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  1. One of the world’s most influential philanthropies is changing its name. Here’s why it matters.

    Over the past decade, Open Philanthropy has been the rare philanthropic shop with both the resources and the rigor to make a dent in some of the world’s biggest problems.

    Working closely with Good Ventures — the foundation built by Facebook and Asana co-founder Dustin Moskovitz and his wife Cari Tuna — Open Philanthropy has directed more than $4 billion since 2014 across a wide portfolio, from global health to housing to frontier science.

    Vox

  2. Billionaires Are Jumping Into Coefficient Giving’s Pooled Philanthropy

    More than a decade ago, when Cari Tuna and her husband, billionaire away the vast majority of their wealth (now some $20 billion) during their lifetimes, they took an effective altruist’s view of things. Instead of donating to the causes they were most passionate about, they decided to give to those likely to create the greatest impact per dollar. In support of that they cofounded Open Philanthropy and funded everything from the Malaria Consortium to the Center for AI Safety-but they largely did it themselves. And that was never really the idea.

    Forbes

  4. Meet the millennial Meta cofounder and ex-journalist wife giving away their $20 billion fortune

    Cari Tuna and Dustin Moskovitz focus on causes that are important, neglected, and tractable in their giving. They’ve donated over $4 billion through Good Ventures, with a portfolio that spans global health interventions, support for AI safety and security, and pandemic preparedness, among other areas. Recent partnerships initiatives include a $120 million Abundance and Growth Fund and a $100 million Lead Exposure Action Fund.

    Fortune

  5. Inside A Billionaire Couple’s Plan To Give Away Their $20 Billion Facebook Fortune

    Cari Tuna and Dustin Moskovitz have donated over $4 billion through their foundation Good Ventures, using the criteria of importance, neglectedness, and tractability to maximize impact per dollar spent. While their largest funding category remains global health interventions, they have scaled up their funding of AI safety and security. Now, they’re working to convert Open Philanthropy into a multi-donor vehicle.

    Forbes

  7. How the Giving Pledge Pushes Smarter Philanthropy

    Originally, Bill and Melinda Gates had hoped to do more than encourage giving by the wealthy. They envisioned the Giving Pledge as a way to promote effective philanthropy that would help solve the world’s big problems — a mission not unlike that of the foundation that bears their names and reflects their values.

    Chronicle of Philanthropy

  8. TIME100 Philanthropy 2025: Cari Tuna and Dustin Moskovitz

    Former Wall Street Journal reporter Cari Tuna and husband Dustin Moskovitz, co-founder of Facebook and the productivity platform Asana, launched their foundation Good Ventures in 2011 with an ambitious mission to “improve as many lives as possible, as much as possible” in an effort to help humanity “thrive.” The couple, both Giving Pledge signatories, are also among the founders of Open Philanthropy, a grantmaker that advises major donors, including Tuna and Moskovitz, on how to maximize the impact of their giving.

    TIME

  9. An NIH stop-work order threatened the lives of monkeys involved in a Harvard-led study. Then came a $500,000 donation.

    Much to the relief of a Harvard University researcher, a California-based philanthropic group is getting into the monkey business. Open Philanthropy, a grant advisor and funder, told the Globe on Friday that it authorized a $500,000 grant to allow researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine to complete an ongoing tuberculosis vaccine study.

    The Boston Globe

  10. Philanthropy’s Most Powerful People Under 40

    A former Wall Street Journal reporter, Tuna cofounded Good Ventures and is one of the main funders of Open Philanthropy along with her husband, Dustin Moskovitz. Moskovitz, whose fortune Forbes pegs at around $15 billion and is only 40 years old himself, was a cofounder and marathon coder at Facebook.

    Inside Philanthropy