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Long-Term Future Fund

aka Long-Term Future Fund (EA Funds), LTFF, long term future ea funds
NonprofitAI Safety & Existential Risk FundingActivefunds.effectivealtruism.org/funds/far-futureX ↗Forum ↗
The Long-Term Future Fund (LTFF) is an Effective Altruism regranting fund making grants to individuals and projects addressing global catastrophic risks, with emphasis on advanced AI safety, biosecurity, and longtermist infrastructure. It has distributed more than $20M since 2017 across hundreds of early-stage researchers and seeded organizations; applications are reviewed by expert fund managers, and it is particularly interested in small teams and individuals getting projects off the ground.1,2,3,4

Programs

1 program on file
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Long-Term Future Fund Grants
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Awards

112 on file
Showing 1-25 of 112, newest dated evidence first
  1. Abhay Sheshadri
    ProgramMay 2023 to March 2024 grant recommendations
    Amount$15,075
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  2. Abhijit Narayan
    ProgramMay 2023 to March 2024 grant recommendations
    Amount$1,000
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  3. AI Safety Support Ltd.
    ProgramMay 2023 to March 2024 grant recommendations
    Amount$50,000
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  4. Aidan Ewart
    ProgramMay 2023 to March 2024 grant recommendations
    Amount$23,159
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  5. Aidan Ewart
    ProgramMay 2023 to March 2024 grant recommendations
    Amount$7,929
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  6. Alex Infanger
    ProgramMay 2023 to March 2024 grant recommendations
    Amount$19,200
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  7. Alexander Mann
    ProgramMay 2023 to March 2024 grant recommendations
    Amount$36,000
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  8. Alfie Lamerton
    ProgramMay 2023 to March 2024 grant recommendations
    Amount$6,001
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  9. Alignment Ecosystem Development
    ProgramMay 2023 to March 2024 grant recommendations
    Amount$99,330
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  10. Amritanshu Prasad
    ProgramMay 2023 to March 2024 grant recommendations
    Amount$7,971
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  11. Anamarija Kozina
    ProgramMay 2023 to March 2024 grant recommendations
    Amount$9,890
    Date–
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  12. Ann-Kathrin Dombrowski
    ProgramMay 2023 to March 2024 grant recommendations
    Amount$27,892
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  13. Anonymous (AI interpretability research platform for language models)
    ProgramMay 2023 to March 2024 grant recommendations
    Amount$275,000
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  14. Anonymous (biosecurity research on new biotechnology advances)
    ProgramMay 2023 to March 2024 grant recommendations
    Amount$17,000
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  15. Anonymous (CS Master's at NYU for AI safety research)
    ProgramMay 2023 to March 2024 grant recommendations
    Amount$115,000
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  16. Anonymous (feature identification methods for neural network interpretation)
    ProgramMay 2023 to March 2024 grant recommendations
    Amount$48,423
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  17. Anonymous (mechanistic interpretability career pivot)
    ProgramMay 2023 to March 2024 grant recommendations
    Amount$63,242
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  18. Anonymous (one-year stipend for biosecurity policy and technical work)
    ProgramMay 2023 to March 2024 grant recommendations
    Amount$127,000
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  19. Anonymous (research on disempowerment in relation to AGI)
    ProgramMay 2023 to March 2024 grant recommendations
    Amount$53,400
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  20. Anonymous (SERI MATS research on abstract reasoning in language models)
    ProgramMay 2023 to March 2024 grant recommendations
    Amount$48,451
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  21. Anonymous (YouTube channel on AI developments for general audiences)
    ProgramMay 2023 to March 2024 grant recommendations
    Amount$59,223
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  22. Arjun Panickssery
    ProgramMay 2023 to March 2024 grant recommendations
    Amount$34,100
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  23. Arran McCutcheon
    ProgramMay 2023 to March 2024 grant recommendations
    Amount$6,214
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  24. Artem Karpov
    ProgramMay 2023 to March 2024 grant recommendations
    Amount$1,739
    Date–
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  25. Ashgro Inc (Apart Research)
    ProgramMay 2023 to March 2024 grant recommendations
    Amount$272,800
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Programs
112
Awards
107
Grantees
$4.6M
Known USD
0
Current rounds
1
Active programs
Active
Status
Focus Areas

AI safety, AI governance & policy, biosecurity & pandemic preparedness, global catastrophic risk reduction, longtermism, existential risk research, field-building / talent pipeline.

Typical size$1,000 to over $500,000 (recent grants roughly $6k-$175k)
CadenceFocused grant rounds plus an always-open application; off-deadline applications are evaluated in the next round.
Sources
  1. funds.effectivealtruism.org/funds/far-future
  2. av20jp3z.paperform.co/?fund=Long-Term%20Future%20Fund
  3. forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/pJyCWzevPHsycj4oQ/long-term-future-fund-may-2023-to-march-2024-payout
  4. funds.effectivealtruism.org/grants?fund=Long-Term+Future+Fund