About

What this is

This site aggregates publicly available grant data from grantmakers associated with the Effective Altruism community. It currently includes over 7,600 grants totaling approximately $7.6 billion, spanning 2012 to 2026.

The site has two complementary parts: this grants database of individual grants, and a companion org financials database showing the annual revenues and expenses of the organizations that receive them. The grants database is described first, followed by the org financials database.

Grantmakers, grants, and grantees are included in this database on the basis that information about them will be useful to the EA community. Whether a grantee or grant is actually "EA" is a question outside the scope of this project.

The database is updated monthly via an automated scraping pipeline. The source code and full methodology documentation are available on GitHub.

Data sources with individual grants

Coefficient Giving (formerly Open Philanthropy)

Approximately 3,230 grants (2012 through 2026), sourced from the official Coefficient Giving Grants Archive. Open Philanthropy rebranded to Coefficient Giving in 2025.

GiveWell

Approximately 450 grants (2014 through 2026), exported from GiveWell's public Airtable database. All grants are categorized as Global Health & Development.

Public grant listings can lag behind internal grantmaking and may be incomplete or filtered for usability. As a result, public totals and counts may differ from grantmaker announcements that draw on internal systems or newer approvals.

Effective Altruism Funds

Approximately 1,820 grants (2017 through 2025) from the public API at funds.effectivealtruism.org. Covers four funds: Long-Term Future Fund, Animal Welfare Fund, Global Health and Development Fund, and Infrastructure Fund.

Survival and Flourishing Fund

Approximately 470 grants (2018 through 2025), parsed from the HTML table on the recommendations page. All grants are categorized as Long-Term & Existential Risk.

Animal Charity Evaluators

Approximately 320 grants (2015 through 2026) from ACE's Movement Grants program, scraped from its past grant recipients page. All grants are categorized as Animal Welfare. Where itemized coverage falls short of ACE's published annual giving, a residual entry tops up the difference.

Future of Life Institute

Grants with individually published amounts across FLI's annual grant program pages (2015 onward), parsed from those pages. FLI's fellowship cohorts and request-for-proposal programs do not publish per-grant amounts and are therefore not included, so FLI's totals here understate its grantmaking.

Meta Charity Funders

All grants from this funding circle's round retrospectives published on the EA Forum (approximately $3.6M across four rounds since 2023), manually curated. Some grantees are anonymous in the source and are listed as anonymous here. One grant made in pounds is converted at the round's exchange rate.

The Navigation Fund

Grants in EA-relevant program areas from the Navigation Charitable Fund's complete IRS Form 990 Schedule I, manually classified. Both filed years were reviewed (FY2023 and FY2024); the included grants are farm-animal-welfare support (via Food System Innovations / Humane America Animal Foundation) and a digital-sentience grant. Excluded from every year are large transfers to a donor-advised fund (Vanguard Charitable), open-science and criminal-justice grants, and operational/PR vendor payments. The fund publishes no grants list of its own and its filings carry no award dates beyond the fiscal year-end, so dates are approximate and coverage lags by a year.

BlueDot Impact and Manifund (regrants)

Rapid grants from BlueDot Impact and project funding from Manifund, both pulled from their public data. These are regrantors whose money comes largely from grantmakers already tracked here (BlueDot primarily from Coefficient Giving; Manifund from a mix of donors). To avoid double-counting the funder → regrantor → recipient chain, each regrantor's grants are counted net of the tracked grants that funded it — so they add little or nothing to the headline total, and count in full only when their upstream funder is removed from the current view.

ACX Grants

Scott Alexander's ACX Grants program, funded largely by his readers and outside donors. Later rounds (2024–2025) are administered through Manifund; earlier rounds (2021–2022) were run directly. All are consolidated here under ACX Grants, via Trace (a public-domain funding dataset from Manifund).

The Audacious Project and OpenAI Foundation

Individual EA-relevant grants sourced from Trace: The Audacious Project's support for METR, and the OpenAI Foundation's biosecurity grant to SecureBio. The OpenAI Foundation's People-First AI Fund (community nonprofits) is out of scope and not included.

Data sources with annual totals only

The following grantmaker does not publish individual grant data with dollar amounts. Annual totals are used to generate residual entries that represent each year's total disbursements as a single record.

Founders Pledge

Annual grant totals from IRS 990 filings (2016 through 2024), sourced via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer. These figures represent grants paid, not "money moved" (which is a larger figure). Grants span multiple cause areas but cannot be broken out by category.

Processing

Categories

Grants are classified into seven categories based on the source organization's own labeling: Long-Term & Existential Risk, Global Health & Development, Animal Welfare, EA Community & Infrastructure, Scientific Research, Policy Reform, and Other. Mapping tables translate each source's terminology to this taxonomy.

Deduplication

Two deduplication layers are applied. First, approximately 173 Coefficient Giving grants to GiveWell's recommended charities (Against Malaria Foundation, Malaria Consortium, New Incentives, and others) are excluded to avoid double-counting with GiveWell's own records — matched by recipient and program, since Coefficient files some GiveWell-channel grants under other fund labels. Second, cross-source fuzzy matching identifies grants to the same recipient in the same year with amounts within 10%, merging approximately 49 additional duplicates.

These safeguards prioritize consistent totals over perfect attribution when the same grant appears in multiple sources. Some grants may therefore appear under a different grantmaker than the original announcement.

A direct consequence is that Coefficient Giving's (Open Philanthropy's) total understates its actual grantmaking. The roughly $1.25 billion it has granted to GiveWell-recommended charities is attributed to GiveWell — the proximate grantmaker — rather than counted again under Coefficient. Per-grantmaker totals are therefore de-duplicated, not additive: this avoids double-counting the GiveWell funding channel, at the cost of making Open Philanthropy look smaller than its headline figures, which typically include money it moves through GiveWell.

Residual grants

For grantmakers with published annual totals, a residual grant is generated when the gap between the published total and the sum of scraped individual grants exceeds both $100,000 and 5% of the published total. This provides approximate dollar coverage without itemization.

Inflation adjustment

An optional toggle on the chart converts historical amounts to constant 2025 US dollars using Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI-U annual averages.

Non-core EA focus areas

Approximately 605 grants ($337M) in the Policy Reform category are excluded from the default view. These include US policy areas such as Criminal Justice Reform, Housing Policy Reform, Immigration Policy, Macroeconomic Stabilization Policy, Innovation Policy, and Abundance & Growth — areas that are not generally considered part of the EA movement. These grants can be viewed by selecting them explicitly in the Fund filter or the Policy Reform category.

Limitations

Publication timing

Grants appear in public databases when they are published, not when they are committed or disbursed. This creates significant lag: Coefficient Giving may publish grants months after they are made, and some grants may never be published. As a result, recent years will systematically undercount actual grantmaking until databases catch up.

Publication timing issues also affect completeness within a year. A grantmaker may publish a subset of approvals, revise entries later, or maintain internal records that are more comprehensive than public listings.

This timing issue affects year-over-year trend analysis. A decline in grants for the current or prior year may reflect publication lag rather than actual funding changes. For reliable trend analysis, use data from years where publication is substantially complete (typically 2+ years prior).

For more on this issue, see the Historical EA Funding Data (2025 Update) analysis on the EA Forum.

Other limitations

• Coefficient Giving data is sourced from their official archive CSV, which is updated periodically as grants are published.
• Founders Pledge entries are entirely residual — they represent annual totals, not individual grants.
• Metadata fields such as country, topics, and description are sparse for many sources because the upstream data does not include them.
• 2025 and 2026 data is partial and reflects only grants published to date.
• Both databases contain only publicly available information — publicly disclosed grants and public financial filings. Grants made privately or not disclosed, funders that publish no grants list, and organizations without public filings are not captured, so totals are a lower bound on actual EA grantmaking and organizational revenue.
• The database does not include donation platforms (e.g., Giving What We Can, The Life You Can Save) because their totals largely overlap with the grantmakers already tracked.
• Some EA-adjacent grantmakers are not yet tracked, including Longview Philanthropy, which sends fund reports privately to donors and publishes no grants list.
• The FTX Future Fund committed approximately $160M in grants during 2022 before the collapse of FTX. These grants are excluded because it is unclear which commitments were actually disbursed and which were clawed back during bankruptcy proceedings. There is no authoritative source distinguishing paid grants from unfulfilled commitments.

The org financials database

A companion org financials database shows the annual finances — revenue, expenses, assets, and liabilities — of about 100 EA-adjacent organizations that appear as grant recipients, drawn from their public regulatory filings. It is meant to show how much money these organizations actually take in and spend, and what share of their revenue comes from tracked EA grants. Each organization card links to that organization's grants in the grants database, and each grant links back to the recipient's financials.

US organizations (IRS Form 990)

Annual total revenue, contributions, expenses, and end-of-year assets, liabilities, and net assets for approximately 87 US 501(c)(3) organizations, sourced from the ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer API, which republishes the IRS's structured extract of Form 990 filings.

UK organizations (Charity Commission)

Gross income and total expenditure for approximately 12 England-and-Wales registered charities, taken from the Charity Commission public bulk data extract (the master register and annual-return history). These figures are reported in pounds.

Which organizations are included

Organizations are included when they appear as recipients in the grants database and publish their own financials. Pure grantmakers and regranters — for example Open Philanthropy, GiveWell, Founders Pledge, Animal Charity Evaluators, and ClimateWorks — are excluded, because their reported revenue reflects pass-through donations rather than programmatic income and would be misleading. Organizations whose tracked EA grants were both under 1% of total revenue and under $1M overall are also omitted, to keep the focus on organizations for which EA funding is material.

Some clearly EA-funded organizations cannot be included: those that are fiscally sponsored by another entity and therefore have no separate filing (their finances are folded into the host's return), and organizations based outside the US and UK, for which no comparable open financial register is currently used.

Tracked EA grants and inferred years

Within each revenue bar, a darker segment marks the portion attributable to grants recorded in the grants database for that organization and year. For years in which an organization received tracked EA grants but has no filing on record — for instance before its first Form 990 or after its most recent one — an inferred bar is shown using the known grant total as a lower bound on revenue. These are drawn with a dashed outline and a faded extension to signal that actual revenue was likely higher.

Grant timing and carry-forward

Grantmakers date grants when they are awarded, and often record a multi-year grant as a single dated entry, so the grants logged for a given year can exceed an organization's filed revenue for that year. Because organizations generally recognize that money as revenue over the following year or two, the excess is carried forward — added to the next one or two years up to each year's revenue — rather than shown above revenue or discarded; affected figures are labeled in the chart tooltips. No grant money is dropped. The only amounts left above revenue are those landing in an organization's most recent filing year, where there is not yet a later filing to absorb them.

Currency and inflation

Per-organization charts are shown in each organization's reporting currency. The aggregate chart converts everything to US dollars using annual average GBP/USD exchange rates. An inflation toggle expresses amounts in constant 2025 prices, using Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI-U for dollar figures and ONS CPI for pound figures, so each currency is deflated by the appropriate index.

Limitations

• Regulatory filings lag much like grant publication: the most recent one to two years are frequently missing or incomplete, so recent revenue is undercounted.
• A filing covers the organization's fiscal year, which may not match the calendar year used to date grants, adding up to a year of apparent timing mismatch on top of the carry-forward described above.
• The IRS structured extract occasionally omits a filing year, or an organization entirely, even when a return was filed; affected years simply do not appear.
• Assets and liabilities are point-in-time, end-of-year values, whereas revenue and expenses are annual flows; all are shown together but should be read accordingly.
• The org financials CSV export reflects the raw filed figures and is not inflation-adjusted.

Source code

The full source code, scraping pipeline, and detailed methodology documentation are available at github.com/Brian-Foerster/EAGrantsDatabase. See DATA_SOURCES.md for the complete data sourcing notes. Contributions via pull request are welcome.

Feedback

To report errors, suggest additional data sources, or provide other feedback, use the feedback form or open an issue on GitHub.