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
FFAR — Farm Animal Welfare Research Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research Farm Animal Welfare 04/2017 $1,000,000
The Greenfield Project — General Support The Greenfield Project Farm Animal Welfare 04/2017 $500,000
NEPAD Planning and Coordinating Agency — General Support New Partnership for Africa’s Development Planning and Coordinating Agency Scientific Research 04/2017 $2,350,000
East Bay Forward — YIMBYtown 2017 Conference East Bay Forward Land Use Reform 04/2017 $40,000
ACLU Foundation — Disability Rights Fellowship American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Criminal Justice Reform 04/2017 $45,000
BioBricks Foundation — Biosecurity Activities at SB7.0 BioBricks Foundation Global Catastrophic Risks; Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness 04/2017 $152,950
Common Justice — General Support Common Justice Criminal Justice Reform 04/2017 $100,000
ClimateWorks Foundation — Kigali Cooling Efficiency Program ClimateWorks Foundation Global Catastrophic Risks 04/2017 $3,000,000
Animal Charity Evaluators — General Support Animal Charity Evaluators Farm Animal Welfare 04/2017 $500,000
Evidence Action — Strengthen Operations Evidence Action Potential GiveWell Top Charities; Global Health & Development 04/2017 $2,642,300
New Incentives — General Support New Incentives Economic Empowerment; Potential GiveWell Top Charities; Global Health & Development 04/2017 $820,000
UC Berkeley — KLPS-4 Survey University of California, Berkeley Potential GiveWell Top Charities; Global Health & Development 04/2017 $1,104,259
Rutgers University — Nuclear Conflict Climate Modeling Rutgers University Global Catastrophic Risks 04/2017 $2,982,206
College and Community Fellowship — General Support College and Community Fellowship Criminal Justice Reform 03/2017 $50,000
Colorado State University — Planning Gift Institute for Advancement of Animal Welfare Science Farm Animal Welfare 03/2017 $25,300
Vera Institute of Justice — Criminal Justice Reform Report Vera Institute of Justice Criminal Justice Reform 03/2017 $50,000
OpenAI — General Support OpenAI Global Catastrophic Risks; Potential Risks from Advanced AI 03/2017 $30,000,000
World Animal Protection — Broiler Chicken Welfare World Animal Protection Farm Animal Welfare 03/2017 $517,588
Centre for Effective Altruism — General Support Centre for Effective Altruism Effective Altruism 03/2017 $2,500,000
Life Sciences Research Foundation — Young Investigators Life Sciences Research Foundation Scientific Research; Alzheimer's Research 03/2017 $195,000