Founders Pledge Inc
Invitation OnlyNew York, New York · EIN 37-1795297 · Private foundation · Website
Grants paid (2023)$33M
Organizations funded76
Typical grant$150,000
Total assets$7.7M
Half of its grants to organizations were between $50,000 and $565,000.
From the return
How to apply
On its return for tax year 2023 the foundation checked the box saying it only makes contributions to preselected charitable organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests for funds.
What it funds
Share of grant lines on the latest return, classified from the purpose each grant states.
Where it gives
92% of grants went outside New York.
Grants paid in tax year 2023
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tsinghua Education Foundation Na Inc | Milpitas, CA | China carbon neutrality project of the institute of energy, environment and economy, tsinghua university for the components on retrofitting… | $2,540,000 |
| Ukraine Trustchain | Evanston, IL | General support | $2,307,956 |
| Clean Air Task Force (Catf) | Boston, MA | General support | $2,000,000 |
| Center for Applied Rationality (Cfar) | Berkeley, CA | General support of lightcone infrastructure and coordination project | $1,922,000 |
| Alignment Research Center | Covina, CA | General support of arc evals team | $1,846,000 |
| Allfed Institute | Lafayette, CO | General support | $1,586,000 |
| Manifold for Charity (Aka Manifold Markets) | Austin, TX | General support | $1,241,000 |
| Far Ai Inc | San Diego, CA | General support | $1,147,000 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA | General support and tegmark lab fund | $1,100,100 |
| Centre for Effective Altruism USA Inc | San Francisco, CA | Long-Term future fund, events team, online team, community health and special project team | $1,097,000 |
| Players Philanthropy Fund | Towson, MD | General support of arkose, project solve, technical alignment impossibility proofs, spiro project | $1,053,000 |
| Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, PA | Foundations of cooperative ai lab (focal) | $1,000,000 |
| Meridian Prime Inc | Washington, DC | General support | $1,000,000 |
| The Energy for Growth Hub Inc | Washington, DC | Supporting the ppa transparency norms project | $1,000,000 |
| Center for Artificial Intelligence Safety Inc | San Francisco, CA | General support | $909,000 |
| Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative | Berkeley, CA | General support of beri-cltc and beri-chai collaborations, mats london | $881,000 |
| Deploy-Us Inc | Boston, MA | General support | $875,000 |
| Founders Pledge Ltd (Fpl) | London, UK | General support | $837,200 |
| Redwood Research | Berkeley, CA | General support | $598,000 |
| Opencollective Foundation | Covina, CA | General support of the unjournal | $565,000 |
| Securebio Inc | Cambridge, MA | General support | $548,000 |
| Terrapraxis | Cambridge, MA | General support | $500,000 |
| Sangro Inc | Newark, DE | General support | $455,000 |
| The Pragmatism Foundation | Norristown, PA | General support of the pronatalist.org initiative | $432,000 |
| Radicalxchange Foundation Ltd | Moraga, CA | The collective intelligence project, general support of honor society films, audrey tang project | $400,000 |
| Goodly Institute | University Avenue, CA | General support of ai objectives institute | $352,000 |
| Center for Innovative Governance Research | Washington, DC | General support of charter cities institute | $315,000 |
| Lead Exposure Elimination Project Inc | Chicago, IL | General support | $310,000 |
| Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies Inc | Santa Monica, CA | General support | $304,000 |
| Rethink Priorities | San Francisco, CA | General support of the rethink priorities existential security team and ai governance and strategy team | $276,000 |
| Givewell | Oakland, CA | Maximum impact fund, all grants fund, general support | $250,000 |
| Social & Environmental Entrepreneurs Inc & Global Catastrophic Risk Institu | Calabasas, CA | General support | $250,000 |
| The Taimaka Project | Arlington, VA | Nigeria malnutrition treatment program. | $201,250 |
| Family Empowerment Media | Brooklyn, NY | General support | $200,000 |
| Lincoln Network Inc | San Francisco, CA | General support | $189,000 |
| Fp21 | Washington, DC | General support | $172,000 |
| University of Louisville Foundation Inc | Louisville, KY | General support of dr. roman yampolskiys research group (cybersecurity lab) | $159,000 |
| Nuclear Threat Initiative (Nti) | Washington, DC | Biosecurity programs | $150,000 |
| The Against Malaria Foundation | Kansas City, MO | General support | $150,000 |
| Center for Strategic and International Studies Inc | Washington, DC | General support of ai governance project | $136,000 |
| Basis Research Institute | New York City, NY | General support | $126,000 |
| Shining Hope for Communities | New York, NY | General support | $115,000 |
| Machine Intelligence Research Institute | San Francisco, CA | General support of ai impacts | $107,000 |
| Legal Priorities Project | Cambridge, MA | General support | $103,000 |
| Animal Charity Evaluators | Covina, CA | Sinergia animal international | $100,000 |
| Brookings Institution | Washington, DC | Us/China strategic dialogues | $100,000 |
| Center for a New American Security Inc | Washington, DC | To support the one-year project on understanding an international autonomous incidents agreement | $100,000 |
| The Center for Election Science | Covina, CA | General support | $96,000 |
| Convergence Analysis | Berkeley, CA | General support of technologies for pandemic defense | $86,000 |
| Safe Place International | St Ignace, MI | General support | $72,500 |
| 1Day Sooner | Claymont, DE | Malaria vaccine rollout | $50,000 |
| Endee | Bussum, NL | Advance the charitable mission of the total portfolio project (tpp), which seeks to accelerate effective impact-financial integration by… | $50,000 |
| Evidence Action Inc | Washington, DC | Deworm the world initiative | $50,000 |
| Fish Welfare Initiative | Normal, IL | General support | $50,000 |
| Journalism Development Network Inc | Washington, DC | General support | $50,000 |
| President and Fellows of Harvard University | Cambridge, MA | Giving multiplier' with prof joshua greene, department of psychology, harvard university | $50,000 |
| Third Sector Capital Partners Inc | Boston, MA | General support | $50,000 |
| Wild Animal Initiative Inc | Minneapolis, MN | General support | $50,000 |
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | General support of milan griffes for tuition and bsph health clinic fees | $45,610 |
| The Gift Trust | Marion Square, NZ | Mothertree labs | $37,500 |
Showing the 60 largest of 76 grants to organizations.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants paid | Grant lines |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | $33,029,496 | 76 |
Sources
- IRS Form 990-PF, tax year 2023, filed Aug 22, 2024 - IRS e-file batch, object ID 202402359349100515
- IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search for EIN 37-1795297
- Profile updated Nov 5, 2026
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