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Grants
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Grant
Title -
Organization
Name -
Focus
Area -
Amount
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Date
September 2021
Grant Title
Larissa Schiavo and Rachel Shu — COVID Response Documentary Miniseries
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$55,000
Date
September 2021
September 2021
Grant Title
Rethink Priorities — Farm Animal Welfare Research (2021)
Organization Name
Rethink Priorities
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$2,000,000
Date
September 2021
September 2021
Grant Title
Promise of Justice Initiative — East Baton Rouge Parish Prison Reform Coalition (2021)
Organization Name
Promise of Justice Initiative
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$170,000
Date
September 2021
September 2021
Grant Title
Stanford University — Pandemic Preparedness Center
Organization Name
Stanford University
Focus Area
Science Supporting Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$200,000
Date
September 2021
September 2021
Grant Title
HEARD — General Support (2021)
Organization Name
Helping Educate to Advance the Rights of Deaf Communities
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$100,000
Date
September 2021
September 2021
Grant Title
Université de Montréal — Research Project on Artificial Intelligence
Organization Name
Université de Montréal
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$210,552
Date
September 2021
September 2021
Grant Title
Plant Based Foods Association — General Support (2021)
Organization Name
Plant Based Foods Association
Focus Area
Alternatives to Animal Products
Amount
$3,500,000
Date
September 2021
September 2021
Grant Title
Peter McIntyre — Effective Altruism Community Building Projects
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$165,257
Date
September 2021
September 2021
Grant Title
University of Washington — Universal Influenza Vaccines (Neil King)
Organization Name
University of Washington (Institute for Protein Design)
Focus Area
Other Scientific Research Areas
Amount
$3,230,394
Date
September 2021
September 2021
Grant Title
Center for a New American Security — Risks from Militarized AI
Organization Name
Center for a New American Security
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$101,187
Date
September 2021
September 2021
Grant Title
Farmed Animal Funders — Regranting for Farm Animal Welfare in Europe
Organization Name
Farmed Animal Funders
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$750,000
Date
September 2021
September 2021
Grant Title
The Political Report — Journalism on Criminal Justice Reform
Organization Name
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$150,000
Date
September 2021
September 2021
Grant Title
Project NIA — General Support
Organization Name
Project NIA
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$175,000
Date
September 2021
September 2021
Grant Title
Kainomyx — Antimalarial Drug (2021)
Organization Name
Kainomyx
Focus Area
Other Scientific Research Areas
Amount
$4,000,000
Date
September 2021
September 2021
Grant Title
Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security — Forecasting Platforms
Organization Name
Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$7,993,782
Date
September 2021
September 2021
Grant Title
UCSF — Chronic Pain Research (Allan Basbaum) (2021)
Organization Name
University of California, San Francisco
Focus Area
Other Scientific Research Areas
Amount
$1,066,312
Date
September 2021
August 2021
Grant Title
Boston University — Human Lung Model Systems
Organization Name
Boston University
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$414,000
Date
August 2021
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
August 2021
Grant Title
Future of Humanity Institute — Economist Survey
Organization Name
Future of Humanity Institute
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$30,000
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title
KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme — Malaria Vaccine Clinical Trial (Philip Bejon)
Organization Name
The KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$472,016
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title
Korean Animal Welfare Association — Cage-Free Layer Hen Farming
Organization Name
Korean Animal Welfare Association
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$57,000
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title
Purdue University — Preclinical Data Research (Douglas Brubaker)
Organization Name
Purdue University
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$1,500,000
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title
George Washington University — Innovation in National Security Fellowship
Organization Name
George Washington University
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$450,000
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title
Institut des Sciences et Techniques, Bobo-Dioulasso — Malaria Vaccine Clinical Trial (Jean Bosco Ouedraogo)
Organization Name
Institut des Sciences et Techniques, Bobo-Dioulasso
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$631,162
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title
University Of Science Technical And Technologies De Bamako — Malaria Vaccine Clinical Trial (Alassane Dicko)
Organization Name
University Of Science Technical And Technologies De Bamako
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$754,845
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title
Center for Security and Emerging Technology — Biosecurity Research Project
Organization Name
Center for Security and Emerging Technology
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$3,330,000
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title
University of Notre Dame — Nanopore Protein Sequencing (Gregory Timp) (2021)
Organization Name
University of Notre Dame
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$1,769,056
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title
International Vaccine Institute — Schistosomiasis Vaccine Assessment
Organization Name
International Vaccine Institute
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$140,000
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title
Voters Organized to Educate — Civic Engagement and Criminal Justice Reform
Organization Name
Voters Organized to Educate
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$700,000
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title
University of Washington — Syphilis Vaccine Development (Lorenzo Giacani)
Organization Name
University of Washington (Institute for Protein Design)
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$816,063
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title
UC Berkeley — Course Development Support (Jacob Steinhardt)
Organization Name
University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$53,983
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title
Stanford University — Adversarial Robustness Research (Dimitris Tsipras)
Organization Name
Stanford University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$330,792
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title
The People’s Lobby – Reform Implementation and Prosecutorial Accountability
Organization Name
The People's Lobby
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$250,000
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title
Dyrevernalliansen — Wild-Caught Fish Welfare Research
Organization Name
Dyrevernalliansen (The Norwegian Animal Protection Alliance)
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$568,893
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title
University of Southern California — Adversarial Robustness Research
Organization Name
University of Southern California
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$320,000
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title
National Bureau of Economic Research — Innovation Policy Working Group
Organization Name
National Bureau of Economic Research
Focus Area
Innovation Policy
Amount
$467,500
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title
Pure Earth — Support for Reducing Lead Exposure in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Organization Name
Pure Earth
Focus Area
Global Public Health Policy
Amount
$2,130,000
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title
Justice Research Group — General Support
Organization Name
Justice Research Group
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$2,000,000
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title
Agricultural Research Service — Malaria Control Research (2021)
Organization Name
Agricultural Research Service
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$321,219
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title
Stanford University — Adversarial Robustness Research (Shibani Santurkar)
Organization Name
Stanford University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$330,792
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title
Open New York — General Support
Organization Name
Open New York
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title
Federation of American Scientists — Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness Fellowship
Organization Name
Federation of American Scientists
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$480,000
Date
August 2021
August 2021
Grant Title
Center for Security and Emerging Technology — General Support (August 2021)
Organization Name
Center for Security and Emerging Technology
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$38,920,000
Date
August 2021
July 2021
Grant Title
Kansas State University — Fungal Genetics Stock Center
Organization Name
Kansas State University
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$50,000
Date
July 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
July 2021
Grant Title
Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity — AI Standards (2021)
Organization Name
University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$25,000
Date
July 2021
July 2021
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — AI Standards (2021)
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$300,000
Date
July 2021
July 2021
Grant Title
Lead for Farmed Animals — Movement-Building Workshop
Organization Name
Lead for Farmed Animals
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$352,700
Date
July 2021
July 2021
Grant Title
Schepens Eye Research Institute at Mass Eye and Ear — Pulmonary Fibrosis Drug (Leo Kim)
Organization Name
Mass Eye and Ear
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$920,000
Date
July 2021
July 2021
