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Grants
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Grant
Title -
Organization
Name -
Focus
Area -
Amount
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Date
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
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
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
Harvard University — Biosecurity and Biosafety
Organization Name
Harvard University
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$315,000
Date
June 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
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
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
Kainomyx — Antimalarial Drug (2019)
Organization Name
Kainomyx
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$1,999,999
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Nuclear Threat Initiative — Biosecurity Program Support (May 2020)
Organization Name
Nuclear Threat Initiative
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$500,000
Date
May 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
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
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
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
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
Sea-Long Global Respiratory Systems — COVID-19 Ventilation Helmet Production
Organization Name
Sea-Long Global Respiratory Systems
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$325,000
Date
April 2020
April 2020
Grant Title
Riverside Justice Table — Criminal Justice Reform Work
Organization Name
Riverside Justice Table
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$15,000
Date
April 2020
April 2020
Grant Title
Reducetarian Foundation — Fish Consumption Messaging Research
Organization Name
Reducetarian Foundation
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$14,190
Date
April 2020
April 2020
Grant Title
Equalia — Broiler Welfare and Cage-Free Campaigns and International Farm Animal Welfare Investigations
Organization Name
Equalia
Focus Area
Broiler Chicken Welfare
Amount
$150,000
Date
April 2020
April 2020
Grant Title
Animal Nepal — Farm Animal Welfare
Organization Name
Animal Nepal
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$271,700
Date
April 2020
April 2020
Grant Title
University of Michigan — COVID-19 Protein Production (Aubree Gordon)
Organization Name
University of Michigan
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$348,000
Date
April 2020
April 2020
Grant Title
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai — COVID-19 Diagnostic Testing (Adolfo García-Sastre)
Organization Name
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$627,700
Date
April 2020
April 2020
Grant Title
African Union Development Agency — General Support (2020)
Organization Name
African Union Development Agency
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$2,500,000
Date
April 2020
April 2020
Grant Title
Engineers Without Borders USA — COVID-19 Hospital Equipment
Organization Name
Engineers Without Borders USA
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$250,000
Date
April 2020
April 2020
Grant Title
Brown Institute for Media Innovation — COVID-19 Rapid Micro-Grants
Organization Name
Brown Institute for Media Innovation
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$15,000
Date
April 2020
April 2020
Grant Title
Truth, Reconciliation, and Reparations — General Support
Organization Name
Truth, Reconciliation, and Reparations
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$25,000
Date
April 2020
April 2020
Grant Title
National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls — General Support (2020)
Organization Name
National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$250,000
Date
April 2020
April 2020
Grant Title
iGEM — Synthetic Biology Safety and Security (2020)
Organization Name
International Genetically Engineered Machine Foundation
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$940,000
Date
April 2020
April 2020
Grant Title
Florida Rights Restoration Coalition — General Support (2020)
Organization Name
Florida Rights Restoration Coalition
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$500,000
Date
April 2020
April 2020
Grant Title
Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research — Farm Animal Welfare Research (2020)
Organization Name
Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research
Focus Area
Alternatives to Animal Products
Amount
$500,000
Date
April 2020
April 2020
Grant Title
UC Berkeley — Research on Rapid COVID-19 Serology Testing (Lisa Barcellos and Eva Harris)
Organization Name
University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$1,300,000
Date
April 2020
April 2020
Grant Title
University of Colorado — COVID-19 Personal Protective Equipment Experiments
Organization Name
University of Colorado
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$250,000
Date
April 2020
April 2020
Grant Title
Compassion in World Farming USA — Global EggTrack Program
Organization Name
Compassion in World Farming USA
Focus Area
Cage-Free Reforms
Amount
$78,750
Date
April 2020
April 2020
Grant Title
Californians for Stem Cell Research, Treatments and Cures — California Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Organization Name
Californians for Stem Cell Research, Treatments and Cures
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$580,000
Date
April 2020
April 2020
Grant Title
A New Way of Life — General Support
Organization Name
A New Way of Life
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$25,000
Date
April 2020
April 2020
Grant Title
Effective Altruism Foundation — European Policy Research
Organization Name
Effective Altruism Foundation
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$15,358
Date
April 2020
April 2020
Grant Title
Rockefeller University — Viral Histone Mimics (Alexander Tarakhovsky) (2020)
Organization Name
Rockefeller University
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$200,000
Date
April 2020
March 2020
Grant Title
fair-fish international association — General Support
Organization Name
fair-fish international association
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$630,370
Date
March 2020
March 2020
Grant Title
Movement Alliance Project — Prosecutor Accountability (March 2020)
Organization Name
Movement Alliance Project
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$180,000
Date
March 2020
March 2020
Grant Title
Broad Institute — COVID-19 Diagnostic Testing (Stacey Gabriel)
Organization Name
Broad Institute
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$925,000
Date
March 2020
March 2020
Grant Title
Against COVID-19 — COVID-19 Database Support
Organization Name
Against COVID-19
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$10,000
Date
March 2020
March 2020
Grant Title
UC Davis — Research on Antiviral Drugs (Koen Van Rompay)
Organization Name
University of California, Davis
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$170,190
Date
March 2020
March 2020
Grant Title
Court Watch NOLA — Coalition Coordination (2020)
Organization Name
Court Watch NOLA
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$35,000
Date
March 2020
March 2020
Grant Title
Johns Hopkins University — Support for Jared Kaplan and Brice Ménard
Organization Name
Johns Hopkins University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$55,000
Date
March 2020
March 2020
Grant Title
Georgetown Center for Global Health Science and Security — General Support (March 2020)
Organization Name
Georgetown Center for Global Health Science and Security
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$2,400,000
Date
March 2020
March 2020
Grant Title
Broad Institute — Pandemic Preemption System (Pardis Sabeti and Christian Happi)
Organization Name
Broad Institute
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
March 2020
March 2020
Grant Title
Just Outcomes — Restorative Justice Convenings and Affinity Group Meetings
Organization Name
Just Outcomes
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$30,000
Date
March 2020
March 2020
Grant Title
Good Judgment Inc. — COVID-19 Forecasting
Organization Name
Good Judgment Inc.
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$75,500
Date
March 2020
March 2020
Grant Title
Center for Global Development — COVID-19 Local Response Guidelines
Organization Name
Center for Global Development
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$250,000
Date
March 2020
March 2020
Grant Title
UC Berkeley — Deworming and Cash Transfers (2020)
Organization Name
University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$88,000
Date
March 2020
March 2020
Grant Title
Council on Strategic Risks — Biological Weapons Prevention (March 2020)
Organization Name
Council on Strategic Risks
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$410,000
Date
March 2020
March 2020
Grant Title
ReFrame — ReFrame Academy
Organization Name
ReFrame
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$31,500
Date
March 2020
March 2020
Grant Title
Alianima — General Support
Organization Name
Alianima
Focus Area
Cage-Free Reforms
Amount
$130,000
Date
March 2020
March 2020
Grant Title
Safety and Justice Oregon — General Support
Organization Name
Safety and Justice Oregon
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$200,000
Date
March 2020
March 2020
Grant Title
Study and Training Related to AI Policy Careers — Scholarship Support
Organization Name
Study and Training Related to AI Policy Careers
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$593,540
Date
March 2020
March 2020
Grant Title
Center for Global Development — Migration Program (2020)
Organization Name
Center for Global Development
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
March 2020
March 2020
Grant Title
Stanford University — Infant Immunome Study (Mark Davis, Justin Sonnenburg, and Bali Pulendran)
Organization Name
Stanford University
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$8,293,676
Date
March 2020
March 2020
Grant Title
International Society for Applied Ethology — Advance Farm Animal Welfare Science in Developing Nations (2020)
Organization Name
International Society for Applied Ethology
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$229,830
Date
March 2020
March 2020
Grant Title
Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals — Broiler Chicken Welfare Outreach
Organization Name
Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
Focus Area
Broiler Chicken Welfare
Amount
$425,000
Date
March 2020
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
February 2020
Grant Title
Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense — General Support
Organization Name
Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$2,970,000
Date
February 2020
February 2020
Grant Title
Run, George, Run — General Support (February 2020)
Organization Name
Run, George, Run
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$30,000
Date
February 2020
February 2020
