Rooted in Family. Growing Healthier Lives.
A family foundation investing in evidence-based, cost-effective philanthropy that alleviates human and animal suffering.
Rooted in Family. Growing Healthier Lives.
A family foundation investing in evidence-based, cost-effective philanthropy that alleviates human and animal suffering.
To promote human and animal welfare by investing in philanthropic approaches — proven with evidence or cost-effective in expectation — that alleviate suffering.
Five children. Five branches. One promise.
Born out of love for our own five children.
A desire to leave the world better than we found it.
Just like a strong tree, our foundation branches out to protect those in need.
Each branch represents a promise to reach the most vulnerable lives.
Proven or promising charities that cost-effectively promote human health and wellbeing anywhere in the world.
Charities that advance compassionate treatment for suffering animals — companion, farmed, or wild.
Bay Area organizations that strengthen our communities through direct support.
We put our resources behind solutions already proven to work — or with strong theoretical underpinnings.
We give unrestricted funding to promising teams, trusting them to decide how best to help.
We invest widely to reduce suffering, while reserving a share of giving for our own community.
Administration & logistics as we formally take root.
Rooted in Family. Growing Healthier Lives.