Advancing bold solutions to the world's most urgent problems
Our Cause Areas
The Navigation Fund offers grants to high-impact organizations and projects that are taking bold action and making significant changes in the following key areas:
Open Science
Our Open Science Initiative is dedicated to transforming scientific research by enhancing collaboration and innovation. We support tools and approaches that move beyond traditional practices, making scientific knowledge more accessible and impactful.
Farm Animal Welfare
Factory farming creates both tremendous suffering and significant environmental degradation. We support efforts to reduce animal suffering, reenvision our relationship with animals, and diminish the killing of animals.
Transforming Criminal Justice
Transforming the U.S. criminal legal system requires confronting inequities that perpetuate mass incarceration and overcriminalization. Through a portfolio approach, we support initiatives that promote decarceration, empower system-impacted people and their communities, rectify historical and ongoing injustices, and pave the way for a future free from carceral system reliance.
Digital Sentience
The rapid advancement of AI systems raises profound questions about machine consciousness and the nature of experience. We support research to understand when AI systems might become conscious and how to detect and measure consciousness in artificial minds.
Climate Change
Our Climate Change program supports innovative research and underfunded, high-leverage advocacy initiatives to limit or remove emissions. We also fund the study of interventions that mitigate climate impacts and promote a sustainable future.
