· Public charity
Effective Ventures Foundation USA Inc
Effective alturism is a growing social movement founded in the desire to make the world as good a place as it can be, the use of evidence and reason to find out how to do so, and the audacity to actually try.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 48 grants below total $9,139,886 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $17,307,788 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $8,167,902 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $295k
- $50k–250k21 grants · $2.5M
- $250k+9 grants · $6.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GIVING WHAT WE CAN USA INC | $2,661,731 |
| THE CLEAR FUND DBA GIVEWILL | $733,080 |
| PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND | $708,463 |
| WILD ANIMAL INITIATIVE | $531,280 |
| RETHINK PRIORITIES | $502,950 |
| EFFECTIVE ALTRUISM DC | $328,083 |
| THE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE | $324,068 |
| INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR ANIMAL WELFARE | $291,000 |
| THE HUMANE LEAGUE US | $267,427 |
| PROJECT INNERSPACE | $200,000 |
| RESOLVE TO SAVE LIVES | $196,889 |
| FAR AI INC | $196,240 |
| EFFECTIVE ALTRUISM NYC INC | $153,536 |
| ANIMAL CHARITY EVALUATORS | $148,019 |
| HUMANE AMERICA ANIMAL FOUNDATION | $137,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $8.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
Grants abroad, by region — $7.3M on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 7 regions, $6.4M to organizations and $847k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: PUBLIC POLICY EDUCATION · AI SAFETY RESEARCH AND EDUCATION · CONFERENCE ON EFFECTIVE ALTRUISM
Stated purpose: EFFECTIVE ALTRUISM COMMUNITY BUILDING · IMPROVING ANIMAL WELFARE · IMPROVING THE WELFARE OF CAGED ANIMALS
Stated purpose: EFFECTIVE ALTRUISM COMMUNITY BUILDING · IMPROVING ANIMAL WELFARE · IMPROVING THE WELFARE OF CAGED ANIMALS
Stated purpose: IMPROVING ANIMAL WELFARE · IMPROVING THE WELFARE OF CAGED ANIMALS · SUPPORT FOR RESEARCH PROJECTS AND OTHER CHARITABLE PROJECTS
Stated purpose: EDUCATION ABOUT AI SAFETY · IMPROVING GLOBAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING · SUPPORT FOR RESEARCH PROJECTS AND OTHER CHARITABLE PROJECTS
Stated purpose: EFFECTIVE ALTRUISM COMMUNITY BUILDING
Stated purpose: IMPROVING THE WELFARE OF CAGED ANIMALS · RESEARCH ON IMPROVING ANIMAL WELFARE · SUPPORT FOR RESEARCH PROJECTS AND OTHER CHARITABLE PROJECTS
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 11% of Effective Ventures Foundation USA Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
67 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 37 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.3M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- RPRethink Priorities6× · 2020–2025 · $5.1M · revenue +851% · 32% of their budget
- ACANIMAL CHARITY EVALUATORS8× · 2017–2025 · $2.7M · revenue +164%
- WAWILD ANIMAL INITIATIVE INC7× · 2018–2025 · $2.2M · revenue ×29 · 39% of their budget
Funded once
- AFAtlas Fellowship Incone grant, 2023 · $3.0M · revenue -87% · 61% of their budget
- BIBLACKSMITH INSTITUTE INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1.7M · revenue +92%
- CFCENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENTone grant, 2022 · $1.2M · revenue +9%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
E3g is a leading international not-for-profit think tank specialising in climate diplomacy harnessing expertise in the politics and economics of climate change.
Using legal advocacy to make advances in science and technology safer for people and the planet.
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.
Bringing diverse voices together across global sectors, disciplines, and demographics so developments in ai advance positive outcomes for people and society.
To drive global coordination that minimizes extreme AI risks and ensures the benefits of AI are shared by all. SAIF fosters responsible governance to reduce catastrophic risks through shared understanding and collaboration among key global…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evidence Action and the most unlike its peers is Forgotten Animals Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 12 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 22% of your grantees by number, and just 21% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
144 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 144 of the 176 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Rethink Priorities ↗
- Who funds PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Atlas Fellowship Inc ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL CHARITY EVALUATORS ↗
- Who funds HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds GIVING WHAT WE CAN USA INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDERS PLEDGE INC ↗
- Who funds WILD ANIMAL INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CLEAR FUND ↗
- Who funds BLACKSMITH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds ALIGNMENT RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE COUNCIL ON STRATEGIC RISKS ↗
- Who funds The Against Malaria Foundation ↗
- Who funds GIVEDIRECTLY INC ↗
- Who funds INNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds THE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds AMF INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds ASHGRO INC ↗
- Who funds MACHINE INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds ID INSIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds GDI-SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds MALARIA CONSORTIUM US INC ↗
- Who funds PATH ↗
- Who funds AQUATIC LIFE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW INCENTIVES ↗
- Who funds EVIDENCE ACTION ↗
- Who funds Effective Altruism DC ↗
- Who funds BERKELEY EXISTENTIAL RISK INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds SENTIENCE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds ONE FOR THE WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds RETHINK CHARITY ↗
- Who funds GENERATION PLEDGE INC ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds GOOD ENERGY COLLECTIVE INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Good Ventures Foundation · Founders Pledge Inc · Animal Charity Evaluators · Every Org · Humane America Animal Foundation · The Quinn Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Tipping Point Private Foundation · The Greenbaum Foundation · Rethink Charity · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Kh Dominion Foundation 5507-21-40
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Effective Ventures Foundation USA Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Project Innerspace Inc — 34% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Oregon State University Foundation — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.