Funding for health, climate & humanitarian projects

Requests for funding

Funders' pledge accept grant applications from potential grantees on a rolling basis through a quick-to fill form. The application should take between 5 and 15 minutes to fill out. You can review their giving philosophy here.

They typically make small grants of between $50,000 and $300,000. They can recommend much larger one-time grants of up to $5m to large donors. They can also recommend programs to members on an ongoing basis. Such recommended programs tend to draw in variously-sized donations from Founders Pledge members several times per year.

They are particularly interested in work being done in four areas:

• Global health and development, especially programs that can, in expectation, save a life for under $4,000, avert a DALY for under $70, or double income for one person at a cost of less than $30. Note that this includes interventions that affect economic growth. We don’t necessarily require that grantees be able to point to an RCT in order to demonstrate cost-effectiveness.

• Global catastrophic risk, especially programs that can affect the likelihood of war between great powers, reduce risks from advanced artificial intelligence, or mitigate the possibility that biomedical advances could be used to cause harm.

• Climate, especially programs that can make a compelling case for advancing an important solution neglected by the large existing climate philanthropy and action effort.

• Animal welfare, mainly corporate campaigns — especially in geographies where other animal welfare charities aren’t working — as well as on novel bets on cellular agriculture and plant-based meats, including those that are trying to increase public R&D funding.

For more information and application click here.