SFF versus SFP: SFF facilitates grants to existing charities; for smaller grants and service contracts for mission-aligned projects that don't yet have an institutional home, visit SFP.
SFF’s “S-Process” for making grant recommendations
How to apply
The following funding applications may be submitted at any time:
As of 2024, a Speculation Grant request is required to be submitted in addition to the application. Applications will be reviewed when a S-Process Grant Round is organized to review them, as announced on the SFF homepage.
To learn how to expedite a funding request before a S-Process Grant Round is concluded, please refer to the Speculation Grant webpage.
How it works
For reviewing funding applications, the SFF team uses an algorithm along with a recurring meeting structure that we call “The S-Process”, co-developed by Andrew Critch, Jaan Tallinn, and Oliver Habryka. “S” stands for “Simulation”, because we use a grant-making simulation app to aid in discussions and final decisions. In each S-Process Grant Round, our funders agree on a set of six “recommenders” to read the incoming grant applications, and the recommenders and funders work together on our grant recommendation app over a series of meetings until SFF’s final recommended grant amounts are decided. Funders always have final say over whether to implement our recommendations. See the following presentation for an illustration of how the app works and some of the philosophy behind it:
The S-Process: A simulation process for multi-funder delegation of public goods funding