California · Nonprofit
EFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION USA INC
EFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION USA INC (California) receives grants from 79 organizations whose IRS filings report $144,433,993 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($58,343,089). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $24M
- Funders on record
- 79
- Grants received
- $144M
- Net assets
- $22M
What Effective Ventures Foundation USA Inc does
Mission
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.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Effective altruism funds (ea funds) and giving what we can (gwwc) are the major grantmaking programs of the organization. Ea funds funds small or early stage projects focused on improving the lives of people in extreme poverty, improving the wellbeing of non-human animals, supporting the effective altruism community and improving the long-term future. Gwwc inspires donations to the world's most effective organizations and provides a platform for making those donations. With the donations, the organization makes grants to the charities and other entities recommended by gwwc.
$13,908,125 spentof which $13,487,208 as grants46% of program spendingCentre for effective altruism supports the effective altruism community. It nurtures spaces where people can explore how to apply the ideas of effective altruism to their future careers, research, or donations. These spaces include events such as the ea global conference, local community groups, and online spaces such as the ea forum.
$8,207,944 spentof which $1,072,988 as grants$427,870 earned by the program27% of program spendingIn furtherance of its mission, the organization began a program to (1) grow the effective altruism community by providing a free space for individuals including university students to gather, network, and learn about effective altruism, and (2) provide a space for university and nonprofit research groups focused on long term risks to humanity (such as biosecurity risks) to meet, work, and advance critical ideas to address these risks.
$1,869,369 spent6% of program spending80,000 hours provides research and support to help people enter careers that effectively tackle the world's most pressing problems by providing 1-on-1 career advising, as well as maintaining a blog, a podcast, and a curated job board of high-impact opportunities. The forethought foundation aims to promote and communicate academic and nonacademic work that addresses the question of how to use our scarce resources to improve the world as much as possible. Forethought supports and promotes individuals and institutions working on global priorities research, furthers and develops effective altruism and longtermism ideas, and promotes and presents the ideas of effective altruism and long-termism in social and traditional media, in person, and within academia. The centre for the governance of ai ("gov ai") aims to define and map the field of artificial intelligence (ai) governance and address the most important and neglected research questions. Gov ai fellowships and prizes support promising early-career researchers working on ai governance. Gov ai runs seminars and conferences to connect the field of ai governance better and build a thriving global research community.
$6,038,573 spentof which $2,747,592 as grants$165,751 earned by the program20% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $30,024,011.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $79M to $36M (−55%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
90% of EFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION USA INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Zachary Robinson
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 32 funders, grant income rose $5.0M → $40M.
31 of 79 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of EFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION USA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 79 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
EFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION USA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
68% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund EFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION USA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 96% · 2019 35% · 2020 45% · 2021 22% · 2022 80% · 2023 46% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
53% of EFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION USA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
66% of EFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION USA INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $49M that is directly attributable, 86% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $96M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
EFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION USA INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like EFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION USA INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 10 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Centre for Effective Altruism Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds EFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION USA INC?
- EFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION USA INC (California) receives grants from 79 organizations whose IRS filings report $144,433,993 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($58,343,089). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does EFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION USA INC have?
- IRS filings report 79 organizations giving $144,433,993 in grants to EFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION USA INC, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION USA INC?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $58,343,089 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION USA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 79 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing