“10 of Founders Pledge’s biggest grants” by Matt_Lerner

This is a crosspost of a recent post by Hannah Yang, FP Research's comms lead, on Founders Pledge's website. I thought it was important to post this on the Forum because it's unclear to me what people know about FP, and because I often encounter various misconceptions — the three most common being that we focus only on climate (we don't), that we're driven primarily by member interests (we're not), and that we don't move very much money (see below). Many of the grants below are advised grants — that is, grants made by donors on our recommendation, typically using FP's infrastructure — while some come directly out of our Funds. Like many orgs, we're hoping to raise a lot more money for our managed funds in the coming years to enable greater flexibility, greater efficiency, and indeed greater impact. More generally, though, FP is planning to roughly triple [...] ---Outline:(01:55) Global Health & Development(02:18) $8M to Teaching at the Right Level Africa (2024)(03:18) $6.4M to Innovation in Government Initiative (2024)(04:22) $5M to Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (2023)(05:22) $5M to Bandhan (2024)(06:16) Global Catastrophic Risks(06:49) $3M to launch IBBIS (2023)(08:03) $1.86M to start the Berkeley Risk and Security Lab (2022)(09:06) $2.5M for Carnegie's Averting Armageddon project (2023)(10:14) Climate(10:37) $4M to Clean Air Task Force (2021-2022)(11:48) $5M to DEPLOY/US (2024)(13:09) $3.5M to establish the Innovation Initiative (2025)--- First published: July 9th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/9WinzeTqDeTBygQwK/10-of-founders-pledge-s-biggest-grants --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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