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Grants
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Grant
Title -
Organization
Name -
Focus
Area -
Amount
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Date
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
Global Catastrophic Risks
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
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$2,009,000
Date
June 2022
June 2023
Grant Title
BlueDot Impact — General Support (2023)
Organization Name
BlueDot Impact
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$388,890
Date
June 2023
July 2023
Grant Title
BlueDot Impact — General Support (July 2023)
Organization Name
BlueDot Impact
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$1,542,364
Date
July 2023
August 2023
Grant Title
Blueprint Biosecurity — General Support
Organization Name
Blueprint Biosecurity
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$50,000
Date
August 2023
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
November 2023
Grant Title
CalHDF — General Support (2023)
Organization Name
CalHDF
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Amount
$440,000
Date
November 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
CalHDF
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
CalHDF
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
CalHDF
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 2024
Grant Title
Cambridge Biosecurity Hub – Biosecurity Course and Club Events
Organization Name
Cambridge Biosecurity Hub
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$11,936
Date
March 2024
August 2023
Grant Title
Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative — AI Research and Governance Workshop
Organization Name
Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$38,220
Date
August 2023
December 2023
Grant Title
Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative — AI Research and Governance Workshop (2023)
Organization Name
Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$66,950
Date
December 2023
March 2023
Grant Title
Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative — AI Safety Field-Building
Organization Name
Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$387,741
Date
March 2023
December 2023
Grant Title
Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative — General Support for MIT AI Alignment
Organization Name
Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$612,470
Date
December 2023
September 2023