Grants

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Funding Type
Focus Area
Year
Amount
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  • Grant
    Title
  • Organization
    Name
  • Focus
    Area
  • Amount
  • Date
February 2020
Grant Title

gui2de — Zusha! Road Safety Campaign (February 2020)

Organization Name

Georgetown University Initiative on Innovation, Development, and Evaluation

Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$100,000
Date
February 2020
October 2020
Grant Title

UC Berkeley — In-Line Water Chlorination Devices (Amy Pickering) (2020)

Organization Name

University of California, Berkeley

Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$99,000
Date
October 2020
May 2021
Grant Title

SPCA Selangor — Cage-Free Campaigns

Organization Name

SPCA Selangor

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$99,000
Date
May 2021
September 2015
Grant Title

Urban Institute — Land Use Convening

Organization Name

Urban Institute

Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Amount
$97,865
Date
September 2015
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
August 2023
Grant Title

UC Davis — Rainbow Trout Enrichment Study

Organization Name

University of California, Davis

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$97,457
Date
August 2023
February 2018
Grant Title

Cynthia Schuck & Wladimir Alonso — DALY Project

Organization Name
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$96,130
Date
February 2018
May 2022
Grant Title

Victory Briefs Institute — Effective Altruism Curriculum for Debaters

Organization Name

Victory Briefs Institute

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$95,000
Date
May 2022
July 2020
Grant Title

New York University — Work on Fish Welfare (2020)

Organization Name

New York University

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$95,000
Date
July 2020
August 2019
Grant Title

Crate-Free Illinois — Campaigning Against Gestation Crates (2019)

Organization Name

Crate-Free Illinois

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$94,720
Date
August 2019
March 2024
Grant Title

People for Animals Uttarakhand – Cage-Free Campaigns in India

Organization Name

People for Animals Uttarakhand

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$91,100
Date
March 2024
November 2020
Grant Title

GLOBALG.A.P. — Fish Welfare Standards

Organization Name

GLOBALG.A.P.

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$90,554
Date
November 2020
October 2021
Grant Title

Botswana-Harvard AIDS Institute – Early detection of preterm births

Organization Name

Botswana-Harvard AIDS Institute

Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$90,000
Date
October 2021
December 2022
Grant Title

University of Southern California — Syphilis Genome Sequencing

Organization Name

University of Southern California

Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$90,000
Date
December 2022
August 2016
Grant Title

People for Animals — International Cage-Free Advocacy

Organization Name

People for Animals

Focus Area
Cage-Free Reforms
Amount
$89,392
Date
August 2016
December 2022
Grant Title

Apart Research — AI Alignment Hackathons

Organization Name

Apart Research

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$89,000
Date
December 2022
March 2017
Grant Title

Wageningen University & Research — Chicken Welfare Systematic Assessment

Organization Name

Wageningen University & Research

Focus Area
Broiler Chicken Welfare
Amount
$88,345
Date
March 2017
March 2020
Grant Title

UC Berkeley — Deworming and Cash Transfers (2020)

Organization Name

University of California, Berkeley

Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$88,000
Date
March 2020
August 2021
Grant Title

UC Berkeley — Adversarial Robustness Research (Aditi Raghunathan)

Organization Name

University of California, Berkeley

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$87,829
Date
August 2021
November 2022
Grant Title

University of Helsinki — Travel Funding for Air Pollution Research

Organization Name

University of Helsinki

Focus Area
South Asian Air Quality
Amount
$87,743
Date
November 2022
March 2023
Grant Title

Government Relations Group — Scoping Work for Japan-Korea Aid Dialogues

Organization Name

Government Relations Group

Focus Area
Global Aid Policy
Amount
$86,250
Date
March 2023
November 2021
Grant Title

Michael Specter — Course Development Support

Organization Name

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$85,000
Date
November 2021
July 2019
Grant Title

Workers Center for Racial Justice — Prosecutorial Accountability in Chicago (2019)

Organization Name

Workers Center for Racial Justice

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$85,000
Date
July 2019
July 2021
Grant Title

Chicago Community Bond Fund — Support for the Coalition to End Money Bond (2021)

Organization Name

Chicago Community Bond Fund

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$85,000
Date
July 2021
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
January 2021
Grant Title

People for Animals Uttarakhand — Farm Animal Welfare Fellowship

Organization Name

People for Animals Uttarakhand

Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Amount
$85,000
Date
January 2021
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
November 2022
Grant Title

Hamish Huggard — EA Content Creation

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$83,000
Date
November 2022
June 2017
Grant Title

Duke University — Co-Crystallization of Hsp70i and Inhibitor HS-72 (Timothy Haystead)

Organization Name

Duke University

Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$81,500
Date
June 2017
May 2016
Grant Title

Promise of Justice Initiative — General Support

Organization Name

Promise of Justice Initiative

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$81,000
Date
May 2016
May 2023
Grant Title

Michael West — Pivotal Essay Contest

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$80,500
Date
May 2023
March 2017
Grant Title

Colorado State University — Planning Gift

Organization Name

Institute for Advancement of Animal Welfare Science

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$80,400
Date
March 2017
August 2020
Grant Title

Michigan Liberation — Prosecutor Accountability (2020)

Organization Name

Michigan Liberation

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$80,000
Date
August 2020
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
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
January 2022
Grant Title

Abundant Housing LA — Lawmaker Engagement

Organization Name

Abundant Housing LA

Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Amount
$80,000
Date
January 2022
March 2023
Grant Title

University of Illinois — AI Alignment Research

Organization Name

University of Illinois

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$80,000
Date
March 2023
January 2023
Grant Title

University of Toronto — Alignment Research

Organization Name

University of Toronto

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$80,000
Date
January 2023
April 2015
Grant Title

New York University — Work on Swift-and-Certain Sanctions

Organization Name

New York University

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$80,000
Date
April 2015
February 2020
Grant Title

Youth and Families Taking Power — General Support

Organization Name

Youth and Families Taking Power

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$80,000
Date
February 2020
June 2017
Grant Title

Animal Welfare Action Lab — Meat Reduction and Elimination Messaging Study

Organization Name

Animal Welfare Action Lab

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$79,100
Date
June 2017
April 2021
Grant Title

Rethink Charity — Farm Animal Welfare Movement Building

Organization Name

Rethink Charity

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$79,040
Date
April 2021
April 2020
Grant Title

Compassion in World Farming USA — Global EggTrack Program

Organization Name

Compassion in World Farming USA

Focus Area
Cage-Free Reforms
Amount
$78,750
Date
April 2020
December 2020
Grant Title

Animal Friends Jogja — Farm Animal Welfare Work

Organization Name

Animal Friends Jogja

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$78,000
Date
December 2020
September 2021
Grant Title

Stanford University — AI Index

Organization Name

Stanford University

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$78,000
Date
September 2021
May 2022
Grant Title

Centre for Effective Altruism — Research Assistant for Jonas Sandbrink

Organization Name

Centre for Effective Altruism

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$77,000
Date
May 2022
May 2016
Grant Title

American University — Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment

Organization Name

Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$76,234
Date
May 2016
May 2020
Grant Title

The Pollination Project — Farm Animal and Veg Advocacy Conference

Organization Name

The Pollination Project

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$75,800
Date
May 2020
March 2023
Grant Title

Effective Ventures Foundation USA — Support for What We Owe The Future

Organization Name

Effective Ventures Foundation USA

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$75,617
Date
March 2023
March 2020
Grant Title

Good Judgment Inc. — COVID-19 Forecasting

Organization Name

Good Judgment Inc.

Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$75,500
Date
March 2020
November 2019
Grant Title

Citizens for Juvenile Justice — General Support (2019)

Organization Name

Citizens for Juvenile Justice

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$75,000
Date
November 2019
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
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 2022
Grant Title

Andrew Szanton — Operation Warp Speed Memoir

Organization Name
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$75,000
Date
December 2022
May 2017
Grant Title

Forward Justice — Criminal Justice Reform Advocacy and Organizing

Organization Name

Forward Justice

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$75,000
Date
May 2017
May 2019
Grant Title

International Refugee Assistance Project — Family Reunification

Organization Name

International Refugee Assistance Project

Focus Area
Immigration Policy
Amount
$75,000
Date
May 2019
March 2023
Grant Title

Center for Global Development — Lead Exposure Research

Organization Name

Center for Global Development

Focus Area
Global Public Health Policy
Amount
$75,000
Date
March 2023
May 2023
Grant Title

University of Birmingham — Biological Threat Detection Research

Organization Name

University of Birmingham

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$75,000
Date
May 2023
February 2023
Grant Title

Terner Housing Innovation Labs — Housing Policy Dashboard

Organization Name

Terner Housing Innovation Labs

Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Amount
$75,000
Date
February 2023
July 2019
Grant Title

Justice Strategies — Criminal Justice Reform

Organization Name

Justice Strategies

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$75,000
Date
July 2019
August 2023
Grant Title

Legal Priorities Project — Law & AI Summer Research Fellowship

Organization Name

Legal Priorities Project

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$75,000
Date
August 2023
May 2020
Grant Title

The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights — Federal Criminal Justice Reform Advocacy (April 2020)

Organization Name

The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$75,000
Date
May 2020
September 2023
Grant Title

Forecasting Research Institute — Existential Risk Persuasion Tournament

Organization Name

Forecasting Research Institute

Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$75,000
Date
September 2023
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
January 2020
Grant Title

Jason Crawford — The Roots of Progress

Organization Name
Focus Area
Other Areas
Amount
$75,000
Date
January 2020
May 2023
Grant Title

Global Alcohol Policy Alliance — Conference Travel Support

Organization Name

Global Alcohol Policy Alliance

Focus Area
Global Public Health Policy
Amount
$75,000
Date
May 2023
June 2018
Grant Title

VOCAL-NY — Court Watch NYC

Organization Name

VOCAL-NY

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$75,000
Date
June 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
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
September 2023
Grant Title

AURA — YIMBYTown (2024)

Organization Name

AURA

Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Amount
$75,000
Date
September 2023
December 2016
Grant Title

Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition — Prosecutorial Reform (December 2016)

Organization Name

Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$75,000
Date
December 2016
December 2019
Grant Title

Debt Collective — Criminal Justice Reform Work

Organization Name

The Debt Collective

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$75,000
Date
December 2019
January 2023
Grant Title

Longview Philanthropy — Research Support for Kacper Kowalczyk

Organization Name

Longview Philanthropy

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$74,557
Date
January 2023
January 2021
Grant Title

Positive Money Europe — Macroeconomic Policy Research and Advocacy

Organization Name

Positive Money Europe

Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
Amount
$73,368
Date
January 2021
August 2023
Grant Title

The University of Chicago — Air Quality Monitoring Research

Organization Name

University of Chicago

Focus Area
South Asian Air Quality
Amount
$73,125
Date
August 2023
January 2023
Grant Title

Eon Essay Contest — The Precipice Essay Contest (2023)

Organization Name

Eon Essay Contest

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$73,000
Date
January 2023
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
March 2024
Grant Title

RSPCA Australia — Broiler Chicken Reports

Organization Name

RSPCA Australia

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$72,347
Date
March 2024
February 2021
Grant Title

Crate-Free Illinois — Campaigning Against Gestation Crates (2021)

Organization Name

Crate-Free Illinois

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$70,350
Date
February 2021
July 2021
Grant Title

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — MineRL BASALT Competition

Organization Name

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$70,000
Date
July 2021
January 2023
Grant Title

Neel Nanda — Interpretability Research

Organization Name

Neel Nanda

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$70,000
Date
January 2023
September 2023
Grant Title

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — Scalable Oversight Dataset

Organization Name

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$70,000
Date
September 2023
October 2023
Grant Title

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — University Collaboration Program

Organization Name

Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$70,000
Date
October 2023
February 2020
Grant Title

Run, George, Run — General Support

Organization Name

Run, George, Run

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$70,000
Date
February 2020
July 2021
Grant Title

Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security — Report on Security Clearances

Organization Name

Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$70,000
Date
July 2021
July 2016
Grant Title

Legal Services for Prisoners with Children — General Support

Organization Name

Legal Services for Prisoners with Children

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$70,000
Date
July 2016
January 2021
Grant Title

Mercy for Animals — The People’s Fund

Organization Name

Mercy For Animals

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$69,750
Date
January 2021
July 2021
Grant Title

Ifakara Health Institute — Malaria Vaccine Clinical Trial (Ally Olotu)

Organization Name

Ifakara Health Institute

Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$68,184
Date
July 2021
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
September 2020
Grant Title

Center for International Security and Cooperation — AI Accident Risk and Technology Competition

Organization Name

Center for International Security and Cooperation

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$67,000
Date
September 2020
December 2023
Grant Title

Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative — AI Research and Governance Workshop (2023)

Organization Name

Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$66,950
Date
December 2023
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
February 2017
Grant Title

Prison Policy Initiative — General Support (2017)

Organization Name

Prison Policy Initiative

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$66,000
Date
February 2017
January 2023
Grant Title

IMPROVE — Egg Alternatives Research

Organization Name

IMPROVE

Focus Area
Alternatives to Animal Products
Amount
$65,756
Date
January 2023
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
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
May 2021
Grant Title

Action St. Louis — Prosecutor Accountability

Organization Name

Action St. Louis

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$65,000
Date
May 2021
November 2016
Grant Title

Citizens for Juvenile Justice — General Support (2016)

Organization Name

Citizens for Juvenile Justice

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$65,000
Date
November 2016
October 2020
Grant Title

Animal Welfare Awareness, Research, and Education — Farm Animal Welfare Work

Organization Name

Animal Welfare Awareness, Research, and Education

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$64,600
Date
October 2020
August 2016
Grant Title

Katal Center for Health, Equity, and Justice — General Support

Organization Name

Katal Center for Health, Equity, and Justice

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$64,500
Date
August 2016