We want to maximize the impact of our portfolio.

We’re open to supporting safe bets, like direct cash transfers to the world’s poorest people, as well as high-risk, high-reward projects, like minimizing risks from potentially world-changing science and technology. Read more about how we choose what to fund here.

  1. Harborlight Community Partners — YIMBYtown 2018 Conference

    Award Date:
    03/2018
    Amount:
    $40,000
    Housing Affordability
  2. National Council — General Support (March 2018)

    Award Date:
    03/2018
    Amount:
    $500,000
    Criminal Justice Reform
  3. Schistosomiasis Control Initiative — General Support (2018)

    Award Date:
    03/2018
    Amount:
    $2,500,000
    Global Health & Development
  4. Centre for Effective Altruism — New Discretionary Fund

    Award Date:
    03/2018
    Amount:
    $5,000,000
    Effective Altruism
  5. Aquaculture Stewardship Council — Organizational Development

    Award Date:
    03/2018
    Amount:
    $13,813
    Farm Animal Welfare
  6. Global Priorities Institute — General Support

    Award Date:
    02/2018
    Amount:
    $3,112,969
    Effective Altruism
  7. Center for Popular Democracy — Fed Up Campaign 2018

    Award Date:
    02/2018
    Amount:
    $1,200,000
    Macroeconomic Policy
  8. MIT Synthetic Neurobiology Group — Brain Mapping Research (Ed Boyden)

    Award Date:
    02/2018
    Amount:
    $3,000,000
    Scientific Research
  9. Center for Global Development — Pandemic Policy Project

    Award Date:
    02/2018
    Amount:
    $49,942
    Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness
  10. Southerners On New Ground — Anti-Criminalization Work

    Award Date:
    02/2018
    Amount:
    $400,000
    Criminal Justice Reform