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
Deworm the World Initiative — General Support (December 2018) Evidence Action Global Health & Development 12/2018 $10,400,000
Evidence Action — Dispensers for Safe Water Program (2018) Evidence Action Global Health & Development 12/2018 $100,000
Project Healthy Children — General Support (December 2018) Project Healthy Children Global Health & Development 12/2018 $100,000
Citizens for Juvenile Justice — General Support (2018) Citizens for Juvenile Justice Criminal Justice Reform 12/2018 $45,000
University of Minnesota — Nanomaterials Research (Claudia Schmidt-Dannert) The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Scientific Research 12/2018 $150,000
Court Watch NOLA — General Support Court Watch NOLA Criminal Justice Reform 11/2018 $200,000
Evidence Action Beta — Iron and Folic Acid Supplementation (“Phase 2”) Evidence Action Beta Global Health & Development 11/2018 $3,408,259
iGEM — Synthetic Biology Safety and Security (2018) International Genetically Engineered Machine Foundation Global Catastrophic Risks; Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness 11/2018 $420,000
Alliance for Safety and Justice — General Support (2018) Alliance for Safety and Justice Criminal Justice Reform 11/2018 $3,000,000
Nuclear Threat Initiative — Projects to Reduce Global Catastrophic Biological Risks Nuclear Threat Initiative Global Catastrophic Risks; Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness 11/2018 $1,904,942
Viroclinics Biosciences — Broad-Spectrum Antivirals Viroclinics Biosciences Scientific Research; Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness 11/2018 $421,969
Mass General — Research on Microbiome and Alzheimer’s (Rudolph Tanzi) Massachusetts General Hospital Scientific Research; Alzheimer's Research 11/2018 $2,546,962
University of Bern — Higher Welfare Cage-Free Systems University of Bern Farm Animal Welfare 11/2018 $150,000
Corrections Accountability Project — General Support (2018) Corrections Accountability Project Criminal Justice Reform 11/2018 $150,000
UC Berkeley — AI safety research (2018) University of California, Berkeley Global Catastrophic Risks; Potential Risks from Advanced AI 11/2018 $1,145,000
Global Animal Partnership — Farm Animal Welfare Activities (2018) Global Animal Partnership Farm Animal Welfare 11/2018 $500,000
The Ahimsa Collective — “Life Comes From It” Fund Administration The Ahimsa Collective Criminal Justice Reform 11/2018 $150,000
Forward Justice — Criminal Justice Reform Advocacy Forward Justice Criminal Justice Reform 11/2018 $150,000
Northwestern — Research on Microbiome and Alzheimer’s (Robert Vassar) Northwestern University Scientific Research; Alzheimer's Research 10/2018 $1,926,923
Boston Children’s Hospital — Chronic Pain Research (Yi Zhang) Boston Children's Hospital Scientific Research 10/2018 $2,695,376