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Grants
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Grant
Title -
Organization
Name -
Focus
Area -
Amount
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Date
March 2019
Grant Title
VOCAL-NY Action Fund — Prosecutor Accountability
Organization Name
VOCAL-NY Action Fund
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$155,000
Date
March 2019
March 2019
Grant Title
Just Outcomes — Restorative Justice Convenings
Organization Name
Just Outcomes
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$30,000
Date
March 2019
March 2019
Grant Title
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab — Kevin Esvelt’s Research (2019)
Organization Name
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
March 2019
March 2019
Grant Title
Evidence Action — Strengthen Operations (2019)
Organization Name
Evidence Action
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$7,751,915
Date
March 2019
March 2019
Grant Title
Evidence Action — Impact Evaluation of Iron and Folic Acid Supplementation (“Phase 2”)
Organization Name
Evidence Action
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$800,000
Date
March 2019
March 2019
Grant Title
New York University — Work on Fish Welfare (2019)
Organization Name
New York University
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$125,840
Date
March 2019
March 2019
Grant Title
Center for Story-Based Strategy — General Support
Organization Name
Center for Story-Based Strategy
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$100,000
Date
March 2019
March 2019
Grant Title
Soko Tierschutz — Factory Farm Investigations
Organization Name
Soko Tierschutz
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$100,000
Date
March 2019
March 2019
Grant Title
Schistosomiasis Control Initiative — General Support (2019)
Organization Name
Schistosomiasis Control Initiative
Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$2,500,000
Date
March 2019
March 2019
Grant Title
University of Michigan — Research on Mammalian Gamete Development (2019)
Organization Name
University of Michigan
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$2,500,000
Date
March 2019
March 2019
Grant Title
Court Watch NOLA — Public Relations Support
Organization Name
Court Watch NOLA
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$30,000
Date
March 2019
March 2019
Grant Title
Humane Slaughter Association — Wild-Caught Fish Welfare
Organization Name
Humane Slaughter Association
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$570,402
Date
March 2019
March 2019
Grant Title
Claremont Graduate University — Leafleting Study
Organization Name
Claremont Graduate University
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$57,000
Date
March 2019
March 2019
Grant Title
ReFrame — SPIN Academy
Organization Name
ReFrame
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$45,000
Date
March 2019
March 2019
Grant Title
IDinsight — Beneficiary Preferences Survey
Organization Name
IDinsight
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$474,374
Date
March 2019
March 2019
Grant Title
IDinsight — New Incentives RCT
Organization Name
IDinsight
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$184,324
Date
March 2019
March 2019
Grant Title
Center for Global Development — Labor Mobility Partnerships
Organization Name
Center for Global Development
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
Amount
$709,888
Date
March 2019
March 2019
Grant Title
Yale University School of Medicine — Vascular Therapy Research
Organization Name
Yale University School of Medicine
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$180,000
Date
March 2019
March 2019
Grant Title
Sinergia Animal — General Support (2019)
Organization Name
Sinergia Animal
Focus Area
Broiler Chicken Welfare
Amount
$245,000
Date
March 2019
March 2019
Grant Title
The Humane League — Open Wing Alliance (2019)
Organization Name
The Humane League
Focus Area
Cage-Free Reforms
Amount
$1,565,000
Date
March 2019
March 2019
Grant Title
Rethink Priorities — Farm Animal Welfare Research
Organization Name
Rethink Priorities
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$200,000
Date
March 2019
March 2019
Grant Title
Columbia University — Beyond the Bars Conference 2019
Organization Name
Center for Justice at Columbia University
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$20,000
Date
March 2019
February 2019
Grant Title
Fair and Just Prosecution — General Support (2019)
Organization Name
Fair and Just Prosecution
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$1,500,000
Date
February 2019
February 2019
Grant Title
California Renters Legal Advocacy and Education Fund — General Support (2019)
Organization Name
CalHDF
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Amount
$340,000
Date
February 2019
February 2019
Grant Title
Amistad Law Project — General Support (2019)
Organization Name
Amistad Law Project
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$25,000
Date
February 2019
February 2019
Grant Title
80,000 Hours — General Support (2019)
Organization Name
80,000 Hours
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$4,795,803
Date
February 2019
February 2019
Grant Title
Machine Intelligence Research Institute — General Support (2019)
Organization Name
Machine Intelligence Research Institute
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$2,652,500
Date
February 2019
February 2019
Grant Title
Centre for Effective Altruism — General Support (2019)
Organization Name
Centre for Effective Altruism
Focus Area
Other Areas
Amount
$2,756,250
Date
February 2019
February 2019
Grant Title
Legal Services for Prisoners with Children — CJR Events Support
Organization Name
Legal Services for Prisoners with Children
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$10,000
Date
February 2019
February 2019
Grant Title
Justice Solutions — Anne Seymour’s Crime Victims and Survivors Work (2019)
Organization Name
Justice Solutions
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$115,000
Date
February 2019
February 2019
Grant Title
UC Berkeley — Deworming and Cash Transfers (2019)
Organization Name
University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$170,000
Date
February 2019
February 2019
Grant Title
Sightline Institute – Housing and Urban Development (February 2019)
Organization Name
Sightline Institute
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Amount
$150,000
Date
February 2019
February 2019
Grant Title
Essere Animali — Farm Animal Welfare Work in Italy
Organization Name
Essere Animali
Focus Area
Broiler Chicken Welfare
Amount
$150,000
Date
February 2019
February 2019
Grant Title
The Center for Election Science — General Support (2019)
Organization Name
The Center for Election Science
Focus Area
Other Areas
Amount
$1,800,000
Date
February 2019
February 2019
Grant Title
We Animals — Content for Farm Animal Welfare Advocacy (2019)
Organization Name
We Animals
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$240,000
Date
February 2019
February 2019
Grant Title
University of Pennsylvania — Research on Mammalian Reproduction (Kotaro Sasaki) (2019)
Organization Name
University of Pennsylvania
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$660,000
Date
February 2019
February 2019
Grant Title
University Health Network — Preterm Birth Research (2019)
Organization Name
University Health Network
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$1,134,975
Date
February 2019
February 2019
Grant Title
Princeton University — Animal Liberation
Organization Name
Princeton University
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$100,000
Date
February 2019
January 2019
Grant Title
Georgetown University — Center for Security and Emerging Technology
Organization Name
Center for Security and Emerging Technology
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$55,000,000
Date
January 2019
January 2019
Grant Title
Peterson Institute for International Economics — Macroeconomic Research Projects
Organization Name
Peterson Institute for International Economics
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
Amount
$400,000
Date
January 2019
January 2019
Grant Title
International Refugee Assistance Project — General Support (2019)
Organization Name
International Refugee Assistance Project
Focus Area
Immigration Policy
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
January 2019
January 2019
Grant Title
Animal Equality — Broiler Welfare Campaigns
Organization Name
Animal Equality
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$215,000
Date
January 2019
January 2019
Grant Title
Results for Development — Childhood Pneumonia Treatment Program (2019)
Organization Name
Results for Development
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$5,605,398
Date
January 2019
January 2019
Grant Title
Reform Jails and Community Reinvestment Initiative — Reform L.A. Jails Ballot Measure (January 2019)
Organization Name
Reform Jails and Community Reinvestment Initiative
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$491,000
Date
January 2019
January 2019
Grant Title
The Humane League — Broiler Welfare Campaigns
Organization Name
The Humane League
Focus Area
Broiler Chicken Welfare
Amount
$750,000
Date
January 2019
January 2019
Grant Title
Royal Veterinary College — Halal Poultry Slaughter Research
Organization Name
Royal Veterinary College
Focus Area
Broiler Chicken Welfare
Amount
$130,850
Date
January 2019
January 2019
Grant Title
Mercy For Animals — Broiler Welfare Campaigns
Organization Name
Mercy For Animals
Focus Area
Broiler Chicken Welfare
Amount
$261,000
Date
January 2019
January 2019
Grant Title
UC Berkeley — Alternative Meats Lab (January 2019)
Organization Name
University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
Alternatives to Animal Products
Amount
$131,579
Date
January 2019
January 2019
Grant Title
Cynthia Schuck & Wladimir Alonso — DALY Project (2019)
Organization Name
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$100,000
Date
January 2019
January 2019
Grant Title
Center for Global Development — Gene Drive Research
Organization Name
Center for Global Development
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$348,550
Date
January 2019
January 2019
Grant Title
Farm Forward — Exit Grant
Organization Name
Farm Forward, Inc
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$166,000
Date
January 2019
January 2019
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — CHAI ML Engineers
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$250,000
Date
January 2019
January 2019
Grant Title
Sightsavers — Deworming Programs (January 2019)
Organization Name
Sightsavers
Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$9,700,000
Date
January 2019
January 2019
Grant Title
University of Southern California — Social Science Genetic Association Consortium (January 2019)
Organization Name
University of Southern California
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$2,250,000
Date
January 2019
January 2019
Grant Title
Compassion Over Killing — Exit Grant
Organization Name
Compassion Over Killing
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$250,000
Date
January 2019
January 2019
Grant Title
Iodine Global Network — General Support (January 2019)
Organization Name
Iodine Global Network
Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$100,000
Date
January 2019
January 2019
Grant Title
Living Goods — General Support (January 2019)
Organization Name
Living Goods
Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$100,000
Date
January 2019
January 2019
Grant Title
Center for International Security and Cooperation — Megan Palmer’s Biosecurity Research (2019)
Organization Name
Center for International Security and Cooperation
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$1,625,000
Date
January 2019
January 2019
Grant Title
Sherlock Biosciences — Research on Viral Diagnostics
Organization Name
Sherlock Biosciences
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$17,500,000
Date
January 2019
December 2018
Grant Title
Promise of Justice Initiative — East Baton Rouge Parish Prison Reform Coalition (2018)
Organization Name
Promise of Justice Initiative
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$75,000
Date
December 2018
December 2018
Grant Title
Evidence Action — Dispensers for Safe Water Program (2018)
Organization Name
Evidence Action
Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$100,000
Date
December 2018
December 2018
Grant Title
Color Of Change — Criminal Justice Reform (2018)
Organization Name
Color of Change
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
December 2018
December 2018
Grant Title
Working Families Party — Prosecutor Reforms in New York (2018)
Organization Name
Working Families Party, Inc.
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$109,600
Date
December 2018
December 2018
Grant Title
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights — Federal Criminal Justice Reform Advocacy
Organization Name
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$200,000
Date
December 2018
December 2018
Grant Title
Helen Keller International — Vitamin A Supplementation (December 2018)
Organization Name
Helen Keller International
Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$6,500,000
Date
December 2018
December 2018
Grant Title
GiveDirectly — General Support (December 2018)
Organization Name
GiveDirectly
Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$2,500,000
Date
December 2018
December 2018
Grant Title
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition — Universal Salt Iodization (December 2018)
Organization Name
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition
Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$100,000
Date
December 2018
December 2018
Grant Title
Biosecure Ltd — Campaign Against Bioweapons Research
Organization Name
Biosecure Ltd
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$25,000
Date
December 2018
December 2018
Grant Title
Malaria Consortium — Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention Programs (December 2018)
Organization Name
Malaria Consortium
Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$26,600,000
Date
December 2018
December 2018
Grant Title
Citizens for Juvenile Justice — General Support (2018)
Organization Name
Citizens for Juvenile Justice
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$75,000
Date
December 2018
December 2018
Grant Title
Georgia Institute of Technology — Biology Research (Saad Bhamla)
Organization Name
Georgia Institute of Technology
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$50,000
Date
December 2018
December 2018
Grant Title
Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research — Egg Tech Challenge
Organization Name
Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research
Focus Area
Cage-Free Reforms
Amount
$3,000,000
Date
December 2018
December 2018
Grant Title
Against Malaria Foundation — General Support (December 2018)
Organization Name
Against Malaria Foundation
Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$2,500,000
Date
December 2018
December 2018
Grant Title
The University of Sydney — 2019 Global Health Security Conference
Organization Name
University of Sydney
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$32,621
Date
December 2018
December 2018
Grant Title
gui2de — Zusha! Road Safety Campaign (December 2018)
Organization Name
Georgetown University Initiative on Innovation, Development, and Evaluation
Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$100,000
Date
December 2018
December 2018
Grant Title
Smart Justice CA — California Criminal Justice Reform Lobbying (2018)
Organization Name
Smart Justice CA
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$25,000
Date
December 2018
December 2018
Grant Title
National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls — General Support (December 2018)
Organization Name
National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$350,000
Date
December 2018
December 2018
Grant Title
Deworm the World Initiative — General Support (December 2018)
Organization Name
Evidence Action
Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$10,400,000
Date
December 2018
December 2018
Grant Title
The END Fund — Deworming Programs (December 2018)
Organization Name
The END Fund
Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$2,500,000
Date
December 2018
December 2018
Grant Title
Development Media International — General Support (December 2018)
Organization Name
Development Media International
Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$100,000
Date
December 2018
December 2018
Grant Title
Food Fortification Initiative — General Support (December 2018)
Organization Name
Food Fortification Initiative
Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$100,000
Date
December 2018
December 2018
Grant Title
The Humane League — Latin America Regional Summit
Organization Name
The Humane League
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$22,000
Date
December 2018
December 2018
Grant Title
Project Healthy Children — General Support (December 2018)
Organization Name
Project Healthy Children
Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$100,000
Date
December 2018
December 2018
Grant Title
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities — Nanomaterials Research (Claudia Schmidt-Dannert)
Organization Name
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$150,000
Date
December 2018
November 2018
Grant Title
Court Watch NOLA — General Support (November 2018)
Organization Name
Court Watch NOLA
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$200,000
Date
November 2018
November 2018
Grant Title
Evidence Action Beta — Iron and Folic Acid Supplementation (“Phase 2”)
Organization Name
Evidence Action Beta
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$3,408,259
Date
November 2018
November 2018
Grant Title
Alliance for Safety and Justice Action Fund — General Support (2018)
Organization Name
Alliance for Safety and Justice Action Fund
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$2,000,000
Date
November 2018
November 2018
Grant Title
iGEM — Synthetic Biology Safety and Security (2018)
Organization Name
International Genetically Engineered Machine Foundation
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$420,000
Date
November 2018
November 2018
Grant Title
Nuclear Threat Initiative — Projects to Reduce Global Catastrophic Biological Risks
Organization Name
Nuclear Threat Initiative
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$1,904,942
Date
November 2018
November 2018
Grant Title
Daniel Kang, Jacob Steinhardt, Yi Sun, and Alex Zhai — Study of the Robustness of Machine Learning Models
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$2,351
Date
November 2018
November 2018
Grant Title
University of Bern — Higher Welfare Cage-Free Systems
Organization Name
University of Bern
Focus Area
Cage-Free Reforms
Amount
$150,000
Date
November 2018
November 2018
Grant Title
Alliance for Safety and Justice — General Support (2018)
Organization Name
Alliance for Safety and Justice
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$3,000,000
Date
November 2018
November 2018
Grant Title
EicOsis Human Health, Inc. — Pain Research
Organization Name
EicOsis Human Health, Inc.
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$5,000,000
Date
November 2018
November 2018
Grant Title
Viroclinics Biosciences — Broad-Spectrum Antivirals
Organization Name
Viroclinics Biosciences
Focus Area
Science Supporting Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$421,969
Date
November 2018
November 2018
Grant Title
Global Animal Partnership — Farm Animal Welfare Activities (2018)
Organization Name
Global Animal Partnership
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$500,000
Date
November 2018
November 2018
Grant Title
UC Berkeley — AI Safety Research (2018)
Organization Name
University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,145,000
Date
November 2018
November 2018
Grant Title
The Ahimsa Collective — “Life Comes From It” Fund Administration
Organization Name
The Ahimsa Collective
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$150,000
Date
November 2018
November 2018
Grant Title
Corrections Accountability Project — General Support (2018)
Organization Name
Corrections Accountability Project
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$150,000
Date
November 2018
November 2018
Grant Title
Forward Justice — Criminal Justice Reform Advocacy and Organizing (2018)
Organization Name
Forward Justice
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$150,000
Date
November 2018
October 2018
