Good Ventures, the foundation that supports the Open Philanthropy Project, has made a series of grants to psychedelic research organizations:
Feb 2019 to the Usona Institute (a)
Aug 2018 to MAPS (a)
Feb 2018 to the Usona Institute (a)
Aug 2017 to MAPS (a)
Sept 2016 to the Heffter Research Institute (a)
Dec 2015 to the Heffter Research Institute (a)
These grants are relatively small compared to the foundation’s overall grantmaking capacity, but seem to indicate that Good Ventures has a clear & consistent interest in supporting psychedelic research.
There isn’t any record of these grants on the Open Phil site.
Seems like these grants could be neatly housed under Open Phil’s “Scientific Research” cause area, perhaps in the “Other Scientific Research” portfolio.
I’m curious about why there’s a separation between Good Ventures’ psychedelic grantmaking & the grants it makes through Open Phil.
(It’s possible that this is simply an oversight, though given what I know about Open Phil’s processes I’m guessing it’s an intentional separation.)
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[Question] Why isn’t GV psychedelics grantmaking housed under Open Phil?
Good Ventures, the foundation that supports the Open Philanthropy Project, has made a series of grants to psychedelic research organizations:
Feb 2019 to the Usona Institute (a)
Aug 2018 to MAPS (a)
Feb 2018 to the Usona Institute (a)
Aug 2017 to MAPS (a)
Sept 2016 to the Heffter Research Institute (a)
Dec 2015 to the Heffter Research Institute (a)
These grants are relatively small compared to the foundation’s overall grantmaking capacity, but seem to indicate that Good Ventures has a clear & consistent interest in supporting psychedelic research.
There isn’t any record of these grants on the Open Phil site.
Seems like these grants could be neatly housed under Open Phil’s “Scientific Research” cause area, perhaps in the “Other Scientific Research” portfolio.
I’m curious about why there’s a separation between Good Ventures’ psychedelic grantmaking & the grants it makes through Open Phil.
(It’s possible that this is simply an oversight, though given what I know about Open Phil’s processes I’m guessing it’s an intentional separation.)