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Grants
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Grant
Title -
Organization
Name -
Focus
Area -
Amount
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Date
October 2018
Grant Title
Photo Patch Foundation — General Support
Organization Name
Photo Patch Foundation
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$10,000
Date
October 2018
October 2018
Grant Title
Momentum — Criminal Justice Reform Trainings
Organization Name
Momentum
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$15,000
Date
October 2018
October 2018
Grant Title
Washington Center for Equitable Growth — Automatic Stabilizers Conference
Organization Name
Washington Center for Equitable Growth
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
Amount
$100,000
Date
October 2018
October 2018
Grant Title
Citizen Action of New York — Criminal Justice Reform Advocacy in New York State
Organization Name
Citizen Action of New York
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$266,000
Date
October 2018
October 2018
Grant Title
Chicago Community Bond Fund — Coordinator for Criminal Justice Reform Coalition
Organization Name
Chicago Community Bond Fund
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$80,000
Date
October 2018
October 2018
Grant Title
University of Edinburgh — Scholarship Program in Applied Animal Behavior and Animal Welfare
Organization Name
University of Edinburgh
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$102,041
Date
October 2018
October 2018
Grant Title
Food Frontier — General Support
Organization Name
Food Frontier
Focus Area
Alternatives to Animal Products
Amount
$100,000
Date
October 2018
October 2018
Grant Title
University of Oxford — D.Phil Support for Andrew Snyder-Beattie
Organization Name
University of Oxford
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$26,086
Date
October 2018
October 2018
Grant Title
Duke University — CRISPR-Based Epigenome Editing Tools (Charles Gersbach)
Organization Name
Duke University
Focus Area
Scientific Innovation: Tools and Techniques
Amount
$2,550,171
Date
October 2018
October 2018
Grant Title
University of Michigan — Support for David Manley
Organization Name
University of Michigan
Focus Area
Other Areas
Amount
$46,696
Date
October 2018
October 2018
Grant Title
Otwarte Klatki — CARE Conference Travel Grants
Organization Name
Otwarte Klatki
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$10,350
Date
October 2018
October 2018
Grant Title
CDC Foundation — Malaria Control Research Project (2018)
Organization Name
CDC Foundation
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$1,044,501
Date
October 2018
October 2018
Grant Title
New Virginia Majority Education Fund — Criminal Justice Reform (2018)
Organization Name
New Virginia Majority Education Fund
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$220,000
Date
October 2018
October 2018
Grant Title
UC Berkeley — Research on Drought-Tolerant Rice (Brian Staskawicz)
Organization Name
University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
Other Scientific Research Areas
Amount
$200,000
Date
October 2018
October 2018
Grant Title
Prevent Cruelty California — “Yes on Prop 12” Campaign
Organization Name
Prevent Cruelty California
Focus Area
Cage-Free Reforms
Amount
$4,000,000
Date
October 2018
October 2018
Grant Title
Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics — Animal Sentience Workshop
Organization Name
Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$6,683
Date
October 2018
September 2018
Grant Title
Better Eating International — Organizational Development
Organization Name
Better Eating International
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$12,690
Date
September 2018
September 2018
Grant Title
Community Justice Exchange — General Support
Organization Name
Community Justice Exchange
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$250,000
Date
September 2018
September 2018
Grant Title
Center for a New American Security — Outreach on Technological Risk Led by Richard Danzig
Organization Name
Center for a New American Security
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$400,352
Date
September 2018
September 2018
Grant Title
Eurogroup for Animals — Fish Welfare (2018)
Organization Name
Eurogroup for Animals
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$990,000
Date
September 2018
August 2018
Grant Title
California YIMBY — General Support (August 2018)
Organization Name
California YIMBY
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Amount
$350,000
Date
August 2018
August 2018
Grant Title
The Humane League — General Support (2018)
Organization Name
The Humane League
Focus Area
Cage-Free Reforms
Amount
$10,000,000
Date
August 2018
August 2018
Grant Title
Fórum Nacional de Proteção e Defesa Animal — Crate- and Cage-Free Campaigning in Brazil (2018)
Organization Name
Fórum Nacional de Proteção e Defesa Animal
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$200,000
Date
August 2018
August 2018
Grant Title
Real Justice PAC — Criminal Justice Reform (August 2018)
Organization Name
Real Justice PAC
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$850,000
Date
August 2018
August 2018
Grant Title
Plant Based Foods Association — State-Level Policy (2018)
Organization Name
Plant Based Foods Association
Focus Area
Alternatives to Animal Products
Amount
$250,000
Date
August 2018
August 2018
Grant Title
Texas Organizing Project Education Fund — Working With MOVE San Antonio Foundation
Organization Name
Texas Organizing Project Education Fund
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$56,000
Date
August 2018
August 2018
Grant Title
GoalsRL — Workshop on Goal Specifications for Reinforcement Learning
Organization Name
GoalsRL
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$7,500
Date
August 2018
August 2018
Grant Title
UCSF — Chronic Pain Research (Allan Basbaum) (2019)
Organization Name
University of California, San Francisco
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$1,021,318
Date
August 2018
August 2018
Grant Title
Floridians for a Fair Democracy — Ballot Committee Contribution
Organization Name
Floridians for a Fair Democracy
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$750,000
Date
August 2018
August 2018
Grant Title
Faith in Texas — Criminal Justice Reform Work
Organization Name
Faith in Texas
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$250,000
Date
August 2018
August 2018
Grant Title
Civil Rights Corps — General Support (2018)
Organization Name
Civil Rights Corps
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$25,000
Date
August 2018
August 2018
Grant Title
Players Coalition Charitable Foundation — Criminal Justice Reform
Organization Name
Players Coalition Charitable Foundation
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$50,000
Date
August 2018
August 2018
Grant Title
The Soze Agency — Right of Return Fellowship
Organization Name
The Soze Agency
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$300,000
Date
August 2018
August 2018
Grant Title
The Ladies of Hope Ministries — Hope House Project
Organization Name
The Ladies of Hope Ministries
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$155,000
Date
August 2018
August 2018
Grant Title
American Conservative Union Foundation — Criminal Justice Reform (2018)
Organization Name
American Conservative Union Foundation
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$212,000
Date
August 2018
July 2018
Grant Title
Aubin Pictures — Criminal Justice Media Archive
Organization Name
Aubin Pictures
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$60,000
Date
July 2018
July 2018
Grant Title
Future of Humanity Institute — Work on Global Catastrophic Risks
Organization Name
Future of Humanity Institute
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$12,250,810
Date
July 2018
July 2018
Grant Title
Economic Policy Institute — Macroeconomic Policy Research (2018)
Organization Name
Economic Policy Institute
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
Amount
$700,000
Date
July 2018
July 2018
Grant Title
Evidence Action Beta — Incubator Program
Organization Name
Evidence Action Beta
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$5,069,866
Date
July 2018
July 2018
Grant Title
Charity Science — Development of New Animal Welfare Charities
Organization Name
Charity Science
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$265,000
Date
July 2018
July 2018
Grant Title
National Family Defense Project — General Support
Organization Name
National Family Defense Project
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$120,000
Date
July 2018
July 2018
Grant Title
Prosecutor Impact — Prosecutor Training Pilot
Organization Name
Prosecutor Impact
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$50,000
Date
July 2018
July 2018
Grant Title
Stanford University — Machine Learning Security Research Led by Dan Boneh and Florian Tramer
Organization Name
Stanford University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$100,000
Date
July 2018
July 2018
Grant Title
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities — Full Employment Project (2018)
Organization Name
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
Amount
$250,000
Date
July 2018
July 2018
Grant Title
Wilson Center — AI Policy Seminar Series
Organization Name
The Wilson Center
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$400,000
Date
July 2018
July 2018
Grant Title
One for the World — General Support (2018)
Organization Name
One for the World
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$153,750
Date
July 2018
July 2018
Grant Title
New Economy Organisers Network — KIN Convenings
Organization Name
New Economy Organisers Network
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$42,285
Date
July 2018
July 2018
Grant Title
Nuclear Threat Initiative — Global Health Security Index
Organization Name
Nuclear Threat Initiative
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$3,556,773
Date
July 2018
July 2018
Grant Title
University of Oxford — Research on the Global Politics of AI
Organization Name
University of Oxford
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$429,770
Date
July 2018
June 2018
Grant Title
Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security — SynBioBeta 2018 Meeting
Organization Name
Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$169,600
Date
June 2018
June 2018
Grant Title
GiveWell — General Support (2018)
Organization Name
GiveWell
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$751,179
Date
June 2018
June 2018
Grant Title
Commonwealth Veterinary Association — Animal Welfare Workshop
Organization Name
Commonwealth Veterinary Association
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$31,355
Date
June 2018
June 2018
Grant Title
Animal Equality — Corporate Animal Welfare Campaigns
Organization Name
Animal Equality
Focus Area
Broiler Chicken Welfare
Amount
$2,772,430
Date
June 2018
June 2018
Grant Title
Evidence Action Beta — Iron and Folic Acid Supplementation
Organization Name
Evidence Action
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$320,000
Date
June 2018
June 2018
Grant Title
Future of Life Institute — General Support (2018)
Organization Name
Future of Life Institute
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$250,000
Date
June 2018
June 2018
Grant Title
Workers Center for Racial Justice — Prosecutorial Accountability in Chicago (2018)
Organization Name
Workers Center for Racial Justice
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$125,000
Date
June 2018
June 2018
Grant Title
Compassion in World Farming — Organizational Development
Organization Name
Compassion in World Farming
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$10,720
Date
June 2018
June 2018
Grant Title
The People’s Lobby Education Institute — Work on Prosecutorial Accountability in Chicago (2018)
Organization Name
The People's Lobby Education Institute
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$125,000
Date
June 2018
June 2018
Grant Title
Machine Intelligence Research Institute — AI Safety Retraining Program
Organization Name
Machine Intelligence Research Institute
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$150,000
Date
June 2018
June 2018
Grant Title
We Got Us Now — General Support (2018)
Organization Name
We Got Us Now
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$100,000
Date
June 2018
June 2018
Grant Title
Prison Policy Initiative — General Support (2018)
Organization Name
Prison Policy Initiative
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$100,000
Date
June 2018
June 2018
Grant Title
AI Impacts — General Support (2018)
Organization Name
AI Impacts
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$100,000
Date
June 2018
June 2018
Grant Title
Centre for Effective Altruism — General Support (2018)
Organization Name
Centre for Effective Altruism
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$2,688,000
Date
June 2018
June 2018
Grant Title
VOCAL-NY — Court Watch NYC
Organization Name
VOCAL-NY
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$75,000
Date
June 2018
June 2018
Grant Title
Fortify Health — General Support
Organization Name
Fortify Health
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$295,217
Date
June 2018
June 2018
Grant Title
Project NIA — Transformative Justice Work Led by Mariame Kaba
Organization Name
Project NIA
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$121,000
Date
June 2018
May 2018
Grant Title
Ohio Safe and Healthy Communities Campaign — Ohio Neighborhood Safety, Drug Treatment and Rehabilitation Amendment (May 2018)
Organization Name
Ohio Safe and Healthy Communities Campaign
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$500,000
Date
May 2018
May 2018
Grant Title
Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition — General Support (2018)
Organization Name
Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$200,000
Date
May 2018
May 2018
Grant Title
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities — Automatic Stabilizers
Organization Name
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
Amount
$100,000
Date
May 2018
May 2018
Grant Title
Reform Jails and Community Reinvestment Initiative — Reform L.A. Jails Ballot Measure (May 2018)
Organization Name
Reform Jails and Community Reinvestment Initiative
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$300,000
Date
May 2018
May 2018
Grant Title
Mercy For Animals — US Broiler Chicken Welfare Corporate Campaigns (2018)
Organization Name
Mercy For Animals
Focus Area
Broiler Chicken Welfare
Amount
$375,000
Date
May 2018
May 2018
Grant Title
Real Justice PAC — Criminal Justice Reform (May 2018)
Organization Name
Real Justice PAC
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$350,000
Date
May 2018
May 2018
Grant Title
SPIN Academy — Communications Training
Organization Name
SPIN Academy
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$42,000
Date
May 2018
May 2018
Grant Title
Faith in Action — Live Free Campaign (2018)
Organization Name
Faith in Action
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$800,000
Date
May 2018
May 2018
Grant Title
Helping Educate to Advance the Rights of Deaf Communities — General Support (2018)
Organization Name
Helping Educate to Advance the Rights of Deaf Communities
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$50,000
Date
May 2018
May 2018
Grant Title
Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals — Broiler Breed Study
Organization Name
Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
Focus Area
Broiler Chicken Welfare
Amount
$231,677
Date
May 2018
May 2018
Grant Title
Open Phil AI Fellowship — 2018 Class
Organization Name
Open Phil AI Fellowship
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,245,000
Date
May 2018
May 2018
Grant Title
Ought — General Support (2018)
Organization Name
Ought
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$525,000
Date
May 2018
May 2018
Grant Title
Nick Otis — Forecasting Research
Organization Name
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$10,000
Date
May 2018
May 2018
Grant Title
Greenburger Center for Social and Criminal Justice — Criminal Justice Convening
Organization Name
Greenburger Center for Social and Criminal Justice
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$20,000
Date
May 2018
May 2018
Grant Title
Early-Career Funding for Global Catastrophic Biological Risks — Scholarship Support (2018)
Organization Name
Early-Career Funding for Global Catastrophic Biological Risks
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$570,000
Date
May 2018
April 2018
Grant Title
Gamechanger Labs — Student Organizing Initiative (2018)
Organization Name
Gamechanger Labs
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$400,000
Date
April 2018
April 2018
Grant Title
IDinsight — Embedded GiveWell Team (2018)
Organization Name
IDinsight
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$1,196,729
Date
April 2018
April 2018
Grant Title
International Society for Applied Ethology — Advance Farm Animal Welfare Science in Developing Nations (2018)
Organization Name
International Society for Applied Ethology
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$135,412
Date
April 2018
April 2018
Grant Title
Life Sciences Research Foundation — Young Investigators (2018)
Organization Name
Life Sciences Research Foundation
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$780,000
Date
April 2018
April 2018
Grant Title
Changing Tastes — Market Insights and Business Engagement on Fish Welfare
Organization Name
Changing Tastes
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$50,000
Date
April 2018
April 2018
Grant Title
Project South — Criminal Justice Reform Work
Organization Name
Project South
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$50,000
Date
April 2018
April 2018
Grant Title
Reform Jails and Community Reinvestment Initiative — Reform L.A. Jails Ballot Measure
Organization Name
Reform Jails and Community Reinvestment Initiative
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$500,000
Date
April 2018
April 2018
Grant Title
California YIMBY — General Support (April 2018)
Organization Name
California YIMBY
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Amount
$500,000
Date
April 2018
April 2018
Grant Title
Texas Freedom Network Education Fund — Texas Rising Program (2018)
Organization Name
Texas Freedom Network Education Fund
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$150,000
Date
April 2018
April 2018
Grant Title
Stanford University — NIPS Workshop on Machine Learning Security
Organization Name
Stanford University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$6,771
Date
April 2018
April 2018
Grant Title
VasoRX — Atherosclerosis Investment
Organization Name
VasoRX
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$5,400,000
Date
April 2018
March 2018
Grant Title
Media Mobilizing Project — Criminal Justice Coalition
Organization Name
Media Mobilizing Project
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$140,000
Date
March 2018
March 2018
Grant Title
Compassion in World Farming USA — General Support (2018)
Organization Name
Compassion in World Farming USA
Focus Area
Broiler Chicken Welfare
Amount
$1,500,000
Date
March 2018
March 2018
Grant Title
Ohio Safe and Healthy Communities Campaign — Ohio Neighborhood Safety, Drug Treatment and Rehabilitation Amendment (March 2018)
Organization Name
Ohio Safe and Healthy Communities Campaign
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$500,000
Date
March 2018
March 2018
Grant Title
The Justice Collaborative — General Support (2018)
Organization Name
The Justice Collaborative
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$1,800,000
Date
March 2018
March 2018
Grant Title
Justice Strategies — General Support (2018)
Organization Name
Justice Strategies
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$100,000
Date
March 2018
March 2018
Grant Title
Schistosomiasis Control Initiative — General Support (2018)
Organization Name
Schistosomiasis Control Initiative
Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$2,500,000
Date
March 2018
March 2018
Grant Title
National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls — General Support (March 2018)
Organization Name
National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$500,000
Date
March 2018
March 2018
