--- born: 1984-05-22 category: Philanthropists & Benefactors created: 2026-06-19 location: San Francisco, California relations: - fn: 24 role: 46.89 million dollars in 2019-2020, 3.3 million in 2021-2022, 50 million in 2023-2024 start: 2020 type: funded with: '[[Future Forward]]' - fn: 5 role: 5 million dollars, with Cari Tuna start: 2016 type: funded with: '[[LCV Victory Fund]]' - fn: 5 role: 5 million dollars, with Cari Tuna start: 2016 type: funded with: '[[For Our Future PAC]]' summary: Facebook and Asana cofounder whose Good Ventures foundation funds Open Philanthropy, the chief backer of AI-safety policy, research and journalism; an early Anthropic investor and a leading Democratic donor. tags: - Person - DustinMoskovitz - Facebook - EffectiveAltruism - OpenPhilanthropy - Anthropic - DemocraticDonor updated: 2026-09-23 --- Dustin Moskovitz (born May 22, 1984) cofounded Facebook with [Mark Zuckerberg](/people/mark-zuckerberg/), his roommate at [Harvard University](/organizations/harvard-university/), where he studied economics. From February 2004 to November 2008 he held senior roles at Facebook, including chief technology officer and vice president of engineering. He then cofounded [Asana](/organizations/asana/) with Justin Rosenstein, and with his wife [Cari Tuna](/people/cari-tuna/) established [Good Ventures](/organizations/good-ventures/), the foundation that supplies nearly all of the grant money of [Open Philanthropy](/organizations/open-philanthropy/), renamed Coefficient Giving in 2025.[^1][^2] *[Semafor](/organizations/semafor/)* wrote that its founders and many early employees "were sympathetic to the utilitarian philosophical movement known as [effective altruism](/concepts/effective-altruism/)."[^3] [Peter Thiel](/people/peter-thiel/) was Facebook's first outside investor.[^4] Moskovitz grew up in a small city in inland Florida; his father was a psychiatrist and his mother a teacher and artist, and as a boy he wanted to be an Air Force pilot.[^5] He graduated from Vanguard High School in Ocala and was Facebook's third employee.[^6] In October 2010 *[Forbes](/organizations/forbes/)* named him, at 26, the world's youngest billionaire, eight days younger than Zuckerberg, with a fortune of 1.4 billion dollars drawn from a 6 percent stake in Facebook.[^7] The *Jewish Telegraphic Agency* counted him among the nine Jewish individuals and couples in the December 2010 cohort of Giving Pledge signers.[^8] In 2009 he met Tuna, then a *[Wall Street Journal](/organizations/the-wall-street-journal/)* reporter, on a blind date arranged by her colleague, and they married in 2013; shortly before, he wrote on Quora: "Cari and I are stewards of this capital. It's pooled up around us right now, but it belongs to the world. We intend not to have much left when we die."[^9] ### Asana Moskovitz has been an Asana director since December 2008 and its chairman since December 2019. He was chief executive from October 2010 to July 2025, and also chief financial officer from 2009 to 2017. Asana went public by direct listing on the New York Stock Exchange in September 2020.[^4] In 2026 he held 74.2 percent of the company's voting power through his own shares, the Dustin A. Moskovitz Trust, a Roth IRA and shares held by Good Ventures; he bought 19,273,127 shares in a private placement on September 7, 2022.[^1] In 2016 [Sam Altman](/people/sam-altman/) led a 50-million-dollar investment in Asana.[^10] [Adam D'Angelo](/people/adam-dangelo/), Facebook's chief technology officer from 2006 to 2008 and founder of Quora, sat on Asana's board from December 2008 to 2026 while also a director of [OpenAI](/organizations/openai/); Matthew Cohler of Benchmark Capital, another Facebook alumnus, was an Asana director from 2009 to 2026. Asana's 2026 proxy statement reported, as related-person transactions, 1.1 million dollars in AI services bought from [Anthropic](/organizations/anthropic/), noting that Moskovitz "has a minority ownership interest in Anthropic," and 300,000 dollars bought from OpenAI, noting D'Angelo's seat on its board.[^1] ### Good Ventures and Open Philanthropy Good Ventures, whose directors are Moskovitz, Tuna and [Divesh Makan](/people/divesh-makan/), the controlling partner of [ICONIQ Capital](/organizations/iconiq-capital/), held 10.1 billion dollars in assets in mid-2025 and received 1.4 billion dollars in contributions that year.[^2][^11] Open Philanthropy had given away about 7 billion dollars by September 2026, most of it from the couple's fortune.[^3] Of this, more than 580 million dollars went to building the field of AI-risk research; the chief executive, [Alexander Berger](/people/alexander-berger/), wrote in 2024 that without its AI grantees "fewer people with AI experience would have been positioned to help, and policymakers would have been slower to act."[^12] Its grants include 30 million dollars to OpenAI in 2017, with a board seat for [Holden Karnofsky](/people/holden-karnofsky/), whose grant page disclosed that the OpenAI researchers [Dario Amodei](/people/dario-amodei/) and [Paul Christiano](/people/paul-christiano/) were Open Philanthropy advisers who lived in Karnofsky's house;[^13] 55 million dollars in 2019 to launch the [Center for Security and Emerging Technology](/organizations/center-for-security-and-emerging-technology/) at Georgetown University under the former IARPA director [Jason Matheny](/people/jason-matheny/); 16 million dollars in 2023 to the [RAND Corporation](/organizations/rand-corporation/) after Matheny became its chief executive, "to be spent at the discretion of" Matheny; 5.16 million dollars in 2022 to the [Center for AI Safety](/organizations/center-for-ai-safety/); and 36 million dollars in 2025 to [Redwood Research](/organizations/redwood-research/).[^14] ### Anthropic Moskovitz took part in Anthropic's first funding round of 124 million dollars in 2021, and in 2023 told *[Politico](/organizations/politico/)* that "my goal in investing [in Anthropic] stems from the exact same place as our non-profit work" and that any returns "will be entirely redirected back into our philanthropic work." The Open Philanthropy grantmaker [Luke Muehlhauser](/people/luke-muehlhauser/) was then one of Anthropic's four directors, and Karnofsky had married Anthropic's president, [Daniela Amodei](/people/daniela-amodei/).[^10] Muehlhauser resigned from the board in May 2024, writing that it had become complicated to be both an AI governance grantmaker at Open Philanthropy and a director of a frontier AI company.[^15] In April 2026 the *[Washington Examiner](/organizations/washington-examiner/)* reported that in 2025 Moskovitz had transferred his Anthropic stake, "which had reportedly grown to roughly $500 million, to his charity to avoid the appearance of conflicts of interests."[^16] *Fortune* described the same 500-million-dollar stake as moved "into a nonprofit vehicle to reinvest its returns."[^17] Asana's proxy statement of April 20, 2026 described Moskovitz as having "a minority ownership interest in Anthropic."[^1] *Semafor* called Coefficient Giving "a favorite of Anthropic executives"; its chief executive, Alexander Berger, said in 2026: "We're definitely not the Anthropic Foundation."[^3] ### Washington Open Philanthropy set aside nearly 3 million dollars in 2022 for the first fellows of the [Horizon Institute for Public Service](/organizations/horizon-institute-for-public-service/), which pays technology fellows placed in congressional offices, federal agencies and think tanks, among them the offices of Senators Martin Heinrich, Mike Rounds and Todd Young, whom [Chuck Schumer](/people/chuck-schumer/) had put in charge of AI legislation; *Politico* wrote that Open Philanthropy had "effectively created" Horizon.[^10] Matheny served in the Biden [White House](/places/white-house/) from March 2021 to June 2022. According to documents the *Washington Examiner* obtained under the [Freedom of Information Act](/events/freedom-of-information-act/), he hired [Ben Buchanan](/people/ben-buchanan/), director of CSET's CyberAI project, under the Intergovernmental Personnel Act, with Georgetown continuing to pay Buchanan's salary and the government reimbursing it; the paper noted that CSET had received 97 million dollars from Open Philanthropy between 2019 and 2021, and that Buchanan became an architect of the Biden export controls on advanced chips that Anthropic later urged the Trump administration to keep. Buchanan said he "scrupulously complied with all legal and ethics rules." Senator [Ted Cruz](/people/ted-cruz/), who named Moskovitz in a 2024 letter, wrote that "large AI technology companies are influencing the Biden administration's AI policy from the inside."[^16] The lobbying arm of the Center for AI Safety stated that it secured 10 million dollars from Congress in 2024 to establish the [U.S. AI Safety Institute](/organizations/us-ai-safety-institute/), where Christiano became head of AI safety.[^18] The 501(c)(4) [Americans for Responsible Innovation](/organizations/americans-for-responsible-innovation/), founded in late 2023 by the former congressman Brad Carson, lists Coefficient Giving among its funders with the [Omidyar Network](/organizations/omidyar-network/), and reported in-house lobbying expenses of 1.51 million dollars in 2025. The [Open Philanthropy Action Fund](/organizations/open-philanthropy-action-fund/) has paid outside lobbyists every year since 2021, the Kyle House Group since 2023.[^19] Moskovitz has been a director of the Action Fund, a 501(c)(4) that files from the Palo Alto address of Good Ventures, on every return since 2017, alongside Tuna as president, Makan, and Open Philanthropy's chief executives, Holden Karnofsky and Alexander Berger; it reported about 270.4 million dollars in contributions from 2016 to 2023.[^20] On October 29, 2019, the Action Fund gave 750,000 dollars to the non-contribution account of [Real Justice PAC](/organizations/real-justice-pac/), which Tuna had funded with 1.9 million dollars in her own name.[^21] The Kyle House Group filings describe its work as "education and advocacy regarding U.S. foreign assistance policies and programs," on the State and Foreign Operations appropriations bills, and the three firms the fund has retained reported about 1.53 million dollars in income from it between 2021 and mid-2026.[^19] ### The Press By 2025 Coefficient Giving supplied most of the funding of the [Tarbell Center for AI Journalism](/organizations/tarbell-center-for-ai-journalism/), which pays journalists placed at *Time*, Bloomberg, *The Verge* and other newsrooms and publishes the newsletter *Transformer*; Coefficient's director of communications, [Naina Bajekal](/people/naina-bajekal/), was a former executive editor of *Time*.[^22] In September 2026 the publication *Effort*, founded by [Brian Chau](/people/brian-chau/), wrote that "Coefficient pays the salaries of two dozen journalists at major news outlets," that Open Philanthropy had pursued a "placement" strategy "to put their hand-picked employees in US and UK government offices," and that Moskovitz was the third-largest Democratic donor in 2020 and the second-largest in 2024.[^23] ### Political Giving On September 8, 2016, Moskovitz and Tuna announced 20 million dollars in contributions to defeat [Donald Trump](/people/donald-trump/) and elect [Hillary Clinton](/people/hillary-clinton/), calling Trump's promises to voters who felt left behind "quite possibly a deliberate con." They named 5 million dollars each to the LCV Victory Fund and For Our Future PAC, and wrote that "we have reservations about anyone using large amounts of money to influence elections."[^5] [Federal Election Commission](/organizations/federal-election-commission/) records itemize contributions from Moskovitz of about 18.0 million dollars in the 2015-2016 cycle, led by 6 million to Priorities USA Action, 4.5 million to the LCV Victory Fund, 2.5 million to For Our Future and 1.65 million to Color of Change PAC; 5.7 million in 2017-2018, including 3 million to MoveOn and 2 million to the Senate Majority PAC; 51.8 million in 2019-2020, including 46.89 million to the Democratic super PAC Future Forward and 830,600 dollars to the Biden Victory Fund; 5.9 million in 2021-2022, including 3.3 million to Future Forward and 1.9 million to its affiliate FFPA; and 50.9 million in 2023-2024, of which 50 million went to Future Forward in eight payments between August 28 and October 22, 2024, 30 million of it in October, and 929,600 dollars to the Harris Victory Fund. None had been itemized for the 2025-2026 cycle by September 2026.[^24] In March 2024 *Puck*'s Theodore Schleifer wrote that Moskovitz had spent "up to $100 million to defeat Donald Trump last cycle" and was "leaning into his power... and his checkbook" to beat back "the Andreessens and Musks of the world."[^25] [^1]: Asana, Inc. Schedule 14A definitive proxy statement, filed April 20, 2026, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1477720/000162828026025998/asan-20260420.htm [^2]: ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer, "Good Ventures Foundation," EIN 46-1008520, Form 990-PF data through fiscal year ending June 2025. https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/461008520 [^3]: Smith, Ben. "Coefficient Giving's CEO on Silicon Valley's $40 billion philanthropy boom." *Semafor,* September 3, 2026. https://www.semafor.com/article/09/03/2026/coefficient-givings-ceo-on-silicon-valley-40-billion-philanthropy-boom [^4]: "Facebook Co-Founder Moskovitz Builds a Second Fortune With Asana," *Bloomberg,* October 1, 2021. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-01/facebook-co-founder-moskovitz-builds-a-second-fortune-with-asana [^5]: Moskovitz, Dustin, and Cari Tuna. "Compelled to Act." *Medium,* September 8, 2016, archived December 31, 2016. http://web.archive.org/web/20161231130245/https://medium.com/@moskov/compelled-to-act-1413930041ee [^6]: Thompson, Bill. "3 billionaires on Forbes list have ties to area." *Ocala Star-Banner,* March 21, 2011, archived February 7, 2025. http://web.archive.org/web/20250207063901/https://www.ocala.com/story/news/2011/03/21/3-billionaires-on-forbes-list-have-ties-to-area/31433392007/ [^7]: "America's Youngest Billionaires." *Forbes,* October 6, 2010, archived August 12, 2017. http://web.archive.org/web/20170812104238/https://www.forbes.com/2010/10/06/americas-youngest-billionaires-business-young-billionaires.html [^8]: Berkman, Jacob. "Zuckerberg among nine new Jewish individuals and families to take the Giving Pledge." Jewish Telegraphic Agency, December 10, 2010. https://www.jta.org/2010/12/10/fundermentalist/zuckerberg-among-nine-new-jewish-individuals-and-families-to-take-the-giving-pledge [^9]: Cha, Ariana Eunjung. "Cari Tuna and Dustin Moskovitz: Young Silicon Valley billionaires pioneer new approach to philanthropy." *The Washington Post,* December 26, 2014, copy hosted by Coefficient Giving. https://coefficientgiving.org/wp-content/uploads/washingtonpost.com-Cari-Tuna-and-Dustin-Moskovitz-Young-Silicon-Valley-billionaires-pioneer-new-approach-to-philanthropy.pdf [^10]: Bordelon, Brendan. "How a billionaire-backed network of AI advisers took over Washington." *Politico,* October 13, 2023. http://web.archive.org/web/20250902172514/https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/13/open-philanthropy-funding-ai-policy-00121362 [^11]: ICONIQ Capital, LLC, and others, Schedule 13G regarding Diameter Credit Co, November 13, 2024. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1916099/000101143824000605/form_sc13g-diameter.htm [^12]: Beaty, Thalia. "Cari Tuna's organization Open Philanthropy to advise other major donors for free." Associated Press, November 18, 2025. https://apnews.com/article/open-philanthropy-cari-tuna-dustin-moskovitz-effective-altruism-0e9e93d9ed9e094f32e4070ecc5b9b2b [^13]: Open Philanthropy, "OpenAI, General Support," March 2017, archived January 1, 2025. http://web.archive.org/web/20250101012608/https://www.openphilanthropy.org/grants/openai-general-support/ [^14]: Open Philanthropy grant pages, archived 2025: "Georgetown University, Center for Security and Emerging Technology" (January 2019), http://web.archive.org/web/20250102035307/https://www.openphilanthropy.org/grants/georgetown-university-center-for-security-and-emerging-technology/ ; "RAND Corporation, Emerging Technology Initiatives" (October 2023), http://web.archive.org/web/20250122041729/https://www.openphilanthropy.org/grants/rand-corporation-emerging-technology-initiatives/ ; "Center for AI Safety, General Support (2022)," http://web.archive.org/web/20250102035329/https://www.openphilanthropy.org/grants/center-for-ai-safety-general-support/ ; Smith, "Coefficient Giving's CEO," on Redwood. [^15]: Muehlhauser, Luke. "Why I resigned from the Anthropic Board." June 12, 2024. https://lukemuehlhauser.com/why-i-resigned-from-the-anthropic-board/ [^16]: Schmad, Robert. "Documents show how a tech-connected nonprofit shaped Biden-era AI policy." *Washington Examiner,* April 17, 2026. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/investigations/4532389/ [^17]: Coacci, Jessica. "Meet the millennial Meta cofounder and his wife who are giving away $20 billion." *Fortune,* November 10, 2025, via Yahoo Finance, archived December 26, 2025. http://web.archive.org/web/20251226183707/https://finance.yahoo.com/news/meet-millennial-meta-cofounder-wife-170849820.html [^18]: Center for AI Safety Action Fund, "2024 Annual Impact Report." https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/66438c042d15b14b53b83006/68012dcfec6880aba24f528a_CAIS-ActionFund-ImpactReport_05.pdf [^19]: Americans for Responsible Innovation, "About Us," https://ari.us/about-us/ ; U.S. Senate, Lobbying Disclosure Act database, filings for clients "Americans for Responsible Innovation" and "Open Philanthropy Action Fund," 2021 to 2026, retrieved September 2026. https://lda.senate.gov/api/v1/filings/?client_name=Americans+for+Responsible+Innovation [^20]: ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer, "Coefficient Giving Action Fund" (formerly Open Philanthropy Action Fund), EIN 81-2644663, organization record, Form 990 data and Part VII officer listings for fiscal years 2016 to 2024, retrieved September 23, 2026. https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/812644663 [^21]: Federal Election Commission, Schedule A receipt from "Open Philanthropy Action Fund," 750,000 dollars, October 29, 2019, reported by Real Justice PAC (C00632554) on its 2019 year-end Form 3X, image 202007029244274196, retrieved September 23, 2026. http://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/fecimg/?202007029244274196 [^22]: Tarbell Center for AI Journalism, "Ethics and Standards policies," February 20, 2026, https://www.tarbellcenter.org/ethics-and-standards ; Tani, Max. "AI critics funded AI coverage at top newsrooms." *Semafor,* December 7, 2025. https://www.semafor.com/article/12/07/2025/ai-critics-funded-ai-coverage-at-top-newsrooms [^23]: Effort. "How Effective Altruism Bought the Media," September 2, 2026, https://www.effort.news/tarbell ; Effort. "Effective Altruism is Buying Political Staff," September 19, 2026. https://www.effort.news/aisi [^24]: Federal Election Commission, itemized receipts (Schedule A, memo entries excluded) for contributor "Moskovitz, Dustin," two-year periods 2016 through 2026, retrieved September 23, 2026. https://api.open.fec.gov/v1/schedules/schedule_a/?contributor_name=Moskovitz%2C+Dustin [^25]: Schleifer, Theodore. "DustinBucks." *Puck,* March 20, 2024, archived January 10, 2025. http://web.archive.org/web/20250110050826/https://puck.news/dustinbucks/