Grants

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Funding Type
Focus Area
Year
Amount
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  • Grant
    Title
  • Organization
    Name
  • Focus
    Area
  • Amount
  • Date
July 2021
Grant Title

Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security — Report on Security Clearances

Organization Name

Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$70,000
Date
July 2021
July 2021
Grant Title

Federation of American Scientists — High-Skilled Immigration Policy

Organization Name

Federation of American Scientists

Focus Area
Immigration Policy
Amount
$600,000
Date
July 2021
July 2021
Grant Title

Chicago Community Bond Fund — Support for the Coalition to End Money Bond (2021)

Organization Name

Chicago Community Bond Fund

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$85,000
Date
July 2021
July 2021
Grant Title

UC Berkeley — Tuberculosis Diagnosis (Adithya Cattamanchi and Sarah Stanley)

Organization Name

University of California, Berkeley

Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$60,000
Date
July 2021
July 2021
Grant Title

Sinergia Animal — Animal Welfare in Southeast Asia (2021)

Organization Name

Sinergia Animal

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare in Asia
Amount
$291,500
Date
July 2021
July 2021
Grant Title

Schepens Eye Research Institute at Mass Eye and Ear — Pulmonary Fibrosis Drug (Leo Kim)

Organization Name

Mass Eye and Ear

Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$920,000
Date
July 2021
July 2021
Grant Title

Center for International Security and Cooperation — AI and Strategic Stability

Organization Name

Center for International Security and Cooperation

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$365,361
Date
July 2021
July 2021
Grant Title

Lead for Farmed Animals — Movement-Building Workshop

Organization Name

Lead for Farmed Animals

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$352,700
Date
July 2021
July 2021
Grant Title

Kansas State University — Fungal Genetics Stock Center

Organization Name

Kansas State University

Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$50,000
Date
July 2021
July 2021
Grant Title

Ifakara Health Institute — Malaria Vaccine Clinical Trial (Ally Olotu)

Organization Name

Ifakara Health Institute

Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$68,184
Date
July 2021
July 2021
Grant Title

Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity — AI Standards (2021)

Organization Name

University of California, Berkeley

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$25,000
Date
July 2021
July 2021
Grant Title

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — AI Standards (2021)

Organization Name

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$300,000
Date
July 2021
August 2021
Grant Title

Center for Security and Emerging Technology — General Support (August 2021)

Organization Name

Center for Security and Emerging Technology

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$38,920,000
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title

Stanford University — Adversarial Robustness Research (Shibani Santurkar)

Organization Name

Stanford University

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$330,792
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title

Open New York — General Support

Organization Name

Open New York

Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title

Federation of American Scientists — Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness Fellowship

Organization Name

Federation of American Scientists

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$480,000
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title

Agricultural Research Service — Malaria Control Research (2021)

Organization Name

Agricultural Research Service

Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$321,219
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title

Justice Research Group — General Support

Organization Name

Justice Research Group

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$2,000,000
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title

Pure Earth — Support for Reducing Lead Exposure in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Organization Name

Pure Earth

Focus Area
Global Public Health Policy
Amount
$2,130,000
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title

Stanford University — Adversarial Robustness Research (Dimitris Tsipras)

Organization Name

Stanford University

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$330,792
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title

The People’s Lobby – Reform Implementation and Prosecutorial Accountability

Organization Name

The People's Lobby

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$250,000
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title

Dyrevernalliansen — Wild-Caught Fish Welfare Research

Organization Name

Dyrevernalliansen (The Norwegian Animal Protection Alliance)

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$568,893
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title

University of Southern California — Adversarial Robustness Research

Organization Name

University of Southern California

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$320,000
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title

National Bureau of Economic Research — Innovation Policy Working Group

Organization Name

National Bureau of Economic Research

Focus Area
Innovation Policy
Amount
$467,500
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title

Voters Organized to Educate — Civic Engagement and Criminal Justice Reform

Organization Name

Voters Organized to Educate

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$700,000
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title

University of Washington — Syphilis Vaccine Development (Lorenzo Giacani)

Organization Name

University of Washington (Institute for Protein Design)

Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$816,063
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title

UC Berkeley — Course Development Support (Jacob Steinhardt)

Organization Name

University of California, Berkeley

Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$53,983
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title

Center for Security and Emerging Technology — Biosecurity Research Project

Organization Name

Center for Security and Emerging Technology

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$3,330,000
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title

University of Notre Dame — Nanopore Protein Sequencing (Gregory Timp) (2021)

Organization Name

University of Notre Dame

Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$1,769,056
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title

International Vaccine Institute — Schistosomiasis Vaccine Assessment

Organization Name

International Vaccine Institute

Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$140,000
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title

University Of Science Technical And Technologies De Bamako — Malaria Vaccine Clinical Trial (Alassane Dicko)

Organization Name

University Of Science Technical And Technologies De Bamako

Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$754,845
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title

Institut des Sciences et Techniques, Bobo-Dioulasso — Malaria Vaccine Clinical Trial (Jean Bosco Ouedraogo)

Organization Name

Institut des Sciences et Techniques, Bobo-Dioulasso

Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$631,162
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title

Purdue University — Preclinical Data Research (Douglas Brubaker)

Organization Name

Purdue University

Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$1,500,000
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title

George Washington University — Innovation in National Security Fellowship

Organization Name

George Washington University

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$450,000
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title

Korean Animal Welfare Association — Cage-Free Layer Hen Farming

Organization Name

Korean Animal Welfare Association

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$57,000
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title

KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme — Malaria Vaccine Clinical Trial (Philip Bejon)

Organization Name

The KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme

Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$472,016
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title

UC Berkeley — Adversarial Robustness Research (Aditi Raghunathan)

Organization Name

University of California, Berkeley

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$87,829
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title

Future of Humanity Institute — Economist Survey

Organization Name

Future of Humanity Institute

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$30,000
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title

Boston University — Human Lung Model Systems

Organization Name

Boston University

Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$414,000
Date
August 2021
September 2021
Grant Title

Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security — Forecasting Platforms

Organization Name

Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security

Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$7,993,782
Date
September 2021
September 2021
Grant Title

UCSF — Chronic Pain Research (Allan Basbaum) (2021)

Organization Name

University of California, San Francisco

Focus Area
Other Scientific Research Areas
Amount
$1,066,312
Date
September 2021
September 2021
Grant Title

Kainomyx — Antimalarial Drug (2021)

Organization Name

Kainomyx

Focus Area
Other Scientific Research Areas
Amount
$4,000,000
Date
September 2021
September 2021
Grant Title

Project NIA — General Support

Organization Name

Project NIA

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$175,000
Date
September 2021
September 2021
Grant Title

The Political Report — Journalism on Criminal Justice Reform

Organization Name
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$150,000
Date
September 2021
September 2021
Grant Title

Farmed Animal Funders — Regranting for Farm Animal Welfare in Europe

Organization Name

Farmed Animal Funders

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$750,000
Date
September 2021
September 2021
Grant Title

University of Washington — Universal Influenza Vaccines (Neil King)

Organization Name

University of Washington (Institute for Protein Design)

Focus Area
Other Scientific Research Areas
Amount
$3,230,394
Date
September 2021
September 2021
Grant Title

Center for a New American Security — Risks from Militarized AI

Organization Name

Center for a New American Security

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$101,187
Date
September 2021
September 2021
Grant Title

Plant Based Foods Association — General Support (2021)

Organization Name

Plant Based Foods Association

Focus Area
Alternatives to Animal Products
Amount
$3,500,000
Date
September 2021
September 2021
Grant Title

Peter McIntyre — Effective Altruism Community Building Projects

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$165,257
Date
September 2021
September 2021
Grant Title

HEARD — General Support (2021)

Organization Name

Helping Educate to Advance the Rights of Deaf Communities

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$100,000
Date
September 2021
September 2021
Grant Title

Université de Montréal — Research Project on Artificial Intelligence

Organization Name

Université de Montréal

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$210,552
Date
September 2021
September 2021
Grant Title

Stanford University — Pandemic Preparedness Center

Organization Name

Stanford University

Focus Area
Science Supporting Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$200,000
Date
September 2021
September 2021
Grant Title

Promise of Justice Initiative — East Baton Rouge Parish Prison Reform Coalition (2021)

Organization Name

Promise of Justice Initiative

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$170,000
Date
September 2021
September 2021
Grant Title

Rethink Priorities — Farm Animal Welfare Research (2021)

Organization Name

Rethink Priorities

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$2,000,000
Date
September 2021
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
September 2021
Grant Title

Environment & Animal Society of Taiwan — Farm Animal Welfare in Taiwan (2021)

Organization Name

Environment & Animal Society of Taiwan

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$1,245,000
Date
September 2021
September 2021
Grant Title

Precision Development — Exit Grant

Organization Name

Precision Development

Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$100,000
Date
September 2021
September 2021
Grant Title

Stanford University — AI Index

Organization Name

Stanford University

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$78,000
Date
September 2021
September 2021
Grant Title

Iodine Global Network — Exit Grant

Organization Name

Iodine Global Network

Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$100,000
Date
September 2021
September 2021
Grant Title

Project Healthy Children — Exit Grant

Organization Name

Project Healthy Children

Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$100,000
Date
September 2021
October 2021
Grant Title

Forward Justice — Criminal Justice Reform Advocacy and Organizing (2021)

Organization Name

Forward Justice

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$150,000
Date
October 2021
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
October 2021
Grant Title

Solar Cooling Engineering — Solar Refrigerator Testing

Organization Name

Solar Cooling Engineering

Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$100,000
Date
October 2021
October 2021
Grant Title

Bit by Bit Coding — High School Courses on Neural Networks

Organization Name

Bit by Bit Coding

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$250,275
Date
October 2021
October 2021
Grant Title

gui2de — Zusha! Road Safety Exit Grant

Organization Name

Georgetown University Initiative on Innovation, Development, and Evaluation

Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$100,000
Date
October 2021
October 2021
Grant Title

International Rescue Committee – Treatment of Malnutrition (October 2021)

Organization Name

International Rescue Committee

Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$42,000
Date
October 2021
October 2021
Grant Title

The Humane League — General Support (2021)

Organization Name

The Humane League

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$7,000,000
Date
October 2021
October 2021
Grant Title

Evidence Action — Dispensers for Safe Water Exit Grant

Organization Name

Evidence Action

Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$100,000
Date
October 2021
October 2021
Grant Title

University of Southern California — Course Development Support (Jake Nebel)

Organization Name

University of Southern California

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$33,000
Date
October 2021
October 2021
Grant Title

Sightsavers — Deworming Programs (October 2021)

Organization Name

Sightsavers

Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Amount
$4,438,085
Date
October 2021
October 2021
Grant Title

Development Media International — Exit Grant

Organization Name

Development Media International

Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$100,000
Date
October 2021
October 2021
Grant Title

Food Fortification Initiative — Exit Grant

Organization Name

Food Fortification Initiative

Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$100,000
Date
October 2021
October 2021
Grant Title

Albert Schweitzer Foundation — General Support (2021)

Organization Name

Albert Schweitzer Foundation

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare in Europe
Amount
$3,000,000
Date
October 2021
October 2021
Grant Title

Botswana-Harvard AIDS Institute – Early detection of preterm births

Organization Name

Botswana-Harvard AIDS Institute

Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$90,000
Date
October 2021
October 2021
Grant Title

University of Pennsylvania — Forecasting Tournament Planning

Organization Name

University of Pennsylvania

Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$275,000
Date
October 2021
October 2021
Grant Title

Citizen Action of New York — Criminal Justice Reform (2021)

Organization Name

Citizen Action of New York

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$250,000
Date
October 2021
October 2021
Grant Title

University of Washington — Adversarial Robustness Research

Organization Name

University of Washington

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$730,000
Date
October 2021
October 2021
Grant Title

Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition — Exit Grant

Organization Name

Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$100,000
Date
October 2021
October 2021
Grant Title

Institute for Progress — Policy Research

Organization Name

Institute for Progress

Focus Area
Innovation Policy
Amount
$2,215,000
Date
October 2021
October 2021
Grant Title

IRD Global — Mobile Conditional Cash Transfers for Immunizations

Organization Name

IRD Global

Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$25,000,000
Date
October 2021
October 2021
Grant Title

Californians Against Pandemics — California Pandemic Early Detection and Prevention Act Ballot Initiative

Organization Name

Californians Against Pandemics

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$11,100,000
Date
October 2021
October 2021
Grant Title

Malaria Consortium — Support for SMC in FCT and Oyo States, Nigeria

Organization Name

Malaria Consortium

Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$15,900,000
Date
October 2021
October 2021
Grant Title

Wren Collective — Criminal Justice Reform Communications Strategies

Organization Name

The Wren Collective

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$250,000
Date
October 2021
October 2021
Grant Title

Fund for Alignment Research — Language Model Misalignment

Organization Name

FAR AI

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$425,800
Date
October 2021
October 2021
Grant Title

The Good Food Institute — General Support (2021)

Organization Name

The Good Food Institute

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$10,000,000
Date
October 2021
October 2021
Grant Title

UC Berkeley — Alternative Meats Lab (2021)

Organization Name

University of California, Berkeley

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$1,146,201
Date
October 2021
October 2021
Grant Title

University of Rochester — Rural-Urban Migration in Kenya

Organization Name

University of Rochester

Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$1,007,377
Date
October 2021
October 2021
Grant Title

GiveWell — General Support (2021)

Organization Name

GiveWell

Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Amount
$3,600,295
Date
October 2021
October 2021
Grant Title

Ayni Institute — Movement Strategy and Trainings

Organization Name

Ayni Institute

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$480,000
Date
October 2021
October 2021
Grant Title

Living Goods — Exit Grant

Organization Name

Living Goods

Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$100,000
Date
October 2021
October 2021
Grant Title

The Ahimsa Collective — “Life Comes From It” Fund Administration (2021)

Organization Name

The Ahimsa Collective

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$155,000
Date
October 2021
October 2021
Grant Title

Court Watch NOLA — General Support (2021)

Organization Name

Court Watch NOLA

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$250,000
Date
October 2021
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
November 2021
Grant Title

1Day Sooner — General Support (2021)

Organization Name

1Day Sooner

Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Amount
$2,000,000
Date
November 2021
November 2021
Grant Title

Founders Pledge — General Support (2021)

Organization Name

Founders Pledge

Focus Area
Other Areas
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
November 2021
November 2021
Grant Title

Texas Organizing Project — Criminal Justice Reform (2021)

Organization Name

Texas Organizing Project

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$1,200,000
Date
November 2021
November 2021
Grant Title

Sightline Institute — Housing Reform in Washington and Oregon (2021)

Organization Name

Sightline Institute

Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Amount
$600,000
Date
November 2021
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
November 2021
Grant Title

Rational Animations — Video Animation Costs (2021)

Organization Name

Rational Animations

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$285,000
Date
November 2021
November 2021
Grant Title

University of Washington — Protein Design Research (David Baker)

Organization Name

University of Washington (Institute for Protein Design)

Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$3,263,750
Date
November 2021