Grants

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Funding Type
Focus Area
Year
Amount
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  • Grant
    Title
  • Organization
    Name
  • Focus
    Area
  • Amount
  • Date
June 2021
Grant Title

Center for Global Development — Malaria Reduction

Organization Name

Center for Global Development

Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$50,000
Date
June 2021
May 2021
Grant Title

Eurogroup for Animals — Fish Welfare (2021)

Organization Name

Eurogroup for Animals

Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Amount
$1,190,000
Date
May 2021
May 2021
Grant Title

International Rescue Committee – Treatment of Malnutrition (May to August 2021)

Organization Name

International Rescue Committee

Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$19,907,422
Date
May 2021
May 2021
Grant Title

LessWrong — General Support (2021)

Organization Name

LessWrong

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$460,000
Date
May 2021
May 2021
Grant Title

One for the World — General Support (2021)

Organization Name

One for the World

Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$260,798
Date
May 2021
May 2021
Grant Title

Carnegie Mellon University — Adversarial Robustness Research

Organization Name

Carnegie Mellon University

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$330,000
Date
May 2021
May 2021
Grant Title

Community Justice Exchange — Technical Assistance, Campaign Support, and Re-grants

Organization Name

Community Justice Exchange

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$1,400,000
Date
May 2021
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
May 2021
Grant Title

Equalia — General Support

Organization Name

Equalia

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$817,000
Date
May 2021
May 2021
Grant Title

Humane Society International — Farm Animal Welfare in Southeast Asia and Latin America

Organization Name

Humane Society International

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$650,000
Date
May 2021
May 2021
Grant Title

iGEM — Support for Team ABSI_Kenya’s Project

Organization Name

International Genetically Engineered Machine Foundation

Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$8,500
Date
May 2021
May 2021
Grant Title

Stanford Existential Risks Initiative — Distribution of The Precipice

Organization Name

Stanford Existential Risk Initiative

Focus Area
Other Areas
Amount
$24,000
Date
May 2021
May 2021
Grant Title

POWER — Voter Engagement on Criminal Justice Reform

Organization Name

POWER

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$25,000
Date
May 2021
May 2021
Grant Title

Jennifer Dodd — Machine Learning Self-Study

Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$19,200
Date
May 2021
May 2021
Grant Title

Abundant Housing LA — General Support

Organization Name

Abundant Housing LA

Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Amount
$150,000
Date
May 2021
May 2021
Grant Title

SPCA Selangor — Cage-Free Campaigns

Organization Name

SPCA Selangor

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

Daniel Dewey — AI Alignment Project

Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$175,000
Date
May 2021
May 2021
Grant Title

Employ America — General Support (2021)

Organization Name

Employ America

Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
Amount
$1,250,000
Date
May 2021
April 2021
Grant Title

Anima International — Farm Animal Welfare Work

Organization Name

Anima International

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$152,000
Date
April 2021
April 2021
Grant Title

Rethink Priorities — Global Health and Wellbeing Cause Research

Organization Name

Rethink Priorities

Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Amount
$418,500
Date
April 2021
April 2021
Grant Title

Open Phil AI Fellowship — 2021 Class

Organization Name

Open Phil AI Fellowship

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
April 2021
April 2021
Grant Title

Animal Protection Denmark — Wild-Caught Fish Welfare

Organization Name

Animal Protection Denmark

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$283,000
Date
April 2021
April 2021
Grant Title

Community Based Public Safety Collective — General Support

Organization Name

Community Based Public Safety Collective

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$150,000
Date
April 2021
April 2021
Grant Title

Smart Justice CA — California Criminal Justice Reform Lobbying (2021)

Organization Name

Smart Justice CA

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$365,000
Date
April 2021
April 2021
Grant Title

Georgia Tech — Research on Lipid Nanoparticles (James Dahlman)

Organization Name

Georgia Institute of Technology

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$882,000
Date
April 2021
April 2021
Grant Title

Surge Network — Faith-Based Criminal Justice Reform Organizing

Organization Name

Surge Network

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$115,000
Date
April 2021
April 2021
Grant Title

Prison Policy Initiative — General Support (2021)

Organization Name

Prison Policy Initiative

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$250,000
Date
April 2021
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 2021
Grant Title

Future of Humanity Institute — Research Scholars Programs (2021)

Organization Name

Future of Humanity Institute

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$3,121,861
Date
April 2021
April 2021
Grant Title

Health Alliance for Violence Intervention — General Support

Organization Name

Health Alliance for Violence Intervention

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$25,000
Date
April 2021
April 2021
Grant Title

Malaria Consortium — Support for LLIN Distribution Campaigns

Organization Name

Malaria Consortium

Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$27,175,074
Date
April 2021
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
April 2021
Grant Title

Wilson Center — AI Policy Training Program

Organization Name

The Wilson Center

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$291,214
Date
April 2021
April 2021
Grant Title

Stanford University — Research on Lipid Nanoparticles (Jeffrey Glenn)

Organization Name

Stanford University

Focus Area
Science Supporting Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$610,000
Date
April 2021
April 2021
Grant Title

Compassion in World Farming USA — General Support (2021)

Organization Name

Compassion in World Farming USA

Focus Area
Broiler Chicken Welfare
Amount
$550,000
Date
April 2021
April 2021
Grant Title

Charity Entrepreneurship — Development of New Animal Welfare Charities (2021)

Organization Name

Charity Entrepreneurship

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$247,500
Date
April 2021
April 2021
Grant Title

Wakker Dier — Farm Animal Welfare Litigation

Organization Name

Wakker Dier

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$1,215,000
Date
April 2021
April 2021
Grant Title

Employ America Action Fund – General Support

Organization Name

Employ America Action Fund

Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
April 2021
April 2021
Grant Title

International Conference on Learning Representations — Security and Safety in Machine Learning Systems Workshop

Organization Name

International Conference on Learning Representations

Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$3,000
Date
April 2021
March 2021
Grant Title

Duke University — COVID-19 Antiviral Studies (Timothy Haystead)

Organization Name

Duke University

Focus Area
Science Supporting Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$14,355
Date
March 2021
March 2021
Grant Title

Faunalytics — Farm Animal Welfare Goal Setting and Impact Tracking

Organization Name

Faunalytics

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$15,000
Date
March 2021
March 2021
Grant Title

Hypermind — AI Forecasting

Organization Name

Hypermind

Focus Area
Forecasting
Amount
$147,180
Date
March 2021
March 2021
Grant Title

SCI Foundation — General Support

Organization Name

SCI Foundation

Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$3,129,000
Date
March 2021
March 2021
Grant Title

Tampere University — Work on Global Catastrophic Risks (2021)

Organization Name

Tampere University

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$20,000
Date
March 2021
March 2021
Grant Title

Abundant Housing Massachusetts — General Support (2021)

Organization Name

Abundant Housing Massachusetts

Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Amount
$600,000
Date
March 2021
March 2021
Grant Title

Wageningen University & Research — Wild-Caught Fish Welfare

Organization Name

Wageningen University & Research

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$519,434
Date
March 2021
March 2021
Grant Title

Center for a New American Security — Strategic Lessons from COVID-19

Organization Name

Center for a New American Security

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$250,000
Date
March 2021
March 2021
Grant Title

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab — Kevin Esvelt’s Research (2021)

Organization Name

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab

Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
March 2021
March 2021
Grant Title

Vegan Women Summit — General Support (2021)

Organization Name

Vegan Women Summit

Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$200,000
Date
March 2021
March 2021
Grant Title

Equity and Transformation — General Support (2021)

Organization Name

Equity and Transformation

Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$100,000
Date
March 2021