| Grant to "support Longview’s independent grantmaking on global priorities research, nuclear weapons policy, and other longtermist issues." | Longview Philanthropy | $15M | Feb 2022 | |
| Grant for "general support for their activities, including running conferences, supporting student groups, and maintaining online resources." | Centre for Effective Altruism | $14M | Mar 2022 | |
| Grant to "support Helix Nano running preclinical and Phase 1 trials of a pan-variant Covid-19 vaccine." | HelixNano | $10M | Jan 2022 | |
| Grant to "support scholarships for talented and promising high school students to use towards educational opportunities and enrolling in a summer program." | The Atlas Fellowship | $5M | Jan 2022 | |
| Investment in AVECRIS’s "Project DOOR to support the development of a next generation genetic vaccine platform that aims to allow for highly distributed vaccine production using AVECRIS’s advanced DNA vector delivery technology." | AVECRIS | $4M | May 2022 | |
| Grant to "support the development of universal CRISPR-based diagnostics, including paper-based diagnostics that can be used in developing-country settings without electricity." | Sherlock Biosciences | $2M | Feb 2022 | |
| Grant to "support Lightcone’s ongoing projects including running the LessWrong forum, hosting conferences and events, and maintaining an office space for Effective Altruist organizations." | Lightcone Infrastructure | $2M | Feb 2022 | |
| Grant to "support Prof. Levine, as well as students and collaborators, to work on alignment theory research at the Cornell math department." | Cornell University | $2M | Apr 2022 | |
| The grant description states: "We recommended a grant to support the hiring of several key staff for Dr. Kevin Esvelt’s pandemic prevention work. SecureBio is working to implement universal DNA synthesis screening, build a reliable early warning system, and coordinate the development of improved personal protective equipment and its delivery to essential workers when needed." | | $1M | Mar 2022 | |
| Grant to "support work on technology for delivering mRNA vaccines without lipid nanoparticles with the aim of making vaccines more safe, affordable, and scalable." | Piezo Therapeutics | $1M | May 2022 | |
| Grant to "support outreach to help students to learn about career options, develop their skills, and plan their careers to work on the world’s most pressing problems." | Non Trivial Pursuits | $1M | May 2022 | |
| Investment to "support development of statistical models and software tools that can automate parts of the regulatory process for complex clinical trials." | Confirm Solutions | $1M | May 2022 | |
| Grant to "support prizes for outstanding writing which encourages a broader public conversation around effective altruism and longtermism." | Effective Ideas Blog Prize | $900K | Jan 2022 | |
| Grant to "support SI’s policy work with the United Nations system on the prevention of existential risks to humanity." | Simon Institute For Longterm Governance | $820K | Apr 2022 | |
| Grant to "support a project to develop interactive AI algorithms for alignment that can uncover the causal features in human reward systems, and thereby help AI systems learn underlying human values that generalize to new situations." | University Of California, Berkeley | $800K | May 2022 | |
| Grant to "support one year of operating expenses and salaries at the Legal Priorities Project, a longtermist legal research and field-building organization." | Legal Priorities Project | $700K | Jun 2022 | |
| Grant to "support Giving What We Can’s mission to create a world in which giving effectively and significantly is a cultural norm." | Giving What We Can | $700K | May 2022 | |
| Grant to "support Rethink’s research and projects aimed at improving humanity’s long-term prospects." Rethink Priorities also does non-human-centric work (such as research into animal welfare) and more neartermist work, and the grant seems limited to the longtermist work. | Rethink Priorities | $700K | Mar 2022 | |
| Grant to "support the creation of a pilot version of a forecasting platform, and a paid forecasting team, to make predictions about questions relevant to high-impact research." | Sage | $700K | May 2022 | |
| Grant to "support a project to study how large language models integrated with offline reinforcement learning pose a risk of machine deception and persuasion." | University Of California, Berkeley | $600K | Jun 2022 | |
| Grant to "support a project to develop a new material -- an ultra-thin polymer-based thin film -- for use in next-generation Personal Protective Equipment which is both more effective and more comfortable." | Virginia Tech | $500K | May 2022 | |
| Grant to "support two years of academic research on long-term economic growth." | Brown University | $500K | Jan 2022 | |
| Grant to "support Manifold Markets in building a charity prediction market, as an experiment for enabling effective forecasters to direct altruistic donations." | Manifold (Prediction Market) | $500K | May 2022 | |
| Grant to "support research that we hope will be used to help strengthen the bioweapons convention and guide proactive actions to better secure those facilities or stop the dangerous work being done there." | MITRE | $485K | May 2022 | |
| Grant to "support the Institute’s research and policy engagement work on high skilled immigration, biosecurity, and pandemic prevention." | Institute For Progress | $480K | May 2022 | |
| Grant to "support the Legal Priorities Project’s ongoing research and outreach activities. This will allow LPP to pay two new hires and to put on a summer institute for non-US law students in Oxford." | Legal Priorities Project | $480K | Apr 2022 | |
| Grant to "support the incubation of new charities that will work on health security." | Charity Entrepreneurship | $470K | May 2022 | |
| The grant description says: "We recommended a grant to support a project which will develop and advance ideas for strengthening regional and multilateral cooperation for addressing biological risks and filling gaps in current international institutions. These efforts include promoting the creation of a center with the capacity to rapidly respond to emerging infectious disease threats to prioritize blunting the impact of such events as well as quickly saving lives, and cooperative mechanisms to e | Council on Strategic Risks | $400K | May 2022 | |
| Grant to "support the creation of animated videos on topics related to rationality and effective altruism to explain these topics for a broader audience." | Rational Animations | $400K | May 2022 | |
| Grant to "support a postdoc and two research assistants for Professor Braumoeller’s MESO Lab for two years to carry out research on international orders and how they affect the probability of war." | Ohio State University | $388K | Apr 2022 | |
| Grant to "support research on how to fine-tune GPT-3 models to identify flaws in other fine-tuned language models' arguments for the correctness of their outputs, and to test whether these help nonexpert humans successfully judge such arguments." | University Of Cambridge | $380K | May 2022 | |
| Grant to "support 1DS’ work on pandemic preparedness, including advocacy for advance market purchase commitments, collaboration with the UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator on challenge studies, and advocacy with 1Day Africa and the West African Health Organization for a global pandemic insurance fund." | 1Day Sooner | $350K | Jun 2022 | |
| Grant to "support HIA’s work encouraging professional athletes to donate more of their earnings to high impact charities and causes, and to promote a culture of giving among their fans." | High Impact Athletes | $350K | Apr 2022 | |
| Grant to "support Global Guessing’s forecasting coverage on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which they will also use to build tools and infrastructure to support future forecasting work." | Global Guessing | $336K | May 2022 | |
| Grant to "support HIP’s work recruiting EA working professionals to use more of their resources, including their careers, to focus on the world’s most pressing problems." | High Impact Professionals | $320K | May 2022 | |
| Grant to "support ALTER, an academic research and advocacy organization, which hopes to investigate, demonstrate, and foster useful ways to improve the future in the short term, and to safeguard and improve the long-term trajectory of humanity. The organization's initial focus is building bridges to academia via conferences and grants to find researchers who can focus on AI safety, and on policy for reducing biorisk." | Association For Long Term Existence And Resilience | $320K | May 2022 | |
| Grant to "support the completion of a book which explores the nature of human values and the implications for aligning AI with human preferences." | Brian Christian | $300K | May 2022 | |
| The grant description says: "We recommended a grant to support the development of statewide ballot initiatives to institute approval voting. Approval voting is a simple voting method reform that lets voters select all the candidates they wish." | The Center For Election Science | $300K | Mar 2022 | |
| Grant to "support a Good Judgment initiative to produce forecasts on 10 Our World in Data data sets/charts." | Good Judgment (Forecasting) | $300K | May 2022 | |
| Grant to "partially support the salaries for AI Safety Camp’s two directors and to support logistical expenses at its physical camp." | AI Safety Camp | $290K | Jun 2022 | |
| Grant to "support research on value alignment in AI systems, practical algorithms for efficient value alignment verification, and user studies and experiments to test these algorithms." | University Of Utah | $280K | May 2022 | |
| Grant to "support a project to develop new plastic surfaces incorporating molecules that can be activated with low-energy visible light to eradicate bacteria and kill viruses continuously." | University Of Ottawa | $250K | Mar 2022 | |
| Grant to "support Apollo’s work aggregating the views of academic experts in many different fields and making them freely available online." | Apollo Academic Surveys | $250K | May 2022 | |
| Grant to "support the maintenance of a library of high-quality audio content on the world’s most pressing problems, and a fund to provide productivity-enhancing equipment and support staff for people working on important social issues." | Nonlinear | $250K | Apr 2022 | |
| Grant to "support the identification and implementation of promising confidence-building measures to reduce conflict between India and Pakistan." | Stimson South Asia Program | $250K | Apr 2022 | |
| Grant to "support a project aimed at training large language models to represent the probability distribution over question answers in a prediction market." | Peter Hrosso | $230K | May 2022 | |
| Grant "for general funding for community building and managing the talent pipeline for AI alignment researchers. AI Safety Support’s work includes one-on-one coaching, events, and research training programs." | AI Safety Support | $200K | May 2022 | |
| Investment to "build a communication platform that provably leaks zero metadata." | Anysphere | $200K | May 2022 | |
| Grant to "support the identification of children in India from under-resourced areas who excel in math, science, and technology, and enable them to obtain high quality online education by digitally connecting them with mentors and teachers." | Rajalakshmi Children Foundation | $200K | May 2022 | |
| Grant to "allow a reputable technology publication to engage 2-5 undergraduate student interns to write about topics including AI safety, alternative proteins, and biosecurity." See https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/qoB8MHe94kCEZyswd/i-want-future-perfect-but-for-science-publications for the grantee's original vision. | James Lin | $190K | May 2022 | |
| Grant to "support the creation of a website for collaboratively creating public forecasting questions for a range of prediction aggregators and markets." | Nathan Young | $182K | Jun 2022 | |
| Grant to "Cecil Abungu, Visiting Researcher at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk and Research Affiliate at the Legal Priorities Project, to support the writing and publication of a book on longtermist currents in historical African thought." | Cecil Abungu | $160K | May 2022 | |
| Grant to "support research on the feasibility of inactivating viruses via electromagnetic radiation." | Justin Mares | $140K | May 2022 | |
| Grant to "support EffiSciences’s work promoting high impact research on global priorities (e.g. AI safety, biosecurity, and climate change) among French students and academics, and building up a community of people willing to work on important topics." | EffiSciences | $135K | Apr 2022 | |
| Grant to "support the creation of biosecurity policy priorities via conversations with experts in security, technology, policy, and advocacy. It will develop position papers, research papers, and agendas for the biosecurity community." | Institute For Progress | $135K | May 2022 | |
| Grant to "support the production of high quality materials for learning about AI safety work." | Siddharth Hiregowdara | $100K | Mar 2022 | |
| Grant to "support the work of a PhD student [Claudia Shi] working on AI safety at Columbia University." | Columbia University | $100K | Apr 2022 | |
| Grant to "support a competition for work on Eliciting Latent Knowledge, an open problem in AI alignment, for talented high school and college students who are participating in Prometheus Science Bowl." | Prometheus Science Bowl | $100K | May 2022 | |
| Grant to "support BERI in hiring a second core operations employee to contribute to BERI’s work supporting university research groups." | Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative | $100K | Mar 2022 | |
| Grant to "support two years of research on the impacts of disruptive space technologies, nuclear risk, and mitigating risks from future space-based weapons." | Konstantinos Konstantinidis | $85K | May 2022 | |
| Grant to "support Pathos Labs to produce a PopShift convening connecting experts on the future of technology and existential risks with television writers to inspire new ideas for their shows." | Pathos Labs | $50K | Jan 2022 | |
| Grant to "support [Maxwell Tabarrok] to spend a summer at the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University researching differential tech development and the connection between existential risks to humanity and economic growth." | Maxwell Tabarrok | $8K | May 2022 | |