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
Engineers Without Borders USA — COVID-19 Hospital Equipment Engineers Without Borders USA Scientific Research; Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness 04/2020 $250,000
Florida Rights Restoration Coalition — General Support (2020) Florida Rights Restoration Coalition Criminal Justice Reform 04/2020 $400,000
Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research — Farm Animal Welfare Research (2020) Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research Farm Animal Welfare 04/2020 $500,000
UC Berkeley — Research on Rapid COVID-19 Serology Testing (Lisa Barcellos and Eva Harris) University of California, Berkeley Scientific Research; Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness 04/2020 $1,300,000
University of Colorado — COVID-19 Personal Protective Equipment Experiments University of Colorado Global Catastrophic Risks; Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness 04/2020 $250,000
Compassion in World Farming USA — Global EggTrack Program Compassion in World Farming USA Farm Animal Welfare 04/2020 $78,750
A New Way of Life — General Support A New Way of Life Criminal Justice Reform 04/2020 $25,000
Rockefeller University — Viral Histone Mimics (Alexander Tarakhovsky) (2020) Rockefeller University Scientific Research; Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness 04/2020 $200,000
fair-fish international association — General Support fair-fish international association Farm Animal Welfare 03/2020 $630,370
Movement Alliance Project — Prosecutor Accountability (March 2020) Movement Alliance Project Criminal Justice Reform 03/2020 $180,000
Broad Institute — COVID-19 Diagnostic Testing (Stacey Gabriel) Broad Institute Scientific Research; Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness 03/2020 $925,000
Against COVID-19 — COVID-19 Database Support Against COVID-19 Global Catastrophic Risks; Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness 03/2020 $10,000
UC Davis — Research on Antiviral Drugs (Koen Van Rompay) UC Davis Scientific Research; Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness 03/2020 $170,190
Johns Hopkins University — Support for Jared Kaplan and Brice Ménard Johns Hopkins University Global Catastrophic Risks; Potential Risks from Advanced AI 03/2020 $55,000
Court Watch NOLA — Coalition Coordination (2020) Court Watch NOLA Criminal Justice Reform 03/2020 $35,000
Georgetown Center for Global Health Science and Security — General Support (March 2020) Georgetown Center for Global Health Science and Security Global Catastrophic Risks; Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness 03/2020 $2,400,000
Broad Institute — Pandemic Preemption System (Pardis Sabeti and Christian Happi) Broad Institute Scientific Research; Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness 03/2020 $1,000,000
Just Outcomes — Restorative Justice Convenings and Affinity Group Meetings Just Outcomes Criminal Justice Reform 03/2020 $30,000
Center for Global Development — COVID-19 Local Response Guidelines Center for Global Development Global Catastrophic Risks; Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness 03/2020 $250,000
UC Berkeley — Deworming and Cash Transfers (2020) University of California, Berkeley Global Health & Development 03/2020 $88,000