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Effective Altruism Infrastructure Fund: March 2024 recommendations
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This is a routine grantmaking transparency report from an EA-aligned fund; relevant for tracking EA movement funding priorities and infrastructure investments, with limited direct AI safety content beyond the cross-cause prioritization grant.
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The EA Infrastructure Fund's March 2024 payout report details $1.39 million distributed across 41 grants over roughly 9.5 months, covering EA groups, research, content, and services. The report highlights a strategic reorientation toward Principles-Focused Effective Altruism and notable grants including $168,000 to Rethink Priorities for a Cross-Cause Cost-Effectiveness Model.
Key Points
- •$1.39M distributed across 41 grants with a 28.3% acceptance rate (excluding desk rejections), reflecting selective grantmaking.
- •Largest category was EA Groups ($456,780 across 18 grants), followed by EA-related Groups ($312,304) and Research ($216,535).
- •Highlighted grant: $168,000 to Rethink Priorities for a Cross-Cause Cost-Effectiveness Model to help funders prioritize philanthropic spending.
- •Fund signals reorientation toward Principles-Focused Effective Altruism as a strategic framing shift.
- •Median response time was 27 days; 8 grantees requested anonymization representing $521,206 of total disbursements.
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by Linch , calebp , Harri Besceli , Tom Barnes🔸 May 27 2024 11 min read 9 88
Building effective altruism Effective altruism funding Organization updates Effective Altruism Infrastructure Fund Effective Altruism Funds Grantmaking Announcements and updates Funding opportunities Frontpage Effective Altruism Infrastructure Fund: March 2024 recommendations Highlighted Grants Linch’s personal views: Linch’s personal views: Other Updates Other writings Appendix Other grants 9 comments This payout report covers the EA Infrastructure Fund’s grantmaking from June 16th 2023 to March 31st 2024 (9.5 months). It follows our previous June 2023 payout report .
Total funding recommended: $ 1,697,882
Total funding paid out [1] : $1,386,854
Number of grants paid out: 41
Acceptance rate (excluding desk rejections): 49/173 = 28.3%
Acceptance rate (including desk rejections): 18.4% (49/266)
Report authors: Linchuan Zhang (primary author), Caleb Parikh (interim fund chair), Harri Besceli, Tom Barnes
Funding breakdown [2] EA Groups: $456,780 granted across 18 grants
EA-related Groups: $312,304 granted across 6 grants
EA Content: $78,216 granted across 3 grants
EA Services and Infrastructure: $179,957 granted across 6 grants
Effective Giving: $53,000 granted across 2 grants
Research: $216,535 granted across 6 grants
[Total]: $1,386,854
8 of our grantees, who received a total of $521, 206, requested that our public reports for their grants are anonymized (they’re written below). 1 grantee, who received $2,500, requested that we do not have a public report at all (You can read our policy on public reporting here ). Our median response time over this period was 27 days, and our average response time was 42 days. For paid out grants, our median and average turnaround times are 57 and 61 days, respectively.
Highlighted Grants
Below we’ve highlighted some grants from this round that we thought were particularly interesting and that represent a relatively wide range of EAIF’s activities. We hope that these reports will help donors make more informed decisions about whether to donate to EAIF, as well as help the wider community understand our work.
Rethink Priorities Worldview Investigations Team ($168,000): Stipend to improve their Cross-Cause Cost-Effectiveness Model , including a portfolio builder to help individuals and foundations prioritize their philanthropic spending. [Grant type: Research]
Note: This grant, while approved, has not yet been paid out, pending due diligence.
This project fits in well with the EA Infrastructure Fund's tentative reorientation towards Principles-Focused Effective Altruism .
The fund managers wer
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