· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its 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
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 11% of Effective Ventures Foundation USA Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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 DEVELOPMENTgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1.2M · revenue +28%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
144 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Effective Ventures Foundation USA Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Effective Ventures Foundation USA Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
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