This is an online portal with information on donations that were announced publicly (or have been shared with permission) that were of interest to Vipul Naik. The git repository with the code for this portal, as well as all the underlying data, is available on GitHub. All payment amounts are in current United States dollars (USD). The repository of donations is being seeded with an initial collation by Issa Rice (see his commits) but all responsibility for errors and inaccuracies belongs to Vipul Naik. Current data is preliminary and has not been completely vetted and normalized; please do not share this data without consulting with Vipul Naik. We expect to have completed the first round of development by the end of December 2018.
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Affiliated organizations (current or former; restricted to potential donees or others relevant to donation decisions) | GiveWell Good Ventures |
| Facebook username | openphilanthropy |
| Website | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/ |
| Donations URL | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/giving/grants |
| Twitter username | open_phil |
| PredictionBook username | OpenPhilUnofficial |
If you hover over a cell for a given cause area and year, you will get a tooltip with the number of donees and the number of donations.
Note: Cause area classification used here may not match that used by donor for all cases.
Graph of spending by cause area and year (incremental, not cumulative)
Graph of spending by cause area and year (cumulative)
| Donee | Cause area | Metadata | Total | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI | AI risk | FB Tw WP Site | 30,000,000.00 | 30,000,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security | Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness | FB Tw WP Site | 18,744,000.00 | 16,000,000.00 | 2,744,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Target Malaria | 17,500,000.00 | 17,500,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Center for Global Development | FB Tw WP Site | 6,334,720.00 | 1,800,000.00 | 3,000,000.00 | 0.00 | 1,184,720.00 | 350,000.00 | 0.00 | |
| Center for Human-Compatible AI | AI risk | Site | 5,555,550.00 | 0.00 | 5,555,550.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Alliance for Safety and Justice | 4,750,000.00 | 0.00 | 4,750,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| JustLeadershipUSA | 4,300,000.00 | 0.00 | 3,400,000.00 | 900,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Georgetown Center for Global Health Science and Security | 3,500,000.00 | 3,500,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Mercy For Animals | Animal welfare/Diet change/Veganism/Factory farming | FB Tw WP Site | 3,500,000.00 | 500,000.00 | 3,000,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Humane Society International | FB Tw WP Site | 3,464,000.00 | 2,464,000.00 | 1,000,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| The Humane League | Animal welfare/Diet change/Veganism/Factory farming | FB Tw WP Site | 3,000,000.00 | 0.00 | 3,000,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Pew Public Safety Performance Project | 3,000,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3,000,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| ClimateWorks Foundation | 3,000,000.00 | 3,000,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Rutgers University | FB Tw WP Site | 2,982,206.00 | 2,982,206.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| MIT Synthetic Neurobiology Group | 2,970,000.00 | 0.00 | 2,970,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Harvard University | FB Tw WP Site | 2,500,000.00 | 0.00 | 2,500,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Centre for Effective Altruism | Effective altruism | FB Site | 2,500,000.00 | 2,500,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms | 2,400,000.00 | 2,400,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| New Partnership for Africa’s Development | 2,350,000.00 | 2,350,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| UCLA School of Law | Tw WP Site | 2,312,317.00 | 2,312,317.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Center for Popular Democracy | WP | 2,279,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2,179,000.00 | 100,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Future of Humanity Institute | FB Tw WP Site | 2,109,652.00 | 1,994,000.00 | 115,652.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense | Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness | FB Tw WP Site | 2,100,000.00 | 500,000.00 | 1,300,000.00 | 300,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Impact Justice | 2,050,000.00 | 0.00 | 2,050,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| University of Pennsylvania | FB Tw WP Site | 1,800,000.00 | 1,300,000.00 | 500,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Fair and Just Prosecution | 1,500,000.00 | 1,500,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| The Humane Society of the United States | FB Tw WP Site | 1,500,000.00 | 0.00 | 1,500,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| U.S. Association for International Migration | 1,490,505.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1,490,505.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Drug Policy Alliance | FB Tw WP Site | 1,400,000.00 | 1,400,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Center for Applied Rationality | Rationality | FB Tw WP Site TW | 1,339,000.00 | 0.00 | 1,339,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Future of Life Institute | AI risk/other global catastrophic risks | FB Tw WP Site | 1,286,000.00 | 0.00 | 100,000.00 | 1,186,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Foundation for the National Institutes of Health | WP | 1,228,845.00 | 0.00 | 1,228,845.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| CDC Foundation | Tw Site | 1,214,437.00 | 1,214,437.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 80000 Hours | Career coaching/life guidance | FB Tw WP Site | 1,125,000.00 | 1,125,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| World Animal Protection | FB Tw WP Site | 1,062,195.00 | 517,588.00 | 544,607.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Founders Pledge | Effective altruism/donor pledges | FB Tw WP Site | 1,032,947.00 | 0.00 | 1,032,947.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Population Services International | FB Tw WP Site | 1,000,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1,000,000.00 | |
| The Good Food Institute | Animal welfare/meat alternatives | FB Tw WP Site | 1,000,000.00 | 0.00 | 1,000,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Foundation for Food and Agricultural Research | 1,000,000.00 | 1,000,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Animal Equality | FB Tw WP Site | 792,000.00 | 292,000.00 | 500,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Harvard University Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management | 783,000.00 | 0.00 | 783,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Compassion in World Farming | FB Tw WP Site | 765,112.00 | 765,112.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Center on Budget and Policy Priorities | FB Tw WP Site | 760,000.00 | 0.00 | 425,000.00 | 0.00 | 335,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Project Peanut Butter | 724,929.00 | 0.00 | 724,929.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Global Animal Partnership | WP | 700,000.00 | 200,000.00 | 500,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| International Refugee Assistance Project | Migration policy/refugee assistance/legal help | FB Tw Site | 700,000.00 | 0.00 | 700,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| WildAid | FB Tw WP Site | 700,000.00 | 0.00 | 700,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Center for International Security and Cooperation | WP | 643,415.00 | 0.00 | 643,415.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Faith in Texas | 637,000.00 | 0.00 | 637,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Essie Justice Group | 600,000.00 | 0.00 | 600,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Compassion in World Farming USA | 580,000.00 | 30,000.00 | 550,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Eurogroup for Animals | WP | 550,660.00 | 14,961.00 | 535,699.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Protect the People | 550,000.00 | 0.00 | 550,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| International Genetically Engineered Machine Foundation | 520,000.00 | 0.00 | 520,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| International Development Association | FB Tw WP Site | 500,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 500,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Center for American Progress | FB Tw WP Site | 500,000.00 | 0.00 | 500,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Machine Intelligence Research Institute | AI risk | FB Tw WP Site CN GS TW | 500,000.00 | 0.00 | 500,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| LatinoJustice | 500,000.00 | 500,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Alliance for Open Society International | WP | 500,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 500,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Animal Charity Evaluators | Animal welfare/Charity evaluation | FB Tw WP Site | 500,000.00 | 500,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| The Greenfield Project | 500,000.00 | 500,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative | 500,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 500,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Economic Policy Institute | FB Tw WP Site | 500,000.00 | 0.00 | 500,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Compassion Over Killing | FB Tw WP Site | 500,000.00 | 0.00 | 500,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Dream Corps | 500,000.00 | 0.00 | 500,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| University of Cape Town | FB Tw WP Site | 493,425.00 | 0.00 | 493,425.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Nuclear Threat Initiative | FB Tw WP Site | 476,859.00 | 476,859.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| The Ordinary People Society | 475,000.00 | 0.00 | 475,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | FB Tw WP Site | 453,440.00 | 453,440.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| National Academy of Sciences Engineering and Medicine | 452,545.00 | 452,545.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Future of Research | 450,000.00 | 150,000.00 | 300,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| ImmigrationWorks Foundation | 435,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 150,000.00 | 285,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Albert Schweitzer Foundation for Our Contemporaries | WP | 429,046.00 | 429,046.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Blackbird | WP | 425,000.00 | 0.00 | 425,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Humane Slaughter Association | 419,236.00 | 419,236.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Ayni Institute | Criminal justice reform | FB Tw Site | 405,000.00 | 0.00 | 405,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Brooklyn Community Bail Fund | 404,800.00 | 0.00 | 404,800.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| American Conservative Union Foundation | 400,000.00 | 200,000.00 | 200,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Sightline Institute | 400,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 400,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Dyrevernalliansen | FB Tw Site | 378,000.00 | 378,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Niskanen Center | WP | 360,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 360,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Vera Institute of Justice | FB Tw WP Site | 358,000.00 | 50,000.00 | 308,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Accountable Justice Project | 350,000.00 | 0.00 | 350,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Federation of Indian Animal Protection Organisations | 332,944.00 | 332,944.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Cochrane Collaboration | Tw WP Site | 300,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 300,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| California Renters Legal Advocacy and Education Fund | 300,000.00 | 0.00 | 300,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Rescuing Biomedical Research | 299,112.00 | 0.00 | 299,112.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Smart Growth America | WP | 275,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 275,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| George Mason University | FB WP Site | 264,525.00 | 0.00 | 264,525.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Jeanne Marchig Centre | 255,816.00 | 255,816.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Mijente | 255,000.00 | 0.00 | 255,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Peterson Institute for International Economics | FB Tw WP Site | 250,000.00 | 0.00 | 250,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California | 250,000.00 | 250,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Youth First Initiative | 250,000.00 | 0.00 | 250,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Georgetown University | FB Tw WP Site | 250,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 250,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Waitlist Zero | WP | 250,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 200,000.00 | 50,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Greater Greater Washington | 250,000.00 | 250,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Washington Office on Latin America | FB Tw WP Site | 245,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 245,000.00 | 0.00 | |
| Animal Welfare Standards Project | 238,212.00 | 0.00 | 238,212.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| The Pollination Project | 233,000.00 | 0.00 | 233,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Green Monday | FB Tw WP Site | 226,000.00 | 0.00 | 226,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| The Soze Agency | 216,500.00 | 0.00 | 216,500.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| People for Animals | WP | 209,392.00 | 120,000.00 | 89,392.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Civil Rights Corps | 200,000.00 | 0.00 | 200,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| BetaGov | 200,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 200,000.00 | 0.00 | ||
| LEAD National Support Bureau | 200,000.00 | 0.00 | 200,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Roosevelt Institute | FB Tw WP Site | 200,000.00 | 0.00 | 200,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Justice Strategies | 200,000.00 | 0.00 | 200,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Electronic Frontier Foundation | FB Tw WP Site | 199,000.00 | 0.00 | 199,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Florida Rights Restoration Coalition | 178,000.00 | 130,000.00 | 48,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| National Network for Safe Communities | WP | 161,040.00 | 161,040.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Center for Court Innovation | WP | 160,000.00 | 0.00 | 160,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| BioBricks Foundation | 152,950.00 | 152,950.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Pepperdine University | FB Tw WP Site | 150,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 150,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Oregon | 145,000.00 | 145,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| ReFrame Mentorship | 137,000.00 | 100,000.00 | 37,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition | 136,600.00 | 0.00 | 136,600.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Dignity and Power Now | 132,000.00 | 132,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Workers Center for Racial Justice | 125,000.00 | 125,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Griffith University | WP Site | 120,000.00 | 0.00 | 120,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Prison Policy Initiative | WP | 116,000.00 | 66,000.00 | 50,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Justice Solutions | 112,613.00 | 112,613.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| New York University | FB Tw WP Site | 110,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 110,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| RAND Corporation | FB Tw WP Site | 103,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 103,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Fórum Nacional de Proteção e Defesa Animal | 100,000.00 | 0.00 | 100,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Farm Forward | 100,000.00 | 100,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Florida State University Project on Accountable Justice | 100,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 100,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| National Alliance of Faith and Justice | 100,000.00 | 100,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| US Cochrane Center | 100,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 100,000.00 | ||
| Carnegie Endowment for International Peace | FB Tw WP Site | 100,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 100,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Brookings Institution | FB Tw WP Site | 100,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 100,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Brighter Green | 99,360.00 | 0.00 | 99,360.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Urban Institute | FB Tw WP Site | 97,865.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 97,865.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Wageningen UR | 88,345.00 | 88,345.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Promise of Justice Initiative | 81,000.00 | 0.00 | 81,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment | 76,234.00 | 0.00 | 76,234.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Legal Services for Prisoners with Children | 70,000.00 | 0.00 | 70,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Innovative Genomics Institute | 63,000.00 | 0.00 | 63,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Texas Fair Defense Project | 63,000.00 | 0.00 | 63,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Human Impact Partners | 60,990.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 60,990.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Animal Welfare Action Lab | 58,550.00 | 58,550.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Mission: Launch, Inc. | 55,000.00 | 55,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Seattle for Everyone | 50,000.00 | 0.00 | 50,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Institute of the Black World | FB Tw WP Site | 50,000.00 | 0.00 | 50,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Correctional Association of New York | FB Tw WP Site | 50,000.00 | 0.00 | 50,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| College and Community Fellowship | 50,000.00 | 50,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| New Virginia Majority Education Fund | 50,000.00 | 0.00 | 50,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| National Association of Community and Restorative Justice | 50,000.00 | 0.00 | 50,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Mothers Against Police Brutality | 50,000.00 | 0.00 | 50,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Duke University | FB Tw WP Site | 49,500.00 | 49,500.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| American Civil Liberties Union Foundation | 45,000.00 | 45,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| East Bay Forward | 40,000.00 | 40,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| International Society for Applied Ethology | WP | 40,000.00 | 40,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Voice of the Ex-Offender | 40,000.00 | 0.00 | 40,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Better Boulder | 37,000.00 | 0.00 | 37,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| AI Impacts | 32,000.00 | 0.00 | 32,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Color of Change | FB Tw WP Site | 30,000.00 | 30,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Institute for Advancement of Animal Welfare Science | 25,300.00 | 25,300.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Distill | 25,000.00 | 25,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Court Watch NOLA | 25,000.00 | 25,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Rockefeller Archive Center | FB Tw Site | 25,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 25,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Free Migration Project | 24,000.00 | 0.00 | 24,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| The Ahimsa Collective | 15,000.00 | 15,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Genspace | WP | 15,000.00 | 15,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Associated Students of the University of California, Berkeley | 10,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 10,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| ARNOVA | FB Tw WP Site | 2,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| Total | -- | -- | 185,983,689.00 | 106,765,805.00 | 62,018,804.00 | 7,280,855.00 | 8,023,225.00 | 795,000.00 | 1,100,000.00 |
Graph of spending by donee and year (incremental, not cumulative)
Graph of spending by donee and year (cumulative)
If you hover over a cell for a given influencer and year, you will get a tooltip with the number of donees and the number of donations.
For the meaning of “classified” and “unclassified”, see the page clarifying this.
| Influencer | Number of donations | Number of donees | Total | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lewis Bollard | 49 | 34 | 23,920,608.00 | 9,484,338.00 | 14,436,270.00 | 0.00 |
| Chloe Cockburn | 64 | 50 | 22,297,543.00 | 3,791,653.00 | 17,544,900.00 | 960,990.00 |
| Jaime Yassif | 5 | 4 | 19,364,495.00 | 16,620,495.00 | 2,744,000.00 | 0.00 |
| Nick Beckstead | 3 | 3 | 3,775,000.00 | 3,775,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Claire Zabel | 1 | 1 | 2,350,000.00 | 2,350,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Alexander Berger | 3 | 3 | 2,090,000.00 | 2,090,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Helen Toner | 1 | 1 | 1,536,222.00 | 1,536,222.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Luke Muehlhauser | 1 | 1 | 1,300,000.00 | 1,300,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Chris Somerville | 1 | 1 | 49,500.00 | 49,500.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Daniel Dewey | 1 | 1 | 25,000.00 | 25,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Classified total | 129 | 99 | 76,708,368.00 | 41,022,208.00 | 34,725,170.00 | 960,990.00 |
| Unclassified total | 85 | 71 | 109,275,321.00 | 65,743,597.00 | 27,293,634.00 | 6,319,865.00 |
| Total | 214 | 166 | 185,983,689.00 | 106,765,805.00 | 62,018,804.00 | 7,280,855.00 |
Graph of spending by influencer and year (incremental, not cumulative)
Graph of spending by influencer and year (cumulative)
If you hover over a cell for a given disclosures and year, you will get a tooltip with the number of donees and the number of donations.
For the meaning of “classified” and “unclassified”, see the page clarifying this.
| Disclosures | Number of donations | Number of donees | Total | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Holden Karnofsky | 3 | 3 | 33,274,000.00 | 30,000,000.00 | 3,274,000.00 | 0.00 |
| Dario Amodei | 2 | 2 | 32,970,000.00 | 30,000,000.00 | 2,970,000.00 | 0.00 |
| Paul Christiano | 3 | 3 | 30,804,000.00 | 30,000,000.00 | 804,000.00 | 0.00 |
| Kevin Esvelt | 2 | 2 | 18,020,000.00 | 17,500,000.00 | 520,000.00 | 0.00 |
| Jaime Yassif | 1 | 1 | 16,000,000.00 | 16,000,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Nick Beckstead | 7 | 7 | 8,343,525.00 | 3,119,000.00 | 4,038,525.00 | 1,186,000.00 |
| Daniel Dewey | 4 | 4 | 5,158,525.00 | 4,394,000.00 | 764,525.00 | 0.00 |
| Unknown, generic, or multiple | 4 | 4 | 3,846,000.00 | 1,125,000.00 | 1,535,000.00 | 1,186,000.00 |
| Lewis Bollard | 4 | 3 | 3,464,000.00 | 2,464,000.00 | 1,000,000.00 | 0.00 |
| Carl Shulman | 2 | 2 | 3,029,000.00 | 1,994,000.00 | 1,035,000.00 | 0.00 |
| Luke Muehlhauser | 4 | 3 | 3,025,000.00 | 0.00 | 1,839,000.00 | 1,186,000.00 |
| Adam Marblestone | 1 | 1 | 2,970,000.00 | 0.00 | 2,970,000.00 | 0.00 |
| Claire Zabel | 1 | 1 | 2,500,000.00 | 0.00 | 2,500,000.00 | 0.00 |
| Chris Olah | 1 | 1 | 2,400,000.00 | 2,400,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Helen Toner | 3 | 3 | 1,990,000.00 | 0.00 | 804,000.00 | 1,186,000.00 |
| Chloe Cockburn | 6 | 5 | 1,828,000.00 | 395,000.00 | 1,433,000.00 | 0.00 |
| Ben Hoffman | 1 | 1 | 1,186,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1,186,000.00 |
| Jacob Steinhardt | 2 | 2 | 804,000.00 | 0.00 | 804,000.00 | 0.00 |
| Alexander Berger | 2 | 2 | 500,000.00 | 0.00 | 300,000.00 | 200,000.00 |
| Howie Lempel | 1 | 1 | 200,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 200,000.00 |
| Classified total | 26 | 23 | 84,090,525.00 | 71,878,000.00 | 10,826,525.00 | 1,386,000.00 |
| Unclassified total | 188 | 151 | 101,893,164.00 | 34,887,805.00 | 51,192,279.00 | 5,894,855.00 |
| Total | 214 | 166 | 185,983,689.00 | 106,765,805.00 | 62,018,804.00 | 7,280,855.00 |
Graph of spending by disclosures and year (incremental, not cumulative)
Graph of spending by disclosures and year (cumulative)
If you hover over a cell for a given country and year, you will get a tooltip with the number of donees and the number of donations.
For the meaning of “classified” and “unclassified”, see the page clarifying this.
| Country | Number of donations | Number of donees | Total | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 105 | 83 | 41,867,408.00 | 6,181,653.00 | 26,849,900.00 | 4,552,855.00 | 3,738,000.00 | 445,000.00 | 100,000.00 |
| China | 9 | 9 | 3,595,783.00 | 1,893,604.00 | 1,702,179.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| India | 6 | 5 | 2,434,336.00 | 2,344,944.00 | 89,392.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Japan,South Korea | 1 | 1 | 1,364,000.00 | 1,364,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| United States,Europe | 1 | 1 | 1,035,000.00 | 0.00 | 1,035,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Germany,France,Sweden | 1 | 1 | 1,032,947.00 | 0.00 | 1,032,947.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Myanmar | 1 | 1 | 1,000,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1,000,000.00 |
| Albania | 1 | 1 | 500,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 500,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Norway | 1 | 1 | 378,000.00 | 378,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Germany | 1 | 1 | 317,060.00 | 317,060.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| India,China | 2 | 2 | 200,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 200,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1 | 100,000.00 | 0.00 | 100,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| United States,Canada | 1 | 1 | 37,000.00 | 0.00 | 37,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Argentina,Brazil,Columbia,Chile,Mexico | 1 | 1 | 30,000.00 | 30,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Classified total | 132 | 105 | 53,891,534.00 | 12,509,261.00 | 30,846,418.00 | 4,752,855.00 | 4,238,000.00 | 445,000.00 | 1,100,000.00 |
| Unclassified total | 82 | 68 | 132,092,155.00 | 94,256,544.00 | 31,172,386.00 | 2,528,000.00 | 3,785,225.00 | 350,000.00 | 0.00 |
| Total | 214 | 166 | 185,983,689.00 | 106,765,805.00 | 62,018,804.00 | 7,280,855.00 | 8,023,225.00 | 795,000.00 | 1,100,000.00 |
Graph of spending by country and year (incremental, not cumulative)
Graph of spending by country and year (cumulative)
| Title (URL linked) | Publication date | Author | Publisher | Affected donors | Affected donees | Document scope | Cause area | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| How Will Hen Welfare Be Impacted by the Transition to Cage-Free Housing? | 2017-09-15 | Ajeya Cotra | Open Philanthropy Project | Open Philanthropy Project | Reasoning supplement | Animal welfare/factory farming/chicken/cage-free campaign | A followup to http://www.openphilanthropy.org/blog/initial-grants-support-corporate-cage-free-reforms which described the original cage-free campaign funding strategy. This report compares aviaries (cage-free living environments) with cages for hens. It tempers original enthusiasm for cage-free by noting higher mortality rates, but continues to support the position that cage-free is likely better on net for hens. Described in blog post http://www.openphilanthropy.org/blog/new-report-welfare-differences-between-cage-and-cage-free-housing that expresses regret for not investigating this more thoroughly earlier, and thanks Direct Action Everywhere for highlighting the issue. See https://groups.google.com/a/openphilanthropy.org/forum/#!topic/newly.published/cnK5yNlYHuc for the announcement | |
| The Open Philanthropy Project AI Fellows Program | 2017-09-12 | Open Philanthropy Project | Open Philanthropy Project | Broad donor strategy | AI risk | This annouces an AI Fellows Program to support students doing Ph.D. work in AI-related fields who have interest in AI safety. See https://www.facebook.com/vipulnaik.r/posts/10213116327718748 and https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/long-term-world-improvement/FeZ_h2HXJr0 for critical discussions | ||
| Should EAs think twice before donating to GFI? | 2017-08-31 | Kevin Watkinson | Effective Altruism Forum | Open Philanthropy Project | The Good Food Institute | Third-party case against donation | Animal welfare | The post argues against donations to The Good Food Institute, noting its limited track record as well as the huge amount of funding it is already receiving from the Open Philanthropy Project. This post is made shortly after an exchange between the post author (Kevin Watkinson) and Holden Karnofsky of the Open Philanthropy Project in http://www.openphilanthropy.org/blog/march-2017-open-thread?page=1#comment-305 (the open thread of the Open Philanthropy Project). The post also critiques Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) for a positive assessment of GFI, and comments include a response from an ACE employee and an ACE board member (neither in an official capacity) |
| Relationship Disclosure Policy | 2017-08-30 | Open Philanthropy Project | Open Philanthropy Project | Miscellaneous commentary | The document, announced on a mailing list at https://groups.google.com/a/openphilanthropy.org/forum/#!topic/newly.published/4-0KIw2aVmQ (2017-08-30) describes a change in relationship disclosure policy on grant pages published by the Open Philanthropy Project. Relationship disclosures would now no longer be included on grant pages. See https://www.facebook.com/vipulnaik.r/posts/10212973153219475 (cross-posted at https://github.com/vipulnaik/working-drafts/blob/master/open-phil/relationship-disclosure-policy.txt to GitHub) for a critique | |||
| Grants to Support Farm Animal Welfare Work in China | 2017-08-09 | Lewis Bollard | Open Philanthropy Project | Open Philanthropy Project | Compassion in World Farming WildAid World Animal Protection Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Humane Slaughter Association Jeanne Marchig Centre Animal Welfare Standards Project Green Monday Griffith University Brighter Green | Broad donor strategy | Animal welfare/factory farming/China | The document describes the strategy of the Open Philanthropy Project to focus on farm animal welfare advocacy in China, and lists ten grants that are part of this strategy. It is announced 2017-08-09 at https://groups.google.com/a/openphilanthropy.org/forum/#!topic/newly.published/ngrjni1iKLg on the mailing list; this comes 9.5 months after the strategy was unofficially announced by Lewis Bollard at https://www.facebook.com/groups/EffectiveAnimalActivism/permalink/656583861179155/ (2016-10-25) on Facebook |
| My current thoughts on MIRI’s highly reliable agent design work | 2017-07-07 | Daniel Dewey | Effective Altruism Forum | Open Philanthropy Project | Machine Intelligence Research Institute | Evaluator review of donee | AI risk | Post discusses thoughts on the MIRI work on highly reliable agent design. Dewey is looking into the subject to inform Open Philanthropy Project grantmaking to MIRI specifically and for AI risk in general; the post reflects his own opinions that could affect Open Phil decisions. See https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/long-term-world-improvement/FeZ_h2HXJr0 for critical discussion, in particular the comments by Sarah Constantin |
| Hi, I’m Luke Muehlhauser. AMA about Open Philanthropy’s new report on consciousness and moral patienthood | 2017-06-28 | Luke Muehlhauser | Effective Altruism Forum | Open Philanthropy Project | Dyrevernalliansen Albert Schweitzer Foundation for Our Contemporaries Eurogroup for Animals | Reasoning supplement | Moral patienthood/animal welfare | Luke Muehlhauser hosts an Ask Me Anything (AMA) on the Effective Altruism Forum about his recently published report http://www.openphilanthropy.org/2017-report-consciousness-and-moral-patienthood (2017-06-06). The post gets 61 comments |
| The Open Philanthropy Project Is Now an Independent Organization | 2017-06-12 | Holden Karnofsky | Open Philanthropy Project | Open Philanthropy Project Good Ventures | Status change | The Open Philanthropy Project announces that it is now a separate entity from GiveWell, and that it has incorporated as a LLC. The change was effective 2017-06-01. See http://blog.givewell.org/2017/06/12/separating-givewell-open-philanthropy-project/ for the complementary post on the GiveWell blog | ||
| 2017 Report on Consciousness and Moral Patienthood | 2017-06-06 | Luke Muehlhauser | Open Philanthropy Project | Open Philanthropy Project | Dyrevernalliansen Albert Schweitzer Foundation for Our Contemporaries Eurogroup for Animals | Reasoning supplement | Moral patienthood/animal welfare | The writeup announced at http://www.openphilanthropy.org/blog/new-report-consciousness-and-moral-patienthood provides an overview of the findings of Luke Muehlhauser on moral patienthood -- a broad subject covering what creatures are the subject of moral concern. As described at http://www.openphilanthropy.org/blog/radical-empathy Open Phil identifies with radical empathy, extending concern to beings considered of moral concern, even if they are not traditionally subjects of empathy and concern. See https://www.facebook.com/groups/effective.altruists/permalink/1426329927423360/ for a discussion of the post on the Effective Altruism Facebook group, and see http://effective-altruism.com/ea/1c3/hi_im_luke_muehlhauser_ama_about_open/ for a related AMA. The writeup influenced the Open Philanthropy Project Farm Animal Welfare Officer Lewis Bollard to investigate and donate in the domain of fish welfare; see http://effective-altruism.com/ea/1c3/hi_im_luke_muehlhauser_ama_about_open/b8o for a comment clarifying this effect |
| An Open Letter to SOZE and the Open Philanthropy Project: The Right of Return Fellowship and Ethics in Funding | 2017-04-27 | Taylar Nuevelle | Medium | Open Philanthropy Project | The Soze Agency | Third-party case against donation | Criminal justice reform/United States | The writer, a contestant for the Right of Return Fellowship, feels that the contest was rigged, and is writing to bring that to the attention of the Open Philanthropy Project, that funded the Soze Agency for this work |
| Soros Connected Groups Dominate Ayala’s Personal & Professional Life | 2017-04-19 | Jacob Engels | Central Florida Post | Open Philanthropy Project | Florida Rights Restoration Coalition Fair and Just Prosecution | Third-party case against donation | Criminal justice reform/United States | The writer notes how the Open Philanthropy Project (that he mistakenly believes to be a Soros-funded group) has been attempting to influence Orange and Osceola County State Attorney Aramis Ayala, and argues for more openness. See https://www.facebook.com/vipulnaik.r/posts/10212752692588097 for a discussion |
| Why Are the US Corporate Cage-Free Campaigns Succeeding? | 2017-04-11 | Lewis Bollard | Open Philanthropy Project | Open Philanthropy Project | The Humane League Mercy For Animals The Humane Society of the United States Compassion in World Farming USA | Review of current state of cause area | Animal welfare/factory farming/cage-free campaign | Lewis Bollard, Open Philanthropy Project Program Officer for Animal Welfare, who brought passion about cage-free campaigns to the organization when he joined, provides a timeline of cage-free campaigns and an assessment of the success of these campaigns, and the role of the Open Philanthropy Project as a funder |
| OpenAI makes humanity less safe | 2017-04-03 | Ben Hoffman | LessWrong | Open Philanthropy Project | OpenAI | Evaluator review of donee | AI risk | Hoffman argues that OpenAI is good intentions gone awry, and is critical of the Open Philanthropy Project donation to OpenAI |
| Open Philanthropy Project non-grant funding | 2017-04-02 | Issa Rice | Open Philanthropy Project | Miscellaneous commentary | The document lists some funding by the Open Philanthropy Project that is publicly disclosed (either by Open Philanthropy Project or by the donee or another reliable source) but is not part of the Open Philanthropy Project grants database, and is not included in employee salaries and benefits. | |||
| Criminal Justice Reform Strategy | 2017-03-27 | Open Philanthropy Project | Open Philanthropy Project | Broad donor strategy | Criminal justice reform/United States | Explanation of the criminal justice reform strategy of the Open Philanthropy Project in the United States, under the leadership of Chloe Cockburn. Discusses broad goals, types of organizations funded, other funders in the space, and expected impact. Announced in email https://groups.google.com/a/openphilanthropy.org/forum/#!topic/newly.published/_aKeLKRqtQY by Devin Jacob on 2017-03-27 | ||
| A conversation with Lewis Bollard, February 23, 2017 | 2017-02-23 | Lewis Bollard Luke Muehlhauser | Open Philanthropy Project | Open Philanthropy Project | Review of current state of cause area | Animal welfare | Farm animal welfare program officer Lewis Bollard speaks with Luke Muehlhauser, investigator into moral patienthood, on the history of the animal rights and welfare movements as well as recent developments | |
| Daniel May: "Open Science: little room for more funding." | 2017-02-15 | Daniel May | Oxford Prioritisation Project | Oxford Prioritisation Project Laura and John Arnold Foundation Open Philanthropy Project | Review of current state of cause area | Scientific research | The summary states: "I consider open science as a cause area, by reviewing Open Phil’s published work, as well as some popular articles and research, and assessing the field for scale, neglectedness, and tractability. I conclude that the best giving opportunities will likely be filled by foundations such as LJAF and Open Phil, and recommend that the Oxford Prioritisation Project focusses elsewhere." Also available as a Google Doc at https://docs.google.com/document/d/13wsMAugRacu52EPZo6-7NJh4QuYayKyIbjChwU0KsVU/edit?usp=sharing and at the Effective Altruism Forum at http://effective-altruism.com/ea/17g/daniel_may_open_science_little_room_for_more/ (10 comments) | |
| Forget Washington. Criminal Justice Funders Have Big Plans at the Local Level | 2017-02-08 | Philip Rojc | Inside Philanthropy | Open Philanthropy Project Laura and John Arnold Foundation MacArthur Foundation | Third-party coverage of donor strategy | Criminal justice reform/United States | The post compares the criminal justice reform strategies followed by, on the one hand, the Arnold and MacArthur Foundation (working on the inside with government agencies and power players), on the other hand, the Open Philanthropy Project (keeping the pressure for reform from the outside). It says that the two strategies are complementary, and taken together, improve the expected amount of reform | |
| Good Ventures and Giving Now vs. Later (2016 Update) | 2016-12-28 | Holden Karnofsky | Open Philanthropy Project | Open Philanthropy Project | GiveWell top charities Against Malaria Foundation Schistosomiasis Control Initiative Deworm the World Initiative GiveDirectly Malaria Consortium Sightsavers END Fund Development Media International Food Fortification Initiative Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition Iodine Global Network Living Goods Project Healthy Children | Reasoning supplement | Global health and global poverty | Explanation of reasoning that led to $50 million allocation to GiveWell top charities |
| Catastrophic Global Risks: A Silicon Valley Funder Thinks the Unthinkable | 2016-11-30 | Sue Lynn-Moses | Inside Philanthropy | Open Philanthropy Project | Center for International Security and Cooperation | Third-party coverage of donor strategy | Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness | A discussion of the overall work done by the Open Philanthropy Project on global catastrophic risks, with a particular focus on biosecurity. Comparisons are made with the Skoll Global Threats Fund, and the historical work of the Rockefeller Foundation in disease surveillance (that it recently pulled out of) is referenced |
| Our updated top charities for giving season 2016 | 2016-11-28 | Natalie Stone-Crispin | GiveWell | Open Philanthropy Project Good Ventures | GiveWell top charities Against Malaria Foundation Schistosomiasis Control Initiative Deworm the World Initiative GiveDirectly Malaria Consortium Sightsavers END Fund Development Media International Food Fortification Initiative Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition Iodine Global Network Living Goods Project Healthy Children | Evaluator consolidated recommendation list | Global health and global poverty | GiveWell annual top charity refresh, also announced amounts recommended for Good Ventures to donate to top charities. Added three new top charities |
| Vast Suffering, Clear Solutions: The Logic Behind a Global Push to Help Farm Animals | 2016-11-17 | Tate Williams | Inside Philanthropy | Open Philanthropy Project | Broad donor strategy | Animal welfare/factory farming | The article reviews Open Philanthropy Project grants for animal welfare, primarily grants focused on cage-free campaigns, decided by program officer Lewis Bollard. The connection with the effective altruist movement is also highlighted | |
| The Open Philanthropy Project just announced our latest grant to WildAid in China | 2016-10-25 | Lewis Bollard | Open Philanthropy Project | Open Philanthropy Project | Green Monday World Animal Protection Brighter Green WildAid | Broad donor strategy | Animal welfare/factory farming/China | Announcement of strategy on Facebook; official document http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/grants-support-farm-animal-welfare-work-china announced at https://groups.google.com/a/openphilanthropy.org/forum/#!topic/newly.published/ngrjni1iKLg (2017-08-09). |
| Grisly Undercover Video Shows Chickens Being Starved To Produce More Eggs | 2016-10-11 | Nico Pitney | Huffington Post | Open Philanthropy Project | Humane Society International Mercy for Animals Animal Equality People for Animals The Humane League | Third-party coverage of donor strategy | Animal welfare/factory farming/chicken/cage-free campaign/international | Provides some context for the move by the Open Philanthropy Project in mid-2016 to expand its cage-free campaign funding internationally |
| Brian Tomasik, Research Lead, Foundational Research Institute on October 6, 2016 | 2016-10-06 | Brian Tomasik Luke Muehlhauser | Open Philanthropy Project | Open Philanthropy Project | Reasoning supplement | Moral patienthood/animal welfare | Conversation as part of research by Muehlhauser into moral patienthood, that would culminate in the writeup http://www.openphilanthropy.org/2017-report-consciousness-and-moral-patienthood published in 2017 | |
| Machine Intelligence Research Institute — General Support | 2016-09-06 | Open Philanthropy Project | Open Philanthropy Project | Open Philanthropy Project | Machine Intelligence Research Institute | Evaluator review of donee | AI risk | Open Phil writes about the grant at considerable length, more than it usually does. This is because it says that it has found the investigation difficult and believes that others may benefit from its process. The writeup also links to reviews of MIRI research by AI researchers, commissioned by Open Phil: http://files.openphilanthropy.org/files/Grants/MIRI/consolidated_public_reviews.pdf (the reviews are anonymized). The date is based on the announcement date of the grant, see https://groups.google.com/a/openphilanthropy.org/forum/#!topic/newly.published/XkSl27jBDZ8 for the email |
| Anonymized Reviews of Three Recent Papers from MIRI’s Agent Foundations Research Agenda (PDF) | 2016-09-06 | Open Philanthropy Project | Open Philanthropy Project | Machine Intelligence Research Institute | Evaluator review of donee | AI risk | Reviews of the technical work done by MIRI, solicited and compiled by the Open Philanthropy Project as part of its decision process behind a grant for general support to MIRI documented at http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/potential-risks-advanced-artificial-intelligence/machine-intelligence-research-institute-general-support (grant made 2016-08, announced 2016-09-06) | |
| Why the Open Philanthropy Project Should Prioritize Wild Animal Suffering | 2016-08-26 | Michael Dickens | Effective Altruism Forum | Open Philanthropy Project | Unsolicited third-party suggestions for donor | Animal welfare/wild animals | Michael Dickens offers reasons that the Open Philanthropy Project should prioritize Wild Animal Suffering. He writes: "What we need is a large, committed source of funding to jump-start the cause. If the Open Philanthropy Project began funding work on wild animal suffering, it could stimulate new research efforts or small-scale interventions by offering grants. Specifically, Open Phil should probably create a new focus area for wild animal suffering and possibly hire dedicated staff. This problem has such large scale, and so many possible interventions, that it absolutely deserves to be a dedicated focus area. Open Phil might consider lumping WAS under its farm animal welfare program, but this would excessively constrain its budget and limit the amount of staff time that it could receive. Wild animal suffering is a massive problem, and easily deserves as much attention as most of Open Phil’s other focus areas." | |
| Potential Risks from Advanced Artificial Intelligence: The Philanthropic Opportunity | 2016-05-06 | Holden Karnofsky | Open Philanthropy Project | Open Philanthropy Project | Review of current state of cause area | AI risk | In this blog post that that the author says took him over over 70 hours to write (See http://www.openphilanthropy.org/blog/update-how-were-thinking-about-openness-and-information-sharing for the statistic), Holden Karnofsky explains the position of the Open Philanthropy Project on the potential risks and opportunities from AI, and why they are making funding in the area a priority | |
| Initial Grants to Support Corporate Cage-free Reforms | 2016-03-31 | Lewis Bollard | Open Philanthropy Project | Open Philanthropy Project | The Humane League Mercy for Animals The Humane Society of the United States | Broad donor strategy | Animal welfare/factory farming/chicken/cage-free campaign/international | Written to explain a bunch of grants already made in 2016-02 to support cage-free reforms in the United States for egg-laying chicken. The blog post had a heated comment section, potentially influencing future Open Phil communication on the subject |
| EPISODE 324: LEWIS BOLLARD FROM THE OPEN PHILANTHROPY PROJECT | 2016-03-26 | Lewis Bollard Jasmin Singer Mariann Sullivan | Our Hen House | Open Philanthropy Project | Broad donor strategy | Animal welfare/factory farming | Lewis Bollard, who recently joined the Open Philanthropy Project and has recently recommended a bunch of grants related to corporate campaigns, describes what he is working on | |
| ALLEVIATING ANIMAL SUFFERING: A CONVERSATION WITH LEWIS BOLLARD | 2015-11-29 | Marc Gunther | Nonprofit Chronicles | Open Philanthropy Project | Broad donor strategy | Animal welfare/factory farming | The author discusses takeaway from a recent lunch with Lewis Bollard, who has recently joined the Open Philanthropy Project as the Program Officer for Farm Animal Welfare | |
| Our updated top charities for giving season 2015 | 2015-11-20 | Elie Hassenfeld Josh Rosenberg | GiveWell | Open Philanthropy Project Good Ventures | GiveWell top charities Against Malaria Foundation Schistosomiasis Control Initiative Deworm the World Initiative GiveDirectly Development Media International Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition Iodine Global Network Living Goods | Evaluator consolidated recommendation list | GLobal health and global poverty | No change to charity list; significant funding recommended from Good Ventures. This would be later classified as Open Philanthropy Project spending |
| Incoming Program Officer: Lewis Bollard | 2015-09-11 | Holden Karnofsky | Open Philanthropy Project | Open Philanthropy Project | Broad donor strategy | Animal welfare | Open Philanthropy Project announces that it is hiring Lewis Bollard, poaching him from the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) via a referral from Howie Lempel. Bollard would direct tens of millions of dollars in funding in the area over the next few years, including massive spend on corporate cage-free campaigns in the United States and internationally. The post was originally published on the GiveWell blog at http://blog.givewell.org/2015/09/11/incoming-program-officer-lewis-bollard/ and has 6 comments there | |
| Open Philanthropy Project | 2015-09-05 | Sydney Martin | Open Philanthropy Project | Third-party coverage of donor strategy | Criminal justice reform/United States | The blog post describes the Open Philanthropy Project and its broad strategy of selecting a few areas through cause prioritization, studying them in depth, and granting a lot in those areas. She particularly focuses on criminal justice reform and the hiring of Chloe Cockburn | ||
| Incoming Program Officer for Criminal Justice Reform: Chloe Cockburn | 2015-06-16 | Holden Karnofsky | Open Philanthropy Project | Open Philanthropy Project | Broad donor strategy | Criminal justice reform/United States | The post notes that the Open Philanthropy Project is hiring Chloe Cockburn as the Program Officer in criminal justice reform, poaching her from the American Civil Liberties Union. Cockburn would direct tens of millions of dollars in funding in criminal justice reform over the next few years. The post was originally published on the GiveWell blog at http://blog.givewell.org/2015/06/16/incoming-program-officer-for-criminal-justice-reform-chloe-cockburn/ and has 5 comemnts there | |
| Our updated top charities | 2014-12-01 | Elie Hassenfeld | GiveWell | Open Philanthropy Project Good Ventures | GiveWell top charities Against Malaria Foundation Schistosomiasis Control Initiative Deworm the World Initiative GiveDirectly Development Media International Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition Iodine Global Network Living Goods | Evaluator consolidated recommendation list | Global health and global poverty | Against Malaria Foundation returned to top charities list. Amounts donated by Good Ventures would later be classified as Open Philanthropy Project spending |
| Macroeconomic policy | 2014-05-01 | Open Philanthropy Project | Open Philanthropy Project | Review of current state of cause area | Macroeconomic stabilization policy | Initial findings from a medium-depth investigation into the current state of macroeconomic stabilization policy | ||
| Biosecurity | 2014-01-01 | Open Philanthropy Project | Open Philanthropy Project | Review of current state of cause area | Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness | Initial findings from a shallow investigation into the current state of biosecurity and its funding | ||
| Our Giving Season Plans | 2013-12-03 | Cari Tuna | Good Ventures | Open Philanthropy Project Good Ventures | GiveDirectly Deworm the World Initiative Schistosomiasis Control Initiative | Periodic donation list documentation | Global health and global poverty | Good Ventures announced $2 million to GiveDirectly, $1.5 million to DtWI, and $750000 to SCI. Also announced up to $5 million in matching funds for GiveDirectly, despite disagreement from GiveWell |
| GiveWell’s top charities for giving season 2013 | 2013-12-01 | Holden Karnofsky | GiveWell | Open Philanthropy Project Good Ventures | Against Malaria Foundation GiveDirectly Schistosomiasis Control Initiative Deworm the World Initiative | Evaluator consolidated recommendation list | Global health and global poverty | Against Malaria Foundation not in top charities list (it was in 2013) due to room for more funding issues. Good Ventures allocations not included in this post |
| Treatment of Animals in Industrial Agriculture | 2013-09-01 | Open Philanthropy Project | Open Philanthropy Project | Review of current state of cause area | Animal welfare/factory farming/United States | Initial findings from a shallow investigation into the impact of industrial agriculture on animal welfare in the United States | ||
| Migration policy/international labor mobility | 2013-05-01 | Open Philanthropy Project | Open Philanthropy Project | Review of current state of cause area | Migration policy/international labor mobility | Initial findings from a shallow investigation into the current state of labor mobility, with more focus on the United States | ||
| Open Philanthropy Project: Grants for Global Security | Inside Philanthropy | Open Philanthropy Project | Center for International Security and Cooperation | Third-party coverage of donor strategy | Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness | An overview by Inside Philanthropy of the Open Philanthropy Project and its work on biosecurity grants |
| Donee | Amount (current USD) | Donation date | Cause area | URL | Influencer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Ahimsa Collective | 15,000.00 | Criminal justice reform/restorative justice | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/ahimsa-collective-restorative-justice-report | Chloe Cockburn | Discretionary grant via Community Works West to support the completion of a restorative justice movement building report. The report is intended to be a resource for donors and advocates interested in supporting restorative justice1 work, and will include reference data on movement building efforts to date as well as recommendations on funding strategy. Affected countries: United States; announced: 2017-08-16. | |
| American Conservative Union Foundation | 200,000.00 | Criminal justice reform | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/american-conservative-union-center-criminal-justice-reform-2017 | Chloe Cockburn | Grant to support the Center for Criminal Justice Reform (CCJR) led by Pat Nolan and David Safavian. Affected countries: United States; announced: 2017-08-21. | |
| Federation of Indian Animal Protection Organisations | 332,944.00 | Animal welfare/factory farming/chicken and dairy | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/federation-indian-animal-protection-organisations-india-animal-welfare-reform | Lewis Bollard | Reason for grant includes excitement about broad network of FIAPO throughout India, and the scale of opportunity in India. Affected countries: India; announced: 2017-08-21. | |
| Future of Research | 150,000.00 | Scientific research | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/scientific-research/miscellaneous/future-research-exit-grant-2017 | Nick Beckstead | Exit grant to allow grantee to find time for alternative funding sources. Follows a $300,000 grant made in 2016 for two years. Announced: 2017-08-21. | |
| University of Pennsylvania | 1,300,000.00 | Forecasting | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/giving/grants/university-pennsylvania-philip-tetlock-making-conversations-smarter-faster | Luke Muehlhauser | Grant to support development and pre-testing of the “Making Conversations Smarter, Faster” project. The work will be led by Professors Philip Tetlock and Barbara Mellers of University of Pennsylvania, and Professor Emeritus Daniel Kahneman of Princeton University. Announced: 2017-08-25. | |
| Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms | 2,400,000.00 | AI risk | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/potential-risks-advanced-artificial-intelligence/montreal-institute-learning-algorithms-ai-safety-research | -- | Grant to support research to improve the positive long-term impact of artificial intelligence on society. Mainly due to star power of researcher Yoshua Bengio who influences many young ML/AI researchers. Detailed writeup available. See also https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10110258359382500&id=13963931 for a Facebook share by David Krueger, a member of the grantee organization. The comments include some discussion about the grantee. Announced: 2017-07-19. | |
| Greater Greater Washington | 250,000.00 | Land use reform/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/land-use-reform/greater-greater-washington-housing-and-land-use-reform | Alexander Berger | Grant to support work on housing affordability and land use reform, and the grant writeup cites the existing coalition http://www.dchousingpriorities.org/ as impressive evidence of progress so far. Affected countries: United States; affected cities: Washington, D.C.; announced: 2017-08-11. | |
| Duke University | 49,500.00 | Scientific research/antiviral and inhibitor work | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/scientific-research/miscellaneous/duke-university-timothy-haystead-hsp70 | Chris Somerville | Grant for work that will be led by Dr. Timothy Haystead, Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology at the Duke University School of Medicine. Funding from this grant will allow Dr. Haystead to pay a specialized company to determine the molecular structure of the human Hsp70i protein in a complex with HS-72, and to hire a summer intern to support his antiviral and inhibitor work. Announced: 2017-08-16. | |
| Animal Welfare Action Lab | 58,550.00 | Animal welfare/factory farming/survey research | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/animal-welfare-action-lab-meat-reduction-survey | Lewis Bollard | Discretionary grant via the Reducetarian Foundation to fund a study to replicate and improve upon an earlier multi-wave study by grantee (AWAL). Improvements include a larger, more representative sample via YouGov, and the potential to fund a third-wave component analyzing whether any effect endures after two months. Funds primarily cover spending on YouGov. Announced: 2017-08-21. | |
| Humane Slaughter Association | 419,236.00 | Animal welfare/factory farming/China | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/humane-slaughter-association-farm-animal-welfare-advocacy-china | Lewis Bollard | Grant in UK pounds of 331458 (419236 USD at time of conversion). Recipient plans to use this grant to translate its guides on humane handling, transport, stunning, and slaughter into Mandarin Chinese and publicize the translated publications in Chinese agriculture industry magazines. It also plans to pay for HSA staff to travel to China to lecture at veterinary universities and train staff at slaughterhouses and livestock markets, and invite Chinese officials for an expenses-paid study tour of slaughterhouses and livestock markets in the United Kingdom. Donor is excited about this project’s potential to reduce suffering and institutionalize farm animal welfare values. Part of a China focus strategy announced by Lewis Bollard at https://www.facebook.com/groups/EffectiveAnimalActivism/permalink/656583861179155/ (2016-10-25) and explained in depth in a document http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/grants-support-farm-animal-welfare-work-china announced at https://groups.google.com/a/openphilanthropy.org/forum/#!topic/newly.published/ngrjni1iKLg (2017-08-09). Affected countries: China; announced: 2017-07-19. | |
| Dignity and Power Now | 132,000.00 | Criminal justice reform/Jail plan | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/dignity-and-power-now-la-jail-opposition | Chloe Cockburn | Grant for an organized campaign to permanently defeat Los Angeles plans for jails. Grantee plans to organize a convening of community coalitions, labor groups, elected officials, and other interested parties to discuss and assess the potential for a larger campaign opposing the jails. Specifically, the funding will cover meeting materials, food and location costs, staff support, and potentially a commissioned report on alternative uses for the city and state funds estimated to be needed for the jail construction projects. Affected countries: United States; affected states: California; affected cities: Los Angeles; announced: 2017-08-08. | |
| Target Malaria | 17,500,000.00 | Scientific research/malaria/gene drive testing and governance | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/scientific-research/miscellaneous/target-malaria-general-support | -- | Unrestricted support to group also funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Funding hopes to accelerate progress toward use of gene drive technologies for malaria control. Announced: 2017-05-17. | |
| CDC Foundation | 1,214,437.00 | Scientific research/malaria/mosquito cryopreservation | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/scientific-research/miscellaneous/cdc-foundation-malaria-control-research | -- | Supplement to grant http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/scientific-research/miscellaneous/target-malaria-general-support to Target Malaria; see writeup for latter to understand grant reasoning. Announced: 2017-05-17. | |
| UCLA School of Law | 1,536,222.00 | AI risk | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/potential-risks-advanced-artificial-intelligence/ucla-artificial-intelligence-governance | Helen Toner | Grant to support work on governance related to AI risk led by Edward Parson and Richard Re. Announced: 2017-07-27. | |
| Compassion in World Farming USA | 30,000.00 | Animal welfare/factory farming/Latin America | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/compassion-world-farming-latin-america-broiler-chicken-welfare-research | Lewis Bollard | Grant to support research into opportunities for broiler chicken welfare campaigns in Latin America. Affected countries: Argentina,Brazil,Columbia,Chile,Mexico; announced: 2017-07-27. | |
| Animal Equality | 292,000.00 | Animal welfare/factory farming/India | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/animal-equality-india-animal-welfare-reform | Lewis Bollard | Grant to support farm animal welfare work in India. This two-year grant will help support a pro-vegetarian messaging campaign, a corporate and/or institution-directed campaign encouraging animal product alternatives, organization capacity building, and advocacy related to in-ovo sex selection technology and other chicken welfare reforms. Affected countries: India; announced: 2017-07-27. | |
| People for Animals | 120,000.00 | Animal welfare/factory farming/India | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/people-for-animals-india-animal-welfare-reform | Lewis Bollard | Grant to support farm animal welfare work in India over two years, as part of the potential/promise for the nascent field of farm animal welfare in India. Grant one of five grants made to animal welfare groups in India. Affected countries: India; announced: 2017-08-03. | |
| Humane Society International | 1,100,000.00 | Animal welfare/factory farming/India | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/humane-society-international-india-animal-welfare-reform | Lewis Bollard | Grant to support farm animal welfare work in India over two years. Grant to provide funding to commission studies on the impact of factory farming in India and potential policy solutions; staff expansion primarily in the areas of outreach and coalition-building, litigation, and policy; operational costs; and re-grants to grassroots animal welfare groups across India. Strong track record of grantee part of the reason for the grant. Part of five grants made to animal welfare groups in India. Affected countries: India; announced: 2017-08-03. | |
| Mercy For Animals | 500,000.00 | Animal welfare/factory farming/India | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/mercy-animals-india-animal-welfare-reform | Lewis Bollard | Grant to support new farm animal welfare work in India. The grant will help support undercover investigations, corporate campaigns, research, and policy-related campaign activities over the next two years. Grant based on strong track record of similar work in United States. Affected countries: India; announced: 2017-08-03. | |
| Eurogroup for Animals | 14,961.00 | Animal welfare/factory farming/broiler chicken | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/eurogroup-animals-broiler-chicken-welfare-campaign | Lewis Bollard | Discretionary grant to support the International Broiler Advocacy Meeting in Brussels, of European advocacy groups to discuss broiler chicken welfare campaigns. Announced: 2017-08-08. | |
| National Academy of Sciences Engineering and Medicine | 452,545.00 | Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/biosecurity/national-academy-sciences-international-meeting-governance-dual-use-research | Jaime Yassif | Grant to support an international meeting on governance of dual-use research in the life sciences organized by the National Academy of Sciences. Announced: 2017-06-14. | |
| Color of Change | 30,000.00 | Criminal justice reform/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/color-change-criminal-justice-meeting | Chloe Cockburn | Grant to support activities including meeting on bail reform. Discretionary grant decided by program officer Chloe Cockburn. Affected countries: United States; announced: 2017-05-16. | |
| New Partnership for Africa’s Development | 2,350,000.00 | Scientific research/malaria/gene drive | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/scientific-research/miscellaneous/new-partnership-africa-s-development-general-support | Claire Zabel | Grant to the Planning and Coordinating Agency, the technical arm of the African Union, to support the evaluation, preparation, and potential deployment of gene drive technologies in some African regions. Part of a set of grants related to gene drives; see http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/scientific-research/miscellaneous/target-malaria-general-support for a larger grant to Target Malaria in the same domain and at around the same time. Announced: 2017-05-26. | |
| Court Watch NOLA | 25,000.00 | Criminal justice reform/Court watching | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/court-watch-nola-general-support | Chloe Cockburn | Grant for general support. Grantee supports over 100 volunteers who do regular court watching and data gathering on practices used in New Orleans courtrooms. Court watchers gather data relating to violations of transparency, constitutional rights, ethics rules, state law, and victim rights. This data is compiled into regular reports that the organization uses for advocacy. Affected countries: United States; affected states: New Orleans; announced: 2017-08-11. | |
| UCLA School of Law | 776,095.00 | Global catastrophic risks/climate engineering governance | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/miscellaneous/ucla-climate-engineering-governance | -- | Grant to support research and meetings on climate engineering governance led by Professor Edward Parson. Parson plans to use this grant to hire one or two fellows for three years to do academic research, publish papers, and hold meetings and workshops on climate engineering governance with relevant policymakers. Announced: 2017-04-19. | |
| Foundation for Food and Agricultural Research | 1,000,000.00 | Animal welfare/factory farming/chicke and pig | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/foundation-food-and-agriculture-research-farm-animal-welfare-research | Lewis Bollard | Grant was to match FFAR funding 1:1 in supporting research to find solutions to bone fractures in cage-free hens and painful castration in piglets. Announced: 2017-05-11. | |
| Animal Charity Evaluators | 500,000.00 | Animal welfare/factory farming/charity evalator | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/animal-charity-evaluators-general-support | Lewis Bollard | Grant over two years for general support (goal of finding best charities to help animals). Detailed write-up available. See also https://animalcharityevaluators.org/blog/on-receiving-a-grant-from-the-open-philanthropy-project/ on the blog of ACE, the donee. Announced: 2017-06-09. | |
| The Greenfield Project | 500,000.00 | Animal welfare/factory farming/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/greenfield-project-general-support | Lewis Bollard | Grant provides seed funding for new group created by Liz Hamilton and Ashley Carr pushing for federal reforms to improve farm animal welfare. Recipient plans to use this grant to conduct research, build relationships with government officials, build coalitions, and use legal and public relations advocacy to advance farm animal welfare reforms. Affected countries: United States; announced: 2017-07-21. | |
| BioBricks Foundation | 152,950.00 | Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/biosecurity/biobricks-foundation-biosecurity-activities-sb70 | Jaime Yassif | Grant to support biosecurity activities at the SB7.0 meeting. Announced: 2017-07-07. | |
| American Civil Liberties Union Foundation | 45,000.00 | Criminal justice reform/disability rights | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/american-civil-liberties-union-foundation-disability-rights-fellowship | Chloe Cockburn | Grant for Disability Rights Program to support a fellowship for Zoe Brennan-Kohn, a disability rights attorney. Affected countries: United States; announced: 2017-06-26. | |
| East Bay Forward | 40,000.00 | Land use reform/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/land-use-reform/east-bay-forward-yimbytown-2017-conference | Alexander Berger | Money to support a YIMBYtown 2017 conference planned for July 2017. Grant via the California Renters Legal Advocacy and Education Fund (CaRLA). Follows up on grant http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/land-use-reform/better-boulder-yimby-2016 to Better Boulder supporting the YIMBY 2016 conference. Affected countries: United States; announced: 2017-07-07. | |
| Drug Policy Alliance | 1,400,000.00 | Drug policy/United States/Criminal justice reform | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/drug-policy-alliance-drug-decriminalization | -- | Grant supports the work of asha bandele and Kassandra Frederique, who plan to lead culture change and pilot project strategies to advance a public health approach to the use and sale of all drugs. Although the grantee is working on drug policy, the current criminalization of various drugs also makes the grant fall under criminal justice reform. Open Phil hopes to move the United States toward a Portugal-style public health approach to drugs, and sees the grant as a step in that direction. Affected countries: United States; announced: 2017-04-22. | |
| 80000 Hours | 1,125,000.00 | Effective altruism/movement building/career counseling | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/giving/grants/80000-hours-general-support | Nick Beckstead | Grant for general support. Grant writeup not written by grant investigator. Grant includes plans to make a similar grant next year, with criteria for next year grant amount, as well as grantee plans. Forecasts made on 2016-12-16 (three months before the grant was offiically awarded) are also included. Announced: 2017-05-16. | |
| Distill | 25,000.00 | AI risk | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/potential-risks-advanced-artificial-intelligence/distill-prize-clarity-machine-learning-general-support | Daniel Dewey | Grant covers 25000 out of a total of 125000 USD initial endowment for the Distill prize https://distill.pub/prize/ administered by the Open Philanthropy Project. Other contributors to the endowment include Chris Olah, Greg Brockman, Jeff Dean, and DeepMind. The Open Philanthropy Project grant page says: "Without our funding, we estimate that there is a 60% chance that the prize would be administered at the same level of quality, a 30% chance that it would be administered at lower quality, and a 10% chance that it would not move forward at all. We believe that our assistance in administering the prize will also be of significant help to Distill.". Announced: 2017-08-11. | |
| Centre for Effective Altruism | 2,500,000.00 | Effective altruism/movement building | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/giving/grants/centre-effective-altruism-general-support | Nick Beckstead | Grant for general support. Donor impressed by what grantee has achieved in terms of Giving What We Can pledge amounts and recruit quality. Also believes it is value-aligned with other potential donors to donee, so less fungibility concern. Expected to renew grant for $1.25 million or $2.5 million next year. Predictions included in detailed grant page. Announced: 2017-08-17. | |
| Workers Center for Racial Justice | 125,000.00 | Criminal justice reform | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/workers-center-racial-justice-prosecutorial-accountability-chicago | Chloe Cockburn | Grant to support work on prosecutorial accountability in Chicago. The Workers Center for Racial Justice plans to use this grant to a) support local organizing to work with Cook County State’s Attorney (SA) Kim Foxx to ensure that her policies are ensuring the safety of Cook County communities without overly relying on jail and prison incarceration, and b) build these groups’ capacity to relate to SA Foxx in a productive way. Possible activities include town hall meetings, prayer vigils, and quarterly meetings with SA Foxx to determine whether she is meeting the groups’ standards for community accountability and reduced use of harsh criminal justice sanctions. Affected countries: United States; affected states: Illinois; affected cities: Chicago; announced: 2017-09-07. | |
| ClimateWorks Foundation | 3,000,000.00 | Global catastrophic risks/climate/HFC | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/miscellaneous/climateworks-montreal-protocol-energy-cooling-office | -- | Grant agreed upon in 2016-09, but not awarded; the grant date of 2017-03 is provisional. Grant intended to contribute to the Kigali Cooling Efficiency Program, which was created recently to assist with a phase-down of the use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) in developing nations, in connection with the passing of an amendment to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer. Announced: 2017-03-08. | |
| Rutgers University | 2,982,206.00 | Global catastrophic risks/nuclear war | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/miscellaneous/rutgers-university-nuclear-conflict-climate-modeling | -- | Grant over three years to support a series of modeling studies on the climatological and subsequent ecological and social effects of large nuclear conflict. Research to beconducted by Alan Robock of Rutgers University and Owen Brian Toon of the University of Colorado Boulder. Announced: 2017-04-19. | |
| Future of Humanity Institute | 1,994,000.00 | AI risk | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/potential-risks-advanced-artificial-intelligence/future-humanity-institute-general-support | -- | Grant for general support. A related grant specifically for biosecurity work was granted in 2016-09, made earlier for logistical reasons. Announced: 2017-03-06. | |
| OpenAI | 30,000,000.00 | AI risk | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/potential-risks-advanced-artificial-intelligence/openai-general-support | -- | Grant for general support; 10 million dollars each over three years. Grant write-up explains reasons for this grant being larger than other grants in the cause area. External discussions include https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/848009582492360704 (critical tweet with replies), https://www.facebook.com/vipulnaik.r/posts/10211478311489366 (Facebook post by Vipul Naik, with some comments), https://www.facebook.com/groups/effective.altruists/permalink/1350683924987961/ (Facebook post by Alasdair Pearce in Effective Altruists Facebook group, with some comments), and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14008569 (Hacker News post, with some comments). Announced: 2017-03-31. | |
| Center for Global Development | 1,800,000.00 | Migration policy/international labor mobility | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/immigration-policy/center-global-development-migration-program | Alexander Berger | Grant supports work at CGD of Michael Clemens and his team. Continues a 2014 grant http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/immigration-policy/center-global-development-labor-mobility-research for the same purpose. Announced: 2017-06-27. | |
| Jeanne Marchig Centre | 255,816.00 | Animal welfare/factory farming/China | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/jeanne-marchig-centre-farm-animal-welfare-advocacy-china | Lewis Bollard | Grant made in UK sterlink value 201,594, dollar amount of 255,816 at time of conversion. Recipient plans to use this grant primarily to fund the staff and travel costs to send international farm animal welfare experts to China to work collaboratively with large-scale producers, veterinarians, small-scale rural producers, and technical staff to identify and solve animal welfare challenges. It also plans to fund a complete PhD focused on evaluating whether the program improves outcomes for animals. Part of a China focus strategy announced by Lewis Bollard at https://www.facebook.com/groups/EffectiveAnimalActivism/permalink/656583861179155/ (2016-10-25) and explained in depth in a document http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/grants-support-farm-animal-welfare-work-china announced at https://groups.google.com/a/openphilanthropy.org/forum/#!topic/newly.published/ngrjni1iKLg (2017-08-09). Affected countries: China; announced: 2017-04-19. | |
| Humane Society International | 1,364,000.00 | Animal welfare/factory farming/East Asia | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/humane-society-international-east-asian-and-oie-projects | Lewis Bollard | Grant made to support five projects to improve farm animal welfare, primarily in East Asia. Disclosure agreement: program officer Lewis Bollard previously worked at the Humane Society of the United States, affiliate of grantee. Affected countries: Japan,South Korea; announced: 2017-04-19. | |
| Wageningen UR | 88,345.00 | Animal welfare/factory farming/chicken | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/wageningen-ur-broiler-welfare-review | Lewis Bollard | Part of a strategy focus on broiler chicken welfare started in late 2016, though no overarching document on this has been posted. See also https://www.facebook.com/groups/EffectiveAnimalActivism/search/?query=broiler%20chicken. Announced: 2017-05-08. | |
| International Society for Applied Ethology | 40,000.00 | Animal welfare | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/international-society-applied-ethology-travel-scholarships | Lewis Bollard | Grant to support travel scholarships for animal welfare scientists, government and NGO veterinarians, and graduate students from developing nations to attend the 2017 51st International Congress of the International Society for Applied Ethology. Announced: 2017-06-16. | |
| Institute for Advancement of Animal Welfare Science | 25,300.00 | Animal welfare/factory farming/chicken | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/colorado-state-university-planning-gift | Lewis Bollard | Grant goes for Colorado State University research on broiler chicken welfare. Discretionary grant. See also https://www.facebook.com/groups/EffectiveAnimalActivism/search/?query=broiler%20chicken. Announced: 2017-06-26. | |
| World Animal Protection | 517,588.00 | Animal welfare/factory farming/chicken | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/world-animal-protection-broiler-chicken-welfare | Lewis Bollard | Grant over two years to support campaigns to improve welfare of broiler chicken. See also https://www.facebook.com/groups/EffectiveAnimalActivism/search/?query=broiler%20chicken. Announced: 2017-06-26. | |
| Georgetown Center for Global Health Science and Security | 3,500,000.00 | Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/biosecurity-and-pandemic-preparedness/georgetown-center-global-health-science-and-security-general-support | -- | Grant over three years. Grantee housed at Georgetown University Medical Center. Grantee conducts research to help build sustainable capacities to prevent, detect, and respond to public health emergencies worldwide. It is comprised of a team of four experts and academic researchers in biosecurity and pandemic preparedness along with several support staff. Announced: 2017-03-24. | |
| National Alliance of Faith and Justice | 100,000.00 | Criminal justice reform/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/national-alliance-faith-and-justice-criminal-justice-reform | Chloe Cockburn | Grant to support the National Alliance of Faith and Justice work in advancing criminal justice reform by empowering victims of crime to become advocates for safe and just communities. Discretionary grant decided by program officer Chloe Cockburn. Grant page published on 2017-04-27, see https://groups.google.com/a/openphilanthropy.org/forum/#!topic/newly.published/_iLMF5lWwnQ for the email announcing the grant. Affected countries: United States; announced: 2017-04-26. | |
| American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Oregon | 145,000.00 | Criminal justice reform/Prosecutorial reform/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/american-civil-liberties-union-foundation-oregon-prosecutorial-accountability | Chloe Cockburn | Grant to support prosecutorial reform, including a report cost on district attorney (DA) policies, practices, and positions, to be completed for each elected DA. Affected countries: United States; affected states: Oregon; announced: 2017-06-09. | |
| Vera Institute of Justice | 50,000.00 | Criminal justice reform/Safety and justice reform | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/vera-institute-justice-criminal-justice-reform-report | Chloe Cockburn | Grant to support a report on the state of safety and justice reform. Affected countries: United States; announced: 2017-06-26. | |
| College and Community Fellowship | 50,000.00 | Criminal justice reform/education for formerly incarcerated people | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/college-and-community-fellowship-general-support | Chloe Cockburn | Discretionary grant for general support. Grantee works to increase access to education for formerly incarcerated people via direct service work in New York City (including academic support and peer mentoring programs), policy advocacy, and technical assistance. CCF’s direct service work informs its national advocacy and national technical assistance programs, both of which aim to increase awareness about issues related to mass incarceration and education and to encourage community members and decision-makers to push for criminal justice reform. Affected countries: United States; affected states: New York; affected cities: New York City; announced: 2017-07-19. | |
| Global Animal Partnership | 200,000.00 | Animal welfare/factory farming | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/global-animal-partnership-general-support-2017 | Lewis Bollard | Discretionary grant for gneral support. GAP plans to use this grant to hire a senior staff member to assist the executive director, which we believe will enable GAP to work more effectively on farm animal welfare projects such as its certifier accreditation program and standards development and management. Affected countries: United States; announced: 2017-09-07. | |
| LatinoJustice | 500,000.00 | Criminal justice reform | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/latino-justice-work-end-mass-incarceration | Chloe Cockburn | Grant to support work to end mass incarceration by increasing the visibility and changing the public will of Latinx in favor of criminal justice reform. Affected countries: United States; announced: 2017-09-07. | |
| Dyrevernalliansen | 378,000.00 | Animal welfare/fish welfare | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/dyrevernalliansen-fish-welfare | Lewis Bollard | Grantee is the Norwegian Animal Protection Alliance. Goal of grant is to enable grantee to expand its animal welfare engagement with the Norwegian fish farming industry as part of a larger effort to build the field of farmed fish welfare advocacy. Affected countries: Norway; announced: 2017-03-20. | |
| Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | 453,440.00 | Animal welfare/factory farming/China | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/rspca-farm-animal-welfare-advocacy-china | Lewis Bollard | Recipient plans to use this grant to develop and launch China’s first higher farm animal welfare standards. Part of a China focus strategy announced by Lewis Bollard at https://www.facebook.com/groups/EffectiveAnimalActivism/permalink/656583861179155/ (2016-10-25) and explained in depth in a document http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/grants-support-farm-animal-welfare-work-china announced at https://groups.google.com/a/openphilanthropy.org/forum/#!topic/newly.published/ngrjni1iKLg (2017-08-09). Affected countries: China; announced: 2017-04-04. | |
| Compassion in World Farming | 765,112.00 | Animal welfare/factory farming/China | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/compassion-world-farming-farm-animal-welfare-advocacy-china | Lewis Bollard | Grant made in UK sterling, value 598,500, dollar amount of 765,112 at time of conversion. Recipient plans to use this grant to augment the capacity of its dedicated China team, increase technical and operational support, expand its Good Pig Production Awards, roll out its recently-launched Good Chicken and Good Egg Production Awards, and extend work and deepen engagement with its in-country partner, the International Cooperation Committee on Animal Welfare. Part of a China focus strategy announced by Lewis Bollard at https://www.facebook.com/groups/EffectiveAnimalActivism/permalink/656583861179155/ (2016-10-25) and explained in depth in a document http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/grants-support-farm-animal-welfare-work-china announced at https://groups.google.com/a/openphilanthropy.org/forum/#!topic/newly.published/ngrjni1iKLg (2017-08-09). Affected countries: China; announced: 2017-04-19. | |
| Nuclear Threat Initiative | 476,859.00 | Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/biosecurity/nuclear-threat-initiative-global-health-security-index-planning-grant | -- | Grant supports the first phase of the creation of the Global Health Security (GHS) Index, a public report that will score countries on factors relevant to biosecurity and pandemic preparedness. Grantee is partnering with the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, another grantee of the Open Philanthropy Project: http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/biosecurity/center-health-security-biosecurity-global-health-security-and-global-catastrophic. Announced: 2017-03-07. | |
| Genspace | 15,000.00 | Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/biosecurity/genspace-diybio-and-fbi-meeting | Jaime Yassif | Grant to support a meeting between the DIYbio community and the FBI. Announced: 2017-06-16. | |
| Prison Policy Initiative | 66,000.00 | Criminal justice reform/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/prison-policy-initiative-general-support-2017 | Chloe Cockburn | Discretionary grant by program officer Chloe Cockburn. Affected countries: United States; announced: 2017-03-15. | |
| Justice Solutions | 112,613.00 | Criminal justice reform/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/justice-solutions-anne-seymours-crime-victims-and-survivors-work | Chloe Cockburn | Grant supports work of well-known victim rights advocate Anne Seymour. The project aims to assess the status of victims’ rights to dignity and respect, which are included in statutes and constitutions in many states but are not defined in most of these states. Discretionary grant by program officer Chloe Cockburn. Affected countries: United States; announced: 2017-03-15. | |
| ReFrame Mentorship | 100,000.00 | Criminal justice reform/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/reframe-mentorship-general-support-2017 | Chloe Cockburn | Grant via Center for Civic Policy, following up on http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/reframe-mentorship-general-support an earlier grant. Discretionary grant decided by program officer Chloe Cockburn. Affected countries: United States; announced: 2017-03-15. | |
| American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California | 250,000.00 | Criminal justice reform/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/aclu-nor-cal-prosecutorial-accountability | Chloe Cockburn | Grant supports project on prosecutorial accountability called “What a difference a DA makes” and led by Ana Zamora. Affected countries: United States; affected states: California; announced: 2017-03-15. | |
| Florida Rights Restoration Coalition | 130,000.00 | Criminal justice reform/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/florida-rights-restoration-coalition-general-support-2017 | Chloe Cockburn | Grant for general support. Discretionary grant decided by program officer Chlor Cockburn. Affected countries: United States; affected states: Florida; announced: 2017-03-17. | |
| National Network for Safe Communities | 161,040.00 | Criminal justice reform/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/national-network-safe-communities-la-larceny-project | Chloe Cockburn | Grant to support a larceny intervention project in Los Angeles. Grant page published on 2017-03-31. Affected countries: United States; affected states: California; affected cities: Los Angeles; announced: 2017-03-31. | |
| Albert Schweitzer Foundation for Our Contemporaries | 317,060.00 | Animal welfare/fish welfare | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/albert-schweitzer-foundation-fish-welfare | Lewis Bollard | Grant of 299,000 Euros (317,060 USD at time of conversion) to Albert Schweitzer Foundation for work to develop and implement a fish welfare standard in Germany. Affected countries: Germany; announced: 2017-03-21. | |
| Albert Schweitzer Foundation for Our Contemporaries | 111,986.00 | Animal welfare/factory farming/chicken/cage-free campaign/international | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/albert-schweitzer-foundation-international-cage-free-advocacy | Lewis Bollard | Grant focused on ending confinement of hens in battery cages in Poland. Second phase (focused on internationalization) of a bunch of corporate cage-free campaign spending. See http://www.openphilanthropy.org/blog/initial-grants-support-corporate-cage-free-reforms for description of overall cage-free effort and see http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/chickens-animal-abuse-video_us_57fac5c5e4b0e655eab5485d for description of internationalization phase. Announced: 2017-03-21. | |
| Farm Forward | 100,000.00 | Animal welfare/factory farming/chicken | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/farm-forward-broiler-chicken-welfare-advocacy | Lewis Bollard | Recipient works with institutions that purchase animal food products, and pushes them to raise the standards of treatment of animals for the food they purchased, through the Leadership Circle. Example: sourcing 100% of chicken from farms that are certified to at least Global Animal Partnership (GAP) Step two in two years. Announced: 2017-03-30. | |
| Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense | 500,000.00 | Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/biosecurity/blue-ribbon-study-panel-biodefense-general-support-2017 | -- | Grant for general support. Top-up to previous grant of 1300000 in 2016-08 described at http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/biosecurity/blue-ribbon-study-panel-biodefense-general-support. Announced: 2017-02-27. | |
| Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security | 16,000,000.00 | Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/biosecurity/center-health-security-biosecurity-global-health-security-and-global-catastrophic | Jaime Yassif | Largest grant made to date by Open Phil. Grant writeup includes lengthy discussion of grant. Open Phil had previously made a grant to the organization when it was housed at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) and known as the UPMC Center for Health Security. Using the grant money, the grantee would launch a bunch of projects related to Global Catastrophic Biological RIisks (GCBR); see http://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/about-the-center/pressroom/press_releases/2017-07-27_global-catastrophic-biological-risk-definition.html (2017-07-27) for the associated press release. Announced: 2017-02-08. | |
| Mission: Launch, Inc. | 55,000.00 | Criminal justice reform/United States/child welfare, drug policy, criminalization | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/mission-launch-inc-lisa-sangoi-child-welfare | Chloe Cockburn | Grant to be used to increase awareness of the negative impacts of the criminal justice system and increase interest in criminal justice reform. Discretionary grant decided by program officer Chloe Cockburn. Affected countries: United States; announced: 2017-03-15. | |
| Fair and Just Prosecution | 1,500,000.00 | Criminal justice reform/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/fair-and-just-prosecution-general-support | Chloe Cockburn | Grant to support launch of new project, a 501(c)(3) organization housed at the Tides Center. Affected countries: United States; announced: 2017-03-21. | |
| Innovative Genomics Institute | 63,000.00 | Scientific research/plant pathology | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/scientific-research/miscellaneous/uc-berkeley-plant-pathology-workshop | -- | Money for a plant pathology workshop. Grantee housed at the University of California, Berkeley. Announced: 2017-03-27. | |
| JustLeadershipUSA | 3,400,000.00 | Criminal justice reform | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/justleadershipusa-close-rikers-campaign-2016 | Chloe Cockburn | Grant renews a previous grant http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/justleadershipusa-close-rikers-campaign supporting a campaign to close Rikers Island. Detailed writeup on previous grant page. Affected countries: United States; affected states: New York; affected cities: New York City; announced: 2017-09-01. | |
| Harvard University | 2,500,000.00 | Global catastrophic risks/climate change/geoengineering | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/miscellaneous/harvard-university-solar-geoengineering-research-program | -- | Grant over five years to support the founding of the Solar Geoengineering Research Program (SGRP) as part of the Harvard University Center for the Environment. This program will be a coordinated research effort focusing on solar geoengineering research, governance, and advocacy led by Professor David Keith and Dr. Gernot Wagner (formerly the Environmental Defense Fund’s lead senior economist). Other founding funders include Bill Gates, the Hewlett Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Plans for the grant include: researching ways to improve our understanding, reduce the risks, and increase the benefits of geoengineering; developing solar geoengineering technology; increasing transparency in solar geoengineering research; engaging with policy makers and the broader public; and creating a broad blueprint for solar geoengineering research going forward. Announced: 2017-04-14. | |
| AI Impacts | 32,000.00 | AI risk | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/potential-risks-advanced-artificial-intelligence/ai-impacts-general-support | -- | Grant for work on strategic questions related to potential risks from advanced artificial intelligence. Announced: 2017-02-02. | |
| Compassion Over Killing | 500,000.00 | Animal welfare/factory farming/chicken | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/compassion-over-killing-us-broiler-welfare-campaigns | Lewis Bollard | Part of a strategy focus on broiler chicken welfare in late 2016, though no overarching document on this has been posted. See also https://www.facebook.com/groups/EffectiveAnimalActivism/search/?query=broiler%20chicken. Announced: 2017-02-16. | |
| The Pollination Project | 233,000.00 | Animal welfare/movement building | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/pollination-project-global-animal-advocacy-movement | Lewis Bollard | Grant to support a new pilot project focused on building the grassroots farm animal welfare movement globally. Announced: 2017-02-16. | |
| Eurogroup for Animals | 535,699.00 | Animal welfare/fish welfare | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/eurogroup-animals-fish-welfare | Lewis Bollard | First grant in support of fish welfare. Grant denominated in euros at €498,928. Open Phil considers fish farming a candidate for the farming that causes the most suffering; however, there are no existing groups focusing on fish welfare. Announced: 2017-03-13. | |
| Animal Welfare Standards Project | 238,212.00 | Animal welfare/factory farming/China and Southeast Asia | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/animal-welfare-standards-project-farm-animal-welfare-advocacy-china | Lewis Bollard | Grant to expand work on farm animal welfare in China and Southeast Asia. Part of a China focus strategy announced by Lewis Bollard at https://www.facebook.com/groups/EffectiveAnimalActivism/permalink/656583861179155/ (2016-10-25) and explained in depth in a document http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/grants-support-farm-animal-welfare-work-china announced at https://groups.google.com/a/openphilanthropy.org/forum/#!topic/newly.published/ngrjni1iKLg (2017-08-09). Affected countries: China; announced: 2017-03-20. | |
| Griffith University | 120,000.00 | Animal welfare/factory farming/China | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/griffith-university-farm-animal-welfare-advocacy-china | Lewis Bollard | Grant made to support a symposium on farm animal welfare in China, related papers, and a book. Grant supports the work of Deborah Cao, who plans to use this grant to fund her collaboration with several Chinese animal studies academics to write papers on farm animal welfare and vegetarianism in China; to host a Farm Animal Welfare in China Symposium in Beijing in 2017; and to edit and publish a book on farm animal welfare. Part of a China focus strategy announced by Lewis Bollard at https://www.facebook.com/groups/EffectiveAnimalActivism/permalink/656583861179155/ (2016-10-25) and explained in depth in a document http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/grants-support-farm-animal-welfare-work-china announced at https://groups.google.com/a/openphilanthropy.org/forum/#!topic/newly.published/ngrjni1iKLg (2017-08-09). Affected countries: China; announced: 2017-05-03. | |
| Impact Justice | 2,050,000.00 | Criminal justice reform/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/impact-justice-restorative-justice-project | Chloe Cockburn | Grant supported the Restorative Justice Project. Affected countries: United States; announced: 2017-02-06. | |
| Civil Rights Corps | 200,000.00 | Criminal justice reform/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/civil-rights-corps-general-support | Chloe Cockburn | Grant for general support. Discretionary grant decided by program office Chloe Cockburn. Affected countries: United States; announced: 2017-02-02. | |
| Ayni Institute | 250,000.00 | Criminal justice reform/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/ayni-institute-movement-ecology-and-metrics | Chloe Cockburn | Grant was to support work on research, communication, and training on movement ecology and movement metrics. These metrics would be used to assess the capacity of groups to successfully mobilize the public on a large scale around issues such as mass incarceration, specifically 1) the capacity of movements to create or capitalize on trigger events to shift public opinion, 2) their capacity to absorb increased partition in high-profile moments. Discretionary grant decided by program officer Chloe Cockburn. Affected countries: United States; announced: 2017-02-02. | |
| LEAD National Support Bureau | 200,000.00 | Criminal justice reform/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/lead-national-support-bureau-general-support | Chloe Cockburn | Intended uses of grant money: 1) to hire Chief Brendan Cox, a highly-regarded retiring police chief, to serve as a police ambassador for LEAD, and 2) to provide technical support to the 20-30 places that are planning to be implementing or considering implementing LEAD programs by the end of 2017. Affected countries: United States; announced: 2017-02-02. | |
| The Soze Agency | 216,500.00 | Criminal justice reform/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/soze-agency-returning-citizens-project | Chloe Cockburn | Grant supports the Returning Citizens Project. Michael Skolnik, CEO, plans to use the grant to coordinate the launch of a formerly incarcerated artist network, with an initial group of five selected artists. Discretionary grant decided by program office Chloe Cockburn. Affected countries: United States; announced: 2017-02-02. | |
| The Ordinary People Society | 300,000.00 | Criminal justice reform/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/ordinary-people-society-prodigal-child-project | Chloe Cockburn | Grant supports the Prodigal Child Project, which organizes pastors in the Southern U.S. in support of prisoners, former prisoners, their families, and communities, as part of larger campaigns to raise public awareness and reduce incarceration. The work is led by Pastor Kenneth Glasgow, a formerly incarcerated person who has long worked for reforms in Alabama and surrounding states. This grant would allow Pastor Glasgow to begin building up the infrastructure of his organization. Affected countries: United States; affected states: Alabama,Mississippi,Florida,Georgia; announced: 2017-02-02. | |
| Mothers Against Police Brutality | 50,000.00 | Criminal justice reform/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/mothers-against-police-brutality-prosecutorial-reform | Chloe Cockburn | Grant supports efforts to increase prosecutorial accountability in Texas. Affected countries: United States; affected states: Texas; announced: 2017-02-02. | |
| Dream Corps | 500,000.00 | Criminal justice reform/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/dream-corps-criminal-justice-and-criminalization | Chloe Cockburn | Grant supports the work of Van Jones and his team. Affected countries: United States; announced: 2017-02-16. | |
| Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition | 75,000.00 | Criminal justice reform/United States/prosecutorial reform | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/colorado-criminal-justice-reform-coalition-prosecutorial-reform | Chloe Cockburn | Grant to be used to reach out to voters with criminal convictions, to provide public education on the powers and practices of prosecutors, and to work closely with a newly-elected district attorney on criminal justice reform. Affected countries: United States; affected states: Colorado; announced: 2017-02-16. | |
| Blackbird | 425,000.00 | Criminal justice reform/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/blackbird-ending-mass-incarceration | Chloe Cockburn | Grant to support efforts to end mass inacercation. Affected countries: United States; announced: 2017-05-31. | |
| Electronic Frontier Foundation | 199,000.00 | AI risk | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/potential-risks-advanced-artificial-intelligence/electronic-frontier-foundation-ai-social | -- | Grant funded work by Peter Eckersley, whom the Open Philanthropy Project believed in. Followup conversation with Peter Eckersley and Jeremy Gillula of grantee organization at http://www.openphilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/Peter_Eckersley_Jeremy_Gillula_05-26-16_%28public%29.pdf on 2016-05-26. Announced: 2016-12-15. | |
| Green Monday | 226,000.00 | Animal welfare/factory farming/China | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/green-monday-promoting-work-china | Lewis Bollard | Part of a China focus strategy announced by Lewis Bollard at https://www.facebook.com/groups/EffectiveAnimalActivism/permalink/656583861179155/ (2016-10-25) and explained in depth in a document http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/grants-support-farm-animal-welfare-work-china announced at https://groups.google.com/a/openphilanthropy.org/forum/#!topic/newly.published/ngrjni1iKLg (2017-08-09). Affected countries: United States; announced: 2017-01-10. | |
| The Humane League | 1,000,000.00 | Animal welfare/factory farming | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/humane-league-general-support | Lewis Bollard | Unrestricted support to an organization that was among the previous cage-free grant recipients. Affected countries: United States; announced: 2016-12-15. | |
| The Humane Society of the United States | 1,000,000.00 | Animal welfare/factory farming/chicken | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/humane-society-united-states-new-broiler-welfare-corporate-campaigns | Lewis Bollard | Part of a strategy focus on broiler chicken welfare in late 2016, though no overarching document on this has been posted. See also https://www.facebook.com/groups/EffectiveAnimalActivism/search/?query=broiler%20chicken. Affected countries: United States; announced: 2016-12-15. | |
| Mercy For Animals | 1,000,000.00 | Animal welfare/factory farming/chicken | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/mercy-animals-broiler-chicken-welfare-corporate-campaigns | Lewis Bollard | Part of a strategy focus on broiler chicken welfare in late 2016, though no overarching document on this has been posted. See also https://www.facebook.com/groups/EffectiveAnimalActivism/search/?query=broiler%20chicken. Affected countries: United States; announced: 2017-01-10. | |
| National Association of Community and Restorative Justice | 50,000.00 | Criminal justice reform/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/national-association-community-and-restorative-justice-restorative-justice-convening | Chloe Cockburn | Grant was for the Restorative Justice Conference. Discretionary grant decided by program office Chloe Cockburn. Affected countries: United States; announced: 2017-01-10. | |
| Fórum Nacional de Proteção e Defesa Animal | 100,000.00 | Animal welfare/factory farming/chicken/cage-free campaign/international/Brazil | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/forum-nacional-de-protecao-e-defesa-animal-international-cage-free-advocacy | Lewis Bollard | Second phase (focused on internationalization) of a bunch of corporate cage-free campaign spending. See http://www.openphilanthropy.org/blog/initial-grants-support-corporate-cage-free-reforms for description of overall cage-free effort and see http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/chickens-animal-abuse-video_us_57fac5c5e4b0e655eab5485d for description of internationalization phase. Affected countries: Brazil; announced: 2016-11-07. | |
| World Animal Protection | 544,607.00 | Animal welfare/factory farming/China | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/world-animal-protection-farm-animal-welfare-advocacy-china | Lewis Bollard | Part of a China focus strategy announced by Lewis Bollard at https://www.facebook.com/groups/EffectiveAnimalActivism/permalink/656583861179155/ (2016-10-25) and explained in depth in a document http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/grants-support-farm-animal-welfare-work-china announced at https://groups.google.com/a/openphilanthropy.org/forum/#!topic/newly.published/ngrjni1iKLg (2017-08-09). Affected countries: China; announced: 2016-10-26. | |
| Center for International Security and Cooperation | 643,415.00 | Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/biosecurity/center-international-security-and-cooperation-biosecurity-research | -- | In support of research by Megan Palmer. Her policy research is focused on developing ways to improve the governance of biological science and technology. One of the projects she intends to focus on in the next few years is a study of past, current and future iGEM competitions to better understand how to motivate young scientists and engineers to take biosafety and biosecurity seriously and how to instill those values in a way that lasts throughout their careers. Announced: 2016-11-03. | |
| Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security | 2,744,000.00 | Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/biosecurity/upmc-center-health-security-emerging-leaders-biosecurity-initiative | Jaime Yassif | The recipient was housed at the time at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) and called the UPMC Center for Health Security. The grant was made to fully support the Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity Initiative (ELBI) for the next three years. The grant was based partly on the positive impression of the program by Jaime Yassif, program officer in the area who was an alumnus from 2012. Announced: 2016-10-12. | |
| New Virginia Majority Education Fund | 50,000.00 | Criminal justice reform/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/new-virginia-majority-formerly-incarcerated-organizers | Chloe Cockburn | Discretionary grant decided by program office Chloe Cockburn. Affected countries: United States; affected states: Virginia; announced: 2017-01-17. | |
| Texas Fair Defense Project | 63,000.00 | Criminal justice reform/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/texas-fair-defense-project-general-support | Chloe Cockburn | Grant for general support. Discretionary grant decided by program office Chloe Cockburn. Affected countries: United States; affected states: Texas; announced: 2016-12-05. | |
| Justice Strategies | 200,000.00 | Criminal justice reform/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/justice-strategies-general-support | Chloe Cockburn | Grant for general support. Discretionary grant decided by program office Chloe Cockburn. Affected countries: United States; announced: 2016-12-15. | |
| Youth First Initiative | 250,000.00 | Criminal justice reform/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/youth-first-initiative-general-support | Chloe Cockburn | Grant for general support. Discretionary grant decided by program office Chloe Cockburn. Affected countries: United States; announced: 2016-12-05. | |
| Essie Justice Group | 600,000.00 | Criminal justice reform/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/essie-justice-group-general-support | Chloe Cockburn | Grant for general support. Discretionary grant decided by program office Chloe Cockburn. Affected countries: United States; announced: 2016-12-05. | |
| Project Peanut Butter | 724,929.00 | Global health/nutrition | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/giving/grants/project-peanut-butter-ready-use-therapeutic-food-rct | -- | Grant over three years to support Project Peanut Butter to run a RCT on the effect on cognitive development of reformulated ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) with additional omega-3 fatty acids and decreased omega-6 fatty acids, compared to conventional RUTF. Announced: 2016-10-26. | |
| Founders Pledge | 1,032,947.00 | Effective altruism/donor pledges | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/giving/grants/founders-pledge-general-support | -- | Grant made over two years, via the Centre for Effective Altruism, to enable expansion to Germany, France, and Sweden, and hire a developer. Affected countries: Germany,France,Sweden; announced: 2016-10-31. | |
| University of Cape Town | 493,425.00 | Global catastrophic risks/geomagnetic currents and power systems | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/miscellaneous/university-cape-town-geomagnetics-research | -- | Grant over three years to Professor Trevor Gaunt, Emeritus Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa, to research the potential risks that geomagnetic storms could pose to the electric power system. Announced: 2016-10-06. | |
| Brighter Green | 99,360.00 | Animal welfare/factory farming/China | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/brighter-green-farm-animal-welfare-advocacy-china | Lewis Bollard | Part of a China focus strategy announced by Lewis Bollard at https://www.facebook.com/groups/EffectiveAnimalActivism/permalink/656583861179155/ (2016-10-25) and explained in depth in a document http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/grants-support-farm-animal-welfare-work-china announced at https://groups.google.com/a/openphilanthropy.org/forum/#!topic/newly.published/ngrjni1iKLg (2017-08-09). Affected countries: China; announced: 2016-10-11. | |
| The Good Food Institute | 1,000,000.00 | Animal welfare/meat alternatives | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/good-food-institute-general-support | Lewis Bollard | Announced: 2016-10-25. | |
| WildAid | 700,000.00 | Animal welfare/factory farming/China | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/wildaid-reducing-meat-consumption-china | Lewis Bollard | Part of a China focus strategy announced by Lewis Bollard at https://www.facebook.com/groups/EffectiveAnimalActivism/permalink/656583861179155/ (2016-10-25) and explained in depth in a document http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/grants-support-farm-animal-welfare-work-china announced at https://groups.google.com/a/openphilanthropy.org/forum/#!topic/newly.published/ngrjni1iKLg (2017-08-09). Affected countries: China; announced: 2016-10-25. | |
| Future of Humanity Institute | 115,652.00 | Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/biosecurity/future-humanity-institute-biosecurity-and-pandemic-preparedness | -- | Conceptually part of a larger grant to the recipient, whose primary work area is AI risk reduction. More details in writeup for larger grant at http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/miscellaneous/future-humanity-institute-general-support. Announced: 2017-03-06. | |
| Brooklyn Community Bail Fund | 404,800.00 | Criminal justice reform/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/brooklyn-community-bail-fund-general-support | Chloe Cockburn | Grant accompanies identification of bail reform as a highly impactful area of policy change to reduce incarceration. Grant to CBF is to organize existing bail funds around the country into a national network and support that network through coordination staffing, and develop a plan for strategic bail fund expansion connected to advocacy around reducing incarceration. No detailed writeup. Affected countries: United States; affected states: New York; affected cities: New York City; announced: 2016-09-16. | |
| Faith in Texas | 637,000.00 | Criminal justice reform/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/faith-texas-general-support | Chloe Cockburn | Grant intended to support work to build grassroots support for criminal justice reform among members of white evangelical, black, and Hispanic faith communities in Texas, especially in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex. Affected countries: United States; affected states: Texas; affected cities: Dallas,Fort Worth; announced: 2016-10-06. | |
| Machine Intelligence Research Institute | 500,000.00 | AI risk | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/potential-risks-advanced-artificial-intelligence/machine-intelligence-research-institute-general-support | -- | The grant page describes grant process in detail; also links to commissioned reviews at http://files.openphilanthropy.org/files/Grants/MIRI/consolidated_public_reviews.pdf The grant was also announced on the MIRI website at https://intelligence.org/2016/08/05/miri-strategy-update-2016/. Announced: 2016-09-06. | |
| Center for Human-Compatible AI | 5,555,550.00 | AI risk | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/potential-risks-advanced-artificial-intelligence/uc-berkeley-center-human-compatible-ai | -- | Grant page references http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/potential-risks-advanced-artificial-intelligence and http://www.openphilanthropy.org/blog/potential-risks-advanced-artificial-intelligence-philanthropic-opportunity and states a 50% chance that two years from the grant date, the Center will be spending at least $2 million a year, and will be considered by one or more of our relevant technical advisors to have a reasonably good reputation in the field. Note that the grant recipient in the Open Phil database has been listed as UC Berkeley, but we have written it as the naem of the center for easier cross-referencing. Announced: 2016-08-29. | |
| Humane Society International | 1,000,000.00 | Animal welfare/factory farming/chicken/cage-free campaign/international | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/humane-society-international-international-cage-free-outreach | Lewis Bollard | Second phase (focused on internationalization) of a bunch of corporate cage-free campaign spending. See http://www.openphilanthropy.org/blog/initial-grants-support-corporate-cage-free-reforms for description of overall cage-free effort and see http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/chickens-animal-abuse-video_us_57fac5c5e4b0e655eab5485d for description of internationalization phase. Announced: 2016-10-03. | |
| Mercy For Animals | 1,000,000.00 | Animal welfare/factory farming/chicken/cage-free campaign/international | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/mercy-animals-international-cage-free-advocacy | Lewis Bollard | Second phase (focused on internationalization) of a bunch of corporate cage-free campaign spending. See http://www.openphilanthropy.org/blog/initial-grants-support-corporate-cage-free-reforms for description of overall cage-free effort and see http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/chickens-animal-abuse-video_us_57fac5c5e4b0e655eab5485d for description of internationalization phase. Announced: 2016-10-03. | |
| Animal Equality | 500,000.00 | Animal welfare/factory farming/chicken/cage-free campaign/international | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/animal-equality-international-cage-free-advocacy | Lewis Bollard | Second phase (focused on internationalization) of a bunch of corporate cage-free campaign spending. See http://www.openphilanthropy.org/blog/initial-grants-support-corporate-cage-free-reforms for description of overall cage-free effort and see http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/chickens-animal-abuse-video_us_57fac5c5e4b0e655eab5485d for description of internationalization phase. Announced: 2016-10-03. | |
| People for Animals | 89,392.00 | Animal welfare/factory farming/chicken/cage-free campaign/international/India | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/people-animals-international-cage-free-advocacy | Lewis Bollard | Second phase (focused on internationalization) of a bunch of corporate cage-free campaign spending. See http://www.openphilanthropy.org/blog/initial-grants-support-corporate-cage-free-reforms for description of overall cage-free effort and see http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/chickens-animal-abuse-video_us_57fac5c5e4b0e655eab5485d for description of internationalization phase. Followup conversation with Gauri Mulekhi of grantee organization at http://www.openphilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/Gauri_Maulekhi_02-06-17_%28public%29.pdf on 2017-02-06. Affected countries: India; announced: 2016-10-03. | |
| Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense | 1,300,000.00 | Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/biosecurity/blue-ribbon-study-panel-biodefense-general-support | -- | Grant via Potomac Institute of Policy Studies. Second grant to the recipient; Open Phil was impressed with the progress made the the recipient since its previous 300,000 dollar grant in April 2015. Detailed writeup available. Announced: 2016-11-10. | |
| Mijente | 255,000.00 | Criminal justice reform/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/mijente-criminal-justice-reform | Chloe Cockburn | Grant via Puente Arizona. No detailed writeup. Affected countries: United States; affected states: Arizona; announced: 2016-09-02. | |
| Florida Rights Restoration Coalition | 48,000.00 | Criminal justice reform/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/florida-rights-restoration-coalition-general-support | Chloe Cockburn | Grant for general support. Discretionary grant decided by program office Chloe Cockburn. Affected countries: United States; affected states: Florida; announced: 2016-10-06. | |
| Center on Budget and Policy Priorities | 425,000.00 | Macroeconomic stabilization policy/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/macroeconomic-policy/center-budget-and-policy-priorities-full-employment-project-2016 | -- | Grant supports the Full Employment Project, and renews a previous grant to CBPP made in 2014. Affected countries: United States; announced: 2016-10-25. | |
| Foundation for the National Institutes of Health | 1,228,845.00 | Scientific research/malaria/gene drive testing | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/scientific-research/miscellaneous/foundation-national-institutes-health-working-group | -- | Grant to support ~20 experts recommending a consensus on field testing gene drives to fight malaria. This recommendation will include guidelines on how to safely field test gene drives for population modification and population suppression of vector mosquitoes in order to determine whether they could safely and ethically be deployed widely. FNIH and Gates Foundation have been the two big players in this area so far. Announced: 2016-08-01. | |
| Center for Applied Rationality | 1,035,000.00 | Rationality improvement/effective altruism/movement growth | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/giving/grants/center-applied-rationality-general-support | -- | Grant over two years. Usage split: 915000 will support workshops and organizational improvements, and 120000 will fund a pilot version of EuroSPARC, an eight-day summer program in Europe run by CFAR for mathematically gifted high school students, modeled on SPARC (see also http://www.openphilanthropy.org/giving/grants/center-applied-rationality-sparc the separate grant to SPARC). Reasons for grants include value alignment, improving rationality, highlighting risks for advanced AI and other GCRs, successful pipeline-building to things like the effective altruism movement. Affected countries: United States,Europe; announced: 2016-09-06. | |
| The Humane League | 1,000,000.00 | Animal welfare/factory farming/chicken/cage-free campaign/international | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/humane-league-international-cage-free-advocacy | Lewis Bollard | Second phase (focused on internationalization) of a bunch of corporate cage-free campaign spending. See http://www.openphilanthropy.org/blog/initial-grants-support-corporate-cage-free-reforms for description of overall cage-free effort and see http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/chickens-animal-abuse-video_us_57fac5c5e4b0e655eab5485d for description of internationalization phase. Announced: 2016-10-03. | |
| Legal Services for Prisoners with Children | 70,000.00 | Criminal justice reform/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/legal-services-prisoners-children-general-support | Chloe Cockburn | Grant for general support. Discretionary grant decided by program office Chloe Cockburn. Affected countries: United States; announced: 2016-08-01. | |
| Center for Court Innovation | 160,000.00 | Criminal justice reform/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/center-court-innovation-new-thinking-about-criminal-justice-responses | Chloe Cockburn | Grant intended to promote new thinking about criminal justice responses in Cook County. No detailed writeup. Affected countries: United States; affected states: Illinois; affected cities: Chicago; announced: 2016-09-02. | |
| Ayni Institute | 40,000.00 | Criminal justice reform/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/ayni-institute-momentum-training | Chloe Cockburn | Grant to support momentum trainings. This was the second grant to the Ayni Institute; the first grant had supported initial work on developing and running a training on movement ecology. Discretionary grant decided by program office Chloe Cockburn. Affected countries: United States; announced: 2016-08-01. | |
| ReFrame Mentorship | 37,000.00 | Criminal justice reform/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/reframe-mentorship-general-support | Chloe Cockburn | Discretionary grant (called a "no-process" grant at the time) decided by program officer Chloe Cockburn. Affected countries: United States; announced: 2016-09-02. | |
| Harvard University Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management | 783,000.00 | Criminal justice reform/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/harvard-university-program-criminal-justice-policy-and-management | Chloe Cockburn | Program receiving funds housed at the Harvard Kennedy School. Grant supports work on reforms impacting young adults convicted of crimes. Grant intended to support staff, travel, and incidental costs for work of Senior Fellow Vincent Schiraldi providing though leadership, technical support, and strategic advice for state-level reforms to treatment of young adults (ages 18 to 25) in the criminal justice system. Affected countries: United States; announced: 2016-07-22. | |
| Vera Institute of Justice | 100,000.00 | Criminal justice reform/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/vera-institute-justice-new-orleans-user-funded-justice-system | Chloe Cockburn | Grant supports the New Orleans office for research into and cost-benefit analysis of the New Orleans user-funded justice system. Specifically: impposition of financial bail as a condition of pretrial release, the assessment of fines and fees at sentencing, and the relationship between these practices and the number of people in jail. Disclosure: Open Philanthropy Project Program Officer for Criminal Justice Reform, Chloe Cockburn, had worked at the Vera Institute New Orleans office for a year earlier. Affected countries: United States; affected states: New Orleans; announced: 2016-09-20. | |
| The Ordinary People Society | 125,000.00 | Criminal justice reform/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/ordinary-peoples-society-general-support | Chloe Cockburn | Grant was support Pastor Kenneth Glasgow in launching the Prodigal Child Project, which will train and organize pastors in Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, and Georgia as advocates for reducing incarceration. Affected countries: United States; affected states: Alabama,Mississippi,Florida,Georgia; announced: 2016-09-09. | |
| California Renters Legal Advocacy and Education Fund | 300,000.00 | Land use reform/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/land-use-reform/california-renters-legal-advocacy-and-education-fund-general-support | -- | Recipient org, CaRLA, is a nascent advocacy organization that intends to litigate and advocate against regulatory barriers to building housing in the San Francisco Bay Area. Affected countries: United States; affected states: California; affected cities: San Francisco; announced: 2016-06-28. | |
| Roosevelt Institute | 200,000.00 | Macroeconomic stabilization policy/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/macroeconomic-policy/roosevelt-institute-macroeconomic-policy-research | -- | Grant supports work on macroeconomic policy. Includes exploring monetary policy tools, automatic stabilizes, novel fiscal stimulus measures, also making the case for importance of continued focus on reducing unemployment and against premature monetary tightening today. Affected countries: United States; announced: 2016-10-25. | |
| Economic Policy Institute | 500,000.00 | Macroeconomic stabilization policy/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/macroeconomic-policy/economic-policy-institute-macroeconomic-policy-research | -- | Grant supports work on macroeconomic policy. Includes exploring monetary policy tools, automatic stabilizes, novel fiscal stimulus measures, also making the case for importance of continued focus on reducing unemployment and against premature monetary tightening today. Essentially, same as grant to Roosevelt Institute. Affected countries: United States; announced: 2016-10-25. | |
| George Mason University | 264,525.00 | AI risk | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/potential-risks-advanced-artificial-intelligence/george-mason-university-research-future-artificial-intelligence-scenarios | -- | Earmarked for Robin Hanson research. Grant page references http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/potential-risks-advanced-artificial-intelligence for background. Announced: 2016-07-07. | |
| Alliance for Safety and Justice | 3,000,000.00 | Criminal justice reform/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/alliance-safety-and-justice-general-support-2 | Chloe Cockburn | Grant for general support. Discretionary grant decided by program office Chloe Cockburn. Affected countries: United States; announced: 2017-01-10. | |
| Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition | 61,600.00 | Criminal justice reform/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/colorado-criminal-justice-reform-coalition-general-support | Chloe Cockburn | Grant for general support. Discretionary grant decided by program office Chloe Cockburn. Affected countries: United States; affected states: Colorado; announced: 2016-06-28. | |
| Vera Institute of Justice | 8,000.00 | Criminal justice reform/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/vera-institute-justice-common-justice-2 | Chloe Cockburn | Grant to support Brooklyn-based project Common Justice. Discretionary grant decided by program office Chloe Cockburn. This is a followup grant to a much larger grant (200000 USD) made in 2016-02 for the same purpose; see http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/vera-institute-justice-common-justice. Affected countries: United States; affected states: New York; affected cities: New York City; announced: 2016-07-01. | |
| Prison Policy Initiative | 50,000.00 | Criminal justice reform/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/prison-policy-initiative-general-support | Chloe Cockburn | Grant for general support. Discretionary grant decided by program office Chloe Cockburn. Affected countries: United States; announced: 2016-07-01. | |
| Center for Applied Rationality | 304,000.00 | Rationality improvement/effective altruism/movement growth | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/giving/grants/center-applied-rationality-sparc | -- | Grant supports the Summer Program on Applied Rationality and Cognition (SPARC), a two-week summer program for high school students. Students selected to participate in the program typically show exceptional ability in mathematics, with many scoring highly among US participants in national or international math competitions. Grant covers the program for two years, with 137000 for 2016 and 167000 for 2017. Detailed writeup available. Affected countries: United States; announced: 2016-07-07. | |
| Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment | 76,234.00 | Global catastrophic risks/climate change/geoengineering | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/miscellaneous/american-university-forum-climate-engineering-assessment | -- | Donation via American University. Detailed write-up available. Announced: 2016-05-27. | |
| Free Migration Project | 24,000.00 | Migration policy/humanitarian migration/free migration | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/immigration-policy/free-migration-project-planning-grant | -- | Grantee organization in planning phase at time of grant; represented by David Bennion, immigration lawyer and activist. Announced: 2017-01-10. | |
| International Refugee Assistance Project | 700,000.00 | Migration policy/refugee migration | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/immigration-policy/international-refugee-assistance-project-general-support | -- | Grant references http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/immigration-policy for background. Followup conversation with Becca Heller of grantee organization at http://www.openphilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/Becca_Heller_05-09-16_%28public%29.pdf on 2016-05-09 and again at http://www.openphilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/Becca_Heller_07-06-16_%28public%29.pdf on 2016-07-06. Announced: 2016-06-16. | |
| International Genetically Engineered Machine Foundation | 520,000.00 | Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/biosecurity/igem-synthetic-biology-safety-and-security | -- | Grant for iGEM (the recipient) to grow staff devoted to safety and security and support a pilot workshop on safety and security. Detailed writeup available. Announced: 2016-05-24. | |
| American Conservative Union Foundation | 200,000.00 | Criminal justice reform/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/american-conservative-union-center-criminal-justice-reform | Chloe Cockburn | Grant was to support the work of the Center for Criminal Justice Reform led by Pat Nolan. Detailed writeup available. Affected countries: United States; announced: 2016-06-02. | |
| Promise of Justice Initiative | 81,000.00 | Criminal justice reform/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/promise-justice-initiative-general-support | Chloe Cockburn | Grant for general support. No detailed writeup. Affected countries: United States; announced: 2016-05-11. | |
| Peterson Institute for International Economics | 250,000.00 | Macroeconomic stabilization policy/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/macroeconomic-policy/peterson-institute-international-economics-macroeconomic-stabilization | -- | Grant supports work on macroeconomic stabilization. Initial grant; Open Phil considering larger grant to support much more work. Affected countries: United States; announced: 2016-04-29. | |
| Future of Research | 300,000.00 | Scientific research | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/scientific-research/miscellaneous/future-research-general-support | -- | Grantee is a new nonprofit with a stated mission “to improve the scientific research enterprise.” Grant is a preliminary one and Open Phil plans to revisit the organization after 2 years of progress. Announced: 2016-04-29. | |
| Global Animal Partnership | 500,000.00 | Animal welfare/factory farming/welfarism/rating system/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/global-animal-partnership-general-support | Lewis Bollard | Supports improvements of the GAP 5-star rating system (used by companies such as Whole Foods). Affected countries: United States. | |
| Compassion in World Farming USA | 550,000.00 | Animal welfare/factory farming/welfarism/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/CIWF-USA-general-support | Lewis Bollard | Grant for general support, after organization was considered and rejected for cage-free campaign grant. Annual budget of organization was 450000. Followup conversation with Leah Garces (Executive Director) and Dawn Rotheram (Development Director) at http://www.openphilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/Leah_Garces_Dawn_Rotheram_11-08-16_%28public%29.pdf on 2016-11-08. Affected countries: United States; announced: 2016-07-06. | |
| Accountable Justice Project | 350,000.00 | Criminal justice reform/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/accountable-justice-project-general-support | Chloe Cockburn | Grant was made to the Proteus Fund to support the launch of the Accountable Justice Project. Majority of grant to be used to hire staff to conduct nationwide research on misconduct by elected prosecutors and to share this information with a wide audience through media engagement. Affected countries: United States; announced: 2016-05-24. | |
| Correctional Association of New York | 50,000.00 | Criminal justice reform/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/correctional-association-new-york-general-support | Chloe Cockburn | Discretionary grant decided by program office Chloe Cockburn. Affected countries: United States; affected states: New York; announced: 2016-04-28. | |
| Better Boulder | 37,000.00 | Land use reform/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/land-use-reform/better-boulder-yimby-2016 | -- | Money to support a conference of land use reform advocates from around the United States and Canada, called YIMBY 2016, in Boulder, Colorado. YIMY = Yes, In My Backyard" is a play on the corresponding more famous opposite acronym NIMBY. Affected countries: United States,Canada; announced: 2016-05-09. | |
| Center for American Progress | 500,000.00 | Macroeconomic stabilization policy/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/macroeconomic-policy/center-american-progress-macroeconomic-stabilization | -- | Grant for macroeconomic stabilization policy: convenings, research reports on impacts (e.g., impact of Taylor rule on income distribution), policy proposals, and network and outreach capacity to share research and proposals with media, politicians, and Federal Reserve. Affected countries: United States; announced: 2016-04-19. | |
| MIT Synthetic Neurobiology Group | 2,970,000.00 | Neurobiology | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/scientific-research/miscellaneous/massachusetts-institute-technology-synthetic-neurobiology-group | -- | Grant is to expand research at MIT Media Lab’s Center for Extreme Bionics. Among other things, the grantee is working on developing new methods and techniques for mapping the brain. Announced: 2016-05-09. | |
| University of Pennsylvania | 500,000.00 | Forecasting | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/giving/grants/university-pennsylvania-philip-tetlock-forecasting | -- | Grant supports new work by Tetlock. He finished The Good Judgment Project and grant funds two new projects called called “Adversarial Collaboration Tournaments” and the “Alpha Pundit Challenge.”. Announced: 2016-04-14. | |
| Future of Life Institute | 100,000.00 | Global catastrophic risks/general research | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/miscellaneous/future-life-institute-general-support | -- | Grant for general support. Recipient organization does research and outreach on global catastrophic risks (GCRs) at a broad level. Announced: 2016-03-18. | |
| Ayni Institute | 115,000.00 | Criminal justice reform/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/ayni-institute-movement-ecology-training | Chloe Cockburn | Grant was made via Centre Presente, on the recommendation of program officer Chloe Cockburn. It was intended to sponsor the development and running of a training on the topic of movement ecology. Affected countries: United States; announced: 2016-04-19. | |
| Institute of the Black World | 50,000.00 | Criminal justice reform/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/institute-black-world-criminal-justice-reform | Chloe Cockburn | Discretionary grant (called a "no-process" grant at the time) decided by program officer Chloe Cockburn. Affected countries: United States; announced: 2016-03-15. | |
| The Ordinary People Society | 50,000.00 | Criminal justice reform/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/ordinary-people-society-criminal-justice-reform | Chloe Cockburn | Grant to support work on criminal justice reform only. Discretionary grant (called a "no-process" grant at the time) decided by program officer Chloe Cockburn. Affected countries: United States; announced: 2016-03-15. | |
| Center for Global Development | 3,000,000.00 | Global poverty/Global health and development | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/miscellaneous/center-global-development-general-support-2016 | -- | Grant for general support. Note that the grant was misclassified on the Open Phil website as being under U.S. policy. Followup conversation with Todd Moss and Kathy Smith of grantee organization at http://www.openphilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/Todd_Moss_Kathy_Smith_06-21-16_%28public%29.pdf on 2016-06-21. Announced: 2016-02-24. | |
| Protect the People | 550,000.00 | Migration policy/Haiti/US agricultural migration | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/immigration-policy/protect-people-seasonal-migration-haiti | -- | A second grant in the area; after a 2014 grant described at http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/immigration-policy/usaim-seasonal-migration-haiti to other organizations. New grant builds on positive and negative lessons from earlier grant. Followup conversation with Sarah Williamson of grantee organization at http://www.openphilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/Sarah_Williamson_09-09-16_%28public%29.pdf on 2016-09-09. Announced: 2016-02-29. | |
| The Humane League | 1,000,000.00 | Animal welfare/factory farming/chicken/cage-free campaign/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/humane-league-corporate-cage-free-campaigns | Lewis Bollard | Part of a bunch of corporate cage-free campaign spending. See http://www.openphilanthropy.org/blog/initial-grants-support-corporate-cage-free-reforms for more. Followup conversation with grantee team at http://www.openphilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/The_Humane_League_08-22-16_%28public%29.pdf on 2016-08-22. Affected countries: United States; announced: 2016-02-24. | |
| Mercy For Animals | 1,000,000.00 | Animal welfare/factory farming/chicken/cage-free campaign/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/mercy-animals-corporate-cage-free-campaigns | Lewis Bollard | Part of a bunch of corporate cage-free campaign spending. See http://www.openphilanthropy.org/blog/initial-grants-support-corporate-cage-free-reforms for more. Followup conversation with Nick Cooney of grantee organization at http://www.openphilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/Nick_Cooney_08-01-16_%28public%29.pdf on 2016-08-01. Affected countries: United States; announced: 2016-03-10. | |
| The Humane Society of the United States | 500,000.00 | Animal welfare/factory farming/chicken/cage-free campaign/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/farm-animal-welfare/humane-society-united-states-corporate-cage-free-campaigns | Lewis Bollard | Part of a bunch of corporate cage-free campaign spending. See http://www.openphilanthropy.org/blog/initial-grants-support-corporate-cage-free-reforms for more. Followup conversation with Paul Shapiro of grantee organization at http://www.openphilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/Paul_Shapiro_07-20-16_%28public%29.pdf on 2016-07-20. Affected countries: United States; announced: 2016-03-10. | |
| Alliance for Safety and Justice | 1,750,000.00 | Criminal justice reform/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/alliance-safety-and-justice-general-support | Chloe Cockburn | Grant for general support. Goal is to build off and scale up Californians for Safety and Justice (CSJ) to partner with state-based advocates across different states of the United States. Detailed writeup available. Affected countries: United States; affected states: California,others; announced: 2016-02-26. | |
| Voice of the Ex-Offender | 40,000.00 | Criminal justice reform/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/voice-ex-offender-southern-regional-convening | Chloe Cockburn | Grant for a Southern strategy meeting on building capacity to end mass incarceration in the South. Discretionary grant (called "no-process grant" at the time) decided by program officer Chloe Cockburn. Affected countries: United States; affected states: Alabama,Mississippi,Florida,Georgia; announced: 2016-02-19. | |
| Vera Institute of Justice | 200,000.00 | Criminal justice reform/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/vera-institute-justice-common-justice | Chloe Cockburn | Grant is for Common Justice, a Brooklyn-based initiative. Grant intended to scale up space and staff for Common Justice to 1) increase outreach and promotion of its ideas, 2) scale up its intervention program so that its effectiveness can be studies more robustly. Detailed writeup available. Affected countries: United States; affected states: New York; affected cities: New York City; announced: 2016-04-07. | |
| Seattle for Everyone | 50,000.00 | Land use reform/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/land-use-reform/seattle-everyone-general-support | -- | Recipient is a coalition of various interest groups (including market rate developers, affordable housing developers, labor and social justice advocates, businesses, environmentalists, and urbanists) formed to promote the same set of proposed land use reforms in Seattle that Sightline Institute (another Open Phil grantee) also promotes. No detailed writeup. Affected countries: United States; affected states: Washington; affected cities: Seattle; announced: 2016-03-30. | |
| Rescuing Biomedical Research | 299,112.00 | Scientific research | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/scientific-research/miscellaneous/princeton-university-rescuing-biomedical-research | -- | Grantee is a project based in Princeton University. Goal is to establish a more “predictable and stable” federal budget for research, and to improve grant funding so that trainees are funded by dedicated training grants. Followup conversation with Shirley Tilghman of grantee organization at http://www.openphilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/Shirley_Tilghman_05-19-16_%28public%29.pdf on 2016-05-19 and with Christopher Pickett of grantee organization at http://www.openphilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/Christopher_Pickett_11-16-16_%28public%29.pdf on 2016-11-16. Announced: 2016-01-27. | |
| Center for Popular Democracy | 1,429,000.00 | Macroeconomic stabilization policy/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/macroeconomic-policy/center-popular-democracy-fed-campaign-2016 | -- | Grant supports the "Fed Up" campaign. Deemed unlikely to succeed but high-impact if it succeeds. Conversation with Ady Barkman of grantee organization around the time of the grant allocation at http://www.openphilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/Ady_Barkan_12-8-15_%28public%29.pdf on 2015-12-08. Followup conversations with Ady Barkan and Shawn Sebastian of grantee organization at http://www.openphilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/Fed_Up_07-14-16_and_08_31_16_and_09_02_16_%28public%29.pdf on 2016-07-14, 2016-08-31, and 2016-09-02. Affected countries: United States; announced: 2016-04-06. | |
| ImmigrationWorks Foundation | 150,000.00 | Migration policy/low-skilled migration promotion | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/immigration-policy/immigrationworks-general-support-2016 | -- | Second grant; previous grant made in July 2014. New grant provided based on satisfaction with first grant and review of grantee situation. Followup conversation with Tamar Jacoby of grantee organization at http://www.openphilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/Tamar_Jacoby_03-31-16_%28public%29.pdf on 2016-03-31. Announced: 2015-12-14. | |
| JustLeadershipUSA | 900,000.00 | Criminal justice reform/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/justleadershipusa-close-rikers-campaign | Chloe Cockburn | Grant to support campaign to close Rikers Island. Affected countries: United States; affected states: New York; affected cities: New York City; announced: 2016-02-19. | |
| Niskanen Center | 360,000.00 | Migration policy/United States politics | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/immigration-policy/niskanen-immigration | -- | Grantee is a libertarian think tank looking to hire legal counsel. Followup conversation with grantee organization at http://www.openphilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/David_Bier_12-14-2015_%28public%29.pdf on 2015-12-14 and again at http://www.openphilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/Niskanen_Center_07-22-16_%28public%29.pdf on 2016-07-22. Announced: 2015-10-29. | |
| Human Impact Partners | 60,990.00 | Criminal justice reform/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/human-impact-partners-convening | Chloe Cockburn | Grant supported a convening intended to advance a public health approach to criminal justice policy. Affected countries: United States; announced: 2015-11-06. | |
| Sightline Institute | 400,000.00 | Land use reform/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/land-use-reform/sightline-institute-housing-and-urban-development | -- | Grant distribution over two years. Grant would support Sightline’s work to promote a package of land use reforms in Seattle that combines increases in market rate and below market rate housing. Followup conversation with Alan Durning of grantee organization at http://www.openphilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/Alan_Durning_07-05-16_%28public%29.pdf on 2016-07-05. Affected countries: United States; affected states: Washington; affected cities: Seattle; announced: 2016-02-03. | |
| Urban Institute | 97,865.00 | Land use reform/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/land-use-reform/urban-institute-land-use-convening | -- | Funds research project and convening aimed at identifying policy changes that would allow more housing supply in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. Affected countries: United States; affected cities: Washington, D.C.; announced: 2015-10-06. | |
| ARNOVA | 2,000.00 | History of philanthropy | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/research/history-of-philanthropy/arnova-history-philanthropy-prize | -- | Grant to ARNOVA (Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action) to support a prize on the history of philanthropy in memory of Peter Dobkin Hall, a leading historian of philanthropy. Announced: 2015-08-11. | |
| Georgetown University | 250,000.00 | Drug policy/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/miscellaneous/georgetown-university-public-health-and-cannabis-legalization | -- | Grant funds proposal developed by Graham Boyd with O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University and the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA). Affected countries: United States; announced: 2015-09-04. | |
| Waitlist Zero | 200,000.00 | Organ donation/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/miscellaneous/waitlist-zero-general-support | -- | Grant over two years for policies that advocate for living kidney donation, following up on a planning grant in 2014. Conflict of interest due to relationships with Alexander Berger. Followup conversation with Josh Morrison of grantee organization at http://www.openphilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/Josh_Morrison_02-05-2016_%28public%29.pdf on 2016-02-05 and again at http://www.openphilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/Josh_Morrison_04-25-16_%28public%29.pdf on 2016-04-25. Affected countries: United States; announced: 2015-08-14. | |
| Future of Life Institute | 1,186,000.00 | AI risk | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/potential-risks-advanced-artificial-intelligence/future-life-institute-artificial-intelligence-risk-reduction | -- | Grant accompanied a grant by Elon Musk to FLI for the same purpose. See also the March 2015 blog post http://www.openphilanthropy.org/blog/open-philanthropy-project-update-global-catastrophic-risks that describes strategy and developments prior to the grant. An update on the grant was posted in 2017-04 at http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/potential-risks-advanced-artificial-intelligence/update-fli-grant discussing impressions of Howie Lempel and Daniel Dewey of the grant and of the effect on and role of Open Phil. Announced: 2015-08-26. | |
| New York University | 30,000.00 | Migration policy/labor mobility/RCT | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/immigration-policy/new-york-university-support-labor-mobility-rct | -- | Grantee represented by Suresh Naidu and Yaw Nyarko; grant references cause page http://www.openphilanthropy.org/research/cause-reports/labor-mobility. Announced: 2015-09-23. | |
| Smart Growth America | 275,000.00 | Land use reform/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/land-use-reform/smart-growth-america-greater-greater-washington-education-project | -- | To support Smart Growth America’s Greater Greater Washington Education Project. Greater Greater Washington (GGW) is a group blog that covers local policy issues, such as housing, education, and transportation, in the greater Washington, D.C. metro area. Followup conversation with David Alpert, Sarah Guidi, and Jonathan Neeley of grante organization at http://www.openphilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/David_Alpert_Sarah_Guidi_and_Jonathan_Neeley_12-16-2015_%28public%29.pdf on 2015-12-16. Second followup conversation with David Alpert, Sarah Guidi, and David Whitehead of grantee organization at http://www.openphilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/David_Alpert_Sarah_Guidi_David_Whitehead_06-07-16_%28public%29.pdf on 2016-06-07. Affected countries: United States; affected cities: Washington, D.C.; announced: 2015-07-28. | |
| Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative | 500,000.00 | Global catastrophic risks/climate change/geoengineering | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/miscellaneous/solar-radiation-management-governance-initiative-general-support | -- | Solar Radiation Management (SRM) eeks to investigate ways to deflect solar radiation from the earth. One of many geoengineering approaches. The governance initiative works to promote the good governance of SRM by building capacity and understanding around it, especially in the developing world. It is not for or against SRM per se. Followup conversation with grantee team at http://www.openphilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/SRMGI_09-02-16_%28public%29.pdf on 2016-09-02. Announced: 2016-02-10. | |
| Brookings Institution | 100,000.00 | International relations | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/giving/grants/brookings-institution-work-china-and-india | -- | Grant supports work on India and China. Open Phil has historically focused on policy in the United States, so it also hopes that through this grant it will learn more about policy in other countries. That learning will be through non-public conversations, though some reflections from Open Phil may be shared in the future. See also a similar grant to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in 2015-03. Followup conversation with Paul Haenle of grantee organization at http://www.openphilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/Paul_Haenle_1-26-2016_%28public%29.pdf on 2016-01-26. Affected countries: India,China; announced: 2015-07-27. | |
| Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense | 300,000.00 | Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-catastrophic-risks/biosecurity/blue-ribbon-study-panel-biodefense-grant | -- | The Panel convened four meetings and intended to release a report in October 2015 using this grant. The Open Philanthropy Project published a detailed writeup justifying the grant. Announced: 2015-10-27. | |
| New York University | 80,000.00 | Criminal justice reform/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/new-york-university-work-swift-and-certain-sanctions | -- | The grant supported the work of Mark Kleiman on swift-and-certain sanctions. It followed up on a previous grant to the Washington Office of Latin America that supported earlier work by Mark Kleiman, available at http://www.openphilanthropy.org/giving/grants/research-crime-incarceration-and-cannabis-regulation. Affected countries: United States. | |
| Carnegie Endowment for International Peace | 100,000.00 | International relations | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/giving/grants/carnegie-endowment-international-peace-work-india-and-china | -- | Grant supports work on India and China. Open Phil has historically focused on policy in the United States, so it also hopes that through this grant it will learn more about policy in other countries. That learning will be through non-public conversations, though some reflections from Open Phil may be shared in the future. See also a similar grant to the Brookings Institition. Affected countries: India,China. | |
| Associated Students of the University of California, Berkeley | 10,000.00 | Effective altruism/movement growth | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/giving/grants/asuc-effective-altruists-berkeley-decal-university-course | -- | Grant is for the Effective Altruists of Berkeley “DeCal” University Course to be held in Spring 2015. See http://files.givewell.org/files/conversations/Ajeya_Cotra_6-19-2015_(public).pdf for a followup conversation with Ajeya Cotra and Oliver Habryka (course architects), Rohin Shah and Davis Foote (Effective Altruists of Berkeley members), and Helen Toner and Catherine Hollander of the Open Philanthropy Project. Affected countries: United States; affected states: California; affected cities: Berkeley. | |
| Florida State University Project on Accountable Justice | 100,000.00 | Criminal justice reform/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/florida-state-university-project-accountable-justice-general-support | -- | The recipient aims to "advance public safety through evidence-based practices and policies in Florida and beyond.". Affected countries: United States; affected states: Florida; announced: 2015-03-03. | |
| Center for Popular Democracy | 750,000.00 | Macroeconomic stabilization policy/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/macroeconomic-policy/center-popular-democracy-fed-campaign-2015 | -- | Grant is for Fed Up Campaign 2015. Supports campaign to educate public and policymakers about monetary policy issues. Affected countries: United States; announced: 2015-02-27. | |
| Center on Budget and Policy Priorities | 335,000.00 | Macroeconomic stabilization policy/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/macroeconomic-policy/center-budget-and-policy-priorities-full-employment-project | -- | Grant is for the Full Employment Project. Open Phil is impressed by the track record of CBPP. Followup conversation with Jared Bernstein and Ben Spielberg of grantee organization at http://www.openphilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/Jared_Bernstein_and_Ben_Spielberg_10-21-15_%28public%29.pdf on 2015-10-21. Affected countries: United States; announced: 2014-09-19. | |
| Waitlist Zero | 50,000.00 | Organ donation/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/miscellaneous/waitlist-zero-planning-grant | -- | Planning grant. Organ donation not a focus area but identified as an area with potentially outstanding room for more philanthropy. Senior Research Analyst knows founders Thomas Kelly and Josh Morrison and vouched for them. Affected countries: United States; announced: 2014-09-25. | |
| Center for Popular Democracy | 100,000.00 | Macroeconomic stabilization policy/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/macroeconomic-policy/center-popular-democracy-federal-reserve-campaign | -- | Grant is to support a campaign to educate the public and policymakers about monetary policy issues. Affected countries: United States; announced: 2014-09-25. | |
| Rockefeller Archive Center | 25,000.00 | History of philanthropy | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/research/history-of-philanthropy/rockefeller-archive-center-workshop-history-philanthropy | -- | Grant to support a workshop of scholars interested in the history of philanthropy. | |
| RAND Corporation | 103,000.00 | Drug policy/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/miscellaneous/rand-corporation-research-vermont | -- | Grant to enable researchers affiliated with the RAND Drug Policy Research Center to conduct a study about the consequences of legalizing marijuana in Vermont, on behalf of the State of Vermont. Affected countries: United States; affected states: Vermont. | |
| Alliance for Open Society International | 500,000.00 | Public services improvement and transparency/Albania | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/giving/grants/alliance-open-society-international-albanian-renaissance | -- | Grant to support the Open Society Foundation for Albania’s project “Albanian Renaissance,” a group of initiatives designed to upgrade public services, bring transparency to public life, and help position the country for European integration. Part of our effort to learn from other major foundations by co-funding projects with them, the major foundation in this case being Open Society Foundations (OSF). Affected countries: Albania. | |
| U.S. Association for International Migration | 1,490,505.00 | Migration policy/Haiti/US agricultural migration | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/immigration-policy/usaim-seasonal-migration-haiti | -- | Grant first published in August 2014; updated with progress report. Grantee was USAIM but project was carried out by it along with International Organization for Migration (IOM). Grant was not repeated next year, but a new grant was made to Protect the People for a similar purpose. | |
| ImmigrationWorks Foundation | 285,000.00 | Migration policy/low-skilled migration promotion | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/immigration-policy/immigrationworks-foundation-general-support | -- | First major grant to an advocacy group related to promoting more low-skilled migration from the perspective of interests of potential employers of low-skilled workers. | |
| Pew Public Safety Performance Project | 3,000,000.00 | Criminal justice reform/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/pew-public-safety-performance-project | -- | PSPP has engaged in the following activities: (1) Research and public education, (2) Engaging nontraditional allies of criminal justice reform, (3) Providing technical assistance to individual states. The grant would support and expand this work. Affected countries: United States. | |
| Cochrane Collaboration | 300,000.00 | Biomedical research/meta-research | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/giving/grants/cochrane-collaboration-general-support | -- | Grant over three years to promote evidence-informed healthcare by producing high-quality, relevant, accessible systematic reviews and other synthesized research evidence. | |
| Pepperdine University | 150,000.00 | Drug policy/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/miscellaneous/december-2015-updates-angela-hawken | -- | Grant in support of Washington THC monitoring by Angela Hawken. Grant made for time-sensitive experiment where Hawken expected NSF funding based on a grant application (but the funding would come too late). Only 120000 of the 150000 was spent and enough data was collected for a conclusion. Affected countries: United States. | |
| International Development Association | 500,000.00 | Global health/measurement | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-health-and-development/service-delivery-indicators-project | -- | Grant supports work on the Service Delivery Indicators Program (SDI). Estimated budget is $27 million. | |
| Center for Global Development | 1,184,720.00 | Migration policy/international labor mobility | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/immigration-policy/center-global-development-labor-mobility-research | -- | Grant supports the CGD research agenda on labor mobility, including 75% of the time of Michael Clemens. Followup conversation with Michael Clemens and Cynthis Rathinasamy of grantee organization at http://www.openphilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/Michael_Clemens_and_Cynthia_Rathinasamy_12-15-2015_%28public%29.pdf on 2015-12-15 and again at http://www.openphilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/Michael_Clemens_Cynthia_Rathinasamy_06-21-16_%28public%29.pdf on 2016-06-21. | |
| BetaGov | 200,000.00 | Criminal justice reform/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/betagov | -- | Grant made to Pepperdine University to support the work of Angela Hawken on BetaGov. BetaGov aims to generate knowledge about what works in the public sector (in areas including but not limited to criminal justice) by serving as a repository for practitioners’ ideas to be tested, serving as a database of results to facilitate learning across studies, and providing a toolkit (including web-based training, webinars, assessment tools, and an RCT call-in hotline) so that practitioners can conduct their own RCTs. Affected countries: United States. | |
| Washington Office on Latin America | 245,000.00 | Criminal justice reform/United States | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/research-crime-incarceration-and-cannabis-regulation | -- | Grant made to support research projects on crime, incarceration and cannabis regulation led by Mark Kleiman. Affected countries: United States. | |
| Center for Global Development | 300,000.00 | Global poverty/Global health and development | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-health-and-development/miscellaneous/center-global-development-general-support | -- | Grant for general support, to support efforts to reduce global poverty and inequality through rigorous research and active engagement. See also the blog post http://www.openphilanthropy.org/blog/grant-center-global-development-cgd for more. Followup conversation with Todd Moss and Kathy Smith of grantee organization at http://www.openphilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/Todd_Moss_and_Kathy_Smith_12-15-2015_%28public%29.pdf on 2015-12-15. | |
| Center for Global Development | 50,000.00 | History of philanthropy | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/research/history-of-philanthropy/update-millions-saved-project | -- | Grant for an update to the Millions Saved project. | |
| Population Services International | 1,000,000.00 | Global health/malaria/resistance | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-health-and-development/miscellaneous/containment-artemisinin-resistance-eastern-myanmar | -- | Grant made by Good Ventures before Open Phil formally came into being. Grant is a co-funding with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and supports work to prevent the spread of artemisinin resistance in Myanmar. Good Ventures hoped to use the grant opportunity to learn how big players like the Gates Foundation effect progress in global health. Affected countries: Myanmar. | |
| US Cochrane Center | 100,000.00 | Biomedical research/meta-research | http://www.openphilanthropy.org/giving/grants/us-cochrane-center-general-support | -- | Unrestricted grant met urgent short-term need to maintain uninterrupted minimal staffing. Grant is a “learning grant,” meaning that it’s designed to help us learn more about an organization or cause we find promising. Affected countries: United States. |
The following table uses the Jaccard index and cosine similarity to compare the similarity of donors. We are showing the top 30 donors by the Jaccard index because we show up to 30 donors and show only donors with at least one donee in common.
| Donor | Number of distinct donees | Number of donees in common (intersection) | Union size | Jaccard similarity | Cosine similarity | Weighted cosine similarity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Effective Altruism Funds | 11 | 6 | 171 | 0.0351 | 0.1404 | 0.0096 |
| Michael Dickens | 6 | 5 | 167 | 0.0299 | 0.1584 | 0.0207 |
| Patrick Brinich-Langlois | 9 | 5 | 170 | 0.0294 | 0.1294 | 0.0287 |
| Laura and John Arnold Foundation | 362 | 15 | 513 | 0.0292 | 0.0612 | 0.0245 |
| Peter Hurford | 20 | 4 | 182 | 0.022 | 0.0694 | 0.0086 |
| Elizabeth Van Nostrand | 13 | 3 | 176 | 0.017 | 0.0646 | 0.002 |
| Pablo Stafforini | 21 | 3 | 184 | 0.0163 | 0.0508 | 0.0052 |
| Blake Borgeson | 2 | 2 | 166 | 0.012 | 0.1098 | 0.0191 |
| Haseeb Qureshi | 4 | 2 | 168 | 0.0119 | 0.0776 | 0.0343 |
| Brian Tomasik | 4 | 2 | 168 | 0.0119 | 0.0776 | 0.0075 |
| Jacob Steinhardt | 5 | 2 | 169 | 0.0118 | 0.0694 | 0.0054 |
| Aaron Gertler | 11 | 2 | 175 | 0.0114 | 0.0468 | 0.0085 |
| Jeff Kaufman and Julia Wise | 15 | 2 | 179 | 0.0112 | 0.0401 | 0.0362 |
| Google.org | 160 | 3 | 323 | 0.0093 | 0.0184 | 0.0039 |
| Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation | 2111 | 17 | 2260 | 0.0075 | 0.0287 | 0.0069 |
| Mikko Rauhala | 1 | 1 | 166 | 0.006 | 0.0776 | 0.0117 |
| Mick Porter | 1 | 1 | 166 | 0.006 | 0.0776 | 0.0117 |
| Michael Cohen | 1 | 1 | 166 | 0.006 | 0.0776 | 0.0117 |
| Michael Blume | 1 | 1 | 166 | 0.006 | 0.0776 | 0.0117 |
| Joshua Fox | 1 | 1 | 166 | 0.006 | 0.0776 | 0.0117 |
| Misha Gurevich | 1 | 1 | 166 | 0.006 | 0.0776 | 0.0117 |
| Max Kesin | 1 | 1 | 166 | 0.006 | 0.0776 | 0.0117 |
| Nicolas Tarleton | 1 | 1 | 166 | 0.006 | 0.0776 | 0.0117 |
| Richard Schwall | 1 | 1 | 166 | 0.006 | 0.0776 | 0.0117 |
| Robin Powell | 1 | 1 | 166 | 0.006 | 0.0776 | 0.0117 |
| Scott Dickey | 1 | 1 | 166 | 0.006 | 0.0776 | 0.0117 |
| Scott Siskind | 1 | 1 | 166 | 0.006 | 0.0776 | 0.0117 |
| Scott Worley | 1 | 1 | 166 | 0.006 | 0.0776 | 0.0117 |
| Sebastian Hagen | 1 | 1 | 166 | 0.006 | 0.0776 | 0.0117 |
| Simon Safar | 1 | 1 | 166 | 0.006 | 0.0776 | 0.0117 |