Funds - Founders Pledge Inc
Funds - Founders Pledge Inc supports effective organizations and promising solutions through research-led grants to address climate change, catastrophic risks, human well-being, and animal welfare.
Funder: Founders Pledge Inc
Due Dates: See requests for funding
Funding Amounts: Grant decisions depend on each Fund’s balance and available high-impact opportunities
Summary: Research-led Funds support effective organizations and promising solutions addressing climate change, catastrophic risks, human well-being, and animal welfare.
Key Information: Current expressions of interest target education and training programs operating in low- and middle-income countries.
Description
Founders Pledge’s Funds support effective organizations and promising solutions through actively managed, research-first grantmaking. Dedicated managers, typically members of the Research team, identify opportunities through original research, professional networks, and advice from domain experts and other charity evaluators. The Funds address climate change, global catastrophic risks, saving and improving lives, long-term protection of humanity’s future, and animal welfare.
Their approach includes filling urgent funding gaps, seeding new initiatives, and shaping projects that would otherwise not exist. Funds build portfolios of promising opportunities and use donor coordination, matching campaigns, and catalytic capital to unlock additional resources. The current invitation for expressions of interest focuses on education and job, entrepreneurship, or agriculture training programs in low- and middle-income countries.
