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
Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research — Chickpea and Corn Zein Research Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research Farm Animal Welfare 06/2020 $444,000
Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research — Plant Protein Optimization Research Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research Scientific Research 06/2020 $250,000
Food Frontier — Plant-Based Meat Alternatives Food Frontier Farm Animal Welfare 06/2020 $200,000
JusticeLA — General Support JusticeLA Criminal Justice Reform 06/2020 $100,000
Stanford University — Coronavirus Drug Research (June 2020) (Jeffrey Glenn) Stanford University Scientific Research; Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness 06/2020 $2,531,000
Center for Popular Democracy — Fed Up Campaign (2020) Center for Popular Democracy Macroeconomic Policy 06/2020 $465,000
Harvard University — Biosecurity and Biosafety Harvard University Global Catastrophic Risks; Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness 06/2020 $315,000
Centre for the Governance of AI — General Support Centre for Governance of AI Global Catastrophic Risks; Potential Risks from Advanced AI 05/2020 $450,000
Encompass — Diversity in the Farm Animal Welfare Movement Encompass Farm Animal Welfare 05/2020 $200,000
Center for Population-Level Bioethics — General Support Center for Population-Level Bioethics Global Catastrophic Risks; Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness 05/2020 $250,000
Public Policy and Education Fund of New York — Criminal Justice Reform Public Policy and Education Fund of New York Criminal Justice Reform 05/2020 $15,000
Charity Entrepreneurship — Development of New Animal Welfare Charities Charity Entrepreneurship Farm Animal Welfare 05/2020 $260,000
VegeProject — Corporate Outreach VegeProject Farm Animal Welfare 05/2020 $102,400
Gryphon Scientific — Empirical Biosafety Research Gryphon Scientific Global Catastrophic Risks; Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness 05/2020 $2,000,000
International Conference on Learning Representations — Machine Learning Paper Awards International Conference on Learning Representations Potential Risks from Advanced AI 05/2020 $3,500
Animal Outlook — Factory Farm Investigations Media Coverage Animal Outlook Farm Animal Welfare 05/2020 $44,200
The Pollination Project — Farm Animal and Veg Advocacy Conference The Pollination Project Farm Animal Welfare 05/2020 $75,800
Future of Humanity Institute — Research Scholars Programme Future of Humanity Institute Global Catastrophic Risks 05/2020 $1,586,224
Duke University — COVID-19 Antiviral Studies (Ria Goswami) Duke University Scientific Research; Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness 05/2020 $130,982
Penn State University — Research on Emergency Food Resilience (Charles Anderson) (2020) Penn State University Scientific Research; Global Catastrophic Risks 05/2020 $3,064,660