Coefficient Giving → Good Ventures
Primary philanthropic adviser
Observed 2026-09-05
Institutional advisory role; recommendations and actual foundation awards must not be counted twice.
Converts private wealth into sustained research and institutional capacity
Good Ventures
Good Ventures is the foundation created by Cari Tuna and Dustin Moskovitz, the Facebook and Asana co-founder. It turns their wealth into grants across global health, science, animal welfare and risks from advanced AI, with Coefficient Giving serving as its philanthropic adviser.
Founded in 2011, Good Ventures is the philanthropic institution created by Tuna and Moskovitz. Tuna chairs its board; Moskovitz is secretary and treasurer. The third listed board member is Divesh Makan, an ICONIQ Capital partner. This gives the foundation an identifiable governing structure for directing resources drawn from the founders’ wealth.
The scale and range are substantial. Good Ventures says it has distributed more than $6 billion across its causes. Those include global health, science and animal welfare as well as risks from advanced AI. Its current giving information includes technical work at FAR AI and professional training at BlueDot Impact. AI policy therefore sits within a broader philanthropic portfolio, alongside work intended to build technical and professional capacity.
Coefficient Giving, formerly Open Philanthropy, researches causes and supports its giving decisions. That advisory relationship is an important part of the story: identifying promising opportunities and recommending recipients can shape the field before a foundation authorizes an award. The resulting organizations may then use those resources for research, training or other work within their missions.
The investigation found four historical Center for AI Safety awards totaling $12,485,288 from November 2022 to October 2023. The final award was described as an exit grant. The sequence illustrates both substantial support and the possibility of a funding relationship ending. Good Ventures is consequently useful for understanding how a field is financed over time, including changes in which institutions a major donor chooses to support.
Assessment updated 2026-09-12
Detailed records and research
What the records show
Dustin Moskovitz → Good Ventures
Cofounder / secretary / treasurer
Observed 2026-09-05
Current governance disclosure at cutoff; no Facebook/Asana corporate contribution inferred.
Divesh Makan → Good Ventures
Board member
Observed 2026-09-05
ICONIQ partner; no ICONIQ donation or campaign authority inferred.
Cari Tuna → Good Ventures
Cofounder / board chair
Observed 2026-09-05
Current governance disclosure at investigation cutoff.
Good Ventures → Center for AI Safety
$1,866,559 · Exit grant award
2023-10
Indexed first-party historical award record; not verified cash received or current sponsorship. Source identifies this as an exit grant. Financial details: value: 1,866,559; currency: USD; kind: exit grant award; period: 2023-10 Amount basis: indexed award
Good Ventures → Longview Philanthropy
$595,426 indexed awards · Jan 2024
January 2024
Two recommended effective-giving information-sharing grants. Corroborated by an indexed first-party historical table; direct individual records redirected or could not be reopened. Not verified cash receipts or grant conditions.
Good Ventures → Center for AI Safety
$5,160,000 · Historical grant award
2022-11
Indexed first-party historical award record; not verified cash received or current sponsorship. Financial details: value: 5,160,000; currency: USD; kind: grant award; period: 2022-11 Amount basis: indexed award
Good Ventures → Center for AI Safety
$1,433,000 · Historical grant award
2023-02
Indexed first-party historical award record; not verified cash received or current sponsorship. Financial details: value: 1,433,000; currency: USD; kind: grant award; period: 2023-02 Amount basis: indexed award
From the investigation
Typed edges
Four historical Good Ventures award entries total $12,485,288, but that is an award inventory, not a reconciled received-funding total. Open Philanthropy recommendations and Good Ventures awards must not be double counted.
Read the research & sources ↗Story assessment and rival explanations
The historical exit-grant label is discriminating evidence against assuming continuous Good Ventures control. SVCF is a material funding intermediary whose ultimate contributor cannot be read from this row. The FLI connection is real but small in this specific 2023 grant disclosure. No Constellation-to-CAIS funding edge was established; shared ecosystem references and compute acknowledgments are insufficient.
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The ProPublica-rendered IRS return for Good Ventures Foundation, EIN46-1008520, TAX YEAR2022, covering1July2022 to30June2023 and submitted15May2024, names JACOB COXON in PartXV3a Paid during the year. Amount USD20,159; purpose Long-Term Future Scholarship Program - Research Scholarship. Exact-name scholarship recipient match is verified in the filing; independent confirmation that this is the researcher has not been acquired. The earlier fiscal-year-endingJune2022 return had no Coxon text match. It is inaccurate to silently treat the TY2022 label as a proved calendar2022 payment date.
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10 relationshipsCoefficient Giving → Primary philanthropic adviser → Good Ventures
Observed 2026-09-05
Institutional advisory role; recommendations and actual foundation awards must not be counted twice.
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Cari Tuna → Cofounder / board chair → Good Ventures
Observed 2026-09-05
Current governance disclosure at investigation cutoff.
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Dustin Moskovitz → Cofounder / secretary / treasurer → Good Ventures
Observed 2026-09-05
Current governance disclosure at cutoff; no Facebook/Asana corporate contribution inferred.
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Divesh Makan → Board member → Good Ventures
Observed 2026-09-05
ICONIQ partner; no ICONIQ donation or campaign authority inferred.
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Good Ventures → $595,426 indexed awards · Jan 2024 → Longview Philanthropy
January 2024
Reported by the cited source
Two recommended effective-giving information-sharing grants. Corroborated by an indexed first-party historical table; direct individual records redirected or could not be reopened. Not verified cash receipts or grant conditions.
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Good Ventures → $15.163m indexed award · Oct 2024 → Longview Philanthropy
October 2024
Reported by the cited source
Exact figure $15,162,840 for general support. Corroborated by indexed first-party data; direct grant pages redirected and one table open failed. Not cash-receipt proof, not funding of Australian age assurance.
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Good Ventures → $5,160,000 · Historical grant award → Center for AI Safety
2022-11
Reported by the cited source
Indexed first-party historical award record; not verified cash received or current sponsorship.
Financial details: value: 5,160,000; currency: USD; kind: grant award; period: 2022-11
Amount basis: indexed award
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Good Ventures → $1,433,000 · Historical grant award → Center for AI Safety
2023-02
Reported by the cited source
Indexed first-party historical award record; not verified cash received or current sponsorship.
Financial details: value: 1,433,000; currency: USD; kind: grant award; period: 2023-02
Amount basis: indexed award
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Good Ventures → $4,025,729 · Historical grant award → Center for AI Safety
2023-04
Reported by the cited source
Indexed first-party historical award record; not verified cash received or current sponsorship.
Financial details: value: 4,025,729; currency: USD; kind: grant award; period: 2023-04
Amount basis: indexed award
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Good Ventures → $1,866,559 · Exit grant award → Center for AI Safety
2023-10
Reported by the cited source
Indexed first-party historical award record; not verified cash received or current sponsorship. Source identifies this as an exit grant.
Financial details: value: 1,866,559; currency: USD; kind: exit grant award; period: 2023-10
Amount basis: indexed award
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Who gets to operate the switches?
Governments, funders, campaigners and companies exchange different kinds of power. The consequential moment is when someone turns another institution’s input into a decision.
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Who funds the AI debate?
Large grants, creator programmes and policy campaigns are visible. Their arrangements differ in how much control they give a sponsor.
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