Executive summary: This post shares ten of Founders Pledge’s largest recent grants across global health, catastrophic risk, and climate, aiming to clarify misconceptions about its scope, strategy, and scale of impact, while signaling plans to significantly grow its grantmaking and collaboration within the EA community.
Key points:
Clarifying misconceptions: The post directly addresses three common misunderstandings—that Founders Pledge (FP) only funds climate, follows member interests, and doesn’t move much money—by highlighting diverse cause areas, research-led strategy, and over $323M moved to date.
Strategic funding across causes: FP has made large, high-leverage grants in:
Global health & development, e.g., $8M to TaRL Africa and $6.4M to J-PAL’s IGI, emphasizing scalable, evidence-based interventions.
Global catastrophic risks, e.g., $3M to seed IBBIS and $2.5M to Carnegie for nuclear escalation work, targeting underfunded existential risks.
Climate, e.g., $5M to DEPLOY/US and $4M to CATF, supporting bipartisan and international climate action.
Focus on catalytic impact: Many grants aim to unlock significant downstream funding or institutional change—e.g., J-PAL’s IGI expects to attract ~$70M in follow-on funding; BRSL and IBBIS aim to shape policy and security norms.
Use of advised grants and Funds: Some grants are made through donor-advised recommendations, while others come from FP-managed Funds, with an ambition to grow the Funds to improve flexibility and efficiency.
Plans to triple giving: FP intends to triple its giving to cost-effective opportunities across all cause areas over the next five years, increasing its role in the effective giving ecosystem.
Call for EA collaboration: The post invites deeper alignment and transparency with the EA community, positioning this update as a first step in more intentional public communication and cooperation.
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Executive summary: This post shares ten of Founders Pledge’s largest recent grants across global health, catastrophic risk, and climate, aiming to clarify misconceptions about its scope, strategy, and scale of impact, while signaling plans to significantly grow its grantmaking and collaboration within the EA community.
Key points:
Clarifying misconceptions: The post directly addresses three common misunderstandings—that Founders Pledge (FP) only funds climate, follows member interests, and doesn’t move much money—by highlighting diverse cause areas, research-led strategy, and over $323M moved to date.
Strategic funding across causes: FP has made large, high-leverage grants in:
Global health & development, e.g., $8M to TaRL Africa and $6.4M to J-PAL’s IGI, emphasizing scalable, evidence-based interventions.
Global catastrophic risks, e.g., $3M to seed IBBIS and $2.5M to Carnegie for nuclear escalation work, targeting underfunded existential risks.
Climate, e.g., $5M to DEPLOY/US and $4M to CATF, supporting bipartisan and international climate action.
Focus on catalytic impact: Many grants aim to unlock significant downstream funding or institutional change—e.g., J-PAL’s IGI expects to attract ~$70M in follow-on funding; BRSL and IBBIS aim to shape policy and security norms.
Use of advised grants and Funds: Some grants are made through donor-advised recommendations, while others come from FP-managed Funds, with an ambition to grow the Funds to improve flexibility and efficiency.
Plans to triple giving: FP intends to triple its giving to cost-effective opportunities across all cause areas over the next five years, increasing its role in the effective giving ecosystem.
Call for EA collaboration: The post invites deeper alignment and transparency with the EA community, positioning this update as a first step in more intentional public communication and cooperation.
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