Grants

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Security and Privacy Grantmaking

As part of our internet security program we have made several supporting grants supporting general freedoms, and security for journalists and activists. This is not a major area of our grantmaking, but this area supports necessary tools and services of our ecosystem grantees, and our security volunteers. Targeted groups and

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AI Supply Chain Observatory Hackathon

We participated in grantee AI Objective Institute's Supply Chain Observatory and it's extreme weather hackathon. Participating in this initiative is part of our AI and Critical Infrastructure project. We offered hackathon participants the opportunity to apply for small grants or collaborate with our related project: Emergency

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Open 2 Debate plans AI debate

Grantee Open2Debate has an amazing set of public debates online on many topics, and they are expanding their debate focus on incoming AI topics. Their tagline is "Expert moderation. Good-faith arguments. Reasoned analysis." and we believe this is absolutely essential to a functioning democracy and society. We support

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Citizen Lab destroys spyware

We are big fans (and small supporters) of Canada's Citizen Lab in Toronto, as part of our Internet Security advice for persons of interest. CitizenLab is perhaps most famous for their end to end investigation of NSO group's Pegasus spyware – originally found in a Human Rights

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Guardian Project Grants

Guardian project apps have been used by Human Rights activists all over the world and we recently utilized their Butter Box project (the continuation of library in a box and internet in a box, and pirate box), and funded a developer grant to enhance synchronization tools via The Archive -

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Hand in Hand Parenting Grant

We are proud to support this grant to continue Hand in Hand Parenting's work and invite you to learn more about it at their website. HomeWe help parents when parenting is hard. A nonprofit you can rely on for information, support, and community for your parenting.Hand in

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Sex Work and Human Trafficking Grant

We provided a grant to the 501c3 Decriminalize Sex Work. Our prior work analyzing international human sex trafficking flows and the systems that support it showed us that current enforcement policy creates major impediments to stopping human trafficking of women from international countries. We are proud to support this grant

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All-Fed - Alliance to feed people in global disasters

Good Ancestor joined the advisory board of All-Fed recently and they were generous enough to donate volunteer and staff time to the some of our projects. We returned the favor with a small grant. See: Emergency Communication Satellite Launches in June 2025 and Geothermal Green House Prototype All-Fed worries about

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Nuclear Energy - Improving Debates with Society Library

One of our first supported donor grants was to assist the Benjamin Franklin Society Library in eliciting expert analysis on the topic of nuclear power, pulling together the best arguments for and against it. We were confused by the opposing narratives of Germany (and California) shutting down all their nuclear

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Transform Drugs UK Grant

Legal and illegal drugs are one of the largest global problems both from drug harms, financing of criminal syndicates, and incarceration of non-violent citizens. We have been following UK Research since the release of Professor David Nutt's - 2010 Lancet Paper on Drug Harms. We are proud to

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MAPS - Supporting veteran recovery from PTSD and concussion

We provided a grant to the Multidisciplinary Association on Psychedelic Studies after seeing the incredible work they did with Veterans and Human Rights activists with PTSD. A land mark study led to more than 2/3 of veterans with treatment resistant PTSD being permanently cured after 3 90 minute sessions,

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Irish Council For Civil Liberties

Irish Council for Civil Liberties - Is a famous human rights org since 1976, We supported their Enforce project on cell phone surveillance in EU/US and its groundbreaking work. For example: America’s hidden security crisisHow data about American defence personnel and political leaders flows to foreign states and

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404 Media

Who We AreWho is 404 Media?404 MediaJason Koebler We gave a tiny microgrant to 404 Media - recent Electronic Frontier Foundation award winning journalists, and added them to our newsletter. If you like them you may also be interested in Naomi Brockwell's Ludlow Institute on privacy and

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Naomi Brockwell's Ludlow Institute on privacy and security

We are proud to support Naomi Brockwell's Ludlow Institute along with a variety of other cyber security organizations as part of our Internet Security for persons of interest initiative. Privacy and security are essential to maintaining a free and functional society, something many of our grantees understand. New

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Open Source Ecology and Open Building Institute - Open Solar

Many countries are in a housing costs crisis, which is rightly viewed as a building and permitting crisis. In regions like Tokyo, housing costs have fallen to match building costs. Open Source Ecology and the Open Building Institute have designed modular eco-compatible housing tools, including software, cad libraries, and designs

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Hylo - Tools for purpose driven communities

Good Ancestor completed a year end 2x matching grant for funding Hylo.com milestone development, which includes onboarding for some of our ecosystem partners such as Open Source Ecology and the Open Building Institute. Hylo is an open source tool for initiatives to build their own internal social networks, and

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"Talk to the City" achieves milestone

"Talk to the City helps large groups of people coordinate by understanding each other better, faster, and in more depth." "...an open-source AI platform that turns large-scale conversations into actionable insights while preserving individual perspectives—from local town halls to national policy discussions." As part of

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WeVote - Annual Report 2024

In addition to helping with the Internet Democracy Project and Talk to the City Projects, WeVote also launched a prototype of a direct democracy website full of open source information as part of their grant. Here are some of their progress metrics taken from their annual report: 1. Launching a

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Emergency Assistance for select NGO's affected by USAID

This week Colby and Gayle are interviewing HRF fellows and other ecosystem partners affected by USAID to provide Good Ancestor donors an executive summary of the funding opportunities created by the treasury freezes at USAID that has locked up both 2025 funding orgs were promised as well as 2024 payments

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Open Source Urban Housing for the Caribbean using Roman inspired design

The Roman empire in its peak glory had figured out a few things that modernity is still catching up on. Monuments such as the colliseum still stand because of special concrete that we only just now re-discovered how to make. They had also figured out a number of important important

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Clearer Thinking module on Social Biases Released

Check out their latest learning module release here on social biases called "How Other People Can Make You Irrational". Why do we support Spencer Greenberg and Clearer Thinking? Spencer has for more than a decade been one of our society's most credible and tireless advocates for

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Environmental and Ecosystem Grants

Tools and Technology Projects Good Ancestor maintains a small research farm in Vermont where we - Do prototyping for our Eco-Endowment - Perform basic research on polyculture and Regenerative Agriculture - Have made an experimental food forest - Have created a novel geothermal greenhouse prototype We work with Open Source

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Porobleno Project - Ukraine

Good Ancestor provided seed funding for this Ukranian project The popular science podcast and YouTube channel "Porobleno" is devoted to anthropological research, traditional culture, and magical thinking and their influence on Ukrainian everyday life now. The purpose of the project:  During the last decades, pseudo-knowledge about Ukrainian culture

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Civic, Social and Govtech Grantmaking

Civic and Govtech Development Grants This initiative provides early stage grants and assistance for non-profits working to improve US Democracy, political polarization, sense making, and decision making processes. - Clearer Thinking - co-creation of learning modules on bias and sense making - We Vote Project - Improving US democracy via

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Public Editor - A sense making tool released

Goodly Labs has just released Public Editor, a unique way to provide annotation, identifying cognitive biases and manipulations in documents that goes beyond politicized 'fact checking'. Get the Browser Extension: https://tinyurl.com/kejjsbzz Daily Newsfeed: https://newsreader.publiceditor.io/ Feedback form: https://forms.gle/mc8bEkqXH9hh2yvQ7 Good Ancestor