New York · Public charity
Founders Pledge Inc
Founders pledge, inc. Is a non-profit organization created to empower entrepreneurs and investors to do immense good by facilitating charitable giving.
- $30M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 102
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 73
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 59%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $26M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $81,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $8,925,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 89
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 20
- Total assets, FY2024
- $118M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 59% of the organizations Founders Pledge Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 60% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 95 | $25M | 66% |
| FY2023 | 73 | $31M | 59% |
| FY2022 | 56 | $23M | 54% |
| FY2021 | 89 | $21M | 85% |
| FY2020 | 53 | $3.4M | 89% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $934k | 71% |
| FY2017 | 10 | $608k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deployus Inc | $9,800,000 | 2 | 55% |
| Center for Applied Rationality | $4,292,000 | 3 | 59% |
| Alignment Research Center | $4,172,000 | 3 | 49% |
| Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative | $3,186,000 | 5 | 57% |
| Tsinghua Education Foundation Na Inc | $2,540,000 | 1 | 17% |
| Ukraine Trustchain | $2,307,956 | 1 | 36% |
| Far Ai Inc | $2,038,304 | 3 | 35% |
| Center for AI Safety Inc | $2,005,000 | 2 | 11% |
| Machine Intelligence Research Institute Inc | $1,802,500 | 5 | 29% |
| Effective Ventures Foundation USA Inc | $1,727,970 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 214 grantees
Plus 67 recipients with no EIN on record ($31M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Founders Pledge Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 32 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 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: Effective Ventures Foundation USA Inc · Good Ventures Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Every Org · Rethink Charity · Manifold for Charity Inc · Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative · Daffy Charitable Fund · Laidir Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Mercatus Center Inc
How this is measured
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About Founders Pledge Inc
- How much does Founders Pledge Inc give?
- Founders Pledge Inc reported 102 itemized grants totaling $26,259,981, out of $30,147,500 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 89 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Founders Pledge Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Science & Tech (24%), Environment (18%), Philanthropy (11%).
- Who are Founders Pledge Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Deployus Inc ($9.8M), Center for Applied Rationality ($4.3M), Alignment Research Center ($4.2M).
- Does Founders Pledge Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 59% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Founders Pledge Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Effective Ventures Foundation USA Inc, Good Ventures Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
- Where is Founders Pledge Inc based?
- Founders Pledge Inc is based in NY.
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