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1. Open Philanthropy launches $120 million fund to promote abundance

   Open Philanthropy—a San Francisco-based nonprofit philanthropic advisory formed by Giving Pledge signatories Dustin Moskovitz and Cari Tuna in partnership with GiveWell—has announced a three-year, $120 million initiative in support of policy reforms that accelerate economic growth and boost scientific progress. The Abundance and Growth Fund will absorb and expand Open Philanthropy’s current land use and innovation policy programs, primarily focused on reducing restrictions that limit housing development, green energy infrastructure, and scientific research.

   Philanthropy News Digest March 18, 2025

2. Open Philanthropy Launches $120 Million Fund To Support YIMBY Reforms

   With support from the philanthropic foundation Good Ventures, Stripe CEO and founder Patrick Collison and other donors, this new Abundance and Growth Fund will drive advocacy, research and policies to reduce burdensome regulatory barriers to infrastructure and housing construction, among other subjects. The foundation is hiring a new program lead to direct the fund.

   Bloomberg March 11, 2025

3. Open Philanthropy Tackles the “Low-Hanging Fruit” in Public Health

   San Francisco-based Open Philanthropy began life in 2011 as GiveWell Labs, a partnership between GiveWell — founded in 2007 by former hedge fund employees Elie Hassenfeld and Holden Karnofsky — and Good Ventures — founded in 2011 by former Facebook and Asana cofounder Dustin Moskovitz and his wife, former Wall Street Journal reporter Cari Tuna, as a way to give away their fortunes during their lifetime.

   Inside Philanthropy November 1, 2024

4. Women Making Philanthropic Strides

   In Cari Tuna’s assessment, the issues governments and companies aren’t paying enough attention to are an opening for impact. “Philanthropy, at its best, identifies society’s blind spots,” Tuna says. Originally a San Francisco–based Wall Street Journal reporter, she left the paper in 2011 to start Good Ventures, approaching her first year much like a reporter would: “I talked to hundreds of people across philanthropy, nonprofits, government, science, academia, trying to learn about the landscape.”

   Vanity Fair September 11, 2024

5. What a Facebook Cofounder’s Latest $19 Billion for His Foundation Says About Philanthropy’s Future

   Good Ventures is now among the top 20 largest foundations in the country, close on the heels of another storied philanthropy from another century, the Rockefeller Foundation. Moskovitz and Tuna offer a powerful philanthropic example to other entrants on the billionaires list, not to mention legions of other young but not-quite-so-fortunate tech entrepreneurs.

   Inside Philanthropy August 5, 2024

6. How Effective is Effective Altruism? A Deep Dive Into Two of Open Philanthropy’s EA-Inspired Programs

   The organization is led by a couple who were among the movement’s earliest adopters: Cari Tuna, a former reporter for the Wall Street Journal, and Dustin Moskovitz, cofounder of Facebook and Asana. After deciding to give their fortune away during their lifetimes as effectively as possible, Tuna and Moskovitz began a journey that put them at the vanguard of the movement. Today, they’re the primary funders of Open Philanthropy, which makes grants and other investments in two broad categories: global health and wellbeing, and longtermism, or the moral imperative to consider future generations.

   Inside Philanthropy March 16, 2023

7. Gates, USAID Among Open Philanthropy’s $150M Regrant Contest Winners

   Open Philanthropy is providing $150 million to four fellow grant-makers, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to boost funding for what it views as high-impact programs in health care, climate change, and other areas of global development. The grant-making and research organization, which was founded by billionaire couple Dustin Moskovitz and Cari Tuna, normally gives directly to charities rather than fellow grant-makers. It launched its $150 million regranting challenge last year as part of an effort to fund existing philanthropic programs rather than trying to duplicate their work.

   Devex January 12, 2023

8. Open Philanthropy Launches Programs for South Asia, Global Aid Work

   Influential research and grant-making organization Open Philanthropy announced this week that it has hired lead officers for its first “new causes” in more than five years: South Asian air quality and global aid advocacy. The group expects the two programs to support its efforts to cost-effectively direct millions of dollars toward grants aimed at boosting incomes or increasing the years of healthy life for the world’s lowest-income people.

   Devex January 6, 2022

9. Dustin Moskovitz, the Philanthropist Conquering Silicon Valley

   Inspired by The Life You Can Save, the Australian philosopher Peter Singer’s book about ethical giving, [Dustin Moskovitz and Cari Tuna] established Good Ventures in 2011 to oversee their donations and investments. Open Philanthropy, which helps advise the group, maintains a public spreadsheet ranking U.S. policy issues where it believes capital can have the greatest impact. Criminal justice reform and macroeconomic stabilization policy currently top the list.

   Financial Times October 5, 2020

10. One of Philanthropy’s Biosecurity Leaders Steps Up Emergency Pandemic Giving

    Open Philanthropy (OP), which is largely funded by Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz and his wife Cari Tuna, has been one of the few grantmaking organizations in recent years with an active program in biosecurity and pandemic preparedness. That giving emerged from OP’s longstanding concern with what it terms “global catastrophic risks” that have the capacity to destabilize society to a degree sufficient to cause long-term harm to humanity, or even “lead to human extinction.” While such doomsday fears once made OP something of an odd outlier in philanthropy, they no longer seem far-fetched to anyone after the last few months of catastrophe.

    Inside Philanthropy April 30, 2020