Grants

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

The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights — Federal Criminal Justice Reform Advocacy (February 2020)

Organization Name

The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights

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

Amistad Law Project — General Support (February 2020)

Organization Name

Amistad Law Project

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

Youth and Families Taking Power — General Support

Organization Name

Youth and Families Taking Power

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$80,000
Date
February 2020
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
February 2020
Grant Title

Georgetown Center for Global Health Science and Security — General Support (February 2020)

Organization Name

Georgetown Center for Global Health Science and Security

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$1,200,000
Date
February 2020
February 2020
Grant Title

Animal Equality — Cage-Free and Broiler Welfare

Organization Name

Animal Equality

Focus Area
Broiler Chicken Welfare
Amount
$1,901,000
Date
February 2020
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
January 2020
Grant Title

Niskanen Center — Research on Immigration Policy (2020)

Organization Name

Niskanen Center

Focus Area
Immigration Policy
Amount
$200,000
Date
January 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
January 2020
Grant Title

Krystal Caldwell and Sydney Heiss — Farm Animal Welfare Research

Organization Name
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$156,781
Date
January 2020
January 2020
Grant Title

Sightsavers — Deworming Programs (January 2020)

Organization Name

Sightsavers

Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$2,710,100
Date
January 2020
January 2020
Grant Title

Georgetown University — Center on Poverty and Inequality

Organization Name

The Center on Poverty and Inequality

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

Stanford University — AI Safety Seminar

Organization Name

Stanford University

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$6,500
Date
January 2020
January 2020
Grant Title

World Animal Protection — Farm Animal Welfare in Southeast Asia

Organization Name

World Animal Protection

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$400,000
Date
January 2020
January 2020
Grant Title

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — General Support

Organization Name

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$150,000
Date
January 2020
January 2020
Grant Title

Essere Animali — Farm Animal Welfare Work in Italy (2020)

Organization Name

Essere Animali

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$462,974
Date
January 2020
January 2020
Grant Title

Rethink Priorities — Farm Animal Welfare Research (2020)

Organization Name

Rethink Priorities

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$910,000
Date
January 2020
January 2020
Grant Title

GiveWell — General Support (January 2020)

Organization Name

GiveWell

Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$2,245,570
Date
January 2020
January 2020
Grant Title

RAND Corporation — Research on the State of AI Assurance Methods

Organization Name

The RAND Corporation

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$30,751
Date
January 2020
January 2020
Grant Title

YIMBY Law — General Support (January 2020)

Organization Name

YIMBY Law

Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Amount
$100,000
Date
January 2020
January 2020
Grant Title

Development Media International — General Support (January 2020)

Organization Name

Development Media International

Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$100,000
Date
January 2020
January 2020
Grant Title

University of Missouri — Animal Welfare Research

Organization Name

University of Missouri

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$189,000
Date
January 2020
January 2020
Grant Title

Texas Inmate Families Association — General Support (2020)

Organization Name

Texas Inmate Families Association

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$120,000
Date
January 2020
January 2020
Grant Title

Press Shop — Support for Human Compatible

Organization Name

Press Shop

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$17,000
Date
January 2020
January 2020
Grant Title

Animal Charity Evaluators — General Support (2020)

Organization Name

Animal Charity Evaluators

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$650,000
Date
January 2020
January 2020
Grant Title

Vegan Women Summit — General Support

Organization Name

Vegan Women Summit

Focus Area
Alternatives to Animal Products
Amount
$5,000
Date
January 2020
January 2020
Grant Title

Ought — General Support (2020)

Organization Name

Ought

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,593,333
Date
January 2020
January 2020
Grant Title

Center for Welfare Metrics — Impacts of Animal Welfare Reforms (2020)

Organization Name

Center for Welfare Metrics

Focus Area
Cage-Free Reforms
Amount
$784,586
Date
January 2020
January 2020
Grant Title

National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls — Regranting to Promising Projects

Organization Name

National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$500,000
Date
January 2020
January 2020
Grant Title

Environment & Animal Society of Taiwan — Farm Animal Welfare Campaigns

Organization Name

Environment & Animal Society of Taiwan

Focus Area
Broiler Chicken Welfare
Amount
$521,000
Date
January 2020
January 2020
Grant Title

Helen Keller International — Vitamin A Supplementation (January 2020)

Organization Name

Helen Keller International

Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$9,709,000
Date
January 2020
January 2020
Grant Title

Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition — Universal Salt Iodization (January 2020)

Organization Name

Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$100,000
Date
January 2020
January 2020
Grant Title

A La Defensa — Prosecutor Accountability (2020)

Organization Name

A La Defensa

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$125,000
Date
January 2020
January 2020
Grant Title

LA Voice — Prosecutor Accountability

Organization Name

LA Voice

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$150,000
Date
January 2020
January 2020
Grant Title

Jason Crawford — The Roots of Progress

Organization Name
Focus Area
Other Areas
Amount
$75,000
Date
January 2020
January 2020
Grant Title

theguardian.org — Journalism on Factory Farming and Animal Cruelty (2020)

Organization Name

theguardian.org

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$900,000
Date
January 2020
January 2020
Grant Title

Living Goods — General Support (January 2020)

Organization Name

Living Goods

Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$100,000
Date
January 2020
December 2019
Grant Title

UC Berkeley — AI Safety Research (2019)

Organization Name

University of California, Berkeley

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,111,000
Date
December 2019
December 2019
Grant Title

Riverside Justice Table — Prosecutor Accountability (2019)

Organization Name

Riverside Justice Table

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$275,000
Date
December 2019
December 2019
Grant Title

Food Fortification Initiative — General Support (December 2019)

Organization Name

Food Fortification Initiative

Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$100,000
Date
December 2019
December 2019
Grant Title

Charity Science Health — Exit Grant

Organization Name

Charity Science Health

Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$214,425
Date
December 2019
December 2019
Grant Title

The Good Food Institute — International Work

Organization Name

The Good Food Institute

Focus Area
Alternatives to Animal Products
Amount
$4,000,000
Date
December 2019
December 2019
Grant Title

Debt Collective — Criminal Justice Reform Work

Organization Name

The Debt Collective

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$75,000
Date
December 2019
December 2019
Grant Title

Iodine Global Network — General Support (December 2019)

Organization Name

Iodine Global Network

Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$100,000
Date
December 2019
December 2019
Grant Title

Impact Justice — Restorative Justice Project (2019)

Organization Name

Impact Justice

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$4,000,000
Date
December 2019
December 2019
Grant Title

Global Animal Partnership — Farm Animal Welfare Activities (2019)

Organization Name

Global Animal Partnership

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
December 2019
December 2019
Grant Title

Alliance for Safety and Justice — General Support (December 2019)

Organization Name

Alliance for Safety and Justice

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$10,000,000
Date
December 2019
December 2019
Grant Title

Good Films Impact — “Just Mercy” Engagement

Organization Name

Good Films Impact

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$125,000
Date
December 2019
December 2019
Grant Title

Evidence Action — Dispensers for Safe Water Program (2019)

Organization Name

Evidence Action

Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$100,000
Date
December 2019
December 2019
Grant Title

Project Healthy Children — General Support (December 2019)

Organization Name

Project Healthy Children

Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$100,000
Date
December 2019
December 2019
Grant Title

GiveDirectly — General Support (December 2019)

Organization Name

GiveDirectly

Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$2,500,000
Date
December 2019
December 2019
Grant Title

Against Malaria Foundation — General Support (December 2019)

Organization Name

Against Malaria Foundation

Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$2,500,000
Date
December 2019
December 2019
Grant Title

The END Fund — General Support (December 2019)

Organization Name

The END Fund

Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$2,500,000
Date
December 2019
December 2019
Grant Title

Sightline Institute — Housing and Urban Development (December 2019)

Organization Name

Sightline Institute

Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Amount
$600,000
Date
December 2019
December 2019
Grant Title

Dezernat Zukunft — Monetary and Fiscal Policy in Europe (2019)

Organization Name

Dezernat Zukunft

Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
Amount
$100,000
Date
December 2019
December 2019
Grant Title

asha bandele — Criminal Justice Books

Organization Name
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$335,000
Date
December 2019
December 2019
Grant Title

National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls — General Support (December 2019)

Organization Name

National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$2,250,000
Date
December 2019
December 2019
Grant Title

Smart Justice CA — California Criminal Justice Reform Lobbying (2019)

Organization Name

Smart Justice CA

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$50,000
Date
December 2019
December 2019
Grant Title

WaitList Zero — General Support (2019)

Organization Name

WaitList Zero

Focus Area
Other Areas
Amount
$350,000
Date
December 2019
December 2019
Grant Title

Faith in Texas — Justice System Reform (2019)

Organization Name

Faith in Texas

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$150,000
Date
December 2019
December 2019
Grant Title

Essie Justice Group — General Support (December 2019)

Organization Name

Essie Justice Group

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$3,000,000
Date
December 2019
December 2019
Grant Title

Court Watch NOLA — General Support (2019)

Organization Name

Court Watch NOLA

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$500,000
Date
December 2019
December 2019
Grant Title

Power Coalition for Equity and Justice — Criminal Justice Reform (2019)

Organization Name

Power Coalition for Equity and Justice

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$25,000
Date
December 2019
December 2019
Grant Title

Broad Institute — Genome Editing Research (Feng Zhang)

Organization Name

Broad Institute

Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$2,500,000
Date
December 2019
December 2019
Grant Title

Faith in Action — Live Free Campaign (2019)

Organization Name

Faith in Action

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$400,000
Date
December 2019
December 2019
Grant Title

Michigan Liberation — Prosecutor Accountability (2019)

Organization Name

Michigan Liberation

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$165,000
Date
December 2019
December 2019
Grant Title

Worth Rises — General Support (2019)

Organization Name

Worth Rises

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$300,000
Date
December 2019
December 2019
Grant Title

Stanford University — Global Catastrophic Risk Education

Organization Name

Stanford University

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$250,000
Date
December 2019
November 2019
Grant Title

Working Families Organization — Prosecutor Accountability and Criminal Justice Reform (2019)

Organization Name

Working Families Organization

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$1,440,000
Date
November 2019
November 2019
Grant Title

Washington Center for Equitable Growth — Macroeconomic Policy Research

Organization Name

Washington Center for Equitable Growth

Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
Amount
$750,000
Date
November 2019
November 2019
Grant Title

Center for Popular Democracy — Fed Up Campaign (2019)

Organization Name

Center for Popular Democracy

Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
Amount
$600,000
Date
November 2019
November 2019
Grant Title

Ought — General Support (2019)

Organization Name

Ought

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
November 2019
November 2019
Grant Title

UC Berkeley — Center for Human-Compatible AI (2019)

Organization Name

University of California, Berkeley

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$200,000
Date
November 2019
November 2019
Grant Title

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center — Infant Immunome and Influenza Studies (Mary Staat)

Organization Name

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$9,105,777
Date
November 2019
November 2019
Grant Title

The Ahimsa Collective — “Life Comes From It” Fund Administration (2019)

Organization Name

The Ahimsa Collective

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$155,000
Date
November 2019
November 2019
Grant Title

A New Way of Life — Community Education and Voter Registration

Organization Name

A New Way of Life

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$200,000
Date
November 2019
November 2019
Grant Title

Promise of Justice Initiative — East Baton Rouge Parish Prison Reform Coalition (2019)

Organization Name

Promise of Justice Initiative

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$170,000
Date
November 2019
November 2019
Grant Title

Just Liberty — General Support (November 2019)

Organization Name

Just Liberty

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$320,000
Date
November 2019
November 2019
Grant Title

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — CHAI Collaboration (2019)

Organization Name

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$705,000
Date
November 2019
November 2019
Grant Title

Plant Based Foods Association — Grocery Store Study

Organization Name

Plant Based Foods Association

Focus Area
Alternatives to Animal Products
Amount
$230,000
Date
November 2019
November 2019
Grant Title

Citizens for Juvenile Justice — General Support (2019)

Organization Name

Citizens for Juvenile Justice

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$75,000
Date
November 2019
November 2019
Grant Title

Movement Voter Project — Student Organizing

Organization Name

Movement Voter Project

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$100,000
Date
November 2019
November 2019
Grant Title

The Justice Collaborative — General Support (November 2019)

Organization Name

The Justice Collaborative

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$600,000
Date
November 2019
November 2019
Grant Title

Ohio Voice — Vision for Ohio Fellowship

Organization Name

Ohio Voice

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$210,000
Date
November 2019
October 2019
Grant Title

Real Justice PAC — Criminal Justice Reform (October 2019)

Organization Name

Real Justice PAC

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$750,000
Date
October 2019
October 2019
Grant Title

SPCA Selangor — Farm Animal Welfare

Organization Name

SPCA Selangor

Focus Area
Broiler Chicken Welfare
Amount
$134,000
Date
October 2019
October 2019
Grant Title

The Soze Agency — Right of Return Fellowship (2019)

Organization Name

The Soze Agency

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$320,000
Date
October 2019
October 2019
Grant Title

Employ America — General Support (October 2019)

Organization Name

Employ America

Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
October 2019
October 2019
Grant Title

Citizen Action of New York — Criminal Justice Reform

Organization Name

Citizen Action of New York

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$510,000
Date
October 2019
October 2019
Grant Title

Center for Global Development — Impact Evaluation Case Studies

Organization Name

Center for Global Development

Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$100,000
Date
October 2019
October 2019
Grant Title

Humane Society International — African Swine Fever Training

Organization Name

Humane Society International

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$13,145
Date
October 2019
October 2019
Grant Title

Future of Life Institute — General Support (2019)

Organization Name

Future of Life Institute

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$100,000
Date
October 2019
October 2019
Grant Title

Anima International — Chicken Welfare Campaigns (2019)

Organization Name

Anima International

Focus Area
Broiler Chicken Welfare
Amount
$1,700,000
Date
October 2019
October 2019
Grant Title

Chicago Community Bond Fund — Support for Coalition to End Money Bond (2019)

Organization Name

Chicago Community Bond Fund

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$170,000
Date
October 2019
October 2019
Grant Title

Texas Organizing Project — Criminal Justice Reform (2019)

Organization Name

Texas Organizing Project

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$4,200,000
Date
October 2019
October 2019
Grant Title

UC Berkeley — Alternative Meats Lab (October 2019)

Organization Name

University of California, Berkeley

Focus Area
Alternatives to Animal Products
Amount
$700,000
Date
October 2019
October 2019
Grant Title

Texas Freedom Network — Texas Rising Program (2019)

Organization Name

Texas Freedom Network

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$150,000
Date
October 2019
October 2019
Grant Title

University of Oxford — Animal Welfare Research

Organization Name

University of Oxford

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$41,800
Date
October 2019
October 2019
Grant Title

New Virginia Majority — Criminal Justice Reform (October 2019)

Organization Name

New Virginia Majority Education Fund

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$266,000
Date
October 2019
October 2019
Grant Title

American Conservative Union Foundation — Criminal Justice Reform (2019)

Organization Name

American Conservative Union Foundation

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$225,000
Date
October 2019