Grants

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Funding Type
Focus Area
Year
Amount
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  • Grant
    Title
  • Organization
    Name
  • Focus
    Area
  • Amount
  • Date
July 2023
Grant Title

EffiSciences — Existential Risk Programs (2023)

Organization Name

Effisciences

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$205,000
Date
July 2023
October 2021
Grant Title

Eon Essay Contest — The Precipice Essay Contest

Organization Name

Eon Essay Contest

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$240,000
Date
October 2021
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 2019
Grant Title

European Summer Program on Rationality — General Support

Organization Name

European Summer Program on Rationality

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$510,000
Date
July 2019
May 2022
Grant Title

European Summer Program on Rationality — General Support (2022)

Organization Name

European Summer Program on Rationality

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$4,715,000
Date
May 2022
January 2024
Grant Title

Existential Risk Alliance — Cambridge AI Fellowship 

Organization Name

Existential Risks Alliance

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,015,101
Date
January 2024
January 2023
Grant Title

Existential Risks Alliance — Cambridge Fellowship

Organization Name

Existential Risks Alliance

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,014,116
Date
January 2023
February 2024
Grant Title

FABRIC — General Support

Organization Name

FABRIC

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,436,000
Date
February 2024
January 2024
Grant Title

FABRIC — Rationality Camp Programs

Organization Name

FABRIC

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$500,000
Date
January 2024
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 2016
Grant Title

Founders Pledge — General Support

Organization Name

Founders Pledge

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,032,947
Date
September 2016
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
December 2020
Grant Title

Founders Pledge — General Support (2020)

Organization Name

Founders Pledge

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,500,000
Date
December 2020
October 2022
Grant Title

Funding for Effective Altruism-Related Translation Projects

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,545,047
Date
October 2022
July 2022
Grant Title

Future Forum Foundation — Future Forum

Organization Name

Future Forum Foundation

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$654,500
Date
July 2022
November 2021
Grant Title

Future of Humanity Institute — Administrative and Operational Support

Organization Name

Future of Humanity Institute

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$400,000
Date
November 2021
February 2020
Grant Title

Future of Humanity Institute — New DPhil Positions

Organization Name

Future of Humanity Institute

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$939,263
Date
February 2020
May 2020
Grant Title

Future of Humanity Institute — Research Scholars Programme

Organization Name

Future of Humanity Institute

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,586,224
Date
May 2020
November 2021
Grant Title

Giving What We Can — General Support

Organization Name

Giving What We Can

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$600,000
Date
November 2021
May 2019
Grant Title

Global Catastrophic Risks Scholarships — Scholarship Support (2019)

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$547,800
Date
May 2019
March 2023
Grant Title

Global Challenges Project — General Support

Organization Name

Global Challenges Project

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$687,589
Date
March 2023
March 2024
Grant Title

Good Impressions — Amazon Advertising Campaign

Organization Name

Good Impressions

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$60,000
Date
March 2024
November 2022
Grant Title

Hamish Huggard — EA Content Creation

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$83,000
Date
November 2022
January 2023
Grant Title

High Impact Medicine — Community Building for Medical Students

Organization Name

High Impact Medicine

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$134,000
Date
January 2023
January 2023
Grant Title

Jeremy Rubinoff — AI Safety Retreat

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$16,587
Date
January 2023
August 2022
Grant Title

Juan Gil — Book Distribution

Organization Name

Juan Gil

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$24,745
Date
August 2022
August 2022
Grant Title

Kuhan Jeyapragasan — University Group Organizing

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$250,000
Date
August 2022
May 2023
Grant Title

Kurzgesagt — Video Production (2023)

Organization Name

Kurzgesagt

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,700,000
Date
May 2023
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
December 2022
Grant Title

Latecomer Institute — Longtermist Magazine

Organization Name

Latecomer Institute

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$234,000
Date
December 2022
January 2023
Grant Title

Lausanne AI Alignment — AI Alignment Bootcamp

Organization Name

Lausanne AI Alignment

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$21,092
Date
January 2023
April 2020
Grant Title

LessWrong — General Support

Organization Name

LessWrong

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$300,000
Date
April 2020
May 2021
Grant Title

LessWrong — General Support (2021)

Organization Name

LessWrong

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$460,000
Date
May 2021
January 2023
Grant Title

Librea — Effective Altruism Book Rights

Organization Name

Librea

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$55,000
Date
January 2023
September 2022
Grant Title

Lightcone Infrastructure – General Support

Organization Name

Lightcone Infrastructure

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$4,500,000
Date
September 2022
November 2022
Grant Title

London Effective Altruism Hub — EA Organizing in London

Organization Name

Arcadia Impact

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$445,000
Date
November 2022
March 2024
Grant Title

London Initiative for Safe AI (LISA) — London Coworking Space

Organization Name

London Initiative for Safe AI

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$821,248
Date
March 2024
January 2024
Grant Title

Longview Philanthropy — Effective Giving Information Sharing

Organization Name

Longview Philanthropy

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$595,426
Date
January 2024
January 2023
Grant Title

Longview Philanthropy — Film Project Scoping Work

Organization Name

Longview Philanthropy

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$57,500
Date
January 2023
December 2023
Grant Title

Longview Philanthropy — General Support (December 2023)

Organization Name

Longview Philanthropy

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,697,008
Date
December 2023
November 2023
Grant Title

Longview Philanthropy — General Support (November 2023)

Organization Name

Longview Philanthropy

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,139,355
Date
November 2023
January 2023
Grant Title

Longview Philanthropy — Support for Richard Chappell

Organization Name

Longview Philanthropy

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$47,500
Date
January 2023
May 2022
Grant Title

Madhu Sriram — Career Transition and Planning Grant

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$50,000
Date
May 2022
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
September 2022
Grant Title

Michael Specter — Existential Risk Courses at MIT

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$110,000
Date
September 2022
September 2023
Grant Title

Michael Specter — Existential Risk Courses at MIT (2023)

Organization Name

Michael Specter

Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$60,000
Date
September 2023
November 2022
Grant Title

Michael Ward — Effective Altruism Book Purchases

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$2,400
Date
November 2022
May 2023
Grant Title

Michael West — Pivotal Essay Contest

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$80,500
Date
May 2023
December 2022
Grant Title

Michel Justen — Career Transition

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$13,000
Date
December 2022
November 2022
Grant Title

Nathan Maya — Effective Altruism Student Retreat

Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$11,850
Date
November 2022