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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
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
March 2021
Grant Title
Hypermind — AI Forecasting Tournament
Organization Name
Hypermind
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$121,124
Date
March 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
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
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
March 2021
Grant Title
Wageningen University & Research — Wild-Caught Fish Welfare
Organization Name
Wageningen University & Research
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$519,434
Date
March 2021
March 2021
Grant Title
Center for a New American Security — Strategic Lessons from COVID-19
Organization Name
Center for a New American Security
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$250,000
Date
March 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
March 2021
Grant Title
SCI Foundation — General Support
Organization Name
SCI Foundation
Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$3,129,000
Date
March 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
March 2021
Grant Title
Hypermind — AI Forecasting
Organization Name
Hypermind
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$147,180
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
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
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
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
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
April 2021
Grant Title
Charity Entrepreneurship — Development of New Animal Welfare Charities (2021)
Organization Name
Charity Entrepreneurship
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$247,500
Date
April 2021
April 2021
Grant Title
Compassion in World Farming USA — General Support (2021)
Organization Name
Compassion in World Farming USA
Focus Area
Broiler Chicken Welfare
Amount
$550,000
Date
April 2021
April 2021
Grant Title
University of Cambridge — Machine Learning Research
Organization Name
University of Cambridge
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$250,000
Date
April 2021
April 2021
Grant Title
Wilson Center — AI Policy Training Program
Organization Name
The Wilson Center
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$291,214
Date
April 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
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
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
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
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
April 2021
Grant Title
Prison Policy Initiative — General Support (2021)
Organization Name
Prison Policy Initiative
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$250,000
Date
April 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
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
April 2021
Grant Title
Animal Protection Denmark — Wild-Caught Fish Welfare
Organization Name
Animal Protection Denmark
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$283,000
Date
April 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
April 2021
Grant Title
Smart Justice CA — California Criminal Justice Reform Lobbying (2021)
Organization Name
Smart Justice CA
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$365,000
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
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
April 2021
Grant Title
Rethink Priorities — Global Health and Wellbeing Cause Research
Organization Name
Rethink Priorities
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Amount
$418,500
Date
April 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
May 2021
Grant Title
SPCA Selangor — Cage-Free Campaigns
Organization Name
SPCA Selangor
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$99,000
Date
May 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
May 2021
Grant Title
Equalia — General Support
Organization Name
Equalia
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$817,000
Date
May 2021
May 2021
Grant Title
Carnegie Mellon University — Adversarial Robustness Research
Organization Name
Carnegie Mellon University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$330,000
Date
May 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
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
May 2021
Grant Title
One for the World — General Support (2021)
Organization Name
One for the World
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$260,798
Date
May 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
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
May 2021
