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Grants paid by Founders Pledge Inc, tax year 2021
EIN 37-1795297 · New York, NY · Form 990-PF, Part XV · NTEE T20
In tax year 2021, Founders Pledge Inc (EIN 37-1795297) reported 94 grants paid totaling $24,847,836. Dataset version 2026.09.0, built 2026-09-03.
Every grant, 2021
| Tax year | Recipient | Match | Amount | Type | Purpose | Source filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Centre for Effective Altruism USA Inc (cea) Berkeley, CA | U | $2,707,000 | paid | SUPPORT OF CENTRE FOR THE GOVERNANCE OF AI; EA INFRASTRUCTURE FUND; LONG-TERM FUTURE FUND | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Center for Applied Rationality Berkeley, CA | C | $2,682,000 | paid | SPARC, THE SUMMER PROGRAM ON APPLIED RATIONALITY AND COGNITION; LIGHTCONE INFRASTRUCTURE; LESSWRONG; GENERAL SUPPORT | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | National Philanthropic Trust Jenkintown, PA | C | $2,523,179 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence (chai) Berkeley, CA | U | $1,817,000 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT AND GIFT FOR THE WORK OF DR. ANDREW CRITCH | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative Berkeley, CA | C | $1,596,000 | paid | CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF EXISTENTIAL RISK AT CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY; MACHINE LEARNING RESEARCH ENGINEER PROGRAM; BERI-CHAI COLLABORATION; SUPPORT OF THE WORK OF ROBERT TRAGER AND JOSLYN BARNHART ON AI GOVERNANCE; THE STANFORD EXISTENTIAL RISKS INITIATIVE; THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY INSTITUTE AT OXFORD UNIVERSITY | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Redwood Research Berkeley, CA | B | $1,330,000 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Founders for Good Ltd London | U | $986,218 | paid | PATIENT PHILANTHROPY FUND | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Alpenglow Group Limited London | U | $970,000 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT AND TO WORK WITH ACADEMICS TO DEVELOP POLICY IDEAS TO HELP BOOST RESILIENCE TO EXTREME RISKS, TO MAINSTREAM THESE IDEAS THROUGH ENGAGEMENT WITH THE MEDIA, AND TO ENGAGE WITH OTHER STAKEHOLDERS WORKING IN THIS AREA. | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | David Krueger's Research Group at the University of Cambridge New York, NY | U | $880,000 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | The Community Foundation Serving Boulder County Boulder, CO | D | $879,000 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT OF ALLIANCE TO FEED THE EARTH IN DISASTERS | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | New Science Research Inc Somerville, MA | C | $647,000 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Topos Institute Berkeley, CA | B | $601,000 | paid | CONDITIONAL SUPPORT, AS ADMINISTERED BY OWEN COTTON-BARRATT. | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Future of Life Institute Allston, MA | U | $547,000 | paid | POLICY RESEARCH AND ADVOCACY ON AI AND OTHER EMERGING TECHNOLOGICAL RISK | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Ought Inc San Francisco, CA | C | $542,000 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Foresight Institute San Francisco, CA | C | $485,000 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT OF AI OBJECTIVES INSTITUTE | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Clean Air Task Force (catf) Boston, MA | C | $450,000 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT AND SUPPORT OF SUPER HOT ROCK GEOTHERMAL ENERGY | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Rethink Charity Houston, TX | U | $345,000 | paid | FOR AI SAFETY SUPPORT FOR GENERAL SUPPORT OF AI SAFETY CAMP | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Generation Pledge New York, NY | U | $291,000 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Players Philanthropy Fund Towson, MD | U | $275,000 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT OF ALLIANCE TO FEED THE EARTH IN DISASTERS | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Legal Priorities Project Cambridge, MA | D | $265,000 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Social & Environmental Entrepreneurs Inc & Global Catastrophic Risk Institu Calabasas, CA | U | $257,000 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT FOR GLOBAL CATASTROPHIC RISK INSTITUTE (GCRI@SEE) | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Idea Foundry Pittsburgh, PA | C | $247,000 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT OF PO-SHEN LOH'S WORK ON NOVID PLATFORM AND FOR EXPII, INC. (EXPII@IDEAFOUNDRY) | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | The Humane League (thl) Rockville, MD | C | $244,672 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Convergence Analysis Berkeley, CA | B | $233,000 | paid | CONVERGENCE; RESEARCH ON AI & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; MODELING COOPERATION; AI CLARITY | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Machine Intelligence Research Institute Berkeley, CA | B | $221,000 | paid | AI IMPACTS | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Good Food Institute (gfi) Washington, DC | U | $181,270 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Silverlining Washington, DC | B | $154,709 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Center for Innovative Governance Research Washington, DC | C | $137,000 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Moonlight Institute Lasqueti Island, BRITISH COLUMBIA | U | $127,000 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Terrapraxis Cambridge, MA | B | $115,380 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Mercatus Center Arlington, VA | B | $115,000 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT OF EMERGENT VENTURES INDIA | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | 80000 Hours San Francisco, CA | U | $110,000 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Viento & Social Good Fund Richmond, CA | U | $102,000 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Prep4all Inc Brooklyn, NY | C | $100,000 | paid | COVID-19 WORK | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics Cary, NC | U | $100,000 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Norn Group San Francisco, CA | U | $100,000 | paid | IMPETUS GRANTS | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Chicago, IL | C | $100,000 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Center On Global Energy Policy at Columbia New York, NY | U | $97,891 | paid | STUDY AND OUTREACH ON 'USING RENEWABLE POWER TO DECARBONIZE HARD-TO-ABATE SECTORS: AN INNOVATION AGENDA' | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Flexportorg Fund Via Caf America Alexandria, VA | U | $95,000 | paid | TO BE USED WITH THE FLEXPORT.ORG INDIA COVID RELIEF | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Shining Hope for Communities New York, NY | B | $90,000 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Center for Global Development Washington, DC | B | $86,000 | paid | COVID-19 FUND AND MARKET-SHAPING PROJECT | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Scholarship Junkies Seattle, WA | U | $85,000 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Givewell Oakland, CA | B | $80,000 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Madry Lab at MIT Cambridge, MA | U | $75,000 | paid | CENTER FOR DEPLOYABLE MACHINE LEARNING AT M.I.T. (MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY) FOR THE PURPOSE OF SUPPORTING MADRY LABS WORK ON ADVERSARIAL ROBUSTNESS. | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Hadfield-Menell's Lab at MIT Cambridge, MA | U | $75,000 | paid | FOR THE PURPOSE OF SUPPORTING THE WORK OF HADFIELD-MENELL'S LAB ON RECOMMENDER SYSTEM ALIGNMENT | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Stanford Existential Risks Initiative Stanford, CA | U | $69,000 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Stichting Bellingcat Amsterdam | U | $55,000 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Dr Philip Tetlock at the University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA | U | $54,000 | paid | TO FUND PROJECT RESEARCH ON FORECASTING EXISTENTIAL RISKS | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Open Molecular Software Foundation Davis, CA | C | $50,000 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Clinton Foundation Little Rock, AR | U | $40,000 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Field School Inc Washington, DC | B | $40,000 | paid | ANNUAL FUND AND FUND A FALCON | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Center for Consciousness Medicine Nevada City, CA | D | $35,000 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Yayasan Hidup Lestari Kembali Tabanan, BALI | U | $34,000 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Future Cleantech Architects Ggmbh (fca) Remscheid | U | $32,109 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Americans for Oxford Incfuture of Humanity Institute New York, NY | U | $30,000 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT OF FUTURE OF HUMANITY INSTITUTE: RESEARCH SCHOLARS PROGRAMME (RS@FHI) | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Radicalxchange Foundation Ltd Moroga, CA | B | $26,000 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Bandhan-Konnagar Salt Lake City, KOLKATA | U | $25,000 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | French American International School San Francisco, CA | D | $25,000 | paid | CONTRIBUTING TO THE ADVANCEMENT FUND TO SUPPORT LOW-INCOME FAMILIES IN SAN FRANCISCO TO ACCESS HIGH QUALITY INTERNATIONALLY FOCUSED EDUCATION AND SOCIAL LEARNING | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Nuclear Threat Initiative (nti) Washington, DC | C | $22,610 | paid | BIOSECURITY WORK | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Beit El Baraka USA Bethesda, VA | B | $20,000 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Midaat | U | $20,000 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Iodine Global Network Ottawa, ONTARIO | U | $18,775 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Satellite Affordable Housing Associates Berkeley, CA | B | $15,000 | paid | CASH TRANSFERS TO HOUSING-INSECURE INDIVIDUALS | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Laboratory for Social Minds (cmu) Pittsburgh, PA | U | $11,000 | paid | LABORATORY FOR SOCIAL MINDS | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Every Mother Counts New York, NY | B | $10,000 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Children Families & Communities Ellsworth, ME | B | $10,000 | paid | SUPPORT OF METAMORPHIC GROUP LLC | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | The Nowak Society Fort Collins, CO | B | $7,500 | paid | RTT PSILOCYBIN ADVOCACY FUND | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc San Francisco, CA | B | $5,000 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Gvngorgtradewinds Los Angeles, CA | U | $5,000 | paid | TRADEWINDS ARTISAN OASIS. | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Teaching at the Right Level (tarl) Africa Cambridge, MA | U | $5,000 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Movement for Black Lives Tucson, AZ | U | $5,000 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Asian Americans Advancing Justice Washington, DC | C | $5,000 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Kt Support Group Milford, OH | U | $5,000 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Movember Foundation Culver City, CA | C | $3,500 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Feeding America Chicago, IL | B | $3,500 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Naacp Legal Defense and Educational Fund New York, NY | U | $3,192 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | No Kid Hungry Washington, DC | U | $2,655 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Partners in Health Boston, MA | U | $1,452 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Black Girls Code San Francisco, CA | C | $1,388 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | The Trevor Project West Hollywood, CA | B | $1,000 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Audre Lorde Project Inc Brooklyn, NY | B | $886 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Ucsf Covid Fund San Francisco, CA | U | $500 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Gates Philanthropy Partners - Combating Covid-19 Fund Seattle, WA | D | $445 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Transgender Law Center Oakland, CA | B | $400 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Giving Kitchen Atlanta, GA | B | $400 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Charities Aid Foundation of America Alexandria, VA | C | $310 | paid | FRONTLINE RESPONSE FUND | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Opportunity Fund San Jose, CA | C | $249 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | American Civil Liberties Union New York, NY | U | $200 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | World Health Organization (who) New York, NY | D | $150 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Loveland Foundation Brooklyn, NY | B | $100 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Outright Action International New York, NY | B | $88 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Days for Girls International Mount Vernon, WA | B | $51 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Women's International Zionist Organization Wizo London | U | $30 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT | 202232349349100823 |
| 2021 | Global Giving Washington, DC | D | $27 | paid | GENERAL SUPPORT | 202232349349100823 |
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Derived from IRS Form 990-PF e-file XML. Dataset version 2026.09.0, built 2026-09-03. All years for this funder.
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