Grants

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Funding Type
Focus Area
Year
Amount
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  • Grant
    Title
  • Organization
    Name
  • Focus
    Area
  • Amount
  • Date
June 2022
Grant Title

Epoch — General Support

Organization Name

Epoch

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,960,000
Date
June 2022
June 2022
Grant Title

YIMBY Action – Housing Advocacy in Los Angeles

Organization Name

YIMBY Action

Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Amount
$300,000
Date
June 2022
June 2022
Grant Title

YIMBY Law — General Support (2022)

Organization Name

YIMBY Law

Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Amount
$500,000
Date
June 2022
June 2022
Grant Title

Rethink Priorities — Dimensions of Welfare Workshop

Organization Name

Rethink Priorities

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$40,000
Date
June 2022
June 2022
Grant Title

Breakthrough Institute — Research on Plant-Based Meat Consumption

Organization Name

Breakthrough Institute

Focus Area
Alternatives to Animal Products
Amount
$50,000
Date
June 2022
June 2022
Grant Title

University of Edinburgh — Effective Altruism Psychology Course

Organization Name

University of Edinburgh

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$47,000
Date
June 2022
June 2022
Grant Title

Aquatic Life Institute — General Support

Organization Name

Aquatic Life Institute

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$100,000
Date
June 2022
June 2022
Grant Title

One for the World — General Support (2022)

Organization Name

One for the World

Focus Area
Effective Altruism (Global Health and Wellbeing)
Amount
$299,285
Date
June 2022
June 2022
Grant Title

Andrea Gunn & David Coman-Hidy — New Farmed Animal Welfare Support Organization

Organization Name
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$200,000
Date
June 2022
June 2022
Grant Title

Oxfendazole Development Group — Oxfendazole Toxicity Tests

Organization Name

Oxfendazole Development Group

Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$1,600,000
Date
June 2022
June 2022
Grant Title

AI Impacts — General Support

Organization Name

AI Impacts

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$364,893
Date
June 2022
June 2022
Grant Title

VenomAid — Rapid Diagnostics for Snakebites

Organization Name

VenomAid

Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$990,208
Date
June 2022
June 2022
Grant Title

Open Philanthropy Undergraduate Scholarships (2022)

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$2,392,682
Date
June 2022
June 2022
Grant Title

80,000 Hours — Marketing

Organization Name

80,000 Hours

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$3,000,000
Date
June 2022
June 2022
Grant Title

BlueDot Impact — General Support

Organization Name

BlueDot Impact

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$2,009,000
Date
June 2022
June 2022
Grant Title

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur — Rural Air Quality Monitoring

Organization Name

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Focus Area
South Asian Air Quality
Amount
$2,500,000
Date
June 2022
June 2022
Grant Title

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — SERI Summer Fellowships (2022)

Organization Name

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$400,000
Date
June 2022
June 2022
Grant Title

People For Animals Uttarakhand — Farm Animal Welfare Fellowship (2022)

Organization Name

People for Animals Uttarakhand

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$100,000
Date
June 2022
June 2022
Grant Title

Cornell University — National Zoning Atlas

Organization Name

Cornell University

Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Amount
$312,400
Date
June 2022
June 2022
Grant Title

Eurogroup for Animals — Chicken Welfare Advocacy (2022)

Organization Name

Eurogroup for Animals

Focus Area
Broiler Chicken Welfare
Amount
$891,120
Date
June 2022
May 2022
Grant Title

Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation — Farm Animal Advocacy

Organization Name

Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$1,245,067
Date
May 2022
May 2022
Grant Title

80,000 Hours — General Support (2022)

Organization Name

80,000 Hours

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,250,000
Date
May 2022
May 2022
Grant Title

IDinsight — Moral Weights Survey Planning

Organization Name

IDinsight

Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$11,760
Date
May 2022
May 2022
Grant Title

UrbanEmissions — Pollution Modeling and Forecasting

Organization Name

UrbanEmissions

Focus Area
South Asian Air Quality
Amount
$650,000
Date
May 2022
May 2022
Grant Title

VegeProject — Corporate Outreach (2022)

Organization Name

VegeProject

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$300,000
Date
May 2022
May 2022
Grant Title

University of Bern — Cage-free Layer Hen Genetics

Organization Name

University of Bern

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$2,700,000
Date
May 2022
May 2022
Grant Title

Metaculus — Platform Development

Organization Name

Metaculus

Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$5,500,000
Date
May 2022
May 2022
Grant Title

Compassion in World Farming (CIWF) USA — Broiler Chicken Welfare

Organization Name

Compassion in World Farming USA

Focus Area
Broiler Chicken Welfare
Amount
$550,000
Date
May 2022
May 2022
Grant Title

Rose Hadshar — Individual longtermism projects

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$163,830
Date
May 2022
May 2022
Grant Title

Bridges to Prosperity — Trailbridge Building RCT in Rwanda

Organization Name

Bridges to Prosperity

Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$3,390,138
Date
May 2022
May 2022
Grant Title

Victory Briefs Institute — Effective Altruism Curriculum for Debaters

Organization Name

Victory Briefs Institute

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$95,000
Date
May 2022
May 2022
Grant Title

Stanford University — Research on Science and Innovation (Heidi Williams)

Organization Name

Stanford University

Focus Area
Innovation Policy
Amount
$599,190
Date
May 2022
May 2022
Grant Title

Sightline Institute — YIMBYtown (2022)

Organization Name

Sightline Institute

Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Amount
$50,000
Date
May 2022
May 2022
Grant Title

Effective Altruist Communications Fellowship — Summer 2022 Fellowship

Organization Name

Effective Altruist Communications Fellowship

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$585,000
Date
May 2022
May 2022
Grant Title

fair-fish international association — General Support (2022)

Organization Name

fair-fish international association

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$690,000
Date
May 2022
May 2022
Grant Title

Derek Foster — Research on Subjective Wellbeing

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Amount
$49,045
Date
May 2022
May 2022
Grant Title

The College of William and Mary — Uganda Smartphone RCT

Organization Name

College of William and Mary

Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$100,000
Date
May 2022
May 2022
Grant Title

European Summer Program on Rationality — General Support (2022)

Organization Name

European Summer Program on Rationality

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$4,715,000
Date
May 2022
May 2022
Grant Title

Alvea — DNA Vaccine Platform

Organization Name

Alvea

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$5,000,000
Date
May 2022
May 2022
Grant Title

Constitutional Accountability Center — California Prop 12 Legal Defense

Organization Name

Constitutional Accountability Center

Focus Area
Cage-Free Reforms
Amount
$37,123
Date
May 2022
May 2022
Grant Title

Humane Society of the United States — California Prop 12 Legal Defense

Organization Name

Humane Society of the United States

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$250,000
Date
May 2022
May 2022
Grant Title

Madhu Sriram — Career Transition and Planning Grant

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$50,000
Date
May 2022
May 2022
Grant Title

Animal Nepal — Farm Animal Welfare

Organization Name

Animal Nepal

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$224,000
Date
May 2022
May 2022
Grant Title

Centre for Effective Altruism — Research Assistant for Jonas Sandbrink

Organization Name

Centre for Effective Altruism

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$77,000
Date
May 2022
May 2022
Grant Title

National Animal Disease Center — Universal Influenza Antiviral Testing

Organization Name

National Animal Disease Center

Focus Area
Science Supporting Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$181,749
Date
May 2022
April 2022
Grant Title

UC San Diego — Cost-Benefit Analysis for Malaria Suppression

Organization Name

San Diego

Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$190,000
Date
April 2022
April 2022
Grant Title

OpenMined — Research on Privacy-Enhancing Technologies and AI Safety

Organization Name

OpenMined

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$28,320
Date
April 2022
April 2022
Grant Title

Center for Global Development — General Support (2022)

Organization Name

Center for Global Development

Focus Area
Global Aid Policy
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
April 2022
April 2022
Grant Title

Effective Altruism Foundation — European Policy Research and Advocacy (April 2022)

Organization Name

Effective Altruism Foundation

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$200,000
Date
April 2022
April 2022
Grant Title

Open Phil AI Fellowship — 2022 Class

Organization Name

Open Phil AI Fellowship

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,840,000
Date
April 2022