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Solving the organ donation crisis in two parts

Thanks to our generous donors, last year we provided a $94k grant to the 501c3 efforts of Elaine Perlman and her work at Waitlist Zero and the Coalition to Modify NOTA (petition here) as part of her performance in the ACX Grants competition. Kidney donation an expensive addressable problem that

Security & Privacy Featured

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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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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IBB - New TED talk on rethinking aid

Watch grantee Faisal Al-Mutar take the TED Stage explaining why our approach to international aid is a disaster and what can be done about it. See our grant at Ideas Beyond Borders - Ideas in the middle east for more.

Agriculture & Environment

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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Clear Health Costs - Investigations

Good Ancestor Foundation was gifted a 10% position in pro-consumer insurance price and quality comparison website Honest Policy. In addition to analyzing insurance industry rates and policies in contested markets where its difficult to get insurance, Honest Policy also built and provided funding to the technology behind Award winning ClearHealthCosts.

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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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Watch Beyond Utopia

In association with grantee Human Rights Foundation. Beyond Utopia now available on streaming platformsThe Human Rights Foundation (HRF) is pleased to announce that “Beyond Utopia,” a BAFTA-nominated and du-Pont-Columbia Award-winning film that follows the harrowing journeys of several individuals as they attempt to escape North Korea, is now available to

Security & Privacy

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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Journalism and Election Monitoring in Hybrid Warfare Conflict Zones

We have several initiatives to facilitate funding, oversee grants and support independent journalists in conflict regions where they or their funders can be arrested for performing basic work. For the protection of staff or partner organizations working on these projects and the privacy of donors we generally do not disclose

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Human Rights Foundation - AI Program - 4th year and hiring

Good Ancestor is proud to announce it's 4th year of funding a group of AI fellows to attend the Oslo Freedom Forum in support of developing an AI program at the Human Rights Foundation. If you are an AI practitioner interested in attending please Contact us, our fellowship

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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

Technology & AI Featured

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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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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Ideas Beyond Borders - Ideas in the middle east

Thanks to our generous donors, Good Ancestor is proud to have provided substantial program funding to Ideas Beyond borders work in the middle east after visiting their offices and work at a refugee camp in northern Iraq. This crucial initiative understands the importance investing in understanding They serve many important