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Grants
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Grant
Title -
Organization
Name -
Focus
Area -
Amount
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Date
November 2022
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — General Support (2022)
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$100,000
Date
November 2022
March 2015
Grant Title
New Incentives — General Support (2015)
Organization Name
New Incentives
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$100,000
Date
March 2015
May 2020
Grant Title
Mijente — Criminal Justice Reform (2020)
Organization Name
Mijente
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$100,000
Date
May 2020
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
January 2024
Grant Title
AirEmissions Consultants — Air Quality in Pakistan
Organization Name
AirEmissions Consultants
Focus Area
South Asian Air Quality
Amount
$100,000
Date
January 2024
December 2017
Grant Title
Iodine Global Network — General Support (December 2017)
Organization Name
Iodine Global Network
Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$100,000
Date
December 2017
March 2018
Grant Title
Justice Strategies — General Support (2018)
Organization Name
Justice Strategies
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$100,000
Date
March 2018
March 2023
Grant Title
FAR AI — AI Interpretability Research
Organization Name
FAR AI
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$100,000
Date
March 2023
February 2024
Grant Title
University of Michigan — Scalable Oversight Research
Organization Name
University of Michigan
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$100,000
Date
February 2024
May 2017
Grant Title
Future of Life Institute — General Support (2017)
Organization Name
Future of Life Institute
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$100,000
Date
May 2017
October 2017
Grant Title
Court Watch NOLA — General Support (October 2017)
Organization Name
Court Watch NOLA
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$100,000
Date
October 2017
December 2018
Grant Title
Development Media International — General Support (December 2018)
Organization Name
Development Media International
Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$100,000
Date
December 2018
April 2020
Grant Title
Southerners on New Ground — Criminal Justice Reform Work
Organization Name
Southerners On New Ground
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$100,000
Date
April 2020
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 2021
Grant Title
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai — Bat Cell Line Research
Organization Name
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Focus Area
Science Supporting Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$100,000
Date
December 2021
March 2023
Grant Title
Harvard University — Political Polarization App
Organization Name
Harvard University
Focus Area
Other Areas
Amount
$100,000
Date
March 2023
August 2023
Grant Title
Stockholm School of Economics — Global Health Diplomacy Project
Organization Name
Stockholm School of Economics
Focus Area
Global Aid Policy
Amount
$100,000
Date
August 2023
August 2014
Grant Title
Center for Popular Democracy — Federal Reserve Campaign (2014)
Organization Name
Center for Popular Democracy
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
Amount
$100,000
Date
August 2014
January 2018
Grant Title
Living Goods — General Support (January 2018)
Organization Name
Living Goods
Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$100,000
Date
January 2018
May 2021
Grant Title
SPCA Selangor — Cage-Free Campaigns
Organization Name
SPCA Selangor
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$99,000
Date
May 2021
October 2020
Grant Title
UC Berkeley — In-Line Water Chlorination Devices (Amy Pickering) (2020)
Organization Name
University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$99,000
Date
October 2020
September 2015
Grant Title
Urban Institute — Land Use Convening
Organization Name
Urban Institute
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Amount
$97,865
Date
September 2015
February 2022
Grant Title
Prometheus Science Bowl — EA-Themed Science Bowl
Organization Name
Prometheus Science Bowl
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$97,500
Date
February 2022
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
February 2018
Grant Title
Cynthia Schuck & Wladimir Alonso — DALY Project
Organization Name
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$96,130
Date
February 2018
May 2022
Grant Title
Victory Briefs Institute — Effective Altruism Curriculum for Debaters
Organization Name
Victory Briefs Institute
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$95,000
Date
May 2022
July 2020
Grant Title
New York University — Work on Fish Welfare (2020)
Organization Name
New York University
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$95,000
Date
July 2020
August 2019
Grant Title
Crate-Free Illinois — Campaigning Against Gestation Crates (2019)
Organization Name
Crate-Free Illinois
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$94,720
Date
August 2019
March 2024
Grant Title
People for Animals Uttarakhand – Cage-Free Campaigns in India
Organization Name
People for Animals Uttarakhand
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$91,100
Date
March 2024
November 2020
Grant Title
GLOBALG.A.P. — Fish Welfare Standards
Organization Name
GLOBALG.A.P.
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$90,554
Date
November 2020
December 2022
Grant Title
University of Southern California — Syphilis Genome Sequencing
Organization Name
University of Southern California
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$90,000
Date
December 2022
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
August 2016
Grant Title
People for Animals — International Cage-Free Advocacy
Organization Name
People for Animals
Focus Area
Cage-Free Reforms
Amount
$89,392
Date
August 2016
December 2022
Grant Title
Apart Research — AI Alignment Hackathons
Organization Name
Apart Research
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$89,000
Date
December 2022
March 2017
Grant Title
Wageningen University & Research — Chicken Welfare Systematic Assessment
Organization Name
Wageningen University & Research
Focus Area
Broiler Chicken Welfare
Amount
$88,345
Date
March 2017
March 2020
Grant Title
UC Berkeley — Deworming and Cash Transfers (2020)
Organization Name
University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$88,000
Date
March 2020
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
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
March 2023
Grant Title
Government Relations Group — Scoping Work for Japan-Korea Aid Dialogues
Organization Name
Government Relations Group
Focus Area
Global Aid Policy
Amount
$86,250
Date
March 2023
July 2021
Grant Title
Chicago Community Bond Fund — Support for the Coalition to End Money Bond (2021)
Organization Name
Chicago Community Bond Fund
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$85,000
Date
July 2021
July 2022
Grant Title
Aaron Mayer — Effective Altruism Community Growth Projects
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$85,000
Date
July 2022
January 2021
Grant Title
People for Animals Uttarakhand — Farm Animal Welfare Fellowship
Organization Name
People for Animals Uttarakhand
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Amount
$85,000
Date
January 2021
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
July 2019
Grant Title
Workers Center for Racial Justice — Prosecutorial Accountability in Chicago (2019)
Organization Name
Workers Center for Racial Justice
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$85,000
Date
July 2019
August 2022
Grant Title
UC Berkeley — Tuberculosis Research
Organization Name
University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$84,760
Date
August 2022
November 2022
Grant Title
Hamish Huggard — EA Content Creation
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$83,000
Date
November 2022
February 2024
Grant Title
Ethical Seafood Research — Aquaculture Strategy in Zanzibar
Organization Name
Ethical Seafood Research
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$81,659
Date
February 2024
June 2017
Grant Title
Duke University — Co-Crystallization of Hsp70i and Inhibitor HS-72 (Timothy Haystead)
Organization Name
Duke University
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$81,500
Date
June 2017
May 2016
Grant Title
Promise of Justice Initiative — General Support
Organization Name
Promise of Justice Initiative
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$81,000
Date
May 2016
May 2023