Open Philanthropy grants database
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High(4)High quality. Established institution or organization with editorial oversight and accountability.
Rating inherited from publication venue: Coefficient Giving
Open Philanthropy (now Coefficient Giving) is one of the largest funders of AI safety and existential risk research, making it a critical node in the AI safety ecosystem for understanding funding flows and research priorities.
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Summary
Open Philanthropy, recently rebranded as Coefficient Giving, is a major philanthropic organization that has directed over $5 billion in grants since 2014 across cause areas including AI safety, biosecurity, global health, and existential risk. Their 'Navigating Transformative AI' fund focuses on ensuring AI is safe and well-governed. The grants database provides transparency into which organizations and research directions receive funding.
Key Points
- •Open Philanthropy has rebranded as Coefficient Giving and directed over $1 billion in grants in 2025 alone.
- •The 'Navigating Transformative AI' fund explicitly targets AI safety and governance as a core cause area.
- •The organization funds across global catastrophic risks, biosecurity, pandemic preparedness, and other existential risk areas.
- •Their grants database offers transparency into funding allocations, making it a key reference for understanding the AI safety funding landscape.
- •Strategic cause selection methodology involves in-depth research to identify highest-impact philanthropic opportunities.
Review
Open Philanthropy represents a sophisticated philanthropic approach that strategically allocates resources to address complex global challenges. Their grant-making portfolio demonstrates a comprehensive, multi-dimensional strategy targeting interconnected problems across scientific, health, economic, and existential risk domains. The organization's focus areas reveal a systematic approach to global problem-solving, with particular emphasis on transformative technologies, human welfare, and risk mitigation. Their portfolio spans critical domains such as AI safety, pandemic preparedness, global health, animal welfare, and scientific research, indicating a holistic understanding of global challenges and potential intervention points. This approach reflects an evidence-based, impact-oriented philanthropic model that seeks to leverage strategic investments for maximum positive change.
Cited by 9 pages
| Page | Type | Quality |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-TAI Capital Deployment: $100B-$300B+ Spending Analysis | Analysis | 55.0 |
| AI Safety Research Allocation Model | Analysis | 65.0 |
| AI Safety Research Value Model | Analysis | 60.0 |
| AI Safety Researcher Gap Model | Analysis | 67.0 |
| Epoch AI | Organization | 51.0 |
| Holden Karnofsky | Person | 40.0 |
| Toby Ord | Person | 41.0 |
| AI Safety Field Building and Community | Crux | 0.0 |
| AI Safety Intervention Portfolio | Approach | 91.0 |
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We’re a philanthropic funder
that partners with leading donors
to multiply their impact.
Coefficient has directed over $5 billion in grants since 2014. Our mission is to help others as much as we can with the resources available to us.
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Open Philanthropy is now Coefficient Giving. Read more .
Open Philanthropy is now Coefficient Giving. Read more .
Our Funds
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Abundance & Growth
Accelerating growth and scientific progress
Air Quality
Improving health through cleaner air
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Building resilience against biological risk
Effective Giving & Careers
Empowering people to maximize their impact
Farm Animal Welfare
Improving the lives of farmed animals
Forecasting
Improving how critical decisions are made
Global Aid Policy
Encouraging generous and cost-effective aid
Global Catastrophic Risks Opportunities
Countering threats to civilization
Global Growth
Supporting growth to reduce global poverty
Global Health & Wellbeing Opportunities
Improving health and wellbeing for all people
Lead Exposure Action Fund
Accelerating progress toward a lead-free world
Navigating Transformative AI
Ensuring AI is safe and well-governed
Science and Global Health R&D
Supporting lifesaving ideas and discoveries
Learn more about partnering with us
Strategic Cause Selection
We believe the most important decision a philanthropist makes is choosing which causes to support. We conduct in-depth research to identify the areas where our funding can help others the most.
How we select causes
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2025 Letter from the CEO
Coefficient Giving directed over $1 billion in 2025, the most in our history. This significant milestone is the result of extraordinary dedication from our funders, staff, and grantees, who share the conviction that effective philanthropy can be a powerful lever for making the world a much better place.
Open Philanthropy Is Now Coefficient Giving
Our new name marks our next chapter as we double down on our longstanding goal of helping more funders increase their impact. We believe philanthropy can be a far more vital force for progress than it is today.
Cool Things Our Global Health & Wellbeing Grantees Accomplished in 2025
Our GHW grantees made remarkable progress in 2025: a diagnostics company we supported reached 3 million sickle cell tests distributed across 40 countries, advocacy groups secured welfare improvements for hundreds of millions of chickens in Europe,
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