#Philanthropy
9 entries tagged Philanthropy.
People (3)
- Cari Tuna Cari Tuna is a former Wall Street Journal reporter who, with her husband Dustin Moskovitz, leads Good Ventures and Open Philanthropy, making her a principal director of the largest sustained funding source for the effective-altruism movement.
- Eric Schmidt Eric Schmidt is the former Google chief executive turned billionaire investor and architect of US national-security artificial-intelligence policy, who chaired two Pentagon advisory bodies while privately funding the AI and defense startups those bodies promoted.
- Igor Kurganov Igor Kurganov is a Russian-born former professional poker player who gained operational influence over Elon Musk's charitable giving during the COVID-19 pandemic, slept in Musk's Austin home, and was the subject of FBI preliminary inquiries into foreign interference before being removed from Musk's inner circle by wealth manager Jared Birchall in May 2022.
Organizations (6)
- Effective Ventures Effective Ventures was the umbrella charity that legally housed the central effective-altruism organizations, took roughly 27 million dollars from Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX in 2022, repaid all of it to the FTX bankruptcy estate in a 2024 settlement, and then resolved to spin out all of its projects into independent bodies.
- GiveWell GiveWell is a charity evaluator founded in 2007 by former Bridgewater Associates analysts Holden Karnofsky and Elie Hassenfeld, whose cost-effectiveness rankings of global-health charities and whose GiveWell Labs project, funded by Good Ventures, became Open Philanthropy.
- Good Ventures Good Ventures is the foundation founded in 2011 by Facebook cofounder Dustin Moskovitz and the journalist Cari Tuna that, through its partnership with GiveWell and Open Philanthropy, became the dominant funder of the effective-altruism, global-health, and AI-safety grant ecosystem.
- Rockefeller Brothers Fund The Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF), established in 1940 by the five Rockefeller brothers, funded the Special Studies Project (1956-1961) that produced six panel reports shaping Eisenhower and Kennedy administration foreign and defense policy, with Henry Kissinger chairing Panel IV on national security.
- Rockefeller Foundation The Rockefeller Foundation, endowed from the Standard Oil fortune in 1913, ran public-health and agricultural campaigns across Latin America that eased the social costs of American corporate expansion, supplied a pipeline of trustees into the State Department, and in 1943 funded the McGill psychiatric institute where CIA depatterning experiments were later conducted.
- Schmidt Futures Schmidt Futures is the philanthropic venture Eric and Wendy Schmidt launched in 2017 to fund science and technology talent, which paid the salaries of White House science staff before consolidating its core programs into Schmidt Sciences in 2024.