Founders Pledge Inc
New York, NY · EIN 37-1795297. Reported 333 grants totalling $109.2M to 261 recipients across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation told the IRS it does not accept unsolicited requests: it contributes only to organizations it selects itself.
Does this foundation accept applications?
No -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation to check a box if it "only makes contributions to preselected charitable organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests for funds". Founders Pledge Inc checked it on its most recent filing, as 78% of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered did. An unsolicited request is unlikely to go anywhere.
Organizations it funds that make grants of their own
5 of the organizations Founders Pledge Inc funded make grants themselves, and it reported 8 grants totalling $2,633,031 to them. That is 3% of the $77.6M of its giving we could match to a registered organization. Each is classified by the IRS as a philanthropy or grantmaking organization, reported grants to at least 25 organizations of its own, and has at least 10 funders behind it.
All of them file Form 990, which never asks whether an organization funds only groups it picks, so there is no answer on record either way.
What that does not mean. It does not mean an application to any of them reaches this foundation's money. A private foundation's grant to a community foundation or a federated campaign is often a donor-advised fund or a gift designated for a purpose the foundation chose, and has nothing to do with any open programme the receiving organization runs. Its return's purpose text sometimes names a family fund or a designated purpose, which is the plainest case of money no applicant can reach; where it names none, neither return says which. The list is who this foundation paid that also makes grants. Whether any of them would fund you is a question for its own page.
| Grantmaker | Kind | State | Received | Grants | Years | Last | Only funds organizations it picks? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Community Foundation Boulder County | community foundation | Colorado | $879,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 | Its form does not ask |
| Players Philanthropy Fund Inc | grantmaking organization | Maryland | $804,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 | Its form does not ask |
| The Clear Fund | grantmaking organization | California | $630,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 | Its form does not ask |
| Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc | grantmaking organization | New York | $319,721 | 2 | 2 | 2023 | Its form does not ask |
| Charities Aid Foundation America | grantmaking organization | Virginia | $310 | 1 | 1 | 2021 | Its form does not ask |
A floor, not a full list. A grantmaker appears here only where this foundation's return named it clearly enough for us to match the name to an EIN, which we manage for about two thirds of 990-PF grant rows, and only where that grantmaker has a page on this site. There may be more. Dollars here are summed by EIN across every spelling on its returns, so a figure can differ from the matching row in the full list below, which groups names as written. And the IRS classification cannot tell a grantmaker from a funders' association or a donor-advised fund sponsor, so a payment to one of these may be dues or an account rather than support for a grants programme.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $102,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $25,000 and $352,000; the smallest was $27 and the largest $3,600,000.
It also files a Form 990 with Schedule I
Separately from its 990-PF, this organization reported 102 grants on Form 990 Schedule I, with a median of $77,500 and a total of $26.3M.
Every organization it funded
261 recipient names appear in its filings; the 250 largest are listed here. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deployus | Boston, MA | $8,925,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Clean Air Task Force (catf) | Boston, MA | $6,270,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Alignment Research Center | Covina, CA | $4,172,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Center for Applied Rationality | Berkeley, CA | $4,143,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Founders Pledge Ltd | London | $3,203,248 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Redwood Research | Berkeley, CA | $3,202,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative | Berkeley, CA | $3,166,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Centre for Effective Altruism USA Inc (cea) | Berkeley, CA | $3,088,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| National Philanthropic Trust | Jenkintown, PA | $2,811,297 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Tsinghua Education Foundation Na Inc | Milpitas, CA | $2,540,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Players Philanthropy Fund | Towson, MD | $2,474,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Ukraine Trustchain | Evanston, IL | $2,307,956 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Far Ai Inc | San Diego, CA | $2,038,304 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Center for Artificial Intelligence Safety Inc | San Francisco, CA | $2,005,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Center for Applied Rationality (cfar) | Berkeley, CA | $1,922,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence (chai) | Berkeley, CA | $1,817,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Topos Institute | Berkeley, CA | $1,694,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Allfed Institute | Lafayette, CO | $1,689,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Manifold for Charity (aka Manifold Markets) | Austin, TX | $1,584,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Effective Altruism Foundation | Berkeley, CA | $1,218,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Terrapraxis | Cambridge, MA | $1,107,115 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA | $1,100,100 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Centre for Effective Altruism USA Inc | San Francisco, CA | $1,097,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, PA | $1,000,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Meridian Prime Inc | Washington, DC | $1,000,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Energy for Growth Hub Inc | Washington, DC | $1,000,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Rand Corporation | Santa Monica, CA | $1,000,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Founders for Good Ltd | London | $986,218 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Alpenglow Group Limited | London | $970,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Rethink Priorities | San Francisco, CA | $946,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Rethink Charity | Houston, TX | $944,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Machine Intelligence Research Institute | San Francisco, CA | $919,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Securebio Inc | Cambridge, MA | $890,159 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| David Krueger's Research Group at the University of Cambridge | New York, NY | $880,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Community Foundation Serving Boulder County | Boulder, CO | $879,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Deploy-US Inc | Boston, MA | $875,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Founders Pledge Ltd (fpl) | London | $837,200 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Center for Innovative Governance Research | Washington, DC | $812,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Sangro Inc (dba Ashgro) | Newark, DE | $741,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Palisade Research | Dover, DE | $726,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| New Science Research Inc | Somerville, MA | $647,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Givewell | Oakland, CA | $630,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Convergence Analysis | Berkeley, CA | $617,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Mats Research Inc | Berkeley, CA | $584,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Opencollective Foundation | Covina, CA | $565,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Longview Philanthropy USA | Kansas City, MO | $562,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Future of Life Institute | Allston, MA | $547,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ought Inc | San Francisco, CA | $542,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Safe Artificial Intelligence Forum Institute | Brooklyn, NY | $540,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Johns Hopkins - Center for Health Security (chs) | Baltimore, MD | $539,757 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ai Objectives Institute | Wilmington, DE | $538,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Restoringvision | San Francisco, CA | $531,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Foresight Institute | San Francisco, CA | $526,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Effective Ventures Foundation USA | San Francisco, CA | $510,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Social & Environmental Entrepreneurs Inc & Global Catastrophic Risk Institu | Calabasas, CA | $507,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Edward Charles Foundation | Beverly Hills, CA | $500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Foundation for American Innovation (lincoln Network) | San Francisco, CA | $493,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Legal Priorities Project | Cambridge, MA | $483,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| The Center for Election Science | Covina, CA | $483,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| 1DAY Sooner | Claymont, DE | $475,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Quantified Uncertainty Research Institute | San Francisco, CA | $461,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sangro Inc | Newark, DE | $455,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Social & Environmental Entrepreneurs Inc | Calabasas, CA | $447,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Pragmatism Foundation | Norristown, PA | $432,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Open Lunar Foundation | Walnut, CA | $430,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| National Academy of Sciences | Washington, DC | $429,085 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Goodly Institute | University Avenue, CA | $427,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Radicalxchange Foundation Ltd | Moraga, CA | $426,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Basis Research Institute | New York City, NY | $422,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Family Empowerment Media | Brooklyn, NY | $421,779 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Shining Hope for Communities | New York, NY | $420,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Generation Pledge | New York, NY | $361,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| University of Toronto | Toronto, Ontario | $346,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Whylome | Fairfax, VT | $345,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Brown University | Providence, RI | $326,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors | New York, NY | $319,721 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Convergent Research Inc | Cambridge, MA | $316,337 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Artificial Intelligence Forecasting Inc | Berkeley, CA | $315,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lead Exposure Elimination Project Inc | Chicago, IL | $310,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Wisconsin Foundation | Madison, WI | $309,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies Inc | Santa Monica, CA | $304,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Blueprint Biosecurity | Washington, DC | $297,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Center for Mindful Learning Inc | Lowell, VT | $295,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hack Foundation | West Hollywood, CA | $257,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Center for a New American Security Inc | Washington, DC | $256,774 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Laboratory for Social Minds (cmu) | Pittsburgh, PA | $255,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Median Group | Walnut, CA | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Idea Foundry | Pittsburgh, PA | $247,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Humane League (thl) | Rockville, MD | $244,672 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Nuclear Threat Initiative (nti) | Washington, DC | $230,909 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Panorama Global | Seattle, WA | $216,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Taimaka Project | Arlington, VA | $201,250 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Parpa Inc (dba Speculative Technologies) | Princeton, NJ | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Constructive Dialogue Institute (cdi) | New York, NY | $196,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Lincoln Network Inc | San Francisco, CA | $189,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Model Evaluation and Threat Research Inc | Covina, CA | $184,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Good Food Institute (gfi) | Washington, DC | $181,270 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| FP21 | Washington, DC | $172,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The University of Rhode Island Foundation & Alumni Engagement | Kingston, RI | $163,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Louisville Foundation Inc | Louisville, KY | $159,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Silverlining | Washington, DC | $154,709 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Digital Harbor Foundation | Baltimore, MD | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lead Exposure Elimination Project (leep) | London | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Lead Exposure Elimination Project (leep) | Chicago, IL | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pure Earth | New York, NY | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Against Malaria Foundation | Kansas City, MO | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Future Society Inc | Somerville, MA | $142,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Center for Strategic and International Studies Inc | Washington, DC | $136,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Givedirectly (gd) | New York, NY | $130,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| New Incentives | Covina, CA | $130,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Moonlight Institute | Lasqueti Island, British Columbia | $127,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia | New York, NY | $124,891 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Earth Law Center Inc | Boulder, CO | $124,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Mercatus Center | Arlington, VA | $115,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Washington Foundation | Seattle, WA | $111,856 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| 80000 Hours | San Francisco, CA | $110,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Taimaka | Arlington, VA | $105,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| European Biostasis Foundation | Canton of Baselstadt | $103,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Viento & Social Good Fund | Richmond, CA | $102,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Animal Charity Evaluators | Covina, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Brookings Institution | Washington, DC | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists | Chicago, IL | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Carnegie Endowment for International Peace | Washington, DC | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Freedom Fund | Brooklyn, NY | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Nine Lives Foundation | Redwood City, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Norn Group | San Francisco, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics | Cary, NC | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| PREP4ALL Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Stanford University | Stanford, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Transparentem | New York City, NY | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Everyorg | San Francisco, CA | $96,048 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Flexportorg Fund Via Caf America | Alexandria, VA | $95,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Contramount Research | Lexington, MA | $88,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Center for Global Development | Washington, DC | $86,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Global Food Partners (gfp) | Washington, DC | $85,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Scholarship Junkies | Seattle, WA | $85,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Science and Technology Futures Inc | Cambridge, MA | $81,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hadfield-Menell's Lab at MIT | Cambridge, MA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Madry Lab at MIT | Cambridge, MA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Healthlearn | Lowell, MA | $74,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Safe Place International | St Ignace, MI | $72,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| New Venture Fund | Washington, DC | $70,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Safeplace International | Oakland, CA | $69,905 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Stanford Existential Risks Initiative | Stanford, CA | $69,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Unite America Institute | Denver, CO | $68,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Bandhan-Konnagar | Salt Lake, Kolkata | $62,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Rave Foundation | Seattle, WA | $55,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Stichting Bellingcat | Amsterdam | $55,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Dr Philip Tetlock at the University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | $54,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Life You Can Save | Novato, CA | $53,679 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Benjamin Franklin Society Library Inc | Orlando, FL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Center for Responsible Innovation | Washington, DC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cornell University | Ithaca, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Endee | Bussum | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Evidence Action Inc | Washington, DC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Fish Welfare Initiative | Normal, IL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| French American International School | San Francisco, CA | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Global Talent Lab | Baltimore, MD | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| International Labor Rights Forum | Washington, DC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Journalism Development Network Inc | Washington, DC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Open Molecular Software Foundation | Davis, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Pacific Forum | Honolulu, HI | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| President and Fellows of Harvard University | Cambridge, MA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sentience Institute | New York, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Third Sector Capital Partners Inc | Boston, MA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Wild Animal Initiative Inc | Minneapolis, MN | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | $45,610 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Imagine Worldwide | Mill Valley, CA | $43,501 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Clinton Foundation | Little Rock, AR | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Field School Inc | Washington, DC | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Inhr | Holland, MI | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Proximity 2 Humanity | Albemarle, NC | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence | Palo Alto, CA | $38,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Vanderbilt University | Nashville, TN | $38,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Gift Trust | Marion Square | $37,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Center for Consciousness Medicine | Nevada City, CA | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Yayasan Hidup Lestari Kembali | Tabanan, Bali | $34,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Future Cleantech Architects Ggmbh (fca) | Remscheid | $32,109 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Americans for Oxford Incfuture of Humanity Institute | New York, NY | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Kochi University of Technology | Kochi | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Manifold for Charity | Austin, TX | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Renewables Global Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bandhan-Konnagar | Salt Lake Kolkata West Be | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Friends of Oakland Animal Services | Oakland, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| K-T Support Group | Milford, OH | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Palestine Children's Relief Fund | Los Angeles, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Yayasan Hidup Lestari Kembali | Tabanan | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sciart Initiative Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $24,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Balsa Policy Institute | New York, NY | $23,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Midas Project | Tulsa, OK | $21,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| American Independent Foundation | Washington, DC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Beit El Baraka USA | Bethesda, VA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Dyrenes Alliance | Copenhagen | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc | Daytona Beach, FL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Finemind | Aurora, CO | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Justice Rising International | Los Angeles, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Midaat | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 | |
| Writers Guild Initiative | New York, NY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Iodine Global Network | Ottawa, Ontario | $18,775 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Satellite Affordable Housing Associates | Berkeley, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs Inc | Calabasas, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Albert Schweitzer Foundation (asf) | Berlin | $13,711 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Dbf Mind First Foundation Inc | Lincoln, MA | $13,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| World Juggling Federation | Seattle, WA | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of California Berkeley Foundation | Berkeley, CA | $11,644 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| A Beautiful Heart Ministries Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Huntington Valley | Fountain Valley, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Building From Within | Zionsville, IN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Children Families & Communities | Ellsworth, ME | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Every Mother Counts | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Independent Arts & Media | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Indian Muslim Relief and Charities | Mountain View, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Juan Felipe Gomez Escobar Foundation (fundacin Juanfe) | Key Biscayne, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Notley Impact | Austin, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Southern Vision Alliance | Durham, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Team Rubicon | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Teca (pta California Congress of Parents Teachers & Students) | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Terraset | Boulder, CO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Kids Co-Op Inc | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Spacekind Foundation | Covina, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Virginia Engineering Foundation | Charlottesville, VA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Vote Riders | Santa Monica, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Vox Media | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Nowak Society | Fort Collins, CO | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Canal Alliance | San Rafael, CA | $6,788 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Muttville Senior Dog Rescue | San Francisco, CA | $6,294 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Chinese for Affirmative Action | San Francisco, CA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rock the Vote | Washington, DC | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| She-Can | Mill Valley, CA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Voto Latino | Washington, DC | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pef Israel Endowment Funds Inc | New York, NY | $5,250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Asian Americans Advancing Justice | Washington, DC | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Gvngorgtradewinds | Los Angeles, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Kt Support Group | Milford, OH | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Legado Inc | Jackson, NH | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Movement for Black Lives | Tucson, AZ | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Teaching at the Right Level (tarl) Africa | Cambridge, MA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Yari | Stockholm | $3,655 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Feeding America | Chicago, IL | $3,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Movember Foundation | Culver City, CA | $3,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Congregation Shir Hadash | Los Gatos, CA | $3,448 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund | New York, NY | $3,192 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| No Kid Hungry | Washington, DC | $2,655 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Partners in Health | Boston, MA | $1,452 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Black Girls Code | San Francisco, CA | $1,388 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Trevor Project | West Hollywood, CA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Audre Lorde Project Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $886 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ucsf Covid Fund | San Francisco, CA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Gates Philanthropy Partners - Combating Covid-19 Fund | Seattle, WA | $445 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
47 of 261 (18%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 25%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one, and this foundation told the IRS it does not.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Deployus
FUND CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES - Clean Air Task Force (catf)
GENERAL SUPPORT AND SUPPORT OF SUPER HOT ROCK GEOTHERMAL ENERGY - Founders Pledge Ltd
GENERAL SUPPORT, SUPPORT PPF, GENERAL OPERATING EXPENSES - Centre for Effective Altruism USA Inc (cea)
SUPPORT OF CENTRE FOR THE GOVERNANCE OF AI; EA INFRASTRUCTURE FUND; LONG-TERM FUTURE FUND - Center for Applied Rationality
SPARC, THE SUMMER PROGRAM ON APPLIED RATIONALITY AND COGNITION; LIGHTCONE INFRASTRUCTURE; LESSWRONG; GENERAL SUPPORT - Tsinghua Education Foundation Na Inc
CHINA CARBON NEUTRALITY PROJECT OF THE INSTITUTE OF ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT AND ECONOMY, TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY FOR THE COMPONENTS ON RETROFITTING COAL POWER, CHINESE INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE POLICY LEADERSHIP
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 135 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 94 | $24.8M | $54,500 |
| 2022 | 61 | $25.1M | $244,000 |
| 2023 | 76 | $33.0M | $150,000 |
| 2024 | 102 | $26.3M | $0 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
45% of its giving went to organizations in California.
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These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more. Unlike this foundation, none of them is on record as funding only organizations it picks, and each page says what its filings show.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Founders Pledge Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 3 returns (tax years 2021-2023). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 228 Park Ave S Pmb 71081, New York, NY, 10003. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS.
EIN 37-1795297 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this
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