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
GoalsRL — Workshop on Goal Specifications for Reinforcement Learning GoalsRL Global Catastrophic Risks; Potential Risks from Advanced AI 08/2018 $7,500
Texas Organizing Project Education Fund — Criminal Justice Reform Texas Organizing Project Education Fund Criminal Justice Reform 08/2018 $56,000
UCSF — Chronic Pain Research (Allan Basbaum) (2019) University of California, San Francisco Scientific Research 08/2018 $1,021,318
MAPS — Randomized Controlled Phase 3 Trial for PTSD therapy (2018) Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies Drug Policy Reform 08/2018 $500,000
Civil Rights Corps — General Support (2018) Civil Rights Corps Criminal Justice Reform 08/2018 $25,000
Faith in Texas — Criminal Justice Reform Work Faith in Texas Criminal Justice Reform 08/2018 $250,000
Players Coalition Charitable Foundation — Criminal Justice Reform Players Coalition Charitable Foundation Criminal Justice Reform 08/2018 $50,000
The Soze Agency — Right of Return Fellowship The Soze Agency Criminal Justice Reform 08/2018 $300,000
American Conservative Union Foundation — Criminal Justice Reform (2018) American Conservative Union Foundation Criminal Justice Reform 08/2018 $212,000
The Ladies of Hope Ministries — Hope House Project The Ladies of Hope Ministries Criminal Justice Reform 08/2018 $155,000
Aubin Pictures — Criminal Justice Media Archive Aubin Pictures Criminal Justice Reform 07/2018 $60,000
Economic Policy Institute — Macroeconomic Policy Research (2018) Economic Policy Institute Macroeconomic Policy 07/2018 $700,000
Evidence Action Beta — Incubator Program Evidence Action Beta Potential GiveWell Top Charities; Global Health & Development 07/2018 $5,069,866
Future of Humanity Institute — Work on Global Catastrophic Risks Future of Humanity Institute Global Catastrophic Risks 07/2018 $12,066,809
National Family Defense Project — General Support National Family Defense Project Criminal Justice Reform 07/2018 $70,000
Prosecutor Impact — Prosecutor Training Pilot Prosecutor Impact Criminal Justice Reform 07/2018 $50,000
Stanford University — Machine Learning Security Research Stanford University Global Catastrophic Risks; Potential Risks from Advanced AI 07/2018 $100,000
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities — Full Employment Project Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Macroeconomic Policy 07/2018 $250,000
One for the World — General Support One for the World Global Health & Development 07/2018 $153,750
Wilson Center — AI Policy Seminar Series (2018) The Wilson Center Global Catastrophic Risks; Potential Risks from Advanced AI 07/2018 $400,000