Grants

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Funding Type
Focus Area
Year
Amount
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    Title
  • Organization
    Name
  • Focus
    Area
  • Amount
  • Date
March 2017
Grant Title

80,000 Hours — General Support

Organization Name

80,000 Hours

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,125,000
Date
March 2017
February 2018
Grant Title

80,000 Hours — General Support (2018)

Organization Name

80,000 Hours

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$510,000
Date
February 2018
February 2019
Grant Title

80,000 Hours — General Support (2019)

Organization Name

80,000 Hours

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$4,795,803
Date
February 2019
February 2020
Grant Title

80,000 Hours — General Support (2020)

Organization Name

80,000 Hours

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$3,457,284
Date
February 2020
May 2022
Grant Title

80,000 Hours — General Support (2022)

Organization Name

80,000 Hours

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,250,000
Date
May 2022
January 2023
Grant Title

80,000 Hours — General Support (2023)

Organization Name

80,000 Hours

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,200,000
Date
January 2023
May 2023
Grant Title

80,000 Hours — General Support (May 2023)

Organization Name

80,000 Hours

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$5,575,238
Date
May 2023
June 2022
Grant Title

80,000 Hours — Marketing

Organization Name

80,000 Hours

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$3,000,000
Date
June 2022
April 2023
Grant Title

80,000 Hours — Marketing (2023)

Organization Name

80,000 Hours

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$2,492,000
Date
April 2023
July 2022
Grant Title

Aaron Mayer — Effective Altruism Community Growth Projects

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$85,000
Date
July 2022
June 2022
Grant Title

Ajantha Nadesalingam — Effective Altruism Blog

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$9,120
Date
June 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

Alexandra Balwit — Publicity for The Long View

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$45,000
Date
August 2022
January 2023
Grant Title

Altruistic Agency — Tech Support for Nonprofits

Organization Name

Altruistic Agency

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$30,000
Date
January 2023
July 2022
Grant Title

Apollo Fellowship — Effective Altruism Debate Camp

Organization Name

Apollo Fellowship

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$321,838
Date
July 2022
February 2023
Grant Title

Arb Research — Staff Support

Organization Name

Arb Research

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$25,000
Date
February 2023
August 2022
Grant Title

Associated Students of Stanford University — Stanford Law School EA Group

Organization Name

Associated Students of Stanford University

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$10,000
Date
August 2022
February 2015
Grant Title

ASUC — Effective Altruists of Berkeley “DeCal” University Course

Organization Name

Associated Students of the University of California, Berkeley

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$10,000
Date
February 2015
December 2022
Grant Title

Atlas Fellowship — General Support

Organization Name

Atlas Fellowship

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,800,000
Date
December 2022
April 2023
Grant Title

Atlas Fellowship — General Support (2023)

Organization Name

Atlas Fellowship

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$2,000,000
Date
April 2023
March 2022
Grant Title

Atlas Fellowship — Scholarships and Summer Program for Students

Organization Name

Atlas Fellowship

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$5,000,000
Date
March 2022
January 2023
Grant Title

Bertha von Suttner-Studienwerk — University Scholarships

Organization Name

Bertha von Suttner-Studienwerk

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$110,000
Date
January 2023
June 2022
Grant Title

BlueDot Impact — General Support

Organization Name

BlueDot Impact

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$2,009,000
Date
June 2022
January 2023
Grant Title

Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative — Machine Learning Bootcamps

Organization Name

Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$298,528
Date
January 2023
February 2023
Grant Title

Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative — MIT Office Space

Organization Name

Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$146,200
Date
February 2023
March 2023
Grant Title

Cambridge Effective Altruism — AI Safety Labs

Organization Name

Cambridge Effective Altruism

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$25,239
Date
March 2023
April 2022
Grant Title

Cecil Abungu — Effective Altruism Fellowship in Africa

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$294,000
Date
April 2022
January 2018
Grant Title

Center for Applied Rationality — SPARC (2018)

Organization Name

Center for Applied Rationality

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$560,000
Date
January 2018
May 2017
Grant Title

Center for Applied Rationality — European Summer Program on Rationality

Organization Name

Center for Applied Rationality

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$340,000
Date
May 2017
July 2016
Grant Title

Center for Applied Rationality — General Support

Organization Name

Center for Applied Rationality

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,035,000
Date
July 2016
January 2018
Grant Title

Center for Applied Rationality — General Support (2018)

Organization Name

Center for Applied Rationality

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
January 2018
February 2020
Grant Title

Center for Applied Rationality — General Support (2020)

Organization Name

Center for Applied Rationality

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$375,000
Date
February 2020
May 2016
Grant Title

Center for Applied Rationality — SPARC

Organization Name

Center for Applied Rationality

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$304,000
Date
May 2016
August 2022
Grant Title

Center for Applied Rationality — SPARC (2022)

Organization Name

Center for Applied Rationality

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$700,000
Date
August 2022
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
March 2017
Grant Title

Centre for Effective Altruism — General Support (2017)

Organization Name

Centre for Effective Altruism

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$2,500,000
Date
March 2017
June 2018
Grant Title

Centre for Effective Altruism — General Support (2018)

Organization Name

Centre for Effective Altruism

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$2,688,000
Date
June 2018
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
March 2022
Grant Title

Centre for Effective Altruism — General Support (2022)

Organization Name

Centre for Effective Altruism

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$26,000,000
Date
March 2022
September 2019
Grant Title

Centre for Effective Altruism — General Support and Community-Building Grants (2019)

Organization Name

Centre for Effective Altruism

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,755,921
Date
September 2019
January 2020
Grant Title

Centre for Effective Altruism — General Support and Community-Building Grants (2020)

Organization Name

Centre for Effective Altruism

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$4,146,795
Date
January 2020
August 2022
Grant Title

Centre for Effective Altruism — Harvard Square Coworking Space

Organization Name

Centre for Effective Altruism

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$8,875,000
Date
August 2022
September 2020
Grant Title

Centre for Effective Altruism — Longtermist Incubator

Organization Name

Centre for Effective Altruism

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$48,736
Date
September 2020
March 2018
Grant Title

Centre for Effective Altruism — New Discretionary Fund

Organization Name

Centre for Effective Altruism

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$5,000,000
Date
March 2018
February 2020
Grant Title

Centre for Effective Altruism — Support for Jade Leung

Organization Name

Centre for Effective Altruism

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$180,000
Date
February 2020
January 2020
Grant Title

Centre for Effective Altruism — Support for The Precipice

Organization Name

Centre for Effective Altruism

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$38,350
Date
January 2020
June 2022
Grant Title

Century Fellowship — 2022 Cohort

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,889,027
Date
June 2022
March 2023
Grant Title

cFactual — Consulting Services

Organization Name

cFactual

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$105,000
Date
March 2023
January 2021
Grant Title

Dan Lahav – EA Debate Tournament

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

EA Funding for Individuals — Work and Study Support

Organization Name
Focus Area
Other Areas
Amount
$722,380
Date
July 2021
September 2019
Grant Title

EA Scholarships — Scholarship Support (2019)

Organization Name

EA Scholarships

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$49,676
Date
September 2019
December 2022
Grant Title

Effective Altruism Consulting Network — General Support (2022)

Organization Name

Effective Altruism Consulting Network

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$34,500
Date
December 2022
May 2023
Grant Title

Effective Altruism Consulting Network — General Support (2023)

Organization Name

Effective Altruism Consulting Network

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$380,000
Date
May 2023
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
July 2019
Grant Title

Effective Altruism Foundation — Research and Operations

Organization Name

Effective Altruism Foundation

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
July 2019
September 2022
Grant Title

Effective Altruism Funds — Infrastructure Fund Regranting

Organization Name

Effective Altruism Funds

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$4,929,000
Date
September 2022
February 2023
Grant Title

Effective Altruism Funds — Long-Term Future and Infrastructure Fund Regranting

Organization Name

Effective Altruism Funds

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$3,150,000
Date
February 2023
August 2022
Grant Title

Effective Altruism Funds — Operating Expenses

Organization Name

Effective Altruism Funds

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$573,000
Date
August 2022
May 2023
Grant Title

Effective Altruism Funds — Regranting and Operations Support (May 2023)

Organization Name

Effective Altruism Funds

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$3,370,000
Date
May 2023
February 2022
Grant Title

Effective Altruism Funds — Regranting Support

Organization Name

Effective Altruism Funds

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$7,783,000
Date
February 2022
May 2022
Grant Title

Effective Altruist Communications Fellowship — Summer 2022 Fellowship

Organization Name

Effective Altruist Communications Fellowship

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$585,000
Date
May 2022
January 2023
Grant Title

Effective Ventures Foundation — Effective Giving Summit

Organization Name

Effective Ventures Foundation

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$59,344
Date
January 2023
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 2022
Grant Title

Effective Ventures Foundation — General Support

Organization Name

Effective Ventures Foundation

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$11,425,000
Date
December 2022
December 2022
Grant Title

Effective Ventures Foundation — Office Space

Organization Name

Effective Ventures Foundation

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,835,390
Date
December 2022
January 2023
Grant Title

Effective Ventures Foundation — Support for What We Owe The Future

Organization Name

Effective Ventures Foundation

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$37,128
Date
January 2023
April 2023
Grant Title

Effective Ventures Foundation USA — Asterisk (2023)

Organization Name

Effective Ventures Foundation USA

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$991,000
Date
April 2023
January 2022
Grant Title

Effective Ventures Foundation USA — Asterisk Magazine

Organization Name

Effective Ventures Foundation USA

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$730,000
Date
January 2022
January 2023
Grant Title

Effective Ventures Foundation USA — Centre for Effective Altruism (2023)

Organization Name

Centre for Effective Altruism

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$4,700,000
Date
January 2023
February 2023
Grant Title

Effective Ventures Foundation USA — General Support

Organization Name

Effective Ventures Foundation USA

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$2,750,000
Date
February 2023
March 2023
Grant Title

Effective Ventures Foundation USA — Support for What We Owe The Future

Organization Name

Effective Ventures Foundation USA

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$75,617
Date
March 2023
August 2022
Grant Title

Effektiv Spenden — German Translation of The Life You Can Save

Organization Name

Effektiv Spenden

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$25,458
Date
August 2022
January 2023
Grant Title

EffiSciences — Existential Risk Programs

Organization Name

Effisciences

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$9,600
Date
January 2023
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
January 2023
Grant Title

Eon Essay Contest — The Precipice Essay Contest (2023)

Organization Name

Eon Essay Contest

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$73,000
Date
January 2023
July 2019
Grant Title

European Summer Program on Rationality — General Support

Organization Name

European Summer Program on Rationality

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$510,000
Date
July 2019
May 2022
Grant Title

European Summer Program on Rationality — General Support (2022)

Organization Name

European Summer Program on Rationality

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$4,715,000
Date
May 2022
January 2023
Grant Title

Existential Risks Alliance — Cambridge Fellowship

Organization Name

Existential Risks Alliance

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,014,116
Date
January 2023
February 2022
Grant Title

Fiona Pollack — Effective Altruism Organizing at Harvard

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$75,000
Date
February 2022
September 2016
Grant Title

Founders Pledge — General Support

Organization Name

Founders Pledge

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,032,947
Date
September 2016
February 2018
Grant Title

Founders Pledge — General Support (2018)

Organization Name

Founders Pledge

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$5,222,653
Date
February 2018
December 2020
Grant Title

Founders Pledge — General Support (2020)

Organization Name

Founders Pledge

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,500,000
Date
December 2020
October 2022
Grant Title

Funding for Effective Altruism-Related Translation Projects

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$869,186
Date
October 2022
July 2022
Grant Title

Future Forum Foundation — Future Forum

Organization Name

Future Forum Foundation

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$654,500
Date
July 2022
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
February 2020
Grant Title

Future of Humanity Institute — New DPhil Positions

Organization Name

Future of Humanity Institute

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$939,263
Date
February 2020
May 2020
Grant Title

Future of Humanity Institute — Research Scholars Programme

Organization Name

Future of Humanity Institute

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,586,224
Date
May 2020
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
May 2019
Grant Title

Global Catastrophic Risks Scholarships — Scholarship Support (2019)

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$547,800
Date
May 2019
March 2023
Grant Title

Global Challenges Project — General Support

Organization Name

Global Challenges Project

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$687,589
Date
March 2023
November 2022
Grant Title

Hamish Huggard — EA Content Creation

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$83,000
Date
November 2022
January 2023
Grant Title

High Impact Medicine — Community Building for Medical Students

Organization Name

High Impact Medicine

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$134,000
Date
January 2023
January 2023
Grant Title

Jeremy Rubinoff — AI Safety Retreat

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$16,587
Date
January 2023
August 2022
Grant Title

Juan Gil — Book Distribution

Organization Name

Juan Gil

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$24,745
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

Kuhan Jeyapragasan — University Group Organizing

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$250,000
Date
August 2022
May 2023
Grant Title

Kurzgesagt — Video Production (2023)

Organization Name

Kurzgesagt

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,700,000
Date
May 2023
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
December 2022
Grant Title

Latecomer Institute — Longtermist Magazine

Organization Name

Latecomer Institute

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$234,000
Date
December 2022
January 2023
Grant Title

Lausanne AI Alignment — AI Alignment Bootcamp

Organization Name

Lausanne AI Alignment

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$27,000
Date
January 2023
April 2020
Grant Title

LessWrong — General Support

Organization Name

LessWrong

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$300,000
Date
April 2020
May 2021
Grant Title

LessWrong — General Support (2021)

Organization Name

LessWrong

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$460,000
Date
May 2021