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Good Ventures

The Good Ventures Foundation, branded simply as Good Ventures, is an American non-profit organization based in Palo Alto, California.[1]

History

Good Ventures was founded in 2011 by Dustin Moskovitz and Cari Tuna.[2] Shortly following its founding, Good Ventures partnered with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and GiveWell to “work closely with other funders to support promising projects and learn how to give effectively.”[3]

Activities

According to Good Ventures' grant database, early funding recipients include:[4]

  • Against Malaria Foundation
  • Alliance for Open Society International (AOSI)
  • Brookings Institution
  • Center for Global Development
  • Cochrane Collaboration
  • Drug Policy Alliance
  • Evidence Action
  • Freedom to Marry
  • GiveDirectly
  • GiveWell
  • ImmigrationWorks Foundation
  • Innovations for Poverty Action
  • International Development Association
  • KIPP Houston
  • New Incentives
  • Nyaya Health
  • Pepperdine University
  • Pew Charitable Trusts
  • Population Services International (PSI)
  • Pratham
  • SCI Foundation
  • Silicon Valley Community Foundation
  • Small Enterprise Foundation
  • SPUR
  • Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society
  • Startup Education
  • Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation (TNDC)
  • United States Cochrane Center (USCC)
  • U.S. Association for International Migration (USAIM)
  • Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA)

Open Philanthropy

Following the formation of Open Philanthropy in August 2014, grants were awarded to:

  • 80,000 Hours
  • Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)
  • Accountable Justice Project
  • ACTAsia
  • African Union Development Agency
  • Against COVID-19
  • Alliance for International Medical Action
  • Alliance for Safety and Justice
  • altLabs[5]
  • Altruistic Technology Labs
  • American Civil Liberties Association (ACLU)
  • American Society for Microbiology
  • Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security (ARLIS)
  • Associated Students of the University of California (ASUC)
  • Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA)
  • Ayni Institute
  • Berkeley Essential Risk Institute (BERI)
  • Better Boulder
  • Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense
  • Black Strategy Fund
  • Brigham and Women’s Hospital
  • Cambridge Existential Risk Initiative
  • Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
  • Carnegie Mellon University
  • CDC Foundation
  • Center for a New American Security
  • Center for American Progress (CAP)
  • Center for Applied Rationality
  • Center for Court Innovation
  • Center for Effective Global Action
  • Center for Election Science
  • Center for Governance of AI
  • Center for International Security and Cooperation
  • Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity
  • Center for Popular Democracy
  • Center for Population-Level Bioethics
  • Center for Security and Emerging Technology
  • Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
  • Center for Welfare Metrics
  • Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
  • Center on Poverty and Inequality
  • Centre for Effective Altruism
  • Charity Entrepreneurship
  • Charity Science Health
  • ClimateWorks Foundation
  • Compassion in World Farming
  • Correctional Association of New York
  • Council on Energy, Environment, and Water
  • Council on Strategic Risks
  • Degrees Initiative (formerly the Solar Radiation Management Governance Institute)
  • Debt Collective[6]
  • Development Media International
  • Economic Policy Institute
  • Effective Altruism Debate Championship
  • Effective Altruism Foundation
  • Emmett Institute on Climate Change & the Environment
  • The END Fund
  • Engineers Without Borders USA
  • Federation of American Scientists
  • Flanders Institute of Biotechnology
  • Florida State University Project on Accountable Justice (PAJ)
  • Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment
  • Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH)
  • Founders Pledge
  • Future of Humanity Institute
  • Future of Life Institute
  • Future of Research
  • Genspace
  • Georgetown Center for Global Health Science and Security
  • Georgetown University
  • Giving What We Can
  • Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition
  • Global Animal Partnership
  • Global Commission on Governing Risks from Climate Overshoot
  • Global Food Partners
  • Global Health Security Network
  • Global Priorities Institute
  • Gryphon Scientific
  • The Guardian
  • Health Alliance for Violence Intervention
  • Heffter Research Institute
  • Helen Keller International
  • Human Impact Partners
  • Humane League
  • Humane Society of the United States
  • Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
  • IDinsight
  • Immune Observatory
  • Institute for Protein Design
  • Institute of the Black World
  • International Genetically Engineered Medicine Foundation (iGEM)
  • International Refugee Assistance Project
  • International Vaccine Institute
  • Iodine Global Network
  • Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
  • JustLeadershipUSA
  • Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research
  • KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme
  • Life Sciences Research Foundation
  • Living Goods
  • Longview Philanthropy
  • Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI)
  • Malaria Consortium
  • Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  • Mercy for Animals
  • MIT Media Lab
  • Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms
  • Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies
  • National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM)
  • National Bureau of Economic Research
  • New York University
  • Nigerian Institute of Medical Research
  • Niskanen Center
  • Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI)
  • Ordinary People Society
  • Peterson Institute for International Economics
  • Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH)
  • Promise of Justice Initiative
  • Protect the People
  • RAND Corporation
  • Rescuing Biomedical Research
  • Research Institute of Industrial Economics
  • Results for Development
  • Rockefeller Archive Center
  • Rockefeller University
  • Royal Veterinary College
  • Seattle for Everyone
  • Sherlock Biosciences
  • Sightline Institute
  • Smart Growth America
  • Smithsonian Institution
  • Stanford Existential Risks Initiative
  • Synthetic Neurobiology Group
  • University Health Network
  • University of British Columbia
  • University of Montreal
  • University of Pennsylvania
  • University of Southern California
  • University of Toronto
  • Urban Institute
  • Vera Institute of Justice
  • Vital Strategies
  • Voice of the Experienced (VOTE)
  • Waitlist Zero
  • World Economic Forum (WEF)
  • World Organisation for Animal Health
  • Yale School of Medicine

  1. Good Ventures Foundation - Nonprofit Explorer. ProPublica. Retrieved December 8, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20221208201618/https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/461008520 ↩︎

  2. Weissman, L. (2015, January 2). Silicon Valley Billionaire Dustin Moskovitz And Cari Tuna On the Reasoned Art Of Giving. Jewish Business News. http://archive.today/2015.04.09-125404/http://jewishbusinessnews.com/2015/01/02/silicon-valley-billionaire-dustin-moskovitz-and-cari-tuna-on-the-reasoned-art-of-giving/ ↩︎

  3. Partners. Good Ventures. Retrieved March 15, 2013, from https://web.archive.org/web/20130315053714/http://www.goodventures.org/about-us/partners ↩︎

  4. Grants Database. Good Ventures. Retrieved December 9, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20221209002150/https://www.goodventures.org/our-portfolio/grants-database?orderby=cf_grants_date&sort=asc ↩︎

  5. Swett, J. (2021). Return of Organization Exempt From Income Tax (p. 22). altLabs. https://web.archive.org/web/20230116033559/https://altlabs.tech/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/altLabs-2020-Form-990-FINAL.pdf ↩︎

  6. Debt Collective — Criminal Justice Reform Work. (2019, December). Good Ventures. https://web.archive.org/web/20210920152336/https://www.goodventures.org/our-portfolio/grants/debt-collective-criminal-justice-reform-work ↩︎