Grants

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Funding Type
Focus Area
Year
Amount
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  • Grant
    Title
  • Organization
    Name
  • Focus
    Area
  • Amount
  • Date
December 2020
Grant Title

gui2de — Zusha! Road Safety Campaign (December 2020)

Organization Name

Georgetown University Initiative on Innovation, Development, and Evaluation

Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$50,000
Date
December 2020
December 2020
Grant Title

Development Media International — General Support (December 2020)

Organization Name

Development Media International

Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$50,000
Date
December 2020
December 2020
Grant Title

Evidence Action — Dispensers for Safe Water Program (December 2020)

Organization Name

Evidence Action

Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$50,000
Date
December 2020
December 2020
Grant Title

Evidence Action — Deworm the World Initiative

Organization Name

Evidence Action

Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$4,103,000
Date
December 2020
December 2020
Grant Title

The Humane League-UK — General Support

Organization Name

The Humane League-UK

Focus Area
Broiler Chicken Welfare
Amount
$507,900
Date
December 2020
December 2020
Grant Title

University of Pennsylvania — Research on Mammalian Reproduction (Kotaro Sasaki) (2020)

Organization Name

University of Pennsylvania

Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
December 2020
December 2020
Grant Title

Project Healthy Children — General Support (December 2020)

Organization Name

Project Healthy Children

Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$50,000
Date
December 2020
November 2020
Grant Title

GLOBALG.A.P. — Fish Welfare Standards

Organization Name

GLOBALG.A.P.

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$90,554
Date
November 2020
November 2020
Grant Title

Massachusetts Institute of Technology — AI Trends and Impacts Research (2020)

Organization Name

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$550,688
Date
November 2020
November 2020
Grant Title

University of New South Wales — In Vitro Fertilization Research (Robert Gilchrist)

Organization Name

University of New South Wales

Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$2,500,000
Date
November 2020
November 2020
Grant Title

Impact Alliance — Cage-Free Program

Organization Name

Impact Alliance

Focus Area
Cage-Free Reforms
Amount
$40,000
Date
November 2020
November 2020
Grant Title

Washington University in St. Louis — Research on Cryptosporidium Hominis (David Sibley)

Organization Name

Washington University in St. Louis

Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$1,154,589
Date
November 2020
November 2020
Grant Title

Power Coalition for Equity and Justice — Criminal Justice Reform (2020)

Organization Name

Power Coalition for Equity and Justice

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$30,000
Date
November 2020
November 2020
Grant Title

International Refugee Assistance Project — General Support (2020)

Organization Name

International Refugee Assistance Project

Focus Area
Immigration Policy
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
November 2020
November 2020
Grant Title

A New Way of Life — Civic Engagement Work

Organization Name

A New Way of Life

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$200,000
Date
November 2020
November 2020
Grant Title

Urban Institute — Countercyclical State Funding Mechanisms

Organization Name

Urban Institute

Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
Amount
$50,000
Date
November 2020
November 2020
Grant Title

Dezernat Zukunft — Monetary and Fiscal Policy in Europe (2020)

Organization Name

Dezernat Zukunft

Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
Amount
$202,079
Date
November 2020
November 2020
Grant Title

International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology — Malaria Prevention Research (Jeremy Herren)

Organization Name

International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology

Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$2,199,645
Date
November 2020
November 2020
Grant Title

Telethon Kids Institute (University of Western Australia) — Strep A Vaccine (Jonathan Carapetis)

Organization Name

Telethon Kids Institute

Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$5,300,000
Date
November 2020
November 2020
Grant Title

Future of Life Institute — General Support (2020)

Organization Name

Future of Life Institute

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$176,000
Date
November 2020
November 2020
Grant Title

1Day Sooner — General Support (November 2020)

Organization Name

1Day Sooner

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$600,000
Date
November 2020
November 2020
Grant Title

Compassion in World Farming — Farm Animal Welfare in Asia

Organization Name

Compassion in World Farming

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$1,391,971
Date
November 2020
November 2020
Grant Title

University of Bern — Layer Hen Breeding Research

Organization Name

University of Bern

Focus Area
Cage-Free Reforms
Amount
$410,000
Date
November 2020
November 2020
Grant Title

Material Innovation Initiative — Plant-Based Fashion Alternatives

Organization Name

Material Innovation Initiative

Focus Area
Alternatives to Animal Products
Amount
$200,000
Date
November 2020
November 2020
Grant Title

Global Health Security Network — Global Health Security Conference

Organization Name

Global Health Security Network

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$50,000
Date
November 2020
November 2020
Grant Title

AI Impacts — General Support (2020)

Organization Name

AI Impacts

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$50,000
Date
November 2020
November 2020
Grant Title

221B Foundation — COVID-19 Testing in Nepal (Jay Mahat)

Organization Name

221B Foundation

Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$100,000
Date
November 2020
November 2020
Grant Title

Binx — COVID-19 Testing Platform

Organization Name

Binx

Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$2,000,000
Date
November 2020
November 2020
Grant Title

Yale University — Cardiovascular Disease Therapy Research

Organization Name

Yale University

Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$450,000
Date
November 2020
November 2020
Grant Title

Reclaim Philadelphia — Judge Accountability Work (2020)

Organization Name

Reclaim Philadelphia

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$165,000
Date
November 2020
November 2020
Grant Title

VasoRX — Atherosclerosis and Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Therapy

Organization Name

VasoRX

Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$5,550,000
Date
November 2020
November 2020
Grant Title

Council on Strategic Risks — Biological Weapons Prevention (November 2020)

Organization Name

Council on Strategic Risks

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$2,050,000
Date
November 2020
November 2020
Grant Title

L214 — Broiler Welfare Campaigns in France (2020)

Organization Name

L214

Focus Area
Broiler Chicken Welfare
Amount
$1,642,046
Date
November 2020
October 2020
Grant Title

Direct Relief — COVID-19 Action Fund for Africa

Organization Name

Direct Relief

Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$275,000
Date
October 2020
October 2020
Grant Title

University of Glasgow — Malaria Prevention Research (Steven Sinkins)

Organization Name

University of Glasgow

Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$3,175,000
Date
October 2020
October 2020
Grant Title

GiveWell — General Support (October 2020)

Organization Name

GiveWell

Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$2,389,753
Date
October 2020
October 2020
Grant Title

Frontline Dads — General Support (October 2020)

Organization Name

Frontline Dads

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$60,000
Date
October 2020
October 2020
Grant Title

Prism — Criminal Justice Vertical (2020)

Organization Name

Prism

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$50,000
Date
October 2020
October 2020
Grant Title

YIMBY Law — General Support (October 2020)

Organization Name

YIMBY Law

Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Amount
$500,000
Date
October 2020
October 2020
Grant Title

Movement Alliance Project — Prosecutor Accountability (October 2020)

Organization Name

Movement Alliance Project

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$245,000
Date
October 2020
October 2020
Grant Title

ANTI-VeC — Malaria Prevention Research

Organization Name

ANTI-VeC

Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$700,000
Date
October 2020
October 2020
Grant Title

Partnership for Safety and Justice — Crisis Communications Strategy

Organization Name

Partnership for Safety and Justice

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$50,000
Date
October 2020
October 2020
Grant Title

Effective Altruism Foundation — European Policy Research and Advocacy (2020)

Organization Name

Effective Altruism Foundation

Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$375,000
Date
October 2020
October 2020
Grant Title

UC Berkeley — In-Line Water Chlorination Devices (Amy Pickering) (2020)

Organization Name

University of California, Berkeley

Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$99,000
Date
October 2020
October 2020
Grant Title

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab — DNA Synthesis Screening Methods

Organization Name

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$890,000
Date
October 2020
October 2020
Grant Title

Center for a New American Security — AI and Security Projects

Organization Name

Center for a New American Security

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$116,744
Date
October 2020
October 2020
Grant Title

Success Stories — Workshop Support

Organization Name

Success Stories

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$50,000
Date
October 2020
October 2020
Grant Title

Re-Imagine L.A. County — Measure J

Organization Name

Yes on J: Re-Imagine L.A. County

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$140,000
Date
October 2020
October 2020
Grant Title

University Health Network — Preterm Birth Research (2020)

Organization Name

University Health Network

Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$1,228,000
Date
October 2020
October 2020
Grant Title

Animal Welfare Awareness, Research, and Education — Farm Animal Welfare Work

Organization Name

Animal Welfare Awareness, Research, and Education

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$64,600
Date
October 2020
October 2020
Grant Title

Center for a New American Security — AI Governance Projects

Organization Name

Center for a New American Security

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$24,350
Date
October 2020
October 2020
Grant Title

Helping Educate to Advance the Rights of Deaf Communities — General Support (2020)

Organization Name

Helping Educate to Advance the Rights of Deaf Communities

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$50,000
Date
October 2020
October 2020
Grant Title

Sisters Unchained — General Support

Organization Name

Sisters Unchained

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$25,000
Date
October 2020
October 2020
Grant Title

Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition 4 Action — Prosecutor Accountability

Organization Name

Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition 4 Action

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$100,000
Date
October 2020
October 2020
Grant Title

Vegan Women Summit — Plant- and Cell-Based Startup Pitch Competition

Organization Name

Vegan Women Summit

Focus Area
Alternatives to Animal Products
Amount
$20,000
Date
October 2020
October 2020
Grant Title

Smitha Milli — Participatory Approaches to Machine Learning Workshop

Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$370
Date
October 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
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

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

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

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

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

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

AcceleratingHT — COVID-19 Response

Organization Name

AcceleratingHT

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$50,000
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

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

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
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
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

Icosavax — COVID-19 Vaccine Development

Organization Name

Icosavax

Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$6,500,000
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

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

Catalyst — Farm Animal Welfare in Thailand

Organization Name

Catalyst

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$447,000
Date
August 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
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
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

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

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

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

VST Bio — Stroke Treatment

Organization Name

VST Bio

Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$4,500,000
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

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

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

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

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
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
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