Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan Launch New Database of Grant Making and Investments

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative today launched an interactive database of grants aimed at providing an overview of the LLC’s grant making and giving potential grantees a better sense of what the organization supports.

The new database includes grants CZI has given through its three grant-making funds going back to 2018. Two of those funds — the Chan Zuckerberg Foundation and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Donor-Advised Fund at the Silicon Valley Community Foundation — are 501(c)(3) nonprofits. The third, Chan Zuckerberg Advocacy, is a 501(c)(4).

The database will be updated every February with information about grants awarded in the previous year to nonprofits and programs focused on CZI’s core areas: science, education, justice, and opportunity.

The database is part of the CZI website’s new Grants and Ventures page where people can find out more about the organization’s philanthropy and also its investments in companies that seek to benefit society. The web page also has information about the free tools and products CZI is developing and its policy and advocacy work.

Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, started CZI in 2015 as part of a promise to give away 99 percent, or about $45 billion at that time, of their fortune. Today the couple’s net worth is pegged at about $61.7 billion, according to Forbes.

The couple have put more than $3.7 billion into their foundation and donor-advised fund since 2012, and they have appeared on the Chronicle’s annual Philanthropy 50 list of the biggest donors five times since 2010.