Rethink Priorities
Safety OrgRethink Priorities is a research organization founded in 2018 that grew from 2 to ~130 people by 2022, conducting evidence-based analysis across animal welfare, global health, and AI governance. The organization reported influencing >$10M in grants by 2023 but acknowledges significant failures in im
Funding Received
$20M
53 grants
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Funding Received
53Total tracked: $20M
| Grant | Funder | Amount | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rethink Priorities — Farm Animal Welfare Research Support (2023)source | Coefficient Giving | $3.3 million | 2024-01 |
| Rethink Priorities — AI Governance Research (2022)source | Coefficient Giving | $2.7 million | 2022-03 |
| Rethink Priorities — General Support (2024)source | Coefficient Giving | $2.1 million | 2024-01 |
| Rethink Priorities — Farm Animal Welfare Research (2021)source | Coefficient Giving | $2 million | 2021-09 |
| Rethink Priorities — Global Health & Development Team Supportsource | Coefficient Giving | $1.5 million | 2025-03 |
| Rethink Priorities — Farm Animal Welfare Research (2020)source | Coefficient Giving | $910,000 | 2020-01 |
| 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.source | FTX Future Fund | $700,000 | 2022-03 |
| Rethink Priorities — Global Health and Wellbeing Research (2022)source | Coefficient Giving | $690,000 | 2022-12 |
| Rethink Priorities — General and Research Support (2023)source | Coefficient Giving | $670,000 | 2023-11 |
| Rethink Priorities — AI Governance Research (2021)source | Coefficient Giving | $612,185 | 2021-07 |
| Rethink Priorities — Animal Welfare Researchsource | Coefficient Giving | $468,004 | 2022-09 |
| Rethink Priorities — Global Health and Wellbeing Cause Researchsource | Coefficient Giving | $418,500 | 2021-04 |
| Rethink Priorities — Moral Patienthood and Moral Weight Researchsource | Coefficient Giving | $315,500 | 2021-03 |
| General Supportsource | Centre for Effective Altruism | $309,100 | 2021-01 |
| Rethink Priorities — AI Governance Workshopsource | Coefficient Giving | $302,390 | 2023-04 |
| Support annual salaries of max 9 employees (6 FTE) and other expenses to advance invertebrate and wild animal researchsource | Centre for Effective Altruism | $295,600 | 2023-04 |
| Rethink Priorities — Animal Welfare Field-Buildingsource | Coefficient Giving | $268,684 | 2023-02 |
| Costs for several projects to identify likely impactful, tractable interventions for wild animals & begin implementationsource | Centre for Effective Altruism | $253,388 | 2024-01 |
| Wild animal welfare and invertebrate welfare researchsource | Centre for Effective Altruism | $250,000 | 2022-01 |
| Compensation for 7 research interns across various EA causes, plus support for further EA movement strategy researchsource | Centre for Effective Altruism | $248,300 | 2021-01 |
| Rethink Priorities — Farm Animal Welfare Researchsource | Coefficient Giving | $200,000 | 2019-03 |
| Rethink Priorities — AI Governance Research (2023)source | Coefficient Giving | $154,810 | 2023-04 |
| Grant to Rethink Prioritiessource | Survival and Flourishing Fund | $150,000 | 2022-01 |
| Rethink Priorities — Research Assistant and Expensessource | Coefficient Giving | $120,000 | 2022-07 |
| Rethink Priorities — Research on LLM Usesource | Coefficient Giving | $115,887 | 2024-04 |
| Empowering Rethink Priorities to strengthen EA's public image through strategic media engagement and audience growthsource | Centre for Effective Altruism | $106,653 | 2025-01 |
| Grant to Rethink Prioritiessource | Survival and Flourishing Fund | $99,000 | 2024 |
| Rethink Priorities — Effective Altruism Brand Strategy Researchsource | Coefficient Giving | $88,240 | 2024-04 |
| Prioritization and research into animal welfare interventionssource | Centre for Effective Altruism | $85,000 | 2018-04 |
| A 3-day forum to connect, coordinate, and strategize for the EAA movementsource | Centre for Effective Altruism | $85,000 | 2022-10 |
| General Supportsource | Centre for Effective Altruism | $80,000 | 2020-07 |
| Research into animal welfare interventionssource | Centre for Effective Altruism | $80,000 | 2019-01 |
| Prioritization and research into animal welfare interventionssource | Centre for Effective Altruism | $75,000 | 2018-10 |
| Fund 2 FTE of longtermism-focused researchers for 1 year to do policy/security, forecasting, & message testing researchsource | Long-Term Future Fund (LTFF) | $70,000 | 2021-01 |
| Developing an actionable model for guiding EA resource allocation between movement-building and direct impactsource | Centre for Effective Altruism | $66,789 | 2024-10 |
| Empirically determine diets for farmed adult Black Soldier Flies that maximize welfare and guide industry best practicessource | Centre for Effective Altruism | $64,000 | 2022-07 |
| Yearly salary for weekly written summaries of the top EA and LW forum posts, and a human-narrated podcast for the former.source | Centre for Effective Altruism | $57,238 | 2022 |
| General Supportsource | Survival and Flourishing Fund | $57,000 | 2020-07 |
| A 3-day Animal Advocacy Strategy Forum for movement leaders and key decision makerssource | Centre for Effective Altruism | $55,000 | 2024-10 |
| Survey team of up to 7 researchers, 3 summer research fellows, productivity stipends and equipment for 50 staff memberssource | Centre for Effective Altruism | $51,200 | 2022-07 |
| Conduct a survey (and potentially interviews) with people who bounced off or dropped out of EAsource | Centre for Effective Altruism | $50,000 | 2024-10 |
| Rethink Priorities — Fish Welfare Conferencesource | Coefficient Giving | $42,054 | 2024-12 |
| A 3-day Animal Advocacy Strategy Forum (AASF) for movement leaders and key decision makerssource | Centre for Effective Altruism | $40,364 | 2024-01 |
| Rethink Priorities — Dimensions of Welfare Workshopsource | Coefficient Giving | $40,000 | 2022-06 |
| Rethink Priorities — Strategy Workshop (2023)source | Coefficient Giving | $35,000 | 2023-09 |
| Rethink Priorities — Strategy Workshop (2024)source | Coefficient Giving | $19,354 | 2024-09 |
| Rethink Priorities — Moral Weight Book Rightssource | Coefficient Giving | $15,000 | 2023-02 |
| Staff costs to run, analyze and report on a followup to the 2022 EA Survey in 2023source | Centre for Effective Altruism | $15,000 | 2023-10 |
| Additional funding to cover costs of hiring research interns and visiting fellowssource | Centre for Effective Altruism | $14,228 | 2021-07 |
| Apply cost-effectiveness frameworks to uncertain domains, interventions aimed at animals welfare and understanding EA movement growthsource | Centre for Effective Altruism | $10,000 | 2019-01 |
| Staff time to publish our backlog of reports and improve research dissemination within ~3 months of receiving fundssource | Centre for Effective Altruism | $10,000 | 2023-10 |
| Staff costs to cover a survey of talent needs in the effective altruism landscapesource | Centre for Effective Altruism | $9,000 | 2023-07 |
| Animal Advocacy Strategy Forumsource | Manifund | $2,942 | 2024-08-21 |