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
Sightline Institute — Housing and Urban Development (December 2019) Sightline Institute Land Use Reform 12/2019 $300,000
Washington University — Alzheimer’s Research (Brendan Lucey and David Holtzman) Washington University Scientific Research; Alzheimer's Research 12/2019 $5,300,000
National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls — General Support (December 2019) National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls Criminal Justice Reform 12/2019 $2,250,000
Faith in Texas — Justice System Reform (2019) Faith in Texas Criminal Justice Reform 12/2019 $150,000
Court Watch NOLA — General Support (2019) Court Watch NOLA Criminal Justice Reform 12/2019 $500,000
Essie Justice Group — General Support (December 2019) Essie Justice Group Criminal Justice Reform 12/2019 $3,000,000
Power Coalition for Equity and Justice — Criminal Justice Reform (2019) Power Coalition for Equity and Justice Criminal Justice Reform 12/2019 $25,000
Broad Institute — Genome Editing Research (Feng Zhang) Broad Institute Scientific Research; Transformative Basic Science 12/2019 $2,500,000
Faith in Action — Live Free Campaign (2019) Faith in Action Criminal Justice Reform 12/2019 $400,000
Stanford University — Global Catastrophic Risk Education Stanford University Global Catastrophic Risks 12/2019 $250,000
Worth Rises — General Support (2019) Worth Rises Criminal Justice Reform 12/2019 $300,000
WaitList Zero — General Support (2019) WaitList Zero Organ Transplantation 12/2019 $100,000
Washington Center for Equitable Growth — Macroeconomic Policy Research Washington Center for Equitable Growth Macroeconomic Policy 11/2019 $750,000
Center for Popular Democracy — Fed Up Campaign (2019) Center for Popular Democracy Macroeconomic Policy 11/2019 $600,000
Ought — General Support (2019) Ought Global Catastrophic Risks; Potential Risks from Advanced AI 11/2019 $1,000,000
UC Berkeley — Center for Human-Compatible AI (2019) University of California, Berkeley Global Catastrophic Risks; Potential Risks from Advanced AI 11/2019 $200,000
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center — Infant Immunome and Influenza Studies (Mary Staat) Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center Scientific Research; Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness 11/2019 $9,105,777
The Ahimsa Collective — “Life Comes From It” Fund Administration (2019) The Ahimsa Collective Criminal Justice Reform 11/2019 $155,000
Promise of Justice Initiative — East Baton Rouge Parish Prison Reform Coalition (2019) Promise of Justice Initiative Criminal Justice Reform 11/2019 $170,000
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative — CHAI Collaboration (2019) Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative Potential Risks from Advanced AI 11/2019 $705,000