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FTX Future Fund Grants List
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This page documents FTX Future Fund's grantmaking before FTX's November 2022 bankruptcy; many grants were clawed back or unfulfilled, significantly disrupting AI safety and EA funding landscapes.
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Summary
A comprehensive listing of grants awarded by the FTX Future Fund, an EA-aligned philanthropic initiative that funded projects related to AI safety, biosecurity, governance, and existential risk reduction. The fund distributed hundreds of millions of dollars before FTX's collapse in November 2022, making it one of the largest short-lived funders in the EA and AI safety ecosystem.
Key Points
- •FTX Future Fund awarded grants across AI safety, biosecurity, global governance, and economic growth areas
- •The fund was a major source of AI safety and existential risk funding in 2022 before FTX's collapse
- •Grants spanned both technical AI safety research and policy/governance initiatives
- •The fund's collapse created significant disruption to many AI safety and EA organizations that had received or expected funding
- •The grant list provides a snapshot of prioritized interventions in the longtermist and AI safety funding landscape circa 2022
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Our Grants and Investments
You can use this database to see information about a wide selection of our initial grants and investments.1
We have committed over $160 million to date.2 The grants and investments in this database were sourced through our open call for applications or were recommended by Future Fund staff.
Last updated: September 1, 2022
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Funding Type
Area of Interest
Date of Grant
Amount
Funding Stream
July 2022
Our World in Data
We recommended a grant over three years to support OWID’s work producing high quality data and analysis of global trends like the rise in living standards and effects of COVID-19. This grant will specifically support work tracking trends that are relevant to humanity’s long term prospects.
$7,500,000
Epistemic Institutions
June 2022
Global Priorities Institute
We recommended a grant to allow GPI to hire pre-docs and post-docs from economics, philosophy, and psychology and publish analysis on how to do the most good.
$1,215,800
Epistemic Institutions
June 2022
Sherry Glied
We recommended a grant to run two pilot studies in order to develop a platform that will allow policymakers to rapidly get reliable estimates about important quantitative parameters to inform policy measures during times of crisis, like during a pandemic. The pilot
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