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People (21)

  • Ajeya Cotra Berkeley-trained effective altruist who joined Open Philanthropy in 2016, led its technical AI-risk grantmaking, sat on the board of its grantee Redwood Research, and later joined METR's technical staff.
  • Alec Stapp Former Progressive Policy Institute and Niskanen Center technology policy fellow who co-founded the Open Philanthropy-funded Institute for Progress in 2021 and became its sole chief executive in 2026.
  • Alexander Berger Stanford-trained GiveWell researcher who cofounded Open Philanthropy, became its co-CEO in 2021 and sole CEO in 2023, and holds the same titles at its 501(c)(4) Action Fund.
  • Ben Buchanan Georgetown CSET cyber and AI scholar hired into the Biden White House under the Intergovernmental Personnel Act, who became its first Special Advisor for AI and later an outside advisor to Anthropic.
  • Brendan Bordelon Politico technology reporter, previously at National Journal, Morning Consult, National Review and the Daily Caller, who in 2023 reported on Open Philanthropy's network of funded AI policy fellows.
  • Buck Shlegeris AI-alignment researcher and recruiter at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute who became chief technology officer and then chief executive of Redwood Research, an Open Philanthropy-funded Berkeley nonprofit, and an Alignment Research Center director.
  • Caleb Watney Co-founder and co-chief executive of the Institute for Progress who in July 2026 became Coefficient Giving's first managing director of public policy, taking over its U.S. AI policy grantmaking.
  • Cari Tuna Former Wall Street Journal reporter, wife of Dustin Moskovitz, president of Good Ventures and chair of Coefficient Giving, formerly Open Philanthropy, and a director or major donor in its web of linked entities.
  • Daniela Amodei Daniela Amodei is the cofounder and president of Anthropic, who ran operations and people functions at Stripe and OpenAI before starting the company with her brother Dario, and who is married to Open Philanthropy cofounder Holden Karnofsky.
  • Dustin Moskovitz 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.
  • Elie Hassenfeld Former Bridgewater analyst who cofounded GiveWell with Holden Karnofsky in 2007, has run it since, sat on Open Philanthropy's early leadership team and was a director of its Action Fund.
  • Helen Toner Open Philanthropy analyst who became director of strategy at the Open Philanthropy-funded Georgetown CSET and, as an OpenAI director, voted in November 2023 to remove Sam Altman.
  • Holden Karnofsky Cofounder of GiveWell and Open Philanthropy and its co-CEO until 2023, a Redwood Research director, an OpenAI director from 2017 to 2021, Anthropic staff from 2025, and husband of Anthropic president Daniela Amodei.
  • Jason Matheny IARPA director who founded Georgetown's Open Philanthropy-funded CSET, ran technology policy at Biden's National Security Council, became RAND's chief executive in 2022 and was an original Anthropic trustee.
  • Jeff Alstott IARPA program manager and National Security Council technology director who became founding director of RAND's Technology and Security Policy center and helped shape the compute thresholds in Biden's AI executive order.
  • Luke Muehlhauser Open Philanthropy's head of AI governance grantmaking, investigator on its grants launching CSET and funding RAND at Jason Matheny's discretion, and an Anthropic director until May 2024.
  • Marc Gunther Former Fortune senior writer who covers foundations, effective altruism and psychedelics, and whose 2018 Stanford Social Innovation Review article mapped the entities around Cari Tuna and Open Philanthropy.
  • Naina Bajekal Former Time international editor and executive editor who joined Open Philanthropy, now Coefficient Giving, in July 2024 and leads its communications team.
  • Nick Beckstead American philosopher, Open Philanthropy program officer and Effective Ventures director who ran the FTX Foundation and Future Fund, was sued and then dismissed by the FTX debtors, and co-founded Secure AI Project.
  • Paul Christiano OpenAI alignment lead and Open Philanthropy adviser who founded the Alignment Research Center, sat on Anthropic's trust, ran AI safety at NIST's AI Safety Institute and joined the OpenAI Foundation board in 2026.
  • Will Henshall Science and technology reporter placed at Time through the Tarbell Fellowship in 2023 and 2024 who joined Coefficient Giving, formerly Open Philanthropy, as a program officer for AI governance in July 2024.

Organizations (15)

  • 80,000 Hours Career-advice organization founded in Oxford in 2011 by Benjamin Todd and William MacAskill, hosted by the Centre for Effective Altruism's charity until 2025 and funded with at least 39.4 million dollars by Open Philanthropy.
  • Alignment Research Center AI-alignment nonprofit run by Paul Christiano, funded in 2022 by Open Philanthropy and the FTX Foundation, which incubated the evaluations team that became METR.
  • Americans for Responsible Innovation Washington 501(c)(4) AI-policy lobby founded in late 2023 by former congressman Brad Carson and Eric Gastfriend, funded by Coefficient Giving and Omidyar Network, whose PAC is financed by AI-safety researchers.
  • Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Washington foreign-policy think tank founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1910, led by William Burns and then Tino Cuéllar, which hosted Holden Karnofsky and took Open Philanthropy money for AI-governance work.
  • Center for AI Safety San Francisco AI-safety nonprofit directed by Dan Hendrycks, funded by Open Philanthropy, which organized the 2023 extinction-risk statement; its 501(c)(4) arm co-sponsored SB 1047 and lobbied for the AI Safety Institute.
  • Center for Security and Emerging Technology Georgetown think tank on emerging technology and national security, launched in 2019 under former IARPA director Jason Matheny with 55 million dollars from Open Philanthropy, its main funder.
  • Centre for Effective Altruism Oxford charity company incorporated in 2012 under MacAskill, Ord and Beckstead, with a US twin that Bankman-Fried served as treasurer and director, renamed Effective Ventures in 2022 and investigated after FTX's collapse.
  • Good Ventures Private foundation of Dustin Moskovitz and Cari Tuna, founded in 2011 within a web of LLCs and donor-advised funds, which built GiveWell Labs into Open Philanthropy and held about 10 billion dollars in 2025.
  • Horizon Institute for Public Service Nonprofit founded in 2022 that pays technology fellows placed in congressional offices, federal agencies and think tanks; Politico reported Open Philanthropy had effectively created it.
  • Institute for Progress Washington think tank founded in 2021 by Alec Stapp and Caleb Watney with Open Philanthropy money, working on metascience, high-skilled immigration, biotechnology, infrastructure and emerging technology policy.
  • Open Philanthropy Grantmaker of Dustin Moskovitz and Cari Tuna, renamed Coefficient Giving in 2025, which has given away about 7 billion dollars and funded CSET, RAND's AI work, Horizon fellows and Tarbell journalists.
  • Open Philanthropy Action Fund The 501(c)(4) of Dustin Moskovitz and Cari Tuna, renamed Coefficient Giving Action Fund, run by the Good Ventures and Open Philanthropy officers, which received about 270 million dollars from 2016 to 2023.
  • Real Justice PAC San Francisco hybrid PAC registered in 2017 to elect reform prosecutors, financed by Cari Tuna, the Open Philanthropy Action Fund and its affiliated Grassroots Law PAC, and fined by Philadelphia over Krasner's 2021 campaign.
  • Redwood Research Berkeley AI-alignment nonprofit founded in 2021, with Open Philanthropy co-CEO Holden Karnofsky on its board until 2023, to which Open Philanthropy gave 62.52 million dollars from 2021 to 2025.
  • Tarbell Center for AI Journalism Nonprofit launched in 2022 that pays early-career journalists placed in newsrooms to cover AI and publishes the newsletter Transformer; most of its funding comes from Coefficient Giving, formerly Open Philanthropy.