¶ Good Ventures
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The Good Ventures Foundation, branded simply as Good Ventures, is an American non-profit organization based in Palo Alto, California.[1]
¶ History
Good Ventures was founded in 2011 by Dustin Moskovitz and Cari Tuna.[2] Shortly following its founding, Good Ventures partnered with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and GiveWell to “work closely with other funders to support promising projects and learn how to give effectively.”[3]
¶ Activities
According to Good Ventures' grant database, early funding recipients include:[4]
- Against Malaria Foundation
- Alliance for Open Society International (AOSI)
- Brookings Institution
- Center for Global Development
- Cochrane Collaboration
- Drug Policy Alliance
- Evidence Action
- Freedom to Marry
- GiveDirectly
- GiveWell
- ImmigrationWorks Foundation
- Innovations for Poverty Action
- International Development Association
- KIPP Houston
- New Incentives
- Nyaya Health
- Pepperdine University
- Pew Charitable Trusts
- Population Services International (PSI)
- Pratham
- SCI Foundation
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation
- Small Enterprise Foundation
- SPUR
- Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society
- Startup Education
- Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation (TNDC)
- United States Cochrane Center (USCC)
- U.S. Association for International Migration (USAIM)
- Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA)
¶ Open Philanthropy
Following the formation of Open Philanthropy in August 2014, grants were awarded to:
- 80,000 Hours
- Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)
- Accountable Justice Project
- ACTAsia
- African Union Development Agency
- Against COVID-19
- Alliance for International Medical Action
- Alliance for Safety and Justice
- altLabs[5]
- Altruistic Technology Labs
- American Civil Liberties Association (ACLU)
- American Society for Microbiology
- Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security (ARLIS)
- Associated Students of the University of California (ASUC)
- Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA)
- Ayni Institute
- Berkeley Essential Risk Institute (BERI)
- Better Boulder
- Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense
- Black Strategy Fund
- Brigham and Women’s Hospital
- Cambridge Existential Risk Initiative
- Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Carnegie Mellon University
- CDC Foundation
- Center for a New American Security
- Center for American Progress (CAP)
- Center for Applied Rationality
- Center for Court Innovation
- Center for Effective Global Action
- Center for Election Science
- Center for Governance of AI
- Center for International Security and Cooperation
- Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity
- Center for Popular Democracy
- Center for Population-Level Bioethics
- Center for Security and Emerging Technology
- Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
- Center for Welfare Metrics
- Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
- Center on Poverty and Inequality
- Centre for Effective Altruism
- Charity Entrepreneurship
- Charity Science Health
- ClimateWorks Foundation
- Compassion in World Farming
- Correctional Association of New York
- Council on Energy, Environment, and Water
- Council on Strategic Risks
- Degrees Initiative (formerly the Solar Radiation Management Governance Institute)
- Debt Collective[6]
- Development Media International
- Economic Policy Institute
- Effective Altruism Debate Championship
- Effective Altruism Foundation
- Emmett Institute on Climate Change & the Environment
- The END Fund
- Engineers Without Borders USA
- Federation of American Scientists
- Flanders Institute of Biotechnology
- Florida State University Project on Accountable Justice (PAJ)
- Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment
- Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH)
- Founders Pledge
- Future of Humanity Institute
- Future of Life Institute
- Future of Research
- Genspace
- Georgetown Center for Global Health Science and Security
- Georgetown University
- Giving What We Can
- Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition
- Global Animal Partnership
- Global Commission on Governing Risks from Climate Overshoot
- Global Food Partners
- Global Health Security Network
- Global Priorities Institute
- Gryphon Scientific
- The Guardian
- Health Alliance for Violence Intervention
- Heffter Research Institute
- Helen Keller International
- Human Impact Partners
- Humane League
- Humane Society of the United States
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
- IDinsight
- Immune Observatory
- Institute for Protein Design
- Institute of the Black World
- International Genetically Engineered Medicine Foundation (iGEM)
- International Refugee Assistance Project
- International Vaccine Institute
- Iodine Global Network
- Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
- JustLeadershipUSA
- Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research
- KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme
- Life Sciences Research Foundation
- Living Goods
- Longview Philanthropy
- Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI)
- Malaria Consortium
- Massachusetts General Hospital
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- Mercy for Animals
- MIT Media Lab
- Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms
- Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies
- National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM)
- National Bureau of Economic Research
- New York University
- Nigerian Institute of Medical Research
- Niskanen Center
- Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI)
- Ordinary People Society
- Peterson Institute for International Economics
- Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH)
- Promise of Justice Initiative
- Protect the People
- RAND Corporation
- Rescuing Biomedical Research
- Research Institute of Industrial Economics
- Results for Development
- Rockefeller Archive Center
- Rockefeller University
- Royal Veterinary College
- Seattle for Everyone
- Sherlock Biosciences
- Sightline Institute
- Smart Growth America
- Smithsonian Institution
- Stanford Existential Risks Initiative
- Synthetic Neurobiology Group
- University Health Network
- University of British Columbia
- University of Montreal
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Southern California
- University of Toronto
- Urban Institute
- Vera Institute of Justice
- Vital Strategies
- Voice of the Experienced (VOTE)
- Waitlist Zero
- World Economic Forum (WEF)
- World Organisation for Animal Health
- Yale School of Medicine
¶ External links
Good Ventures Foundation - Nonprofit Explorer. ProPublica. Retrieved December 8, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20221208201618/https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/461008520 ↩︎
Weissman, L. (2015, January 2). Silicon Valley Billionaire Dustin Moskovitz And Cari Tuna On the Reasoned Art Of Giving. Jewish Business News. http://archive.today/2015.04.09-125404/http://jewishbusinessnews.com/2015/01/02/silicon-valley-billionaire-dustin-moskovitz-and-cari-tuna-on-the-reasoned-art-of-giving/ ↩︎
Partners. Good Ventures. Retrieved March 15, 2013, from https://web.archive.org/web/20130315053714/http://www.goodventures.org/about-us/partners ↩︎
Grants Database. Good Ventures. Retrieved December 9, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20221209002150/https://www.goodventures.org/our-portfolio/grants-database?orderby=cf_grants_date&sort=asc ↩︎
Swett, J. (2021). Return of Organization Exempt From Income Tax (p. 22). altLabs. https://web.archive.org/web/20230116033559/https://altlabs.tech/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/altLabs-2020-Form-990-FINAL.pdf ↩︎
Debt Collective — Criminal Justice Reform Work. (2019, December). Good Ventures. https://web.archive.org/web/20210920152336/https://www.goodventures.org/our-portfolio/grants/debt-collective-criminal-justice-reform-work ↩︎