Open Philanthropy Is Now Coefficient Giving

By Aaron Gertler 🔸 @ 2025-11-18T15:57 (+119)

Big news from Open Philanthropy Coefficient Giving today:

Today, Open Philanthropy is becoming Coefficient Giving. Our mission remains the same, but our new name marks our next chapter as we double down on our longstanding goal of helping more funders increase their impact. We believe philanthropy can be a far more vital force for progress than it is today; too often, great opportunities to help others go unfunded. As Coefficient Giving, our aim is to make it as easy as possible for donors to find and fund them.

(For more on how we chose our new name, what’s changing, and what’s staying the same in this next chapter, see here.)

The linked essay, from Coefficient CEO Alexander Berger, shares more about the change, our approach to giving, and why we’re focused on growing our work with funders outside of Good Ventures.

I also wanted to highlight some details that might be of particular interest to a Forum audience. If you have other questions, leave a comment and I’ll do my best to respond!

Any changes to your relationship with EA? 

Nope. While we do lots of work outside traditional EA cause areas, we still see EA as a community of people who share many of our goals and do many things we’re excited to support. We have no plans to narrow the scope of our giving (and in fact, plan to grow our partnership with Good Ventures) and will still fund orgs like CEA that work on helping that community grow and thrive.

Can you say more about EA community funding? 

Like the rest of our grantmaking strategy, this isn’t affected. Our former focus areas are becoming funds. The Effective Giving and Careers Fund will continue to support work in the space with a global health and wellbeing focus. The Global Catastrophic Risks Opportunities Fund will support EA work with a GCR focus (as well as cross-cutting and foundational GCR work that isn’t related to EA). 

The work previously conducted under our GCR Capacity Building program is now split between the Navigating Transformative AI Fund and the GCRO Fund, but the team's members and structure haven't changed. Nor have the things they work on; that program always had a mix of AI-focused work and capacity-building work that cut across different risks (including EA community work).

How will working with new partners change your priorities?

• Good Ventures plans to keep scaling up its giving, so we expect to continue all the work they’ve been funding.
• We are maintaining our approach to strategic cause selection, which we see as a core part of our value proposition to potential partners.
• But one part of allowing partners to support specific funds (as opposed to Coefficient Giving as a whole) is that their allocation across funds may deviate somewhat from what we think would be abstractly optimal by our lights, and we’re comfortable with that.

Regarding that new name... did people actually confuse Open Phil for other orgs?

Yup. We’ve had meetings with journalists who thought we were part of OpenAI and potential grantees who thought we were from the Open Society Foundations. (To say nothing of all the confused people on Twitter.) You can read more about how we chose our new name here.

If you read this far, you might also be interested in:

• This post on how we chose our new name, plus what’s changing and what isn’t.
• Today’s Vox story on Coefficient’s future.
• The new websites for Coefficient and Good Ventures.