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Grants
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Grant
Title -
Organization
Name -
Focus
Area -
Amount
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Date
December 2021
Grant Title
UC Davis — Malaria Gene Drive Feasibility Analysis (Greg Lanzaro) (2021)
Organization Name
University of California, Davis
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$10,248,967
Date
December 2021
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
March 2020
Grant Title
UC Davis — Research on Antiviral Drugs (Koen Van Rompay)
Organization Name
University of California, Davis
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$170,190
Date
March 2020
April 2022
Grant Title
UC San Diego — Cost-Benefit Analysis for Malaria Suppression
Organization Name
San Diego
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$190,000
Date
April 2022
January 2021
Grant Title
UC Santa Cruz — Adversarial Robustness Research
Organization Name
University of California, Santa Cruz
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$265,000
Date
January 2021
January 2023
Grant Title
UC Santa Cruz — Adversarial Robustness Research (2023)
Organization Name
University of California, Santa Cruz
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$114,000
Date
January 2023
March 2017
Grant Title
UCLA — Climate Engineering Governance
Organization Name
UCLA School of Law
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$776,095
Date
March 2017
May 2017
Grant Title
UCLA School of Law — AI Governance
Organization Name
UCLA School of Law
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,536,222
Date
May 2017
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
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
June 2017
Grant Title
UCSF — Organ Regenerative Surgery (Tammy Chang)
Organization Name
University of California, San Francisco
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$825,000
Date
June 2017
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
March 2024
Grant Title
UK Day One – Science and Technology Policy Crowdsourcing
Organization Name
UK Day One
Focus Area
Innovation Policy
Amount
$150,000
Date
March 2024
January 2022
Grant Title
United Fort Worth — Criminal Justice Reform
Organization Name
United Fort Worth
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$200,000
Date
January 2022
June 2022
Grant Title
Universidad de Sevilla — Course on Effective Altruism
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$19,982
Date
June 2022
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
March 2024
Grant Title
University Health Network — Hepatitis C Challenge Model
Organization Name
University Health Network
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$1,460,000
Date
March 2024
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
October 2020
Grant Title
University Health Network — Preterm Birth Research (2020)
Organization Name
University Health Network
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$1,228,000
Date
October 2020
October 2023
Grant Title
University of Amsterdam — HCV Vaccine Research
Organization Name
University of Amsterdam
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$3,464,862
Date
October 2023
May 2022
Grant Title
University of Bern — Cage-free Layer Hen Genetics
Organization Name
University of Bern
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$2,700,000
Date
May 2022
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 2020
Grant Title
University of Bern — Layer Hen Breeding Research
Organization Name
University of Bern
Focus Area
Cage-Free Reforms
Amount
$410,000
Date
November 2020
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
July 2023
Grant Title
University of Bonn — Influenza Drug Development
Organization Name
University of Bonn
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$2,200,000
Date
July 2023
January 2023
Grant Title
University of British Columbia — AI Alignment Research
Organization Name
University of British Columbia
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$100,375
Date
January 2023
January 2023
Grant Title
University of California, Berkeley — Aging Research (Irina Conboy) (2023)
Organization Name
University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$3,042,600
Date
January 2023
October 2023
Grant Title
University of California, Berkeley — AI Alignment Workshop
Organization Name
University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$26,000
Date
October 2023
March 2024
Grant Title
University of California, Berkeley — Alternative Meats Lab (2024)
Organization Name
University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
Alternatives to Animal Products
Amount
$800,000
Date
March 2024
September 2022
Grant Title
University of California, Berkeley — PAVITRA Pollution Modeling Tool
Organization Name
University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
South Asian Air Quality
Amount
$1,308,342
Date
September 2022
January 2024
Grant Title
University of California, Los Angeles – Social Science Genetic Association Consortium (2023)
Organization Name
University of California, Los Angeles
Focus Area
Scientific Innovation: Tools and Techniques
Amount
$1,500,000
Date
January 2024
April 2019
Grant Title
University of California, Los Angeles — Epigenetic Clock Research (Steve Horvath)
Organization Name
University of California, Los Angeles
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$2,368,300
Date
April 2019
September 2020
Grant Title
University of California, Los Angeles — Social Science Genetic Association Consortium (2020)
Organization Name
University of California, Los Angeles
Focus Area
Scientific Innovation: Tools and Techniques
Amount
$2,250,000
Date
September 2020
November 2021
Grant Title
University of California, San Francisco Foundation — Reproductive Medicine Research
Organization Name
University of California, San Francisco
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$550,000
Date
November 2021
July 2023
Grant Title
University of California, San Francisco Foundation — Reproductive Medicine Research (2023)
Organization Name
University of California, San Francisco
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$200,000
Date
July 2023
April 2021
Grant Title
University of Cambridge — Machine Learning Research
Organization Name
University of Cambridge
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$250,000
Date
April 2021
September 2016
Grant Title
University of Cape Town — Geomagnetics Research
Organization Name
University of Cape Town
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$493,425
Date
September 2016
June 2022
Grant Title
University of Chicago — Chicago School of Existential Risk
Organization Name
University of Chicago
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$207,000
Date
June 2022
May 2023
Grant Title
University of Chicago — Existential Risk Laboratory Fellowship Program
Organization Name
University of Chicago
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$285,000
Date
May 2023
May 2023
Grant Title
University of Chicago — Research on Complementary AI
Organization Name
University of Chicago
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$250,000
Date
May 2023
January 2022
Grant Title
University of Chicago — Research on Mobile Conditional Cash Transfers
Organization Name
University of Chicago
Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$1,602,868
Date
January 2022
April 2020
Grant Title
University of Colorado — COVID-19 Personal Protective Equipment Experiments
Organization Name
University of Colorado
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$250,000
Date
April 2020
January 2022
Grant Title
University of Connecticut Health Center — Syphilis Vaccine Development
Organization Name
University of Connecticut Health Center
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$4,563,250
Date
January 2022
June 2022
Grant Title
University of Edinburgh — Effective Altruism Psychology Course
Organization Name
University of Edinburgh
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$47,000
Date
June 2022
June 2023
Grant Title
University of Edinburgh — Preterm Birth RCT
Organization Name
University of Edinburgh
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$344,973
Date
June 2023
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
June 2023
Grant Title
University of Edinburgh — Syphilis Genome Sequencing
Organization Name
University of Edinburgh
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$357,880
Date
June 2023
January 2023
Grant Title
University of Georgia — Malaria Research (2023)
Organization Name
University of Georgia
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$192,925
Date
January 2023
September 2022
Grant Title
University of Georgia — Malaria Vaccine Research
Organization Name
University of Georgia
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$1,205,820
Date
September 2022
December 2020
Grant Title
University of Glasgow — Animal Welfare Research
Organization Name
University of Glasgow
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$109,552
Date
December 2020
October 2020
Grant Title
University of Glasgow — Malaria Prevention Research (Steven Sinkins)
Organization Name
University of Glasgow
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$3,175,000
Date
October 2020
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
October 2023
Grant Title
University of Helsinki — Travel Funding for Air Pollution Research (2023)
Organization Name
University of Helsinki
Focus Area
South Asian Air Quality
Amount
$109,000
Date
October 2023
April 2022
Grant Title
University of Illinois — Course Development Support (Ben Levinstein)
Organization Name
University of Illinois
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$58,141
Date
April 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 2024
Grant Title
University of Illinois Foundation — LLM Hacking Benchmarks
Organization Name
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$800,000
Date
January 2024
August 2022
Grant Title
University of Maine — Biofilm-Resistant Catheters
Organization Name
University of Maine
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$500,000
Date
August 2022
April 2023
Grant Title
University of Maryland — Policy Fellowship (2023)
Organization Name
University of Maryland
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$312,959
Date
April 2023
September 2023
Grant Title
University of Maryland — Policy Fellowship (September 2023)
Organization Name
University of Maryland
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$286,000
Date
September 2023
December 2021
Grant Title
University of Maryland — Policy Fellowships
Organization Name
University of Maryland
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$483,880
Date
December 2021
August 2023
Grant Title
University of Maryland — Research on Neural Network Generalization
Organization Name
University of Maryland
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$350,000
Date
August 2023
February 2022
Grant Title
University of Michigan — Course Development Support (Anna Edmonds)
Organization Name
University of Michigan
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$50,300
Date
February 2022
April 2020
Grant Title
University of Michigan — COVID-19 Protein Production (Aubree Gordon)
Organization Name
University of Michigan
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$348,000
Date
April 2020
May 2023
Grant Title
University of Michigan — Research on Gamete Development (2023)
Organization Name
University of Michigan
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$2,000,000
Date
May 2023
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
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
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
January 2020
Grant Title
University of Missouri — Animal Welfare Research
Organization Name
University of Missouri
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$189,000
Date
January 2020
November 2020
Grant Title
University of New South Wales — In Vitro Fertilization Research (Robert Gilchrist)
Organization Name
University of New South Wales
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$2,500,000
Date
November 2020
December 2022
Grant Title
University of Notre Dame — Biofilm-Resistant Catheters
Organization Name
University of Notre Dame
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$895,000
Date
December 2022
June 2017
Grant Title
University of Notre Dame — Nanopore Protein Sequencing (Gregory Timp)
Organization Name
University of Notre Dame
Focus Area
Scientific Innovation: Tools and Techniques
Amount
$2,054,142
Date
June 2017
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
May 2023
Grant Title
University of Ottawa — Institute for Replication
Organization Name
University of Ottawa
Focus Area
Innovation Policy
Amount
$464,698
Date
May 2023
October 2019
Grant Title
University of Oxford — Animal Welfare Research
Organization Name
University of Oxford
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$41,800
Date
October 2019
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
January 2023
Grant Title
University of Oxford — Genetic Engineering Attribution
Organization Name
University of Oxford
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$40,000
Date
January 2023
November 2023
Grant Title
University of Oxford — Monoclonal Antibody Development for Malaria
Organization Name
University of Oxford
Focus Area
Global Health R&D
Amount
$300,000
Date
November 2023
February 2020
Grant Title
University of Oxford — New Office for Effective Altruism Organizations
Organization Name
University of Oxford
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$776,271
Date
February 2020
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
February 2023
Grant Title
University of Pavia — Law, Ethics, and AI Course Development
Organization Name
University of Pavia
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$23,245
Date
February 2023
December 2022
Grant Title
University of Pennsylvania — Adrenal Cell Research
Organization Name
University of Pennsylvania
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$1,320,000
Date
December 2022
September 2023
Grant Title
University of Pennsylvania — AI Governance Roundtables
Organization Name
University of Pennsylvania
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$110,000
Date
September 2023
October 2021
Grant Title
University of Pennsylvania — Forecasting Tournament Planning
Organization Name
University of Pennsylvania
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$275,000
Date
October 2021
August 2020
Grant Title
University of Pennsylvania — Geopolitical Forecasting Research (2020)
Organization Name
University of Pennsylvania
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$29,432
Date
August 2020
February 2021
Grant Title
University of Pennsylvania — Geopolitical Forecasting Research (2021)
Organization Name
University of Pennsylvania
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$132,181
Date
February 2021
April 2024
Grant Title
University of Pennsylvania — High-Skilled Immigration Budget Modeling
Organization Name
University of Pennsylvania
Focus Area
Innovation Policy
Amount
$1,100,000
Date
April 2024
March 2016
Grant Title
University of Pennsylvania — Philip Tetlock on Forecasting
Organization Name
University of Pennsylvania
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$500,000
Date
March 2016
July 2017
Grant Title
University of Pennsylvania — Philip Tetlock’s “Making Conversations Smarter, Faster” Forecasting Project
Organization Name
University of Pennsylvania
Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$1,550,000
Date
July 2017
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
December 2020
Grant Title
University of Pennsylvania — Research on Mammalian Reproduction (Kotaro Sasaki) (2020)
Organization Name
University of Pennsylvania
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
December 2020
September 2022
Grant Title
University of Queensland — Online EA Course
Organization Name
University of Queensland
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$36,561
Date
September 2022
October 2021
Grant Title
University of Rochester — Rural-Urban Migration in Kenya
Organization Name
University of Rochester
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$1,007,377
Date
October 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
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
October 2021
Grant Title
University of Southern California — Course Development Support (Jake Nebel)
Organization Name
University of Southern California
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$33,000
Date
October 2021
April 2016
Grant Title
University of Southern California — Genomic Research Methods
Organization Name
University of Southern California
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$1,738,500
Date
April 2016
October 2023
Grant Title
University of Southern California — Linezolid Trial for Syphilis
Organization Name
University of Southern California
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$160,000
Date
October 2023
March 2023
Grant Title
University of Southern California — Preterm Births Research
Organization Name
University of Southern California
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$114,353
Date
March 2023
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
July 2019