Grants

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

GiveDirectly — General Support (2021)

Organization Name

GiveDirectly

Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$500,000
Date
January 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
January 2021
Grant Title

UC Santa Cruz — Adversarial Robustness Research

Organization Name

University of California, Santa Cruz

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$265,000
Date
January 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
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
January 2021
Grant Title

La Defensa — General Support

Organization Name

La Defensa

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$280,000
Date
January 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
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
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
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
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
January 2021
Grant Title

Frontline Wellness — General Support

Organization Name

Frontline Wellness

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$240,000
Date
January 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
January 2021
Grant Title

OliLux Biosciences — Rapid Tuberculosis Detection and Treatment Management Tools

Organization Name

OliLux Biosciences

Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$400,000
Date
January 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
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
January 2021
Grant Title

Dan Lahav – EA Debate Tournament

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

Hypermind — COVID-19 Forecasting

Organization Name

Hypermind

Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$125,820
Date
February 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

Crustacean Compassion — General Support

Organization Name

Crustacean Compassion

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

Changing Markets Foundation — Fish Welfare Retail Campaigns

Organization Name

Changing Markets Foundation

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$500,000
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
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

University of Tübingen — Adversarial Robustness Research (Matthias Hein)

Organization Name

University of Tübingen

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$300,000
Date
February 2021
February 2021
Grant Title

Council on Energy, Environment, and Water — Air Quality Sensors in South Asia

Organization Name

Council on Energy, Environment, and Water

Focus Area
South Asian Air Quality
Amount
$410,000
Date
February 2021
February 2021
Grant Title

University of Tübingen — Robustness Research (Wieland Brendel)

Organization Name

University of Tübingen

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$590,000
Date
February 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
February 2021
Grant Title

UC Berkeley — Adversarial Robustness Research (Dawn Song)

Organization Name

University of California, Berkeley

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$330,000
Date
February 2021
February 2021
Grant Title

UC Berkeley — Adversarial Robustness Research (David Wagner)

Organization Name

University of California, Berkeley

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$330,000
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
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
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

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
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
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
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
March 2021
Grant Title

Rethink Priorities — Moral Patienthood and Moral Weight Research

Organization Name

Rethink Priorities

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$315,500
Date
March 2021