Funding search · EIN 471988398 · Grantmaking charity · San Francisco, CA

Effective Ventures Foundation USA

$50.7M
in grants paid: 265
grants: 175
recipients: 2021–2024
filing years

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.

Recent grants

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

$2.7M
Giving What We Can USA · Newark, DE · 2024
General nonprofit support
$733,080
The Clear Fund Dba Givewill · Oakland, CA · 2024
General nonprofit support
$708,463
Players Philanthropy Fund · Towson, MD · 2024
General nonprofit support
$531,280
Wild Animal Initiative · Minneapolis, MN · 2024
General nonprofit support
$502,950
Rethink Priorities · San Francisco, CA · 2024
General nonprofit support
$328,083
Effective Altruism Dc · Washington, DC · 2024
General nonprofit support
$324,068
The Good Food Institute · Arlington, VA · 2024
General nonprofit support
$291,000
International Council for Animal Welfare · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
General nonprofit support
$267,427
The Humane League US · Redondo Beach, CA · 2024
General nonprofit support
$200,000
Project Innerspace · Boston, MA · 2024
General nonprofit support
$196,889
Resolve To Save Lives · Alexandria, VA · 2024
General nonprofit support
$196,240
Far Ai · San Diego, CA · 2024
General nonprofit support
$153,536
Effective Altruism Nyc · New York, NY · 2024
Effective altruism community building
$148,019
Animal Charity Evaluators · Covina, CA · 2024
General nonprofit support
$137,000
Humane America Animal Foundation · Claremont, CA · 2024
General nonprofit support
$133,000
Animal & Vegan Advocacy International · Washington, DC · 2024
General nonprofit support
$130,000
Aquatic Life Institute · Mamaroneck, NY · 2024
General nonprofit support
$116,999
The Center for Responsible Seafood · Portsmouth, NH · 2024
General nonprofit support
$115,000
American University · Washington, DC · 2024
General nonprofit support
$109,802
Ashgro · Wilmington, DE · 2024
General nonprofit support
$108,000
Ardmore Ahimsa Initiative · Durham, NC · 2024
General nonprofit support
$102,499
Arthropoda Foundation · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
General nonprofit support
$100,000
Animal Pain Research Institute · Wilmington, DE · 2024
General nonprofit support
$96,000
Idinsight · San Francisco, CA · 2024
General nonprofit support
$88,014
Givedirectly · New York, NY · 2024
General nonprofit support
$84,999
Legal Impact for Chickens · Sacramento, CA · 2024
General nonprofit support
$72,100
Anti Entropy · Houston, TX · 2024
General nonprofit support
$66,699
Safeguarding Our Future · Washington, DC · 2024
Reducing existential risks
$50,000
Charity Navigator · Saddle Brook, NJ · 2024
General nonprofit support
$50,000
The University of Texas at Austin · Austin, TX · 2024
Research on ai safety
$40,710
The Unjournal · Camden, DE · 2024
General nonprofit support
$37,884
Against Malaria Foundation · Kansas City, MO · 2024
General nonprofit support
$37,872
Georgetown University · Washington, DC · 2024
General nonprofit support
$35,400
Good Energy Collective · Sacramento, CA · 2024
General nonprofit support
$29,500
Civics Unplugged · New York, NY · 2024
General nonprofit support
$25,900
Strategies for Ethical and Environmental Development · Albany, NY · 2024
General nonprofit support
$19,249
New Market Esg Benefit Company · Rockville, MD · 2024
Education on animal welfare
$15,849
High Impact Athletes · Salisbury, CT · 2024
General nonprofit support
$15,537
Helen Keller International · New York, NY · 2024
General nonprofit support
$15,006
The Nuclear Threat Initiative · Washington, DC · 2024
General nonprofit support
$12,315
Clean Air Task Force · Boston, MA · 2024
General nonprofit support
$10,215
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs · Calabasas, CA · 2024
General nonprofit support
$9,097
New Incentives · Covina, CA · 2024
General nonprofit support
$8,772
The End Fund · New York, NY · 2024
General nonprofit support
$6,179
The Center for Health Security at Johns Hopkins · Baltimore, MD · 2024
General nonprofit support
$6,169
The Life You Can Save · Novato, CA · 2024
General nonprofit support
$6,142
Effective Altruism at UCLA · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Effective altruism community building
$5,212
Lead Exposure Elimination Project · Chicago, IL · 2024
General nonprofit support
$1.3M
Givewell · Oakland, CA · 2023
General nonprofit support
$838,000
Path · Seattle, WA · 2023
Improving global health and wellbeing
$835,580
Rethink Priorities · San Francisco, CA · 2023
General nonprofit support
$658,705
Ashgro · Wilmington, DE · 2023
Research and collaboration on ai alignment
$475,477
Clean Air Task Force · Boston, MA · 2023
Environment and climate change
$377,734
Animal Charity Evaluators · Covina, CA · 2023
Improving animal welfare
$350,573
Effective Altruism Dc · Washington, DC · 2023
Effective altruism community building
$334,831
Against Malaria Foundation · Kansas City, MO · 2023
Improving global health and wellbeing
$300,000
Tides Foundation · Cincinnati, OH · 2023
General nonprofit support
$290,923
Givedirectly · New York, NY · 2023
Improving global health and wellbeing
$290,200
Players Philanthropy Fund · Towson, MD · 2023
General nonprofit support
$261,998
The Humane League · Redondo Beach, CA · 2023
Improving animal welfare
$258,676
Good Energy Collective · Sacramento, CA · 2023
Reducing existential risks
$180,000
Aquatic Life Institute · Mamaroneck, NY · 2023
Animal welfare community building
$180,000
Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2023
General nonprofit support
$161,000
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace · Washington, DC · 2023
Reducing existential risks
$152,849
Good Food Institute · Arlington, VA · 2023
Improving animal welfare
$148,856
Evidence Action · Washington, DC · 2023
Improving global health and wellbeing
$102,586
Effective Altruism Nyc · New York, NY · 2023
Effective altruism community building
$101,136
Strongminds · Maplewood, NJ · 2023
Improving global health and wellbeing
$100,000
Alignment Research Center · Walnut, CA · 2023
Research on ai safety
$98,000
Palisade Research · Dover, DE · 2023
Research on the impacts of ai
$95,000
Regents of the University of California Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2023
Research on reducing existential risks
$90,140
Allied Scholars for Animal Protection · Austin, TX · 2023
Animal welfare community building
$85,000
Legal Impact for Chickens · Sacramento, CA · 2023
Reducing animal suffering
$80,129
Ori Community and Evaluation Services · Springfield, OR · 2023
Reducing existential risks
$79,668
University of Wisconsin-Madison · Madison, WI · 2023
Research on improving animal welfare
$74,952
Wild Animal Initiative · Minneapolis, MN · 2023
Improving animal welfare
$71,696
Helen Keller International · New York, NY · 2023
Improving global health and wellbeing
$70,000
Center for New American Security · Washington, DC · 2023
Reducing existential risks
$70,000
Innovate Animal Ag · Sacramento, CA · 2023
Improving animal welfare
$70,000
University of California Berkeley Foundation · Berkeley, CA · 2023
Research on ai safety
$57,620
New Incentives · Covina, CA · 2023
Improving global health and wellbeing
$54,507
Evergreen Collaborative · Seattle, WA · 2023
Environment and climate change
$50,000
Let'S Breakthrough · Jackson Heights, NY · 2023
Improving global health and wellbeing
$50,000
Animal & Vegan Advocacy International · Washington, DC · 2023
Conference on animal welfare
$50,000
Blueprint Biosecurity · Washington, DC · 2023
Improving global health and wellbeing
$50,000
Global Food Partners · Washington, DC · 2023
Improving the welfare of caged animals
$50,000
Infinitum Llc · Fairfax, VA · 2023
Research on reducing existential risks
$50,000
Institute of Animal Law of Asia · Portland, OR · 2023
Conference on animal welfare
$50,000
Scarlet Spark · Bangor, PA · 2023
Animal welfare community building
$50,000
University of Massachusetts Amherst · Amherst, MA · 2023
Research and collaboration on ai alignment
$40,000
Safeguarding Our Future · Phoenix, AZ · 2023
Research and collaboration on reducing existential risks
$40,000
Far Ai · San Diego, CA · 2023
Research on ai safety
$36,255
Lead Exposure Elimination Project · Chicago, IL · 2023
Improving global health and wellbeing
$30,000
Dc Voters for Animals Education Fund · Washington, DC · 2023
Improving animal welfare
$28,670
Faunalytics · San Diego, CA · 2023
Improving animal welfare
$28,019
Fish Welfare Initiative · Normal, IL · 2023
Reducing animal suffering
$27,913
Terrapraxis · Cambridge, MA · 2023
Environment and climate change
$26,078
Federation of American Scientists · Washington, DC · 2023
Reducing existential risks
$25,800
Founders Pledge · New York, NY · 2023
Promoting effective charitable giving
$25,000
Magnify Mentoring · Washington, DC · 2023
General nonprofit support

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Source: IRS Form 990, Schedule I, as filed by this organization. These are grants already paid. Unlike private foundations, grantmaking charities and associations often run formal grant programs with real application cycles — check their website for current opportunities. Grants paid directly to individuals are reported to the IRS only as totals, so they do not appear as named lines here.