In 2018, Good Ventures funded $164 million in grants recommended by the Open Philanthropy Project, including $74 million to GiveWell’s top charities, standout charities, and incubation grants. (These grants generally appear in both the Good Ventures and Open Philanthropy Project grants databases.)
Good Ventures makes a small number of grants in additional areas of interest to the foundation. Such grants totaled around $19 million in 2018. Check out Our Portfolio and Grants Database to learn more about the grants we’ve made so far.
As an aside, I wouldn’t say that any Good Ventures things are ‘housed under Open Phil’. I’d rather say that Open Phil makes recommendations to Good Ventures. i.e. Open Phil is a partner to Good Ventures, not a subsidiary.
Technically, I’ve therefore answered a different question to the one you asked: I’ve answered the question ‘why aren’t these grants on the Open Phil website’.
There’s an unanswered question here of why Good Ventures makes grants that OpenPhil doesn’t recommend, given that GV believes in the OpenPhil approach broadly. But I guess I don’t find it that surprising that they do so. People like to do more than one thing?
Makes sense. I’m particularly curious about the psychedelic research grants, because it seems like those both could be neatly housed under Open Phil’s “Other Scientific Research” portfolio.
Every grant I checked was made under the aegis of Open Phil, except for the aforementioned psychedelic grants & these grants to Alzheimer’s research: 1, 2, 3, 4
The same question comes up for the Alzheimer’s grants – seems like they could be neatly placed in Open Phil’s other scientific research portfolio, but weren’t.
From Good Ventures’ grantmaking approach page:
As an aside, I wouldn’t say that any Good Ventures things are ‘housed under Open Phil’. I’d rather say that Open Phil makes recommendations to Good Ventures. i.e. Open Phil is a partner to Good Ventures, not a subsidiary.
Technically, I’ve therefore answered a different question to the one you asked: I’ve answered the question ‘why aren’t these grants on the Open Phil website’.
There’s an unanswered question here of why Good Ventures makes grants that OpenPhil doesn’t recommend, given that GV believes in the OpenPhil approach broadly. But I guess I don’t find it that surprising that they do so. People like to do more than one thing?
Makes sense. I’m particularly curious about the psychedelic research grants, because it seems like those both could be neatly housed under Open Phil’s “Other Scientific Research” portfolio.
Thanks!
I just flipped through the Good Ventures grants database & spot-checked ~30 of their 2018 grants.
Every grant I checked was made under the aegis of Open Phil, except for the aforementioned psychedelic grants & these grants to Alzheimer’s research: 1, 2, 3, 4
The same question comes up for the Alzheimer’s grants – seems like they could be neatly placed in Open Phil’s other scientific research portfolio, but weren’t.