FTX Future Fund donations made (filtered to cause areas matching Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness)

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Basic donor information

We do not have any donor information for the donor FTX Future Fund in our system.

Donor donation statistics

Cause areaCountMedianMeanMinimum10th percentile 20th percentile 30th percentile 40th percentile 50th percentile 60th percentile 70th percentile 80th percentile 90th percentile Maximum
Overall 19 470,000 1,200,263 135,000 135,000 150,000 250,000 350,000 470,000 485,000 1,000,000 1,200,000 3,600,000 10,000,000
Effective altruism|AI safety|Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness|Climate change 1 135,000 135,000 135,000 135,000 135,000 135,000 135,000 135,000 135,000 135,000 135,000 135,000 135,000
Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness 16 480,000 1,385,000 135,000 140,000 250,000 350,000 470,000 480,000 500,000 1,000,000 1,200,000 3,600,000 10,000,000
AI safety|Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness 2 190,000 255,000 190,000 190,000 190,000 190,000 190,000 190,000 320,000 320,000 320,000 320,000 320,000

Donation amounts by cause area and year

If you hover over a cell for a given cause area and year, you will get a tooltip with the number of donees and the number of donations.

Note: Cause area classification used here may not match that used by donor for all cases.

Cause area Number of donations Number of donees Total 2022
Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness (filter this donor) 16 15 22,160,000.00 22,160,000.00
AI safety|Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness (filter this donor) 2 2 510,000.00 510,000.00
Effective altruism|AI safety|Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness|Climate change (filter this donor) 1 1 135,000.00 135,000.00
Total 19 18 22,805,000.00 22,805,000.00

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Donation amounts by subcause area and year

If you hover over a cell for a given subcause area and year, you will get a tooltip with the number of donees and the number of donations.

For the meaning of “classified” and “unclassified”, see the page clarifying this.

Subcause area Number of donations Number of donees Total 2022
Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness/COVID-19/COVID-19 vaccine 1 1 10,000,000.00 10,000,000.00
Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness 7 6 4,920,000.00 4,920,000.00
Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness/vaccine development 2 2 4,600,000.00 4,600,000.00
Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness/regulatory speedup 1 1 1,000,000.00 1,000,000.00
Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness/coordination efforts 2 2 750,000.00 750,000.00
AI safety|Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness 2 2 510,000.00 510,000.00
Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness/personal protective equipment 1 1 500,000.00 500,000.00
Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness/disinfection 2 2 390,000.00 390,000.00
Effective altruism|AI safety|Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness|Climate change 1 1 135,000.00 135,000.00
Classified total 19 18 22,805,000.00 22,805,000.00
Unclassified total 0 0 0.00 0.00
Total 19 18 22,805,000.00 22,805,000.00

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Donation amounts by donee and year

Donee Cause area Metadata Total 2022
HelixNano (filter this donor) 10,000,000.00 10,000,000.00
AVECRIS (filter this donor) 3,600,000.00 3,600,000.00
Sherlock Biosciences (filter this donor) 2,000,000.00 2,000,000.00
SecureBio (filter this donor) 1,200,000.00 1,200,000.00
Confirm Solutions (filter this donor) 1,000,000.00 1,000,000.00
Piezo Therapeutics (filter this donor) 1,000,000.00 1,000,000.00
Institute for Progress (filter this donor) 615,000.00 615,000.00
Virginia Tech (filter this donor) 500,000.00 500,000.00
MITRE (filter this donor) 485,000.00 485,000.00
Charity Entrepreneurship (filter this donor) 470,000.00 470,000.00
Council on Strategic Risks (filter this donor) 400,000.00 400,000.00
1Day Sooner (filter this donor) 350,000.00 350,000.00
Association for Long Term Existence and Resilience (filter this donor) 320,000.00 320,000.00
University of Ottawa (filter this donor) WP Site 250,000.00 250,000.00
James Lin (filter this donor) 190,000.00 190,000.00
Moncef Slaoui (filter this donor) 150,000.00 150,000.00
Justin Mares (filter this donor) 140,000.00 140,000.00
EffiSciences (filter this donor) 135,000.00 135,000.00
Total -- -- 22,805,000.00 22,805,000.00

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Donation amounts by influencer and year

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Donation amounts by disclosures and year

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Donation amounts by country and year

If you hover over a cell for a given country and year, you will get a tooltip with the number of donees and the number of donations.

For the meaning of “classified” and “unclassified”, see the page clarifying this.

Country Number of donations Number of donees Total 2022
France 1 1 135,000.00 135,000.00
Classified total 1 1 135,000.00 135,000.00
Unclassified total 18 17 22,670,000.00 22,670,000.00
Total 19 18 22,805,000.00 22,805,000.00

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Full list of documents in reverse chronological order (1 documents)

Title (URL linked)Publication dateAuthorPublisherAffected donorsAffected doneesAffected influencersDocument scopeCause areaNotes
Future Fund June 2022 Update2022-06-30Nick Beckstead Leopold Aschenbrenner Avital Balwit William MacAskill Ketan Ramakrishnan FTX Future FundFTX Future Fund Manifold Markets ML Safety Scholars Program Andi Peng Braden Leach Thomas Kwa SecureBio Ray Amjad Apollo Academic Surveys Justin Mares Longview Philanthropy Atlas Fellowship Effective Ideas Blog Prize Ought Swift Centre for Applied Forecasting Federation for American Scientists Public Editor Project Quantified Uncertainty Research Institute Moncef Slaoui AI Impacts EA Critiques and Red Teaming Prize Broad donor strategyLongtermism|AI safety|Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness|Effective altruismThis lengthy blog post, cross-posted at https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/paMYXYFYbbjpdjgbt/future-fund-june-2022-update (GW, IR) to the Effective Altruism Forum, goes into detail regarding the grantmaking of the FTX Future Fund so far, and learnings from this grantmaking. The post reports having made 262 grants and investments, with $132 million in total spend. Three funding models are in use: regranting ($31 million so far), open call ($26 million so far), and staff-led grantmaking ($73 million so far).

Full list of donations in reverse chronological order (19 donations)

Graph of top 10 donees (for donations with known year of donation) by amount, showing the timeframe of donations

Graph of donations and their timeframes
DoneeAmount (current USD)Amount rank (out of 19)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
1Day Sooner350,000.00122022-06Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness/coordination effortshttps://ftxfuturefund.org/our-grants/?_funding_stream=open-call-- Donation process: This grant is a result of the Future Fund's open call for applications originally announced on 2022-02-28 at https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/2mx6xrDrwiEKzfgks/announcing-the-future-fund-1 (GW, IR) with a deadline of 2022-03-21.

Intended use of funds (category): Direct project expenses

Intended use of funds: Grant to "support 1DS’ work on pandemic preparedness, including advocacy for advance market purchase commitments, collaboration with the UK Pandemic Ethics Accelerator on challenge studies, and advocacy with 1Day Africa and the West African Health Organization for a global pandemic insurance fund."

Donor reason for donating at this time (rather than earlier or later): Timing determined by timing of the open call https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/2mx6xrDrwiEKzfgks/announcing-the-future-fund-1 (GW, IR) for applications; the grant is made close to the application window for the open call (2022-02-28 to 2022-03-21).
James Lin190,000.00152022-05AI safety|Biosecurity and pandemic preparednesshttps://ftxfuturefund.org/our-grants/?_funding_stream=open-call-- Donation process: This grant is a result of the Future Fund's open call for applications originally announced on 2022-02-28 at https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/2mx6xrDrwiEKzfgks/announcing-the-future-fund-1 (GW, IR) with a deadline of 2022-03-21. The grant recipient had written a blog post https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/qoB8MHe94kCEZyswd/i-want-future-perfect-but-for-science-publications (GW, IR) on 2022-03-08 (during the grant application period) describing the idea.

Intended use of funds (category): Direct project expenses

Intended use of funds: Grant to "allow a reputable technology publication to engage 2-5 undergraduate student interns to write about topics including AI safety, alternative proteins, and biosecurity." See https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/qoB8MHe94kCEZyswd/i-want-future-perfect-but-for-science-publications (GW, IR) for the grantee's original vision.

Donor reason for donating at this time (rather than earlier or later): Timing determined by timing of the open call https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/2mx6xrDrwiEKzfgks/announcing-the-future-fund-1 (GW, IR) for applications; the grant is made shortly after the application window for the open call (2022-02-28 to 2022-03-21).
Moncef Slaoui150,000.00162022-05Biosecurity and pandemic preparednesshttps://ftxfuturefund.org/our-regrants/-- Donation process: The grant is made as part of the Future Fund's regranting program. See https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/paMYXYFYbbjpdjgbt/future-fund-june-2022-update#Regranting_program_in_more_detail (GW, IR) for more detail on the regranting program.

Intended use of funds (category): Direct project expenses

Intended use of funds: Grant to "fund the writing of Slaoui's memoir, especially including his experience directing Operation Warp Speed."
Piezo Therapeutics1,000,000.0052022-05Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness/vaccine developmenthttps://ftxfuturefund.org/our-grants/?_funding_stream=open-call-- Donation process: This investment is a result of the Future Fund's open call for applications originally announced on 2022-02-28 at https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/2mx6xrDrwiEKzfgks/announcing-the-future-fund-1 (GW, IR) with a deadline of 2022-03-21.

Intended use of funds (category): Direct project expenses

Intended use of funds: Grant to "support work on technology for delivering mRNA vaccines without lipid nanoparticles with the aim of making vaccines more safe, affordable, and scalable."

Donor reason for donating at this time (rather than earlier or later): Timing determined by timing of the open call https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/2mx6xrDrwiEKzfgks/announcing-the-future-fund-1 (GW, IR) for applications; the grant is made shortly after the application window for the open call (2022-02-28 to 2022-03-21).
AVECRIS3,600,000.0022022-05Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness/vaccine developmenthttps://ftxfuturefund.org/our-grants/?_funding_stream=open-call-- Donation process: This investment is a result of the Future Fund's open call for applications originally announced on 2022-02-28 at https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/2mx6xrDrwiEKzfgks/announcing-the-future-fund-1 (GW, IR) with a deadline of 2022-03-21.

Intended use of funds (category): Direct project expenses

Intended use of funds: Investment in AVECRIS’s "Project DOOR to support the development of a next generation genetic vaccine platform that aims to allow for highly distributed vaccine production using AVECRIS’s advanced DNA vector delivery technology."

Donor reason for donating at this time (rather than earlier or later): Timing determined by timing of the open call https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/2mx6xrDrwiEKzfgks/announcing-the-future-fund-1 (GW, IR) for applications; the grant is made shortly after the application window for the open call (2022-02-28 to 2022-03-21).
Confirm Solutions1,000,000.0052022-05Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness/regulatory speeduphttps://ftxfuturefund.org/our-grants/?_funding_stream=open-call-- Donation process: This investment (the grantee is a public-benefit corporation) is a result of the Future Fund's open call for applications originally announced on 2022-02-28 at https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/2mx6xrDrwiEKzfgks/announcing-the-future-fund-1 (GW, IR) with a deadline of 2022-03-21.

Intended use of funds (category): Direct project expenses

Intended use of funds: Investment to "support development of statistical models and software tools that can automate parts of the regulatory process for complex clinical trials."

Donor reason for selecting the donee: The grant description says: "We anticipate that this work can help to speed up approvals of new vaccines and medical treatments while enhancing their statistical rigor."

Donor reason for donating at this time (rather than earlier or later): Timing determined by timing of the open call https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/2mx6xrDrwiEKzfgks/announcing-the-future-fund-1 (GW, IR) for applications; the grant is made shortly after the application window for the open call (2022-02-28 to 2022-03-21).
Council on Strategic Risks400,000.00112022-05Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness/coordination effortshttps://ftxfuturefund.org/our-grants/?_funding_stream=open-call-- Donation process: This grant is a result of the Future Fund's open call for applications originally announced on 2022-02-28 at https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/2mx6xrDrwiEKzfgks/announcing-the-future-fund-1 (GW, IR) with a deadline of 2022-03-21.

Intended use of funds (category): Direct project expenses

Intended use of funds: The grant description says: "We recommended a grant to support a project which will develop and advance ideas for strengthening regional and multilateral cooperation for addressing biological risks and filling gaps in current international institutions. These efforts include promoting the creation of a center with the capacity to rapidly respond to emerging infectious disease threats to prioritize blunting the impact of such events as well as quickly saving lives, and cooperative mechanisms to enhance biosafety and biosecurity while reducing the potential risks of spaces such as high-containment laboratories."

Donor reason for donating at this time (rather than earlier or later): Timing determined by timing of the open call https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/2mx6xrDrwiEKzfgks/announcing-the-future-fund-1 (GW, IR) for applications; the grant is made shortly after the application window for the open call (2022-02-28 to 2022-03-21).
Justin Mares140,000.00172022-05Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness/disinfectionhttps://ftxfuturefund.org/our-grants/?_funding_stream=open-call-- Donation process: This grant is a result of the Future Fund's open call for applications originally announced on 2022-02-28 at https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/2mx6xrDrwiEKzfgks/announcing-the-future-fund-1 (GW, IR) with a deadline of 2022-03-21.

Intended use of funds (category): Direct project expenses

Intended use of funds: Grant to "support research on the feasibility of inactivating viruses via electromagnetic radiation."

Donor reason for donating at this time (rather than earlier or later): Timing determined by timing of the open call https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/2mx6xrDrwiEKzfgks/announcing-the-future-fund-1 (GW, IR) for applications; the grant is made shortly after the application window for the open call (2022-02-28 to 2022-03-21).
Virginia Tech (Earmark: Guoliang Liu)500,000.0072022-05Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness/personal protective equipmenthttps://ftxfuturefund.org/our-grants/?_funding_stream=open-call-- Donation process: This grant is a result of the Future Fund's open call for applications originally announced on 2022-02-28 at https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/2mx6xrDrwiEKzfgks/announcing-the-future-fund-1 (GW, IR) with a deadline of 2022-03-21.

Intended use of funds (category): Direct project expenses

Intended use of funds: Grant to "support a project to develop a new material -- an ultra-thin polymer-based thin film -- for use in next-generation Personal Protective Equipment which is both more effective and more comfortable."

Donor reason for donating at this time (rather than earlier or later): Timing determined by timing of the open call https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/2mx6xrDrwiEKzfgks/announcing-the-future-fund-1 (GW, IR) for applications; the grant is made shortly after the application window for the open call (2022-02-28 to 2022-03-21).
Charity Entrepreneurship470,000.00102022-05Biosecurity and pandemic preparednesshttps://ftxfuturefund.org/our-grants/?_funding_stream=open-call-- Donation process: This grant is a result of the Future Fund's open call for applications originally announced on 2022-02-28 at https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/2mx6xrDrwiEKzfgks/announcing-the-future-fund-1 (GW, IR) with a deadline of 2022-03-21.

Intended use of funds (category): Direct project expenses

Intended use of funds: Grant to "support the incubation of new charities that will work on health security."

Donor reason for donating at this time (rather than earlier or later): Timing determined by timing of the open call https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/2mx6xrDrwiEKzfgks/announcing-the-future-fund-1 (GW, IR) for applications; the grant is made shortly after the application window for the open call (2022-02-28 to 2022-03-21).
MITRE (Earmark: Michael Jacob)485,000.0082022-05Biosecurity and pandemic preparednesshttps://ftxfuturefund.org/our-grants/?_funding_stream=open-call-- Donation process: This grant is a result of the Future Fund's open call for applications originally announced on 2022-02-28 at https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/2mx6xrDrwiEKzfgks/announcing-the-future-fund-1 (GW, IR) with a deadline of 2022-03-21.

Intended use of funds (category): Direct project expenses

Intended use of funds: Grant to "support research that we hope will be used to help strengthen the bioweapons convention and guide proactive actions to better secure those facilities or stop the dangerous work being done there."

Donor reason for donating at this time (rather than earlier or later): Timing determined by timing of the open call https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/2mx6xrDrwiEKzfgks/announcing-the-future-fund-1 (GW, IR) for applications; the grant is made shortly after the application window for the open call (2022-02-28 to 2022-03-21).
Institute for Progress (Earmark: Nikki Teran)135,000.00182022-05Biosecurity and pandemic preparednesshttps://ftxfuturefund.org/our-grants/?_funding_stream=open-call-- Donation process: This grant is a result of the Future Fund's open call for applications originally announced on 2022-02-28 at https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/2mx6xrDrwiEKzfgks/announcing-the-future-fund-1 (GW, IR) with a deadline of 2022-03-21.

Intended use of funds (category): Direct project expenses

Intended use of funds: Grant to "support the creation of biosecurity policy priorities via conversations with experts in security, technology, policy, and advocacy. It will develop position papers, research papers, and agendas for the biosecurity community."

Donor reason for donating at this time (rather than earlier or later): Timing determined by timing of the open call https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/2mx6xrDrwiEKzfgks/announcing-the-future-fund-1 (GW, IR) for applications; the grant is made shortly after the application window for the open call (2022-02-28 to 2022-03-21).
Institute for Progress480,000.0092022-05Biosecurity and pandemic preparednesshttps://ftxfuturefund.org/our-grants/?_funding_stream=open-call-- Donation process: This grant is a result of the Future Fund's open call for applications originally announced on 2022-02-28 at https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/2mx6xrDrwiEKzfgks/announcing-the-future-fund-1 (GW, IR) with a deadline of 2022-03-21.

Intended use of funds (category): Direct project expenses

Intended use of funds: Grant to "support the Institute’s research and policy engagement work on high skilled immigration, biosecurity, and pandemic prevention."

Donor reason for donating at this time (rather than earlier or later): Timing determined by timing of the open call https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/2mx6xrDrwiEKzfgks/announcing-the-future-fund-1 (GW, IR) for applications; the grant is made shortly after the application window for the open call (2022-02-28 to 2022-03-21).
Association for Long Term Existence and Resilience320,000.00132022-05AI safety|Biosecurity and pandemic preparednesshttps://ftxfuturefund.org/our-grants/?_funding_stream=open-call-- Donation process: This grant is a result of the Future Fund's open call for applications originally announced on 2022-02-28 at https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/2mx6xrDrwiEKzfgks/announcing-the-future-fund-1 (GW, IR) with a deadline of 2022-03-21.

Intended use of funds (category): Direct project expenses

Intended use of funds: Grant to "support ALTER, an academic research and advocacy organization, which hopes to investigate, demonstrate, and foster useful ways to improve the future in the short term, and to safeguard and improve the long-term trajectory of humanity. The organization's initial focus is building bridges to academia via conferences and grants to find researchers who can focus on AI safety, and on policy for reducing biorisk."

Donor reason for donating at this time (rather than earlier or later): Timing determined by timing of the open call https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/2mx6xrDrwiEKzfgks/announcing-the-future-fund-1 (GW, IR) for applications; the grant is made shortly after the application window for the open call (2022-02-28 to 2022-03-21).
EffiSciences135,000.00182022-04Effective altruism|AI safety|Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness|Climate changehttps://ftxfuturefund.org/our-grants/?_funding_stream=open-call-- Donation process: This grant is a result of the Future Fund's open call for applications originally announced on 2022-02-28 at https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/2mx6xrDrwiEKzfgks/announcing-the-future-fund-1 (GW, IR) with a deadline of 2022-03-21.

Intended use of funds (category): Direct project expenses

Intended use of funds: Grant to "support EffiSciences’s work promoting high impact research on global priorities (e.g. AI safety, biosecurity, and climate change) among French students and academics, and building up a community of people willing to work on important topics."

Donor reason for donating at this time (rather than earlier or later): Timing determined by timing of the open call https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/2mx6xrDrwiEKzfgks/announcing-the-future-fund-1 (GW, IR) for applications; the grant is made close to the application window for the open call (2022-02-28 to 2022-03-21).

Other notes: Affected countries: France.
University of Ottawa (Earmark: Emilio I. Alarcón)250,000.00142022-03Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness/disinfectionhttps://ftxfuturefund.org/our-grants/?_funding_stream=open-call-- Donation process: This grant is a result of the Future Fund's open call for applications originally announced on 2022-02-28 at https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/2mx6xrDrwiEKzfgks/announcing-the-future-fund-1 (GW, IR) with a deadline of 2022-03-21.

Intended use of funds (category): Direct project expenses

Intended use of funds: Grant to "support a project to develop new plastic surfaces incorporating molecules that can be activated with low-energy visible light to eradicate bacteria and kill viruses continuously."

Donor reason for selecting the donee: The grant description says: "If successful, this project will change how plastic surfaces are currently decontaminated."

Donor reason for donating at this time (rather than earlier or later): Timing determined by timing of the open call https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/2mx6xrDrwiEKzfgks/announcing-the-future-fund-1 (GW, IR) for applications; the grant is made close to the application window for the open call (2022-02-28 to 2022-03-21).
SecureBio (Earmark: Kevin Esvelt)1,200,000.0042022-03Biosecurity and pandemic preparednesshttps://ftxfuturefund.org/our-grants/?_funding_stream=open-call-- Donation process: According to https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/paMYXYFYbbjpdjgbt/future-fund-june-2022-update#Open_call (GW, IR) this grant is a result of the Future Fund's open call for applications originally announced on 2022-02-28 at https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/2mx6xrDrwiEKzfgks/announcing-the-future-fund-1 (GW, IR) with a deadline of 2022-03-21.

Intended use of funds (category): Direct project expenses

Intended use of funds: The grant description states: "We recommended a grant to support the hiring of several key staff for Dr. Kevin Esvelt’s pandemic prevention work. SecureBio is working to implement universal DNA synthesis screening, build a reliable early warning system, and coordinate the development of improved personal protective equipment and its delivery to essential workers when needed."

Donor reason for donating at this time (rather than earlier or later): Timing determined by timing of the open call https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/2mx6xrDrwiEKzfgks/announcing-the-future-fund-1 (GW, IR) for applications; the grant is made close to the application window for the open call (2022-02-28 to 2022-03-21).

Other notes: The June 2022 update https://ftxfuturefund.org/future-fund-june-2022-update/ by the FTX Future Fund highlights the grant as one of its example grants.
Sherlock Biosciences2,000,000.0032022-02Biosecurity and pandemic preparednesshttps://ftxfuturefund.org/our-grants/?_funding_stream=ad-hoc-- Donation process: This investment is part of staff-led grantmaking by FTX Future Fund. https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/paMYXYFYbbjpdjgbt/future-fund-june-2022-update#Staff_led_grantmaking_in_more_detail (GW, IR) says: "Unlike the open call and regranting, these grants and investments are not a test of a particular potentially highly scalable funding model. These are projects we funded because we became aware of them and thought they were good ideas."

Intended use of funds (category): Direct project expenses

Intended use of funds: Grant to "support the development of universal CRISPR-based diagnostics, including paper-based diagnostics that can be used in developing-country settings without electricity."
HelixNano10,000,000.0012022-01Biosecurity and pandemic preparedness/COVID-19/COVID-19 vaccinehttps://ftxfuturefund.org/our-grants/?_funding_stream=ad-hoc-- Donation process: This investment is part of staff-led grantmaking by FTX Future Fund. https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/paMYXYFYbbjpdjgbt/future-fund-june-2022-update#Staff_led_grantmaking_in_more_detail (GW, IR) says: "Unlike the open call and regranting, these grants and investments are not a test of a particular potentially highly scalable funding model. These are projects we funded because we became aware of them and thought they were good ideas."

Intended use of funds (category): Direct project expenses

Intended use of funds: Grant to "support Helix Nano running preclinical and Phase 1 trials of a pan-variant Covid-19 vaccine."

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