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Longview Philanthropy is an organization that advises donors on high-impact giving, including grants to AI safety and biosecurity causes. It operates the Frontier AI Fund (FAIF), making it a relevant actor in the AI safety funding ecosystem.

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Longview Philanthropy is an expert-led, research-driven philanthropic advisory organization that helps donors maximize impact through bespoke grant strategies. It operates specialized funds including the Frontier AI Fund (FAIF) and Nuclear Weapons Policy Fund (NWPF), directing grants to high-priority global risks. Featured grants include biosecurity projects like SecureDNA and policy work through the OECD.

Key Points

•Longview advises donors at all stages of giving, offering tailored seminars, expert introductions, and curated grant portfolios at no cost.
•Operates the Frontier AI Fund (FAIF), enabling timely grants to top AI safety opportunities as they arise.
•Also manages the Nuclear Weapons Policy Fund (NWPF) for donors focused on nuclear risk reduction.
•Featured grant to SecureDNA supports automatic, secure screening of DNA synthesis requests to prevent bioweapon creation.
•Emphasizes transparency, sharing detailed reasoning and semi-annual reports with fund contributors.

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 Harnessing the power of philanthropy to protect our future. 

 Expert-led and research-driven, we devise bespoke strategies that maximise the impact of your giving.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 How We Work 

 
 
 We work with donors in every stage of their giving journey, from brand new philanthropists to seasoned leaders of effective giving. Depending on your particular needs, we can introduce you to experts on the world’s largest and most neglected issues, bring you into our curated learning sessions on the principles of effective giving, or simply meet you in the trenches and share our current grant opportunities and the reasoning behind them. Everything we do is always completely free of charge or commission. 

 
 
 A sample donor experience: 
 

 
 
 We introduce you to the principles of effective giving through an individual seminar that explores how giving today can have an outsized effect on the decades, centuries, and millennia to come. We tailor each session to your needs, but frequently cover: the role of philanthropy in moral progress, why we should be optimistic about our ability to make an enormous difference, our radically impartial and reason-driven approach to giving, how we prioritise between different causes, what solutions to global problems might look like, and how best to take action given the current philanthropic landscape. 

 
 We introduce you to world-class experts in key cause areas who can answer any questions you have about their field. We are committed to clarity and transparency about our reasoning and research. While some of our philanthropists prefer to be more hands-off, you will be given the opportunity to know as much as we do about why we believe our grants are high-impact, and how that impact is achieved. 

 
 At the conclusion of this learning process, which can last anywhere from days to months, we will create a bespoke portfolio of grant recommendations. See our grantmaking page for more details on our process and focus areas. If this portfolio is approved, we do everything necessary to facilitate the transfer of the grant, including due diligence and processing. 

 
 
 
 For established donors who are already on board with our approach: 
 

 
 
 If you prefer to cut to the chase, we can immediately begin investigating grants that suit your needs. We share our recommendations and reasoning as soon as possible in written reports. 

 
 We also invite donors to contribute directly to the Frontier AI Fund (FAIF) or the Nuclear Weapons Policy Fund (NWPF), which allows us to make timely grants to the very best opportunities as they arise. All contributors to FAIF and NWPF are provided with reports every six months. These reports detail the grants we made during that period, our reasoning for those grants, and major updates to our grantmaking programmes. 

 
 
 

 
 
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