Good Ventures Foundation
Invitation OnlyPalo Alto, California · EIN 46-1008520 · Private foundation · Website
Grants paid (2024)$306.7M
Organizations funded393
Typical grant$330,157
Total assets$10.1B
Half of its grants to organizations were between $138,333 and $874,087.
From the return
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On its return for tax year 2024 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
70% of grants went outside California.
Grants paid in tax year 2024
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Centre for Effective Altruism Inc | Milton, DE | General support | $10,500,000 |
| Malaria Consortium | London, UK | Campaign for insecticide-treated nets in nigeria | $9,381,474 |
| Open Road Impact Inc | Fort Worth, TX | Zero-Interest loans to orgs with outstanding funds owed to them by usaid under the div program | $8,850,983 |
| The University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, UK | Centre for pesticide suicide prevention | $8,328,964 |
| 80000 Hours Ltd | London, UK | General support | $6,600,000 |
| Alpenglow Group Ltd | London, UK | General support | $6,374,319 |
| Gdi-Solutions Inc | Washington, DC | Global development incubator | $5,339,190 |
| Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford | Oxford, UK | Gmp manufacture of blood stage vaccine antigens | $4,703,785 |
| International AIDS Vaccine Initiative Inc | New York, NY | Expansion of a trial for a novel tuberculosis vaccine | $4,391,492 |
| Eleanor Crook Foundation | San Marcos, TX | Cost-Effective interventions to address malnutrition | $4,250,000 |
| Institut de Formulation Des Vaccins (Ch) Ltd | Planlesouates, SZ | Development of affordable open-access gmp adjuvants | $3,804,570 |
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | The center for health security | $3,746,247 |
| Tara Climate Ltd | Singapore, SN | Accelerated coal phase out work | $3,500,000 |
| Open Road Impact Inc | Fort Worth, TX | Development innovation ventures program | $3,456,582 |
| Blueprint Biosecurity | Washington, DC | General support | $3,250,000 |
| Compassion in World Farming International | Surrey, UK | Broiler chicken welfare and ending cages and crates | $3,148,778 |
| Mats Research Inc | Berkeley, CA | Ml alignment & theory scholars winter 24-25 cohort | $3,038,300 |
| Arc Research Institute | Palo Alto, CA | General support | $3,000,000 |
| Center for Responsible Innovation Ltd | Washington, DC | General support | $3,000,000 |
| Dalhousie University | Nova Scotia, CA | Investigate the composition of human colostrum | $3,000,000 |
| Gates Philanthropy Partners | Seattle, WA | Work on tb vaccines, oral cholera vaccines and global education | $2,974,181 |
| 80000 Hours Ltd | London, UK | Support a variety of marketing efforts | $2,700,000 |
| Centre for the Governance of Ai Inc | New York, NY | General support | $2,500,000 |
| The Rand Corporation | Santa Monica, CA | General support | $2,500,000 |
| The Regents of the University of California Berkeley | Berkeley, CA | Center for human-compatible ai | $2,472,844 |
| Compassion in World Farming International | Surrey, UK | Farm animal welfare in china | $2,433,140 |
| United Kingdom Research and Innovation | Swindon, UK | Applied metascience research projects within the uk | $2,374,160 |
| Pattern Labs Tech Inc | Wilmington, DE | Developing software tools, products and analysis focused on global security | $2,266,667 |
| Mirror Biology Dialogues Fund | New York, NY | General support | $2,225,000 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA | Research related to ai and computing trends and impacts | $2,156,056 |
| Meridian Impact Cic | Cambridge, UK | Research fellowship programmes focused on risks from advanced ai | $2,097,652 |
| Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine Limited | Liverpool, UK | Clinical trial investigating therapies for snakebites | $2,007,976 |
| New Venture Fund | Washington, DC | Bipartisan commission on biodefense | $2,000,000 |
| The Rand Corporation | Santa Monica, CA | General support | $2,000,000 |
| The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University | Stanford, CA | Develop a novel vaccine platform that uses a commensal bacterium | $1,980,000 |
| The Hospital for Sick Children | Toronto, CA | Multistate malaria vaccine research | $1,894,688 |
| London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine | London, UK | Evaluate the effectiveness of tranexamic acid to treat anemia in women | $1,879,424 |
| Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford | Oxford, UK | Malaria vaccine development | $1,718,452 |
| Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford | Oxford, UK | Oxford ai governance initiatives technical ai governance program | $1,678,571 |
| Anima | Copenhagen, DA | General support | $1,653,671 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA | Research related to ai and computing trends and impacts | $1,652,518 |
| Safe Ai London Ltd | London, UK | General support | $1,647,005 |
| University Health Network | Toronto, CA | Augment the agree trial | $1,643,904 |
| Arcadia Impact Cic | London, UK | Support effective altruism and ai safety groups | $1,636,722 |
| University of Connecticut Health Center | Farmington, CT | Formulation and assessment of multivalent syphilis vaccine | $1,563,250 |
| Sinergia Animal - Verein Zum Schutz Der Tiere | Vienna, AU | Farm animal welfare in asia and latin america | $1,551,000 |
| Mats Research Inc | Berkeley, CA | Ml alignment & theory scholars winter 24-25 cohort | $1,520,150 |
| 1Day Sooner Inc | Claymont, DE | General support | $1,500,000 |
| Center for Global Development | Washington, DC | General support | $1,500,000 |
| University of Chicago | Chicago, IL | Epic air quality fund | $1,490,000 |
| The University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, UK | Research treatments to reduce pre-term birth in low and middle income countries in southern africa | $1,475,000 |
| International Council for Animal Welfare Inc | Dover, DE | General support | $1,470,000 |
| Rational Animations Inc | Dover, DE | Produce videos on topics related to ai safety and other topics | $1,410,858 |
| Securebio Inc | Cambridge, MA | General support | $1,400,000 |
| Rethink Priorities | San Francisco, CA | Institute for ai policy and strategy support and fellowship program | $1,391,710 |
| Metaculus Inc | Santa Monica, CA | Enhance the forecasting and modeling capabilities of the metaculus platform | $1,375,000 |
| Center for a New American Security Inc | Washington, DC | Ai policy and governance | $1,364,180 |
| Ai Safety Support Ltd | North Sydney, AS | Ml alignment & theory scholars winter 24-25 cohort | $1,316,700 |
| Give2asia | Oakland, CA | Farm animal welfare improvement projects in china | $1,289,000 |
| Charity Entrepreneurship | London, UK | Work on animal welfare initiatives | $1,282,027 |
Showing the 60 largest of 393 grants to organizations.
The return also lists 172 grants to individuals ($6,602,137). We do not publish the names of individual recipients.
Grants approved for future payment
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| International AIDS Vaccine Initiative Inc | New York, NY | Expansion of a trial for a novel tuberculosis vaccine | $10,608,508 |
| The University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh, | Research treatments to reduce pre-term birth in low and middle income countries in southern africa | $4,425,000 |
| Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine Limited | Liverpool, | Clinical trial investigating therapies for snakebites | $3,650,663 |
| The Regents of the University of California Berkeley | Berkeley, CA | Evaluate llm capabilities on cybersecurity defense benchmarks | $3,390,000 |
| Mirror Biology Dialogues Fund | New York, NY | General support | $3,125,000 |
| The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University | Stanford, CA | An investigation of the factors that regulate vaccine durability | $3,000,000 |
| London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine | London, | Evaluate the effectiveness of tranexamic acid to treat anemia in women | $2,881,467 |
| Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, | Governance of ai lab | $2,725,000 |
| Securebio Inc | Cambridge, MA | General support | $2,600,000 |
| Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford | Oxford, | Malaria vaccine development | $2,577,678 |
| Dalhousie University | Nova Scotia, | Investigate the composition of human colostrum | $2,307,885 |
| New Venture Fund | Washington, DC | Bipartisan commission on biodefense | $2,300,000 |
| London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine | London, | Evaluate the epidemiological impact and cost-effectiveness of school net programmes | $2,064,585 |
| The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University | Stanford, CA | Benchmark for evaluating llm cybersecurity risks | $1,958,000 |
| Institut de Formulation Des Vaccins (Ch) Ltd | Planlesouates, | Development of affordable open-access gmp adjuvants | $1,927,530 |
| University of Manitoba | Manitoba, | Research the composition of human colostrum and beneficial effects | $1,729,573 |
| The Regents of the University of California Berkeley | Berkeley, CA | Ai safety research | $1,725,090 |
| Sinergia Animal-Verein Zum Schutz Der Tiere | Vienna, | Farm animal welfare in asia and latin america | $1,552,139 |
| The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University | Stanford, CA | Develop an in vitro immunological system for characterizing the efficacy of candidate tb vaccines | $1,540,000 |
| Alpenglow Group Limited | London, | General support | $1,509,340 |
| 1Day Sooner Inc | Claymont, DE | General support | $1,500,000 |
| International Council for Animal Welfare Inc | Dover, DE | General support | $1,470,000 |
| Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research Inc | Cambridge, MA | Treatment of cryptosporidiosis | $1,250,000 |
| Players Philanthropy Fund | Towson, MD | Catalyzing alternative protein in china and dao foods international | $1,001,289 |
| Give2asia | Oakland, CA | Farm animal welfare improvement projects in china | $1,000,000 |
| The Regents of the University of California at San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | Dynamicland computing platform for scientific research | $1,000,000 |
| The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University | Stanford, CA | Develop methods for measuring ai capabilities | $961,073 |
| Mila Institut Quebecois D'intelligence Artificielle | Montreal, | Public ai safety engagement | $936,000 |
| Statens Serum Institut | Copenhagen, | Develop and validate a new manufacturing process of the h107ev vaccine antigen | $847,780 |
| The University of Texas at Austin | Austin, TX | Ai safety and computational complexity theory | $825,000 |
| Seedai Inc | Washington, DC | General support | $805,089 |
| University of Maryland College Park | College Park, MD | Benchmark assessing large language model agents cybersecurity capabilities | $793,992 |
| Generation Pledge Inc | Millburn, NJ | General support | $750,000 |
| Observatorio de Bienestar Animal | Madrid, | Animal welfare observatory campaigns in spain | $734,488 |
| Governing Council of the University of Toronto | Ontario, | Schwartz reisman institute for technology & society | $700,000 |
| Charity Entrepreneurship | London, | General support | $625,000 |
| Associacao Alianima | Sao Paulo, | Support layer hen, pig, broiler chicken and fish welfare reforms in brazil | $591,720 |
| Players Philanthropy Fund | Towson, MD | Catalyzing alternative protein in china and dao foods international | $541,237 |
| University of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | Clinical trial on treatments to reduce pre-term birth in southern africa | $535,248 |
| University of Ottawa | Ontario, | Institute for replication's work | $502,887 |
| Charity Entrepreneurship | London, | Support the amplification fund by ambitious impact | $500,000 |
| The Regents of the University of California Berkeley | Berkeley, CA | Apply and expand hypothesaes to characterize frontier model behavior | $499,597 |
| Catalyst Company Ltd | Bangkok, | Work to secure reforms for layer hens | $496,667 |
| Technische Universitat Munchen | Muchen, | Study the competence of different types of jailbreaks | $474,211 |
| Non-Trivial Ventures | London, | Expand its online fellowship and scholarship program | $458,187 |
| Carnegie Endowment for International Peace | Washington, DC | Research on china's ai governance ecosystem and frontier ai companies | $443,732 |
| The University of Texas at Austin | Austin, TX | Ai safety research and field-building project | $442,500 |
| Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine Limited | Liverpool, | To better understand how and when to address malaria in children in africa | $437,659 |
| New Foundry LLC | New York, NY | Develop a benchmark on llm agent cyber operations capabilities | $424,713 |
| Impact Global Health Ltd | New South Wales, | General support | $400,000 |
| Meridian Impact Cic | Cambridge, | Emergent misalignment paper | $396,000 |
| Trustees of Boston University | Boston, MA | Evaluations on the capabilities of large language models in performing research | $378,198 |
| Zkml LLC | Fairfax, VA | Theoretical and empirical understanding of agentic benchmarks | $340,000 |
| Tlon | Brooklyn, NY | Translating online content on effective altruism | $326,536 |
| Fish Welfare Initiative | Normal, IL | Fish welfare in asia | $325,000 |
| The Hack Foundation | West California, CA | Ai security forum's conferences in paris and las vegas 2025 | $311,495 |
| University of Illinois Foundation | Champaign, IL | Research on zero knowledge proofs for verified inference by ml models | $307,500 |
| Brown University | Providence, RI | Brown pandemic center | $300,000 |
| Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, PA | Research on robust unlearning | $292,054 |
| Produtor Do Bem Certificacao de Sustentabilidade Ltda | Sao Paulo, | Farm animal welfare certification program | $290,884 |
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants paid | Grant lines |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $306,706,819 | 659 |
| 2023 | $357,542,418 | 554 |
| 2022 | $320,936,992 | 521 |
Sources
- IRS Form 990-PF, tax year 2024, filed May 15, 2026 - IRS e-file batch, object ID 202641359349102829
- IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search for EIN 46-1008520
- Profile updated Nov 4, 2026
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