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Founders Pledge

Name: Founders Pledge grants, 2022–2024
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License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A grantmaking public charity (files IRS Form 990, Schedule I). Charities like this often run real grant programs with application cycles.

239
grants reported: $84.3M
total given: 2022–2024
filing years: $105,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

institute impact research energy global governance international

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

2 grants matching “deworming” · $161,856

$50,000
Evidence Action · Washington, DC · 2023
Deworm the world initiative
$111,856
University of Washington Foundation · Seattle, WA · 2022
To fund global wach to conduct a project that will leverage the deworm3 study to develop a protocol to assess the long-term impact of deworming on household consumption and assets

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Deployus1 grant · $8.9M
Clean Air Task Force (Catf)3 grants · $5.8M
Alignment Research Center3 grants · $4.2M
Founders Pledge Ltd1 grant · $3.2M
Tsinghua Education Foundation Na1 grant · $2.5M
Ukraine Trustchain1 grant · $2.3M
Players Philanthropy Fund3 grants · $2.2M
Far Ai3 grants · $2.0M
Center for Artificial Intelligence Safety2 grants · $2.0M
Center for Applied Rationality (Cfar)1 grant · $1.9M

Giving over time

$25.1M

2022

$33.0M

2023

$26.3M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 239 grants.

$8.9M
Deployus · Boston, MA · 2024
Fund charitable activities
$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
$2.5M
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
$2.2M
Alignment Research Center · Walnut, CA · 2022
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
$1.5M
Center for Applied Rationality · Berkeley, CA · 2022
General support of lightcone infrastructure
$1.3M
Redwood Research · Berkeley, CA · 2022
General support
$1.2M
Manifold for Charity (Aka Manifold Markets) · Austin, TX · 2023
General support
$1.2M
Effective Altruism Foundation · Berkeley, CA · 2022
General support of center on long-term risk
$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
Center for Artificial Intelligence Safety · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Fund charitable activities
$1.1M
Players Philanthropy Fund · Towson, MD · 2023
General support of arkose, project solve, technical alignment impossibility proofs, spiro project
$1.0M
The Rand Corporation · Santa Monica, CA · 2024
Fund charitable activities
$1.0M
Carnegie Mellon University · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
Foundations of cooperative ai lab (focal)
$1.0M
Meridian Prime · Washington, DC · 2023
General support
$1.0M
The Energy for Growth Hub · Washington, DC · 2023
Supporting the ppa transparency norms project
$1.0M
Topos Institute · Berkeley, CA · 2022
General support
$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
$804,000
Players Philanthropy Fund · Towson, MD · 2024
Fund charitable activities
$741,500
Sangro Inc (Dba Ashgro) · Newark, DE · 2024
Fund charitable activities
$726,000
Palisade Research · Dover, DE · 2024
Fund charitable activities
$599,000
Rethink Charity · Houston, TX · 2022
General support of nonlinear
$598,000
Redwood Research · Berkeley, CA · 2023
General support
$584,000
Mats Research · Berkeley, CA · 2024
Fund charitable activities
$565,000
Opencollective Foundation · Covina, CA · 2023
General support of the unjournal
$562,000
Longview Philanthropy USA · Kansas City, MO · 2024
Fund charitable activities
$548,000
Securebio · Cambridge, MA · 2023
General support
$546,000
Machine Intelligence Research Institute · Berkeley, CA · 2022
General support of ai impacts
$540,000
Safe Artificial Intelligence Forum Institute · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
Fund charitable activities
$539,757
Johns Hopkins - Center for Health Security (Chs) · Baltimore, MD · 2024
Fund charitable activities
$538,000
Ai Objectives Institute · Wilmington, DE · 2024
Fund charitable activities
$531,000
Restoringvision · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Fund charitable activities
$524,000
Far Ai · San Diego, CA · 2022
General support
$520,000
Rethink Priorities · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Fund charitable activities
$510,000
Effective Ventures Foundation USA · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Fund charitable activities
$500,000
Terrapraxis · Cambridge, MA · 2023
General support
$500,000
Edward Charles Foundation · Beverly Hills, CA · 2022
Starlink initiative
$493,000
The Foundation for American Innovation (Lincoln Network) · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Fund charitable activities
$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
$455,000
Sangro · Newark, DE · 2023
General support
$447,000
Social & Environmental Entrepreneurs · Calabasas, CA · 2024
Fund charitable activities
$432,000
The Pragmatism Foundation · Norristown, PA · 2023
General support of the pronatalist.org initiative
$429,085
National Academy of Sciences · Washington, DC · 2024
Fund charitable activities
$425,000
1day Sooner · Claymont, DE · 2022
General support
$400,000
Radicalxchange Foundation Ltd · Moraga, CA · 2023
The collective intelligence project, general support of honor society films, audrey tang project
$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
$371,000
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative · Berkeley, CA · 2024
Fund charitable activities
$367,304
Far Ai · San Diego, CA · 2024
Fund charitable activities
$352,000
Goodly Institute · University Avenue, CA · 2023
General support of ai objectives institute
$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
$342,159
Securebio · Cambridge, MA · 2024
Fund charitable activities
$342,000
Players Philanthropy Fund · Towson, MD · 2022
General support of fund for alignment research and scholarship workshop
$326,000
Brown University · Providence, RI · 2024
Fund charitable activities
$318,000
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative · Berkeley, CA · 2022
General support of beri-chai and beri-all collaborations
$315,000
Artificial Intelligence Forecasting · Berkeley, CA · 2024
Fund charitable activities
$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
$309,000
University of Wisconsin Foundation · Madison, WI · 2022
General support
$304,000
Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies · Santa Monica, CA · 2023
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
$297,000
Blueprint Biosecurity · Washington, DC · 2024
Fund charitable activities
$296,000
Basis Research Institute · New York City, NY · 2024
Fund charitable activities
$295,000
Center for Mindful Learning · Lowell, VT · 2022
General support
$289,000
Convergent Research · Cambridge, MA · 2022
To conduct scientific roadmapping towards focused research organizations that have the potential to reduce existential risks to humanity
$288,118
National Philanthropic Trust · Jenkintown, PA · 2022
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
$261,000
Center for Innovative Governance Research · Washington, DC · 2022
General support of the charter cities institute
$257,000
Hack Foundation · West Hollywood, CA · 2024
Fund charitable activities
$251,000
Convergence Analysis · Berkeley, CA · 2022
General support of cosequence foundries and modeling cooperation
$250,000
Givewell · Oakland, CA · 2023
Maximum impact fund, all grants fund, general support
$250,000
Social & Environmental Entrepreneurs Inc & Global Catastrophic Risk Institu · Calabasas, CA · 2023
General support
$250,000
Median Group · Walnut, CA · 2022
General support
$244,000
Laboratory for Social Minds (Cmu) · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022
General support
$220,000
Clean Air Task Force (Catf) · Boston, MA · 2024
Fund charitable activities
$216,000
Panorama Global · Seattle, WA · 2024
Fund charitable activities
$215,000
Open Lunar Foundation · Covina, CA · 2024
Fund charitable activities
$215,000
Open Lunar Foundation · Walnut, CA · 2022
General support
$201,250
The Taimaka Project · Arlington, VA · 2023
Nigeria malnutrition treatment program.
$200,000
Family Empowerment Media · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
General support
$200,000
Parpa Inc (Dba Speculative Technologies) · Princeton, NJ · 2022
General support
$196,000
Constructive Dialogue Institute (Cdi) · New York, NY · 2022
General support
$189,000
Lincoln Network · San Francisco, CA · 2023
General support
$184,000
Model Evaluation and Threat Research · Covina, CA · 2024
Fund charitable activities
$172,000
Fp21 · Washington, DC · 2023
General support
$163,000
The University of Rhode Island Foundation & Alumni Engagement · Kingston, RI · 2024
Fund charitable activities

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Source: IRS Form 990, Schedule I, as filed by this organization. These are grants already paid. Grants paid directly to individuals are reported to the IRS only as totals, so they do not appear as named lines here.