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Grants
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Grant
Title -
Organization
Name -
Focus
Area -
Amount
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Date
April 2020
Grant Title
Center for Global Development — COVID-19 Net Health Impact Calculations
Organization Name
Center for Global Development
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$550,000
Date
April 2020
April 2020
Grant Title
Amistad Law Project — General Support (April 2020)
Organization Name
Amistad Law Project
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$15,000
Date
April 2020
April 2020
Grant Title
Families Against Mandatory Minimums — General Support
Organization Name
Families Against Mandatory Minimums
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$15,000
Date
April 2020
April 2020
Grant Title
Rutgers University — Nuclear Conflict Climate Modeling (2020)
Organization Name
Rutgers University
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$3,000,000
Date
April 2020
April 2020
Grant Title
Harvard University — COVID-19 Serological Tests (Michael Mina)
Organization Name
Harvard University
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$1,784,981
Date
April 2020
April 2020
Grant Title
Law for Black Lives — Criminal Justice Reform (2020)
Organization Name
Law for Black Lives
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$100,000
Date
April 2020
April 2020
Grant Title
LessWrong — General Support
Organization Name
LessWrong
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$300,000
Date
April 2020
April 2020
Grant Title
Mercy Corps — Seasonal Migration Pilot Project and RCT
Organization Name
Mercy Corps
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
April 2020
April 2020
Grant Title
Equity and Transformation — General Support
Organization Name
Equity and Transformation
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$25,000
Date
April 2020
April 2020
Grant Title
Southerners on New Ground — Criminal Justice Reform Work
Organization Name
Southerners On New Ground
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$100,000
Date
April 2020
April 2020
Grant Title
New Incentives — General Support (April 2020)
Organization Name
New Incentives
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$1,897,905
Date
April 2020
April 2020
Grant Title
New Incentives — General Support (2020)
Organization Name
New Incentives
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$1,897,905
Date
April 2020
April 2020
Grant Title
Global Priorities Institute — General Support (2020)
Organization Name
Global Priorities Institute
Focus Area
Other Areas
Amount
$3,298,715
Date
April 2020
April 2020
Grant Title
World Economic Forum — Global AI Council Workshop
Organization Name
World Economic Forum
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$50,000
Date
April 2020
April 2020
Grant Title
Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research — Research on Drought-Tolerant Rice
Organization Name
Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research
Focus Area
Other Scientific Research Areas
Amount
$122,500
Date
April 2020
May 2020
Grant Title
Nuclear Threat Initiative — Biosecurity Program Support (May 2020)
Organization Name
Nuclear Threat Initiative
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$500,000
Date
May 2020
May 2020
Grant Title
Life Sciences Research Foundation — Young Investigators (2020)
Organization Name
Life Sciences Research Foundation
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$585,000
Date
May 2020
May 2020
Grant Title
Sinergia Animal — Corporate Cage-Free Campaigns
Organization Name
Sinergia Animal
Focus Area
Cage-Free Reforms
Amount
$800,000
Date
May 2020
May 2020
Grant Title
Movement Voter Project — Criminal Justice Reform (2020)
Organization Name
Movement Voter Project
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$1,500,000
Date
May 2020
May 2020
Grant Title
Open Phil AI Fellowship — 2020 Class
Organization Name
Open Phil AI Fellowship
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$2,300,000
Date
May 2020
May 2020
Grant Title
You Are Not Alone — Drug Possession Decriminalization
Organization Name
You Are Not Alone
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$1,500
Date
May 2020
May 2020
Grant Title
Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation — Farm Animal Welfare Advocacy
Organization Name
Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$488,467
Date
May 2020
May 2020
Grant Title
Stanford University — Preclinical Research on Hepatitis B (Jeffrey Glenn)
Organization Name
Stanford University
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$915,000
Date
May 2020
May 2020
Grant Title
Humane Society International — African Swine Fever Training (2020)
Organization Name
Humane Society International
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$60,000
Date
May 2020
May 2020
Grant Title
Court Watch NOLA — General Support (2020)
Organization Name
Court Watch NOLA
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$15,000
Date
May 2020
May 2020
Grant Title
Soroka Medical Center — COVID-19 Interferon Lambda Trial Study (Ohad Etzion)
Organization Name
Soroka Medical Center
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$55,000
Date
May 2020
May 2020
Grant Title
Mass Liberation Arizona — General Support
Organization Name
Mass Liberation Arizona
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$10,000
Date
May 2020
May 2020
Grant Title
1Day Sooner — General Support (May 2020)
Organization Name
1Day Sooner
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$500,000
Date
May 2020
May 2020
Grant Title
Penn State University — Research on Emergency Food Resilience (Charles Anderson) (2020)
Organization Name
Penn State University
Focus Area
Other Scientific Research Areas
Amount
$3,064,660
Date
May 2020
May 2020
Grant Title
Mijente — Criminal Justice Reform (2020)
Organization Name
Mijente
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$100,000
Date
May 2020
May 2020
Grant Title
Eurogroup for Animals — EU Chicken Welfare Advocacy (2020)
Organization Name
Eurogroup for Animals
Focus Area
Broiler Chicken Welfare
Amount
$635,000
Date
May 2020
May 2020
Grant Title
Duke University — COVID-19 Antiviral Studies (Ria Goswami)
Organization Name
Duke University
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$130,982
Date
May 2020
May 2020
Grant Title
Public Policy and Education Fund of New York — Criminal Justice Reform
Organization Name
Public Policy and Education Fund of New York
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$15,000
Date
May 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
May 2020
Grant Title
The Pollination Project — Farm Animal and Veg Advocacy Conference
Organization Name
The Pollination Project
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$75,800
Date
May 2020
May 2020
Grant Title
Animal Outlook — Factory Farm Investigations Media Coverage
Organization Name
Animal Outlook
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$44,200
Date
May 2020
May 2020
Grant Title
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights — Federal Criminal Justice Reform Advocacy (April 2020)
Organization Name
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$75,000
Date
May 2020
May 2020
Grant Title
Gryphon Scientific — Empirical Biosafety Research
Organization Name
Gryphon Scientific
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$2,000,000
Date
May 2020
May 2020
Grant Title
International Conference on Learning Representations — Machine Learning Paper Awards
Organization Name
International Conference on Learning Representations
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$3,500
Date
May 2020
May 2020
Grant Title
Working Families Party — Prosecutor Reforms in New York (2020)
Organization Name
Working Families Party
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$117,300
Date
May 2020
May 2020
Grant Title
Charity Entrepreneurship — Development of New Animal Welfare Charities (2020)
Organization Name
Charity Entrepreneurship
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$260,000
Date
May 2020
May 2020
Grant Title
Kainomyx — Antimalarial Drug (2019)
Organization Name
Kainomyx
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$1,999,999
Date
May 2020
May 2020
Grant Title
Center for Population-Level Bioethics — General Support
Organization Name
Center for Population-Level Bioethics
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$250,000
Date
May 2020
May 2020
Grant Title
Encompass — Diversity in the Farm Animal Welfare Movement
Organization Name
Encompass
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$200,000
Date
May 2020
May 2020
Grant Title
Centre for the Governance of AI — General Support (2020)
Organization Name
Centre for the Governance of AI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$450,000
Date
May 2020
June 2020
Grant Title
Center for Popular Democracy — Fed Up Campaign (2020)
Organization Name
Center for Popular Democracy
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
Amount
$465,000
Date
June 2020
June 2020
Grant Title
Harvard University — Biosecurity and Biosafety
Organization Name
Harvard University
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$315,000
Date
June 2020
June 2020
Grant Title
Andrew Lohn — Paper on Machine Learning Model Robustness
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$15,000
Date
June 2020
June 2020
Grant Title
JusticeLA — General Support
Organization Name
JusticeLA
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$100,000
Date
June 2020
June 2020
Grant Title
Food Frontier — Plant-Based Meat Alternatives
Organization Name
Food Frontier
Focus Area
Alternatives to Animal Products
Amount
$200,000
Date
June 2020
June 2020
Grant Title
We Animals Media — Content for Farm Animal Welfare Advocacy (2020)
Organization Name
We Animals Media
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$517,000
Date
June 2020
June 2020
Grant Title
Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research — Chickpea and Corn Zein Research
Organization Name
Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research
Focus Area
Alternatives to Animal Products
Amount
$444,000
Date
June 2020
June 2020
Grant Title
Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research — Plant Protein Optimization Research
Organization Name
Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research
Focus Area
Other Scientific Research Areas
Amount
$250,000
Date
June 2020
June 2020
Grant Title
Frontline Dads — General Support (June 2020)
Organization Name
Frontline Dads
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$15,000
Date
June 2020
June 2020
Grant Title
Stanford University — Coronavirus Drug Research (June 2020) (Jeffrey Glenn)
Organization Name
Stanford University
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$2,531,000
Date
June 2020
June 2020
Grant Title
Animal Advocacy Careers — General Support
Organization Name
Animal Advocacy Careers
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$432,000
Date
June 2020
June 2020
Grant Title
Wilson Center — AI Policy Seminar Series (June 2020)
Organization Name
The Wilson Center
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$496,540
Date
June 2020
June 2020
Grant Title
VOCAL-NY — Prosecutor Accountability
Organization Name
VOCAL-NY
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$200,000
Date
June 2020
July 2020
Grant Title
Grassroots Leadership, Inc. — Texas Advocates for Justice Project (2020)
Organization Name
Grassroots Leadership, Inc.
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$150,000
Date
July 2020
July 2020
Grant Title
Rita Allen Foundation — Award in Pain Scholars
Organization Name
Rita Allen Foundation
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$330,000
Date
July 2020
July 2020
Grant Title
Momentum — Criminal Justice Reform Trainings (2020)
Organization Name
Momentum
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$9,000
Date
July 2020
July 2020
Grant Title
Dharma Voices for Animals — Farm Animal Welfare Legislation
Organization Name
Dharma Voices for Animals
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$150,000
Date
July 2020
July 2020
Grant Title
Project NIA — Transformative Justice Work Led by Mariame Kaba (2020)
Organization Name
Project NIA
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$170,000
Date
July 2020
July 2020
Grant Title
VegeProject — Corporate Outreach (2020)
Organization Name
VegeProject
Focus Area
Alternatives to Animal Products
Amount
$102,400
Date
July 2020
July 2020
Grant Title
VST Bio — Stroke Treatment
Organization Name
VST Bio
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$4,500,000
Date
July 2020
July 2020
Grant Title
Stanford University — Universal Flu Drug Research (Jeffrey Glenn)
Organization Name
Stanford University
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$415,000
Date
July 2020
July 2020
Grant Title
New York University — Work on Fish Welfare (2020)
Organization Name
New York University
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$95,000
Date
July 2020
July 2020
Grant Title
215 People’s Alliance — Criminal Justice Reform Coalition
Organization Name
215 People’s Alliance
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$155,000
Date
July 2020
July 2020
Grant Title
Mass Liberation Project — General Support (2020)
Organization Name
Mass Liberation Project
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$150,000
Date
July 2020
July 2020
Grant Title
Employ America — General Support (2020)
Organization Name
Employ America
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
July 2020
July 2020
Grant Title
The People’s Lobby — Prosecutorial Accountability
Organization Name
The People's Lobby
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$125,000
Date
July 2020
July 2020
Grant Title
Group Nine Media — Factory Farming Videos (2020)
Organization Name
Group Nine Media
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$680,448
Date
July 2020
July 2020
Grant Title
Early-Career Funding for Global Catastrophic Biological Risks — Scholarship Support (2019-2020)
Organization Name
Early-Career Funding for Global Catastrophic Biological Risks
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$1,394,530
Date
July 2020
August 2020
Grant Title
Southsiders Organized for Unity and Liberation — Prosecutorial Accountability
Organization Name
Southsiders Organized for Unity and Liberation
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$150,000
Date
August 2020
August 2020
Grant Title
Economic Policy Institute — Macroeconomic Policy Research (2020)
Organization Name
Economic Policy Institute
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
Amount
$550,000
Date
August 2020
August 2020
Grant Title
Michigan Liberation — Prosecutor Accountability (2020)
Organization Name
Michigan Liberation
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$80,000
Date
August 2020
August 2020
Grant Title
Catalyst — Farm Animal Welfare in Thailand
Organization Name
Catalyst
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$447,000
Date
August 2020
August 2020
Grant Title
Workers Center for Racial Justice — Prosecutorial Accountability in Chicago (2020)
Organization Name
Workers Center for Racial Justice
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$20,000
Date
August 2020
August 2020
Grant Title
Labor Mobility Partnerships — International Labor Mobility
Organization Name
Labor Mobility Partnerships
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
Amount
$500,000
Date
August 2020
August 2020
Grant Title
Icosavax — COVID-19 Vaccine Development
Organization Name
Icosavax
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$6,500,000
Date
August 2020
August 2020
Grant Title
InMyWords — Restorative Justice
Organization Name
InMyWords
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$61,500
Date
August 2020
August 2020
Grant Title
University of Pennsylvania — Geopolitical Forecasting Research (2020)
Organization Name
University of Pennsylvania
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$29,432
Date
August 2020
August 2020
Grant Title
UC Berkeley — Assessing COVID-19 Infection Prevalence in Rural Kenya (Amy Pickering and Michael Kremer)
Organization Name
University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$220,000
Date
August 2020
September 2020
Grant Title
Black Strategy Fund — General Support
Organization Name
Black Strategy Fund
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$100,000
Date
September 2020
September 2020
Grant Title
Riboscience — COVID-19 Drug Research
Organization Name
Riboscience
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$210,000
Date
September 2020
September 2020
Grant Title
BlackRoots Alliance — Work on Prosecutor Accountability (2020)
Organization Name
BlackRoots Alliance
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$15,000
Date
September 2020
September 2020
Grant Title
Center for Strategic and International Studies — AI Accident Risk and Technology Competition
Organization Name
Center for Strategic and International Studies
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$118,307
Date
September 2020
September 2020
Grant Title
Newark Community Street Team — Community-Based Public Safety Work
Organization Name
Newark Community Street Team
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$60,000
Date
September 2020
September 2020
Grant Title
AcceleratingHT — COVID-19 Response
Organization Name
AcceleratingHT
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$50,000
Date
September 2020
September 2020
Grant Title
Run, George, Run — General Support (September 2020)
Organization Name
Run, George, Run
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$45,000
Date
September 2020
September 2020
Grant Title
University of California, Los Angeles — Social Science Genetic Association Consortium (2020)
Organization Name
University of California, Los Angeles
Focus Area
Scientific Innovation: Tools and Techniques
Amount
$2,250,000
Date
September 2020
September 2020
Grant Title
We Got Us Now — Leadership, Training, and Planning Support (2020)
Organization Name
We Got Us Now
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$100,000
Date
September 2020
September 2020
Grant Title
World Animal Net — Broiler Chicken and Pig Welfare Guidelines
Organization Name
World Animal Net
Focus Area
Broiler Chicken Welfare
Amount
$37,600
Date
September 2020
September 2020
Grant Title
Free Hearts — Criminal Justice Reform (2020)
Organization Name
Free Hearts
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$150,000
Date
September 2020
September 2020
Grant Title
Rice, Hadley, Gates and Manuel LLC — AI Accident Risk and Technology Competition
Organization Name
Rice, Hadley, Gates & Manuel LLC
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$25,000
Date
September 2020
September 2020
Grant Title
Center for International Security and Cooperation — AI Accident Risk and Technology Competition
Organization Name
Center for International Security and Cooperation
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$67,000
Date
September 2020
September 2020
Grant Title
The Humane League — Open Wing Alliance (2020)
Organization Name
The Humane League
Focus Area
Broiler Chicken Welfare
Amount
$3,600,000
Date
September 2020
September 2020
Grant Title
Federation of American Scientists — International Science Advisory Body for Biosecurity
Organization Name
Federation of American Scientists
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$175,000
Date
September 2020
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
October 2020
