Grants

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Funding Type
Focus Area
Year
Amount
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  • Grant
    Title
  • Organization
    Name
  • Focus
    Area
  • Amount
  • Date
March 2018
Grant Title

Centre for Effective Altruism — New Discretionary Fund

Organization Name

Centre for Effective Altruism

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$5,000,000
Date
March 2018
March 2018
Grant Title

Aquaculture Stewardship Council — Organizational Development

Organization Name

Aquaculture Stewardship Council

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$13,813
Date
March 2018
February 2018
Grant Title

Center for Popular Democracy — Fed Up Campaign (2018)

Organization Name

Center for Popular Democracy

Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
Amount
$1,200,000
Date
February 2018
February 2018
Grant Title

Center for Popular Democracy Action Fund — Fed Up Campaign (2018)

Organization Name

Center for Popular Democracy Action Fund

Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
Amount
$100,000
Date
February 2018
February 2018
Grant Title

Global Priorities Institute — General Support

Organization Name

Global Priorities Institute

Focus Area
Other Areas
Amount
$3,112,969
Date
February 2018
February 2018
Grant Title

Founders Pledge — General Support (2018)

Organization Name

Founders Pledge

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$5,222,653
Date
February 2018
February 2018
Grant Title

Center for Global Development — Pandemic Policy Project Led by Jeremy Konyndyk

Organization Name

Center for Global Development

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$49,942
Date
February 2018
February 2018
Grant Title

Southerners On New Ground — Anti-Criminalization Work

Organization Name

Southerners On New Ground

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$400,000
Date
February 2018
February 2018
Grant Title

Justice Team Network — JusticeLA Campaign

Organization Name

Justice Team Network

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$400,000
Date
February 2018
February 2018
Grant Title

Columbia University — Beyond the Bars Conference 2018

Organization Name

Columbia University

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$50,000
Date
February 2018
February 2018
Grant Title

AI Scholarships — Scholarship Support (2018)

Organization Name

AI Scholarships

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$159,000
Date
February 2018
February 2018
Grant Title

Better Eating International — Millennial Vegan Survey

Organization Name

Better Eating International

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$67,110
Date
February 2018
February 2018
Grant Title

Farm Forward — Leadership Circle (2018)

Organization Name

Farm Forward

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$165,691
Date
February 2018
February 2018
Grant Title

Mamoreruinochi wo Mamorukai — Legal Aid for Scientists in Japan

Organization Name

Mamoreruinochi wo Mamorukai

Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$40,000
Date
February 2018
February 2018
Grant Title

Court Watch NOLA — General Support (February 2018)

Organization Name

Court Watch NOLA

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$100,000
Date
February 2018
February 2018
Grant Title

Georgetown Center for Global Health Science and Security — General Support (2018)

Organization Name

Georgetown Center for Global Health Science and Security

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$44,627
Date
February 2018
February 2018
Grant Title

Voters Organized to Educate — General Support (2018)

Organization Name

Voters Organized to Educate

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$100,000
Date
February 2018
February 2018
Grant Title

UCSF — Research on Antiviral Drugs (Raul Andino)

Organization Name

University of California, San Francisco

Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$880,000
Date
February 2018
February 2018
Grant Title

80,000 Hours — General Support (2018)

Organization Name

80,000 Hours

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$510,000
Date
February 2018
February 2018
Grant Title

Cynthia Schuck & Wladimir Alonso — DALY Project

Organization Name
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$96,130
Date
February 2018
February 2018
Grant Title

Texas Inmate Families Association — General Support (2018)

Organization Name

Texas Inmate Families Association

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$242,000
Date
February 2018
January 2018
Grant Title

Detroit Justice Center — General Support

Organization Name

Detroit Justice Center

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$50,000
Date
January 2018
January 2018
Grant Title

Center for Applied Rationality — General Support (2018)

Organization Name

Center for Applied Rationality

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
January 2018
January 2018
Grant Title

Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense— General Support (2018)

Organization Name

Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$2,588,162
Date
January 2018
January 2018
Grant Title

LatinoJustice — Media Fellowship

Organization Name

LatinoJustice

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$50,000
Date
January 2018
January 2018
Grant Title

Center for Applied Rationality — SPARC (2018)

Organization Name

Center for Applied Rationality

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$560,000
Date
January 2018
January 2018
Grant Title

Just Liberty — General Support (2018)

Organization Name

Just Liberty

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$569,000
Date
January 2018
January 2018
Grant Title

Princeton University — Rescuing Biomedical Research (2018)

Organization Name

Rescuing Biomedical Research

Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$409,112
Date
January 2018
January 2018
Grant Title

Sightsavers — Deworming Programs (January 2018)

Organization Name

Sightsavers

Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$2,500,000
Date
January 2018
January 2018
Grant Title

Helen Keller International — Vitamin A Supplementation (January 2018)

Organization Name

Helen Keller International

Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$7,200,000
Date
January 2018
January 2018
Grant Title

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center — Sepsis Therapy Clinical Trial (Michael Donnino)

Organization Name

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$2,939,400
Date
January 2018
January 2018
Grant Title

Living Goods — General Support (January 2018)

Organization Name

Living Goods

Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$100,000
Date
January 2018
January 2018
Grant Title

Niskanen Center — Research on Immigration Policy (2018)

Organization Name

Niskanen Center

Focus Area
Immigration Policy
Amount
$400,000
Date
January 2018
January 2018
Grant Title

WaitList Zero — General Support (January 2018)

Organization Name

WaitList Zero

Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Amount
$100,000
Date
January 2018
January 2018
Grant Title

Brooklyn Community Bail Fund — National Bail Fund Network (2018)

Organization Name

Brooklyn Community Bail Fund

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$100,000
Date
January 2018
January 2018
Grant Title

Silicon Valley De-Bug — Participatory Defense / Bail Fund Pilot

Organization Name

Silicon Valley De-Bug

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$20,600
Date
January 2018
December 2017
Grant Title

Smart Justice CA — California Criminal Justice Reform Lobbying (2017)

Organization Name

Smart Justice CA

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$25,000
Date
December 2017
December 2017
Grant Title

Aubin Pictures — Criminal Justice Media Archive Scoping

Organization Name

Aubin Pictures

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$25,000
Date
December 2017
December 2017
Grant Title

The Ordinary People Society — General Support (2017)

Organization Name

The Ordinary People Society

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$280,000
Date
December 2017
December 2017
Grant Title

The Prodigal Child Project — General Support

Organization Name

The Prodigal Child Project

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$20,000
Date
December 2017
December 2017
Grant Title

Family Farm Action — Opposing the King Amendment

Organization Name

Family Farm Action

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$153,000
Date
December 2017
December 2017
Grant Title

One Voice — General Support

Organization Name

One Voice

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$20,000
Date
December 2017
December 2017
Grant Title

Mijente — Anti-Criminalization Work (2017)

Organization Name

Mijente

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$255,000
Date
December 2017
December 2017
Grant Title

Humane Society Legislative Fund — Opposing the King Amendment

Organization Name

Humane Society Legislative Fund

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$395,094
Date
December 2017
December 2017
Grant Title

Food Fortification Initiative — General Support (December 2017)

Organization Name

Food Fortification Initiative

Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$100,000
Date
December 2017
December 2017
Grant Title

Voters Organized to Educate — General Support (2017)

Organization Name

Voters Organized to Educate

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$305,000
Date
December 2017
December 2017
Grant Title

L214 — Broiler Welfare Campaigns in France (2017)

Organization Name

L214

Focus Area
Broiler Chicken Welfare
Amount
$1,347,742
Date
December 2017
December 2017
Grant Title

Color Of Change — Criminal Justice Reform (2017)

Organization Name

Color of Change

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
December 2017
December 2017
Grant Title

Blackbird — Ending Mass Incarceration (2017)

Organization Name

Blackbird

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$425,000
Date
December 2017
December 2017
Grant Title

Urban Institute — History of Philanthropy Project

Organization Name

Urban Institute

Focus Area
Other Areas
Amount
$265,833
Date
December 2017
December 2017
Grant Title

fair-fish international association — Fish Welfare Standards for Aquaculture

Organization Name

fair-fish international association

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$453,841
Date
December 2017
December 2017
Grant Title

Deworm the World Initiative — General Support (December 2017)

Organization Name

Evidence Action

Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$15,200,000
Date
December 2017
December 2017
Grant Title

Evidence Action — No Lean Season (December 2017)

Organization Name

Evidence Action

Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$11,500,000
Date
December 2017
December 2017
Grant Title

Against Malaria Foundation — General Support (December 2017)

Organization Name

Against Malaria Foundation

Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$2,500,000
Date
December 2017
December 2017
Grant Title

American Society for Microbiology — Biothreats Meeting

Organization Name

American Society for Microbiology

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$43,149
Date
December 2017
December 2017
Grant Title

theguardian.org — Journalism on Factory Farming and Farm Animal Cruelty

Organization Name

theguardian.org

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$886,600
Date
December 2017
December 2017
Grant Title

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace — Chinese and Indian Perspectives on Biotech Security Risks

Organization Name

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$613,380
Date
December 2017
December 2017
Grant Title

The Center for Election Science — General Support (2017)

Organization Name

The Center for Election Science

Focus Area
Other Areas
Amount
$628,600
Date
December 2017
December 2017
Grant Title

Iodine Global Network — General Support (December 2017)

Organization Name

Iodine Global Network

Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$100,000
Date
December 2017
December 2017
Grant Title

Development Media International — General Support (December 2017)

Organization Name

Development Media International

Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$100,000
Date
December 2017
December 2017
Grant Title

Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition — Universal Salt Iodization (December 2017)

Organization Name

Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$100,000
Date
December 2017
December 2017
Grant Title

Project Healthy Children — General Support (December 2017)

Organization Name

Project Healthy Children

Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$100,000
Date
December 2017
December 2017
Grant Title

Citizens for Juvenile Justice — General Support (2017)

Organization Name

Citizens for Juvenile Justice

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$75,000
Date
December 2017
December 2017
Grant Title

Malaria Consortium — Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention Programs (December 2017)

Organization Name

Malaria Consortium

Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$27,900,000
Date
December 2017
December 2017
Grant Title

The END Fund — Deworming Programs (December 2017)

Organization Name

The END Fund

Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$2,500,000
Date
December 2017
December 2017
Grant Title

GiveDirectly — General Support (December 2017)

Organization Name

GiveDirectly

Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$2,500,000
Date
December 2017
December 2017
Grant Title

Evidence Action — Dispensers for Safe Water Program (2017)

Organization Name

Evidence Action

Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$100,000
Date
December 2017
December 2017
Grant Title

Evidence Action — General Operating Support

Organization Name

Evidence Action

Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$800,000
Date
December 2017
December 2017
Grant Title

protocols.io — Platform Improvements

Organization Name

protocols.io

Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$200,000
Date
December 2017
November 2017
Grant Title

University of Washington — Universal Flu Vaccine and Computational Protein Design (David Baker and Neil King)

Organization Name

University of Washington (Institute for Protein Design)

Focus Area
Scientific Innovation: Tools and Techniques
Amount
$11,367,500
Date
November 2017
November 2017
Grant Title

Arizona State University — Canine Cancer Vaccine Clinical Trial (Stephen Johnston)

Organization Name

Arizona State University

Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$6,421,402
Date
November 2017
November 2017
Grant Title

The Good Food Institute — General Support (2017)

Organization Name

The Good Food Institute

Focus Area
Alternatives to Animal Products
Amount
$1,500,000
Date
November 2017
November 2017
Grant Title

New Incentives — General Support (November 2017)

Organization Name

New Incentives

Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$5,944,203
Date
November 2017
November 2017
Grant Title

Youth First Initiative — General Support (2017)

Organization Name

Youth First Initiative

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$250,000
Date
November 2017
November 2017
Grant Title

InterAcademy Partnership — Side Event at the BWC Meeting of State Parties

Organization Name

InterAcademy Partnership

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$14,605
Date
November 2017
November 2017
Grant Title

Aquaculture Stewardship Council — Fish Welfare Standard Development

Organization Name

Aquaculture Stewardship Council

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$533,036
Date
November 2017
November 2017
Grant Title

Color Of Change PAC — Criminal Justice Reform

Organization Name

Color Of Change PAC

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$200,000
Date
November 2017
November 2017
Grant Title

Otwarte Klatki — Chicken Welfare Campaigns and Merger Support

Organization Name

Otwarte Klatki

Focus Area
Broiler Chicken Welfare
Amount
$472,864
Date
November 2017
November 2017
Grant Title

Animal Equality — EU Farm Animal Welfare

Organization Name

Animal Equality

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$2,110,460
Date
November 2017
November 2017
Grant Title

David Manheim — Research on Existential Risk from Infectious Disease

Organization Name
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$65,308
Date
November 2017
October 2017
Grant Title

Nuclear Threat Initiative — Biosecurity Program Support

Organization Name

Nuclear Threat Initiative

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$6,000,000
Date
October 2017
October 2017
Grant Title

Citizens for Juvenile Justice — General Support

Organization Name

Citizens for Juvenile Justice

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$50,000
Date
October 2017
October 2017
Grant Title

Sightline Institute — Housing and Urban Development (2017)

Organization Name

Sightline Institute

Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Amount
$350,000
Date
October 2017
October 2017
Grant Title

Court Watch NOLA — General Support (October 2017)

Organization Name

Court Watch NOLA

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$100,000
Date
October 2017
October 2017
Grant Title

Anima — Chicken Welfare Campaigns and Merger Support

Organization Name

Anima

Focus Area
Broiler Chicken Welfare
Amount
$683,000
Date
October 2017
October 2017
Grant Title

Initiate Justice — Prisoner Education on Prop 57

Organization Name

Initiate Justice

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$5,000
Date
October 2017
October 2017
Grant Title

Compassion in World Farming — End the Cage Age Campaign

Organization Name

Compassion in World Farming

Focus Area
Cage-Free Reforms
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
October 2017
October 2017
Grant Title

Harvard University — Animal Law and Policy Program

Organization Name

Harvard University

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$21,200
Date
October 2017
October 2017
Grant Title

Essie Justice Group — General Support (2017)

Organization Name

Essie Justice Group

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$300,000
Date
October 2017
October 2017
Grant Title

World Animal Net — Co-Organizing Workshops with the World Bank

Organization Name

World Animal Net

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$50,000
Date
October 2017
October 2017
Grant Title

Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals — Chicken Welfare Campaign in the UK

Organization Name

Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Focus Area
Broiler Chicken Welfare
Amount
$374,631
Date
October 2017
October 2017
Grant Title

Dignity and Power Now — JusticeLA Campaign (2017)

Organization Name

Dignity and Power Now

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$500,000
Date
October 2017
October 2017
Grant Title

Machine Intelligence Research Institute — General Support (2017)

Organization Name

Machine Intelligence Research Institute

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$3,750,000
Date
October 2017
October 2017
Grant Title

Brooklyn Community Bail Fund — National Bail Fund Network

Organization Name

Brooklyn Community Bail Fund

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$404,800
Date
October 2017
October 2017
Grant Title

Working Families Party — Prosecutor Reforms in New York (2017)

Organization Name

Working Families Party, Inc.

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$109,600
Date
October 2017
October 2017
Grant Title

UC Berkeley — AI Safety Research

Organization Name

University of California, Berkeley

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,450,016
Date
October 2017
October 2017
Grant Title

GiveWell — General Support (2017)

Organization Name

GiveWell

Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$530,764
Date
October 2017
September 2017
Grant Title

Global Aquaculture Alliance — Fish Welfare Best Practices

Organization Name

Global Aquaculture Alliance

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$435,000
Date
September 2017
September 2017
Grant Title

Eurogroup for Animals — EU Chicken Welfare Advocacy (2017)

Organization Name

Eurogroup for Animals

Focus Area
Broiler Chicken Welfare
Amount
$625,400
Date
September 2017
September 2017
Grant Title

Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative — General Support (2017)

Organization Name

Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$2,000,000
Date
September 2017