Founders Pledge

Recent grants

The 100 largest recent grants from this foundation’s filings, newest year first.

• $2.5M

  Tsinghua Education Foundation Na · Milpitas, CA · 2023

  China carbon neutrality project of the institute of energy, environment and economy, tsinghua university for the components on retrofitting coal power, chinese international climate policy leadership

• $2.3M

  Ukraine Trustchain · Evanston, IL · 2023

  General support

• $2.0M

  Clean Air Task Force (Catf) · Boston, MA · 2023

  General support

• $1.9M

  Center for Applied Rationality (Cfar) · Berkeley, CA · 2023

  General support of lightcone infrastructure and coordination project

• $1.8M

  Alignment Research Center · Covina, CA · 2023

  General support of arc evals team

• $1.6M

  Allfed Institute · Lafayette, CO · 2023

  General support

• $1.2M

  Manifold for Charity (Aka Manifold Markets) · Austin, TX · 2023

  General support

• $1.1M

  Far Ai · San Diego, CA · 2023

  General support

• $1.1M

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2023

  General support and tegmark lab fund

• $1.1M

  Centre for Effective Altruism USA · San Francisco, CA · 2023

  Long-term future fund, events team, online team, community health and special project team

• $1.1M

  Players Philanthropy Fund · Towson, MD · 2023

  General support of arkose, project solve, technical alignment impossibility proofs, spiro project

• $1.0M

  The Energy for Growth Hub · Washington, DC · 2023

  Supporting the ppa transparency norms project

• $1.0M

  Meridian Prime · Washington, DC · 2023

  General support

• $1.0M

  Carnegie Mellon University · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023

  Foundations of cooperative ai lab (focal)

• $909,000

  Center for Artificial Intelligence Safety · San Francisco, CA · 2023

  General support

• $881,000

  Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative · Berkeley, CA · 2023

  General support of beri-cltc and beri-chai collaborations, mats london

• $875,000

  Deploy-US · Boston, MA · 2023

  General support

• $837,200

  Founders Pledge Ltd (Fpl) · 2023

  General support

• $598,000

  Redwood Research · Berkeley, CA · 2023

  General support

• $565,000

  Opencollective Foundation · Covina, CA · 2023

  General support of the unjournal

• $548,000

  Securebio · Cambridge, MA · 2023

  General support

• $500,000

  Terrapraxis · Cambridge, MA · 2023

  General support

• $455,000

  Sangro · Newark, DE · 2023

  General support

• $432,000

  The Pragmatism Foundation · Norristown, PA · 2023

  General support of the pronatalist.org initiative

• $400,000

  Radicalxchange Foundation Ltd · Moraga, CA · 2023

  The collective intelligence project, general support of honor society films, audrey tang project

• $352,000

  Goodly Institute · University Avenue, CA · 2023

  General support of ai objectives institute

• $315,000

  Center for Innovative Governance Research · Washington, DC · 2023

  General support of charter cities institute

• $310,000

  Lead Exposure Elimination Project · Chicago, IL · 2023

  General support

• $304,000

  Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies · Santa Monica, CA · 2023

  General support

• $276,000

  Rethink Priorities · San Francisco, CA · 2023

  General support of the rethink priorities existential security team and ai governance and strategy team

• $250,000

  Social & Environmental Entrepreneurs Inc & Global Catastrophic Risk Institu · Calabasas, CA · 2023

  General support

• $250,000

  Givewell · Oakland, CA · 2023

  Maximum impact fund, all grants fund, general support

• $201,250

  The Taimaka Project · Arlington, VA · 2023

  Nigeria malnutrition treatment program.

• $200,000

  Family Empowerment Media · Brooklyn, NY · 2023

  General support

• $189,000

  Lincoln Network · San Francisco, CA · 2023

  General support

• $172,000

  Fp21 · Washington, DC · 2023

  General support

• $159,000

  University of Louisville Foundation · Louisville, KY · 2023

  General support of dr. Roman yampolskiys research group (cybersecurity lab)

• $150,000

  Nuclear Threat Initiative (Nti) · Washington, DC · 2023

  Biosecurity programs

• $150,000

  The Against Malaria Foundation · Kansas City, MO · 2023

  General support

• $136,000

  Center for Strategic and International Studies · Washington, DC · 2023

  General support of ai governance project

• $126,000

  Basis Research Institute · New York City, NY · 2023

  General support

• $115,000

  Shining Hope for Communities · New York, NY · 2023

  General support

• $107,000

  Machine Intelligence Research Institute · San Francisco, CA · 2023

  General support of ai impacts

• $103,000

  Legal Priorities Project · Cambridge, MA · 2023

  General support

• $100,000

  Center for a New American Security · Washington, DC · 2023

  To support the one-year project on understanding an international autonomous incidents agreement

• $100,000

  Animal Charity Evaluators · Covina, CA · 2023

  Sinergia animal international

• $100,000

  Brookings Institution · Washington, DC · 2023

  Us/china strategic dialogues

• $96,000

  The Center for Election Science · Covina, CA · 2023

  General support

• $86,000

  Convergence Analysis · Berkeley, CA · 2023

  General support of technologies for pandemic defense

• $72,500

  Safe Place International · St Ignace, MI · 2023

  General support

• $50,000

  Evidence Action · Washington, DC · 2023

  Deworm the world initiative

• $50,000

  Wild Animal Initiative · Minneapolis, MN · 2023

  General support

• $50,000

  Third Sector Capital Partners · Boston, MA · 2023

  General support

• $50,000

  President and Fellows of Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2023

  Giving multiplier' with prof joshua greene, department of psychology, harvard university

• $50,000

  1day Sooner · Claymont, DE · 2023

  Malaria vaccine rollout

• $50,000

  Journalism Development Network · Washington, DC · 2023

  General support

• $50,000

  Endee · 2023

  Advance the charitable mission of the total portfolio project (tpp), which seeks to accelerate effective impact-financial integration by revising the 'pricing investor impact' research paper

• $50,000

  Fish Welfare Initiative · Normal, IL · 2023

  General support

• $45,610

  Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2023

  General support of milan griffes for tuition and bsph health clinic fees

• $37,500

  The Gift Trust · 2023

  Mothertree labs

• $30,000

  New Incentives · Covina, CA · 2023

  General support

• $25,000

  Yayasan Hidup Lestari Kembali · 2023

  General support

• $25,000

  K-T Support Group · Milford, OH · 2023

  General support

• $25,000

  Bandhan-Konnagar · 2023

  Targeting the poor programme

• $24,000

  Sciart Initiative · Brooklyn, NY · 2023

  General support of the intrinsic perspective

• $24,000

  Earth Law Center · Boulder, CO · 2023

  General support

• $23,679

  The Life You Can Save · Novato, CA · 2023

  Iodine global network, general support

• $20,000

  Dyrenes Alliance · 2023

  To support the fish campaign

• $18,346

  Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2023

  Fara fee for breakthrough agenda grant

• $13,711

  Albert Schweitzer Foundation (Asf) · 2023

  General support

• $11,644

  University of California Berkeley Foundation · Berkeley, CA · 2023

  General support

• $11,000

  The Future Society · Somerville, MA · 2023

  General support

• $10,000

  Terraset · Boulder, CO · 2023

  General support

• $10,000

  The Spacekind Foundation · Covina, CA · 2023

  General support

• $10,000

  Indian Muslim Relief and Charities · Mountain View, CA · 2023

  General support

• $5,000

  Legado · Jackson, NH · 2023

  General support

• $3.6M

  Clean Air Task Force (Catf) · Boston, MA · 2022

  General support and support of super hot rock geothermal energy

• $3.2M

  Founders Pledge Ltd · 2022

  General support, support ppf, general operating expenses

• $2.2M

  Alignment Research Center · Walnut, CA · 2022

  General support

• $1.5M

  Center for Applied Rationality · Berkeley, CA · 2022

  General support of lightcone infrastructure

• $1.3M

  Redwood Research · Berkeley, CA · 2022

  General support

• $1.2M

  Effective Altruism Foundation · Berkeley, CA · 2022

  General support of center on long-term risk

• $1.0M

  Topos Institute · Berkeley, CA · 2022

  General support

• $599,000

  Rethink Charity · Houston, TX · 2022

  General support of nonlinear

• $546,000

  Machine Intelligence Research Institute · Berkeley, CA · 2022

  General support of ai impacts

• $524,000

  Far Ai · San Diego, CA · 2022

  General support

• $500,000

  Edward Charles Foundation · Beverly Hills, CA · 2022

  Starlink initiative

• $491,735

  Terrapraxis · Cambridge, MA · 2022

  General support and supporting work on transforming energy system modeling

• $461,000

  Quantified Uncertainty Research Institute · San Francisco, CA · 2022

  General support

• $425,000

  1day Sooner · Claymont, DE · 2022

  General support

• $387,000

  The Center for Election Science · Covina, CA · 2022

  General support

• $381,000

  Centre for Effective Altruism USA Inc (Cea) · Berkeley, CA · 2022

  General support of simon institute for longterm governance

• $346,000

  University of Toronto · 2022

  General support of social science prediction platform

• $345,000

  Whylome · Fairfax, VT · 2022

  General support

• $343,000

  Manifold for Charity (Aka Manifold Markets) · Austin, TX · 2022

  General support

• $342,000

  Players Philanthropy Fund · Towson, MD · 2022

  General support of fund for alignment research and scholarship workshop

• $318,000

  Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative · Berkeley, CA · 2022

  General support of beri-chai and beri-all collaborations

• $309,000

  University of Wisconsin Foundation · Madison, WI · 2022

  General support

• $301,375

  Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2022

  Support the promotion of the breakthrough agenda including the breakthrough report launch in september

• $300,000

  Givewell · Oakland, CA · 2022

  Maximum impact fund, all grants fund, top charities fund, general support