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Form 990-PFTax year 2023EIN 37-1795297

Founders Pledge Inc

A private foundation in New York, NY. Its return for tax year 2023 lists 76 grants and $33 million paid in grants.

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Tax year 2023 (period ending Dec 31, 2023), read from the IRS e-file on Nov 11, 2026. Returns reach the IRS 5 to 18 months after the year they describe.

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Assets and giving by year

6 returns on file
Grants paid by tax year. The latest year is in blue.

  • Tax year 2023

    $33,029,496

    Grants listed
    76
    Assets, end of year
    $7,657,489

  • Tax year 2022

    $25,054,234

    Grants listed
    61
    Assets, end of year
    $9,810,548

  • Tax year 2021

    $24,847,836

    Grants listed
    94
    Assets, end of year
    $13,676,250

  • Tax year 2020

    $3,428,699

    Grants listed
    55
    Assets, end of year
    $11,047,486

  • Tax year 2018

    $934,167

    Grants listed
    17
    Assets, end of year
    $557,263

  • Tax year 2017

    $607,809

    Grants listed
    10
    Assets, end of year
    $1,006,011

Grants paid in 2023

76 grants, largest first

As listed on the return.

  1. Tsinghua Education Foundation NA IncMilpitas, CA

    China carbon neutrality project of the institute of energy, environment and economy, tsinghua university for the components on retrofitting coal power, chinese international climate policy leadership

    $2,540,000
  2. Ukraine TrustchainEvanston, IL

    General support

    $2,307,956
  3. Clean Air Task Force (catf)Boston, MA

    General support

    $2,000,000
  4. Center for Applied Rationality (cfar)Berkeley, CA

    General support of lightcone infrastructure and coordination project

    $1,922,000
  5. Alignment Research CenterCovina, CA

    General support of arc evals team

    $1,846,000
  6. Allfed InstituteMcLean, VA

    General support

    $1,586,000
  7. Manifold for Charity (aka Manifold Markets)Austin, TX

    General support

    $1,241,000
  8. Far Ai IncSan Diego, CA

    General support

    $1,147,000
  9. Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCambridge, MA

    General support and tegmark lab fund

    $1,100,100
  10. Centre for Effective Altruism USA IncSan Francisco, CA

    Long-term future fund, events team, online team, community health and special project team

    $1,097,000
  11. Players Philanthropy FundTowson, MD

    General support of arkose, project solve, technical alignment impossibility proofs, spiro project

    $1,053,000
  12. Carnegie Mellon UniversityPittsburgh, PA

    Foundations of cooperative ai lab (focal)

    $1,000,000
  13. Meridian Prime IncWashington, DC

    General support

    $1,000,000
  14. The Energy for Growth Hub IncWashington, DC

    Supporting the ppa transparency norms project

    $1,000,000
  15. Center for Artificial Intelligence Safety IncSan Francisco, CA

    General support

    $909,000
  16. Berkeley Existential Risk InitiativeSan Diego, CA

    General support of beri-cltc and beri-chai collaborations, mats london

    $881,000
  17. Deploy-Us IncBoston, MA

    General support

    $875,000
  18. Founders Pledge LTD (FPL)London, United Kingdom

    General support

    $837,200
  19. Redwood ResearchBerkeley, CA

    General support

    $598,000
  20. Opencollective FoundationCovina, CA

    General support of the unjournal

    $565,000
  21. Securebio IncCambridge, MA

    General support

    $548,000
  22. TerrapraxisCambridge, MA

    General support

    $500,000
  23. Sangro IncWilmington, DE

    General support

    $455,000
  24. The Pragmatism FoundationNorristown, PA

    General support of the pronatalist.org initiative

    $432,000
  25. Radicalxchange Foundation LTDMoraga, CA

    The collective intelligence project, general support of honor society films, audrey tang project

    $400,000
  26. Goodly InstituteUniversity Avenue, CA

    General support of ai objectives institute

    $352,000
  27. Center for Innovative Governance ResearchWashington, DC

    General support of charter cities institute

    $315,000
  28. Lead Exposure Elimination Project IncNewark, DE

    General support

    $310,000
  29. Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies IncSanta Monica, CA

    General support

    $304,000
  30. Rethink PrioritiesSan Francisco, CA

    General support of the rethink priorities existential security team and ai governance and strategy team

    $276,000
  31. GivewellOakland, CA

    Maximum impact fund, all grants fund, general support

    $250,000
  32. Social & Environmental Entrepreneurs Inc & Global Catastrophic Risk InstituCalabasas, CA

    General support

    $250,000
  33. The Taimaka ProjectWashington, DC

    Nigeria malnutrition treatment program.

    $201,250
  34. Family Empowerment MediaDover, DE

    General support

    $200,000
  35. Lincoln Network IncWashington, DC

    General support

    $189,000
  36. FP21Washington, DC

    General support

    $172,000
  37. University of Louisville Foundation IncLouisville, KY

    General support of DR. Roman yampolskiys research group (cybersecurity lab)

    $159,000
  38. Nuclear Threat Initiative (nti)Washington, DC

    Biosecurity programs

    $150,000
  39. The Against Malaria FoundationKansas City, MO

    General support

    $150,000
  40. Center for Strategic and International Studies IncWashington, DC

    General support of ai governance project

    $136,000
  41. Basis Research InstituteNew York, NY

    General support

    $126,000
  42. Shining Hope for CommunitiesNew York, NY

    General support

    $115,000
  43. Machine Intelligence Research InstituteBerkeley, CA

    General support of ai impacts

    $107,000
  44. Legal Priorities ProjectCambridge, MA

    General support

    $103,000
  45. Animal Charity EvaluatorsCovina, CA

    Sinergia animal international

    $100,000
  46. Brookings InstitutionWashington, DC

    Us/china strategic dialogues

    $100,000
  47. Center for A New American Security IncWashington, DC

    To support the one-year project on understanding an international autonomous incidents agreement

    $100,000
  48. The Center for Election ScienceCovina, CA

    General support

    $96,000
  49. Convergence AnalysisBerkeley, CA

    General support of technologies for pandemic defense

    $86,000
  50. Safe Place InternationalSt Ignace, MI

    General support

    $72,500
  51. 1DAY SoonerClaymont, DE

    Malaria vaccine rollout

    $50,000
  52. EndeeBussum, Netherlands

    Advance the charitable mission of the total portfolio project (TPP), which seeks to accelerate effective impact-financial integration by revising the 'pricing investor impact' research paper

    $50,000
  53. Evidence Action IncWashington, DC

    Deworm the world initiative

    $50,000
  54. Fish Welfare InitiativeNormal, IL

    General support

    $50,000
  55. Journalism Development Network IncWashington, DC

    General support

    $50,000
  56. President and Fellows of Harvard UniversityCambridge, MA

    Giving multiplier' with prof joshua greene, department of psychology, harvard university

    $50,000
  57. Third Sector Capital Partners IncBoston, MA

    General support

    $50,000
  58. Wild Animal Initiative IncMinneapolis, MN

    General support

    $50,000
  59. Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimore, MD

    General support of milan griffes for tuition and BSPH health clinic fees

    $45,610
  60. The Gift TrustMarion Square, New Zealand

    Mothertree labs

    $37,500
  61. New IncentivesCovina, CA

    General support

    $30,000
  62. Bandhan-KonnagarSalt Lake Kolkata West Be, India

    Targeting the poor programme

    $25,000
  63. K-T Support GroupMilford, OH

    General support

    $25,000
  64. Yayasan Hidup Lestari KembaliTabanan, Indonesia

    General support

    $25,000
  65. Earth Law Center IncBoulder, CO

    General support

    $24,000
  66. Sciart Initiative IncBrooklyn, NY

    General support of the intrinsic perspective

    $24,000
  67. The Life You Can SaveSpokane, WA

    Iodine global network, general support

    $23,679
  68. Dyrenes AllianceCopenhagen, Netherlands

    To support the fish campaign

    $20,000
  69. Rockefeller Philanthropy AdvisorsNew York, NY

    Fara fee for breakthrough agenda grant

    $18,346
  70. Albert Schweitzer Foundation (asf)Berlin, Germany

    General support

    $13,711
  71. University of California Berkeley FoundationBerkeley, CA

    General support

    $11,644
  72. The Future Society IncSomerville, MA

    General support

    $11,000
  73. Indian Muslim Relief and CharitiesMountain View, CA

    General support

    $10,000
  74. TerrasetNew York, NY

    General support

    $10,000
  75. The Spacekind FoundationCovina, CA

    General support

    $10,000
  76. Legado IncJackson, NH

    General support

    $5,000

Where the money goes

By cause: grants to organizations we matched to the IRS list of exempt organizations, by their category.

  1. International aid10 grants $6,047,20627% of the total
  2. Science and technology6 grants $4,683,00021% of the total
  3. Education7 grants $2,618,74412% of the total
  4. Disaster relief and public safety2 grants $2,467,00011% of the total
  5. Philanthropy and grantmaking6 grants $2,365,02510% of the total
  6. Environment4 grants $1,890,0008% of the total
  7. 9 other causes17 grants $2,649,00012% of the total

By State

Grants to organizations with a US address, latest year.

  1. California25 grants $14,000,323
  2. Massachusetts9 grants $5,237,100
  3. District of Columbia10 grants $3,073,000
  4. Illinois3 grants $2,667,956
  5. Colorado3 grants $1,620,000
  6. Pennsylvania2 grants $1,432,000
  7. Texas1 grant $1,241,000
  8. Maryland2 grants $1,098,610
  9. Delaware2 grants $505,000
  10. New York5 grants $483,346

Officers, directors and trustees

7 people as filed

As filed on the return, with average hours per week and pay from the foundation.

  • Rachel AshUS MANAGING DIRECTOR Hours 40Pay $189,998
  • David Jonathan GoldbergPRESIDENT/TREASURER Hours 0.45Pay $0
  • Sabrina PourmandSECRETARY Hours 0.45Pay $0
  • Philippa LawrenceDIRECTOR Hours 0.45Pay $0
  • Danielle BayerDIRECTOR Hours 0.45Pay $0
  • David KleinDIRECTOR (FROM 12/2023) Hours 0.45Pay $0
  • Blaine VessDIRECTOR (THRU 3/2023) Hours 0.45Pay $0

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