Founders Pledge Grant

Overview

Our Story

We believe entrepreneurs are uniquely placed to transform the world, today and in the future, by using their skills, networks, and resources to tackle huge, seemingly insurmountable problems. However, they often lack the time, tools, or knowledge to direct their charitable giving where it will do the most good.

Founders Pledge exists to bridge this gap. We advise on, facilitate, and maximize the impact of our members’ giving.

In our vision of the future, the value created by technology benefits those who need it most.

Funding Areas

We 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.

How We Can Help

There are three ways we may be able to help:

* We typically make small grants of between $50,000 and $300,000 from our various Funds, though in special cases we would consider larger sums.
* We can recommend much larger one-time grants of up to $5m to large donors.
* We can 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.

Eligibility

_You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website._