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
BlackRoots Alliance — Work on Prosecutor Accountability (2020) BlackRoots Alliance Criminal Justice Reform 09/2020 $15,000
Center for Strategic and International Studies — AI Accident Risk and Technology Competition Center for Strategic and International Studies Global Catastrophic Risks; Potential Risks from Advanced AI 09/2020 $118,307
FAS — International Science Advisory Body for Biosecurity Federation of American Scientists Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness 09/2020 $175,000
Newark Community Street Team — Community-Based Public Safety Work Newark Community Street Team Criminal Justice Reform 09/2020 $60,000
Black Strategy Fund — General Support Black Strategy Fund Criminal Justice Reform 09/2020 $100,000
UC Berkeley — Assessing COVID-19 Infection Prevalence in Rural Kenya (Amy Pickering and Michael Kremer) University of California, Berkeley Scientific Research; Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness 08/2020 $220,000
InMyWords — Restorative Justice InMyWords Criminal Justice Reform 08/2020 $61,500
University of Pennsylvania — Geopolitical Forecasting Research (2020) University of Pennsylvania Forecasting 08/2020 $29,432
Labor Mobility Partnerships — International Labor Mobility Labor Mobility Partnerships Immigration Policy 08/2020 $500,000
Catalyst — Farm Animal Welfare in Thailand Catalyst Farm Animal Welfare 08/2020 $350,000
Mass Eye and Ear — Alzheimer’s Research (Joseph Arboleda-Velásquez) Mass Eye and Ear Scientific Research; Alzheimer's Research 08/2020 $4,000,000
Southsiders Organized for Unity and Liberation — Prosecutorial Accountability Southsiders Organized for Unity and Liberation Criminal Justice Reform 08/2020 $150,000
Economic Policy Institute — Macroeconomic Policy Research (2020) Economic Policy Institute Macroeconomic Policy 08/2020 $550,000
Early-Career Funding for Global Catastrophic Biological Risks — Scholarship Support (2019-2020) Early-Career Funding for Global Catastrophic Biological Risks Global Catastrophic Risks; Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness 07/2020 $1,357,237
New York University — Work on Fish Welfare (2020) New York University Farm Animal Welfare 07/2020 $95,000
Stanford University — Universal Flu Drug Research (Jeffrey Glenn) Stanford University Scientific Research; Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness 07/2020 $415,000
Employ America — General Support (2020) Employ America Macroeconomic Policy 07/2020 $700,000
Project NIA — Transformative Justice Work Led by Mariame Kaba (2020) Project NIA Criminal Justice Reform 07/2020 $170,000
Rita Allen Foundation — Award in Pain Scholars Rita Allen Foundation Scientific Research 07/2020 $330,000
Momentum — Criminal Justice Reform Trainings (2020) Momentum Criminal Justice Reform 07/2020 $9,000