This is an online portal with information on donations that were announced publicly (or have been shared with permission) that were of interest to Vipul Naik. The git repository with the code for this portal, as well as all the underlying data, is available on GitHub. All payment amounts are in current United States dollars (USD). The repository of donations is being seeded with an initial collation by Issa Rice as well as continued contributions from him (see his commits and the contract work page listing all financially compensated contributions to the site) but all responsibility for errors and inaccuracies belongs to Vipul Naik. Current data is preliminary and has not been completely vetted and normalized; if sharing a link to this site or any page on this site, please include the caveat that the data is preliminary (if you want to share without including caveats, please check with Vipul Naik). We expect to have completed the first round of development by the end of July 2024. See the about page for more details. Also of interest: pageview data on analytics.vipulnaik.com, tutorial in README, request for feedback to EA Forum.
We do not have any donor information for the donor Jed McCaleb in our system.
| Cause area | Count | Median | Mean | Minimum | 10th percentile | 20th percentile | 30th percentile | 40th percentile | 50th percentile | 60th percentile | 70th percentile | 80th percentile | 90th percentile | Maximum |
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| Overall | 16 | 30,000 | 89,571 | 10,000 | 14,000 | 20,000 | 20,000 | 23,000 | 30,000 | 40,000 | 51,000 | 82,000 | 250,000 | 631,137 |
| Global catastrophic risks | 4 | 14,000 | 22,750 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 14,000 | 14,000 | 14,000 | 17,000 | 17,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 |
| AI safety | 5 | 82,000 | 204,627 | 20,000 | 20,000 | 20,000 | 40,000 | 40,000 | 82,000 | 82,000 | 250,000 | 250,000 | 631,137 | 631,137 |
| 2 | 20,000 | 82,000 | 20,000 | 20,000 | 20,000 | 20,000 | 20,000 | 20,000 | 144,000 | 144,000 | 144,000 | 144,000 | 144,000 | |
| Effective altruism | 2 | 21,000 | 25,500 | 21,000 | 21,000 | 21,000 | 21,000 | 21,000 | 21,000 | 30,000 | 30,000 | 30,000 | 30,000 | 30,000 |
| Epistemic institutions | 2 | 23,000 | 26,500 | 23,000 | 23,000 | 23,000 | 23,000 | 23,000 | 23,000 | 30,000 | 30,000 | 30,000 | 30,000 | 30,000 |
| Scientific research | 1 | 51,000 | 51,000 | 51,000 | 51,000 | 51,000 | 51,000 | 51,000 | 51,000 | 51,000 | 51,000 | 51,000 | 51,000 | 51,000 |
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 | 2021 | 2020 | 2014 |
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| AI safety (filter this donor) | 5 | 3 | 1,023,137.00 | 332,000.00 | 60,000.00 | 631,137.00 |
| (filter this donor) | 2 | 2 | 164,000.00 | 0.00 | 164,000.00 | 0.00 |
| Global catastrophic risks (filter this donor) | 4 | 3 | 91,000.00 | 31,000.00 | 60,000.00 | 0.00 |
| Epistemic institutions (filter this donor) | 2 | 2 | 53,000.00 | 0.00 | 53,000.00 | 0.00 |
| Effective altruism (filter this donor) | 2 | 2 | 51,000.00 | 21,000.00 | 30,000.00 | 0.00 |
| Scientific research (filter this donor) | 1 | 1 | 51,000.00 | 51,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Total | 16 | 12 | 1,433,137.00 | 435,000.00 | 367,000.00 | 631,137.00 |
Graph of spending by cause area and year (incremental, not cumulative)
Graph of spending by cause area and year (cumulative)
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 | 2021 | 2020 | 2014 |
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| AI safety | 5 | 3 | 1,023,137.00 | 332,000.00 | 60,000.00 | 631,137.00 |
| Global catastrophic risks | 4 | 3 | 91,000.00 | 31,000.00 | 60,000.00 | 0.00 |
| Epistemic institutions | 2 | 2 | 53,000.00 | 0.00 | 53,000.00 | 0.00 |
| Scientific research | 1 | 1 | 51,000.00 | 51,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Effective altruism/movement growth/career counseling | 1 | 1 | 30,000.00 | 0.00 | 30,000.00 | 0.00 |
| Effective altruism/housing | 1 | 1 | 21,000.00 | 21,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Classified total | 14 | 10 | 1,269,137.00 | 435,000.00 | 203,000.00 | 631,137.00 |
| Unclassified total | 2 | 2 | 164,000.00 | 0.00 | 164,000.00 | 0.00 |
| Total | 16 | 12 | 1,433,137.00 | 435,000.00 | 367,000.00 | 631,137.00 |
Graph of spending by subcause area and year (incremental, not cumulative)
Graph of spending by subcause area and year (cumulative)
| Donee | Cause area | Metadata | Total | 2021 | 2020 | 2014 |
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| Machine Intelligence Research Institute (filter this donor) | AI safety | FB Tw WP Site CN GS TW | 671,137.00 | 0.00 | 40,000.00 | 631,137.00 |
| Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative (filter this donor) | AI safety/other global catastrophic risks | Site TW | 281,000.00 | 281,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Topos Institute (filter this donor) | 144,000.00 | 0.00 | 144,000.00 | 0.00 | ||
| AI Impacts (filter this donor) | AI safety | Site | 102,000.00 | 82,000.00 | 20,000.00 | 0.00 |
| New Science Research (filter this donor) | 51,000.00 | 51,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Global Catastrophic Risk Institute (filter this donor) | Global catastrophic risks | FB Tw Site | 50,000.00 | 0.00 | 50,000.00 | 0.00 |
| 80,000 Hours (filter this donor) | Career coaching/life guidance | FB Tw WP Site | 30,000.00 | 0.00 | 30,000.00 | 0.00 |
| Lightcone Infrastructure (filter this donor) | Epistemic institutions | FB WP Site | 30,000.00 | 0.00 | 30,000.00 | 0.00 |
| Center for Applied Rationality (filter this donor) | Rationality | FB Tw WP Site TW | 23,000.00 | 0.00 | 23,000.00 | 0.00 |
| Centre for Enabling EA Learning & Research (filter this donor) | Effective altruism/housing | Site | 21,000.00 | 21,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Quantified Uncertainty Research Institute (filter this donor) | 20,000.00 | 0.00 | 20,000.00 | 0.00 | ||
| Future of Life Institute (filter this donor) | AI safety/other global catastrophic risks | FB Tw WP Site | 10,000.00 | 0.00 | 10,000.00 | 0.00 |
| Total | -- | -- | 1,433,137.00 | 435,000.00 | 367,000.00 | 631,137.00 |
Graph of spending by donee and year (incremental, not cumulative)
Graph of spending by donee and year (cumulative)
If you hover over a cell for a given influencer 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.
| Influencer | Number of donations | Number of donees | Total | 2021 | 2020 |
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| Survival and Flourishing Fund|Beth Barnes|Oliver Habryka|Zvi Mowshowitz | 1 | 1 | 250,000.00 | 250,000.00 | 0.00 |
| Survival and Flourishing Fund|Alex Zhu|Andrew Critch|Jed McCaleb|Oliver Habryka | 7 | 7 | 200,000.00 | 0.00 | 200,000.00 |
| Survival and Flourishing Fund|Ben Hoskin|Katja Grace|Oliver Habryka|Adam Marblestone | 5 | 4 | 185,000.00 | 185,000.00 | 0.00 |
| Survival and Flourishing Fund|Oliver Habryka|Eric Rogstad | 2 | 2 | 167,000.00 | 0.00 | 167,000.00 |
| Classified total | 15 | 12 | 802,000.00 | 435,000.00 | 367,000.00 |
| Unclassified total | 1 | 1 | 631,137.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Total | 16 | 12 | 1,433,137.00 | 435,000.00 | 367,000.00 |
Graph of spending by influencer and year (incremental, not cumulative)
Graph of spending by influencer and year (cumulative)
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| Title (URL linked) | Publication date | Author | Publisher | Affected donors | Affected donees | Affected influencers | Document scope | Cause area | Notes |
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| Zvi’s Thoughts on the Survival and Flourishing Fund (SFF) (GW, IR) | 2021-12-14 | Zvi Mowshowitz | LessWrong | Survival and Flourishing Fund Jaan Tallinn Jed McCaleb The Casey and Family Foundation | Effective Altruism Funds:Long-Term Future Fund Center on Long-Term Risk Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters The Centre for Long-Term Resilience Lightcone Infrastructure Effective Altruism Funds: Infrastructure Fund Centre for the Governance of AI Ought New Science Research Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative AI Objectives Institute Topos Institute Emergent Ventures India European Biostasis Foundation Laboratory for Social Minds PrivateARPA Charter Cities Institute | Survival and Flourishing Fund Beth Barnes Oliver Habryka Zvi Mowshowitz | Miscellaneous commentary | Longtermism|AI safety|Global catastrophic risks | In this lengthy post, Zvi Mowshowitz, who was one of the recommenders for the Survival and Flourishing Fund's 2021 H2 grant round based on the S-process, describes his experience with the process, his impressions of several of the grantees, and implications for what kinds of grant applications are most likely to succeed. Zvi says that the grant round suffered from the problem of Too Much Money (TMM); there was way more money than any individual recommender felt comfortable granting, and just about enough money for the combined preferences of all recommenders, which meant that any recommender could unilaterally push a particular grantee through. The post has several other observations and attracts several comments. |
| S-process funding | 2021-11-19 | Andrew Critch | Protocol Labs | Survival and Flourishing Fund Jaan Tallinn Jed McCaleb The Casey and Family Foundation | Survival and Flourishing Fund | Reasoning supplement | Longtermism|AI safety|Global catastrophic risks | In this presentation moderated by Karola Kirsanow of Protocol Labs (as part of the Funding the Commons summit), Andrew Critch presents in detail the S-process (simulation process) used by the Survival and Flourishing Fund for its own grantmaking (back when it had some funds of its own) and for recommending grants to other donors, including Jaan Tallinn, Jed McCaleb, and The Casey and Family Foundation (represented by David Marble). Critch talks about the following key ideas in the S-process: marginal value functions (for each potential grantee), the use of a "hold" option for not granting funds now, recorded meetings between recommenders that funders can review to decide how much weight to give each recommender, a simulation where funders assign small portions of their funding to avoid perverse incentives created based on the order in which funders go, and funder flexibility to use or not use the recommended allocation. |
Graph of top 10 donees (for donations with known year of donation) by amount, showing the timeframe of donations
| Donee | Amount (current USD) | Amount rank (out of 16) | Donation date | Cause area | URL | Influencer | Notes |
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| Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative (Earmark: Center for Human-Compatible AI) | 250,000.00 | 2 | AI safety | https://survivalandflourishing.fund/sff-2021-h2-recommendations | Survival and Flourishing Fund Beth Barnes Oliver Habryka Zvi Mowshowitz | Donation process: Part of the Survival and Flourishing Fund's 2021 H2 grants based on the S-process (simulation process) that "involves allowing the Recommenders and funders to simulate a large number of counterfactual delegation scenarios using a table of marginal utility functions. Recommenders specified marginal utility functions for funding each application, and adjusted those functions through discussions with each other as the round progressed. Similarly, funders specified and adjusted different utility functions for deferring to each Recommender. In this round, the process also allowed the funders to make some final adjustments to decide on their final intended grant amounts. [...] [The] system is designed to generally favor funding things that at least one recommender is excited to fund, rather than things that every recommender is excited to fund." https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/kuDKtwwbsksAW4BG2/zvi-s-thoughts-on-the-survival-and-flourishing-fund-sff (GW, IR) explains the process from a recommender's perspective. Intended use of funds (category): Direct project expenses Intended use of funds: Grant to support the BERI-CHAI collaboration, This is BERI's collaboration with the Center for Human-Compatible AI (CHAI). See https://existence.org/collaborations/ for BERI's full list of collaborations. Donor reason for donating at this time (rather than earlier or later): Timing determined by timing of grant round; this is SFF's sixth grant round and the fourth with grants to the grantee. It is the first round with a grant specifically for this collaboration. Other notes: Jaan Tallinn makes a $248,00 grant to BERI in this grant round for the same collaboration (BERI-CHAI). The Casey and Family Foundation, that also participates as a funder in this grant round, does not make any grants to BERI. Percentage of total donor spend in the corresponding batch of donations: 100.00%; announced: 2021-11-20. |
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| AI Impacts | 82,000.00 | 4 | AI safety | https://survivalandflourishing.fund/sff-2021-h1-recommendations | Survival and Flourishing Fund Ben Hoskin Katja Grace Oliver Habryka Adam Marblestone | Donation process: Part of the Survival and Flourishing Fund's 2021 H1 grants based on the S-process (simulation process) that "involves allowing the Recommenders and funders to simulate a large number of counterfactual delegation scenarios using a spreadsheet of marginal utility functions. Recommenders specified marginal utility functions for funding each application, and adjusted those functions through discussions with each other as the round progressed. Similarly, funders specified and adjusted different utility functions for deferring to each Recommender. In this round, the process also allowed the funders to make some final adjustments to decide on their final intended grant amounts." Intended use of funds (category): Organizational general support Donor reason for donating at this time (rather than earlier or later): Timing determined by timing of grant round; this is SFF's fifth grant round. Grants to AI Impacts had been made in the second and third grant rounds. Other notes: The grant round also includes a grant from Jaan Tallinn ($221,000) to the same grantee. Percentage of total donor spend in the corresponding batch of donations: 33.74%. |
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| Centre for Enabling EA Learning & Research | 21,000.00 | 11 | Effective altruism/housing | https://survivalandflourishing.fund/sff-2021-h1-recommendations | Survival and Flourishing Fund Ben Hoskin Katja Grace Oliver Habryka Adam Marblestone | Donation process: Part of the Survival and Flourishing Fund's 2021 H1 grants based on the S-process (simulation process) that "involves allowing the Recommenders and funders to simulate a large number of counterfactual delegation scenarios using a spreadsheet of marginal utility functions. Recommenders specified marginal utility functions for funding each application, and adjusted those functions through discussions with each other as the round progressed. Similarly, funders specified and adjusted different utility functions for deferring to each Recommender. In this round, the process also allowed the funders to make some final adjustments to decide on their final intended grant amounts." Intended use of funds (category): Organizational general support Donor reason for donating at this time (rather than earlier or later): Timing determined by timing of grant round; this is SFF's fifth grant round and the first one with a grant to this grantee. Other notes: The grant round includes a grant by Jaan Tallinn ($61,000) to the same grantee (CEEALAR). Percentage of total donor spend in the corresponding batch of donations: 8.64%. |
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| New Science Research | 51,000.00 | 5 | Scientific research | https://survivalandflourishing.fund/sff-2021-h1-recommendations | Survival and Flourishing Fund Ben Hoskin Katja Grace Oliver Habryka Adam Marblestone | Donation process: Part of the Survival and Flourishing Fund's 2021 H1 grants based on the S-process (simulation process) that "involves allowing the Recommenders and funders to simulate a large number of counterfactual delegation scenarios using a spreadsheet of marginal utility functions. Recommenders specified marginal utility functions for funding each application, and adjusted those functions through discussions with each other as the round progressed. Similarly, funders specified and adjusted different utility functions for deferring to each Recommender. In this round, the process also allowed the funders to make some final adjustments to decide on their final intended grant amounts." Intended use of funds (category): Organizational general support Donor reason for donating at this time (rather than earlier or later): Timing determined by timing of grant round; this is SFF's fifth grant round and the first with a grant to this grantee. Other notes: Jaan Tallinn, the other funder participating in the grant round, grants $147,000 to the grantee. Percentage of total donor spend in the corresponding batch of donations: 20.99%. |
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| Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative (Earmark: Future of Humanity Institute) | 17,000.00 | 14 | Global catastrophic risks | https://survivalandflourishing.fund/sff-2021-h1-recommendations | Survival and Flourishing Fund Ben Hoskin Katja Grace Oliver Habryka Adam Marblestone | Donation process: Part of the Survival and Flourishing Fund's 2021 H1 grants based on the S-process (simulation process) that "involves allowing the Recommenders and funders to simulate a large number of counterfactual delegation scenarios using a spreadsheet of marginal utility functions. Recommenders specified marginal utility functions for funding each application, and adjusted those functions through discussions with each other as the round progressed. Similarly, funders specified and adjusted different utility functions for deferring to each Recommender. In this round, the process also allowed the funders to make some final adjustments to decide on their final intended grant amounts." Intended use of funds (category): Direct project expenses Intended use of funds: Grant to support the BERI-FHI collaboration, This is BERI's collaboration with the Future of Humanity Institute (FHI). See https://existence.org/collaborations/ for BERI's full list of collaborations. Donor reason for donating at this time (rather than earlier or later): Timing determined by timing of grant round; this is SFF's fifth grant round and the third with grants to the grantee. It is the first round with a grant specifically for this collaboration. Other notes: The grant round includes a grant from Jed McCaleb for another BERI collaboration (with SERI) and grants from Tallinn for collaborations with FHI, SERI, and CSER. Percentage of total donor spend in the corresponding batch of donations: 7.00%. |
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| Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative (Earmark: Stanford Existential Risk Initiative) | 14,000.00 | 15 | Global catastrophic risks | https://survivalandflourishing.fund/sff-2021-h1-recommendations | Survival and Flourishing Fund Ben Hoskin Katja Grace Oliver Habryka Adam Marblestone | Donation process: Part of the Survival and Flourishing Fund's 2021 H1 grants based on the S-process (simulation process) that "involves allowing the Recommenders and funders to simulate a large number of counterfactual delegation scenarios using a spreadsheet of marginal utility functions. Recommenders specified marginal utility functions for funding each application, and adjusted those functions through discussions with each other as the round progressed. Similarly, funders specified and adjusted different utility functions for deferring to each Recommender. In this round, the process also allowed the funders to make some final adjustments to decide on their final intended grant amounts." Intended use of funds (category): Direct project expenses Intended use of funds: Grant to support the BERI-SERI collaboration, This is BERI's collaboration with the Stanford Existential Risk Initiative (SERI). See https://existence.org/collaborations/ for BERI's full list of collaborations. Donor reason for donating at this time (rather than earlier or later): Timing determined by timing of grant round; this is SFF's fifth grant round and the third with grants to the grantee. It is the first round with a grant specifically for this collaboration. Other notes: The grant round includes a grant from Jed McCaleb for another BERI collaboration (with FHI) and grants from Tallinn for collaborations with FHI, SERI, and CSER. Percentage of total donor spend in the corresponding batch of donations: 5.76%. |
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| Center for Applied Rationality | 23,000.00 | 10 | Epistemic institutions | https://survivalandflourishing.fund/sff-2020-h2-recommendations | Survival and Flourishing Fund Oliver Habryka Eric Rogstad | Donation process: Part of the Survival and Flourishing Fund's 2020 H2 grants based on the S-process (simulation process) that "involves allowing the Recommenders and funders to simulate a large number of counterfactual delegation scenarios using a spreadsheet of marginal utility functions. Recommenders specified marginal utility functions for funding each application, and adjusted those functions through discussions with each other as the round progressed. Similarly, funders specified and adjusted different utility functions for deferring to each Recommender. In this round, the process also allowed the funders to make some final adjustments to decide on their final intended grant amounts." Intended use of funds (category): Organizational general support Donor reason for donating at this time (rather than earlier or later): Timing determined by timing of grant round; this is SFF's fourth grant round. Grants to CFAR had been made in the first two grant rounds but not the third one. Other notes: The grant round also includes grants from the Survival and Flourishing Fund ($212,000) and Jaan Tallinn ($19,000) to the same grantee (Center for Applied Rationality). Percentage of total donor spend in the corresponding batch of donations: 9.20%. |
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| Topos Institute | 144,000.00 | 3 | -- | https://survivalandflourishing.fund/sff-2020-h2-recommendations | Survival and Flourishing Fund Oliver Habryka Eric Rogstad | Donation process: Part of the Survival and Flourishing Fund's 2020 H2 grants based on the S-process (simulation process) that "involves allowing the Recommenders and funders to simulate a large number of counterfactual delegation scenarios using a spreadsheet of marginal utility functions. Recommenders specified marginal utility functions for funding each application, and adjusted those functions through discussions with each other as the round progressed. Similarly, funders specified and adjusted different utility functions for deferring to each Recommender. In this round, the process also allowed the funders to make some final adjustments to decide on their final intended grant amounts." Intended use of funds (category): Conditional support Donor reason for donating at this time (rather than earlier or later): Timing determined by timing of grant round; this is SFF's fourth grant round and the second with grants to the grantee. Other notes: The support offered by the grant is conditional, as administered by Owen Cotton-Barratt. The grant round also includes a $151,000 grant from Jaan Tallinn to Topos Institute. Percentage of total donor spend in the corresponding batch of donations: 57.60%. |
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| 80,000 Hours | 30,000.00 | 8 | Effective altruism/movement growth/career counseling | https://survivalandflourishing.fund/sff-2020-h1-recommendations | Survival and Flourishing Fund Alex Zhu Andrew Critch Jed McCaleb Oliver Habryka | Donation process: Part of the Survival and Flourishing Fund's 2020 H1 grants based on the S-process (simulation process). A request for grants was made at https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/wQk3nrGTJZHfsPHb6/survival-and-flourishing-grant-applications-open-until-march (GW, IR) and open till 2020-03-07. The S-process "involves allowing the recommenders and funders to simulate a large number of counterfactual delegation scenarios using a spreadsheet of marginal utility functions. Funders were free to assign different weights to different recommenders in the process; the weights were determined by marginal utility functions specified by the funders (Jaan Tallinn, Jed McCaleb, and SFF). In this round, the process also allowed the funders to make some final adjustments to decide on their final intended grant amounts." Intended use of funds (category): Organizational general support Donor reason for donating at this time (rather than earlier or later): Timing determined by timing of grant round; this November 2019 round of grants is SFF's third round. SFF made a grant to 80,000 Hours in the previous two rounds as well. Other notes: The grant round also includes grants from Survival and Flourishing Fund ($120,000) and Jed McCaleb ($30,000) to the same grantee (80,000 Hours). Percentage of total donor spend in the corresponding batch of donations: 12.00%. |
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| AI Impacts | 20,000.00 | 12 | AI safety | https://survivalandflourishing.fund/sff-2020-h1-recommendations | Survival and Flourishing Fund Alex Zhu Andrew Critch Jed McCaleb Oliver Habryka | Donation process: Part of the Survival and Flourishing Fund's 2020 H1 grants based on the S-process (simulation process). A request for grants was made at https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/wQk3nrGTJZHfsPHb6/survival-and-flourishing-grant-applications-open-until-march (GW, IR) and open till 2020-03-07. The S-process "involves allowing the recommenders and funders to simulate a large number of counterfactual delegation scenarios using a spreadsheet of marginal utility functions. Funders were free to assign different weights to different recommenders in the process; the weights were determined by marginal utility functions specified by the funders (Jaan Tallinn, Jed McCaleb, and SFF). In this round, the process also allowed the funders to make some final adjustments to decide on their final intended grant amounts." Intended use of funds (category): Organizational general support Donor reason for donating at this time (rather than earlier or later): Timing determined by timing of grant round; this 2020 H1 round of grants is SFF's third round; grants to AI Impacts had also been made in the second round in 2019 Q4. Other notes: The grant round also includes a grant from Jaan Tallinn ($40,000) to the same grantee (AI Impacts). Although the Survival and Flourishing Fund also participates as a funder in the round, it has no direct grants to AI Impacts. Percentage of total donor spend in the corresponding batch of donations: 8.00%. |
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| Machine Intelligence Research Institute | 40,000.00 | 7 | AI safety | https://survivalandflourishing.fund/sff-2020-h1-recommendations | Survival and Flourishing Fund Alex Zhu Andrew Critch Jed McCaleb Oliver Habryka | Donation process: Part of the Survival and Flourishing Fund's 2020 H1 grants based on the S-process (simulation process). A request for grants was made at https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/wQk3nrGTJZHfsPHb6/survival-and-flourishing-grant-applications-open-until-march (GW, IR) and open till 2020-03-07. The S-process "involves allowing the recommenders and funders to simulate a large number of counterfactual delegation scenarios using a spreadsheet of marginal utility functions. Funders were free to assign different weights to different recommenders in the process; the weights were determined by marginal utility functions specified by the funders (Jaan Tallinn, Jed McCaleb, and SFF). In this round, the process also allowed the funders to make some final adjustments to decide on their final intended grant amounts." Intended use of funds (category): Organizational general support Donor reason for donating at this time (rather than earlier or later): Timing determined by timing of grant round; this 2020 H1 round of grants is SFF's third round and the first with grants to MIRI. Other notes: The grant round also includes grants from the Survival and Flourishing Fund ($20,000) and Jaan Tallinn ($280,000) to the same grantee (MIRI). Percentage of total donor spend in the corresponding batch of donations: 16.00%. |
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| Lightcone Infrastructure | 30,000.00 | 8 | Epistemic institutions | https://survivalandflourishing.fund/sff-2020-h1-recommendations | Survival and Flourishing Fund Alex Zhu Andrew Critch Jed McCaleb Oliver Habryka | Donation process: Part of the Survival and Flourishing Fund's 2020 H1 grants based on the S-process (simulation process). A request for grants was made at https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/wQk3nrGTJZHfsPHb6/survival-and-flourishing-grant-applications-open-until-march (GW, IR) and open till 2020-03-07. The S-process "involves allowing the recommenders and funders to simulate a large number of counterfactual delegation scenarios using a spreadsheet of marginal utility functions. Funders were free to assign different weights to different recommenders in the process; the weights were determined by marginal utility functions specified by the funders (Jaan Tallinn, Jed McCaleb, and SFF). In this round, the process also allowed the funders to make some final adjustments to decide on their final intended grant amounts." Intended use of funds (category): Organizational general support Donor reason for donating at this time (rather than earlier or later): Timing determined by timing of grant round; this 2020 H1 round of grants is SFF's third round; the grantee had also received a grant in the first round. Other notes: At the time, the grantee is known as LessWrong, and listed as such in the grants database. The grant round also includes grants from the Survival and Flourishing Fund ($290,000) and Jaan Tallinn ($110,000) to the grantee. Percentage of total donor spend in the corresponding batch of donations: 12.00%. |
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| Future of Life Institute | 10,000.00 | 16 | Global catastrophic risks | https://survivalandflourishing.fund/sff-2020-h1-recommendations | Survival and Flourishing Fund Alex Zhu Andrew Critch Jed McCaleb Oliver Habryka | Donation process: Part of the Survival and Flourishing Fund's 2020 H1 grants based on the S-process (simulation process). A request for grants was made at https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/wQk3nrGTJZHfsPHb6/survival-and-flourishing-grant-applications-open-until-march (GW, IR) and open till 2020-03-07. The S-process "involves allowing the recommenders and funders to simulate a large number of counterfactual delegation scenarios using a spreadsheet of marginal utility functions. Funders were free to assign different weights to different recommenders in the process; the weights were determined by marginal utility functions specified by the funders (Jaan Tallinn, Jed McCaleb, and SFF). In this round, the process also allowed the funders to make some final adjustments to decide on their final intended grant amounts." Intended use of funds (category): Organizational general support Donor reason for donating at this time (rather than earlier or later): Timing determined by timing of grant round; this 2020 H1 round of grants is SFF's third round; the grantee had also received a grant in the first round. Other notes: The grant round also includes grants from the Survival and Flourishing Fund ($100,000) and Jaan Tallinn ($30,000) to the same grantee (FLI). Percentage of total donor spend in the corresponding batch of donations: 4.00%. |
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| Global Catastrophic Risk Institute | 50,000.00 | 6 | Global catastrophic risks | https://survivalandflourishing.fund/sff-2020-h1-recommendations | Survival and Flourishing Fund Alex Zhu Andrew Critch Jed McCaleb Oliver Habryka | Donation process: Part of the Survival and Flourishing Fund's 2020 H1 grants based on the S-process (simulation process). A request for grants was made at https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/wQk3nrGTJZHfsPHb6/survival-and-flourishing-grant-applications-open-until-march (GW, IR) and open till 2020-03-07. The S-process "involves allowing the recommenders and funders to simulate a large number of counterfactual delegation scenarios using a spreadsheet of marginal utility functions. Funders were free to assign different weights to different recommenders in the process; the weights were determined by marginal utility functions specified by the funders (Jaan Tallinn, Jed McCaleb, and SFF). In this round, the process also allowed the funders to make some final adjustments to decide on their final intended grant amounts." Intended use of funds (category): Organizational general support Donor reason for donating at this time (rather than earlier or later): Timing determined by timing of grant round; this 2020 H1 round of grants is SFF's third round; the grantee had also received grants in the first two rounds but from SFF (not from McCaleb, who did not participate in either round). Other notes: The grant round also includes a grant from Jaan Tallinn of $90,000. The Survival and Flourishing Fund also participates as a funder in this round but does not make a grant to the grantee. The grant is made via Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs. Percentage of total donor spend in the corresponding batch of donations: 20.00%. |
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| Quantified Uncertainty Research Institute | 20,000.00 | 12 | -- | https://survivalandflourishing.fund/sff-2020-h1-recommendations | Survival and Flourishing Fund Alex Zhu Andrew Critch Jed McCaleb Oliver Habryka | Donation process: Part of the Survival and Flourishing Fund's 2020 H1 grants https://survivalandflourishing.fund/sff-2020-h1-recommendations based on the S-process (simulation process). A request for grants was made at https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/wQk3nrGTJZHfsPHb6/survival-and-flourishing-grant-applications-open-until-march (GW, IR) and open till 2020-03-07. The S-process "involves allowing the recommenders and funders to simulate a large number of counterfactual delegation scenarios using a spreadsheet of marginal utility functions. Funders were free to assign different weights to different recommenders in the process; the weights were determined by marginal utility functions specified by the funders (Jaan Tallinn, Jed McCaleb, and SFF). In this round, the process also allowed the funders to make some final adjustments to decide on their final intended grant amounts." Intended use of funds (category): Organizational general support Donor reason for donating at this time (rather than earlier or later): Timing determined by timing of grant round; this 2020 H1 round of grants is SFF's third round and the first with a grant to the grantee. Other notes: The grant round also includes grants from the Survival and Flourishing Fund ($120,000) and Jaan Tallinn ($60,000) to the same grantee (QURI). Percentage of total donor spend in the corresponding batch of donations: 8.00%. |
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| Machine Intelligence Research Institute | 631,137.00 | 1 | AI safety | http://archive.today/2014.10.10-021359/http://intelligence.org/topdonors/ | -- |
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