We fund organizations and projects that show great promise for saving and improving lives and for helping us learn.

We’ve organized the grants in Our Portfolio in a database that you can browse and download. Grants recommended by Open Philanthropy also appear in its grants database here.

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Grant Organization All Topics Date of Award Amount
Effective Altruism Funds — Regranting and Operations Support (May 2023) Effective Altruism Funds Effective Altruism 05/2023 $3,370,000
Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT — Pneumonia Diagnostics Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research Scientific Research 05/2023 $3,000,000
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization — Henipavirus Research CSIRO Scientific Research; Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness 05/2023 $778,886
University of Michigan — Research on Gamete Development (2023) University of Michigan Scientific Research; Transformative Basic Science 05/2023 $2,000,000
Rethink Priorities — AI Governance Research (2023) Rethink Priorities Potential Risks from Advanced AI 04/2023 $154,801
80,000 Hours — Marketing (2023) 80,000 Hours Effective Altruism 04/2023 $2,492,000
Epoch — General Support (2023) Epoch Potential Risks from Advanced AI 04/2023 $6,922,565
Effective Ventures Foundation USA — Asterisk (2023) Effective Ventures Foundation USA Effective Altruism 04/2023 $991,000
Nuclear Threat Initiative — Biosecurity Program Support (2023) Nuclear Threat Initiative Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness 04/2023 $7,831,500
Center for AI Safety — General Support (2023) Center for AI Safety Potential Risks from Advanced AI 04/2023 $4,025,729
Metaculus — Platform Development (2023) Metaculus Potential Risks from Advanced AI; Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness 04/2023 $3,000,000
Aquaculture Stewardship Council — Shrimp Welfare Standards Aquaculture Stewardship Council Fish Welfare; Farm Animal Welfare 04/2023 $525,000
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace — Alternative Proteins for Security Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Farm Animal Welfare 04/2023 $322,000
University of Maryland — Policy Fellowship (2023) University of Maryland Potential Risks from Advanced AI 04/2023 $312,959
Rethink Priorities — AI Governance Workshop Rethink Priorities Potential Risks from Advanced AI 04/2023 $302,390
Atlas Fellowship — General Support (2023) Atlas Fellowship Effective Altruism 04/2023 $2,000,000
Forethought Foundation — Global Priorities Research Forethought Foundation Global Catastrophic Risks 04/2023 $348,993
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences — Portable Fish EEG Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Fish Welfare; Farm Animal Welfare 04/2023 $384,000
University of Utah — AI Alignment Research University of Utah Potential Risks from Advanced AI 04/2023 $140,000
Charity Entrepreneurship — Health Security Organizations Charity Entrepreneurship Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness 04/2023 $250,000