The Unjournal’s work has been funded by The Survival and Flourishing fund (our largest grantor), as well as the Long Term Future Fund, the The Effective Altruism Infrastructure fund, and a few individual donations. We are approaching our six month runway and actively seeking new sources of funding, sponsorships, and . The Unjournal team nominates and votes on research to commission for evaluation based largely on its potential for global impact. We discuss some of our considerations . So who funds the research The Unjournal chose to evaluate, and why did we want to know this?
Mainly, so we can contact the research directors and grant-makers at these organizations and make sure that they are aware of this feedback. We want to help them be even more evidence-driven. We want to help them understand the results of their funding. They may want to know whether the research they are paying for is seen as credible and promising by other experts in that specific area, particularly if they are using this to set policy and make recommendations. We provide a faster and clearer feedback loop relative to traditional academic journal peer-review.
We also want to know – and share – information about what organizations tend to fund research that seems to have the most potential for impact, at least as judged by The Unjournal team. This can help researchers and managers decide which institutions to work at, where to seek support, etc.
Results
Below, we give a table of 46 organizations, government bodies, and university centers that we believe funded one or more of the over 50 papers we have commissioned for evaluation. You can see all the evaluation packages, including ratings, multiple reports, author responses, and manager synthesis at . As of our 26 Sep 2025 records:
JPAL, European Research Council, The Gates Foundation, and GiveWell each provided funding towards four papers. The NIH and the Wellcome Trust provided funding supporting three papers each 40 other organizations, ranging from Agence Nationale de la Recherche to Yale International Growth Center provided funding supporting one paper each. (27 Sep 2025: The table below is dynamically updated, but the text above is hard-coded for now.)
We compiled this using both Crossref (DOI dynamic lookup) and LLM tools. Please let us know if you see errors. In some cases, the funding was provided indirectly, and many research projects have multiple funders. Many other projects have no listed funder. The researchers’ time, money to hire RA’s, travel expenses, etc. is often (mostly?) covered directly by the university or institution they work for.
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