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Organization Profile

Survival and Flourishing Fund

aka Survival and Flourishing Fund (SFF), SFF, survival flourishing sff
NonprofitAI Safety & Existential Risk FundingActivesurvivalandflourishing.fund
A fund organizing the collection and evaluation of donation applications for organizations working to improve humanity's long-term prospects for survival and flourishing, including reducing global catastrophic and existential risks. Grants are produced via the recurring S-Process algorithm and meeting procedure, run once or twice per year, plus faster rolling Speculation Grants. Both non-profit and for-profit entities may apply, with for-profit grants administered through Survival and Flourishing Corp.1,2,3,4

Programs

2 programs on file
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SFF S-Process Grant Rounds
0 grants tracked
SFF-2026 S-Process (Main, Freedom, and Fairness tracks): reviewing, closes 2026-04-22; SFF-2026 S-Process — Climate Change track: reviewing, closes 2026-06-10; SFF-2026 S-Process — Animal Welfare track: reviewing, closes 2026-06-24; SFF-2026 S-Process — Human Self-Enhancement and Empowerment (HSEE) track: reviewing, closes 2026-07-08
Speculation Grants (Rolling Application)
0 grants tracked
No cadence on file

Awards

173 on file
Showing 51-75 of 173, newest dated evidence first
  1. Civic AI Security Program (CivAI)
    ProgramSFF-2025 S-Process (Jaan Tallinn)
    Amount$600,000
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  2. Compassion in Machine Learning (CaML)
    ProgramSFF-2025 S-Process (Jaan Tallinn)
    Amount$83,000
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  3. Computational Rational Agents Laboratory (CORAL)
    ProgramSFF-2025 S-Process (Jaan Tallinn)
    Amount$140,000
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  4. Convergence: AI Clarity
    ProgramSFF-2024 S-Process
    Amount$67,000
    Date–
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  5. Cornell University [Angelina Wang's Responsible AI Lab]
    ProgramSFF-2025 S-Process (Jaan Tallinn)
    Amount$170,000
    Date–
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  6. David Lorell
    ProgramSFF-2025 S-Process (Jaan Tallinn)
    Amount$230,000
    Date–
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  7. Decode Research
    ProgramSFF-2024 S-Process
    Amount$133,000
    Date–
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  8. Earendil, LLC (Security Layers Project)
    ProgramSFF-2024 flexHEGs (Jaan Tallinn + Blake Borgeson)
    Amount$778,000 total ($682,000 Jaan Tallinn, $96,000 Blake Borgeson)
    Date–
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  9. Earendil, LLC (Standards Infrastructure Project)
    ProgramSFF-2024 flexHEGs (Jaan Tallinn + Blake Borgeson)
    Amount$564,000 total ($547,000 Jaan Tallinn, $17,000 Blake Borgeson)
    Date–
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  10. Effective Institutions Project
    ProgramSFF-2024 S-Process
    Amount$145,000
    Date–
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  11. Effective Institutions Project (EIP)
    ProgramSFF-2025 S-Process (Jaan Tallinn)
    Amount$378,000
    Date–
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  12. Eisenstat Research Directions
    ProgramSFF-2024 S-Process
    Amount$103,000
    Date–
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  13. Eisenstat Research Program
    ProgramSFF-2025 S-Process (Jaan Tallinn)
    Amount$593,000
    Date–
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  14. Encode AI Corporation
    ProgramSFF-2025 S-Process (Jaan Tallinn)
    Amount$516,000
    Date–
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  15. Encode Justice
    ProgramSFF-2024 S-Process
    Amount$50,000
    Date–
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  16. Epistemic Garden
    ProgramSFF-2025 S-Process (Jaan Tallinn)
    Amount$100,000
    Date–
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  17. EthicsNet Creed.Space
    ProgramSFF-2025 S-Process (Jaan Tallinn)
    Amount$80,000
    Date–
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  18. FABRIC
    ProgramSFF-2025 S-Process (Jaan Tallinn)
    Amount$85,000
    Date–
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  19. FAR AI
    ProgramSFF-2025 S-Process (Jaan Tallinn)
    Amount$919,000
    Date–
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  20. FAR AI, Inc.
    ProgramSFF-2024 S-Process
    Amount$383,000
    Date–
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  21. Flourishing Future Foundation (FFF)
    ProgramSFF-2025 S-Process (Jaan Tallinn)
    Amount$300,000
    Date–
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  22. Foresight Institute
    ProgramSFF-2025 S-Process (Jaan Tallinn)
    Amount$175,000
    Date–
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  23. Forethought Research
    ProgramSFF-2025 S-Process (Jaan Tallinn)
    Amount$103,000
    Date–
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  24. Foundation for American Innovation
    ProgramSFF-2024 S-Process
    Amount$518,000
    Date–
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  25. Foundation for American Innovation (FAI)
    ProgramSFF-2025 S-Process (Jaan Tallinn)
    Amount$777,000
    Date–
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Programs
173
Awards
157
Grantees
$56.0M
Known USD
0
Live rounds
no open or announced rounds on file
Active
Status
Focus Areas

existential risk reduction, AI safety, long-term survival of sentient life, global catastrophic risk, longtermism, civilizational flourishing.

Typical size$10k–$1.6M per grant (most $50k–$500k; up to $4M via the Initiative Committee)
CadenceS-Process grant rounds run once or twice per year (sometimes labeled H1/H2); a rolling Speculation Grant application is open continuously, including when no S-Process round is open.
Sources
  1. survivalandflourishing.fund
  2. survivalandflourishing.fund/2025/recommendations
  3. survivalandflourishing.fund/2024/recommendations
  4. survivalandflourishing.fund/2026/application