Open Philanthropy is a philanthropic advisor and funder. Since our founding, we’ve directed over $4 billion in grants as part of our mission to help others as much as we can with the resources available to us.
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At a glance
Open Philanthropy started as GiveWell Labs in 2011, adopted the Open Philanthropy Project name in 2014 (which has since been shortened to Open Philanthropy), and began operating independently in 2017.
$4 billion lifetime giving
Since 2011, we have recommended over $4 billion in grants to organizations working on causes that meet our three main criteria: importance, neglectedness, and tractability.
800+ grants in 2024
We leverage the expertise of our program staff to make grants in a diverse collection of areas.
$640m+ directed in 2024
Our 2024 grants supported a broad spectrum of initiatives, spanning from AI safety research to advancing the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of neglected diseases.
Recent coverage of Open Philanthropy and our grantees
- Cracking the Code: One man’s quest to fix the way we build (Slate, 2/28/2025)
- Open Philanthropy launches $120 million fund to promote abundance (Philanthropy News Digest, 3/18/2025)
- Technologists: Smarter-Than-Humans A.I. Will Likely Be Here by 2030 (New York Times, 12/11/2024)
- Will This New U.S. Project Make the World’s Children Smarter? (New York Times, 10/23/2024)
- You’ll never guess the culprit in a global lead poisoning mystery (NPR, 09/23/2024)
- We can protect millions of kids from a global killer — without billions of dollars (Washington Post, 9/22/2024)
- Women Making Philanthropic Strides (Vanity Fair, 09/11/2024)
- Researchers have found a protein that seems to protect brain cells from Alzheimer’s (NPR, 7/24/2024)
- A Simple New Technique Could Make Your Eggs More Humane (New York Times, 3/28/2024)
For additional coverage, see here.
Additional resources
For more information on our current priorities, see our most recent annual review.
For recent grantee work that excites us, see some of our spotlights:
- How Neil King and David Baker are using AI to create more effective vaccines
- How the Open Wing Alliance has helped free hundreds of millions of chickens from cages
Recent blog posts:
- Cool Things Our Global Health & Wellbeing Grantees Accomplished in 2024
- Key writings on AI development from Open Philanthropy staff
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