Also known as: Open Philanthropy, OP
Key People
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Liz Givens
Director of Partnerships
Dec 2024 – present
Inaugural Director of Partnerships; joined December 2024. Former Chief Development Officer at Tipping Point Community; Stanford MBA. Leads philanthropic advisory services.
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Jasmine Dhaliwal
Chief of Staff
Aug 2023 – present
Former British diplomat with NATO and OSCE postings; previously Chief of Staff at FutureHouse. Joined August 2023.
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George Rosenfeld
Deputy Director, Global Catastrophic Risks
Mar 2024 – present
Also serves as Chief of Staff for GCR. Works directly with President Emily Oehlsen. Joined March 2024; former CoS at Effective Ventures UK and McKinsey consultant.
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Eric Parrie
Managing Director, Operations
2023 – present
Oversees finance, grants, legal, people ops, and recruiting. Former CEO of COVIDCheck Colorado; Yale Law graduate.
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Emily Oehlsen
President
Apr 2021 – present
Joined April 2021 as research fellow; became MD Global Health & Wellbeing July 2023; promoted to President in 2024. Oversees AI, biosecurity, and scientific R&D programs.
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Holden KarnofskyFounder
Co-Founder & Co-CEO
2011 – Apr 2024
Co-founded GiveWell (2007) and Open Philanthropy (2014). Took leave from Co-CEO role in 2023 to focus on AI strategy; formally departed April 2024 for Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Joined Anthropic in 2025.
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Alexander BergerFounder
CEO
2017 – present
Co-founded GiveWell Labs / Open Philanthropy in 2011; became sole CEO after Karnofsky's departure in April 2024. First employee when the org became independent in 2017.
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Board Seats
4| Member | Role | Appointed | Source | Notes | Source check |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dustin Moskovitz | Board Manager | 2011 | coefficientgiving.org | Co-founder of Open Philanthropy (now Coefficient Giving) and primary funder alongside Cari Tuna. Facebook co-founder; provides funding via Good Ventures. | Not checked |
| xeEJJDiF83 | Board Director | — | coefficientgiving.org | Independent director on the Coefficient Giving Research (nonprofit entity) board. Background not publicly detailed. | Not checked |
| Cari Tuna | Chair | 2011 | coefficientgiving.org | Co-founder alongside Dustin Moskovitz; primary funder via Good Ventures. Formerly titled President. Chair of both the LLC Board of Managers and the nonprofit entity board. | Not checked |
| Elie Hassenfeld | Board Manager | — | coefficientgiving.org | GiveWell CEO; on Board of Managers in capacity as co-founder of GiveWell, which has a close relationship with Coefficient Giving. | Not checked |
Divisions
31| Name | DivisionType | Status | StartDate | Source | Notes | EndDate | Slug | Lead | Website | Source check |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abundance & Growth | fund | active | 2025-03 | coefficientgiving.org | $120M committed over 3 years. Led by Matt Clancy. Economic growth, scientific progress, US-focused. | — | — | — | — | Not checked |
| Global Growth | fund | active | 2024-10 | coefficientgiving.org | $40M+ committed over 3 years. Led by Justin Sandefur. Policy research for economic growth in low/middle-income countries. | — | — | — | — | Not checked |
| Farm Animal Welfare | fund | active | — | coefficientgiving.org | Led by Lewis Bollard. Corporate cage-free campaigns, alt-protein research, advocacy. | — | — | — | — | Not checked |
| Effective Giving & Careers | fund | active | — | coefficientgiving.org | Led by Melanie Basnak and Sam Donald. Support for CEA, 80,000 Hours, EA Funds, and community infrastructure. | — | — | — | — | Not checked |
| Global Aid Policy | fund | active | 2018 | coefficientgiving.org | 50+ grants totaling ~$30M. Led by Norma Altshuler. Encouraging generous and cost-effective international aid. | — | — | — | — | Not checked |
| Navigating Transformative AI | fund | active | — | coefficientgiving.org | 480+ grants totaling ~$500M. Sub-areas: Technical Safety (Favaloro, O'Keeffe-O'Donovan), AI Governance (Muehlhauser), Short Timelines (Zabel). ~$63.6M in 2024 (~60% of all external AI safety funding). | — | — | — | — | Not checked |
| Forecasting | fund | active | — | coefficientgiving.org | 30+ grants totaling ~$50M. Led by Benjamin Tereick. Forecasting infrastructure and research. | — | — | — | — | Not checked |
| Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness | fund | active | — | coefficientgiving.org | 140+ grants totaling ~$260M. Led by Andrew Snyder-Beattie. Work began ~2015, five years before COVID-19. | — | — | — | — | Not checked |
| Global Catastrophic Risks | program-area | active | — | coefficientgiving.org | Covers AI safety, biosecurity, and other GCR-related grantmaking. 250+ grants across cause areas. | — | — | — | — | Not checked |
| Lead Exposure Action Fund (LEAF) | fund | active | 2024 | coefficientgiving.org | $100-125M raised; 20+ grants. Multi-donor pooled fund with Gates Foundation, UNICEF, others. | — | — | — | — | Not checked |
| Criminal Justice Reform | fund | dissolved | 2014 | coefficientgiving.org | Focused on reducing incarceration; wound down in 2022. ~$200M total grants. | 2022 | — | — | — | Not checked |
| Air Quality | fund | active | 2022 | coefficientgiving.org | 40+ grants totaling ~$20M. Led by Santosh Harish. Focus on South Asia and high-pollution areas. | — | — | — | — | Not checked |
| Global Health and Wellbeing | program-area | active | — | coefficientgiving.org | Covers global health, farm animal welfare, and scientific research. 360+ grants; largest program area. | — | — | — | — | Not checked |
| Science and Global Health R&D | fund | active | — | coefficientgiving.org | 330+ grants + 30+ social investments ($90M+). Led by Jacob Trefethen. Treatments, vaccines, diagnostics. | — | — | — | — | Not checked |
| Global Growth | fund | active | 2024-10 | coefficientgiving.org | $40M+ committed over 3 years. Led by Justin Sandefur. Policy research for economic growth in low/middle-income countries. | — | — | — | — | Not checked |
| Global Aid Policy | fund | active | 2018 | coefficientgiving.org | 50+ grants totaling ~$30M. Led by Norma Altshuler. Encouraging generous and cost-effective international aid. | — | — | — | — | Not checked |
| Criminal Justice Reform | fund | dissolved | 2014 | coefficientgiving.org | Focused on reducing incarceration; wound down in 2022. ~$200M total grants. | 2022 | — | — | — | Not checked |
| Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness | fund | active | 2015 | coefficientgiving.org | 140+ grants. Work began ~2015 (five years before COVID-19). Johns Hopkins CHS, NTI Bio, pandemic preparedness | — | coefficient-giving-biosecurity-pandemic-preparedness | Andrew Snyder-Beattie | coefficientgiving.org | Not checked |
| Navigating Transformative AI | fund | active | 2017 | coefficientgiving.org | 480+ grants. Sub-areas: Technical Safety (Favaloro, O'Keeffe-O'Donovan), AI Governance (Muehlhauser), Short Timelines (Zabel). ~$63.6M in 2024 (~60% of all external AI safety funding) | — | coefficient-giving-navigating-transformative-ai | Claire Zabel, Luke Muehlhauser, Peter Favaloro, Rossa O'Keeffe-O'Donovan | coefficientgiving.org | Not checked |
| Farm Animal Welfare | fund | active | 2016 | coefficientgiving.org | Corporate cage-free campaigns, alt-protein research, advocacy. Contributed to 3,000+ corporate cage-free commitments | — | coefficient-giving-farm-animal-welfare | Lewis Bollard | coefficientgiving.org | Not checked |
| Global Health & Wellbeing Opportunities | fund | active | 2014 | coefficientgiving.org | 360+ grants; largest fund. Primarily GiveWell-recommended charities; $175M committed for 2026 via GiveWell | — | coefficient-giving-global-health-wellbeing | James Snowden | coefficientgiving.org | Not checked |
| Effective Giving & Careers | fund | active | — | coefficientgiving.org | Support for CEA, 80,000 Hours, EA Funds, and community infrastructure | — | coefficient-giving-effective-giving-careers | Melanie Basnak, Sam Donald | coefficientgiving.org | Not checked |
| Global Aid Policy | fund | active | 2018 | coefficientgiving.org | 50+ grants. Encouraging generous and cost-effective international aid | — | coefficient-giving-global-aid-policy | Norma Altshuler | coefficientgiving.org | Not checked |
| Lead Exposure Action Fund (LEAF) | fund | active | 2024 | coefficientgiving.org | $100-125M raised; 20+ grants. Multi-donor pooled fund with Gates Foundation, UNICEF, others | — | coefficient-giving-lead-exposure-action-fund | — | coefficientgiving.org | Not checked |
| Air Quality | fund | active | 2022 | coefficientgiving.org | 40+ grants. Focus on South Asia and high-pollution areas | — | coefficient-giving-air-quality | Santosh Harish | coefficientgiving.org | Not checked |
| Criminal Justice Reform | fund | dissolved | 2014 | coefficientgiving.org | Focused on reducing incarceration; wound down in 2022 | 2022 | coefficient-giving-criminal-justice-reform | — | — | Not checked |
| Forecasting | fund | active | 2018 | coefficientgiving.org | 30+ grants supporting forecasting infrastructure and research | — | coefficient-giving-forecasting | Benjamin Tereick | coefficientgiving.org | Not checked |
| Global Catastrophic Risks Opportunities | fund | active | 2015 | coefficientgiving.org | 250+ grants across GCR cause areas and EA community capacity building | — | coefficient-giving-gcr-opportunities | Eli Rose | coefficientgiving.org | Not checked |
| Abundance & Growth | fund | active | 2025-03 | coefficientgiving.org | $120M committed over 3 years. Economic growth, scientific progress, US-focused. Launched March 2025 | — | coefficient-giving-abundance-growth | Matt Clancy | coefficientgiving.org | Not checked |
| Science and Global Health R&D | fund | active | 2017 | coefficientgiving.org | 330+ grants + 30+ social investments ($90M+). Treatments, vaccines, diagnostics for low-income populations | — | coefficient-giving-science-global-health-rd | Jacob Trefethen | coefficientgiving.org | Not checked |
| Global Growth | fund | active | 2024-10 | coefficientgiving.org | $40M+ committed over 3 years. Policy research for economic growth in low/middle-income countries. Launched October 2024 | — | coefficient-giving-global-growth | Justin Sandefur | coefficientgiving.org | Not checked |
Entity Assessments
6| Dimension | Rating | Evidence | Assessor | Source check |
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| ai-safety-focus | Leading funder | $336M+ to AI safety since 2014; ~60% of external AI safety funding | editorial | Not checked |
| application-model | Rolling RFPs + regranting | 300-word EOI, 2-week response; supports platforms like Manifund | editorial | Not checked |
| key-funders | Good Ventures (primary) | Dustin Moskovitz & Cari Tuna; expanding to multi-donor model | editorial | Not checked |
| scale | Dominant | $4B+ total grants; ~$46M AI safety in 2023 | editorial | Not checked |
| structure | 13 cause-specific funds | Multi-donor pooled funds since Nov 2025 rebrand | editorial | Not checked |
| transparency | High | Public grants database, annual progress reports | editorial | Not checked |
Entity Events
10| Title | Date | EventType | Description | Significance | Source | Source check |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rebrand from Open Philanthropy to Coefficient Giving | 2025-11-18 | pivot | Multi-donor expansion (over $100M directed from non-Good-Ventures donors in 2024); brand clarity to disambiguate from OpenAI and Open Society Foundations; structural reorganization into 13 distinct funds. | major | coefficientgiving.org | Not checked |
| $40M Technical AI Safety RFP | 2025 | funding | — | major | — | Not checked |
| ~$50M AI safety committed; 68% to evaluations/benchmarking | 2024 | milestone | — | moderate | — | Not checked |
| ~$46M AI safety spending; largest funder in the field | 2023 | milestone | AI safety becomes Open Philanthropy's largest longtermist cause area. | major | — | Not checked |
| $150M Regranting Challenge launched (not AI-specific) | 2022 | launch | — | moderate | — | Not checked |
| AI safety spending exceeds $20M annually | 2019 | milestone | — | moderate | — | Not checked |
| Spun off from GiveWell as independent LLC | 2017 | pivot | Holden Karnofsky publishes detailed AI concerns; the spinoff enables Open Philanthropy to pursue its own strategic priorities while GiveWell continues focusing on evidence-backed global health interventions. | major | openphilanthropy.org | Not checked |
| First AI safety grants | 2015 | milestone | Began supporting AI safety work in 2015, when the field had ~10 full-time researchers and institutional support was minimal. Early grants helped establish MIRI, CHAI, and the Future of Humanity Institute. | major | — | Not checked |
| Open Philanthropy formalized as project within GiveWell | 2014 | milestone | The advising relationship formalizes into "Open Philanthropy" as a distinct project, focused on identifying high-impact giving opportunities across a broader range of cause areas than GiveWell's traditional global health focus. | major | — | Not checked |
| GiveWell begins advising Good Ventures | 2011 | founding | GiveWell, founded by Holden Karnofsky and Elie Hassenfeld, begins advising Good Ventures (established by Dustin Moskovitz and Cari Tuna) on how to deploy philanthropic capital effectively. | major | — | Not checked |
Funding Programs
15| Name | ProgramType | Description | DivisionId | TotalBudget | Currency | Status | Source | Notes | ApplicationUrl | Deadline | Source check |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forecasting Grantmaking | grant-round | Grantmaking for forecasting infrastructure, prediction markets, and forecasting research. 30+ grants totaling ~$50M. | KTH1AhXH7l | $50M | USD | closed | coefficientgiving.org | Led by Benjamin Tereick. Fund closed 2026-03-30. | — | — | Not checked |
| Lead Exposure Action Fund (LEAF) | grant-round | Multi-donor pooled fund addressing lead exposure globally. $100-125M raised with Gates Foundation, UNICEF, and others. | IQGwgrW29g | $60M | USD | open | coefficientgiving.org | $60M+ given across 20+ grants per Coefficient Giving. | — | — | Not checked |
| Global Health and Wellbeing Grantmaking | grant-round | Coefficient Giving's grantmaking for global health, development, and farm animal welfare | Cs0fLbZ1KO | — | USD | open | coefficientgiving.org | — | openphilanthropy.org | Rolling | Not checked |
| Technical AI Safety RFP (2025) | rfp | RFP across 21 research areas under Navigating Transformative AI; $40M committed with more available based on quality | pSFM3kjj6M | $40M | USD | open | coefficientgiving.org | 21 research areas including interpretability, alignment, evaluations, and governance. | openphilanthropy.org | Rolling | Not checked |
| AI Safety Grantmaking | grant-round | Coefficient Giving's ongoing AI safety grantmaking, covering technical alignment research, governance, and field-building | pSFM3kjj6M | — | USD | open | coefficientgiving.org | Largest funder of AI safety research by total dollars committed. ~$63.6M in 2024. | openphilanthropy.org | Rolling | Not checked |
| Criminal Justice Reform Grantmaking | grant-round | Historical grantmaking for criminal justice reform. Program wound down in 2022. | FgO_AwGzuj | — | USD | closed | coefficientgiving.org | ~$200M total grants. 398 grants. Focused on reducing incarceration. | — | — | Not checked |
| Global Aid Policy Grantmaking | grant-round | 50+ grants totaling ~$30M encouraging generous and cost-effective international aid. | q-1FLb6And | $30M | USD | open | coefficientgiving.org | Led by Norma Altshuler. | — | — | Not checked |
| Air Quality Grantmaking | grant-round | 40+ grants totaling ~$20M focused on air quality improvement in South Asia and high-pollution areas. | EcbbkPXezK | $20M | USD | open | coefficientgiving.org | Led by Santosh Harish. | — | — | Not checked |
| Global Growth Grantmaking | grant-round | $40M+ committed over 3 years for policy research on economic growth in low/middle-income countries. | V_-6iB_DLA | $40M | USD | open | coefficientgiving.org | Led by Justin Sandefur. Launched October 2024. | — | — | Not checked |
| Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness | grant-round | Grantmaking for biosecurity, pandemic preparedness, and related policy work | jwPJSsqL6T | — | USD | open | coefficientgiving.org | — | — | — | Not checked |
| Farm Animal Welfare Grantmaking | grant-round | Grantmaking for farm animal welfare: corporate cage-free campaigns, broiler welfare, alt-protein research, fish welfare, and advocacy in Asia. Contributed to 3,000+ corporate cage-free commitments. | T0Aiw5CBG2 | — | USD | open | coefficientgiving.org | Led by Lewis Bollard. 500+ grants. Largest Coefficient Giving program by grant count. | — | — | Not checked |
| Abundance & Growth Grants | grant-round | $120M committed over 3 years for economic growth, scientific progress, and US-focused innovation. | vQ4qEI1Ghg | $120M | USD | open | coefficientgiving.org | Led by Matt Clancy. Launched March 2025. | — | — | Not checked |
| Global Catastrophic Risks Opportunities | grant-round | Grantmaking across GCR cause areas and EA community capacity building. 250+ grants totaling ~$400M. | jDxthkzeam | — | USD | open | coefficientgiving.org | Led by Eli Rose. Covers GCR cause areas beyond AI safety and biosecurity. | — | — | Not checked |
| Science and Global Health R&D Grantmaking | grant-round | Grantmaking for scientific research, global health R&D, transformative basic science, and health innovation. 330+ grants and 30+ social investments ($550M+). | 3dkBhCulh4 | $550M | USD | open | coefficientgiving.org | Led by Jacob Trefethen. | — | — | Not checked |
| Effective Giving & Careers Grantmaking | grant-round | Support for effective giving infrastructure, career guidance, and EA community capacity building. Support for CEA, 80,000 Hours, EA Funds. | sSt5WHrzEk | — | USD | open | coefficientgiving.org | Led by Melanie Basnak and Sam Donald. | — | — | Not checked |
Grants
2626| Name | Amount | Date | Source | Notes | ProgramId | Recipient | Source check |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Janaagraha — Air Quality Grants Assessment | $195K | 2024-12 | coefficientgiving.org | [South Asian Air Quality] Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of INR 16,607,141 (approximately $194,920 at the time of conversion) to the Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy to support an independent assessment of the 15th Finance Commission's air quality grants to Indian cities, publish a report on the findings, and engage with the 16th Finance Commission as they prepare their recommendations. This falls within our focus area of global public health policy. | q9u4ra9Caf | — | Not checked |
| Futurewise — Housing Advocacy in Washington | $450K | 2023-04 | coefficientgiving.org | [Housing Policy Reform] Open Philanthropy recommended two grants totaling $450,000 to Futurewise to support its legal and advocacy work on housing reforms in Washington state. This falls within our focus area of land use reform. | ONN00wZd8U | — | Not checked |
| Exscientia — Agonists for Interferon Lambda | $2.3M | 2023-09 | coefficientgiving.org | [Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness] Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $2,300,000 to Exscientia to conduct research on the activation of the host interferon response as a therapeutic approach for pandemic influenza and COVID-19. This grant was funded via our request for proposals through the Pandemic Antiviral Discovery Initiative. It falls within our focus area of biosecurity and pandemic preparedness. | IVKWfIkgOz | — | Not checked |
| Kurzgesagt — Short-form Video Content | $3M | 2022-03 | coefficientgiving.org | [Global Catastrophic Risks] Open Philanthropy recommended a contract of €2,658,344 (approximately $2,978,000 at the time of conversion) with Kurzgesagt to support the production of short-form video content for platforms like TikTok and YouTube Shorts. Some of this content will feature topics relevant to effective altruism and improving humanity’s long-run future. This follows our December 2021 support. This project was supported through a contractor agreement. While we typically do not publish pages for contractor agreements, we occasionally opt to do so. | c5QZjjyC7w | — | Not checked |
| Kurzgesagt — Video Production (2023) | $1.7M | 2023-05 | coefficientgiving.org | [Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building] Open Philanthropy recommended a contract of €1,600,000 (approximately $1,700,000 at the time of conversion) with Kurzgesagt to support the creation of videos on topics relevant to effective altruism and improving humanity’s long-run future. This follows our March 2022 contract and falls within our focus area of growing and empowering the community of people focused on global catastrophic risk reduction. This project was supported through a contractor agreement. While we typically do not publish pages for contractor agreements, we occasionally opt to do so. | c5QZjjyC7w | — | Not checked |
| Kurzgesagt — Video Creation and Translation | $2.6M | 2021-12 | coefficientgiving.org | [Criminal Justice Reform] Grant investigator: Claire Zabel This page was reviewed but not written by the grant investigator. Kurzgesagt staff also reviewed this page prior to publication. Open Philanthropy recommended a contract of €2,413,800 ($2,649,936 at the time of conversion) over two years with Kurzgesagt, a YouTube channel and design studio that creates educational videos on a variety of topics, to support the creation of videos on topics relevant to effective altruism and improving humanity’s long-run future. In addition to video creation, Kurzgesagt intends to use this funding to translate existing videos into a number of non-English languages. This project was supported through a contractor agreement. While we typically do not publish pages for contractor agreements, we occasionally opt to do so. | Tmgr7dBiNn | — | Not checked |
| Lightcone Infrastructure – General Support | $4.5M | 2022-09 | coefficientgiving.org | [Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building] Open Philanthropy recommended two grants totaling $4,500,000 over two years to Lightcone Infrastructure for general support. Lightcone Infrastructure works on projects related to improving human rationality and the long-term future, such as running the Lightcone offices and the LessWrong forum. This falls within our focus area of growing and empowering the community of people focused on global catastrophic risk reduction. | c5QZjjyC7w | Lightcone Infrastructure | Not checked |
| Lightcone Infrastructure — General Support (2023) | $3M | 2023-10 | coefficientgiving.org | [Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building] Open Philanthropy recommended two grants totaling $2,960,000 over two years to Lightcone Infrastructure for general support. $2,590,000 of this funding supports LessWrong and exploratory work on new projects. $370,000 represents an "exit grant" for Lightcone’s other work. This follows our September 2022 support and falls within our focus area of growing and empowering the community of people focused on global catastrophic risk reduction. | c5QZjjyC7w | Lightcone Infrastructure | Not checked |
| Conjecture — Cybersecurity Bootcamp | $223K | 2025-06 | coefficientgiving.org | [Navigating Transformative AI] Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $223,134 to Conjecture to support a four-week educational AI security bootcamp. This course will aim to upskill twenty participants in various cybersecurity topics related to securing advanced AI systems. This follows our May 2023 support and falls within our focus area of potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence. | EXpTP-ujq6 | Conjecture | Not checked |
| Conjecture — AI Safety Technical Program | $224K | 2023-05 | coefficientgiving.org | [Navigating Transformative AI] Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $223,569 to Conjecture to support the Alignment Research Engineer Accelerator (ARENA) program, which helps individuals interested in AI safety improve their technical expertise in machine learning. Conjecture will host the program. This is one of two grants we’re making to support the program; the other will go to AI Safety Support. This follows our February 2023 support and falls within our focus area of potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence. | EXpTP-ujq6 | Conjecture | Not checked |
| Conjecture — SERI MATS Program in London (2022) | $457K | 2022-10 | coefficientgiving.org | [Navigating Transformative AI] Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $457,380 to Conjecture to support their collaboration with the Stanford Existential Risks Initiative (SERI) on SERI’s Machine Learning Alignment Theory Scholars (MATS) program. MATS is an educational seminar and independent research program that aims to provide talented scholars with talks, workshops, and research mentorship in the field of AI alignment. This grant will support a London-based extension for a MATS cohort that started in Berkeley. Conjecture will use this funding to provide office space in London and operations support. This follows our April 2022 support for the MATS program and falls within our focus area of potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence. | EXpTP-ujq6 | Conjecture | Not checked |
| Conjecture — SERI MATS (2023) | $245K | 2023-04 | coefficientgiving.org | [Navigating Transformative AI] Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $245,000 to Conjecture to support its collaboration with the Stanford Existential Risks Initiative (SERI) on SERI’s Machine Learning Alignment Theory Scholars (MATS) program. MATS is an educational seminar and independent research program that aims to provide talented scholars with talks, workshops, and research mentorship in the field of AI alignment. This grant will support a London-based extension of the MATS program’s third cohort, which we supported last year. This follows our October 2022 support and falls within our focus area of potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence. | EXpTP-ujq6 | Conjecture | Not checked |
| National Association of Community and Restorative Justice — Restorative Justice Conference | $50K | 2016-11 | coefficientgiving.org | [Criminal Justice Reform] Published: January 2017 The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $50,000 to the National Association of Community and Restorative Justice to support a conference on restorative justice in June 2017. This is expected to be one of the largest conferences on this topic in the US. This is a discretionary (formerly called "no-process") grant. For discretionary grants, the grant investigator (in this case Chloe Cockburn, our Program Officer for Criminal Justice Reform) can recommend the grant without needing to go through our normal process of providing their reasoning, discussing with the team, and providing input on and review of our public page. These grants are limited to a relatively small proportion of our grantmaking, and some other stipulations apply to what types of grant are eligible. The overall aim is for us to be able to move forward on relatively small and low-risk grants, based purely on the judgment of a single staff member and with minimal delay. | Tmgr7dBiNn | National Association of Community and Restorative Justice | Not checked |
| GiveDirectly — General Support (December 2017) | $2.5M | 2017-12 | coefficientgiving.org | [GiveWell-Recommended Charities] The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $2,500,000 to GiveDirectly for general operating support, due to its status as a GiveWell top charity. We followed the recommendation of GiveWell staff regarding how to allocate grantmaking between GiveWell top charities. Read GiveWell’s review of GiveDirectly to learn more about the charity's activities and follow its progress. | ONN00wZd8U | GiveDirectly | Not checked |
| gui2de — Zusha! Road Safety Campaign (December 2018) | $100K | 2018-12 | coefficientgiving.org | [GiveWell-Recommended Charities] The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $100,000 to the Georgetown University Initiative on Innovation, Development, and Evaluation (gui2de) to support its Zusha! Road Safety Campaign, due to its status as a GiveWell standout charity. We followed the recommendation of GiveWell staff regarding how to allocate grantmaking between GiveWell standout charities. Read GiveWell’s review of Zusha! Road Safety Campaign to learn more about the charity's activities and follow its progress. | ONN00wZd8U | Georgetown University | Not checked |
| Nuclear Threat Initiative — Planning Grant for Global Health Security Index | $477K | 2017-02 | coefficientgiving.org | [Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness] Published: March 2017 Nuclear Threat Initiative staff reviewed this page prior to publication. The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $476,859 to the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) to support the first phase of the creation of the Global Health Security (GHS) Index, a public report that will score countries on factors relevant to biosecurity and pandemic preparedness.1 NTI intends to partner with the Center for Health Security (CHS) (to whom we have previously made a grant) and the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) to develop this Index. Planned activities for phase one of this project include: Developing a draft framework for the Index based on information from literature reviews and expert interviews. Convening an international expert advisory group to refine the framework and generate a list of potential metrics and indicators. Determining the availability of data sets for each metric and indicator. Publishing a set of 20-30 metrics and indicators that can be used to measure global health security in an index. If successful, we believe that a GHS Index would drive political accountability by calling attention to countries that are failing to adequately invest in health security. The Index could also be a useful tool for mapping gaps and thereby identifying funding opportunities for national governments, the Open Philanthropy Project, or other funders. We are excited about this grant for several reasons: We are not aware of an existing comprehensive source for this type of information, nor a comprehensive international standard for national global health security capacity. The closest equivalent is the Joint External Evaluation (JEE), governed by the World Health Organization (WHO). The JEE was launched in 2016 and combines WHO’s International Health Regulations with the Global Health Security Agenda assessment tool.2 However, we believe the JEE has important limitations compared to the kind of comprehensive tool that this grant is intended to support. A key issue we see with the JEE is that it is possible for countries to get high scores despite being, in our view, unprepared to prevent or respond to a pandemic. The GHS Index would be independent and therefore much less likely to be subject to political pressure. We believe that these three organizations are exceptionally well-equipped to do this work. Our understanding is that some past examples of similar indexes, such as NTI’s Nuclear Security Index, have been successful at creating political pressure and impacting government decision-making. The key open question for this grant is whether the proposed GHS Index can offer an improvement over the JEE in terms of how it measures capacity to prevent and respond to pandemics. An important related question is whether sufficient publicly available data exist to support an effective index. We recommended this planning grant to provide NTI, CHS and EIU with an opportunity to explore these questions by developing a preliminary set of categories for the Index and determining whether publicly available data exist in those categories. Sources DOCUMENT SOURCE Global Health Security Agenda, Assessments & JEE Source (archive) NTI Nuclear Security Index, About the NTI Index Source (archive) | IVKWfIkgOz | NTI | bio (Nuclear Threat Initiative - Biological Program) | Not checked |
| Institute of the Black World — Criminal Justice Reform | $50K | 2016-03 | coefficientgiving.org | [Criminal Justice Reform] This is a "no-process" grant. For no-process grants, Chloe Cockburn (our Program Officer for Criminal Justice Reform) can recommend the grant without needing to go through our normal process of providing her reasoning, discussing with the team, and providing input on and review of our public page. These grants are limited to a relatively small proportion of Chloe's grantmaking, and some other stipulations apply to what types of grant are eligible. The overall aim is for Chloe to be able to move forward on relatively small and low-risk grants, based purely on her own judgment and with minimal delay. In keeping with the lack of process, we don't plan to publish in-depth pages about the reasoning behind these grants; we consider them part of our bet on Chloe. | Tmgr7dBiNn | Institute of the Black World | Not checked |
| Living Goods — General Support (January 2019) | $100K | 2019-01 | coefficientgiving.org | [GiveWell-Recommended Charities] The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $100,000 to Living Goods for general support, due to its status as a GiveWell standout charity. We followed the recommendation of GiveWell staff regarding how to allocate grantmaking between GiveWell standout charities. Read GiveWell’s review of Living Goods to learn more about the charity's activities and follow its progress. | ONN00wZd8U | Living Goods | Not checked |
| IDinsight — General Support | $2M | 2016-06 | coefficientgiving.org | [Global Health & Development] Published: March 2017 Note: This grant was awarded while the Open Philanthropy Project was a partnership between GiveWell and Good Ventures. Good Ventures, with input from GiveWell, awarded a grant of $1,985,000 over three years to IDinsight in June of 2016 for general operating support. IDinsight supports and conducts rigorous evaluations of development interventions, often involving randomized controlled trials, with an explicit focus on providing useful data to inform funders and policy makers. This "decision-focused evaluation" model appears to us to be both uncommon and particularly aligned with GiveWell's goals. We hope this grant will allow IDinsight to scale its model of supporting and evaluating development interventions, ideally (in the long term) providing GiveWell with research that it will be able to use in its work to recommend top charities. See GiveWell's writeup of this grant for more details. | ONN00wZd8U | IDinsight | Not checked |
| Vera Institute of Justice — New Orleans User-Funded Justice System | $100K | 2016-07 | coefficientgiving.org | [Criminal Justice Reform] Vera staff reviewed this page prior to publication. The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $100,000 to the Vera Institute of Justice's New Orleans office (Vera) to support its research into and cost-benefit analysis of New Orleans’s user-funded justice system. Vera will examine the imposition of financial bail as a condition of pretrial release, the assessment of fines and fees at sentencing, and the relationship between these practices and the number of people in jail. The issue of bail, fine and fee policies resulting in jail time for people who are unable to pay (see this video explanation created by Vera) appears to us to have recently been gaining attention and traction. Several lawsuits have successfully challenged the practice of detaining people pretrial because of an inability to pay bail or jailing people because they are unable to pay a fine or fee. However, our impression is that national and local discussions have so far lacked high-quality data and in-depth analyses on the extent to which bail, fines and fees drive local jail populations. This grant will support Vera's New Orleans office to analyze the costs to tax payers and the toll it takes on mostly low-income defendants, then put forward a set of actionable recommendations for reform. | Tmgr7dBiNn | Vera Institute of Justice | Not checked |
| Iodine Global Network — General Support (January 2019) | $100K | 2019-01 | coefficientgiving.org | [GiveWell-Recommended Charities] The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $100,000 to the Iodine Global Network via GiveWell for general support, due to its status as a GiveWell standout charity. We followed the recommendation of GiveWell staff regarding how to allocate grantmaking between GiveWell standout charities. Read GiveWell’s review of the Iodine Global Network to learn more about the charity's activities and follow its progress. | ONN00wZd8U | Iodine Global Network | Not checked |
| Innovations for Poverty Action — Mindset Engagement in Cash Transfers | $350K | 2016-05 | coefficientgiving.org | [Global Health & Development] Published: March 2017 Note: This grant was awarded while the Open Philanthropy Project was a partnership between GiveWell and Good Ventures. Good Ventures awarded a grant of $350,000 to Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) to support a randomized controlled trial (RCT) run by Richard Sedlmayr and colleagues in collaboration with GiveDirectly (one of GiveWell's top charities). The trial will test a mindset intervention with recipients of cash transfers. The grant was awarded as part of GiveWell’s general effort to support the development of potential future top charities and improve the quality of recommendations. See GiveWell's writeup of this grant for more details. | ONN00wZd8U | Innovations for Poverty Action | Not checked |
| Against Malaria Foundation — General Support (December 2017) | $2.5M | 2017-12 | coefficientgiving.org | [GiveWell-Recommended Charities] The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $2,500,000 to the Against Malaria Foundation (AMF) for general operating support, due to its status as a GiveWell top charity. We followed the recommendation of GiveWell staff regarding how to allocate grantmaking between GiveWell top charities. Read GiveWell’s review of AMF to learn more about the charity's activities and follow its progress. | ONN00wZd8U | Against Malaria Foundation | Not checked |
| Helen Keller International — Vitamin A Supplementation (January 2018) | $7.2M | 2018-01 | coefficientgiving.org | [GiveWell-Recommended Charities] The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $7,200,000 to Helen Keller International to support vitamin A supplementation work, due to its status as a GiveWell top charity. We followed the recommendation of GiveWell staff regarding how to allocate grantmaking between GiveWell top charities. Read GiveWell’s review of Helen Keller International's vitamin A supplementation program to learn more about the charity's activities and follow its progress. | ONN00wZd8U | Helen Keller International | Not checked |
| Blackbird — Ending Mass Incarceration | $425K | 2016-12 | coefficientgiving.org | [Criminal Justice Reform] Published: May 2017 The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $425,000 to Blackbird to support its efforts to end mass incarceration. This grant is intended to support Blackbird’s communications, policy and organizing work. | Tmgr7dBiNn | Blackbird | Not checked |
| National Network for Safe Communities — LA Larceny Project | $161K | 2017-02 | coefficientgiving.org | [Criminal Justice Reform] Published: March 2017 The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $161,040 to the National Network for Safe Communities at John Jay College to support a project aimed at reducing larceny in Los Angeles, which has risen since the passage of Proposition 47 in 2014. The project will use the focused deterrence model created by David Kennedy to build a partnership to reverse that trend by addressing a small number of people responsible for the bulk of the crimes. The strategy reinforces community norms against crime to intervene where risk is highest. The first phase of the project will include a problem analysis to determine the scope of the problem in Los Angeles and lay the foundation for strategic implementation. The National Network for Safe Communities plans to help implement this intervention as a pilot project in Los Angeles. Sources Document Source National Network for Safe Communities LA Larceny Project Proposal Source | Tmgr7dBiNn | National Network for Safe Communities | Not checked |
| The Ordinary People Society — Criminal Justice Reform | $50K | 2016-03 | coefficientgiving.org | [Criminal Justice Reform] This is a "no-process" grant. For no-process grants, Chloe Cockburn (our Program Officer for Criminal Justice Reform) can recommend the grant without needing to go through our normal process of providing her reasoning, discussing with the team, and providing input on and review of our public page. These grants are limited to a relatively small proportion of Chloe's grantmaking, and some other stipulations apply to what types of grant are eligible. The overall aim is for Chloe to be able to move forward on relatively small and low-risk grants, based purely on her own judgment and with minimal delay. In keeping with the lack of process, we don't plan to publish in-depth pages about the reasoning behind these grants; we consider them part of our bet on Chloe. | Tmgr7dBiNn | The Ordinary People Society | Not checked |
| The END Fund — Deworming Programs (December 2018) | $2.5M | 2018-12 | coefficientgiving.org | [GiveWell-Recommended Charities] The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $2,500,000 to The END Fund to support deworming programs, due to its status as a GiveWell top charity. We followed the recommendation of GiveWell staff regarding how to allocate grantmaking between GiveWell top charities. Read GiveWell’s review of The End Fund to learn more about the charity's activities and follow its progress. | ONN00wZd8U | The END Fund | Not checked |
| Sightsavers — Deworming Programs (January 2019) | $9.7M | 2019-01 | coefficientgiving.org | [GiveWell-Recommended Charities] The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $9,700,000 to Sightsavers to support deworming programs, due to its status as a GiveWell top charity. We followed the recommendation of GiveWell staff regarding how to allocate grantmaking between GiveWell top charities. Read GiveWell’s review of Sightsavers' deworming program to learn more about the charity's activities and follow its progress. | ONN00wZd8U | Sightsavers | Not checked |
| Correctional Association of New York — General Support | $50K | 2016-04 | coefficientgiving.org | [Criminal Justice Reform] The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $50,000 to the Correctional Association of New York for general support. This is a "no-process" grant. For no-process grants, Chloe Cockburn (our Program Officer for Criminal Justice Reform) can recommend the grant without needing to go through our normal process of providing her reasoning, discussing with the team, and providing input on and review of our public page. These grants are limited to a relatively small proportion of Chloe's grantmaking, and some other stipulations apply to what types of grant are eligible. The overall aim is for Chloe to be able to move forward on relatively small and low-risk grants, based purely on her own judgment and with minimal delay. In keeping with the lack of process, we don't plan to publish in-depth pages about the reasoning behind these grants; we consider them part of our bet on Chloe. | Tmgr7dBiNn | Correctional Association of New York | Not checked |
| Results for Development — Childhood Pneumonia Treatment Scale-Up | $6.4M | 2016-05 | coefficientgiving.org | [Global Health & Development] Published: March 2017 Note: This grant was awarded while the Open Philanthropy Project was a partnership between GiveWell and Good Ventures. Good Ventures, with input from GiveWell, awarded a grant of $6,400,000 to Results for Development (R4D) in May of 2016 to support its Market Dynamics practice area’s pneumonia treatment program in Tanzania. R4D is a global nonprofit organization aiming to tackle development challenges to help those living in poverty. The organization aims to use these funds to increase use of amoxicillin, the WHO-recommended first-line treatment for childhood pneumonia. We are supporting R4D because we believe that, if successful, it could become a GiveWell-recommended charity. See GiveWell's writeup of this grant for more details. | ONN00wZd8U | Results for Development | Not checked |
| Foundation for the National Institutes of Health — Working Group on Malaria Gene Drive Testing Path | $1.2M | 2016-07 | coefficientgiving.org | [Science for Global Health] We decided to write about this grant in order to share the rationale for our interest in gene drives. This page is a summary of the reasoning behind our decision to recommend the grant; it was not written by the grant investigator(s). Foundation for the National Institutes of Health staff reviewed this page prior to publication. The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $1,228,845 to the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) to form a working group to support development of a consensus pathway for field testing modified mosquitoes with driving transgenes. The FNIH proposes to convene a working group of approximately twenty experts to recommend a consensus path for field testing gene drives to fight malaria. This recommendation will include guidelines on how to safely field test gene drives for population modification and population suppression of vector mosquitoes in order to determine whether they could safely and ethically be deployed widely. To date, the FNIH and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) have been key actors supporting the development of this new technology, including commissioning of prior independent studies to consider best practices, and we think the FNIH is well positioned to convene a working group to develop a field testing pathway that can be used to inform researchers and other stakeholders. Our hope is that developing consensus around a testing pathway will clarify the requirements and reduce the amount of time needed before a gene drive affecting malarial burdens could be released, if the technology is eventually determined to be feasible, safe, and ethical. 1. Background 1.1 The cause As part of our work to investigate potential focus areas within the category of scientific research, we became aware of a relatively new technology called “gene drives” (see this New York Times article for an overview). One important potential application of gene drives that has been discussed is to prevent the spread of malaria by significantly reducing the population of mosquitos that can carry it. | B4pZkOtjSk | Foundation for the National Institutes of Health | Not checked |
| Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition — Universal Salt Iodization (December 2018) | $100K | 2018-12 | coefficientgiving.org | [GiveWell-Recommended Charities] The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $100,000 to the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) to support its Universal Salt Iodization program, due to its status as a GiveWell standout charity. We followed the recommendation of GiveWell staff regarding how to allocate grantmaking between GiveWell standout charities. Read GiveWell’s review of GAIN's Universal Salt Iodization program to learn more about the charity's activities and follow its progress. | ONN00wZd8U | Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition | Not checked |
| One for the World — General Support (2018) | $154K | 2018-07 | coefficientgiving.org | [Global Health & Development] The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a GiveWell grant of $153,750 to One for the World via the Life You Can Save for general support. One for the World does outreach to university students encouraging them to pledge a percentage of their incomes to effective charities. This grant was recommended by GiveWell staff as part of an effort to increase money moved to GiveWell top charities. See GiveWell’s page on this grant for more details. | ONN00wZd8U | One for the World | Not checked |
| GiveWell — Top Charity “Participation” Grants (2016) | $500K | 2016-09 | coefficientgiving.org | [GiveWell-Recommended Charities] Published: March 2017 Note: This grant was awarded while the Open Philanthropy Project was a partnership between GiveWell and Good Ventures. From a nonprofit's perspective, participating in GiveWell's evaluation process involves a significant investment of time and effort and uncertainty about whether the investment will lead to a GiveWell recommendation. This grant will allow GiveWell to offer $100,000 incentive grants to organizations that complete the first round of evaluation in 2017, allow GiveWell to publish a write-up, and are promising enough to move on to the second, more intensive round of evaluation. GiveWell will allocate any funds left over at the end of the year to its recommended charities for 2017. | ONN00wZd8U | GiveWell | Not checked |
| J-PAL — Support for Immunization Incentives RCTs | $200K | 2015-09 | coefficientgiving.org | [Global Health & Development] Published: March 2017 Note: This grant was awarded while the Open Philanthropy Project was a partnership between GiveWell and Good Ventures. Good Ventures made two gifts of $100,000 each to the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to support two randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in India and Pakistan that will test whether providing non-cash incentives increases child immunization rates. See GiveWell’s review of J-PAL for more about its activities and to follow its progress. See GiveWell’s writeup of this grant for more details. | ONN00wZd8U | Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab | Not checked |
| IDinsight — Scaling Up a High-Potential Development Intervention | $34K | 2014-09 | coefficientgiving.org | [Global Health & Development] Published: March 2017 Note: This grant was awarded while the Open Philanthropy Project was a partnership between GiveWell and Good Ventures. Good Ventures awarded a grant of $34,382 to IDinsight as part of our effort to support the development of new GiveWell top charities. GiveWell and IDinsight generated a list of several programs that have been evaluated by a single randomized controlled trial which found strong results, but where additional studies have not been undertaken to determine whether the results can be replicated, and which, as far as we know, are not currently being scaled up by an existing organization. This grant will support the second phase of the initiative to "identify an appropriate context and partner" for scaling up — and generating further evidence regarding — one such high-potential intervention. GiveWell and IDinsight have tentatively chosen the incentives for immunization program and expect its implementation to take place in India, though both the program and location could change. Normally IDinsight works in a demand-driven manner, in which policymakers and managers approach IDinsight to evaluate program options to guide their own decision-making. This project, which aims to identify and convince an implementing partner to implement a new program, represents a new approach for IDinsight. See GiveWell's writeup of this grant for more details. | ONN00wZd8U | IDinsight | Not checked |
| Charity Science: Health — General Support | $200K | 2016-11 | coefficientgiving.org | [Global Health & Development] Published: March 2017 Note: This grant was awarded while the Open Philanthropy Project was a partnership between GiveWell and Good Ventures. Good Ventures, with input from GiveWell, granted $200,000 to Charity Science: Health as one of GiveWell's Incubation Grants to support the creation of future top charities. This grant will go towards supporting the first year of Charity Science: Health's work setting up a charity to send SMS immunization reminders in India. Charity Science: Health was created by members of the effective altruism community with the goal of creating a potential future GiveWell top charity. GiveWell is impressed by the Charity Science: Health team's track record of transparency, and is confident that they will communicate well, and that it will be easy for GiveWell to learn from their work. See GiveWell's writeup of this grant for more details. | ONN00wZd8U | Charity Science Health | Not checked |
| Evidence Action — Dispensers for Safe Water Program (2018) | $100K | 2018-12 | coefficientgiving.org | [GiveWell-Recommended Charities] The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $100,000 to Evidence Action to support the Dispensers for Safe Water program, due to its status as a GiveWell standout charity. We followed the recommendation of GiveWell staff regarding how to allocate grantmaking between GiveWell standout charities. Read GiveWell’s review of Evidence Action's Dispensers for Safe Water program to learn more about the charity's activities and follow its progress. | ONN00wZd8U | Evidence Action | Not checked |
| Florida State University Project on Accountable Justice — General Support | $100K | 2015-02 | coefficientgiving.org | [Criminal Justice Reform] Staff at Florida State University Project on Accountable Justice (PAJ) reviewed this page prior to publication. Note: This page was created using content published by Good Ventures and GiveWell, the organizations that created the Open Philanthropy Project, before this website was launched. Uses of “we” and “our” on this page may therefore refer to Good Ventures or GiveWell, but they still represent the work of the Open Philanthropy Project. Good Ventures awarded a grant of $100,000 over one year to the Florida State University Project on Accountable Justice, via the Florida State University Foundation. This grant is part of the Open Philanthropy Project’s ongoing exploration of criminal justice reform as a potential focus area. The Florida State University Project on Accountable Justice (PAJ) aims to "advance public safety through evidence-based practices and policies in Florida and beyond."1 PAJ was recommended to us by Steve Teles, a political science professor at Johns Hopkins who has written about the philanthropic origins of the conservative legal movement and has been working for us as a consultant.2Early in our explorations of criminal justice reform, we were looking for giving opportunities, and Professor Teles interviewed PAJ and recommended that we fund them. Based largely on Professor Teles' recommendation, Good Ventures has decided to make an unrestricted $100,000 one year grant to PAJ. PAJ shared a number of documents with us in the process of considering this grant (the versions linked below have been lightly edited prior to publication to protect private information): PAJ Proposal, May 2014 PAJ SWOT Analysis, July 2014 PAJ 2014-15 Budget The basic reasoning for this grant is that PAJ has a strong and well-connected leader, which makes the organization well positioned to promote criminal justice reform in Florida, which represents approximately 6.5 percent of the total U.S. prison population.3PAJ’s chairman, Allison DeFoor, has played many roles inside and outside of the Florida criminal justice system. According to Steve Teles, DeFoor knows many of the key decision-makers in Florida, and is well-positioned to make progress on this issue. Additionally, PAJ has limited funding from other sources: their 2015 fiscal year revenue, excluding this grant, is projected to be $122,300.5 PAJ’s top priority is to bring the Justice Reinvestment Initiative (JRI) to Florida. This will eventually require legislation or an executive order. As part of that process, the organization envisions engaging in a variety of research and policy projects, which may entail budget and policy analysis, publishing newsletters, and targeted outreach with key stakeholders. In addition, PAJ will continue to push for external oversight and monitoring of all correctional facilities, systemic performance measurement, and reduction of overly punitive policies for juveniles.6 We anticipate conducting relatively limited follow-up on this grant, most likely consisting of a phone calls with PAJ leadership every 2-3 months for the course of the grant and a brief writeup on progress at the end of the one year period. PAJ is administratively housed at the Florida Institute of Government at Florida State University, and the grant to support them will be facilitated by Florida State University Foundation, FSU's fundraising arm. Sources Document Source Carson 2014 Source (archive) GiveWell's non-verbatim summary of a conversation with Steve Teles on June 13, 2013 Source PAJ Homepage Source (archive) PAJ 2014-15 Budget Source PAJ Proposal May 2014 Source PAJ SWOT Analysis Source | Tmgr7dBiNn | FSU Project on Accountable Justice | Not checked |
| Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition — Universal Salt Iodization (December 2017) | $100K | 2017-12 | coefficientgiving.org | [GiveWell-Recommended Charities] The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $100,000 to the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) to support its Universal Salt Iodization program, due to its status as a GiveWell standout charity. We followed the recommendation of GiveWell staff regarding how to allocate grantmaking between GiveWell standout charities. Read GiveWell’s review of GAIN's Universal Salt Iodization program to learn more about the charity's activities and follow its progress. | ONN00wZd8U | Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition | Not checked |
| ReFrame Mentorship — General Support | $100K | 2017-02 | coefficientgiving.org | [Criminal Justice Reform] Published: March 2017 The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $100,000 to ReFrame Mentorship (via the Center for Civic Policy) for general support. ReFrame Mentorship is an intensive training and mentorship program in strategic communications for social justice movement organizers. We recommended a previous grant to this organization and are continuing to support it because we have been impressed with its work in the past and think that it is well-positioned to build the strategic communication capacity and practice of key criminal justice reform organizations. This is a discretionary (formerly called "no-process") grant. For discretionary grants, the grant investigator (in this case Chloe Cockburn, our Program Officer for Criminal Justice Reform) can recommend the grant without needing to go through our normal process of providing their reasoning, discussing with the team, and providing input on and review of our public page. These grants are limited to a relatively small proportion of our grantmaking, and some other stipulations apply to what types of grant are eligible. The overall aim is for us to be able to move forward on relatively small and low-risk grants, based purely on the judgment of a single staff member and with minimal delay. | Tmgr7dBiNn | ReFrame Mentorship | Not checked |
| Vera Institute of Justice — Common Justice | $8K | 2016-06 | coefficientgiving.org | [Criminal Justice Reform] The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $8,000 to the Vera Institute to support Common Justice. Common Justice, a Brooklyn-based project of the Vera Institute, develops and promotes solutions to violent crime that focus on improving outcomes for victims and holding people accountable for harm without relying on incarceration. We wrote more about the organization on our page about our previous grant to Common Justice. This is a "no-process" grant. For no-process grants, the grant investigator (in this case Chloe Cockburn, our Program Officer for Criminal Justice Reform) can recommend the grant without needing to go through our normal process of providing their reasoning, discussing with the team, and providing input on and review of our public page. These grants are limited to a relatively small proportion of our grantmaking, and some other stipulations apply to what types of grant are eligible. The overall aim is for us to be able to move forward on relatively small and low-risk grants, based purely on the judgment of a single staff member and with minimal delay. In keeping with the lack of process, we don't plan to publish in-depth pages about the reasoning behind these grants. | Tmgr7dBiNn | Vera Institute of Justice | Not checked |
| New Virginia Majority — Formerly Incarcerated Organizers | $50K | 2016-10 | coefficientgiving.org | [Criminal Justice Reform] The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $50,000 to New Virginia Majority to enable it to hire formerly incarcerated staff. New Virginia Majority is a political base-building organization that we see as highly competent, and that is beginning to address the issue of criminal justice reform in Virginia. Its organizing is centered on securing rights restoration for the formerly incarcerated. This is a discretionary (formerly called "no-process") grant. For discretionary grants, the grant investigator (in this case Chloe Cockburn, our Program Officer for Criminal Justice Reform) can recommend the grant without needing to go through our normal process of providing their reasoning, discussing with the team, and providing input on and review of our public page. These grants are limited to a relatively small proportion of our grantmaking, and some other stipulations apply to what types of grant are eligible. The overall aim is for us to be able to move forward on relatively small and low-risk grants, based purely on the judgment of a single staff member and with minimal delay. | Tmgr7dBiNn | New Virginia Majority Education Fund | Not checked |
| Schistosomiasis Control Initiative — General Support (2019) | $2.5M | 2019-03 | coefficientgiving.org | [GiveWell-Recommended Charities] The Open Philanthropy Project recommended $2,500,000 to the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative (SCI) for general operating support, due to its status as a GiveWell top charity. We followed the recommendation of GiveWell staff regarding how to allocate grantmaking between GiveWell top charities. Read GiveWell’s review of SCI to learn more about the charity's activities and follow its progress. | ONN00wZd8U | Schistosomiasis Control Initiative | Not checked |
| Founders Pledge — General Support | $1M | 2016-09 | coefficientgiving.org | [Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building] Published: October 2016 The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $1,032,947 over two years to Founders Pledge, executed through the Center for Effective Altruism, for general support. Founders Pledge is a new organization, based in London, that encourages technology entrepreneurs to pledge at least 2% of their proceeds upon exit to charity, and supports them in making thoughtful and impactful decisions about where to give. This grant is intended to enable Founders Pledge to expand to Germany, France, and Sweden, and to hire a developer. Sources Document Source Founders Pledge, EU Expansion Budget Source | c5QZjjyC7w | Founders Pledge | Not checked |
| Evidence Action Beta — Incubator Program | $5.1M | 2018-07 | coefficientgiving.org | [Global Health & Development] The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a GiveWell Incubation Grant of $5,069,866 to Evidence Action Beta to create a dedicated portfolio within its overall incubator portfolio focused on GiveWell-aligned, evidence-backed, cost-effective interventions and to provide cross-cutting support to the incubator. This grant will fund roughly 2.5 years of operations for this portfolio in the incubator. See GiveWell's page on this grant for more details. | ONN00wZd8U | Evidence Action Beta | Not checked |
| Living Goods — General Support (January 2018) | $100K | 2018-01 | coefficientgiving.org | [GiveWell-Recommended Charities] The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $100,000 to Living Goods for general support, due to its status as a GiveWell standout charity. We followed the recommendation of GiveWell staff regarding how to allocate grantmaking between GiveWell standout charities. Read GiveWell’s review of Living Goods to learn more about the charity's activities and follow its progress. | ONN00wZd8U | Living Goods | Not checked |
| Mercy For Animals — International Cage-Free Advocacy | $1M | 2016-08 | coefficientgiving.org | [Cage-Free Reforms] Published: October 2016 The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $1,000,000 over two years to Mercy For Animals to support its work to end the confinement of hens in battery cages. Earlier in 2016, we recommended a series of grants to support corporate cage-free campaigns (including a previous grant to Mercy For Animals) and wrote on our blog about why we see this as a promising strategy to promote farm animal welfare. The present funding, part of a new series of grants focusing on international cage-free advocacy, will support Mercy For Animals’ work in Latin America and Asia.1 We do not plan to write in more detail about this grant at this time. Sources DOCUMENT SOURCE Mercy For Animals, Simplified Budget Source | ho2AG7NXWE | Mercy For Animals | Not checked |
| Faith in Texas — General Support | $637K | 2016-09 | coefficientgiving.org | [Criminal Justice Reform] Published: October 2016 The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $637,000 to Faith in Texas for general support. This grant is intended to support Faith in Texas’ work to build grassroots support for criminal justice reform among members of white evangelical, black, and Hispanic faith communities in Texas, especially in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex. This work aims to support efforts to pass strong criminal justice reform and to build infrastructure and momentum for future reforms. Texas has the largest incarcerated population of any state in the U.S.1 Sources DOCUMENT SOURCE Bureau of Justice Statistics 2015 Source (archive) Faith in Texas budget Source | Tmgr7dBiNn | Faith in Texas | Not checked |
| The Humane League — International Cage-Free Advocacy | $1M | 2016-07 | coefficientgiving.org | [Cage-Free Reforms] Published: October 2016 The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $1,000,000 over two years to the Humane League to support its work to end the confinement of hens in battery cages. Earlier in 2016, we recommended a series of grants to support corporate cage-free campaigns (including a previous grant to the Humane League) and wrote on our blog about why we see this as a promising strategy to promote farm animal welfare. The present funding, part of a new series of grants focusing on international cage-free advocacy, will support the Humane League’s work in Latin America, Europe and Japan.1 We do not plan to write in more detail about this grant at this time. Sources DOCUMENT SOURCE The Humane League, Proposal for International Campaign Expansion Source | ho2AG7NXWE | The Humane League | Not checked |
| Fortify Health — General Support | $295K | 2018-06 | coefficientgiving.org | [Global Health & Development] The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a GiveWell Incubation Grant of $295,217 to Fortify Health via Charity Science to start a new program aimed at mass fortification of wheat flour with iron in India. GiveWell Incubation Grants are recommended by GiveWell staff, and support the development of potential future top charities. See GiveWell's page on this grant for more details. | ONN00wZd8U | Fortify Health | Not checked |
| Development Media International — General Support (December 2018) | $100K | 2018-12 | coefficientgiving.org | [GiveWell-Recommended Charities] The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $100,000 to Development Media International via GiveWell for general support, due to its status as a GiveWell standout charity. We followed the recommendation of GiveWell staff regarding how to allocate grantmaking between GiveWell standout charities. Read GiveWell’s review of Development Media International to learn more about the charity's activities and follow its progress. | ONN00wZd8U | Development Media International | Not checked |
| Centre for Pesticide Suicide Prevention — General Support | $1.3M | 2017-08 | coefficientgiving.org | [Global Public Health Policy] The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a GiveWell Incubation Grant of $1,336,409 to the Centre for Pesticide Suicide Prevention (CPSP) to start work aimed at reducing deaths from deliberate ingestion of pesticides. CPSP plans to use these funds to begin collecting data on pesticide suicides in Nepal and India with the aim of assisting governments in enacting bans on the most lethal pesticides currently used in suicide attempts. GiveWell Incubation Grants are recommended by GiveWell staff, and support the development of potential future top charities. See GiveWell's page on this grant for more details. | B4pZkOtjSk | Centre for Pesticide Suicide Prevention | Not checked |
| IDinsight — Embedded GiveWell Team (2018) | $1.2M | 2018-04 | coefficientgiving.org | [Global Health & Development] The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a GiveWell Incubation Grant of $1,196,728.99 to IDinsight to support the work of IDinsight's GiveWell embedded team. This is a renewal of a May 2017 grant to support research that could lead to the creation of new top charities or otherwise influence GiveWell's recommended allocations. See GiveWell’s page on this grant for more details. | ONN00wZd8U | IDinsight | Not checked |
| Legal Services for Prisoners with Children — General Support | $70K | 2016-07 | coefficientgiving.org | [Criminal Justice Reform] The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $70,000 to Legal Services for Prisoners with Children (LSPC) for general support. This funding is intended to support a national conference, to be held in September, that will bring together around 600 formerly incarcerated people to develop a shared agenda around state and national policy reform. This is a "no-process" grant. For no-process grants, the grant investigator (in this case Chloe Cockburn, our Program Officer for Criminal Justice Reform) can recommend the grant without needing to go through our normal process of providing their reasoning, discussing with the team, and providing input on and review of our public page. These grants are limited to a relatively small proportion of our grantmaking, and some other stipulations apply to what types of grant are eligible. The overall aim is for us to be able to move forward on relatively small and low-risk grants, based purely on the judgment of a single staff member and with minimal delay. In keeping with the lack of process, we don't plan to publish in-depth pages about the reasoning behind these grants. | Tmgr7dBiNn | Legal Services for Prisoners with Children | Not checked |
| UC Berkeley — Deworming and Cash Transfers (2019) | $170K | 2019-02 | coefficientgiving.org | [Global Health & Development] The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a GiveWell Incubation Grant of $170,000 to the University of California, Berkeley to hire an additional research assistant to support Ted Miguel's research on deworming and cash transfers. See GiveWell's page on this grant for more details. | ONN00wZd8U | University of California, Berkeley | Not checked |
| Project Healthy Children — General Support (December 2017) | $100K | 2017-12 | coefficientgiving.org | [GiveWell-Recommended Charities] The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $100,000 to Project Healthy Children for general support, due to its status as a GiveWell standout charity. We followed the recommendation of GiveWell staff regarding how to allocate grantmaking between GiveWell standout charities. Read GiveWell’s review of Project Healthy Children to learn more about the charity's activities and follow its progress. | ONN00wZd8U | Project Healthy Children | Not checked |
| Malaria Consortium — Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention Programs (December 2018) | $27M | 2018-12 | coefficientgiving.org | [GiveWell-Recommended Charities] The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $26,600,000 to the Malaria Consortium to support seasonal malaria chemoprevention programs, due to its status as a GiveWell top charity. We followed the recommendation of GiveWell staff regarding how to allocate grantmaking between GiveWell top charities. Read GiveWell’s review of Malaria Consortium to learn more about the charity's activities and follow its progress. | ONN00wZd8U | Malaria Consortium | Not checked |
| Center for Effective Global Action at UC Berkeley — Scoping RCTs for Follow-Up | $492K | 2017-07 | coefficientgiving.org | [Global Health & Development] The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a GiveWell Incubation Grant of $492,188 to the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) at the University of California, Berkeley. CEGA plans to use these funds to create a list of previously completed randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that could potentially be candidates for follow-up studies analyzing longer-term effects of programs. GiveWell Incubation Grants are recommended by GiveWell staff, and support the development of potential future top charities. CEGA will attempt to identify promising RCTs conducted 10+ years ago that could be followed up on to assess the long-term impact of specific programs. Such follow-up studies could affect GiveWell's views about global health and development interventions and potentially alter their charity recommendations and/or funding allocations. CEGA has received two related GiveWell Incubation Grants, in April 2017 and June 2017. See GiveWell's page on this gift for more details. | ONN00wZd8U | University of California, Berkeley | Not checked |
| The Good Food Institute — General Support | $1M | 2016-09 | coefficientgiving.org | [Alternatives to Animal Products] Published: October 2016 The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $1,000,000 to The Good Food Institute for general support. The Good Food Institute plans to use this grant to expand its work promoting alternatives to animal products. It may also hire additional staff and create an operating reserve. Sources Document Source The Good Food Institute, Corporate Engagement Proposal Source The Good Food Institute, Innovation Proposal Source The Good Food Institute, Science and Technology Proposal Source | ho2AG7NXWE | The Good Food Institute | Not checked |
| Deworm the World Initiative — General Support (December 2018) | $10M | 2018-12 | coefficientgiving.org | [GiveWell-Recommended Charities] The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $10,400,000 to Evidence Action to support the Deworm the World Initiative, due to its status as a GiveWell top charity. We followed the recommendation of GiveWell staff regarding how to allocate grantmaking between GiveWell top charities. Read GiveWell’s review of the Deworm the World Initiative to learn more about the charity's activities and follow its progress. | ONN00wZd8U | Evidence Action | Not checked |
| Evidence Action — Seasonal Income Support Project | $171K | 2015-03 | coefficientgiving.org | [Global Health & Development] Published: March 2017 Note: This grant was awarded while the Open Philanthropy Project was a partnership between GiveWell and Good Ventures. Good Ventures awarded a grant of $170,792 to Evidence Action to support its seasonal income support project. This grant is part of Good Ventures' support of GiveWell's attempt to seed new GiveWell top charities. Seasonal migration from rural to urban areas in developing countries may carry large benefits for the migrants and their families under certain circumstances. This grant supports Evidence Action's work to (a) continue evaluation of this program and (b) scale it further. See GiveWell's page on this grant for more details. | ONN00wZd8U | Evidence Action | Not checked |
| Iodine Global Network — General Support (December 2017) | $100K | 2017-12 | coefficientgiving.org | [GiveWell-Recommended Charities] The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $100,000 to the Iodine Global Network via GiveWell for general support, due to its status as a GiveWell standout charity. We followed the recommendation of GiveWell staff regarding how to allocate grantmaking between GiveWell standout charities. Read GiveWell’s review of the Iodine Global Network to learn more about the charity's activities and follow its progress. | ONN00wZd8U | Iodine Global Network | Not checked |
| Against Malaria Foundation — General Support (December 2018) | $2.5M | 2018-12 | coefficientgiving.org | [GiveWell-Recommended Charities] The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $2,500,000 to the Against Malaria Foundation (AMF) for general operating support, due to its status as a GiveWell top charity. We followed the recommendation of GiveWell staff regarding how to allocate grantmaking between GiveWell top charities. Read GiveWell’s review of AMF to learn more about the charity's activities and follow its progress. | ONN00wZd8U | Against Malaria Foundation | Not checked |
| Texas Fair Defense Project — General Support | $63K | 2016-10 | coefficientgiving.org | [Criminal Justice Reform] The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $63,000 to the Texas Fair Defense Project for general support. The Texas Fair Defense Project intends to use this grant to expand its capacity and focus on bail reform efforts. This is a discretionary (formerly called "no-process") grant. For discretionary grants, the grant investigator (in this case Chloe Cockburn, our Program Officer for Criminal Justice Reform) can recommend the grant without needing to go through our normal process of providing their reasoning, discussing with the team, and providing input on and review of our public page. These grants are limited to a relatively small proportion of our grantmaking, and some other stipulations apply to what types of grant are eligible. The overall aim is for us to be able to move forward on relatively small and low-risk grants, based purely on the judgment of a single staff member and with minimal delay. | Tmgr7dBiNn | Texas Fair Defense Project | Not checked |
| Georgetown Center for Global Health Science and Security — General Support (2017) | $3.5M | 2017-03 | coefficientgiving.org | [Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness] Published: March 2017 The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $3.5 million over three years to the Georgetown Center for Global Health Science and Security (GHSS) to provide general support. GHSS, housed at Georgetown University Medical Center, conducts research to help build sustainable capacities to prevent, detect, and respond to public health emergencies worldwide. It comprises a team of four experts and academic researchers in biosecurity and pandemic preparedness along with several support staff. GHSS plans to use this grant to support policy-oriented academic research focused on improving U.S. and international biosecurity and pandemic preparedness policy. It plans to spend the majority of the grant funding on three main activities: Improving the capacity of the international community to respond to biological attacks. Researching international best practices for building laboratory capacity within national-level biosurveillance systems. International donors have invested a large amount of money to build national systems for rapid detection of infectious disease outbreaks, but these efforts have been fragmented and, in our view, have not resulted in ideal systems. We believe that this is due to a) a lack of comprehensive evidence on how to build fast and effective biosurveillance systems, and b) the tendency of individual donors to invest in projects that fit narrow programmatic objectives. Conducting a review and financial audit of the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA), an international effort that is organizing hundreds of millions of dollars in donor funding to build capacity to prevent, detect, and respond to infectious disease outbreaks. GHSA discussions have been primarily led by governments, and we are not aware of any independent analyses of the process and of how funds are being used. GHSS plans to use most of the remaining funds on one or more additional projects that will be chosen in consultation with the Open Philanthropy Project; some to research new project ideas; and a small amount to cover minor infrastructure improvements. We decided to recommend this grant for several reasons: The three main activities listed above are in line with Open Philanthropy Project priorities for our work on biosecurity and pandemic preparedness. The co-leaders of GHSS, Rebecca Katz and Julie Fischer, are internationally recognized experts on the World Health Organization (WHO) International Health Regulations and global health security capacity building. Given their experience, skills, and connections, we expect that they will enable GHSS to deliver high-quality results on the three main projects and to develop additional projects that are consistent with Open Philanthropy Project goals. This grant will free up GHSS staff time to do research on biosecurity and pandemic preparedness issues that are important to us. (We expect that this grant will free up slightly over half of core staff time.) GHSS is currently funded primarily by the U.S. government via project-specific contracts and grants for international training and capacity building. We believe that our grant will enable GHSS to pursue its goal of shifting its focus to big-picture, policy-oriented research, which we think will be a more effective way for it to contribute to the biosecurity and pandemic preparedness field. Support for GHSS will help to build capacity for biosecurity and pandemic preparedness analysis and advocacy outside of government, which is one of our priorities for this field. Few other centers research similar topics, and to our knowledge, most of them do little to no work on biosecurity. To investigate this grant, we had several phone conversations with GHSS leadership and reviewed materials they shared, including project proposals, budgets, and information about the track record of core staff. | IVKWfIkgOz | Georgetown Center for Global Health Science and Security | Not checked |
| Evidence Action — Dispensers for Safe Water Program (2017) | $100K | 2017-12 | coefficientgiving.org | [GiveWell-Recommended Charities] The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $100,000 to Evidence Action to support the Dispensers for Safe Water program, due to its status as a GiveWell standout charity. We followed the recommendation of GiveWell staff regarding how to allocate grantmaking between GiveWell standout charities. Read GiveWell’s review of Evidence Action's Dispensers for Safe Water program to learn more about the charity's activities and follow its progress. | ONN00wZd8U | Evidence Action | Not checked |
| Evidence Action Beta — Iron and Folic Acid Supplementation (“Phase 2”) | $3.4M | 2018-11 | coefficientgiving.org | [Global Health & Development] The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a GiveWell Incubation Grant of $3,408,259 to Evidence Action Beta to pilot a project to provide technical assistance for the Indian government's work on large-scale school-based iron and folic acid supplementation targeting children and adolescents. See GiveWell's page on this grant for more details. | ONN00wZd8U | Evidence Action Beta | Not checked |
| The Ahimsa Collective — “Life Comes From It” Fund Administration | $150K | 2018-11 | coefficientgiving.org | [Criminal Justice Reform] The Advisory Circle of the Ahimsa Collective, the nonprofit organization that administers the Life Comes From It fund. (Photo courtesy of the Ahimsa Collective) Grant investigator: Chloe Cockburn This page was reviewed but not written by the grant investigator. Ahimsa Collective staff also reviewed this page prior to publication. The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $150,000 to the Ahimsa Collective, run by restorative justice practitioner and leader Sonya Shah, to support administrative costs of the Life Comes From It fund. The fund provides grants up to $25,000 to restorative justice, transformative justice, and peacemaking projects. This discretionary grant is a renewal of our July 2017 support and falls within our focus area of criminal justice reform. | Tmgr7dBiNn | The Ahimsa Collective | Not checked |
| Mission: Launch, Inc. — Lisa Sangoi on Child Welfare | $55K | 2017-01 | coefficientgiving.org | [Criminal Justice Reform] Published: March 2017 The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $55,000 to Mission: Launch, Inc. to support a report that Lisa Sangoi is producing on the impacts of drug policy and criminalization on child welfare. We expect that this report will increase awareness of the negative impacts of the criminal justice system and increase interest in criminal justice reform. This is a discretionary (formerly called "no-process") grant. For discretionary grants, the grant investigator (in this case Chloe Cockburn, our Program Officer for Criminal Justice Reform) can recommend the grant without needing to go through our normal process of providing their reasoning, discussing with the team, and providing input on and review of our public page. These grants are limited to a relatively small proportion of our grantmaking, and some other stipulations apply to what types of grant are eligible. The overall aim is for us to be able to move forward on relatively small and low-risk grants, based purely on the judgment of a single staff member and with minimal delay. | Tmgr7dBiNn | Mission: Launch, Inc. | Not checked |
| Center for Court Innovation — New Thinking about Criminal Justice Responses | $160K | 2016-07 | coefficientgiving.org | [Criminal Justice Reform] The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $160,000 to the Center for Court Innovation to promote incorporation of best practices on prosecutorial decisionmaking and new thinking on the role of prosecutors in Cook County. We do not plan to write in more detail about this grant at this time. | Tmgr7dBiNn | Center for Court Innovation | Not checked |
| Employ America Action Fund – General Support | $1M | 2021-04 | coefficientgiving.org | Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy | ONN00wZd8U | Employ America Action Fund | Not checked |
| Seattle for Everyone — General Support | $50K | 2016-02 | coefficientgiving.org | [Housing Policy Reform] Seattle for Everyone staff reviewed this page prior to publication. The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $50,000 to Seattle for Everyone via the Housing Development Consortium. Seattle For Everyone is a coalition of various interest groups (including market rate developers, affordable housing developers, labor and social justice advocates, businesses, environmentalists, and urbanists) formed to promote the same set of proposed land use reforms in Seattle that our grant to the Sightline Institute is also intended to support. We do not plan to write in more detail about this grant at this time. | ONN00wZd8U | Seattle for Everyone | Not checked |
| Evidence Action — No Lean Season (December 2017) | $12M | 2017-12 | coefficientgiving.org | [GiveWell-Recommended Charities] The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $11,500,000 to Evidence Action to support the No Lean Season program, due to its status as a GiveWell top charity. We followed the recommendation of GiveWell staff regarding how to allocate grantmaking between GiveWell top charities. Read GiveWell’s review of No Lean Season to learn more about the charity's activities and follow its progress. | ONN00wZd8U | Evidence Action | Not checked |
| Sightsavers — Deworming Programs (January 2018) | $2.5M | 2018-01 | coefficientgiving.org | [GiveWell-Recommended Charities] The Open Philanthropy Project awarded a grant of $2,500,000 to Sightsavers to support deworming programs, due to its status as a GiveWell top charity. We followed the recommendation of GiveWell staff regarding how to allocate grantmaking between GiveWell top charities. Read GiveWell’s review of Sightsavers' deworming program to learn more about the charity's activities and follow its progress. | ONN00wZd8U | Sightsavers | Not checked |
| Project Peanut Butter — Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food RCT | $725K | 2016-09 | coefficientgiving.org | [Scientific Research] Published: October 2016 Project Peanut Butter staff reviewed this page prior to publication. The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $724,929 over three years to support Project Peanut Butter to run a randomized controlled trial (RCT) on the effect on cognitive development of reformulated ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) with additional omega-3 fatty acids and decreased omega-6 fatty acids, compared to conventional RUTF. RUTF is primarily used to treat young children in the developing world with severe acute malnutrition, and is generally deficient in omega-3s while being relatively high in omega-6s. Our decision to recommend this grant was based on our belief that there is a reasonable chance that increasing the ratio of omega-3 to omega-6 fatty acids in RUTF will have a positive effect on the cognitive development of treated children, and that a clear result in a large randomized trial would be fairly likely to make use of the lipid-rebalanced RUTF standard practice. | B4pZkOtjSk | Project Peanut Butter | Not checked |
| Project Healthy Children — General Support (December 2018) | $100K | 2018-12 | coefficientgiving.org | [GiveWell-Recommended Charities] The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $100,000 to Project Healthy Children for general support, due to its status as a GiveWell standout charity. We followed the recommendation of GiveWell staff regarding how to allocate grantmaking between GiveWell standout charities. Read GiveWell’s review of Project Healthy Children to learn more about the charity's activities and follow its progress. | ONN00wZd8U | Project Healthy Children | Not checked |
| New Incentives — General Support (November 2017) | $5.9M | 2017-11 | coefficientgiving.org | [Global Health & Development] The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a GiveWell Incubation Grant of $5,944,203 to New Incentives to support its program offering conditional cash transfers for infant vaccination in North West Nigeria. This grant is the first (and major) tranche of a grant intended to fully support New Incentives' operations through May 2020, for the duration of a randomized controlled trial of the program. The grant amount may be updated in the future. GiveWell Incubation Grants are recommended by GiveWell staff, and support the development of potential future top charities. See GiveWell’s page on this grant for more details. | ONN00wZd8U | New Incentives | Not checked |
| Helen Keller International — Vitamin A Supplementation (December 2018) | $6.5M | 2018-12 | coefficientgiving.org | [GiveWell-Recommended Charities] The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $6,500,000 to Helen Keller International to support vitamin A supplementation work, due to its status as a GiveWell top charity. We followed the recommendation of GiveWell staff regarding how to allocate grantmaking between GiveWell top charities. Read GiveWell’s review of Helen Keller International's vitamin A supplementation program to learn more about the charity's activities and follow its progress. | ONN00wZd8U | Helen Keller International | Not checked |
| Schistosomiasis Control Initiative — General Support (2018) | $2.5M | 2018-03 | coefficientgiving.org | [GiveWell-Recommended Charities] The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $2,500,000 to the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative (SCI) via Imperial College Foundation for general support, due to its status as a GiveWell top charity. We followed the recommendation of GiveWell staff regarding how to allocate grantmaking between GiveWell top charities. Read GiveWell’s review of SCI to learn more about the charity's activities and follow its progress. | ONN00wZd8U | Schistosomiasis Control Initiative | Not checked |
| New Incentives — General Support (2014) | $100K | 2014-01 | coefficientgiving.org | [Global Health & Development] Published: March 2017 Note: This grant was awarded while the Open Philanthropy Project was a partnership between GiveWell and Good Ventures. Good Ventures, with input from GiveWell, awarded a grant of $100,000 to New Incentives in January 2014 for general operating support. New Incentives is a startup organization that aims to increase delivery of conditional cash transfers, an intervention we believe to be supported by strong evidence of effectiveness. We made this "seed" grant because we believe that New Incentives, if successful, could become a GiveWell-recommended charity. See GiveWell's writeup of this grant for more details. | ONN00wZd8U | New Incentives | Not checked |
| IDinsight — Embedded GiveWell Team | $315K | 2016-11 | coefficientgiving.org | [Global Health & Development] Published: March 2017 Note: This grant was awarded while the Open Philanthropy Project was a partnership between GiveWell and Good Ventures. Good Ventures, with input from GiveWell, granted $314,752 to IDinsight as one of GiveWell's Incubation Grants to support the development of potential future top charities. This grant is in addition to Good Ventures' June 2016 grant of $1,985,000 to IDinsight for general operating support. IDinsight supports and conducts rigorous evaluations of development interventions, often involving randomized controlled trials, with an explicit focus on providing useful data to inform funders and policy makers. This new funding is intended to support preliminary work by IDinsight to improve the monitoring of GiveWell top charities or to support the development of future top charities, and fund two full-time staff and part of the salaries of several other staff for one year. See GiveWell's writeup of this grant for more details. | ONN00wZd8U | IDinsight | Not checked |
| Albert Schweitzer Foundation — Fish Welfare | $317K | 2017-01 | coefficientgiving.org | [Farm Animal Welfare] Published: March 2017 The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of €299,000 ($317,060 at the time of conversion) to the Albert Schweitzer Foundation to support its work to develop and implement a fish welfare standard for German retailers. The Albert Schweitzer Foundation plans to use this grant to 1) conduct a study on ways to reduce fish suffering and to analyze the costs of various enhancements of fish welfare, and 2) build relationships with retailers and universities in the aquaculture industry. It plans to use the study to determine which welfare improvements to advocate for. This is one of a series of grants to organizations working to improve the conditions of the approximately 1.7 billion fish farmed in the EU and Norway. Sources Document Source Albert Schweitzer Foundation budget Source | ho2AG7NXWE | Albert Schweitzer Foundation | Not checked |
| American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California — Prosecutorial Accountability | $250K | 2017-02 | coefficientgiving.org | [Criminal Justice Reform] Published: March 2017 The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $250,000 to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Northern California to support prosecutorial accountability work led by Ana Zamora. The ACLU of Northern California plans to use this grant to support its "What a difference a DA makes" project. This project will include three main elements: Building District Attorney (DA) accountability infrastructure in target counties by providing criminal justice reform training and support to local groups in advance of 56 DA elections in California in 2018. Building a website with information on the DAs in all California counties to increase transparency and accountability. Conducting messaging research to learn what approaches to criminal justice reform communication are most effective and developing a messaging framework. | Tmgr7dBiNn | American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California | Not checked |
| ClimateWorks Foundation — Kigali Cooling Efficiency Program | $3M | 2017-03 | coefficientgiving.org | [Global Catastrophic Risks] Published: March 2017 Grant investigator: Claire Zabel This page was reviewed but not written by the grant investigator. The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $3 million to ClimateWorks to contribute to the Kigali Cooling Efficiency Program, which was created recently to assist with a phase-down of the use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) in developing nations, in connection with the passing of an amendment to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer. The Montreal Protocol is an international treaty signed in 1987 that aimed to phase out the use of substances that damage the ozone layer. More recently, it has become clear that HFCs, which have been used to replace the ozone-damaging substances targeted by the Montreal Protocol, are themselves extremely potent greenhouse gases. In recognition of this, in 2016 an effort was made to amend the Montreal Protocol to include a phase-out of HFCs. This grant is contributing to a pool of funding provided by a group of philanthropic organizations and individuals to support energy efficiency initiatives in developing countries transitioning to HFC alternatives. Our goal was to incentivize countries in the developing world to agree to a more ambitious phase-out timeline and to assist them in achieving the proposed timeline.1 In October 2016, one month after this funding was committed, a version of the proposed amendment was passed.2 Sources DOCUMENT SOURCE Hewlett Foundation, press release October 17, 2016 Source (archive) White House Office of the Press Secretary, press release September 22, 2016 Source (archive) | c5QZjjyC7w | ClimateWorks Foundation,Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition | Not checked |
| Youth First Initiative — General Support | $250K | 2016-10 | coefficientgiving.org | [Criminal Justice Reform] Published: November 2016 The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $250,000 to the Youth First Initiative for general support. The Youth First Initiative is undertaking a coordinated national advocacy campaign with the ultimate goals of completely ending youth incarceration, closing youth prisons, and redirecting young people to community-based programs. The Youth First Initiative is a project of New Venture Fund, a 501(c)(3) public charity. This is a discretionary (formerly called "no-process") grant. For discretionary grants, the grant investigator (in this case Chloe Cockburn, our Program Officer for Criminal Justice Reform) can recommend the grant without needing to go through our normal process of providing their reasoning, discussing with the team, and providing input on and review of our public page. These grants are limited to a relatively small proportion of our grantmaking, and some other stipulations apply to what types of grant are eligible. The overall aim is for us to be able to move forward on relatively small and low-risk grants, based purely on the judgment of a single staff member and with minimal delay. | Tmgr7dBiNn | Youth First Initiative | Not checked |
| Research Institute of Industrial Economics — Genomic Research Methods | $500K | 2016-08 | coefficientgiving.org | [Scientific Research] Research Institute of Industrial Economics staff reviewed this page prior to publication. The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $500,000 to the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN) to support the Social Science Genetic Association Consortium (SSGAC). IFN is a private, non-profit research institute in Stockholm, Sweden, with around 40 researchers. This grant is supporting a scientific collaboration associated with our April 2016 grants to the University of Southern California. This grant falls within our interest in funding basic scientific research, and specifically within our interest in advancing tools and techniques. We hope that our support of this work will advance scientific tools and techniques in several ways, including: By developing cross-cuttingly useful advances in the analysis of data from genome-wide association studies (GWAS). The researchers plan to develop tools for combining data on genetic associations between multiple traits, hopefully increasing statistical power (which effectively increase sample sizes) across all kinds of medical GWAS, which could make many kinds of medical research less expensive, and accordingly could accelerate new discoveries. By combining data from multiple sources (including data from consumer genetics companies) and developing polygenic scores (or scoring methods) that can be distributed freely as public goods. This could eventually help make social science research more statistically informative, which in turn could make it easier and less expensive to assess the efficacy of interventions designed to improve educational attainment or other outcomes by reducing unexplained variance. Our understanding is that SSGAC has received substantially less funding to date than comparable consortia (such as in psychiatric genetics), but still produces high-quality, replicable research and serves as a model of careful public communication, most notably through their discussions of frequently asked questions. | B4pZkOtjSk | Research Institute of Industrial Economics | Not checked |
| Center for Effective Global Action at UC Berkeley — Deworming Study Planning Gift | $18K | 2017-06 | coefficientgiving.org | [Global Health & Development] The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a GiveWell Incubation Grant of $18,000 to the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) at the University of California, Berkeley to investigate the feasibility of conducting a high-quality follow-up study on a deworming evaluation conducted in Tanzania in the mid-1990s. GiveWell Incubation Grants are recommended by GiveWell staff, and support the development of potential future top charities. The project will be led by Professor Edward Miguel and the funds are intended to cover the costs of a summer research assistant to support the investigation, including travel to Tanzania. CEGA has received two related GiveWell Incubation Grants, in April 2017 and July 2017. See GiveWell's page on this gift for more details. | ONN00wZd8U | University of California, Berkeley | Not checked |
| Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research — Farm Animal Welfare Research (2017) | $1M | 2017-04 | coefficientgiving.org | [Farm Animal Welfare] Published: May 2017 Grant investigator: Lewis Bollard This page was reviewed but not written by the grant investigator. FFAR staff also reviewed this page prior to publication. The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $1 million to the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR) to co-fund requests for applications (RFAs) for research on solutions to what we see as two major problems in farm animal welfare: bone fractures in cage-free hens and the painful castration of male piglets. It is our impression that both of these problems are scientifically tractable. FFAR plans to use this grant and at least $1 million of its own funding to fund scientific projects focused on solving these problems. We are excited about this grant because a) we believe that it is an efficient way to fund research on farm animal welfare, since FFAR is co-funding the research and plans to handle the logistics of the RFAs and distribute the results of its research among industry, b) it is an opportunity for us to learn about co-funding with a Congressionally created and funded 501(c)(3) organization, which we believe could be a useful avenue for funding research to solve other problems in farm animal welfare, and c) it may increase FFAR's interest in co-funding other animal welfare projects. Sources Document Source Foundation for Food and Agriculture Request for Applications Source | ho2AG7NXWE | Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research | Not checked |
| Fórum Nacional de Proteção e Defesa Animal — International Cage-Free Advocacy | $100K | 2016-10 | coefficientgiving.org | [Cage-Free Reforms] The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $100,000 over two years to Fórum Nacional de Proteção e Defesa Animal (FNPDA) to support its work to end the confinement of hens in battery cages. Earlier in 2016, we recommended a series of grants to support corporate cage-free campaigns and wrote on our blog about why we see this as a promising strategy to promote farm animal welfare. The present funding, part of a new series of grants focusing on international cage-free advocacy, will support FNPDA’s work in Brazil.1 Sources DOCUMENT SOURCE FNPDA, Grant Proposal 2016 Source | ho2AG7NXWE | Fórum Nacional de Proteção e Defesa Animal | Not checked |
| Evidence Action — Strengthen Operations (2019) | $7.8M | 2019-03 | coefficientgiving.org | [Global Health & Development] The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a $7,751,915 grant to Evidence Action for organizational strengthening. Evidence Action plans to use this grant to build its fundraising function, add senior leadership capacity, review its compensation scheme, and strengthen its affiliated entity in India. See GiveWell's page on this grant for more details. | ONN00wZd8U | Evidence Action | Not checked |
| Evidence Action — Planning for Future Programs | $250K | 2014-03 | coefficientgiving.org | [Global Health & Development] Published: March 2017 Note: This grant was awarded while the Open Philanthropy Project was a partnership between GiveWell and Good Ventures. In March 2014, Good Ventures made a $250,000 grant to Evidence Action, the parent organization of the GiveWell-recommended Deworm the World Initiative, to support its assessment of programs to consider scaling up. This grant is part of our broader plan to support the creation of new giving opportunities that meet GiveWell's traditional criteria. See GiveWell's writeup of this grant for more details. | ONN00wZd8U | Evidence Action | Not checked |
| University of Southern California — Genomic Research Methods | $1.7M | 2016-04 | coefficientgiving.org | [Scientific Research] University of Southern California staff reviewed this page prior to publication. The Open Philanthropy Project recommended two grants totaling $1,738,500 to the University of Southern California to support the Social Science Genetic Association Consortium (SSGAC) and the Behavioral and Health Genomics Center. These grants fall within our interest in funding basic scientific research, and specifically within our interest in advancing tools and techniques. We hope that our support of this work will advance scientific tools and techniques in several ways, including: By developing cross-cuttingly useful advances in the analysis of data from genome-wide association studies (GWAS). The researchers plan to develop tools for combining data on genetic associations between multiple traits, hopefully increasing statistical power (which effectively increase sample sizes) across all kinds of medical GWAS, which could make many kinds of medical research less expensive, and accordingly could accelerate new discoveries. By combining data from multiple sources (including data from consumer genetics companies) and developing polygenic scores (or scoring methods) that can be distributed freely as public goods. This could eventually help make social science research more statistically informative, which in turn could make it easier and less expensive to assess the efficacy of interventions designed to improve educational attainment or other outcomes by reducing unexplained variance. Our understanding is that SSGAC has received substantially less funding to date than comparable consortia (such as in psychiatric genetics), but still produces high-quality, replicable research and serves as a model of careful public communication, most notably through their discussions of frequently asked questions. | B4pZkOtjSk | University of Southern California | Not checked |
| Eurogroup for Animals — Fish Welfare (2016) | $536K | 2016-12 | coefficientgiving.org | [Farm Animal Welfare] Published: March 2017 The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of €498,928 ($535,699 at the time of conversion) to Eurogroup for Animals to support its work to improve fish welfare. According to the best estimates we are aware of, fish account for about three quarters of all vertebrate farmed animals.1 Although conditions vary greatly by species and country, our understanding is that most fish are farmed for longer and in harsher conditions than those experienced by most other farm animals. Consequently, we find it plausible that fish farming could be the greatest cause of farm animal suffering globally. Despite this, we are not aware of any major animal welfare groups that have campaigns focused on fish welfare, and we therefore believe that it is important to start building this area of farm animal welfare advocacy. Sources DOCUMENT SOURCE Farm Animal Statistics, Open Philanthropy Summary Source | ho2AG7NXWE | Eurogroup for Animals | Not checked |
| Prison Policy Initiative — General Support | $50K | 2016-06 | coefficientgiving.org | [Criminal Justice Reform] The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $50,000 to the Prison Policy Initiative for general support. The Prison Policy Initiative (PPI) provides data and research support to criminal justice reform advocates throughout the U.S. We are providing support to ensure that it can continue this work, which we believe is valuable to the organizations it partners with. This is a "no-process" grant. For no-process grants, the grant investigator (in this case Chloe Cockburn, our Program Officer for Criminal Justice Reform) can recommend the grant without needing to go through our normal process of providing their reasoning, discussing with the team, and providing input on and review of our public page. These grants are limited to a relatively small proportion of our grantmaking, and some other stipulations apply to what types of grant are eligible. The overall aim is for us to be able to move forward on relatively small and low-risk grants, based purely on the judgment of a single staff member and with minimal delay. In keeping with the lack of process, we don't plan to publish in-depth pages about the reasoning behind these grants. | Tmgr7dBiNn | Prison Policy Initiative | Not checked |
| Evidence Action — Impact Evaluation of Iron and Folic Acid Supplementation (“Phase 2”) | $800K | 2019-03 | coefficientgiving.org | [Global Health & Development] The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $800,000 to Evidence Action for the monitoring and evaluation of the Phase 2 pilot stage of its technical assistance to the Government of India's national school-based iron and folic acid supplementation program. See GiveWell's page on this grant for more details. | ONN00wZd8U | Evidence Action | Not checked |
| Global Animal Partnership — General Support (2017) | $200K | 2017-02 | coefficientgiving.org | [Farm Animal Welfare] Published: September 2017 Grant investigator: Lewis Bollard This page was reviewed but not written by the grant investigator. Global Animal Partnership staff also reviewed this page prior to publication. The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $200,000 to Global Animal Partnership (GAP) for general support. GAP plans to use this grant to hire a senior staff member to assist the executive director, which we believe will enable GAP to work more effectively on farm animal welfare projects such as its certifier accreditation program and standards development and management. This is a discretionary grant. | ho2AG7NXWE | Global Animal Partnership | Not checked |
| Essie Justice Group — General Support (2016) | $600K | 2016-10 | coefficientgiving.org | [Criminal Justice Reform] The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $600,000 to Essie Justice Group for general support. Essie Justice Group organizes women with incarcerated loved ones for criminal justice reform, and plans to use this grant to wage a ground campaign against the bail industry led by women directly impacted by the money bail system. This is a discretionary (formerly called "no-process") grant. For discretionary grants, the grant investigator (in this case Chloe Cockburn, our Program Officer for Criminal Justice Reform) can recommend the grant without needing to go through our normal process of providing their reasoning, discussing with the team, and providing input on and review of our public page. These grants are limited to a relatively small proportion of our grantmaking, and some other stipulations apply to what types of grant are eligible. The overall aim is for us to be able to move forward on relatively small and low-risk grants, based purely on the judgment of a single staff member and with minimal delay. | Tmgr7dBiNn | Essie Justice Group | Not checked |
| GiveWell — Top Charity “Participation” Grants (2015) | $500K | 2015-01 | coefficientgiving.org | [GiveWell-Recommended Charities] Published: March 2017 Note: This grant was awarded while the Open Philanthropy Project was a partnership between GiveWell and Good Ventures. From a nonprofit's perspective, participating in GiveWell's evaluation process involves a significant investment of time and effort and uncertainty about whether the investment will lead to a GiveWell recommendation. This grant will allow GiveWell to offer $100,000 incentive grants to organizations that complete its first round of evaluation in 2015, allow GiveWell to publish a write-up, and are promising enough to move on to the second, more intensive round of evaluation. GiveWell will allocate any funds left over at the end of the year to its recommended charities for 2015. | ONN00wZd8U | GiveWell | Not checked |
| GiveWell — Top Charity “Participation” Grants (2014) | $500K | 2014-05 | coefficientgiving.org | [GiveWell-Recommended Charities] Published: March 2017 Note: This grant was awarded while the Open Philanthropy Project was a partnership between GiveWell and Good Ventures. From a nonprofit's perspective, participating in GiveWell's evaluation process involves a significant investment of time and effort and uncertainty about whether the investment will lead to a GiveWell recommendation. This grant will allow GiveWell to offer $100,000 incentive grants to organizations that complete its first round of evaluation, allow GiveWell to publish a write-up, and are promising enough to move on to the second, more intensive round of evaluation. GiveWell will allocate any funds left over at the end of the year to its recommended charities for 2014. | ONN00wZd8U | GiveWell | Not checked |
| Dyrevernalliansen — Fish Welfare | $378K | 2017-02 | coefficientgiving.org | [Farm Animal Welfare] Published: March 2017 The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $378,000 over two years to Dyrevernalliansen (The Norwegian Animal Protection Alliance) to enable it to expand its animal welfare engagement with the Norwegian fish farming industry as part of a larger effort to build the field of farmed fish welfare advocacy. Dyrevernalliansen plans to use this grant to work cooperatively with producers and retailers to identify important fish welfare considerations that can easily be changed. We expect that some of these considerations may be related to farmed salmon environmental conditions, equipment design, handling procedures, and slaughter method. According to the best estimates we are aware of, fish account for about three quarters of all vertebrate farmed animals.1 Although conditions vary greatly by species and country, our understanding is that most fish are farmed for longer and in harsher conditions than those experienced by most other farm animals. Consequently, we find it plausible that fish farming could be the greatest cause of farm animal suffering globally. Despite this, we are not aware of any major animal welfare groups that have campaigns focused on fish welfare, and we therefore believe that it is important to start building this area of farm animal welfare advocacy. Sources DOCUMENT SOURCE Farm Animal Statistics, Open Philanthropy Summary Source | ho2AG7NXWE | Dyrevernalliansen (The Norwegian Animal Protection Alliance) | Not checked |
| Ayni Institute — Momentum Training | $40K | 2016-07 | coefficientgiving.org | [Criminal Justice Reform] The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $40,000 to the Ayni Institute to support a “Momentum” training session for black organizers, including from the Movement for Black Lives. We wrote more about the Ayni Institute on our page about our March 2016 grant to the organization. This is a "no-process" grant. For no-process grants, the grant investigator (in this case Chloe Cockburn, our Program Officer for Criminal Justice Reform) can recommend the grant without needing to go through our normal process of providing their reasoning, discussing with the team, and providing input on and review of our public page. These grants are limited to a relatively small proportion of our grantmaking, and some other stipulations apply to what types of grant are eligible. The overall aim is for us to be able to move forward on relatively small and low-risk grants, based purely on the judgment of a single staff member and with minimal delay. In keeping with the lack of process, we don't plan to publish in-depth pages about the reasoning behind these grants. | Tmgr7dBiNn | Ayni Institute | Not checked |
| Animal Equality — International Cage-Free Advocacy | $500K | 2016-08 | coefficientgiving.org | [Cage-Free Reforms] The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $500,000 over two years to Animal Equality to support its work to end the confinement of hens in battery cages. Earlier in 2016, we recommended a series of grants to support corporate cage-free campaigns and wrote on our blog about why we see this as a promising strategy to promote farm animal welfare. The present funding, part of a new series of grants focusing on international cage-free advocacy, will support Animal Equality’s work in Latin America, Europe, and Asia.1 We do not plan to write in more detail about this grant at this time. Sources DOCUMENT SOURCE Animal Equality, Budget Summary Unpublished | ho2AG7NXWE | Animal Equality | Not checked |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology — Synthetic Neurobiology Group (2018) | $3M | 2018-02 | coefficientgiving.org | [Scientific Research] This page was reviewed but not written by the grant investigators. Representatives of the MIT Synthetic Neurobiology Group reviewed this page prior to publication. The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a gift of $3,000,000 over two years to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Synthetic Neurobiology Group, led by Ed Boyden, to support research on the development and application of expansion microscopy to imaging of brains from a variety of organisms. We are particularly intrigued by the possibility that this method may be used to visualize how the tightly packed neural cells in vertebrate brains are connected to each other at a dramatically lower cost than would otherwise be possible with existing technology. If successful, we believe this could have dramatic implications for a variety of sub-fields within brain research. To learn more about the Synthetic Neurobiology Group and our reasons for supporting it, see our March 2016 gift page. This gift falls within our interest in funding scientific research. | B4pZkOtjSk | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Not checked |
| Florida Rights Restoration Coalition — General Support | $48K | 2016-08 | coefficientgiving.org | [Criminal Justice Reform] Published: October 2016 The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $48,000 via the New Florida Majority Education Fund to the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, for general support including education of its members and networks on the role of prosecutors. This is a "no-process" grant. For no-process grants, the grant investigator (in this case Chloe Cockburn, our Program Officer for Criminal Justice Reform) can recommend the grant without needing to go through our normal process of providing their reasoning, discussing with the team, and providing input on and review of our public page. These grants are limited to a relatively small proportion of our grantmaking, and some other stipulations apply to what types of grant are eligible. The overall aim is for us to be able to move forward on relatively small and low-risk grants, based purely on the judgment of a single staff member and with minimal delay. In keeping with the lack of process, we don't plan to publish in-depth pages about the reasoning behind these grants. | Tmgr7dBiNn | Florida Rights Restoration Coalition | Not checked |
| Future of Humanity Institute — Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness | $116K | 2016-09 | coefficientgiving.org | [Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness] Published: March 2017 The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of £88,922 ($115,652 at the time of conversion) to the Future of Humanity Institute (FHI), to support the hiring of Dr. Piers Millett to work on biosecurity and pandemic preparedness. Conceptually, we consider this part of a larger grant to FHI, which was made later for logistical reasons. We laid out the case for this grant in our writeup of the larger grant. | IVKWfIkgOz | Future of Humanity Institute | Not checked |
| Evidence Action — No Lean Season (March 2016) | $812K | 2016-03 | coefficientgiving.org | [Global Health & Development] Published: March 2017 Note: This grant was awarded while the Open Philanthropy Project was a partnership between GiveWell and Good Ventures. Good Ventures granted $812,351 to Evidence Action in March 2016 to support the development and implementation of a scaled-up version of its No Lean Season program in Bangladesh. Evidence Action's No Lean Season offers subsidies (grants or loans) to low-income agricultural workers in Bangladesh as an incentive to migrate during the famine season to urban areas where higher wages can be earned. The Open Philanthropy Project previously completed a shallow investigation into seasonal migration within low-income countries. See GiveWell's writeup of this grant for more details. | ONN00wZd8U | Evidence Action | Not checked |
| Color Of Change Education Fund — Criminal Justice Meeting | $30K | 2016-11 | coefficientgiving.org | [Criminal Justice Reform] Published: May 2017 Grant investigator: Chloe Cockburn This page was reviewed but not written by the grant investigator. Color Of Change staff also reviewed this page prior to publication. The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $30,000 to Color Of Change Education Fund to support its work on criminal justice reform, including a meeting on bail reform. This is a discretionary grant. | Tmgr7dBiNn | Color Of Change Education Fund | Not checked |
| ReFrame Mentorship — General Support | $37K | 2016-07 | coefficientgiving.org | [Criminal Justice Reform] The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $37,000 to ReFrame Mentorship, a 9-month intensive training and mentorship program in strategic communications for social justice movement organizers, via the Center for Civic Policy. This is a "no-process" grant. For no-process grants, the grant investigator (in this case Chloe Cockburn, our Program Officer for Criminal Justice Reform) can recommend the grant without needing to go through our normal process of providing their reasoning, discussing with the team, and providing input on and review of our public page. These grants are limited to a relatively small proportion of our grantmaking, and some other stipulations apply to what types of grant are eligible. The overall aim is for us to be able to move forward on relatively small and low-risk grants, based purely on the judgment of a single staff member and with minimal delay. In keeping with the lack of process, we don't plan to publish in-depth pages about the reasoning behind these grants. | Tmgr7dBiNn | ReFrame Mentorship | Not checked |
| Evidence Action — No Lean Season | $1.7M | 2016-12 | coefficientgiving.org | [Global Health & Development] Published: June 2017 Note: This grant was awarded while the Open Philanthropy Project was a partnership between GiveWell and Good Ventures. Good Ventures, with input from GiveWell, awarded a grant of $1,687,500 to Evidence Action as part of GiveWell's Incubation Grants to support the development of potential future top charities and improve the quality of GiveWell's recommendations. This grant is intended to support Evidence Action's work on No Lean Season, its program incentivizing seasonal migration. Evidence Action plans to use these funds towards its work in Bangladesh and Indonesia. Evidence Action is an organization that takes evidence-backed development interventions to scale, working to turn successful trials into sustainable large-scale organizations. Its No Lean Season program offers subsidies (grants or loans) to low-income agricultural workers as an incentive to migrate during the famine season to urban areas where higher wages can be earned. See GiveWell's page on this grant for more details. | ONN00wZd8U | Evidence Action | Not checked |
| Farm Forward — Chicken Welfare Advocacy (2017) | $100K | 2017-01 | coefficientgiving.org | [Farm Animal Welfare] Published: March 2017 The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $100,000 to Farm Forward to support its work to secure pledges from institutions including universities, technology companies, and religious organizations to source higher-welfare animal products through The Leadership Circle. While Farm Forward typically works with institutions that purchase fewer animal products than the large food companies that other advocacy groups work with, it also seeks stronger welfare commitments, such as sourcing 100% of chicken from farms that are certified to at least Global Animal Partnership (GAP) Step 2 within two years. The Leadership Circle also asks institutions to commit to continuous improvement and investments in highest-welfare farms and ranches. It seems plausible to us that the institutions that Farm Forward works with may exert cultural influence that may influence much larger food companies. Sources Document Source Farm Forward Project Description Source Farm Forward Budget Source | ho2AG7NXWE | Farm Forward | Not checked |
| WaitList Zero — General Support | $200K | 2015-08 | coefficientgiving.org | [Global Health & Wellbeing] WaitList Zero staff reviewed this page prior to publication. Note: This page was created using content published by Good Ventures and GiveWell, the organizations that created the Open Philanthropy Project, before this website was launched. Uses of “we” and “our” on this page may therefore refer to Good Ventures or GiveWell, but they still represent the work of the Open Philanthropy Project. WaitList Zero advocates for policies that promote living kidney donation. We see living kidney donation as a neglected field relative to its importance, and made an earlier planning grant to WaitList Zero. The organization has since completed the planning process and launched some initial activities. We were generally pleased with the results of the planning period. WaitList Zero’s planned activities include promoting evidence-based methods to educate patients and potential donors to raise kidney donation rates, and advocating for donor support policies such as compensation for lost wages and provision of lifetime health insurance for people who donate. It is difficult to predict the likely impact of providing funds for these activities, especially given the difficulty of achieving policy change, but we believe that WaitList Zero’s planned activities are plausibly tractable and cost-effective ways to substantially increase living kidney donation. Based on these considerations, the Open Philanthropy Project decided to recommend a grant of $200,000 over two years to WaitList Zero. Please note our conflict of interest disclosure for this grant. The cause Although it is not currently one of our main focus areas, we view research and advocacy around increasing organ donation as an area with potentially outstanding “room for more philanthropy.” In particular, we see a promising niche for an organization devoted to finding and promoting ethical, safe, and politically tractable ways to provide benefits for kidney donors, which could have sizable health benefits while saving the healthcare system money. The grant The organization WaitList Zero (waitlistzero.org), founded in 2014 by Josh Morrison and Thomas Kelly, is a US-registered 501(c)(3) advocacy organization dedicated to promoting living kidney donation.1 Mr. Morrison works full-time on WaitList Zero; Mr. Kelly returned to grad school and works on WaitList Zero on a quarter-time basis.2 In 2014, Good Ventures provided WaitList Zero a $50,000 planning grant to develop a detailed strategic plan. While the initial purpose of the planning grant was simply to support WaitList Zero in developing a strategic plan, WaitList Zero eventually decided (with our approval) that beginning to execute some pilot activities would be more informative than continuing the planning process. WaitList Zero initially planned to promote incentives for living kidney donors, as described in our writeup of the planning grant. However, based on consultations with a variety of players in the transplantation field during the planning process, WaitList Zero decided to instead pursue a suite of “transplant support” policies that it sees as more politically achievable and ethically uncontroversial while also being likely to address much of the kidney shortage:3 Increasing living kidney donation by educating potential recipients about transplantation and living donation. Some dialysis patients know very little about their options, and many potentially eligible recipients are not on the waiting list to receive a kidney.4 Two randomized controlled trials have found that educational home visits to renal disease patients and their families increase living kidney donation substantially (on the order of 20 percentage points).5 WaitList Zero intends to promote effective interventions by helping organizations involved with kidney patients or potential kidney donors share information about best practices, and by persuading government agencies to allocate more funding to such programs.6 We have not vetted the underlyi | ONN00wZd8U | WaitList Zero | Not checked |
| Prison Policy Initiative — General Support (2017) | $66K | 2017-02 | coefficientgiving.org | [Criminal Justice Reform] Published: March 2017 The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $66,000 to the Prison Policy Initiative for general support. The Prison Policy Initiative creates reports on criminal justice reform data and provides data and research support on criminal justice reform campaigns to the advocates it partners with around the country. It plans to use this grant to keep a fellow on its staff to drive policy research and writing. This is a discretionary (formerly called "no-process") grant. For discretionary grants, the grant investigator (in this case Chloe Cockburn, our Program Officer for Criminal Justice Reform) can recommend the grant without needing to go through our normal process of providing their reasoning, discussing with the team, and providing input on and review of our public page. These grants are limited to a relatively small proportion of our grantmaking, and some other stipulations apply to what types of grant are eligible. The overall aim is for us to be able to move forward on relatively small and low-risk grants, based purely on the judgment of a single staff member and with minimal delay. | Tmgr7dBiNn | Prison Policy Initiative | Not checked |
| Evidence Action — General Operating Support | $800K | 2017-12 | coefficientgiving.org | [Global Health & Development] The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a GiveWell Incubation Grant of $800,000 to Evidence Action for general operating support. Evidence Action intends to use this support to fund a deficit in its operating budget, which it identified as part of a financial clean-up in 2017. GiveWell Incubation Grants are recommended by GiveWell staff, and support the development of potential future top charities. See GiveWell's page on this grant for more details. | ONN00wZd8U | Evidence Action | Not checked |
| Fair and Just Prosecution — General Support (2017) | $1.5M | 2017-01 | coefficientgiving.org | [Criminal Justice Reform] Published: March 2017 The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $1,500,000 over two years to support the launch of the Fair and Just Prosecution project, a 501(c)(3) organization that will be housed at the Tides Center. The Fair and Just Prosecution project will provide guidance, assistance and networked support to recently elected prosecutors committed to change and innovation as they seek to implement criminal justice system policy and practice reforms in their offices. Sources Document Source Fair and Just Prosecution Project Proposal Source Fair and Just Prosecution: Reimagining The Field Of Prosecution Source | Tmgr7dBiNn | Fair and Just Prosecution | Not checked |
| Food Fortification Initiative — General Support (December 2018) | $100K | 2018-12 | coefficientgiving.org | [GiveWell-Recommended Charities] The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $100,000 to the Food Fortification Initiative via the CDC Foundation for general support, due to its status as a GiveWell standout charity. We followed the recommendation of GiveWell staff regarding how to allocate grantmaking between GiveWell standout charities. Read GiveWell’s review of the Food Fortification Initiative to learn more about the charity's activities and follow its progress. | ONN00wZd8U | Food Fortification Initiative | Not checked |
| GiveDirectly — General Support (December 2018) | $2.5M | 2018-12 | coefficientgiving.org | [GiveWell-Recommended Charities] The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $2,500,000 to GiveDirectly for general operating support, due to its status as a GiveWell top charity. We followed the recommendation of GiveWell staff regarding how to allocate grantmaking between GiveWell top charities. Read GiveWell’s review of GiveDirectly to learn more about the charity's activities and follow its progress. | ONN00wZd8U | GiveDirectly | Not checked |
| Albert Schweitzer Foundation — International Cage-Free Advocacy | $112K | 2017-01 | coefficientgiving.org | [Cage-Free Reforms] Published: March 2017 The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of €102,000 ($111,986 at the time of conversion) over two years to the Albert Schweitzer Foundation to support its work to end the confinement of hens in battery cages. In early 2016, we recommended a series of grants to support corporate cage-free campaigns and wrote on our blog about why we see this as a promising strategy to promote farm animal welfare. The present funding, part of a new series of grants focusing on international cage-free advocacy, will support Albert Schweitzer's work in Poland. Sources Document Source Albert Schweitzer Foundation, Poland Cage-free Budget Source | ho2AG7NXWE | Albert Schweitzer Foundation | Not checked |
| Results for Development — Childhood Pneumonia Treatment Program (2019) | $5.6M | 2019-01 | coefficientgiving.org | [Global Health & Development] The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a $5,605,398 grant to Results for Development (R4D) to support Phase II of its pneumonia treatment program in Tanzania. R4D is a global nonprofit organization aiming to tackle development challenges to help those living in poverty. This is a renewal of a previous grant that R4D received to support Phase I of this program. R4D aims to use these funds over four years to increase the treatment coverage rate of pediatric amoxicillin, which is the World Health Organization-recommended first-line treatment for childhood pneumonia. See GiveWell's page on this grant for more details. | ONN00wZd8U | Results for Development | Not checked |
| UC Berkeley — Plant Pathology Workshop (Brian Staskawicz) | $63K | 2016-12 | coefficientgiving.org | [Science for Global Health] Published: March 2017 The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $63,000 to the Innovative Genomics Institute at UC Berkeley to support a two-day workshop on plant pathology with a small group of experts organized by Professor Brian Staskawicz. The workshop was intended to identify and discuss specific research topics in plant pathology related to increasing crop disease tolerance and/or resistance that might merit philanthropic support, with the goal of improving the welfare of small farmers in the developing world. | B4pZkOtjSk | University of California, Berkeley | Not checked |
| Mijente — Criminal Justice Reform (2016) | $255K | 2016-08 | coefficientgiving.org | [Criminal Justice Reform] The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $255,000 via Puente Arizona to Mijente to support its work on criminal justice reform. We do not plan to write in more detail about this grant at this time. | Tmgr7dBiNn | Mijente | Not checked |
| Charity Science Health — SMS Reminders for Immunization | $358K | 2017-07 | coefficientgiving.org | [Global Health & Development] The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a GiveWell Incubation Grant of $357,543 to Charity Science Health to support its Short Message Service (SMS) immunization reminder program in India. GiveWell Incubation Grants are recommended by GiveWell staff, and support the development of potential future top charities. Charity Science Health previously received a $200,000 GiveWell Incubation Grant to support its first year of activities. This new grant is intended to cover the total costs for its second year of activities, primarily related to the further development of its program to send SMS immunization reminders to caregivers of infants aged 0-1 in India. See GiveWell's page on this grant for more details. | ONN00wZd8U | Charity Science Health | Not checked |
| New Incentives — General Support (April 2020) | $1.9M | 2020-04 | coefficientgiving.org | [Global Health & Development] The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a GiveWell Incubation Grant of up to $1,897,905 to support its program providing conditional cash transfers (CCTs) for infant vaccination in North West Nigeria. This grant supplements a larger GiveWell Incubation Grant that was made in November 2017 to support New Incentives' operations during a randomized controlled trial (RCT) of its program. The additional funding will sustain New Incentives' operations for the duration of the RCT, plus additional time for us to evaluate the results of the RCT and one extra month for New Incentives to plan its wind-down if we decide not to recommend funding for it in the future. From mid-May until our investigation is complete (between mid-July and December 2020), New Incentives will receive monthly disbursements of $253,054, covering its operating expenses for up to 7.5 months in total. GiveWell Incubation Grants are recommended by GiveWell staff, and support the development of potential future top charities. See GiveWell’s page on this grant for more details. | ONN00wZd8U | New Incentives | Not checked |
| Food Fortification Initiative — General Support (December 2017) | $100K | 2017-12 | coefficientgiving.org | [GiveWell-Recommended Charities] The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $100,000 to the Food Fortification Initiative via the CDC Foundation for general support, due to its status as a GiveWell standout charity. We followed the recommendation of GiveWell staff regarding how to allocate grantmaking between GiveWell standout charities. Read GiveWell’s review of the Food Fortification Initiative to learn more about the charity's activities and follow its progress. | ONN00wZd8U | Food Fortification Initiative | Not checked |
| ASUC — Effective Altruists of Berkeley “DeCal” University Course | $10K | 2015-02 | coefficientgiving.org | [Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building] Published: October 2016 Note: This page was created using content published by Good Ventures and GiveWell, the organizations that created the Open Philanthropy Project, before this website was launched. Uses of “we” and “our” on this page may therefore refer to Good Ventures or GiveWell, but they still represent the work of the Open Philanthropy Project. Good Ventures awarded a grant of $10,000 to Associated Students of the University of California, Berkeley to support a Spring 2015 course for undergradutes on altruism. The course is part of the "DeCal" program at the University of California, Berkeley, in which courses are created and facilitated by students. Students taking the course will use the funds provided by this grant to make donations to charities of their choice. | c5QZjjyC7w | Associated Students of the University of California, Berkeley | Not checked |
| People for Animals — International Cage-Free Advocacy | $89K | 2016-08 | coefficientgiving.org | [Cage-Free Reforms] Published: October 2016 The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of Rs 6,000,000 ($89,392 at the time of conversion) to People for Animals to support its work to end the confinement of hens in battery cages. Earlier in 2016, we recommended a series of grants to support corporate cage-free campaigns and wrote on our blog about why we see this as a promising strategy to promote farm animal welfare. The present funding, part of a new series of grants focusing on international cage-free advocacy, will support People for Animals' work in India. We do not plan to write in more detail about this grant at this time. | ho2AG7NXWE | People for Animals | Not checked |
| New Incentives — General Support (2016) | $300K | 2016-03 | coefficientgiving.org | [Global Health & Development] Published: March 2017 Note: This grant was awarded while the Open Philanthropy Project was a partnership between GiveWell and Good Ventures. Good Ventures, with input from GiveWell, awarded a grant of $300,000 to New Incentives in March 2016 for general operating support. Good Ventures previously made grants to New Incentives in January 2014 and March 2015. New Incentives is a startup organization that aims to increase delivery of conditional cash transfers, an intervention we believe to be supported by strong evidence of effectiveness. We are continuing to support New Incentives in its expansion because we believe that New Incentives, if successful, could become a GiveWell-recommended charity. See GiveWell's writeup of this grant for more details. | ONN00wZd8U | New Incentives | Not checked |
| Free Migration Project — Planning Grant | $24K | 2016-05 | coefficientgiving.org | [Immigration Policy] The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $24,000 to the newly-formed Free Migration Project to support a strategic planning process. This grant is part of our work to support organizations that promote freer immigration on humanitarian grounds. Sources Document Source Free Migration Project, Strategic Planning Funding Proposal Source | ONN00wZd8U | Free Migration Project | Not checked |
| LatinoJustice — Work to End Mass Incarceration | $500K | 2017-02 | coefficientgiving.org | [Criminal Justice Reform] Published: September 2017 Grant investigator: Chloe Cockburn This page was reviewed but not written by the grant investigator. LatinoJustice staff also reviewed this page prior to publication. The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $500,000 to LatinoJustice to enable it to launch the Criminal Justice Reform Policy & Practice Center, which will focus on advocacy, communications, and litigation. The two main goals of the Center will be to support criminal justice policy reform and to encourage key organizations and Latinx activists to support criminal justice reform. Sources Document Source LatinoJustice Projected Budget Source | Tmgr7dBiNn | LatinoJustice | Not checked |
| Deworm the World Initiative — General Support (December 2017) | $15M | 2017-12 | coefficientgiving.org | [GiveWell-Recommended Charities] The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $15,200,000 to Evidence Action to support the Deworm the World Initiative, due to its status as a GiveWell top charity. We followed the recommendation of GiveWell staff regarding how to allocate grantmaking between GiveWell top charities. Read GiveWell’s review of the Deworm the World Initiative to learn more about the charity's activities and follow its progress. | ONN00wZd8U | Evidence Action | Not checked |
| Development Media International — General Support (December 2017) | $100K | 2017-12 | coefficientgiving.org | [GiveWell-Recommended Charities] The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $100,000 to Development Media International via GiveWell for general support, due to its status as a GiveWell standout charity. We followed the recommendation of GiveWell staff regarding how to allocate grantmaking between GiveWell standout charities. Read GiveWell’s review of Development Media International to learn more about the charity's activities and follow its progress. | ONN00wZd8U | Development Media International | Not checked |
| The END Fund — Deworming Programs (December 2017) | $2.5M | 2017-12 | coefficientgiving.org | [GiveWell-Recommended Charities] The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $2,500,000 to The END Fund to support deworming programs, due to its status as a GiveWell top charity. We followed the recommendation of GiveWell staff regarding how to allocate grantmaking between GiveWell top charities. Read GiveWell’s review of The End Fund to learn more about the charity's activities and follow its progress. | ONN00wZd8U | The END Fund | Not checked |
| Wageningen University & Research — Chicken Welfare Systematic Assessment | $88K | 2017-03 | coefficientgiving.org | [Broiler Chicken Welfare] Wageningen University & Research staff reviewed this page prior to publication. The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of €82,105 ($88,345 at the time of conversion) via the King Baudouin Foundation to Dr. Marc Bracke at Wageningen University & Research Livestock Research to create a systematic assessment of broiler chicken welfare. Over the course of 12 months, Dr. Bracke will assess the relative importance of the various attributes that together define broiler chicken welfare. Welfare attributes are factors such as stocking density, litter quality, breed, and lighting. Depending on the results of an initial investigation, he will produce either a basic broiler chicken welfare model or a review of expert opinion. We initially decided to recommend this grant in April 2016. At that time, we anticipated that the results of this research would help to guide our decision-making around grants to support corporate campaigns to improve the welfare of the approximately 9 billion broiler chickens raised each year in the U.S. However, due to difficulties and delays in finalizing the details of the grant, funds were only transferred in March 2017, after we had already begun to make grants to support broiler chicken welfare reforms. Because of this delay, Dr. Bracke may decide to focus some of his research efforts on the welfare of other species. | ho2AG7NXWE | Wageningen University & Research | Not checked |
| Humane Society International — International Cage-Free Outreach | $1M | 2016-08 | coefficientgiving.org | [Cage-Free Reforms] Published: October 2016 The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $1,000,000 over two years to Humane Society International to support its work to end the confinement of hens in battery cages. Earlier in 2016, we recommended a series of grants to support corporate cage-free campaigns and wrote on our blog about why we see this as a promising strategy to promote farm animal welfare. The present funding, part of a new series of grants focusing on international cage-free advocacy, will support Humane Society International’s work in Latin America and Asia.1 We do not plan to write in more detail about this grant at this time. Sources DOCUMENT SOURCE Humane Society International, Redacted Proposal Source | ho2AG7NXWE | Humane Society International | Not checked |
| Center for International Security and Cooperation — Megan Palmer’s Biosecurity Research (2016) | $643K | 2016-10 | coefficientgiving.org | [Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness] Published: November 2016 CISAC staff reviewed this page prior to publication. The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $643,415 to Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) to support Megan Palmer’s work on biosecurity. This grant is structured to provide two years of support, renewable for a third year conditional upon satisfactory progress. Dr. Palmer’s policy research is focused on developing ways to improve the governance of biological science and technology, and we believe her work is well aligned with Open Philanthropy Project goals to reduce the risk of the misuse of advanced biotechnology. One of the projects she intends to focus on in the next few years is a study of past, current and future iGEM competitions to better understand how to motivate young scientists and engineers to take biosafety and biosecurity seriously and how to instill those values in a way that lasts throughout their careers. | IVKWfIkgOz | Stanford University | Not checked |
| Evidence Action Beta — Iron and Folic Acid Supplementation | $320K | 2018-06 | coefficientgiving.org | [Global Health & Development] The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a GiveWell Incubation Grant of $320,000 to Evidence Action for their Evidence Action Beta program to scope a project to provide technical assistance for the Indian government's work on large-scale school-based iron and folic acid supplementation targeting children and adolescents. GiveWell Incubation Grants are recommended by GiveWell staff, and support the development of potential future top charities. See GiveWell's page on this grant for more details. | ONN00wZd8U | Evidence Action | Not checked |
| Malaria Consortium — Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention Programs (December 2017) | $28M | 2017-12 | coefficientgiving.org | [GiveWell-Recommended Charities] The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $27,900,000 to Malaria Consortium to support seasonal malaria chemoprevention programs, due to its status as a GiveWell top charity. We followed the recommendation of GiveWell staff regarding how to allocate grantmaking between GiveWell top charities. Read GiveWell’s review of Malaria Consortium to learn more about the charity's activities and follow its progress. | ONN00wZd8U | Malaria Consortium | Not checked |
| Roosevelt Institute — Macroeconomic Policy Research | $200K | 2016-06 | coefficientgiving.org | [Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy] Roosevelt Institute staff reviewed this page prior to publication. The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $200,000 to the Roosevelt Institute to support work on macroeconomic policy. Macroeconomic stabilization policy is one of our focus areas. This is one in a series of grants attempting to build up the capacity of progressive think tanks on macroeconomic policy issues we see as important. We would characterize the work that these grants will support as falling into two main areas: Preparing for the next U.S. recession, which we would guess is likely to occur before interest rates return to “normal” levels.1 This could include exploring: Monetary policy tools that the Federal Reserve (“the Fed”) could use if it were to return to the zero lower bound on nominal short term interest rates, such as quantitative easing or a change to the inflation target Proposals for automatic stabilizers that Congress could put in place to reduce the need for discretionary responses to the next recession Proposals for novel fiscal stimulus measures in case a recession does strike Making the case for the importance of continued focus on reducing unemployment and against premature monetary tightening today. We think it will eventually be appropriate to raise interest rates but that the Fed is more likely to raise prematurely than belatedly, and that doing so carries greater welfare costs, so we see value in supporting work that argues for a continued focus on unemployment. Our funding will allow existing Roosevelt staff to focus on these issues, as well as supporting the hiring of an additional staff economist and part-time research assistant. These researchers plan to undertake two projects on the topics listed above: one to build out the monetary policy toolkit available to the Fed (“Monetary Policy Toolkit”), and one to investigate the potential for continued recovery from the Great Recession (“Anti-Hysteresis”). More about these projects is laid out in Roosevelt’s concept paper for this grant.2 Our key uncertainty for this grant, along with our other grants to think tanks for work on macroeconomic policy, is whether work by think tanks on these issues is likely to sway decisionmakers at the Fed or in Congress. We would guess that the work we support is relatively unlikely to affect policy, but that if it did our support would be justified many times over, and we see that as a bet worth taking. Sources DOCUMENT SOURCE Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Effective Federal Funds Rate Source (archive) Roosevelt Institute, Concept Paper Source | ONN00wZd8U | Roosevelt Institute | Not checked |
| Longview Philanthropy — Far-UVC Event (2023) | $165K | 2023-02 | coefficientgiving.org | [Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness] Open Philanthropy recommended two grants totaling $165,000 to Longview Philanthropy (a project of Effective Ventures Foundation UK) to support an event, hosted by Kevin Esvelt and David Sliney, on far-UVC technology. This event will bring together several dozen experts to create and promote a research agenda to investigate whether far-UVC light can be used to safely reduce indoor pathogen transmission. This follows our November 2022 support for a similar but smaller event in late 2022, and falls within our focus area of biosecurity and pandemic preparedness. | IVKWfIkgOz | Longview Philanthropy | Not checked |
| Université de Montréal — Research Project on Artificial Intelligence | $211K | 2021-09 | coefficientgiving.org | [Navigating Transformative AI] Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of CAN$266,200 ($210,552 at the time of conversion) to the Université de Montréal to support a research project investigating AI consciousness and moral patienthood. The research will be conducted in collaboration with Mila and the Future of Humanity Institute. This funding will support post-docs and students studying the topic, as well as publications and workshops. This falls within our focus area of potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence. | EXpTP-ujq6 | Université de Montréal | Not checked |
| Talos Network — General Support | $662K | 2024-07 | coefficientgiving.org | [Navigating Transformative AI] Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $662,378 to the Talos Network for general support. The Talos Network is a talent development organization for careers in European AI policy. This falls within our focus area of potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence. | EXpTP-ujq6 | Talos Network | Not checked |
| UCLA — Climate Engineering Governance | $776K | 2017-03 | coefficientgiving.org | [Global Catastrophic Risks] Published: April 2017 The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $776,095 to the UCLA School of Law to support research and meetings on climate engineering governance led by Professor Edward Parson. Professor Parson plans to use this grant to hire one or two fellows for three years to do academic research, publish papers, and hold meetings and workshops on climate engineering governance with relevant policymakers. We hope that this grant will positively influence the future of climate engineering governance and policy. Sources Document Source UCLA School of Law Climate Engineering Governance Proposal Source | c5QZjjyC7w | UCLA School of Law | Not checked |
| Catalyst — Farm Animal Welfare in Thailand (2022) | $700K | 2022-11 | coefficientgiving.org | [Farm Animal Welfare] Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $699,986 over two years to Catalyst to support their work on farm animal welfare advocacy in Thailand. Catalyst will continue to conduct corporate outreach for cage-free reforms, and to build the farm animal welfare movement in Thailand. This follows our August 2020 support and falls within our focus area of farm animal welfare. | ho2AG7NXWE | Catalyst | Not checked |
| Kainomyx — Antimalarial Drug (2025) | $900K | 2024-12 | coefficientgiving.org | [Scientific Research] Open Philanthropy recommended an investment of $899,999 in Kainomyx to discover and develop novel therapeutics with unique mechanisms of action to treat malaria and other parasitic diseases. If effective, the new drugs would act by inhibiting cytoskeletal proteins in malarial and other parasites. This follows our September 2021 investment and falls within our work on scientific research, specifically within our interest in advancing human health and wellbeing. The grant amount was updated in September 2025. | B4pZkOtjSk | Kainomyx | Not checked |
| Ethical Seafood Research — Aquaculture Strategy in Zanzibar | $82K | 2024-02 | coefficientgiving.org | [Farm Animal Welfare] Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of GBP 65,355 (approximately $81,659 at the time of conversion) to Ethical Seafood Research to support the drafting of a humane and sustainable aquaculture strategy for the archipelago of Zanzibar. This falls within our focus area of farm animal welfare. To learn more about new approaches and strategies, we sometimes make “experimental grants”, which involve less vetting than our other grants. This is an experimental grant. | ho2AG7NXWE | Ethical Seafood Research | Not checked |
| Center for Applied Rationality — SPARC (2022) | $700K | 2022-08 | coefficientgiving.org | [Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building] Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $700,000 over two years to the Center for Applied Rationality (CFAR) to support its Summer Program on Applied Rationality and Cognition (SPARC). SPARC is a two-week summer program aimed at helping talented high school students develop quantitative and applied reasoning skills. We believe that SPARC could encourage attendees to work on projects and pursue ideas related to effective altruism and global catastrophic risk reduction. This follows our 2018 support for SPARC and falls within our focus area of global catastrophic risks capacity building. | c5QZjjyC7w | Center for Applied Rationality | Not checked |
| RSPCA Australia — Broiler Chicken Reports | $72K | 2024-03 | coefficientgiving.org | [Broiler Chicken Welfare] Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of AUD 110,000 (approximately $72,347 at the time of conversion) to RSPCA Australia to support the creation of two reports on the welfare and economics of slower-growing broiler chicken breeds in Australia. This falls within our focus area of farm animal welfare, specifically within our interest in broiler chicken welfare. | ho2AG7NXWE | RSPCA Australia | Not checked |
| Effective Altruism Funds — Regranting and Operations Support (December 2023) | $5M | 2023-12 | coefficientgiving.org | [Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building] Open Philanthropy recommended two grants totaling $5,026,513 to Effective Altruism Funds. Some of this funding will support operating expenses, and the rest will be regranted via the Long-Term Future Fund and the EA Infrastructure Fund to projects aimed at improving the long-term future and to projects aimed at supporting the effective altruism community, respectively. This follows our May 2023 support and falls within our focus area of growing and empowering the community of people focused on global catastrophic risk reduction. | c5QZjjyC7w | Effective Altruism Funds | Not checked |
| Compromiso Verde — Cage-Free Campaigns in Peru (2025) | $324K | 2025-02 | coefficientgiving.org | [Cage-Free Reforms] Open Philanthropy recommended two grants totaling $324,000 over two years to Compromiso Verde to support its work on cage-free reforms in Peru. Compromiso Verde will use this funding to run corporate campaigns and help producers reach their cage-free commitments. This follows our February 2023 support and falls within our focus area of farm animal welfare, specifically within our interest in cage-free reforms. | ho2AG7NXWE | Compromiso Verde | Not checked |
| Stanford University — LLM-Generated Research Ideation Benchmark | $880K | 2024-05 | coefficientgiving.org | [Navigating Transformative AI] Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $880,000 over two years to Stanford University to support a project evaluating the abilities of Large Language Model (LLM) agents at generating Machine Learning (ML) research project ideas via a large-scale experiment, led by Assistant Professor Tatsunori Hashimoto. This grant was funded via a request for proposals for projects benchmarking LLM agents on consequential real-world tasks and falls within our focus area of potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence. | EXpTP-ujq6 | Stanford University | Not checked |
| Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — SERI MATS Program (2022) | $1M | 2022-04 | coefficientgiving.org | [Navigating Transformative AI] Open Philanthropy recommended three grants totaling $1,008,127 to the Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative to support its collaboration with the Stanford Existential Risks Initiative (SERI) on the second cohort of the SERI Machine Learning Alignment Theory Scholars (MATS) Program. MATS is an educational seminar and independent research program that aims to provide talented scholars with talks, workshops, and research mentorship in the field of AI alignment, and connect them with the Berkeley alignment research community. This follows our November 2021 support and falls within our focus area of potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence. The grant amount was updated in January 2023. | EXpTP-ujq6 | Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative | Not checked |
| OBRAZ — Broiler Chicken Welfare | $400K | 2025-06 | coefficientgiving.org | [Farm Animal Welfare] Open Philanthropy recommended two grants totaling $400,000 over two years to OBRAZ to support work to secure corporate broiler welfare and cage-free implementation pledges in Czechia. This follows our February 2023 support and falls within our focus area of farm animal welfare. | ho2AG7NXWE | OBRAZ | Not checked |
| Animal Kingdom Foundation — Farm Animal Welfare in the Philippines | $375K | 2023-07 | coefficientgiving.org | [Farm Animal Welfare] Open Philanthropy recommended two grants totaling 20.74M Philippine pesos (approximately $374,800 at the time of conversion) over two years to the Animal Kingdom Foundation to support its work advocating for layer hen and fish welfare reforms in the Philippines. This follows our July 2021 support and falls within our focus area of farm animal welfare. | ho2AG7NXWE | Animal Kingdom Foundation | Not checked |
| Innovate Animal Ag — Farm Animal Welfare Technology Adoption (2024) | $650K | 2024-09 | coefficientgiving.org | [Farm Animal Welfare] Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $650,000 over two years to Innovate Animal Ag to support its work to facilitate the adoption of new technology that improves farm animal welfare. Innovate Animal Ag will continue to focus on helping companies implement in-ovo egg sexing, which prevents the culling of male chicks in the egg industry. This follows our September 2023 support and falls within our focus area of farm animal welfare. | ho2AG7NXWE | Innovate Animal Ag | Not checked |
| Effektiv Spenden — Berlin Coworking Space | $109K | 2025-01 | coefficientgiving.org | [Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building] Photo courtesy of Effektiv Spenden Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of up to $109,000 to Effektiv Spenden to support a two-year lease for an office in Berlin. This grant will provide a coworking space for individuals working in fields related to effective altruism, and will also be used for related events. This falls within our focus area of Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building. | c5QZjjyC7w | Effektiv Spenden | Not checked |
| Georgetown University — Aid Research in Kenya | $80K | 2025-05 | coefficientgiving.org | [Global Aid Policy] Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $79,670 to Georgetown University to support research led by Professor Ken Opalo on how the Kenyan government is navigating recent aid cuts. This falls within our focus area of global aid policy. | t9rVNbSZs- | Georgetown University | Not checked |
| The People’s Lobby – Reform Implementation and Prosecutorial Accountability | $250K | 2021-08 | coefficientgiving.org | [Criminal Justice Reform] Open Philanthropy recommended two grants totaling $250,000 over two years to The People’s Lobby to support work on prosecutor accountability and on the implementation of the Pretrial Fairness Act, which ends money bail in Illinois. The Illinois legislature passed the Pretrial Fairness Act earlier this year, following years of work by The People’s Lobby and other members of the Coalition to End Money Bond. This follows our July 2020 support for the People’s Lobby Education Institute and falls within our focus area of criminal justice reform. | Tmgr7dBiNn | The People's Lobby | Not checked |
| Cordaid — Dutch Aid Advocacy | $54K | 2024-01 | coefficientgiving.org | [Global Aid Policy] Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of €49,995 (approximately $54,495 at the time of conversion) to Cordaid to support its efforts to prevent aid cuts (cuts in Official Development Assistance) in the Netherlands and grow aid funding within ODA in the Netherlands. This falls within our focus area of global aid policy. | t9rVNbSZs- | Cordaid | Not checked |
| Practical AI Alignment and Interpretability Research Group — Interpretability Work | $737K | 2024-09 | coefficientgiving.org | [Navigating Transformative AI] Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $737,000 over two years to the Practical AI Alignment and Interpretability Research Group to support work led by Atticus Geiger to conduct interpretability research, create open-source course materials on mechanistic interpretability, and run a mentorship program. This falls within our focus area of potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence. | EXpTP-ujq6 | Practical AI Alignment and Interpretability Research Group | Not checked |
| fair-fish international association — Wild-Caught Fish Welfare Standards | $2.7M | 2021-11 | coefficientgiving.org | [Farm Animal Welfare] Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of €2,300,000 ($2,672,830 at the time of conversion) over four years to the fair-fish international association (fair-fish) to support research for and the implementation of the world’s first welfare certification standards for wild-caught fish. fair-fish will develop the standards in partnership with the Centre of Marine Sciences (CCMAR), the Fish Ethology and Welfare Group, the DeMos Institute, and Friend of the Sea. This follows our March 2020 support and falls within our focus area of farm animal welfare. | ho2AG7NXWE | fair-fish international association | Not checked |
| Center for Global Development Europe — British Aid Advocacy | $826K | 2025-09 | coefficientgiving.org | [Global Aid Policy] Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of £609,864 (approximately $825,983 at the time of conversion) over two years to CGD Europe, the European branch of the Center for Global Development, to support work to improve the cost-effectiveness of U.K. official development assistance. This falls within our focus area of global aid policy. | t9rVNbSZs- | Center for Global Development | Not checked |
| Alignment Research Engineer Accelerator — AI Safety Technical Program (2025) | $1M | 2025-01 | coefficientgiving.org | [Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building] Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of £845,790 (approximately $1,037,061 at the time of conversion) to support the Alignment Research Engineer Accelerator (ARENA), a program that provides talented individuals with the skills, tools, and environment necessary for upskilling in ML engineering, for the purpose of contributing directly to AI alignment in technical roles. This follows our July 2024 support and falls within our focus area of Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building. The grant amount was updated in May 2025. | c5QZjjyC7w | Alignment Research Engineer Accelerator | Not checked |
| Prometheus Science Bowl — EA-Themed Science Bowl | $98K | 2022-02 | coefficientgiving.org | [Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building] Open Philanthropy recommended three grants totaling $97,500 to support the Prometheus Science Bowl, which is a series of Science Bowl competitions for middle- and high-schoolers with questions on topics related to effective altruism. This falls within our focus area of growing and empowering the community of people focused on global catastrophic risk reduction. | c5QZjjyC7w | Prometheus Science Bowl | Not checked |
| International AIDS Vaccine Initiative – Samples for Tuberculosis Vaccine Trial | $797K | 2024-03 | coefficientgiving.org | [Global Health R&D] Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $796,878 over five years to the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative to support additional sputum sample collection as part of a Phase IIb trial of MTBVAC, a novel tuberculosis vaccine. This sample collection will enable testing to assess the vaccine’s effect on incidence of subclinical tuberculosis cases, as well as provide valuable information on the incidence of subclinical tuberculosis in the wider study population. This falls within our focus area of global health R&D. | B4pZkOtjSk | International AIDS Vaccine Initiative | Not checked |
| Effective Ventures Foundation USA — Harvard Square Coworking Space | $7.6M | 2023-04 | coefficientgiving.org | [Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building] Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $7,644,020 to Effective Ventures Foundation USA (EVF USA) to support leasing and refurbishment costs for an office located in Harvard Square. This office will be run and managed by EVF USA and will provide coworking space for around 50 individuals working at effective altruism-affiliated organizations or related initiatives. This follows our August 2022 support and falls within our focus area of growing and empowering the community of people focused on global catastrophic risk reduction. | c5QZjjyC7w | Effective Ventures Foundation USA | Not checked |
| FAR.AI — AI Alignment Research Projects (January 2024) | $646K | 2024-01 | coefficientgiving.org | [Navigating Transformative AI] Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $645,750 to FAR.AI to support research expenses for several AI alignment research projects. Ethan Perez will mentor the independent researchers undertaking these projects. This falls within our focus area of potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence. | EXpTP-ujq6 | FAR AI | Not checked |
| Malaria No More UK — Fundraising and Advocacy | $2.9M | 2022-09 | coefficientgiving.org | [Global Aid Policy] Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of £2,608,400 (approximately $2,926,561 at the time of conversion) over two years to Malaria No More UK to support their advocacy for donor funding to eradicate malaria. This falls within our focus area of global aid policy. | t9rVNbSZs- | Malaria No More UK | Not checked |
| The Humane League — General Support (2016) | $1M | 2016-11 | coefficientgiving.org | [Farm Animal Welfare] Published: December 2016 The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $1,000,000 to The Humane League (THL) for general support. We have previously granted to THL to support cage-free advocacy in the U.S. and internationally. This grant provides unrestricted support to the organization, which THL plans to use to expand and invest in its staff and to increase its buffer of unrestricted funding. | ho2AG7NXWE | The Humane League | Not checked |
| Effective Ventures Foundation USA — Asterisk (2023) | $937K | 2023-04 | coefficientgiving.org | [Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building] Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $937,231 to Effective Ventures Foundation USA to support Asterisk, which is a quarterly journal focused on topics related to effective altruism, among others. This follows our January 2022 support and falls within our focus area of growing and empowering the community of people focused on global catastrophic risk reduction. | c5QZjjyC7w | Effective Ventures Foundation USA | Not checked |
| AI Alignment Awards — Shutdown Problem Contest | $75K | 2022-09 | coefficientgiving.org | [Navigating Transformative AI] Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $75,000 over 1.5 years to AI Alignment Awards to support a contest asking participants to share ideas on how AI systems can be designed or trained to avoid the shutdown problem. This falls within our focus area of potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence. The grant amount was updated in January 2024. | EXpTP-ujq6 | AI Alignment Awards | Not checked |
| Longview Philanthropy — Research Support for Kacper Kowalczyk | $75K | 2023-01 | coefficientgiving.org | [Global Catastrophic Risks] Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of £60,044 (approximately $74,557 at the time of conversion) to Longview Philanthropy to support Kacper Kowalczyk’s philosophy research. This falls within our work on global catastrophic risks. | c5QZjjyC7w | Longview Philanthropy | Not checked |
| The Center for Responsible Seafood — Fish Welfare Research and Promotion | $625K | 2022-04 | coefficientgiving.org | [Farm Animal Welfare] Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $625,000 over 2.5 years to The Center for Responsible Seafood to conduct welfare research on three commonly farmed fish species, develop a better method to assess the humaneness of fish stunning methods, and promote fish welfare in the seafood industry. This falls within our focus area of farm animal welfare. | ho2AG7NXWE | The Center for Responsible Seafood | Not checked |
| Queen Mary University of London — Animal Sentience Research | $981K | 2023-07 | coefficientgiving.org | [Farm Animal Welfare] Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of £760,184 (approximately $980,926 at the time of conversion) over three years to the Queen Mary University of London to support the research of Dr. Lars Chittka and Dr. Jonathan Birch on animal sentience. This falls within our focus area of farm animal welfare. | ho2AG7NXWE | Queen Mary University of London | Not checked |
| Wageningen University — Wild-Caught Fish Welfare (2024) | $832K | 2024-04 | coefficientgiving.org | [Farm Animal Welfare] Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of €779,281 (approximately $831,750 at the time of conversion) over three years to Wageningen University to support work to improve the welfare of wild-caught fish. This will involve assessing the welfare impacts of different capture methods and engaging with the fishing industry and fish certifiers to promote better practices. This follows our March 2023 support and falls within our focus area of farm animal welfare, specifically within our interest in fish welfare. | ho2AG7NXWE | Wageningen University | Not checked |
| Eurogroup for Animals — Chicken Welfare Advocacy (2024) | $944K | 2024-05 | coefficientgiving.org | [Broiler Chicken Welfare] Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of €875,745 (approximately $944,312 at the time of conversion) over two years to Eurogroup for Animals to support their political advocacy for egg-laying hen and broiler chicken welfare reforms. This follows our June 2022 support and falls within our focus area of farm animal welfare, specifically within our interest in broiler chicken welfare and farm animal welfare in Europe. The grant amount was updated in July 2025. | ho2AG7NXWE | Eurogroup for Animals | Not checked |
| Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — MineRL BASALT Competition | $70K | 2021-07 | coefficientgiving.org | [Navigating Transformative AI] Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $70,000 to the Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative to support the MineRL BASALT competition. The competition asks participants to build AI systems that learn from human feedback within the Minecraft video game, with the intent that the competition will spur more interest in learning from human feedback, using feedback efficiently, and doing so in complex environments. This falls within our focus area of potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence. | EXpTP-ujq6 | Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative | Not checked |
| Massachusetts General Hospital — Novel Sepsis Diagnosis Method | $958K | 2024-10 | coefficientgiving.org | [Scientific Research] Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $958,130 over two years to the Massachusetts General Hospital to support a trial of a novel method for diagnosing sepsis in children, led by Daniel Irimia. The new method employs a specially designed microfluidic maze in which neutrophils (white blood cells) from a single drop of blood are imaged to measure the velocity and direction of movement. An AI system, trained on healthy versus septic samples, is used to categorize the complex movements and diagnose the disease. This falls within our focus area of scientific research. | B4pZkOtjSk | Massachusetts General Hospital | Not checked |
| Timaeus — Operating Expenses | $1.6M | 2025-01 | coefficientgiving.org | [Global Catastrophic Risks] Open Philanthropy recommended two grants totaling $1,557,000 to Timaeus for operating expenses. Timaeus seeks to use singular learning theory to better understand how training data and algorithmic architectures determine the generalization behavior of models, which could lead to valuable applications in AI alignment. This falls within our focus area of potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence. | c5QZjjyC7w | Timaeus Research | Not checked |
| Ayni Institute — Movement Ecology and Metrics | $250K | 2016-12 | coefficientgiving.org | [Criminal Justice Reform] Published: February 2017 The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $250,000 to the Ayni Institute to support its work on research, communication and training on movement ecology and movement metrics. The Ayni Institute plans to use this grant to support a research project to identify and make the case for a set of metrics to use in assessing the capacity of groups to successfully mobilize the public on a large scale around issues such as mass incarceration. In particular, the Ayni Institute aims to identify metrics that can be used to determine both 1) the capacity of movements to create or capitalize on trigger events to shift public opinion, and 2) their capacity to absorb increased participation in high-profile moments. We believe that the resulting analysis of how to strategically fund the movement ecosystem may help to inform the way that we and other funders think about supporting movement-building, both in criminal justice reform and in other areas. We believe that the creation of movement metrics, if successful, is likely to increase the effectiveness of funding for social movements and attract new funders who currently do not support social movements due to the lack of measurability. This is a discretionary (formerly called "no-process") grant. For discretionary grants, the grant investigator (in this case Chloe Cockburn, our Program Officer for Criminal Justice Reform) can recommend the grant without needing to go through our normal process of providing their reasoning, discussing with the team, and providing input on and review of our public page. These grants are limited to a relatively small proportion of our grantmaking, and some other stipulations apply to what types of grant are eligible. The overall aim is for us to be able to move forward on relatively small and low-risk grants, based purely on the judgment of a single staff member and with minimal delay. | Tmgr7dBiNn | Ayni Institute | Not checked |
| Surge AI — Data Production for AI Safety Research | $126K | 2023-09 | coefficientgiving.org | [Navigating Transformative AI] Open Philanthropy recommended two contracts totaling $126,250 over two years with Surge AI to support Gabriel Recchia in producing data points for a research project on sandwiching experiments and capability evaluations of large language models. This project was supported through a contractor agreement. While we typically do not publish pages for contractor agreements, we occasionally opt to do so. This falls within our focus area of potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence. The contract amount was updated in March 2024. | EXpTP-ujq6 | Surge AI | Not checked |
| Rethink Priorities — Effective Altruism Brand Strategy Research | $88K | 2024-04 | coefficientgiving.org | [Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building] Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $88,240 to Rethink Priorities to support experiments testing public responses to different branding strategies within the effective altruism and longtermism movements. This falls within our focus area of Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building. | c5QZjjyC7w | Rethink Priorities | Not checked |
| Effective Ventures Foundation — Office Space (2023) | $320K | 2023-10 | coefficientgiving.org | [Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building] Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of £244,000 (approximately $320,000 at the time of conversion) to the Effective Ventures Foundation to support an office space in Oxford. This falls within our focus area of growing and empowering the community of people focused on global catastrophic risk reduction. | c5QZjjyC7w | Centre for Effective Altruism | Not checked |
| Epistea — AI Safety Conference | $327K | 2025-03 | coefficientgiving.org | [Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building] Open Philanthropy recommended two grants totaling $326,630 to Epistea to support the 2025 ILIAD Odyssey, a conference focused on theoretical alignment research and scientific foundations for AI safety. This falls within our focus area of Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building. The grant amount was updated in September 2025. | c5QZjjyC7w | Epistea | Not checked |
| The Degrees Initiative — General Support (2021) | $7M | 2021-11 | coefficientgiving.org | [Global Catastrophic Risks] Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $7,000,000 over three years to the Degrees Initiative (formerly the Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative), via Prism the Gift Fund, for general support. This funding is intended to support research in lower- and middle-income countries on the potential physical and socio-political implications of solar radiation management (SRM). We see supporting researchers, especially those outside the Global North, as a promising step towards improving governance around SRM. And we continue to view SRM governance as a field that is largely neglected by philanthropists and governments. This follows our September 2017 support and falls within our work to reduce global catastrophic risks. The grant amount was updated in September 2024. | c5QZjjyC7w | The Degrees Initiative | Not checked |
| Stanford University — Research on Lipid Nanoparticles (Jeffrey Glenn) | $610K | 2021-04 | coefficientgiving.org | [Science Supporting Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness] Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $610,000 over two years to Stanford University to support a collaboration between Professor Jeffrey Glenn and Professor James Dahlman, of Georgia Tech, to develop and test novel lipid nanoparticles for use in antiviral drug candidates intended to prevent infections by all beta-coronaviruses and influenza strains. Effective pan-influenza and -coronavirus antiviral drugs could avert hundreds of thousands of deaths annually and minimize the spread of highly infectious and lethal strains of the viruses. This follows our July 2020 support and falls within our work on scientific research, specifically within our interest in science supporting biosecurity and pandemic preparedness. | IVKWfIkgOz | Stanford University | Not checked |
| Giving What We Can — General Support (2021) | $600K | 2021-11 | coefficientgiving.org | [Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building] Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $600,000 to Giving What We Can for general support. This falls within our focus area of growing and empowering the community of people focused on global catastrophic risk reduction. | c5QZjjyC7w | Giving What We Can | Not checked |
| George Mason University — Research into Future Artificial Intelligence Scenarios | $277K | 2016-06 | coefficientgiving.org | [Navigating Transformative AI] Professor Hanson reviewed this page prior to publication. The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $277,435 over three years to Robin Hanson (Associate Professor of Economics, George Mason University) to analyze potential scenarios in the future development of artificial intelligence (AI). Professor Hanson plans to focus on scenarios in which AI is developed through the steady accumulation of individual pieces of software and leads to a “multipolar” outcome (i.e. a scenario in which the control of advanced AI is distributed among multiple actors, rather than controlled by a single group, firm, or state). Part of this grant will pay to hire a research assistant. Ideally, this research will culminate in a book by Professor Hanson on the topic. Update: In July of 2017, we added $12,910 to the original grant amount to cover an increase in George Mason University’s instructional release costs (“teaching buyouts”). The “grant amount” above has been updated to reflect this. 1. Background This grant falls within our work on potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence, one of our focus areas within global catastrophic risks. 2. About the grant Professor Hanson’s grant proposal describes the project as follows:1 Robin Hanson proposes to take three years to conduct a broad positive analysis of the multipolar scenario wherein AI results from relatively steady accumulation of software tools. That is, he proposes to assume that human level AI will result mainly from the continued accumulation of software tools and packages, with distributions of cost and value correlations similar to those seen so far in software practice, in an environment where no one actor dominates the process of creating or fielding such software. He will attempt a mostly positive analysis of the social consequences of these assumptions, both during and after a transition to a world dominated by AI. While this is hardly the universe of all desired analyses, it does seem to cover a non-trivial fraction of interesting cases. 2.1 Case for the grant While we do not believe that the class of scenarios that Professor Hanson will be analyzing is necessarily the most likely way for future AI development to play out, we expect his research to contribute a significant amount of useful data collection and analysis that might be valuable to our thinking about AI more generally, as well as provide a model for other people to follow when performing similar analyses of other AI scenarios of interest. Professor Hanson appears to us to be particularly well suited for this project, for several reasons: His recently published book on the potential future of whole brain emulations, The Age of Em,2 seems to us to be a thoughtful analysis of what might happen if brain emulations were developed (though we do not agree with all of the book’s claims and predictions). We believe Professor Hanson’s analysis of future AI scenarios could prove similarly thoughtful. He had developed an outline and plan for this analysis before we expressed interest in supporting it, making this an unusually “shovel-ready” grant. He appears to us to be knowledgeable about economics, AI, and futurism generally, and to be a particularly original thinker. He is particularly interested in analyzing scenarios where advances in AI have a transformative impact on the world. In general, we would like to see a larger amount of thoughtful analysis of how AI-related scenarios might play out. 2.2 Room for more funding We do not believe that Professor Hanson would undertake this work in the near future without this funding. He had planned to turn his attention to other research if he did not receive funding for this specific project, and we are fairly confident that no other funder was planning to support the project. 2.3 Risks and reservations Our main concern is that, after further consideration, we might later conclude that the scenario analyzed was foreseeably very unlikely (e.g. b | EXpTP-ujq6 | George Mason University | Not checked |
| PATH — Health Technical Support Unit | $704K | 2025-05 | coefficientgiving.org | [GiveWell-Recommended Charities] Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $704,461 to PATH to provide technical assistance through a technical support unit (TSU) to support the Ministry of Health in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to execute its government-led reform agenda in response to funding cuts from the U.S. government and other entities. For more information, see GiveWell’s writeup. This falls within our work on global health and wellbeing. | ONN00wZd8U | PATH | Not checked |
| Humane Society International — Farm Animal Welfare in Southeast Asia | $887K | 2023-09 | coefficientgiving.org | [Farm Animal Welfare] Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $887,300 over two years to Humane Society International (HSI) to support work advancing farm animal welfare in Southeast Asia. HSI intends to use this funding to secure and implement cage- and crate-free egg and pork corporate pledges. This follows our May 2021 support and falls within our focus area of farm animal welfare, specifically within our interest in farm animal welfare in Asia. | ho2AG7NXWE | Humane Society International | Not checked |
| Michael Specter — Course Development Support | $85K | 2021-11 | coefficientgiving.org | [Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building] Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $85,000 to support Michael Specter’s work co-teaching a course with Professor Kevin Esvelt and developing a seminar for fellows of MIT’s Knight Science Journalism program. Both courses will be held at MIT. We sought applications for this funding to support the development of courses on a range of topics that are relevant to certain areas of Open Philanthropy’s grantmaking. | c5QZjjyC7w | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Not checked |
| Dyrevernalliansen — Ethical Investment Criteria | $95K | 2024-08 | coefficientgiving.org | [Farm Animal Welfare] Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $95,000 over two years to Dyrevernalliansen (The Norwegian Animal Protection Alliance) to support a project to set farm animal welfare criteria for investments within the Norway Government Pension Fund Global. This falls within our focus area of farm animal welfare, specifically within our interest in farm animal welfare in Europe. To learn more about new approaches and strategies, we sometimes make “experimental grants”, which involve less vetting than our other grants. This is an experimental grant. | ho2AG7NXWE | Dyrevernalliansen (The Norwegian Animal Protection Alliance) | Not checked |
| Vital Strategies — RESET Alcohol Initiative (2024) | $10M | 2024-11 | coefficientgiving.org | [Global Public Health Policy] Open Philanthropy recommended two grants totaling $10,000,000 over two years to Vital Strategies to support the RESET Alcohol Initiative, a consortium of six organizations working to reduce harms from excessive alcohol consumption in low- and middle-income countries. This follows our January 2022 support and falls within our focus area of global public health policy. | B4pZkOtjSk | Vital Strategies | Not checked |
| PoliPoli — Youth Outreach for Global Health Aid | $182K | 2023-01 | coefficientgiving.org | [Global Aid Policy] Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of ¥23,500,000 (approximately $181,621 at the time of conversion) to PoliPoli to support its work on a program designed to engage young Japanese entrepreneurs on global issues, especially global health policy, with the ultimate goal of incubating organizations that will advocate for increased global health aid. This falls within our focus area of global aid policy. | t9rVNbSZs- | PoliPoli | Not checked |
| Oxford AI Safety Initiative — Office Access | $18K | 2025-01 | coefficientgiving.org | [Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building] Open Philanthropy recommended two grants totaling £23,575 (approximately $30,520 at the time of conversion) to the Oxford AI Safety Initiative to cover access fees for a shared office space in Oxford. This falls within our focus area of Global Catastrophic Risks Capacity Building. The grant amount was updated in September 2025. | c5QZjjyC7w | Oxford AI Safety Initiative | Not checked |
| University of Stirling — Fish Welfare Research (2022) | $905K | 2022-09 | coefficientgiving.org | [Farm Animal Welfare] Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of £781,499 (approximately $904,610 at the time of conversion) over two years to the University of Stirling to support Professor Dave Little’s research on fish welfare, with a focus on farmed fish in Thailand and Vietnam. This falls within our focus area of farm animal welfare. | ho2AG7NXWE | University of Stirling | Not checked |
| The Ordinary People Society — Prodigal Child Project | $300K | 2016-12 | coefficientgiving.org | [Criminal Justice Reform] Published: February 2017 The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $300,000 to The Ordinary People Society to support its Prodigal Child Project, which organizes pastors in the southern U.S. in support of prisoners, former prisoners, their families, and communities, as part of larger campaigns to raise public awareness and reduce incarceration. The work is led by Pastor Kenneth Glasgow, a formerly incarcerated person who has long worked for reforms in Alabama and surrounding states. This grant will allow Pastor Glasgow to begin building up the infrastructure of his organization. This is a discretionary (formerly called "no-process") grant. For discretionary grants, the grant investigator (in this case Chloe Cockburn, our Program Officer for Criminal Justice Reform) can recommend the grant without needing to go through our normal process of providing their reasoning, discussing with the team, and providing input on and review of our public page. These grants are limited to a relatively small proportion of our grantmaking, and some other stipulations apply to what types of grant are eligible. The overall aim is for us to be able to move forward on relatively small and low-risk grants, based purely on the judgment of a single staff member and with minimal delay. | Tmgr7dBiNn | The Ordinary People Society | Not checked |
| Catherine Brewer — OxAI Safety Hub | $12K | 2022-10 | coefficientgiving.org | [Navigating Transformative AI] Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of £10,540 (approximately $11,622 at the time of conversion) to Catherine Brewer to support the OxAI Safety Hub, which is a new Oxford-based group working on building the AI safety community. This falls within our focus area of growing and empowering the EA community. | EXpTP-ujq6 | OxAI Safety Hub | Not checked |
| Humánny pokrok — Chicken Welfare Campaigns in Slovakia (2025) | $403K | 2025-02 | coefficientgiving.org | [Farm Animal Welfare] Open Philanthropy recommended two grants totaling €386,000 (approximately $402,933 at the time of conversion) to Humánny pokrok to support its work on cage-free and broiler chicken corporate campaigns in Slovakia. This follows our March 2024 support and falls within our focus area of farm animal welfare, specifically within our interest in farm animal welfare in Europe. It represents an “exit grant” that will provide Humánny pokrok with operational support. | ho2AG7NXWE | Humánny pokrok | Not checked |
| University of Southern California — Syphilis Genome Sequencing | $90K | 2022-12 | coefficientgiving.org | [Human Health and Wellbeing] Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $90,000 to the University of Southern California to support work led by Dr. Jeffrey Klausner on genome sequencing for clinical syphilis in southern Africa, in collaboration with the Foundation for Professional Development Fund and the Botswana-Harvard AIDS Institute. This research will help inform efforts to develop a vaccine against syphilis. This is one of three grants we are making to support this collaboration. This falls within our focus area of scientific research, specifically within our interest in advancing human health and wellbeing. | ONN00wZd8U | University of Southern California | Not checked |
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