning Security Research
Organization Name
Berryville Institute of Machine Learning
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$150,000
Date
January 2021
April 2021
Grant Title
Community Based Public Safety Collective — General Support
Organization Name
Community Based Public Safety Collective
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$150,000
Date
April 2021
May 2021
Grant Title
Abundant Housing LA — General Support
Organization Name
Abundant Housing LA
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Amount
$150,000
Date
May 2021
February 2021
Grant Title
American Conservative Union Foundation — Criminal Justice Reform (2021)
Organization Name
American Conservative Union Foundation
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$150,000
Date
February 2021
April 2021
Grant Title
Anima International — Farm Animal Welfare Work
Organization Name
Anima International
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$152,000
Date
April 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
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
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
May 2021
Grant Title
Daniel Dewey — AI Alignment Project
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$175,000
Date
May 2021
September 2021
Grant Title
Project NIA — General Support
Organization Name
Project NIA
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$175,000
Date
September 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
July 2021
Grant Title
Reducetarian Foundation — Reducetarian Fellowship
Organization Name
Reducetarian Foundation
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$200,000
Date
July 2021
March 2021
Grant Title
Vegan Women Summit — General Support (2021)
Organization Name
Vegan Women Summit
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$200,000
Date
March 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
March 2021
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative – SERI Summer Fellowships
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$210,000
Date
March 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
June 2021
Grant Title
Riverside Justice Table — Prosecutor Accountability (2021)
Organization Name
Riverside Justice Table
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$217,000
Date
June 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
February 2021
Grant Title
Weill Cornell Medical College — COVID-19 Antiviral Studies (Ria Goswami)
Organization Name
Weill Cornell Medical College
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$220,553
Date
February 2021
February 2021
Grant Title
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi — Air Quality Sensors in South Asia
Organization Name
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Focus Area
South Asian Air Quality
Amount
$228,000
Date
February 2021
January 2021
Grant Title
Institute of Agrifood Research and Technology — Fish Welfare Certification Standards
Organization Name
Institute of Agrifood Research and Technology
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$237,043
Date
January 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
January 2021
Grant Title
Frontline Wellness — General Support
Organization Name
Frontline Wellness
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$240,000
Date
January 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
December 2021