Our commitment to making the most impactful grants we can drives us to investigate funding opportunities with an open, unbiased, and curious mind. Our research guides our decision-making, and we only recommend grants that meet our high standards, even if our recommendations push us in a direction that differs from our expectations, personal preferences, or the charities we like.

We strive to create as much positive change through philanthropy as possible. Acknowledging the significant moral and epistemic uncertainty in this work, we use diverse strategies and perspectives to maximize our impact across a variety of worldviews. Since we cannot fund every worthy cause, we recognize the necessity of making tough trade-offs to ensure our resources are directed where they can achieve the greatest impact.

Our recommendations are guided by rigorous research and data analysis, using the highest standards of evidence. We use meta-studies, RCTs, and expert opinions to evaluate interventions when available, seek a convergence of evidence when making decisions, and prioritize organizations that monitor and evaluate the impact of their work. Our commitment to evidence-based decision-making allows us to develop confidence in the grants we recommend to our funders.

We are dedicated to promoting radical equality through our grantmaking efforts. Guided by a framework of justice, we evaluate all grant opportunities with the core belief that every life holds equal value. Our grantmaking serves as an act of justice. We prioritize grants that benefit as many people as possible and work in under-resourced communities that have been impacted by historical injustices and inequity.

Our grantmaking process is rigorous and vetted by leading experts, ensuring that grantee partners have a strong track record, capable leadership, effective teams, and uphold transparency as a core value. When we recommend a grant, we do so with trust that the organization is best suited to implement its intervention.

We believe our grantee partners are best positioned to determine how to allocate their funds. Therefore, we generally recommend unrestricted grants and limit reporting requirements to key information necessary for evaluating impact, allowing grantee partners to focus their time and resources on serving their communities.

We prioritize organizations that empower local leadership and teams, are culturally responsive, and pursue an anti-colonial approach.

We are committed to building equitable relationships with our grantee partners, working as a thought partner to support their implementation. Additionally, we help grantees by making strategic connections that fill gaps, consult on challenging problems, and provide additional operational support to help them achieve their goals.

We believe that AI will transform life on earth in ways that are comparable or exceeding the Agricultural or Industrial Revolutions and this turning point is coming sooner than most people believe. Leading research shows that AI capabilities are advancing rapidly. Our grantmaking takes this seriously. We assume that AI capabilities will continue to advance rapidly, and this informs the causes we prioritize as well as the work we do within cause areas.

Philanthropy is a unique type of capital that does not need to optimize for profit. Instead, it can be deployed to maximize impact. As a rare and valuable resource, we believe philanthropy should fill gaps, solve problems that the market can not, and take big bets. We prioritize solutions that work in neglected areas, and we are biased towards spinning up new organizations and solutions that have the potential to scale to the size of the problems we face.