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Grants
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Grant
Title -
Organization
Name -
Focus
Area -
Amount
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Date
May 2022
Grant Title
Sightline Institute — YIMBYtown (2022)
Organization Name
Sightline Institute
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Amount
$50,000
Date
May 2022
May 2022
Grant Title
Effective Altruist Communications Fellowship — Summer 2022 Fellowship
Organization Name
Effective Altruist Communications Fellowship
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$585,000
Date
May 2022
May 2022
Grant Title
fair-fish international association — General Support (2022)
Organization Name
fair-fish international association
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$690,000
Date
May 2022
May 2022
Grant Title
Derek Foster — Research on Subjective Wellbeing
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Amount
$49,045
Date
May 2022
May 2022
Grant Title
The College of William and Mary — Uganda Smartphone RCT
Organization Name
College of William and Mary
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$100,000
Date
May 2022
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
May 2022
Grant Title
Alvea — DNA Vaccine Platform
Organization Name
Alvea
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$5,000,000
Date
May 2022
May 2022
Grant Title
Constitutional Accountability Center — California Prop 12 Legal Defense
Organization Name
Constitutional Accountability Center
Focus Area
Cage-Free Reforms
Amount
$37,123
Date
May 2022
May 2022
Grant Title
Humane Society of the United States — California Prop 12 Legal Defense
Organization Name
Humane Society of the United States
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$250,000
Date
May 2022
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
May 2022
Grant Title
Animal Nepal — Farm Animal Welfare
Organization Name
Animal Nepal
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$224,000
Date
May 2022
May 2022
Grant Title
Centre for Effective Altruism — Research Assistant for Jonas Sandbrink
Organization Name
Centre for Effective Altruism
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$77,000
Date
May 2022
May 2022
Grant Title
National Animal Disease Center — Universal Influenza Antiviral Testing
Organization Name
National Animal Disease Center
Focus Area
Science Supporting Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$181,749
Date
May 2022
April 2022
Grant Title
UC San Diego — Cost-Benefit Analysis for Malaria Suppression
Organization Name
San Diego
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$190,000
Date
April 2022
April 2022
Grant Title
OpenMined — Research on Privacy-Enhancing Technologies and AI Safety
Organization Name
OpenMined
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$28,320
Date
April 2022
April 2022
Grant Title
Center for Global Development — General Support (2022)
Organization Name
Center for Global Development
Focus Area
Global Aid Policy
Amount
$1,000,000
Date
April 2022
April 2022
Grant Title
Effective Altruism Foundation — European Policy Research and Advocacy (April 2022)
Organization Name
Effective Altruism Foundation
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$200,000
Date
April 2022
April 2022
Grant Title
Open Phil AI Fellowship — 2022 Class
Organization Name
Open Phil AI Fellowship
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,840,000
Date
April 2022
April 2022
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — AI Standards (2022)
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$210,000
Date
April 2022
April 2022
Grant Title
Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity — AI Standards (2022)
Organization Name
University of California, Berkeley
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$20,000
Date
April 2022
April 2022
Grant Title
Precision Development – Trial Scoping
Organization Name
Precision Development
Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$539,864
Date
April 2022
April 2022
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — SERI MATS Program (2022)
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,008,127
Date
April 2022
April 2022
Grant Title
Funding for AI Alignment Projects Working With Deep Learning Systems
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$15,700,072
Date
April 2022
April 2022
Grant Title
AI Safety Support — Research on Trends in Machine Learning
Organization Name
AI Safety Support
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$42,000
Date
April 2022
April 2022
Grant Title
Essere Animali — Farm Animal Welfare in Italy (2022)
Organization Name
Essere Animali
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$554,000
Date
April 2022
April 2022
Grant Title
Cecil Abungu — Effective Altruism Fellowship in Africa
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$294,000
Date
April 2022
April 2022
Grant Title
The Center for Responsible Seafood — Fish Welfare Research and Promotion
Organization Name
The Center for Responsible Seafood
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$625,000
Date
April 2022
April 2022
Grant Title
Anima International — Chicken Welfare Campaigns (2022)
Organization Name
Anima International
Focus Area
Broiler Chicken Welfare
Amount
$6,000,000
Date
April 2022
April 2022
Grant Title
Longview Philanthropy — Nuclear Security Grantmaking
Organization Name
Longview Philanthropy
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$500,000
Date
April 2022
April 2022
Grant Title
WAW Statistical Consulting Ltd — R Package for Bayesian Evidence Aggregation
Organization Name
WAW Statistical Consulting Ltd
Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$66,400
Date
April 2022
April 2022
Grant Title
Helen Keller International — Vitamin A Supplementation (April 2022)
Organization Name
Helen Keller International
Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$3,936,955
Date
April 2022
April 2022
Grant Title
University of Illinois — Course Development Support (Ben Levinstein)
Organization Name
University of Illinois
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$58,141
Date
April 2022
April 2022
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — David Krueger Collaboration
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$140,050
Date
April 2022
March 2022
Grant Title
Paris Peace Forum — Global Commission on Governing Risks from Climate Overshoot
Organization Name
Global Commission on Governing Risks from Climate Overshoot
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$616,305
Date
March 2022
March 2022
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — Support for Kevin Esvelt’s Research
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$100,000
Date
March 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
March 2022
Grant Title
Kurzgesagt — Short-form Video Content
Organization Name
Kurzgesagt
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$2,978,000
Date
March 2022
March 2022
Grant Title
Policy Cures Research — General Support
Organization Name
Policy Cures Research
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Amount
$13,000,000
Date
March 2022
March 2022
Grant Title
Life Sciences Research Foundation — Young Investigators (2022)
Organization Name
Life Sciences Research Foundation
Focus Area
Transformative Basic Science
Amount
$751,000
Date
March 2022
March 2022
Grant Title
Dezernat Zukunft — Re-Granting (2022)
Organization Name
Dezernat Zukunft
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
Amount
$2,400,000
Date
March 2022
March 2022
Grant Title
Animal Ask — General Support
Organization Name
Animal Ask
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$130,000
Date
March 2022
March 2022
Grant Title
Hofvarpnir Studios — Compute Cluster for AI Safety Research
Organization Name
Hofvarpnir Studios
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,443,540
Date
March 2022
March 2022
Grant Title
Usman Anwar — Research Collaboration with David Krueger
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$6,526
Date
March 2022
March 2022
Grant Title
Massachusetts Institute of Technology — AI Trends and Impacts Research (2022)
Organization Name
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$13,277,348
Date
March 2022
March 2022
Grant Title
Center for Popular Democracy — Exit Grant
Organization Name
Center for Popular Democracy
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
Amount
$500,000
Date
March 2022
March 2022
Grant Title
Rethink Priorities — AI Governance Research (2022)
Organization Name
Rethink Priorities
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$2,728,319
Date
March 2022
March 2022
Grant Title
Atlas Fellowship — Scholarships and Summer Program for Students
Organization Name
Atlas Fellowship
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$5,000,000
Date
March 2022
March 2022
Grant Title
Centre for Effective Altruism — General Support (2022)
Organization Name
Centre for Effective Altruism
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$26,000,000
Date
March 2022
March 2022
Grant Title
World Animal Protection — Farm Animal Welfare in Southeast Asia (2022)
Organization Name
World Animal Protection
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare in Asia
Amount
$1,142,000
Date
March 2022
March 2022
Grant Title
Cambridge Existential Risk Initiative — Summer Research Program
Organization Name
Cambridge Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$509,543
Date
March 2022
March 2022
Grant Title
Egor Krasheninnikov — Research Collaboration with David Krueger
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$6,526
Date
March 2022
March 2022
Grant Title
Stiftung Neue Verantwortung — AI Policy Analysis
Organization Name
Stiftung Neue Verantwortung
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$444,000
Date
March 2022
March 2022
Grant Title
Charity Entrepreneurship — General Support
Organization Name
Charity Entrepreneurship
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Amount
$1,616,474
Date
March 2022
March 2022
Grant Title
Charak Foundation — Ramatroban Clinical Trial
Organization Name
Charak Foundation
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$195,600
Date
March 2022
March 2022
Grant Title
Alignment Research Center — General Support
Organization Name
Alignment Research Center
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$265,000
Date
March 2022
March 2022
Grant Title
Malaria Consortium — Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention Programs (2022)
Organization Name
Malaria Consortium
Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$32,096,856
Date
March 2022
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
February 2022
Grant Title
AI Funding for Individuals — Work and Study Support
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$113,372
Date
February 2022
February 2022
Grant Title
Malaria Consortium — Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention in Mozambique (2022)
Organization Name
Malaria Consortium
Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$15,918,958
Date
February 2022
February 2022
Grant Title
Eurogroup for Animals — European Union Trade Strategy (2022)
Organization Name
Eurogroup for Animals
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare
Amount
$912,994
Date
February 2022
February 2022
Grant Title
Center for Global Development — Oral COVID Antivirals
Organization Name
Center for Global Development
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$800,000
Date
February 2022
February 2022
Grant Title
World Organisation for Animal Health — Animal Welfare Standards in Southeast Asia
Organization Name
World Organisation for Animal Health
Focus Area
Farm Animal Welfare in Asia
Amount
$515,000
Date
February 2022
February 2022
Grant Title
University of Michigan — Course Development Support (Anna Edmonds)
Organization Name
University of Michigan
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$50,300
Date
February 2022
February 2022
Grant Title
RAND Corporation — Study Planning
Organization Name
RAND Corporation
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$25,000
Date
February 2022
February 2022
Grant Title
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — CHAI Collaboration (2022)
Organization Name
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$1,126,160
Date
February 2022
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
February 2022
Grant Title
Michael Page — Career Transition Grant
Organization Name
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$52,500
Date
February 2022
February 2022
Grant Title
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine — Safety-Critical Machine Learning
Organization Name
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$309,441
Date
February 2022
February 2022
Grant Title
PATH — RTS,S Malaria Vaccine Implementation
Organization Name
PATH
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$4,998,769
Date
February 2022
February 2022
Grant Title
Probably Good — General Support
Organization Name
Probably Good
Focus Area
Other Areas
Amount
$300,000
Date
February 2022
February 2022
Grant Title
Nutrition International — Vitamin A Supplementation
Organization Name
Nutrition International
Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$8,951,600
Date
February 2022
February 2022
Grant Title
Good Forever — Regranting for Biosecurity Projects
Organization Name
Good Forever Foundation
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$4,905,066
Date
February 2022
February 2022
Grant Title
Tom Adamczewski — Randomized Control Trial Tool
Organization Name
Focus Area
Global Health & Wellbeing
Amount
$22,800
Date
February 2022
February 2022
Grant Title
Effective Altruism Funds — Regranting Support
Organization Name
Effective Altruism Funds
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$7,783,000
Date
February 2022
February 2022
Grant Title
Sightsavers — Scoping Work on Deworming Programs
Organization Name
Sightsavers
Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$118,000
Date
February 2022
February 2022
Grant Title
Color of Change — Criminal Justice Reform (2021)
Organization Name
Color of Change
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$700,000
Date
February 2022
February 2022
Grant Title
Project Peanut Butter — Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food Standards
Organization Name
Project Peanut Butter
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$190,900
Date
February 2022
February 2022
Grant Title
Early-Career Funding for Improving the Long-Term Future — Scholarship Support (2022)
Organization Name
Scholarship (Various)
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks
Amount
$4,877,344
Date
February 2022
February 2022
Grant Title
Evidence Action — Dispensers for Safe Water Program (February 2022)
Organization Name
Evidence Action
Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$48,823,039
Date
February 2022
February 2022
Grant Title
University of Victoria — Syphilis Diagnostic (Caroline Cameron)
Organization Name
University of Victoria
Focus Area
Scientific Research
Amount
$2,000,000
Date
February 2022
January 2022
Grant Title
United Fort Worth — Criminal Justice Reform
Organization Name
United Fort Worth
Focus Area
Criminal Justice Reform
Amount
$200,000
Date
January 2022
January 2022
Grant Title
SCI Foundation — Deworming and Worm Burden Mapping (2022)
Organization Name
SCI Foundation
Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$20,151,540
Date
January 2022
January 2022
Grant Title
Open Philanthropy Technology Policy Fellowship (2022)
Organization Name
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$2,869,940
Date
January 2022
January 2022
Grant Title
Employ America — Exit Grant
Organization Name
Employ America
Focus Area
Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy
Amount
$1,250,000
Date
January 2022
January 2022
Grant Title
SCI Foundation – General Support (2022)
Organization Name
SCI Foundation
Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$500,000
Date
January 2022
January 2022
Grant Title
Wilson Center — AI Policy Training Program (2022)
Organization Name
The Wilson Center
Focus Area
Potential Risks from Advanced AI
Amount
$2,023,322
Date
January 2022
January 2022
Grant Title
Nonlinear Fund — Personal Assistant Hiring Agency
Organization Name
Nonlinear Fund
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$15,000
Date
January 2022
January 2022
Grant Title
Abundant Housing LA — Lawmaker Engagement
Organization Name
Abundant Housing LA
Focus Area
Land Use Reform
Amount
$80,000
Date
January 2022
January 2022
Grant Title
Effective Ventures Foundation USA — Asterisk Magazine
Organization Name
Effective Ventures Foundation USA
Focus Area
Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building
Amount
$730,000
Date
January 2022
January 2022
Grant Title
Fórum Nacional de Proteção e Defesa Animal — Corporate Campaigns in Brazil (2022)
Organization Name
Fórum Nacional de Proteção e Defesa Animal
Focus Area
Cage-Free Reforms
Amount
$301,000
Date
January 2022
January 2022
Grant Title
Compassion in World Farming — Broiler Chicken Welfare and Efforts to End Cages and Crates
Organization Name
Compassion in World Farming
Focus Area
Broiler Chicken Welfare
Amount
$3,559,572
Date
January 2022
January 2022
Grant Title
Good Forever Foundation — Pandemic Preparedness and COVID-19 Mitigation (2021)
Organization Name
Good Forever Foundation
Focus Area
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$200,000
Date
January 2022
January 2022
Grant Title
International Vaccine Institute — Cholera Vaccine Clinical Trial
Organization Name
International Vaccine Institute
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$2,500,000
Date
January 2022
January 2022
Grant Title
University of Connecticut Health Center — Syphilis Vaccine Development
Organization Name
University of Connecticut Health Center
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$4,563,250
Date
January 2022
January 2022
Grant Title
International Vaccine Institute — Hepatitis E Vaccine Trial
Organization Name
International Vaccine Institute
Focus Area
Human Health and Wellbeing
Amount
$4,000,000
Date
January 2022
January 2022
Grant Title
Fortify Health — Support for Expansion
Organization Name
Fortify Health
Focus Area
Global Health & Development
Amount
$8,188,000
Date
January 2022
January 2022
Grant Title
Harvard University — Antiviral Research (2022)
Organization Name
Harvard University
Focus Area
Science Supporting Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness
Amount
$2,500,000
Date
January 2022
January 2022
Grant Title
GiveDirectly – General Support (2022)
Organization Name
GiveDirectly
Focus Area
GiveWell-Recommended Charities
Amount
$500,000
Date
January 2022
January 2022
Grant Title
Vital Strategies — RESET Alcohol Initiative
Organization Name
Vital Strategies
Focus Area
Global Public Health Policy
Amount
$15,000,000
Date
January 2022
January 2022