Use this database to see grants and impact investments we have recommended.
To learn how to apply for a grant, read this page.
Grants
-
Grant
Title -
Organization
Name -
Focus
Area -
Amount
-
Date
December 2013
Grant Title
BetaGov
Organization Name
Pepperdine University
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$200,000
Date
December 2013
March 2023
Grant Title
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center — Long COVID Therapy Trial
Organization Name
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$1,500,000
Date
March 2023
January 2018
Grant Title
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center — Sepsis Therapy Clinical Trial (Michael Donnino)
Organization Name
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$2,939,400
Date
January 2018
April 2016
Grant Title
Better Boulder — YIMBY 2016
Organization Name
Better Boulder
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Amount
$37,000
Date
April 2016
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 2018
Grant Title
Better Eating International — Organizational Development
Organization Name
Better Eating International
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$12,690
Date
September 2018
November 2020
Grant Title
Binx — COVID-19 Testing Platform
Organization Name
Binx
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$2,000,000
Date
November 2020
April 2017
Grant Title
BioBricks Foundation — Biosecurity Activities at SB7.0
Organization Name
BioBricks Foundation
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$152,950
Date
April 2017
July 2022
Grant Title
Biosecure — Biological Weapons Convention Verification Workshop
Organization Name
Biosecure Ltd
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$155,714
Date
July 2022
December 2018
Grant Title
Biosecure Ltd — Campaign Against Bioweapons Research
Organization Name
Biosecure Ltd
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$25,000
Date
December 2018
December 2021
Grant Title
Biosecurity Funding for Individuals — Work and Study Support
Organization Name
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$554,910
Date
December 2021
February 2020
Grant Title
Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense — General Support
Organization Name
Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$2,970,000
Date
February 2020
December 2021
Grant Title
Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense — General Support (2021)
Organization Name
Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$1,350,000
Date
December 2021
July 2022
Grant Title
Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense — General Support (2022)
Organization Name
Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$5,200,000
Date
July 2022
October 2021
Grant Title
Bit by Bit Coding — High School Courses on Neural Networks
Organization Name
Bit by Bit Coding
Focus Area
Longtermism
Amount
$250,275
Date
October 2021
September 2020
Grant Title
Black Strategy Fund — General Support
Organization Name
Black Strategy Fund
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$100,000
Date
September 2020
December 2016
Grant Title
Blackbird — Ending Mass Incarceration
Organization Name
Blackbird
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$425,000
Date
December 2016
December 2017
Grant Title
Blackbird — Ending Mass Incarceration (2017)
Organization Name
Blackbird
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$425,000
Date
December 2017
August 2019
Grant Title
BlackRoots Alliance — Prosecutorial Accountability (2019)
Organization Name
BlackRoots Alliance
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$100,000
Date
August 2019
September 2020
Grant Title
BlackRoots Alliance — Work on Prosecutor Accountability (2020)
Organization Name
BlackRoots Alliance
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$15,000
Date
September 2020
April 2015
Grant Title
Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense
Organization Name
Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$300,000
Date
April 2015
August 2016
Grant Title
Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense — General Support (2016)
Organization Name
Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$1,300,000
Date
August 2016
January 2017
Grant Title
Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense — General Support (2017)
Organization Name
Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$500,000
Date
January 2017
January 2018
Grant Title
Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense— General Support (2018)
Organization Name
Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$2,588,162
Date
January 2018
June 2022
Grant Title
BlueDot Impact — General Support
Organization Name
BlueDot Impact
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$2,009,000
Date
June 2022
October 2018
Grant Title
Boston Children’s Hospital — Chronic Pain Research (Yi Zhang)
Organization Name
Boston Children's Hospital
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$1,695,376
Date
October 2018
August 2021
Grant Title
Boston University — Human Lung Model Systems
Organization Name
Boston University
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$414,000
Date
August 2021
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
June 2022
Grant Title
Breakthrough Institute — Research on Plant-Based Meat Consumption
Organization Name
Breakthrough Institute
Focus Area
Alternatives to Animal Products
Amount
$50,000
Date
June 2022
February 2023
Grant Title
Brian Christian — Psychology Research
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$37,903
Date
February 2023
March 2021
Grant Title
Brian Christian — The Alignment Problem Book Promotion
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$60,859
Date
March 2021
May 2022
Grant Title
Bridges to Prosperity — Trailbridge Building RCT in Rwanda
Organization Name
Bridges to Prosperity
Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$3,390,138
Date
May 2022
March 2020
Grant Title
Broad Institute — COVID-19 Diagnostic Testing (Stacey Gabriel)
Organization Name
Broad Institute
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$925,000
Date
March 2020
December 2019
Grant Title
Broad Institute — Genome Editing Research (Feng Zhang)
Organization Name
Broad Institute
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$2,500,000
Date
December 2019
March 2020
Grant Title
Broad Institute — Pandemic Preemption System (Pardis Sabeti and Christian Happi)
Organization Name
Broad Institute
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
March 2020
June 2015
Grant Title
Brookings Institution – Work on China and India
Organization Name
Brookings Institution
Focus Area
Other Areas
Amount
$100,000
Date
June 2015
September 2016
Grant Title
Brooklyn Community Bail Fund — General Support
Organization Name
Brooklyn Community Bail Fund
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$404,800
Date
September 2016
October 2017
Grant Title
Brooklyn Community Bail Fund — National Bail Fund Network
Organization Name
Brooklyn Community Bail Fund
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$404,800
Date
October 2017
January 2018
Grant Title
Brooklyn Community Bail Fund — National Bail Fund Network (2018)
Organization Name
Brooklyn Community Bail Fund
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$100,000
Date
January 2018
April 2020
Grant Title
Brown Institute for Media Innovation — COVID-19 Rapid Micro-Grants
Organization Name
Brown Institute for Media Innovation
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$15,000
Date
April 2020
January 2023
Grant Title
Byron Cohen — Biosecurity Community Building
Organization Name
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$5,560
Date
January 2023
July 2019
Grant Title
California Institute of Technology — Research on Reproductive Biology (Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz)
Organization Name
California Institute of Technology
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$2,000,000
Date
July 2019
June 2016
Grant Title
California Renters Legal Advocacy and Education Fund — General Support
Organization Name
California Renters Legal Advocacy and Education Fund
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Amount
$300,000
Date
June 2016
February 2019
Grant Title
California Renters Legal Advocacy and Education Fund — General Support (2019)
Organization Name
California Renters Legal Advocacy and Education Fund
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Amount
$340,000
Date
February 2019
December 2021
Grant Title
California Renters Legal Advocacy and Education Fund — General Support (2021)
Organization Name
California Renters Legal Advocacy and Education Fund
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Amount
$400,000
Date
December 2021
August 2022
Grant Title
California YIMBY — Ballot Initiative Scoping Grant
Organization Name
California YIMBY
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Amount
$200,000
Date
August 2022
April 2019
Grant Title
California YIMBY — General Support (2019)
Organization Name
California YIMBY
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Amount
$2,000,000
Date
April 2019
June 2021
Grant Title
California YIMBY — General Support (2021)
Organization Name
California YIMBY
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Amount
$2,600,000
Date
June 2021
March 2023
Grant Title
California YIMBY — General Support (2023)
Organization Name
California YIMBY
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Amount
$3,000,000
Date
March 2023
April 2018
Grant Title
California YIMBY — General Support (April 2018)
Organization Name
California YIMBY
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Amount
$500,000
Date
April 2018
August 2018
Grant Title
California YIMBY — General Support (August 2018)
Organization Name
California YIMBY
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Amount
$350,000
Date
August 2018
October 2021
Grant Title
Californians Against Pandemics — California Pandemic Early Detection and Prevention Act Ballot Initiative
Organization Name
Californians Against Pandemics
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$11,100,000
Date
October 2021
April 2020
Grant Title
Californians for Stem Cell Research, Treatments and Cures — California Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Organization Name
Californians for Stem Cell Research, Treatments and Cures
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$580,000
Date
April 2020
March 2023
Grant Title
Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative — AI Safety Field-Building
Organization Name
Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative
Focus Area
Longtermism
Amount
$461,069
Date
March 2023
January 2023
Grant Title
Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative — Machine Learning Bootcamps
Organization Name
Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$298,528
Date
January 2023
February 2023
Grant Title
Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative — MIT Office Space
Organization Name
Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$146,200
Date
February 2023
March 2023
Grant Title
Cambridge Effective Altruism — AI Safety Labs
Organization Name
Cambridge Effective Altruism
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$25,239
Date
March 2023
March 2022
Grant Title
Cambridge Existential Risk Initiative — Summer Research Program
Organization Name
Cambridge Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Longtermism
Amount
$743,902
Date
March 2022
December 2022
Grant Title
Cara Wilcox — Broiler Chicken Research
Organization Name
Focus Area
Broiler Chicken Welfare
Amount
$106,810
Date
December 2022
March 2022
Grant Title
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace — AI Governance Research
Organization Name
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$597,717
Date
March 2022
April 2023
Grant Title
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace — Alternative Proteins for Security
Organization Name
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Focus Area
Alternatives to Animal Products
Amount
$322,000
Date
April 2023
December 2017
Grant Title
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace — Chinese and Indian Perspectives on Biotech Security Risks
Organization Name
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$613,380
Date
December 2017
March 2015
Grant Title
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace — Work on India and China
Organization Name
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$100,000
Date
March 2015
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
July 2022
Grant Title
Carnegie Mellon University — Research on Adversarial Examples
Organization Name
Carnegie Mellon University
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$343,235
Date
July 2022
August 2020
Grant Title
Catalyst — Farm Animal Welfare in Thailand
Organization Name
Catalyst
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$447,000
Date
August 2020
November 2022
Grant Title
Catalyst — Farm Animal Welfare in Thailand (2022)
Organization Name
Catalyst
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$699,986
Date
November 2022
December 2021
Grant Title
Cate Hall — Self-Study for Career Transition
Organization Name
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$25,000
Date
December 2021
October 2022
Grant Title
Catherine Brewer — OxAI Safety Hub
Organization Name
OxAI Safety Hub
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$11,622
Date
October 2022
October 2022
Grant Title
Cause Exploration Prizes
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Amount
$64,000
Date
October 2022
September 2016
Grant Title
CDC Foundation — Malaria Control Research (2016)
Organization Name
CDC Foundation
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$1,214,437
Date
September 2016
October 2018
Grant Title
CDC Foundation — Malaria Control Research Project (2018)
Organization Name
CDC Foundation
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$1,044,501
Date
October 2018
March 2021
Grant Title
CDC Foundation — Malaria Control Research Project (2021)
Organization Name
CDC Foundation
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$672,500
Date
March 2021
July 2023
Grant Title
CDC Foundation — Malaria Control Research Project (2023)
Organization Name
CDC Foundation
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$900,000
Date
July 2023
February 2020
Grant Title
CDC Foundation — Reproductive Health Data Analysis (Dmitry Kissin)
Organization Name
CDC Foundation
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$662,072
Date
February 2020
April 2022
Grant Title
Cecil Abungu — Effective Altruism Fellowship in Africa
Organization Name
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$294,000
Date
April 2022
October 2020
Grant Title
Center for a New American Security — AI and Security Projects
Organization Name
Center for a New American Security
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$116,744
Date
October 2020
October 2020
Grant Title
Center for a New American Security — AI Governance Projects
Organization Name
Center for a New American Security
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$24,350
Date
October 2020
September 2018
Grant Title
Center for a New American Security — Outreach on Technological Risk Led by Richard Danzig
Organization Name
Center for a New American Security
Focus Area
Longtermism
Amount
$400,352
Date
September 2018
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
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
August 2017
Grant Title
Center for a New American Security — Technological Risks and National Security
Organization Name
Center for a New American Security
Focus Area
Longtermism
Amount
$260,000
Date
August 2017
July 2022
Grant Title
Center for a New American Security — Work on AI Governance
Organization Name
Center for a New American Security
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$4,816,710
Date
July 2022
November 2022
Grant Title
Center for AI Safety — General Support (2022)
Organization Name
Center for AI Safety
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$5,160,000
Date
November 2022
April 2023
Grant Title
Center for AI Safety — General Support (2023)
Organization Name
Center for AI Safety
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$4,025,729
Date
April 2023
February 2023
Grant Title
Center for AI Safety — Philosophy Fellowship and NeurIPS Prizes
Organization Name
Center for AI Safety
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,433,000
Date
February 2023
March 2016
Grant Title
Center for American Progress — Macroeconomic Stabilization
Organization Name
Center for American Progress
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
Amount
$500,000
Date
March 2016
January 2018
Grant Title
Center for Applied Rationality — SPARC (2018)
Organization Name
Center for Applied Rationality
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$560,000
Date
January 2018
May 2017
Grant Title
Center for Applied Rationality — European Summer Program on Rationality
Organization Name
Center for Applied Rationality
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$340,000
Date
May 2017
July 2016
Grant Title
Center for Applied Rationality — General Support
Organization Name
Center for Applied Rationality
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$1,035,000
Date
July 2016
January 2018
Grant Title
Center for Applied Rationality — General Support (2018)
Organization Name
Center for Applied Rationality
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
January 2018
February 2020
Grant Title
Center for Applied Rationality — General Support (2020)
Organization Name
Center for Applied Rationality
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$375,000
Date
February 2020
May 2016
Grant Title
Center for Applied Rationality — SPARC
Organization Name
Center for Applied Rationality
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$304,000
Date
May 2016
August 2022
Grant Title
Center for Applied Rationality — SPARC (2022)
Organization Name
Center for Applied Rationality
Focus Area
Effective Altruism Community Growth (Longtermism)
Amount
$700,000
Date
August 2022
September 2022
Grant Title
Center for Building in North America — Housing Code Reform
Organization Name
Center for Building in North America
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Amount
$500,000
Date
September 2022
July 2016
Grant Title
Center for Court Innovation — New Thinking about Criminal Justice Responses
Organization Name
Center for Court Innovation
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$160,000
Date
July 2016
June 2017
Grant Title
Center for Effective Global Action at UC Berkeley — Deworming Study Planning Gift
Organization Name
Center for Effective Global Action at UC Berkeley
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$18,000
Date
June 2017
April 2017
Grant Title
Center for Effective Global Action at UC Berkeley — KLPS-4 Survey
Organization Name
Center for Effective Global Action at UC Berkeley
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$1,104,259
Date
April 2017
July 2017
Grant Title
Center for Effective Global Action at UC Berkeley — Scoping RCTs for Follow-Up
Organization Name
Center for Effective Global Action at UC Berkeley
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$492,188
Date
July 2017
December 2020
