¶ Open Philanthropy
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Open Philanthropy (previously the Open Philanthropy Project) is an American non-profit grantmaking organization based in San Francisco, California. It was co-founded by Dustin Moskovitz, Cari Tuna and Holden Karnofsky.
It provides recommendations for grants which are paid for by the Good Ventures Foundation.
¶ History
In December 2017, Open Philanthropy issued a $598,600 grant to the Center for Election Science, with William MacAskill named as “external investigator.”[1]
¶ Pandemic wargames
Open Philanthropy funded a series of pandemic preparedness exercises in the years leading up to the declaration of the COVID-19 pandemic.
One such exercise was Clade X, simulating efforts to counter a fast-moving and deadly epidemic released on purpose by a terrorist group consisting of scientists and their rich backers wanting to reduce overpopulation. The event took place on May 15, 2018 at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Washington, DC.[2] Another was A Spreading Plague, which took place on February 14, 2019 in Munich, Germany.[3]
In April 2019, Open Philanthropy recommended a general-support grant of approximately $2.1 million over two years to the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI).[4]
Finally, Open Philanthropy provided funding for Event 201, a tabletop exercise simulating "an outbreak of a novel zoonotic coronavirus" leading to a global pandemic. The event took place in New York City on October 18, 2019, and was co-hosted by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and the World Economic Forum (WEF).[5]
¶ COVID-19
In March 2020, “Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $250,000 to the Center for Global Development to support work led by Jeremy Konyndyk on developing COVID-19 response guidelines and decision support tools to disseminate to local leaders. The guidelines and tools are intended to help local leaders take appropriate measures to limit the spread of the virus.”[6]
In April 2020, Open Philanthropy supplemented the Machine Intelligence Research Institute with a $7.7M grant over two years.[7][8]
In May 2020, Open Philanthropy awarded Gryphon Scientific a $2,000,000 grant over three years “to support the generation of empirical data to fill critical gaps in biosafety,” and to “analyze lab safety measures, with the aim of reducing the probability of catastrophic accidents.”[9]
Open Philanthropy funded a tabletop exercise in March 2021 simulating a pandemic outbreak of a weaponized strain of monkeypox.[10]
Open Philanthropy sponsored the 2021 International Genetically Engineered Machine conference, which took place from November 4-14, 2021.[11]
¶ Organization
Open Philanthropy is a member of the Global Funders Consortium for Universal Influenza Vaccine Development.[12]
¶ Personnel
| Name | Position | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Nick Beckstead | Program officer (former)[13] | FTX Foundation, Future of Humanity Institute, Future Fund, Centre for Effective Altruism |
| Chloe Cockburn | Criminal justice program officer[14] | Bia-Echo Foundation |
| Andrew Snyder-Beattie | Program officer[15] | Future of Humanity Institute, Longview Philanthropy |
¶ Activities
Open Philanthropy has recommended grant funding to:[16]
- 1 Day Sooner
- 221B Foundation
- 80,000 Hours[17]
- A New Way of Life
- Accelerating Health Technologies (AHT)
- Against COVID-19
- altLabs[18]
- Alvea[19]
- Amistad Law Project
- Andrew Szanton
- Animal Charity Evaluators[20][21]
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
- Binx Health
- Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense[22]
- Black Strategy Fund
- BlueDot Impact[23]
- Botswana-Harvard AIDS Institute Partnership
- Broad Institute
- Brown Institute for Media Innovation
- CDC Foundation[24]
- Center for a New American Security
- Center for Election Science (CES)[25][1:1]
- Center for Global Development (CGD)[6:1]
- Center for Population-Level Bioethics
- Charak Foundation
- Council on Strategic Risks[26]
- Court Watch NOLA
- Debt Collective[27]
- Direct Relief
- Duke University
- Engineers Without Borders USA
- Evidence Action[28]
- Families Against Mandatory Minimums
- Frontline Dads
- Future of Humanity Institute[29]
- Future of Life Institute[30]
- Global Immunological Observatory
- Good Forever Foundation
- Good Judgment
- Gryphon Scientific[9:1]
- Harvard University
- Hypermind
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
- Icosavax
- Immune Observatory
- JusticeLA
- Larissa Schiavo
- Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
- Longview Philanthropy[31]
- Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI)[7:1]
- National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls
- New Incentives[32]
- Nigerian Institute of Medical Research
- Non-Trivial[33]
- Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI)
- Public Policy and Education Fund of New York
- Rachel Shu
- Riboscience
- Riverside Justice Table
- Sea-Long Medical Systems
- Schepens Eye Research Institute
- Sightline Institute
- Soroka Medical Center
- Stanford University
- University Health Network (UHN)
- University of California, Berkeley
- University of California, Davis
- University of Colorado
- University of Michigan
- University of Washington
- Washington Center for Equitable Growth[34]
- Weill Cornell Medical College
- Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars[35]
- World Economic Forum (WEF)[36]
¶ External links
The Center for Election Science — General Support. (2017, December). Good Ventures. https://web.archive.org/web/20230602082128/https://www.goodventures.org/our-portfolio/grants/the-center-for-election-science-general-support/ ↩︎ ↩︎
Clade X: A Global Health Security Pandemic Simulation Highlights Need to Support Global Health Security Initiatives. (2018, August 16). Global Health Council. http://archive.today/2022.04.12-160103/https://globalhealth.org/clade-x-a-global-health-security-pandemic-simulation-highlights-need-to-support-global-health-security-initiatives/ ↩︎
Cameron, E., Katz, R., Konyndyk, J., & Nalabandian, M. (2019).
A Spreading Plague: Lessons and Recommendations for Responding to a Deliberate Biological Event. Nuclear Threat Initiative. https://web.archive.org/web/20230630161331/https://media.nti.org/documents/NTI_Paper_A_Spreading_Plague_FINAL_061119.pdf ↩︎Machine Intelligence Research Institute — General Support (2019). (2019, April 1). Open Philanthropy. https://web.archive.org/web/20230123081923/https://www.openphilanthropy.org/grants/machine-intelligence-research-institute-general-support-2019/ ↩︎
Event 201. Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. Retrieved July 9, 2023, from http://archive.today/2023.07.09-062022/https://centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/tabletop-exercises/event-201-pandemic-tabletop-exercise ↩︎
Center for Global Development — COVID-19 Local Response Guidelines. (2020, March 18). Open Philanthropy. https://web.archive.org/web/20230725205903/https://www.openphilanthropy.org/grants/center-for-global-development-covid-19-local-response-guidelines/ ↩︎ ↩︎
Machine Intelligence Research Institute — General Support (2020). (2020, April 10). Open Philanthropy. https://web.archive.org/web/20220925021245/https://www.openphilanthropy.org/grants/machine-intelligence-research-institute-general-support-2020/ ↩︎ ↩︎
Bensinger, R. (2020, April 27). MIRI’s largest grant to date! Machine Intelligence Research Institute. http://archive.today/2020.04.28-104535/https://intelligence.org/2020/04/27/miris-largest-grant-to-date/ ↩︎
Gryphon Scientific — Empirical Biosafety Research. (2020, June 17). Open Philanthropy. https://web.archive.org/web/20221028140929/https://www.openphilanthropy.org/grants/gryphon-scientific-empirical-biosafety-research/ ↩︎ ↩︎
Yassif, J., Kevin, P., O'prey, Christopher, R., & Isaac. (2021). Strengthening Global Systems to Prevent and Respond to High-Consequence Biological Threats. Nuclear Threat Initiative. https://web.archive.org/web/20230722000556/https://www.nti.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/NTI_Paper_BIO-TTX_Final.pdf ↩︎
Sponsors. iGEM 2021. Retrieved December 17, 2022, from http://archive.today/2022.12.17-191723/https://2021.igem.org/Sponsors ↩︎
About. Global Funders Consortium. Retrieved January 11, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230111181204/https://unifluvac.org/about/ ↩︎
About Me. Nick Beckstead. Retrieved June 29, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230629173012/https://www.nickbeckstead.com/ ↩︎
Chloe Cockburn. Bia-Echo Foundation. Retrieved March 17, 2024, from http://archive.today/2024.03.17-185841/https://biaecho.org/project/cloe-cockburn/ ↩︎
People. Longview Philanthropy. Retrieved March 21, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230321033915/https://www.longview.org/people ↩︎
Grants - COVID. Open Philanthropy. Retrieved July 25, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230725225518/https://www.openphilanthropy.org/grants/?q=COVID&sort=a-z&items=100&view-list=true#categories ↩︎
Our donors. 80,000 Hours. Retrieved November 11, 2022, from http://archive.today/2022.11.11-184059/https://80000hours.org/about/donors/ ↩︎
Stocum, K. About altLabs. AltLabs. Retrieved January 16, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230116083232/https://altlabs.tech/about/ ↩︎
Home. Alvea. Retrieved March 11, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220311233544/https://www.alvea.bio/ ↩︎
Top Donors. Animal Charity Evaluators. Retrieved October 24, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20221024213819/https://animalcharityevaluators.org/about/contributors/top-donors/ ↩︎
Grants - Animal Charity Evaluators. (2021, June 30). Open Philanthropy. https://web.archive.org/web/20220702090514/https://www.openphilanthropy.org/grants/?organization-name=animal-charity-evaluators ↩︎
Sponsors / Donors. Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense. Retrieved May 28, 2022, from http://archive.today/2022.05.29-040043/https://biodefensecommission.org/sponsors-donors/ ↩︎
Home. BlueDot Impact. Retrieved July 25, 2023, from http://archive.today/2023.07.25-214110/https://www.bluedotimpact.org/ ↩︎
CDC Foundation Active Programs October 1, 2020 – September 30, 2021. (2021). CDC Foundation. https://web.archive.org/web/20220115161004/https://www.cdcfoundation.org/CDCF-ActivePrograms-CDC-FY21?inline ↩︎
Center for Election Science Announces $1.8 Million for Approval Voting. (2019, March 9). Philanthropy News Digest. https://web.archive.org/web/20221210044227/https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/center-for-election-science-announces-1.8-million-for-approval-voting ↩︎
Support. Council on Strategic Risks. Retrieved January 16, 2023, from http://archive.today/2023.01.16-150938/https://councilonstrategicrisks.org/donate-and-support/ ↩︎
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 ↩︎
Who we are. Evidence Action. Retrieved December 6, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20221206025516/https://www.evidenceaction.org/who-we-are-2/ ↩︎
Support FHI. (2021). Future of Humanity Institute. https://archive.ph/62rk8 http://archive.today/2021.10.20-171440/https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/support-fhi/ ↩︎
Future of Life Institute donations received. Vipul Naik. Retrieved December 10, 2022, from http://archive.today/2022.12.10-071503/https://donations.vipulnaik.com/donee.php?donee=Future+of+Life+Institute%23doneeDonationAmountsByDonorAndYear ↩︎
Grants - Longview Philanthropy. Open Philanthropy. Retrieved March 21, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230321014704/https://www.openphilanthropy.org/grants/?q=&organization-name=longview-philanthropy ↩︎
About Us. New Incentives. Retrieved November 25, 2022, from http://archive.today/2022.11.25-064921/https://www.newincentives.org/about ↩︎
Find an impactful career that fits you. Non-Trivial Pursuits. Retrieved July 12, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220712134022/https://archive.non-trivial.org/ ↩︎
Equity = Strength. (2020). Washington Center for Equitable Growth. https://web.archive.org/web/20220705135922/https://equitablegrowth.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Equitable-Growth-Annual-Report-2020.pdf ↩︎
The Wilson Center donations received. Vipul Naik. Retrieved December 16, 2022, from http://archive.today/2022.12.16-012336/https://donations.vipulnaik.com/donee.php?donee=The+Wilson+Center ↩︎
World Economic Forum — Global AI Council Workshop. (2020, April). Open Philanthropy. http://archive.today/2023.09.01-170003/https://www.openphilanthropy.org/grants/world-economic-forum-global-ai-council-workshop/ ↩︎