Abundance & Growth Fund

Abundance & Growth Fund is sponsored by Coefficient Giving. A fund dedicated to accelerating economic growth and scientific progress while lowering the cost of living.

Abundance & Growth | Coefficient Giving We support efforts to accelerate economic growth, boost technological progress, and reduce unnecessary obstacles to prosperity, primarily in the United States. Associate Program Officer Associate Program Officer Associate Program Officer Interested in learning more or joining the fund? Reach out to partnerwithus@coefficientgiving.

org . Economic growth has significantly improved living standards over the past few centuries. But too often, complex regulatory frameworks and slow-moving institutions unintentionally create barriers that drive up costs and slow innovation.

We believe that changes in the political environment have created an opening for a renewed policy focus on economic growth and material progress in leading economies like the United States. By working to remove artificial constraints in key sectors and foster a more dynamic innovation ecosystem, we aim to create conditions for human flourishing and material prosperity.

Our grantmaking addresses these challenges through policy advocacy, research, and movement-building across several key areas: Housing policy reform , supporting YIMBY (“yes in my backyard”) advocates who have secured significant wins in cities across the U.S. Innovation policy , funding organizations that identify and implement ideas to accelerate scientific and technological development.

The Abundance and Progress Studies movements , fostering cross-partisan collaboration among policymakers, researchers, entrepreneurs, and philanthropists focused on removing barriers to human flourishing. Energy abundance , supporting new policy ideas that make it easier to build the infrastructure underlying abundant clean energy. Emerging opportunities in areas like clinical trial reform and increasing state capacity.

The Abundance and Growth Blog Our team blog sharing research, commentary, and updates on what we’ve been reading. Zoned Capacity Is Like an Artificial Oil Deposit Cities often claim they have room for thousands of new homes, but zoned capacity and actually buildable housing are very different things. Alex Armlovich explains why the distinction matters, and what planners in DC and California are getting wrong.

How Do You Get Abundance and Growth? A bird’s-eye view of the five policy areas — innovation, energy, clinical trials, housing, and state capacity — that the Abundance & Growth Fund is prioritizing in 2026, and why each one is a lever for broadly shared economic growth.

What Gilded Age America and 1960s Police Can Teach Us About State Capacity From the Pendleton Act to 1960s police departments, the economic research on civil service reform tells a consistent story: who works in government — and how they’re hired — has large effects on what government can actually do. US Science Agencies Have Money; Can They Spend It?

Congress gave NIH and NSF strong budgets for FY26, but both agencies are making new grants 50–70% slower than usual. Jordan Dworkin tracks what’s happening and introduces a new tool for following federal science spending in real time. Clinical Trial Reforms That Once Seemed Radical Randomized controlled trials, preregistration, and mandatory results reporting each seemed like radical asks in their day.

Saloni Dattani traces how these reforms became standard practice and why data sharing is the logical next step. Living Literature Reviews Coefficient Giving is seeking pre-proposals from individuals to write living literature reviews, which are continuously updated online collections of accessible articles that synthesize academic research on a specific topic.

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Grants made prior to this fund were supported only by Good Ventures, and are labeled with a parenthetical note.