California · 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.
- $17M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 48
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 56
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 34%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $9.1M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $96,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,661,731
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 66
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 16
- Total assets, FY2025
- $23M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 34% of the organizations Effective Ventures Foundation USA Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 47 | $8.4M | 36% |
| FY2024 | 56 | $9.0M | 34% |
| FY2023 | 66 | $15M | 55% |
| FY2022 | 61 | $14M | 67% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $4.4M | 26% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $4.5M | 50% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $3.1M | 52% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $2.1M | 88% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rethink Priorities | $5,083,792 | 6 | 32% |
| Atlas Fellowship Inc | $3,000,000 | 1 | 61% |
| Animal Charity Evaluators | $2,695,932 | 8 | 19% |
| Helen Keller International | $2,668,952 | 4 | 1% |
| Giving What We Can USA Inc | $2,661,731 | 1 | n/a |
| Wild Animal Initiative Inc | $2,208,654 | 7 | 39% |
| The Clear Fund | $2,126,088 | 3 | 0% |
| Blacksmith Institute Inc | $1,670,000 | 1 | 17% |
| Alignment Research Center | $1,654,543 | 2 | 15% |
| The Council on Strategic Risks | $1,615,000 | 2 | 32% |
Show all 166 grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($100k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Effective Ventures Foundation USA Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 21 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 120 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
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About Effective Ventures Foundation USA Inc
- How much does Effective Ventures Foundation USA Inc give?
- Effective Ventures Foundation USA Inc reported 48 itemized grants totaling $9,139,886, out of $17,307,788 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 66 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Effective Ventures Foundation USA Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (24%), Animals (16%), Philanthropy (14%).
- Who are Effective Ventures Foundation USA Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Rethink Priorities ($5.1M), Atlas Fellowship Inc ($3.0M), Animal Charity Evaluators ($2.7M).
- Does Effective Ventures Foundation USA Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 34% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Effective Ventures Foundation USA Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Good Ventures Foundation, Founders Pledge Inc, Animal Charity Evaluators.
- Where is Effective Ventures Foundation USA Inc based?
- Effective Ventures Foundation USA Inc is based in CA.
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