Grants awarded
Who does Founders Pledge INC fund?
Founders Pledge INC has awarded $113 million across 388 grants to 291 grantees between 2020 and 2024. Its giving concentrates in science & technology. Its typical grant is $85,500, with most between $20,000 and $291,000. Repeat grantees receive a median $150,000 versus $50,000 for first-time grantees.
Total awarded
$112.6M
Typical grant
$86K
Grantees
291
Grants
388
Years
2020–2024
Organizations this funder supports
Each grantee's funding from this organization, summed across all reported years. Largest first — click any column to re-sort.
| Grantee | Total received | Grants | Years | Latest | State | Support |
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$9.8M | 2 | 2023–2024 | 2024 | MA | |
| C Clean Air Task Force (catf) | $6.0M | 3 | 2021–2023 | 2023 | — | — |
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$4.3M | 3 | 2020–2022 | 2022 | CA | |
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$4.2M | 3 | 2022–2024 | 2024 | CA | |
| F Founders Pledge Ltd | $3.2M | 1 | 2022 | 2022 | — | — |
| I Individual recipient | $3.2M | 3 | 2021–2023 | 2023 | — | — |
Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative
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$3.2M | 5 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | CA | |
| C Centre for Effective Altruism USA INC (cea) | $3.1M | 2 | 2021–2022 | 2022 | — | — |
National Philanthropic Trust
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$2.8M | 2 | 2021–2022 | 2022 | PA | |
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$2.5M | 1 | 2023 | 2023 | CA | |
Players Philanthropy Fund
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$2.5M | 4 | 2021–2024 | 2024 | MD | |
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$2.3M | 1 | 2023 | 2023 | IL | |
Far Ai INC
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$2.0M | 3 | 2022–2024 | 2024 | CA | |
Center for Artificial Intelligence Safety INC
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$2.0M | 2 | 2023–2024 | 2024 | CA | |
| C Center for Applied Rationality (cfar) | $1.9M | 1 | 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
| C Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence (chai) | $1.8M | 1 | 2021 | 2021 | — | — |
Machine Intelligence Research Institute INC
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$1.8M | 5 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | CA | |
Topos Institute
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$1.7M | 3 | 2021–2024 | 2024 | CA | |
Allfed Institute
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$1.7M | 2 | 2023–2024 | 2024 | CO | |
| M Manifold for Charity (aka Manifold Markets) | $1.6M | 2 | 2022–2023 | 2023 | — | — |
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$1.2M | 1 | 2022 | 2022 | CA | |
| T Terrapraxis INC | $1.1M | 3 | 2021–2023 | 2023 | MA | |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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$1.1M | 1 | 2023 | 2023 | MA | |
| C Centre for Effective Altruism USA INC | $1.1M | 1 | 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
Rethink Priorities
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$1.0M | 4 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | CA | |
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$1.0M | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | CA | |
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$1.0M | 1 | 2023 | 2023 | PA | |
| M Meridian Prime INC | $1.0M | 1 | 2023 | 2023 | CO | |
The Energy for Growth Hub INC
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$1.0M | 1 | 2023 | 2023 | DC | |
| F Founders for Good Ltd | $986K | 1 | 2021 | 2021 | — | — |
| A Alpenglow Group Limited | $970K | 1 | 2021 | 2021 | — | — |
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$944K | 2 | 2021–2022 | 2022 | VA | |
Securebio INC
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$890K | 2 | 2023–2024 | 2024 | MA | |
| D David Krueger's Research Group at the University of Cambridge | $880K | 1 | 2021 | 2021 | — | — |
| T The Community Foundation Serving Boulder County | $879K | 1 | 2021 | 2021 | — | — |
| F Founders Pledge Ltd (fpl) | $837K | 1 | 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
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$742K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | DE | |
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$726K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | DE | |
| C Center for Innovative Governance Research | $713K | 3 | 2021–2023 | 2023 | — | — |
Convergence Analysis
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$701K | 5 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | CA | |
| G Givewell | $690K | 4 | 2020–2023 | 2023 | — | — |
The Foundation for American Innovation
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$682K | 2 | 2023–2024 | 2024 | CA | |
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$647K | 1 | 2021 | 2021 | MA | |
Future of Life Institute
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$612K | 2 | 2020–2021 | 2021 | PA | |
Mats Research INC
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$584K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | CA | |
Opencollective Foundation
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$565K | 1 | 2023 | 2023 | CA | |
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$562K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | DE | |
Ought INC
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$542K | 1 | 2021 | 2021 | CA | |
Safe Artificial Intelligence Forum Institute
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$540K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | NY | |
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$540K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | MD | |
| A Ai Objectives Institute | $538K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | CA | |
Restoringvision
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$531K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | CA | |
Quantified Uncertainty Research Institute
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$521K | 2 | 2020–2022 | 2022 | CA | |
Effective Ventures Foundation USA INC
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$510K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | CA | |
| S Social & Environmental Entrepreneurs INC & Global Catastrophic Risk Institu | $507K | 2 | 2021–2023 | 2023 | — | — |
Edward Charles Foundation
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$500K | 1 | 2022 | 2022 | CA | |
| F Foresight Institute | $485K | 1 | 2021 | 2021 | — | — |
The Center for Election Science
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$483K | 2 | 2022–2023 | 2023 | CA | |
| L Legal Priorities Project | $483K | 3 | 2021–2023 | 2023 | — | — |
1day Sooner INC
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$475K | 2 | 2022–2023 | 2023 | DE | |
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs INC
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$462K | 2 | 2022–2024 | 2024 | CA | |
Lead Exposure Elimination Project INC
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$460K | 2 | 2023–2024 | 2024 | DC | |
| S Sangro INC | $455K | 1 | 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
| T The Pragmatism Foundation | $432K | 1 | 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
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$430K | 2 | 2022–2024 | 2024 | CA | |
National Academy of Sciences
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$429K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | DC | |
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$427K | 2 | 2022–2023 | 2023 | CA | |
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$426K | 2 | 2021–2023 | 2023 | CA | |
Basis Research Institute
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$422K | 2 | 2023–2024 | 2024 | NY | |
Family Empowerment Media INC
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$422K | 3 | 2022–2024 | 2024 | NY | |
Shining Hope for Communities INC
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$420K | 4 | 2021–2024 | 2024 | NY | |
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$361K | 2 | 2021–2022 | 2022 | NJ | |
| M Median Group | $348K | 2 | 2020–2022 | 2022 | — | — |
| U University of Toronto | $346K | 1 | 2022 | 2022 | — | — |
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$345K | 1 | 2022 | 2022 | VT | |
Brown University of Providence
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$326K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | RI | |
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors INC
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$320K | 2 | 2022–2023 | 2023 | NY | |
Convergent Research INC
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$316K | 2 | 2022–2024 | 2024 | MA | |
Artificial Intelligence Forecasting INC
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$315K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | CA | |
University of Wisconsin Foundation
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$309K | 1 | 2022 | 2022 | WI | |
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$306K | 2 | 2023–2024 | 2024 | DC | |
| I Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies INC | $304K | 1 | 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
Blueprint Biosecurity
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$297K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | DC | |
Center for Mindful Learning INC
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$295K | 1 | 2022 | 2022 | VT | |
Givedirectly INC
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$290K | 2 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | NY | |
Future Society INC
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$272K | 4 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | MA | |
The Hack Foundation
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$257K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | CA | |
Center for a New American Security INC
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$257K | 2 | 2023–2024 | 2024 | DC | |
| L Laboratory for Social Minds (cmu) | $255K | 2 | 2021–2022 | 2022 | — | — |
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$247K | 1 | 2021 | 2021 | PA | |
| T The Humane League (thl) | $245K | 1 | 2021 | 2021 | — | — |
| N Nuclear Threat Initiative (nti) | $231K | 3 | 2021–2023 | 2023 | — | — |
Clean Air Task Force INC
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$230K | 2 | 2020–2024 | 2024 | MA | |
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$216K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | WA | |
| P Parpa INC (dba Speculative Technologies) | $200K | 1 | 2022 | 2022 | — | — |
| C Constructive Dialogue Institute (cdi) | $196K | 1 | 2022 | 2022 | — | — |
Model Evaluation and Threat Research
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$184K | 1 | 2024 | 2024 | CA | |
| G Good Food Institute (gfi) | $181K | 1 | 2021 | 2021 | — | — |
| I Individual recipient | $176K | 1 | 2020 | 2020 | — | — |
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$172K | 1 | 2023 | 2023 | DC |
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