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Cari Tuna is a major philanthropist who co-founded Good Ventures and Coefficient Giving, directing over $4 billion in grants including significant funding toward AI safety and pandemic preparedness, making her a key figure in the effective altruism and AI safety funding ecosystem.
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Cari Tuna is an American philanthropist and co-founder of Good Ventures and Coefficient Giving, which has directed over $4 billion in grants across global health, scientific research, pandemic preparedness, AI risk, and animal welfare. She and her husband Dustin Moskovitz are among the youngest signers of the Giving Pledge. Her data-driven, effective altruism-aligned approach to philanthropy has made her one of the most influential funders in AI safety.
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- •Co-founded Good Ventures and Coefficient Giving with husband Dustin Moskovitz, directing $4B+ in grants including to AI safety causes.
- •Named to Time's '100 Most Influential People in AI 2024' for her role at Coefficient Giving.
- •Youngest individual signer of the Giving Pledge; she and Moskovitz were the youngest couple to sign.
- •Selects philanthropic causes based on neglectedness, importance, and tractability — core effective altruism criteria.
- •Serves on the board of GiveWell, a leading charity evaluator central to the effective altruism movement.
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American philanthropist
Cari Tuna Tuna in 2016 Born ( 1985-10-04 ) October 4, 1985 (age 40)
Minnesota , U.S. Education Yale University ( Political science , B.A. ) Occupations Philanthropist, former journalist Known for Co-founding Coefficient Giving and Good Ventures Spouse
Dustin Moskovitz   ​ ( m.  2013) ​
Cari Tuna (born October 4, 1985) is an American philanthropist. Formerly a reporter for The Wall Street Journal , she is the co-founder and Chair of the philanthropic organizations Good Ventures and Coefficient Giving . She is married to Facebook and Asana co-founder Dustin Moskovitz . Tuna and Moskovitz were included in Time 's 2025 " Time 100 Philanthropy" list for their "data-focused approach to direct funds to causes where they can do the most good." [ 1 ] Forbes has described her as "one of the most generous philanthropists in the world." [ 2 ]
Early life
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Cari Tuna was born in Minnesota , [ 3 ] on October 4, 1985. [ 4 ] The eldest of three children of two doctors, she was brought up in Evansville, Indiana , where she attended Signature School . [ 5 ] There, she was student council president , founded an Amnesty International chapter and was co-valedictorian. [ 6 ]
Tuna studied political science at Yale University , where she wrote for the student paper, the Yale Daily News . [ 7 ] [ 8 ] While studying, she contributed articles to her hometown newspaper, the Evansville Courier & Press , and completed an internship at the Minneapolis Star Tribune . With a basic knowledge of Arabic and Turkish, she considered a career as a foreign correspondent . [ 6 ] Tuna graduated with a B.A. [ 9 ]
Career
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Tuna speaking at EA Global 2016
After graduation, Tuna became a reporter for The Wall Street Journal , where she covered topics including enterprise technology, the California economy , and corporate management. [ 10 ]
In 2011, Tuna quit her job at The Wall Street Journal to focus on philanthropy full-time. [ 6 ] Tuna is currently the chair of Good Ventures , a foundation she co-founded with her husband, and is the chair of Coefficient Giving , which began as a partnership between Good Ventures and GiveWell , and is now a philanthropic advisor and funder focused on helping philanthropists give more effectively. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Tuna also serves on the board of GiveWell. [ 11 ]
Tuna has stated that she chooses philanthropic cause areas to support based on their "neglectedness, importance, and tractability (how hard it might be to solve)." [ 12 ] Since its founding, Coefficient Giving has directed more than $4
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