Grants

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

Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity — AI Standards (2022)

Organization Name

University of California, Berkeley

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$20,000
Date
April 2022
April 2022
Grant Title

Precision Development – Trial Scoping

Organization Name

Precision Development

Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$539,864
Date
April 2022
April 2022
Grant Title

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — SERI MATS Program (2022)

Organization Name

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,008,127
Date
April 2022
April 2022
Grant Title

Funding for AI Alignment Projects Working With Deep Learning Systems

Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$15,700,072
Date
April 2022
April 2022
Grant Title

AI Safety Support — Research on Trends in Machine Learning

Organization Name

AI Safety Support

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$42,000
Date
April 2022
April 2022
Grant Title

Essere Animali — Farm Animal Welfare in Italy (2022)

Organization Name

Essere Animali

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$554,000
Date
April 2022
April 2022
Grant Title

Cecil Abungu — Effective Altruism Fellowship in Africa

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$294,000
Date
April 2022
April 2022
Grant Title

The Center for Responsible Seafood — Fish Welfare Research and Promotion

Organization Name

The Center for Responsible Seafood

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$625,000
Date
April 2022
April 2022
Grant Title

Anima International — Chicken Welfare Campaigns (2022)

Organization Name

Anima International

Focus Area
Broiler Chicken Welfare
Amount
$6,000,000
Date
April 2022
April 2022
Grant Title

Longview Philanthropy — Nuclear Security Grantmaking

Organization Name

Longview Philanthropy

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$500,000
Date
April 2022
April 2022
Grant Title

WAW Statistical Consulting Ltd — R Package for Bayesian Evidence Aggregation

Organization Name

WAW Statistical Consulting Ltd

Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$66,400
Date
April 2022
April 2022
Grant Title

Helen Keller International — Vitamin A Supplementation (April 2022)

Organization Name

Helen Keller International

Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$3,936,955
Date
April 2022
April 2022
Grant Title

University of Illinois — Course Development Support (Ben Levinstein)

Organization Name

University of Illinois

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$58,141
Date
April 2022
April 2022
Grant Title

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — David Krueger Collaboration

Organization Name

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$140,050
Date
April 2022
March 2022
Grant Title

Paris Peace Forum — Global Commission on Governing Risks from Climate Overshoot

Organization Name

Global Commission on Governing Risks from Climate Overshoot

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$616,305
Date
March 2022
March 2022
Grant Title

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — Support for Kevin Esvelt’s Research

Organization Name

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$100,000
Date
March 2022
March 2022
Grant Title

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace — AI Governance Research

Organization Name

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$597,717
Date
March 2022
March 2022
Grant Title

Kurzgesagt — Short-form Video Content

Organization Name

Kurzgesagt

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$2,978,000
Date
March 2022
March 2022
Grant Title

Policy Cures Research — General Support

Organization Name

Policy Cures Research

Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Amount
$13,000,000
Date
March 2022
March 2022
Grant Title

Life Sciences Research Foundation — Young Investigators (2022)

Organization Name

Life Sciences Research Foundation

Focus Area
Transformative Basic Science
Amount
$751,000
Date
March 2022
March 2022
Grant Title

Dezernat Zukunft — Re-Granting (2022)

Organization Name

Dezernat Zukunft

Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
Amount
$2,400,000
Date
March 2022
March 2022
Grant Title

Animal Ask — General Support

Organization Name

Animal Ask

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$130,000
Date
March 2022
March 2022
Grant Title

Hofvarpnir Studios — Compute Cluster for AI Safety Research

Organization Name

Hofvarpnir Studios

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,443,540
Date
March 2022
March 2022
Grant Title

Usman Anwar — Research Collaboration with David Krueger

Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$6,526
Date
March 2022
March 2022
Grant Title

Massachusetts Institute of Technology — AI Trends and Impacts Research (2022)

Organization Name

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$13,277,348
Date
March 2022
March 2022
Grant Title

Center for Popular Democracy — Exit Grant

Organization Name

Center for Popular Democracy

Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
Amount
$500,000
Date
March 2022
March 2022
Grant Title

Rethink Priorities — AI Governance Research (2022)

Organization Name

Rethink Priorities

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$2,728,319
Date
March 2022
March 2022
Grant Title

Atlas Fellowship — Scholarships and Summer Program for Students

Organization Name

Atlas Fellowship

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$5,000,000
Date
March 2022
March 2022
Grant Title

Centre for Effective Altruism — General Support (2022)

Organization Name

Centre for Effective Altruism

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$26,000,000
Date
March 2022
March 2022
Grant Title

World Animal Protection — Farm Animal Welfare in Southeast Asia (2022)

Organization Name

World Animal Protection

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare in Asia
Amount
$1,142,000
Date
March 2022
March 2022
Grant Title

Cambridge Existential Risk Initiative — Summer Research Program

Organization Name

Cambridge Existential Risk Initiative

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$509,543
Date
March 2022
March 2022
Grant Title

Egor Krasheninnikov — Research Collaboration with David Krueger

Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$6,526
Date
March 2022
March 2022
Grant Title

Stiftung Neue Verantwortung — AI Policy Analysis

Organization Name

Stiftung Neue Verantwortung

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$444,000
Date
March 2022
March 2022
Grant Title

Charity Entrepreneurship — General Support

Organization Name

Charity Entrepreneurship

Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Amount
$1,616,474
Date
March 2022
March 2022
Grant Title

Charak Foundation — Ramatroban Clinical Trial

Organization Name

Charak Foundation

Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$195,600
Date
March 2022
March 2022
Grant Title

Alignment Research Center — General Support

Organization Name

Alignment Research Center

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$265,000
Date
March 2022
March 2022
Grant Title

Malaria Consortium — Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention Programs (2022)

Organization Name

Malaria Consortium

Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$32,096,856
Date
March 2022
February 2022
Grant Title

Fiona Pollack — Effective Altruism Organizing at Harvard

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$75,000
Date
February 2022
February 2022
Grant Title

AI Funding for Individuals — Work and Study Support

Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$113,372
Date
February 2022
February 2022
Grant Title

Malaria Consortium — Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention in Mozambique (2022)

Organization Name

Malaria Consortium

Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$15,918,958
Date
February 2022
February 2022
Grant Title

Eurogroup for Animals — European Union Trade Strategy (2022)

Organization Name

Eurogroup for Animals

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$912,994
Date
February 2022
February 2022
Grant Title

Center for Global Development — Oral COVID Antivirals

Organization Name

Center for Global Development

Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$800,000
Date
February 2022
February 2022
Grant Title

World Organisation for Animal Health — Animal Welfare Standards in Southeast Asia

Organization Name

World Organisation for Animal Health

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare in Asia
Amount
$515,000
Date
February 2022
February 2022
Grant Title

University of Michigan — Course Development Support (Anna Edmonds)

Organization Name

University of Michigan

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$50,300
Date
February 2022
February 2022
Grant Title

RAND Corporation — Study Planning

Organization Name

RAND Corporation

Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$25,000
Date
February 2022
February 2022
Grant Title

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — CHAI Collaboration (2022)

Organization Name

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,126,160
Date
February 2022
February 2022
Grant Title

Prometheus Science Bowl — EA-Themed Science Bowl

Organization Name

Prometheus Science Bowl

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$97,500
Date
February 2022
February 2022
Grant Title

Michael Page — Career Transition Grant

Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$52,500
Date
February 2022
February 2022
Grant Title

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine — Safety-Critical Machine Learning

Organization Name

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$309,441
Date
February 2022
February 2022
Grant Title

PATH — RTS,S Malaria Vaccine Implementation

Organization Name

PATH

Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$4,998,769
Date
February 2022