Funding search · EIN 461008520 · Palo Alto, CA

Good Ventures Foundation

Name: Good Ventures Foundation grants, 2021–2024
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

1,830
grants reported: $1.32B
total given: 2021–2024
filing years: $125,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2021–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

scholarship research educational development career transition global future

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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.

Where the money goes

Global health R&D: malaria, TB, syphilis, hepatitis C vaccines
AI safety research, alignment fellowships, and AI governance policy
Farm animal welfare campaigns, cage-free work in Asia and Latin America
Biosecurity, pandemic preparedness, and health security centers
Effective altruism community building, career advice, forecasting
Scientific metascience, air quality, coal phase-out

Typical grant

Median grant is $125,000, with the middle half between roughly $38,000 and $624,000. The seven- and eight-figure checks go to established global health delivery and R&D partners (Malaria Consortium at $9.4M, Centre for Effective Altruism at $10.5M, University of Edinburgh at $8.3M) while the small end funds individual researchers, fellowships, and community groups. Repeat funding is common: Oxford, Stanford, MIT, LSHTM, MATS Research, 80,000 Hours, and Compassion in World Farming all appear multiple times, often for staged work on the same line of research.

Their words

Phrases from their own grant descriptions, worth speaking back to them.

“GENERAL SUPPORT”
“COST-EFFECTIVE INTERVENTIONS”
“AI SAFETY”
“VACCINE DEVELOPMENT”
“LOW AND MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRIES”
“FARM ANIMAL WELFARE”

Positioning adjacent work

Anchor to a named funded line: malaria vaccine development, AI safety benchmarks, or farm animal welfare in Asia.
Ask $500K to $1.5M for a defined research project; that is where most university awards land.
Quantify cost-effectiveness per outcome; their own descriptions repeatedly use 'cost-effective interventions' as the frame.
Propose measurable capability or efficacy evaluation, not general capacity building, unless you are an established partner.

Worth knowing: Despite the Palo Alto base and heavy California count, a large share of the biggest dollars leaves the US entirely, going to UK institutions (Oxford, Edinburgh, LSHTM, London-based AI safety and EA orgs). Giving looks strongly relationship-driven and concentrated in a network of effective altruism-aligned organizations and a small set of research universities that appear again and again.

62 grants matching “altruism” · $52.4M

$10.5M
Centre for Effective Altruism · Milton, DE · 2024
General support
$1.6M
Arcadia Impact Cic · 2024
Support effective altruism and ai safety groups
$502,000
Effective Ventures Foundation USA · San Francisco, CA · 2024
General operating costs for the effective altruism fund
$326,536
Tlon · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
Translating online content on effective altruism
$100,000
Effective Ventures Foundation · 2024
General operating costs for the effective altruism fund
$80,540
Tlon · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
Translating online content on effective altruism
$54,500
Ues Gemeinnutzige Gmbh Fur Effektives Spenden · 2024
Coworking space and effective altruism hub in berlin
$9,293
Impactful Altruism Initiative · 2024
Effective altruism community building projects in nigeria
$3.5M
Effective Ventures Foundation USA · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Support centre for effective altruism
$3.3M
Effective Ventures Foundation · 2023
Support centre for effective altruism
$1.5M
Rational Animations Srl · 2023
Produce videos on topics related to effective altruism
$1.0M
Cambridge Effective Altruism Cic · 2023
Summer research fellowship program focused on risks from advanced ai
$1.0M
Effective Altruism Singapore Ltd · 2023
Farmed animal welfare
$937,000
Effektiv Altruisme Norge · 2023
Support gi effektivt
$402,343
Arcadia Impact Cic · 2023
Support effective altruism and ai safety groups
$222,260
Rational Animations Srl · 2023
Produce videos on topics related to effective altruism
$25,000
Stichting Effectief Altruisme Nederland · 2023
Multi-day ai safety retreat
$13,080
Rethink Priorities · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Summit on the future of effective altruism and global health
$11,936
Cambridge Effective Altruism Cic · 2023
Biosecurity fundamentals course and general club events
$6,160
Uniwersytet Warszawski · 2023
Critical introduction to effective altruism course
$1,500
Bhavika Kumar · Palo Alto, CA · 2023
Prize - achievements in effective altruism
$500
Emma Wenhui · Palo Alto, CA · 2023
Prize - achievements in effective altruism
$500
Arjun Yadav · Palo Alto, CA · 2023
Prize - achievements in effective altruism
$500
Arya Golkari · Palo Alto, CA · 2023
Prize - achievements in effective altruism
$500
Caylee Pan · Palo Alto, CA · 2023
Prize - achievements in effective altruism
$500
Jonathon Sun · Palo Alto, CA · 2023
Prize - achievements in effective altruism
$500
Karthik Palakodeti · Palo Alto, CA · 2023
Prize - achievements in effective altruism
$500
Kavish Garg · Palo Alto, CA · 2023
Prize - achievements in effective altruism
$500
Shiza Charania · Palo Alto, CA · 2023
Prize - achievements in effective altruism
$500
William Carkner · Palo Alto, CA · 2023
Prize - achievements in effective altruism
$5.3M
Centre for Effective Altruism USA · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Lease for biosecurity coworking
$4.9M
Centre for Effective Altruism USA · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Effective altruism infrastructure fund
$3.1M
Centre for Effective Altruism USA · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Community-building project
$2.0M
Cambridge Effective Altruism Cic · 2022
General support
$1.0M
Rational Animations Srl · 2022
Produce videos on topics related to effective altruism
$715,000
Institute for Progress and Altruism · Washington, DC · 2022
Conduct research and advocacy on public policy issues
$445,000
London Effective Altruism Hub Cic · 2022
Effective altruism groups
$250,000
Centre for Effective Altruism USA · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Office for harvard ai safety team
$81,813
Centre for Effective Altruism · 2022
Sculpting evolution group
$50,532
Centre for Effective Altruism · 2022
Workshop on compute governance
$36,359
The University of Queensland in America · Washington, DC · 2022
Planning work on an intro to effective altruism mooc
$26,203
Cambridge Effective Altruism Cic · 2022
Ai safety labs
$19,200
Centre for Effective Altruism · 2022
Research assistant
$15,000
Librea · Houston, TX · 2022
Purchase and open source legal rights to effective altruism books
$1,500
Riya Sharma · Palo Alto, CA · 2022
Prize - achievements in effective altruism
$1,500
Simon Koser · Palo Alto, CA · 2022
Prize - achievements in effective altruism
$1,500
Yash Aggarwal · Palo Alto, CA · 2022
Prize - achievements in effective altruism
$1,500
Andrei Florian · Palo Alto, CA · 2022
Prize - achievements in effective altruism
$1,500
Alexander Briand · Palo Alto, CA · 2022
Prize - achievements in effective altruism
$6.6M
Centre for Effective Altruism · 2021
Effective altruism infrastructure fund and long-term future fund
$1.0M
Institute for Progress and Altruism · Washington, DC · 2021
Conduct research and advocacy on public policy issues
$730,000
Centre for Effective Altruism USA · San Francisco, CA · 2021
Starting an ea quarterly journal
$723,057
Cambridge Effective Altruism Cic · 2021
Cambridge existential risk institute's summer research fellowship program
$77,000
Centre for Effective Altruism · 2021
Biosecurity researcher work
$1,887
Adam Bales · Palo Alto, CA · 2021
Prize - achievements in effective altruism
$1,500
Saumya Mishra · Palo Alto, CA · 2021
Prize - achievements in effective altruism
$1,500
Yang Liu · Palo Alto, CA · 2021
Prize - achievements in effective altruism
$1,500
Adam Gear · Palo Alto, CA · 2021
Prize - achievements in effective altruism
$1,500
Chrizsean Venette · Palo Alto, CA · 2021
Prize - achievements in effective altruism
$1,500
Krishna Sudan · Palo Alto, CA · 2021
Prize - achievements in effective altruism
$1,500
Miloslava Mackova · Palo Alto, CA · 2021
Prize - achievements in effective altruism
$1,500
Olivia Crawford · Palo Alto, CA · 2021
Prize - achievements in effective altruism

Top recipients

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

Malaria Consortium8 grants · $94.0M
Georgetown University9 grants · $56.8M
Effective Ventures Foundation39 grants · $50.3M
The Rand Corporation11 grants · $42.0M
Gates Philanthropy Partners2 grants · $34.2M
International Rescue Committee7 grants · $26.9M
Massachusetts Institute of Technology18 grants · $26.8M
Ird Global Limited7 grants · $24.1M
Effective Ventures Foundation USA20 grants · $22.9M
The Regents of the University of California Berkeley28 grants · $22.4M

Giving over time

$341.6M

2021

$320.5M

2022

$355.0M

2023

$306.7M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 1,830 grants.

$32.1M
Malaria Consortium · 2021
Seasonal malaria chemoprevention programs
$31.3M
Gates Philanthropy Partners · Seattle, WA · 2023
Work on tb vaccines, oral cholera vaccines and global education
$22.0M
Against Malaria Foundation · Kansas City, MO · 2023
Delivery of insecticide-treated bed nets in the democratic republic of the congo
$20.2M
Sci Foundation · 2021
General support
$19.3M
Georgetown University · Washington, DC · 2023
Center for security and emerging technology
$17.9M
Georgetown University · Washington, DC · 2022
Center for security and emerging technology
$15.9M
Malaria Consortium · 2021
Seasonal malaria chemoprevention programs in mozambique
$15.8M
Georgetown University · Washington, DC · 2021
Center for security and emerging technology
$13.5M
Malaria Consortium · 2021
Seasonal malaria chemoprevention programs
$12.8M
International Rescue Committee · New York, NY · 2023
Malnutrition treatment project implementation and monitoring in africa
$11.8M
Horizon Institute for Public Service · Washington, DC · 2022
General support
$11.0M
Malaria Consortium · 2021
Seasonal malaria chemoprevention programs
$10.5M
Centre for Effective Altruism · Milton, DE · 2024
General support
$10.5M
The Rand Corporation · Santa Monica, CA · 2022
General support
$10.3M
The Accountability Board · Wakefield, MA · 2022
Corporate farm animal welfare and investor campaigns
$10.2M
The Regents of the University of California Davis · Davis, CA · 2021
Research to prevent transmission of the malaria parasite
$10.0M
Open Philanthropy Advisors · Palo Alto, CA · 2023
General support
$10.0M
The Rand Corporation · Santa Monica, CA · 2022
General support
$9.4M
Malaria Consortium · 2024
Campaign for insecticide-treated nets in nigeria
$9.0M
US Agency for International Development · Washington, DC · 2023
Development innovation ventures program
$9.0M
US Agency for International Development · Washington, DC · 2022
Development innovation ventures program
$9.0M
Nutrition International · 2021
Vitamin a supplementation
$8.9M
Malaria Consortium · 2021
Long-lasting insecticidal net ('llin') campaigns in nigeria
$8.9M
Open Road Impact · Fort Worth, TX · 2024
Zero-interest loans to orgs with outstanding funds owed to them by usaid under the div program
$8.3M
The University of Edinburgh · 2024
Centre for pesticide suicide prevention
$8.0M
University of Maryland College Park · College Park, MD · 2021
Crowdcasting project
$7.8M
Redwood Research Group · Berkeley, CA · 2021
General support
$7.7M
Ird Global Limited · 2023
Work on operations of the zindagi mehfooz platform
$7.3M
Effective Ventures Foundation · 2023
Community-building project
$7.1M
Helen Keller International · New York, NY · 2021
International work in vitamin a supplementation
$6.6M
80000 Hours Ltd · 2024
General support
$6.6M
Centre for Effective Altruism · 2021
Effective altruism infrastructure fund and long-term future fund
$6.5M
Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2021
Work on biosecurity, global health security and global catastrophic risks posed by pathogens
$6.4M
International Rescue Committee · New York, NY · 2021
Malnutrition treatment project implementation and monitoring in africa
$6.4M
Alpenglow Group Ltd · 2024
General support
$6.3M
International Rescue Committee · New York, NY · 2022
Malnutrition treatment project implementation and monitoring in africa
$6.0M
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2022
Research related to ai and computing trends and impacts
$5.9M
Effective Ventures Foundation · 2022
General support
$5.7M
Ird Global Limited · 2021
Work on operations of the zindagi mehfooz platform
$5.7M
Effective Ventures Foundation · 2022
Lease for coworking space
$5.6M
Ird Global Limited · 2022
Work on operations of the zindagi mehfooz platform
$5.5M
Effective Ventures Foundation · 2022
General support
$5.5M
The Rand Corporation · Santa Monica, CA · 2022
General support
$5.3M
Gdi-Solutions · Washington, DC · 2024
Global development incubator
$5.3M
Centre for Effective Altruism USA · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Lease for biosecurity coworking
$5.2M
Center for Ai Safety · San Francisco, CA · 2022
General support
$5.0M
The Rand Corporation · Santa Monica, CA · 2023
General support
$5.0M
The Good Food Institute · Washington, DC · 2022
General support
$5.0M
The Good Food Institute · Washington, DC · 2021
General support
$5.0M
Path · Seattle, WA · 2021
Malaria vaccine implementation programme in kenya, ghana and malawi
$4.9M
Centre for Effective Altruism USA · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Effective altruism infrastructure fund
$4.8M
Effective Ventures Foundation USA · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Ea infrastructure fund and long-term future fund
$4.7M
Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford · 2024
Gmp manufacture of blood stage vaccine antigens
$4.5M
Pattern Labs Tech · Wilmington, DE · 2023
Developing software tools, products and analysis focused on global security
$4.5M
Brigham and Women'S Hospital · Boston, MA · 2022
Development of methods for diagnosing diseases that affect the brain
$4.4M
Factor Philanthropy · Palo Alto, CA · 2023
Prevention of global catastrophic risks and ea community building
$4.4M
International AIDS Vaccine Initiative · New York, NY · 2024
Expansion of a trial for a novel tuberculosis vaccine
$4.3M
Eleanor Crook Foundation · San Marcos, TX · 2024
Cost-effective interventions to address malnutrition
$4.3M
Eleanor Crook Foundation · San Marcos, TX · 2023
Cost-effective interventions to address malnutrition
$4.3M
Eleanor Crook Foundation · San Marcos, TX · 2022
Cost-effective interventions to address malnutrition
$4.0M
Center for Ai Safety · San Francisco, CA · 2022
General support
$4.0M
Oregon Health & Science University Foundation · Portland, OR · 2022
Research on methods for producing human oocytes from somatic cells
$3.9M
Helen Keller International · New York, NY · 2023
Work in vitamin a supplementation
$3.9M
Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2022
Educational degree programs
$3.9M
Effective Ventures Foundation USA · San Francisco, CA · 2023
General support
$3.8M
Institut De Formulation Des Vaccins (Ch) Ltd · 2024
Development of affordable open-access gmp adjuvants
$3.7M
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2021
Research related to ai and computing trends and impacts
$3.7M
Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2024
The center for health security
$3.7M
Effective Ventures Foundation · 2022
Community-building project
$3.5M
Katholieke Universiteit Te Leuven · 2023
Research in influenza a virus polymerase inhibitors
$3.5M
Effective Ventures Foundation USA · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Support centre for effective altruism
$3.5M
Tara Climate Ltd · 2024
Accelerated coal phase out work
$3.5M
Open Road Impact · Fort Worth, TX · 2024
Development innovation ventures program
$3.4M
Bridges To Prosperity · Denver, CO · 2021
Bridge-building for ongoing randomized controlled trial in rwanda
$3.3M
Effective Ventures Foundation · 2023
Support centre for effective altruism
$3.3M
Anima · 2023
General support
$3.3M
International Vaccine Institute · 2023
Phase 2 clinical trial of a conjugate vaccine for cholera
$3.3M
University of Washington Foundation · Seattle, WA · 2021
Research on protein design and engineering
$3.3M
Blueprint Biosecurity · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$3.3M
Dezernat Zukunft Ev · 2021
Eu macro policy organization grants and general support
$3.2M
University of Washington Foundation · Seattle, WA · 2021
Research on development of nanoparticle vaccines
$3.1M
Compassion in World Farming International · 2024
Broiler chicken welfare and ending cages and crates
$3.1M
Centre for Effective Altruism USA · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Community-building project
$3.0M
Mats Research · Berkeley, CA · 2024
Ml alignment & theory scholars winter 24-25 cohort
$3.0M
The Clear Fund · Oakland, CA · 2023
Support evidence action's in-line chlorination program in india
$3.0M
Arc Research Institute · Palo Alto, CA · 2024
General support
$3.0M
Center for Responsible Innovation Ltd · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$3.0M
Dalhousie University · 2024
Investigate the composition of human colostrum
$3.0M
Arc Research Institute · Palo Alto, CA · 2023
General support
$3.0M
Tara Climate Ltd · 2023
Accelerated coal phase out work
$3.0M
Arc Research Institute · Palo Alto, CA · 2022
General support
$3.0M
Redwood Research Group · Berkeley, CA · 2022
Operations of a co-working space for professionals working on long-run future of humanity
$3.0M
Arc Research Institute · Palo Alto, CA · 2021
General support
$3.0M
Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research · Washington, DC · 2021
Reduce the global incidence of keel bone damage in layer hens
$3.0M
International Vaccine Institute · 2021
Clinical trial of vaccine against hepatitis e in pregnant women in pakistan
$3.0M
University of Connecticut Health Center · Farmington, CT · 2021
Formulation and assessment of a multivalent syphilis vaccine
$3.0M
Gates Philanthropy Partners · Seattle, WA · 2024
Work on tb vaccines, oral cholera vaccines and global education
$2.9M
Future House · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Test large language model agents' performance of biology r&d
$2.9M
Nigerian Institute of Medical Research · 2021
Immunogenicity trials of fractional sized doses of covid vaccines in nigeria
$2.8M
European Summer Program On Rationality Zs · 2021
General support

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Source: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, as filed by the foundation. These are grants already paid — a record of what this funder backs, not an open call.