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Good Ventures
The Good Ventures Foundation, branded simply as Good Ventures, is an American non-profit organization based in Palo Alto, California.1)
History
Good Ventures was founded in 2011 by Dustin Moskovitz and Cari Tuna.2)
Activities
Grantmaking
According to Good Ventures' grant database, early funding recipients include:3)
Open Philanthropy
Following the formation of Open Philanthropy in August 2014, grants were awarded to:
- Berkeley Essential Risk Institute
- Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense
- Black Strategy Fund
- Brigham and Women’s Hospital
- Cambridge Existential Risk Initiative
- Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Carnegie Mellon University
- CDC Foundation
- Center for a New American Security
- Center for Applied Rationality
- Center for Court Innovation
- Center for Effective Global Action
- Center for Election Science
- Center for Governance of AI
- Center for International Security and Cooperation
- Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity
- Center for Popular Democracy
- Center for Population-Level Bioethics
- Center for Security and Emerging Technology
- Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
- Center for Welfare Metrics
- Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
- Center on Poverty and Inequality
- Centre for Effective Altruism
- Charity Entrepreneurship
- Charity Science Health
- ClimateWorks Foundation
- Council on Energy, Environment, and Water
- Council on Strategic Risks
- The Degrees Initiative (formerly the Solar Radiation Management Governance Institute)
- Dept Collective
- Economic Policy Institute
- Effective Altruism Debate Championship
- Effective Altruism Foundation
- Emmett Institute on Climate Change & the Environment
- The END Fund
- Engineers Without Borders USA
- Federation of American Scientists
- Flanders Institute of Biotechnology
- Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment
- Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH)
- Founders Pledge
- Future of Humanity Institute
- Future of Life Institute
- Genspace
- Georgetown Center for Global Health Science and Security
- Giving What We Can
- Global Commission on Governing Risks from Climate Overshoot
- Global Food Partners
- Global Health Security Network
- Global Priorities Institute
- Gryphon Scientific
- The Guardian
- Health Alliance for Violence Intervention
- Helen Keller International
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
- IDinsight
- Immune Observatory
- Institute for Protein Design
- International Genetically Engineered Medicine Foundation (iGEM)
- International Vaccine Institute
- Iodine Global Network
- Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
- Kaiser Permanente for Health Research
- KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme
- Life Sciences Research Foundation
- Longview Philanthropy
- Machine Intelligence Research Institute
- Malaria Consortium
- Massachusetts General Hospital
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- MIT Media Lab
- Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms
- Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies
- National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
- National Bureau of Economic Research
- Nigerian Institute of Medical Research
- Nuclear Threat Initiative
- PATH
- Peterson Institute for International Economics
- Research Institute of Industrial Economics
- Rockefeller University
- Royal Veterinary College
- Sherlock Biosciences
- Smithsonian Institution
- Stanford Existential Risks Initiative
- Synthetic Neurobiology Group
- Université de Montréal
- University Health Network
- University of British Columbia
- University of Toronto
- Urban Institute
- Vera Institute of Justice
- Vital Strategies
- World Economic Forum
- World Organisation for Animal Health
- Yale University School of Medicine
Organization
Partners
Shortly following its founding, Good Ventures partnered with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and GiveWell to “work closely with other funders to support promising projects and learn how to give effectively.”4)
1)
Good Ventures Foundation - Nonprofit Explorer. ProPublica. Retrieved December 8, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20221208201618/https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/461008520
2)
Weissman, L. (2015, January 2). Silicon Valley Billionaire Dustin Moskovitz And Cari Tuna On the Reasoned Art Of Giving. Jewish Business News. https://archive.ph/rmr9U
3)
Grants Database. Good Ventures. Retrieved December 9, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20221209002150/https://www.goodventures.org/our-portfolio/grants-database?orderby=cf_grants_date&sort=asc
4)
Partners. Good Ventures. Retrieved March 15, 2013, from https://web.archive.org/web/20130315053714/http://www.goodventures.org/about-us/partners