We want to maximize the impact of our portfolio.

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

  1. Yale University — Research on the Global Politics of AI

    Award Date:
    07/2017
    Amount:
    $299,320
    Potential Risks from Advanced AI
  2. Smithsonian Institution — Outbreak Exhibit

    Award Date:
    07/2017
    Amount:
    $300,000
    Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness
  3. American Conservative Union — Center for Criminal Justice Reform (2017)

    Award Date:
    07/2017
    Amount:
    $206,000
    Criminal Justice Reform
  4. Charity Science Health — SMS Reminders for Immunization

    Award Date:
    07/2017
    Amount:
    $357,543
    Global Health & Development
  5. The Ahimsa Collective — Restorative Justice Movement-Building Report

    Award Date:
    07/2017
    Amount:
    $15,000
    Criminal Justice Reform
  6. FIAPO — India Animal Welfare Reform

    Award Date:
    07/2017
    Amount:
    $332,944
    Farm Animal Welfare
  7. UPenn — Philip Tetlock’s Forecasting Project

    Award Date:
    07/2017
    Amount:
    $1,550,000
    Forecasting
  8. Dignity and Power Now — Convening to Oppose L.A. Jail Construction

    Award Date:
    06/2017
    Amount:
    $132,000
    Criminal Justice Reform
  9. Duke University — Hsp70i and Inhibitor HS-72 (Timothy Haystead)

    Award Date:
    06/2017
    Amount:
    $81,500
    Scientific Research
  10. Center for Effective Global Action — Deworming Study Planning Gift

    Award Date:
    06/2017
    Amount:
    $18,000
    Global Health & Development