We fund organizations and projects that show great promise for saving and improving lives and for helping us learn.

We’ve organized the grants in Our Portfolio in a database that you can browse and download. Grants recommended by Open Philanthropy also appear in its grants database here.

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Grant Organization All Topics Date of Award Amount
National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls — General Support (2021) National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls Criminal Justice Reform 12/2021 $2,000,000
Effective Ventures Foundation — Event Venue Effective Ventures Foundation Effective Altruism 12/2021 $23,212,677
California Renters Legal Advocacy and Education Fund — General Support (2021) CalHDF Land Use Reform 12/2021 $400,000
Food and Agriculture Research — Keel Bone Damage Reduction Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research Farm Animal Welfare 12/2021 $3,000,000
UC Berkeley — In-Line Water Chlorination Devices (Amy Pickering) (2021) University of California, Berkeley Global Health & Development 12/2021 $1,900,000
theguardian.org – Journalism on Factory Farming and Animal Cruelty (2021) theguardian.org Farm Animal Welfare 12/2021 $450,000
Nuclear Threat Initiative — Global Catastrophic Biological Risk Reduction (2021) Nuclear Threat Initiative Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness 12/2021 $1,250,000
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai — Bat Cell Line Research Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Scientific Research 12/2021 $100,000
Malaria Consortium — Monitoring and Evaluation of Net Distribution in Anambra, Nigeria Malaria Consortium Global Health & Development 12/2021 $1,099,808
Georgetown University — Policy Fellowship (2021) Georgetown University Potential Risks from Advanced AI 12/2021 $246,564
University of Washington — Syphilis Vaccine Development (David Baker and Neil King) University of Washington Scientific Research 12/2021 $283,539
Harvard University — CRISPR-Based Diagnostics for Febrile Diseases Harvard University Scientific Research 12/2021 $600,123
Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf — Alzheimer’s Disease Research (Diego Sepulveda-Falla) Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf Scientific Research; Alzheimer's Research 12/2021 $1,307,513
Stanford University — Immunization Research Stanford University Scientific Research 12/2021 $350,000
Arc Institute — General Support Arc Institute Scientific Research 12/2021 $24,000,000
University of Maryland — Policy Fellowships University of Maryland Global Catastrophic Risks 12/2021 $483,880
Massachusetts Institute of Technology — Alzheimer’s Disease Research (Laura Kiessling) Massachusetts Institute of Technology Scientific Research; Alzheimer's Research 12/2021 $1,300,000
UC Davis — Malaria Gene Drive Feasibility Analysis (Greg Lanzaro) (2021) UC Davis Scientific Research 12/2021 $10,248,967
Massachusetts Institute of Technology — Alzheimer’s Disease Research (Ed Boyden) Massachusetts Institute of Technology Scientific Research; Alzheimer's Research 12/2021 $1,000,000
Centre for the Governance of AI — AI Field Building Centre for the Governance of AI Global Catastrophic Risks; Potential Risks from Advanced AI 11/2021 $2,537,600