Grants

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

Non-Trivial Pursuits — General Support

Organization Name

Non-Trivial

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,005,000
Date
July 2022
July 2022
Grant Title

Funding for Projects to Estimate Biological Risk

Organization Name
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$1,391,169
Date
July 2022
July 2022
Grant Title

Center for a New American Security — Work on AI Governance

Organization Name

Center for a New American Security

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$4,816,710
Date
July 2022
July 2022
Grant Title

Biosecure — Biological Weapons Convention Verification Workshop

Organization Name

Biosecure Ltd

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$155,714
Date
July 2022
July 2022
Grant Title

Carnegie Mellon University — Research on Adversarial Examples

Organization Name

Carnegie Mellon University

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$343,235
Date
July 2022
July 2022
Grant Title

Mission Realization — Support for Farm Animal Welfare Organizations

Organization Name

Mission Realization

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$992,000
Date
July 2022
July 2022
Grant Title

University of Washington — Philosophy of AI Course Development

Organization Name

University of Washington

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$16,500
Date
July 2022
July 2022
Grant Title

Future Forum Foundation — Future Forum

Organization Name

Future Forum Foundation

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$654,500
Date
July 2022
July 2022
Grant Title

Rethink Priorities — Research Assistant and Expenses

Organization Name

Rethink Priorities

Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Amount
$120,000
Date
July 2022
July 2022
Grant Title

Aaron Mayer — Effective Altruism Community Growth Projects

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$85,000
Date
July 2022
July 2022
Grant Title

Apollo Fellowship — Effective Altruism Debate Camp

Organization Name

Apollo Fellowship

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$321,838
Date
July 2022
July 2022
Grant Title

National Academy of Sciences — Gametogenesis Workshop

Organization Name

National Academy of Sciences

Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$225,000
Date
July 2022
July 2022
Grant Title

Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense — General Support (2022)

Organization Name

Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$5,200,000
Date
July 2022
July 2022
Grant Title

Ann Garth – Climate Change Research

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$5,250
Date
July 2022
July 2022
Grant Title

International Refugee Assistance Project — Exit Grant

Organization Name

International Refugee Assistance Project

Focus Area
Immigration Policy
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
July 2022
July 2022
Grant Title

Evidence Action — In-Line Chlorination in Malawi

Organization Name

Evidence Action

Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$4,449,309
Date
July 2022
July 2022
Grant Title

Dalberg Advisors – R&D Portfolio Analysis

Organization Name

Dalberg Advisors

Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Amount
$73,000
Date
July 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

University of Maine — Biofilm-Resistant Catheters

Organization Name

University of Maine

Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$500,000
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

UC Berkeley — Tuberculosis Research

Organization Name

University of California, Berkeley

Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$84,760
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

Daniel Dewey — AI Alignment Projects (2022)

Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$175,000
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

Crate Free Illinois — Crate-Free Campaigns

Organization Name

Crate-Free Illinois

Focus Area
Cage-Free Reforms
Amount
$117,600
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

Redwood Research — General Support (2022)

Organization Name

Redwood Research

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$10,700,000
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

Animal Justice Canada — Animal Welfare Corporate Campaigns

Organization Name

Animal Justice Canada

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$469,916
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé — Malaria Vaccine Clinical Trial (Halidou Tinto)

Organization Name

Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé

Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$630,123
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

Charity Entrepreneurship — Farm Animal Welfare Charity Incubator

Organization Name

Charity Entrepreneurship

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$788,000
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

Effektiv Spenden — German Translation of The Life You Can Save

Organization Name

Effektiv Spenden

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$25,458
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

Dami Animashaun — California Prop 12 Legal Defense

Organization Name
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$30,000
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

Mercy for Animals — Corporate Campaigns (2022)

Organization Name

Mercy For Animals

Focus Area
Broiler Chicken Welfare
Amount
$12,470,000
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

Faunalytics — KPI Dashboards for Farm Animal Welfare

Organization Name

Faunalytics

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$44,200
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

Yale University — Helminth Vaccine Research

Organization Name

Yale University

Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$316,000
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

Centre for Effective Altruism — Biosecurity Coworking Space

Organization Name

Centre for Effective Altruism

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$5,318,000
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

Arizona State University — Adversarial Robustness Research

Organization Name

Arizona State University

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$200,000
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

Certified Humane — PR for Certification System

Organization Name

Certified Humane

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$280,000
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

Support for London Group Organizers

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$125,000
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

Fund for Alignment Research — Language Model Misalignment (2022)

Organization Name

FAR AI

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$463,693
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

Centre for Effective Altruism — Harvard Square Coworking Space

Organization Name

Centre for Effective Altruism

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$8,875,000
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab — Innovation and Science Research

Organization Name

Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab

Focus Area
Innovation Policy
Amount
$649,176
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

Kuhan Jeyapragasan — University Group Organizing

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$250,000
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

Alexandra Balwit — Publicity for The Long View

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$45,000
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

Associated Students of Stanford University — Stanford Law School EA Group

Organization Name

Associated Students of Stanford University

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$10,000
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

Evidence Action — Syphilis Screening and Treatment

Organization Name

Evidence Action

Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$13,153,119
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

Animal & Vegan Advocacy Summit — Conference Scholarships

Organization Name

Animal & Vegan Advocacy Summit

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

Effective Altruism Funds — Operating Expenses

Organization Name

Effective Altruism Funds

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$573,000
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

Swaniti Initiative — Indian Parliamentary Air Quality Staff

Organization Name

Swaniti Initiative

Focus Area
South Asian Air Quality
Amount
$533,444
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

UC Berkeley — Follow-Up Research on Cash Transfers Study

Organization Name

University of California, Berkeley

Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$1,397,102
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

Centre for Effective Altruism — Harvard AI Safety Office

Organization Name

Centre for Effective Altruism

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$250,000
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

Food Frontier — Promoting Plant-Based Meat Alternatives in Asia

Organization Name

Food Frontier

Focus Area
Alternatives to Animal Products
Amount
$500,000
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

Observer Research Foundation America — Indian Air Pollution Models

Organization Name

Observer Research Foundation America

Focus Area
South Asian Air Quality
Amount
$80,000
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

Translational Health Science and Technology Institute — Henipavirus Antivirals

Organization Name

Translational Health Science and Technology Institute

Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$1,020,475
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

Global Priorities Institute — General Support (2022)

Organization Name

Global Priorities Institute

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$2,296,001
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

California YIMBY — Ballot Initiative Scoping Grant

Organization Name

California YIMBY

Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Amount
$200,000
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

Commonwealth Veterinary Association — Animal Welfare Training (2022)

Organization Name

Commonwealth Veterinary Association

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$15,000
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

Center for Applied Rationality — SPARC (2022)

Organization Name

Center for Applied Rationality

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$700,000
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

Yale University — Regulatory Affairs Fellowship

Organization Name

Yale University

Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Amount
$166,667
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

Fish Welfare Initiative — Fish Welfare in India

Organization Name

Fish Welfare Initiative

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

Dharma Voices for Animals — Sri Lanka Animal Welfare Legislation (2022)

Organization Name

Dharma Voices for Animals

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$101,000
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

Accountability Board — Advocacy Campaigns

Organization Name

The Accountability Board

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$10,324,603
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

Daniel Bressler — Research Assistant for Climate Change Research

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Amount
$32,000
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

Juan Gil — Book Distribution

Organization Name

Juan Gil

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$24,745
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

New York University — Wild Animal Welfare Program

Organization Name

New York University

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

We Animals Media — Content for Farm Animal Welfare Advocacy (2022)

Organization Name

We Animals Media

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$600,000
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title

Rethink Priorities — Animal Welfare Research

Organization Name

Rethink Priorities

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$468,004
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title

Ryan Teo — Publishing Fees for BWC Paper

Organization Name

Ryan Teo

Focus Area
Science Supporting Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$3,600
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title

University of Stirling — Fish Welfare Research

Organization Name

University of Stirling

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$904,610
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title

Open New York — Housing Advocacy in New York (2022)

Organization Name

Open New York

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

AI Safety Hub — Startup Costs

Organization Name

AI Safety Hub

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$203,959
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title

Yale University — Malaria Vaccine Research (2022)

Organization Name

Yale University

Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$257,193
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title

Lightcone Infrastructure – General Support

Organization Name

Lightcone Infrastructure

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$4,500,000
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title

University Organizer Fellowship

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$5,597,743
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title

University of California, Berkeley — PAVITRA Pollution Modeling Tool

Organization Name

University of California, Berkeley

Focus Area
South Asian Air Quality
Amount
$1,308,342
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title

Centre for the Governance of AI — Compute Strategy Workshop

Organization Name

Centre for the Governance of AI

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$50,532
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title

IRD Global — RCT Planning for Tuberculosis Program

Organization Name

IRD Global

Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$1,016,599
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title

Riley Harris — Global Priorities Research Blog

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$65,000
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title

Purdue University — Imatinib Trial for Drug-Resistant Malaria

Organization Name

Purdue University

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

University of Washington — PAVITRA Pollution Modeling Tool

Organization Name

University of Washington

Focus Area
South Asian Air Quality
Amount
$442,862
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title

Michael Specter — Existential Risk Courses at MIT

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$110,000
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title

AI Alignment Awards — Shutdown Problem Contest

Organization Name

AI Alignment Awards

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$75,000
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title

Center for Global Development — Staff for USAID Chief Economist

Organization Name

Center for Global Development

Focus Area
Global Aid Policy
Amount
$1,411,409
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title

Effective Altruism Funds — Infrastructure Fund Regranting

Organization Name

Effective Altruism Funds

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$4,929,000
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title

Clinton Health Access Initiative – CHAI Incubator

Organization Name

Clinton Health Access Initiative

Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$10,443,685
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title

Centre for the Governance of AI — Research Assistant

Organization Name

Centre for the Governance of AI

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$19,200
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title

American University — Solar Geoengineering Initiative

Organization Name

American University

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$100,000
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title

Shrimp Welfare Project — General Support

Organization Name

Shrimp Welfare Project

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

University of Georgia — Malaria Vaccine Research

Organization Name

University of Georgia

Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$1,205,820
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title

Malaria No More UK — Fundraising and Advocacy

Organization Name

Malaria No More UK

Focus Area
Global Aid Policy
Amount
$2,926,561
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title

Center for Building in North America — Housing Code Reform

Organization Name

Center for Building in North America

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

Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy — PAVITRA Pollution Modeling Tool

Organization Name

CSTEP

Focus Area
South Asian Air Quality
Amount
$564,701
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title

Council on Energy, Environment, and Water — Crop Residue Burning Research

Organization Name

Council on Energy, Environment, and Water

Focus Area
South Asian Air Quality
Amount
$216,250
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title

Princeton University — Existential Risk Course Development

Organization Name

Princeton University

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$27,555
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title

Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security — Educational Degree Program

Organization Name

Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$3,908,161
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title

University of Queensland — Online EA Course

Organization Name

University of Queensland

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$36,561
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title

Evidence Action — Iron and Folic Acid Supplementation in India

Organization Name

Evidence Action

Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$9,185,495
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title

Wilton Park — Biological Weapons Convention Retreat

Organization Name

Wilton Park

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$47,722
Date
September 2022
September 2022
Grant Title

Council on Strategic Risks — Biosecurity Fellowships and Policy Work

Organization Name

Council on Strategic Risks

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$2,898,350
Date
September 2022
October 2022
Grant Title

The Humane League — General Support (2022)

Organization Name

The Humane League

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$8,300,000
Date
October 2022
October 2022
Grant Title

European Institute for Animal Law and Policy — Farm Animal Welfare Advocacy

Organization Name

European Institute for Animal Law and Policy

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$430,000
Date
October 2022
October 2022
Grant Title

Alvea — Drug Development Acceleration (October 2022)

Organization Name

Alvea

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$1,250,000
Date
October 2022
October 2022
Grant Title

Center for Global Development Europe — Education Research

Organization Name

Center for Global Development Europe

Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$1,150,000
Date
October 2022
October 2022
Grant Title

Georgia Institute of Technology — Portable Spectrometers

Organization Name

Georgia Institute of Technology

Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$111,000
Date
October 2022
October 2022
Grant Title

GDi Partners — Air Quality Governance in India

Organization Name

GDi Partners

Focus Area
South Asian Air Quality
Amount
$2,592,110
Date
October 2022