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Announcements
SFF-2023-H2 application announcement (round open)
SFF is announcing its 2023-H2 grant round, here: SFF-2023-H2 Application Announcement
SFF-2023-H1 recommendations
SFF has finalized its grant recommendations for 2023-H1:
SFF-2023-H1 Recommendations Announcement
The total funding distributed was $21MM, higher than our $10MM estimate.
SFF-2023-H1 application announcement (round closed)
SFF is announcing its 2023-H1 grant round, here: SFF-2023-H1 Application Announcement
SFF-2022-H2 recommendations
SFF has finalized its grant recommendations for 2022-H2:
SFF-2022-H2 Recommendations Announcement
The total funding distributed was $10MM, higher than our $8MM estimate.
SFF-2022-H2 application announcement (round closed)
SFF is announcing its 2022-H2 grant round, here: SFF-2022-H2 Application Announcement
SFF-2022-H1 recommendations
SFF has finalized its grant recommendations for 2022-H1:
SFF-2022-H1 Recommendations Announcement
The total funding distributed was $8.063MM, near the middle of our $5-$10MM estimate.
SFF-2022-H1 application announcement (round closed)
SFF is announcing its 2022-H1 grant round, here: SFF-2022-H1 Application Announcement
SFF-2021-H2 recommendations
SFF has finalized its grant recommendations for 2021-H2:
SFF-2021-H2 Recommendations Announcement
The total funding distributed was $9.609MM, near the middle of our expected $8-12MM estimate.
SFF-2021-H2 application announcement (round closed)
SFF’s 2021-H2 grant round announcement can be found here: SFF-2021-H2 Application Announcement
SFF-2021-H1 recommendations
SFF has finalized its grant recommendations for 2021-H1:
SFF-2021-H1 S-process Recommendations Announcement
The total funding distributed was $9.756MM, at the high end of our expected $9-10MM estimate.
SFF-2021-H1 application announcement (round closed)
SFF’s 2021-H1 grant round announcement can be found here: SFF-2021-H1 Application Announcement
SFF-2020-H2 recommentations
SFF has finalized its grant recommendations for 2020-H2:
SFF-2020-H2 Recommendations Announcement
The total funding distributed was $3.625MM, above the high end of our expected $2.5-$3MM estimate.
SFF-2020-H2 application announcement (round closed)
SFF’s 2020-H2 grant round announcement can be found here: SFF-2020-H2 Application Announcement
SFF-2020-H1 recommendations
SFF’s had finalized its grant decisions for 2020-H1:
SFF-2020-H1 S-process Recommendations Announcement
The total funding distributed was $1.82MM, above the high end of our expected $0.8MM-1.5MM estimate.
SFF-2020-H1 application announcement (round closed)
SFF’s 2020-H1 grant round announcement can be found here: SFF-2020-H1 Application Announcement
SFF-2019-Q4 recommendations
SFF has finalized most of its grant decisions for 2019-Q4:
SFF-2019-Q4 S-process Recommendations Announcement
The total funding distributed was $2.01MM, at the high end of our expected $1MM-$2MM estimate.
About Us
Survivalandflourishing.fund is a “virtual fund”: we organize application submission and evaluation processes to help donors decide where to make donations. Our goal is to bring financial support to organizations working to improve humanity’s long-term prospects for survival and flourishing. We use this website to host announcements about our plans to investigate grant-making opportunities.
SFF was initially funded in 2019 by a grant of approximately $2 million from the Organizational Grants Program of the Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative (BERI), which in turn was funded by donations from philanthropist Jaan Tallinn. We previously maintained a DAF at the Silicon Valley Community Foundation under the same name (SFF), but that DAF is not currently in active use for our grant-making process.
SFF works closely with Survival and Flourishing (SAF), a Sponsored Project of Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs with a similar mission and overlapping leadership. While there is no formal relationship between SAF and SFF, we have complementary functions:
- SFF as a general rule does not facilitate grants to individuals, while SAF does.
- SAF as a general rule does not facilitate grants to 501(c)(3) public charities, while SFF does.
Survival and Flourishing Fund Advisors
Andrew Critch
Fund Advisor
Andrew Critch is currently a full-time research scientist in the EECS department at UC Berkeley, at Stuart Russell's Center for Human Compatible AI. He earned his PhD in mathematics at UC Berkeley studying applications of algebraic geometry to machine learning models. During that time, he cofounded the Center for Applied Rationality and SPARC. Andrew has been offered university faculty positions in mathematics and mathematical biosciences, worked as an algorithmic stock trader at Jane Street Capital's New York City office, and as a research fellow at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute. His current research interests include logical uncertainty, open source game theory, and avoiding arms race dynamics between nations and companies in AI development.
Eric Rogstad
Fund Advisor
Eric works at EMX.com, where he was a founding engineer, building a new cryptocurrency derivatives exchange. Previously, he worked as a software engineer at Microsoft and Amazon.com, and was co-founder of Arbital.com, a platform for finding, reading, and creating crowdsourced, intuitive explanations, developed partly in response to the observation that arguments about civilization-scale priorities like existential risk are complex and in need of better organizational tools for conveying them. Eric holds a BSE in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Duke University.
Past Grant Recommendations
Below is a list of grants we have recommended using the S-process. Recommendations after the final date might not be listed yet.
| Round | Source | Organization | Amount | Receiving Charity | Purpose |
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| SFF-2019-Q3 | SFF DAF | 80,000 Hours | $280,000 | Centre for Effective Altruism, USA | General Support |
| SFF-2019-Q3 | SFF DAF | Center For Applied Rationality | $110,000 | SFF DAF | General Support |
| SFF-2019-Q3 | SFF DAF | Centre for the Study of Existential Risk | $40,000 | Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge | General Support |
| SFF-2019-Q3 | SFF DAF | Future of Life Institute | $130,000 | Future of Life Institute | General Support |
| SFF-2019-Q3 | SFF DAF | Global Catastrophic Risks Institute | $60,000 | Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs | General Support |
| SFF-2019-Q3 | SFF DAF | LessWrong 2.0 | $260,000 | Center for Applied Rationality | General Support |
| SFF-2019-Q4 | SFF DAF | 80,000 Hours | $40,000 | Centre for Effective Altruism, USA | General Support of 80,000 Hours |
| SFF-2019-Q4 | SFF DAF | AI Impacts | $70,000 | Machine Intelligence Research Institute | General Support of AI Impacts |
| SFF-2019-Q4 | SFF DAF | AAAI/ACM conference on AI, Ethics and Society (AIES 2020) | $20,000 | Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence | General Support of AIES |
| SFF-2019-Q4 | SFF DAF | Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters (ALLFED) | $10,000 | Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (SEE) | General Support of ALLFED |
| SFF-2019-Q4 | SFF DAF | Center For Applied Rationality | $150,000 | Center For Applied Rationality | General Support |
| SFF-2019-Q4 | SFF DAF | Charter Cities Institute | $60,000 | Center for Innovative Governance Research | General Support of the Charter Cities Institute |
| SFF-2019-Q4 | SFF DAF | Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge | $50,000 | Cambridge in America | General Support of Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge |
| SFF-2019-Q4 | SFF DAF | Earth Law Center | $30,000 | Earth Law Center | General Support |
| SFF-2019-Q4 | SFF DAF | Global Catastrophic Risk Institute | $30,000 | Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs | General Support of GCRI |
| SFF-2019-Q4 | SFF DAF | Longevity Research Institute | $160,000 | Longevity Research Institute | General Support |
| SFF-2019-Q4 | SFF DAF | Median Group | $50,000 | Median Group | General Support |
| SFF-2019-Q4 | SFF DAF | Modeling Cooperation | $50,000 | Convergence Analysis | General Support of Modeling Cooperation |
| SFF-2019-Q4 | SFF DAF | OAK (Optimizing Awakening and Kindness) | $100,000 | Center for Mindful Learning | General Support of OAK (Optimizing Awakening and Kindness) |
| SFF-2019-Q4 | SFF DAF | Ought Inc. | $100,000 | Ought Inc. | General Support |
| SFF-2020-H1 | SFF DAF | LessWrong | $290,000 | Center for Applied Rationality | General support of LessWrong |
| SFF-2020-H1 | SFF DAF | Machine Intelligence Research Institute | $20,000 | Machine Intelligence Research Institute | General support |
| SFF-2020-H1 | SFF DAF | Quantified Uncertainty Research Institute | $120,000 | Quantified Uncertainty Research Institute | General support |
| SFF-2020-H1 | SFF DAF | 80,000 Hours | $120,000 | Centre for Effective Altruism USA | General support of 80,000 Hours |
| SFF-2020-H1 | SFF DAF | Future of Life Institute | $100,000 | Future of Life Institute | General support |
| SFF-2020-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | LessWrong | $110,000 | Center for Applied Rationality | General support of LessWrong |
| SFF-2020-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | Machine Intelligence Research Institute | $280,000 | Machine Intelligence Research Institute | General support |
| SFF-2020-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | Quantified Uncertainty Research Institute | $60,000 | Quantified Uncertainty Research Institute | General support |
| SFF-2020-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | 80,000 Hours | $30,000 | Centre for Effective Altruism USA | General support of 80,000 Hours |
| SFF-2020-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | The Future Society | $130,000 | The Future Society, Inc. | General support of The Future Society |
| SFF-2020-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | Future of Life Institute | $30,000 | Future of Life Institute | General support |
| SFF-2020-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | Global Catastrophic Risk Institute | $90,000 | Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs | General support of Global Catastrophic Risk Institute |
| SFF-2020-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | Leverage Research | $80,000 | Leverage Research | General support |
| SFF-2020-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | AI Impacts | $40,000 | Machine Intelligence Research Institute | General support of AI Impacts |
| SFF-2020-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | Milan Griffes to pursue an MHS in Mental Health | $30,000 | Johns Hopkins University | General support of Milan Griffes to pursue an MHS in Mental Health |
| SFF-2020-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | BERI/CSER Collaboration | $20,000 | Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative | General support of BERI/CSER Collaboration |
| SFF-2020-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | Metamorphic Group LLC | $10,000 | Children, Families, and Communities | General support of Metamorphic Group LLC |
| SFF-2020-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | Convergence Analysis | $10,000 | Convergence Analysis | General support |
| SFF-2020-H1 | Jed McCaleb | LessWrong | $30,000 | Center for Applied Rationality | General support of LessWrong |
| SFF-2020-H1 | Jed McCaleb | Machine Intelligence Research Institute | $40,000 | Machine Intelligence Research Institute | General support |
| SFF-2020-H1 | Jed McCaleb | Quantified Uncertainty Research Institute | $20,000 | Quantified Uncertainty Research Institute | General support |
| SFF-2020-H1 | Jed McCaleb | 80,000 Hours | $30,000 | Centre for Effective Altruism USA | General support of 80,000 Hours |
| SFF-2020-H1 | Jed McCaleb | The Future Society | $30,000 | The Future Society, Inc. | General support of The Future Society |
| SFF-2020-H1 | Jed McCaleb | Future of Life Institute | $10,000 | Future of Life Institute | General support |
| SFF-2020-H1 | Jed McCaleb | Global Catastrophic Risk Institute | $50,000 | Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs | General support of Global Catastrophic Risk Institute |
| SFF-2020-H1 | Jed McCaleb | AI Impacts | $20,000 | Machine Intelligence Research Institute | General support of AI Impacts |
| SFF-2020-H1 | Jed McCaleb | Metamorphic Group LLC | $10,000 | Children, Families, and Communities | General support of Metamorphic Group LLC |
| SFF-2020-H1 | Jed McCaleb | Future of Humanity Foundation | $10,000 | Future of Humanity Foundation | General support |
| SFF-2020-H2 | SFF DAF | Future of Life Institute | $23,000 | Future of Life Institute | General support |
| SFF-2020-H2 | SFF DAF | Center for Applied Rationality | $212,000 | Center for Applied Rationality | General support |
| SFF-2020-H2 | SAF | Future of Humanity Institute, Research Scholars Programme | $218,000 | University of Oxford | General support of the Research Scholars Programme at Future of Humanity Institute |
| SFF-2020-H2 | SFF DAF | Center for Innovative Governance Research | $58,000 | Center for Innovative Governance Research | General support |
| SFF-2020-H2 | SFF DAF | The Center for Election Science | $44,000 | The Center for Election Science | General support |
| SFF-2020-H2 | SFF DAF | The Future Society, Inc. | $37,000 | The Future Society, Inc. | General support |
| SFF-2020-H2 | SFF DAF | Generation Pledge | $37,000 | Centre for Effective Altruism | General support of Generation Pledge at the Centre for Effective Altruism |
| SFF-2020-H2 | SFF DAF | Center for Applied Utilitarianism | $21,000 | N/A | General support of Center for Applied Utilitarianism |
| SFF-2020-H2 | Jed McCaleb | Topos Institute | $144,000 | Topos Institute | Conditional support |
| SFF-2020-H2 | Jed McCaleb | Center for Applied Rationality | $23,000 | Center for Applied Rationality | General support |
| SFF-2020-H2 | Jed McCaleb | Stanford Existential Risks Initiative | $56,000 | Stanford University | General support of Stanford Existential Risks Initiative |
| SFF-2020-H2 | Jed McCaleb | RadicalxChange Foundation Ltd. | $13,000 | RadicalxChange Foundation Ltd. | General support |
| SFF-2020-H2 | Jed McCaleb | The Roots of Progress | $14,000 | Mercatus Center Inc | General support of The Roots of Progress |
| SFF-2020-H2 | Jaan Tallinn | Center for Human-Compatible AI | $779,000 | UC Berkeley Foundation | General support of Center for Human-Compatible AI |
| SFF-2020-H2 | Jaan Tallinn | Machine Intelligence Research Institute | $543,000 | Machine Intelligence Research Institute | General support |
| SFF-2020-H2 | Jaan Tallinn | Future of Life Institute | $347,000 | Future of Life Institute | General support |
| SFF-2020-H2 | Jaan Tallinn | Topos Institute | $151,000 | Topos Institute | Conditional support |
| SFF-2020-H2 | Jaan Tallinn | Center for Applied Rationality | $19,000 | Center for Applied Rationality | General support |
| SFF-2020-H2 | Jaan Tallinn | Future of Humanity Institute: Research Scholars Programme | $30,000 | University of Oxford | General support of the Research Scholars Programme at Future of Humanity Institute |
| SFF-2020-H2 | Jaan Tallinn | Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative | $247,000 | Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative | General support |
| SFF-2020-H2 | Jaan Tallinn | Global Catastrophic Risk Institute | $209,000 | Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs | General support of Global Catastrophic Risk Institute |
| SFF-2020-H2 | Jaan Tallinn | Stanford Existential Risks Initiative | $69,000 | Stanford University | General support of Stanford Existential Risks Initiative |
| SFF-2020-H2 | Jaan Tallinn | Median Group | $98,000 | Median Foundation | General support of Median Group |
| SFF-2020-H2 | Jaan Tallinn | Modeling Cooperation | $74,000 | Convergence Analysis | General support of Modeling Cooperation |
| SFF-2020-H2 | Jaan Tallinn | Rethink Priorities | $57,000 | Rethink Priorities | General support |
| SFF-2020-H2 | Jaan Tallinn | RadicalxChange Foundation Ltd. | $26,000 | RadicalxChange Foundation Ltd. | General support |
| SFF-2020-H2 | Jaan Tallinn | The Roots of Progress | $21,000 | Mercatus Center Inc | General support of The Roots of Progress |
| SFF-2020-H2 | Jaan Tallinn | AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and Society | $20,000 | Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence | General support of AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence |
| SFF-2020-H2 | Jaan Tallinn | Effective Thesis | $15,000 | N/A | General Support |
| SFF-2021-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | Center For Applied Rationality | $1,207,000 | Center For Applied Rationality | General Support |
| SFF-2021-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | LessWrong | $1,055,000 | Center For Applied Rationality | General support of LessWrong |
| SFF-2021-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | Alpenglow Group Limited | $1,013,000 | The Centre for Effective Altruism | General support of Alpenglow Group Limited |
| SFF-2021-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | David Krueger’s Research Group at Cambridge | $1,000,000 | Cambridge in America | General support of David Krueger’s Research Group |
| SFF-2021-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | Dr. Andrew Critch at CHAI, UC Berkeley | $898,000 | UC Berkeley Foundation | General support of Dr. Andrew Critch at CHAI, UC Berkeley |
| SFF-2021-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | Long-Term Future Fund | $675,000 | Centre for Effective Altruism | General support of Long-Term Future Fund |
| SFF-2021-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | BERI-FHI Collaboration | $478,000 | Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative | General support of BERI-FHI Collaboration |
| SFF-2021-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | Expii, Inc. | $347,000 | Idea Foundry | General support of Expii, Inc. |
| SFF-2021-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | BERI-SERI Collaboration | $333,000 | Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative | General support of BERI-SERI Collaboration |
| SFF-2021-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | Generation Pledge | $291,000 | Generation Pledge, Inc. | General Support |
| SFF-2021-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | Legal Priorities Project | $265,000 | Legal Priorities, Inc. | General Support |
| SFF-2021-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | Centre for the Governance of AI, Future of Humanity Institute | $253,000 | Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative | General support of Centre for the Governance of AI, Future of Humanity Institute |
| SFF-2021-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | AI Impacts | $221,000 | Machine Intelligence Research Institute | General support of AI Impacts |
| SFF-2021-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | AI Safety Support | $200,000 | Rethink Charity | General support of AI Safety Support |
| SFF-2021-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters | $175,000 | Players Philanthropy Fund | General support of Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters |
| SFF-2021-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | All-Party Parliamentary Group for Future Generations | $171,000 | Founders for Good | General support of All-Party Parliamentary Group for Future Generations |
| SFF-2021-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | New Science Research, Inc. | $147,000 | New Science Research, Inc. | General Support |
| SFF-2021-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge | $145,000 | Cambridge in America | General support of Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge |
| SFF-2021-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | Center for Innovative Governance Research (dba Charter Cities Institute) | $137,000 | Center for Innovative Governance Research (dba Charter Cities Institute) | General Support |
| SFF-2021-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | Moonlight Institute | $127,000 | Moonlight Institute | General Support |
| SFF-2021-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | Convergence: Project AI Clarity | $103,000 | Convergence Analysis | General support of Convergence: Project AI Clarity |
| SFF-2021-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | Viento | $102,000 | Social Good Fund | General support of Viento |
| SFF-2021-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | Centre for Enabling EA Learning & Research | $61,000 | Centre for Enabling EA Learning & Research | General Support |
| SFF-2021-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | Global Catastrophic Risk Institute | $48,000 | Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs | General support of Global Catastrophic Risk Institute |
| SFF-2021-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | BERI-CSER Collaboration | $37,000 | Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative | General support of BERI-CSER Collaboration |
| SFF-2021-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | Convergence | $13,000 | Convergence Analysis | General Support of Convergence |
| SFF-2021-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | Laboratory for Social Minds at Carnegie Mellon University | $11,000 | Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) | General support of Laboratory for Social Minds at Carnegie Mellon University |
| SFF-2021-H1 | Jed McCaleb | AI Impacts | $82,000 | Machine Intelligence Research Institute | General support of AI Impacts |
| SFF-2021-H1 | Jed McCaleb | New Science Research, Inc. | $51,000 | New Science Research, Inc. | General Support |
| SFF-2021-H1 | Jed McCaleb | Expii, Inc. | $41,000 | Idea Foundry | General support of Expii, Inc. |
| SFF-2021-H1 | Jed McCaleb | Centre for Enabling EA Learning & Research | $21,000 | Centre for Enabling EA Learning & Research | General Support |
| SFF-2021-H1 | Jed McCaleb | BERI-FHI Collaboration | $17,000 | Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative | General support of BERI-FHI Collaboration |
| SFF-2021-H1 | Jed McCaleb | Centre for the Governance of AI, Future of Humanity Institute | $17,000 | Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative | General support of Centre for the Governance of AI, Future of Humanity Institute |
| SFF-2021-H1 | Jed McCaleb | BERI-SERI Collaboration | $14,000 | Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative | General support of BERI-SERI Collaboration |
| SFF-2021-H2 | Jaan Tallinn | Long-Term Future Fund | $1,417,000 | Center For Effective Altruism | General support of Long-Term Future Fund |
| SFF-2021-H2 | Jaan Tallinn | Center on Long-Term Risk | $1,218,000 | Effective Altruism Foundation, Inc. | General support of Center on Long-Term Risk |
| SFF-2021-H2 | Jaan Tallinn | Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters | $979,000 | Players Philanthropy Fund | General support of Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters |
| SFF-2021-H2 | Jaan Tallinn | Alpenglow Group Limited | $885,000 | The Centre for Effective Altruism | General support of Alpenglow Group Limited |
| SFF-2021-H2 | Jaan Tallinn | Lightcone Infrastructure | $380,000 | Center for Applied Rationality | General support of Lightcone Infrastructure |
| SFF-2021-H2 | The Casey and Family Foundation | Lightcone Infrastructure | $500,000 | Center for Applied Rationality | General support of Lightcone Infrastructure |
| SFF-2021-H2 | Jaan Tallinn | EA Infrastructure Fund | $699,000 | Centre For Effective Altruism Usa Inc. | General support of EA Infrastructure Fund |
| SFF-2021-H2 | Jaan Tallinn | Centre for the Governance of AI. | $591,000 | Centre for Effective Altruism | General support of Centre for the Governance of AI |
| SFF-2021-H2 | Jaan Tallinn | Ought Inc. | $542,000 | Ought Inc. | General support |
| SFF-2021-H2 | Jaan Tallinn | New Science Research, Inc. | $500,000 | New Science Research, Inc. | General support |
| SFF-2021-H2 | Jaan Tallinn | BERI-CHAI Collaboration | $248,000 | Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative | General support of BERI-CHAI Collaboration |
| SFF-2021-H2 | Jed McCaleb | BERI-CHAI Collaboration | $250,000 | Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative | General support of BERI-CHAI Collaboration |
| SFF-2021-H2 | Jaan Tallinn | AI Objectives Institute | $485,000 | Foresight Institutee | General support of AI Objectives Institute |
| SFF-2021-H2 | Jaan Tallinn | Topos Institute | $450,000 | Topos Institute | General support |
| SFF-2021-H2 | Jaan Tallinn | AI Safety Camp | $130,000 | Rethink Charity | General support of AI Safety Camp |
| SFF-2021-H2 | Jaan Tallinn | Emergent Ventures India | $115,000 | The Mercatus Center | General support of Emergent Ventures India |
| SFF-2021-H2 | Jaan Tallinn | European Biostasis Foundation | $103,000 | European Biostasis Foundation | General support |
| SFF-2021-H2 | Jaan Tallinn | Modeling Cooperation | $83,000 | Convergence Analysis | General support of Modeling Cooperation |
| SFF-2021-H2 | Jaan Tallinn | Research on AI & International Relations | $34,000 | Convergence Analysis | General support of Research on AI & International Relations |
| SFF-2022-H2 | Jaan Tallinn | AI Impacts | $546,000 | Machine Intelligence Research Institute | General Support of AI Impacts |
| SFF-2022-H2 | Jaan Tallinn | Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters (ALLFED) | $427,000 | Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters (ALLFED) | General Support |
| SFF-2022-H2 | Jaan Tallinn | Technical Alignment Impossibility Proofs | $170,000 | Ronin Institute for Independent Scholarship Incorporated | General Support of Technical Alignment Impossibility Proofs |
| SFF-2022-H2 | Jaan Tallinn | Alignment Research Center | $2,179,000 | Alignment Research Center | General Support |
| SFF-2022-H2 | Jaan Tallinn | BERI-ALL Collaboration | $150,000 | Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative | General Support of BERI-ALL Collaboration |
| SFF-2022-H2 | Jaan Tallinn | BERI-CHAI collaboration | $168,000 | Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative | General Support of BERI-CHAI collaboration |
| SFF-2022-H2 | Jaan Tallinn | Constructive Dialogue Institute (formerly called OpenMind Platform) | $196,000 | Constructive Dialogue Institute Inc. | General Support |
| SFF-2022-H2 | Jaan Tallinn | Centre for Enabling EA Learning & Research (CEEALAR) [formerly the EA Hotel] | $224,000 | Centre for Enabling EA Learning & Research | General Support |
| SFF-2022-H2 | Jaan Tallinn | Center for Applied Rationality (CFAR) | $450,000 | Center for Applied Rationality (CFAR) | General Support |
| SFF-2022-H2 | Jaan Tallinn | The Center for Election Science | $437,000 ($50,000)† | The Center for Election Science | General Support |
| SFF-2022-H2 | Jaan Tallinn | Fund for Alignment Research (FAR) | $524,000 | FAR AI, Inc. | General Support |
| SFF-2022-H2 | Jaan Tallinn | The Future Society | $84,000 | The Future Society | General Support |
| SFF-2022-H2 | Jaan Tallinn | Legal Priorities Project | $115,000 | Legal Priorities Inc. | General Support |
| SFF-2022-H2 | Jaan Tallinn | Lightcone Infrastructure | $1,000,000 ($400,000)† | Center for Applied Rationality | General Support of Lightcone Infrastructure |
| SFF-2022-H2 | Jaan Tallinn | Longview Philanthropy | $150,000 | Effective Ventures Foundation | General Support of Effective Ventures Foundation |
| SFF-2022-H2 | Jaan Tallinn | Elizabeth Van Nostrand c/o Lightcone | $25,000 ($13,680)† | Center for Applied Rationality | General Support of Elizabeth Van Nostrand c/o Lightcone |
| SFF-2022-H2 | Jaan Tallinn | Modeling Cooperation | $83,000 | Convergence Analysis | General Support of Modeling Cooperation |
| SFF-2022-H2 | Jaan Tallinn | Oxford China Policy Lab | $10,000 ($13,645)† | Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative | General Support of Oxford China Policy Lab |
| SFF-2022-H2 | Jaan Tallinn | PARPA, Inc. | $200,000 | PARPA, Inc. | General Support |
| SFF-2022-H2 | Jaan Tallinn | Pronatalist.org | $482,000 (50,000)† | Pragmatist Foundation | General Support of Pronatalist.org |
| SFF-2022-H2 | Jaan Tallinn | Rationality Meetups | $140,000 ($140,000)† | Center for Applied Rationality | General Support of Rationality Meetups |
| SFF-2022-H2 | Jaan Tallinn | SaferAI | $214,000 | SaferAI | General Support |
| SFF-2022-H2 | Jaan Tallinn | Scholarship Workshop | $100,000 | Players Philanthropy Fund (PPF) | General Support of Scholarship Workshop |
| SFF-2022-H2 | Jaan Tallinn | The Society Library | $50,000 | The Benjamin Franklin Society Library Inc. | General Support of The Society Library |
| SFF-2022-H2 | Jaan Tallinn | Topos Institute | $653,000 | Topos Institute | General Support |
| SFF-2022-H2 | Jaan Tallinn | University of Wisconsin - Madison | $309,000 | University of Wisconsin Foundation | General Support of University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| SFF-2022-H2 | Jaan Tallinn | Unite America Institute | $68,000 | Unite America Institute Inc. | General Support |
| SFF-2022-H2 | Jaan Tallinn | Whylome, Inc. | $345,000 | Whylome, Inc | General Support |
| SFF-2023-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | AI Objectives Institute | $492,000 | The Goodly Institute | General Support of AI Objectives Institute |
| SFF-2023-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | Alignment Research Center (Evals Team) | $3,247,000 | Alignment Research Center | General Support of Alignment Research Center (Evals Team) |
| SFF-2023-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters (ALLFED) | $1,159,000 | Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters (ALLFED) | General Support |
| SFF-2023-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | Arkose | $683,000 | Players Philanthropy Fund | General Support of Arkose |
| SFF-2023-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | Basis Research Institute | $126,000 | Basis Research Institute | General Support |
| SFF-2023-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | BERI-CHAI Collaboration | $631,000 ($150,000)† | Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative | General Support of BERI-CHAI Collaboration |
| SFF-2023-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | BERI-CLTC Collaboration | $522,000 | Berkeley Existential Risk Initiative | General Support of BERI-CLTC Collaboration |
| SFF-2023-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | Center for AI Safety | $22,000 | Center for AI Safety, Inc. | General Support of Center for AI Safety |
| SFF-2023-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | Center for Strategic and International Studies (AI Governance Project) | $291,000 ($155,000)† | Center for Strategic and International Studies | General Support of Center for Strategic and International Studies (AI Governance Project) |
| SFF-2023-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | Center on Long-Term Risk | $1,327,000 | Center on Long-Term Risk | General Support |
| SFF-2023-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | Centre for the Governance of AI (GovAI) | $116,000 | Effective Ventures Foundation | General Support of Centre for the Governance of AI (GovAI) |
| SFF-2023-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | Charter Cities Institute | $315,000 | Center for Innovative Governance (d/b/a Charter Cities Institute) | General Support of Center for Innovative Governance (d/b/a Charter Cities Institute) |
| SFF-2023-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | Church Lab Meiosis Team | $700,000 ($401,000)† | Hansjorg Wyss Institute For Biologically Inspired Engineering | General Support of Church Lab Meiosis Team |
| SFF-2023-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | FAR AI, Inc. | $2,028,000 ($170,000)† | FAR AI, Inc. | General Support |
| SFF-2023-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | FAR AI, Inc. | $1,063,000 ($380,000)† | FAR AI, Inc. | General Support |
| SFF-2023-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | fp21 | $172,000 | fp21 | General Support |
| SFF-2023-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | Holtman Systems Research | $269,000 | AI Safety Support Ltd - Equivalency Determination | General Support of Holtman Systems Research |
| SFF-2023-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies (IACS) | $379,000.00 ($75,000)† | Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies (IACS) | General Support |
| SFF-2023-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | Lightcone Infrastructure | $1,733,000 | Center for Applied Rationality | General Support of Lightcone Infrastructure |
| SFF-2023-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | Manifold Markets | $1,241,000 | Manifold for Charity | General Support of Manifold Markets |
| SFF-2023-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | Ought Inc. | $358,000 | Ought Inc. | General Support |
| SFF-2023-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | Project Solve | $196,000 | Effective Ventures Foundation | General Support of Project Solve |
| SFF-2023-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | Redwood Research Group Inc. | $1,098,000 | Redwood Research Group Inc. | General Support |
| SFF-2023-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | Senter for langsiktig politikk/Centre for Long-Term Policy | $325,000 | Effektiv Altruisme Norge | General Support of Senter for langsiktig politikk/Centre for Long-Term Policy |
| SFF-2023-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | The Collective Intelligence Project | $300,000 | The Collective Intelligence Project | General Support |
| SFF-2023-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | The Unjournal | $565,000 | Open Collective Foundation | General Support of The Unjournal |
| SFF-2023-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | Topos Institute | $69,000 ($69,000)† | Topos Institute | General Support |
| SFF-2023-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | University of Chicago Existential Risk Laboratory | $380,000 | The University of Chicago | General Support of University of Chicago Existential Risk Laboratory |
| SFF-2023-H1 | Jaan Tallinn | University of Louisville (Dr. Roman Yampolskiy’s Research Group (Cybersecurity Lab)) | $274,000 ($115,000)† | University of Louisville Foundation, Inc. | General Support of University of Louisville (Dr. Roman Yampolskiy’s Research Group (Cybersecurity Lab)) |
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Job Opening: Grant Software Engineer ($220k/year) [closed]
Survival and Flourishing Projects (SFP), a fiscally sponsored project of Social and Environmental Engineers, is looking to hire a software engineer at a starting salary of $220,000/year, to work full time on building grant recommendation software:
Job Posting: Grant Software Engineer
This position would work on app development full-time, reporting to SFP Director Andrew Critch, in collaboration with Oliver Habryka and others at Lightcone Infrastructure, Scott Garrabrant at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, David Dalrymple at Protocol Labs, and several other interested parties. See the job posting for more details.
Contact
If you need to reach SFF, you can send an email to sff(char)contact@googlegroups.com, with (char) replaced by a hyphen (to avoid spam). Note that we are a volunteer-run operation and might take some time to respond.