SFF Grant & Application Announcements

2025 Announcements

SFF-2025 application announcement

SFF is announcing its 2025 grant round, here: SFF-2025 Application Announcement

SFF’s new Matching Pledge Program

Starting in 2025, SFF will be making some of its S-Process grant recommendations as Matching Pledges through the new Matching Pledge Program. SFF Matching Pledges are commitments made by Funders of an S-Process round to match outside donations to a recipient at some rate (e.g. 2-to-1), up to the pledged amount. If you would like to apply for a Matching Pledge, you can complete the Matching Pledge portion of the SFF Funding Rolling Application to be considered for the program.

2024 Announcements

Job opening: Full-Stack Software Engineer (S-Process)

Annual compensation: $250,000 - $350,000

Survival and Flourishing Corp is seeking a highly numerate full-stack developer to improve and maintain the grant evaluation software used by SFF, making it easier for philanthropists to delegate grant-making discussions and deliberation to trusted advisors. Click here to read more and apply.

SFF-2024 further funding opportunities

SFF is announcing recommendations for further funding opportunities based on the SFF-2024 S-Process round:
SFF-2024 Recommendations for Further Funding Opportunities

SFF-2024 Flexible Hardware-Enabled Guarantees (flexHEGs) recommendations

SFF has finalized its grant recommendations for the 2024 Flexible Hardware-Enabled Guarantees (flexHEGs) round:
SFF-2024 flexHEGs Recommendations Announcement

The total funding expected to be distributed in association with this round is $4.1MM, in excess of our $1M-$4MM estimate.

SFF-2024 recommendations

SFF has finalized its grant recommendations for 2024:
SFF-2024 Recommendations Announcement

The total funding expected to be distributed in association with this round is $19.86MM, in excess of our $5MM-$15MM estimate.

SFF-2024 Flexible Hardware-Enabled Guarantees (flexHEGs) application announcement (round closed)

SFF is launching an S-Process round that specifically targets proposals aiming to advance the technical maturity of flexHEGs, here: SFF-2024 flexHEGs Grant Round Application Announcement

SFF-2024 application announcement (round closed)

SFF is announcing its 2024 grant round, here: SFF-2024 Application Announcement

SFF’s new Initiative Committee

In 2024, in parallel with at least one The S-Process grant round, SFF will also be making some grants through another process called the SFF Initiative Committee. The Initiative Committee makes grants on its own initiative, without receiving or requiring proposals or applications. If you would like to propose a grant for SFF to make, the S-Process combined with Speculations Grants are probably still the most efficient route.

2023 Announcements

SFF-2023-H2 recommendations

SFF has finalized its grant recommendations for 2023-H2:
SFF-2023-H2 Recommendations Announcement

The total funding expected to be distributed in association with this round is $21.29MM, in excess of our $9MM-$21MM estimate. This total includes $9.62MM in grants organized by Lightspeed Grants, which Funder Jaan Tallinn requested to incorporate in our announcement.

SFF-2023-H2 application announcement (round closed)

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

2022 Announcements

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

2021 Announcements

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

2020 Announcements

SFF-2020-H2 recommendations

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 has 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.

2019 Announcements

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.